# List of people from Arlington, Virginia

The following is a list of notable individuals who live or have lived in Arlington County, Virginia.

## Academia

* Jerry Coyne, biologist, University of Chicago
* Harry Lee Morrison, former physicist, University of California, Berkeley

## Arts and entertainment

* Danny Ahn, musician, g.o.d
* Dave Bautista, actor and former professional wrestler
* Warren Beatty, actor and director
* Gordon Bess, cartoonist
* Steve Buckhantz, sports announcer, Washington Wizards
* Sandra Bullock, Academy Award-winning actress
* Alyson Cambridge, classical music, jazz, and popular song singer
* George Washington Parke Custis, orator and playwright; stepgrandson and informally adopted son of President George Washington
* Roberta Flack, jazz, soul, R&B, folk music singer, songwriter, and musician
* Greg Garcia, television writer, producer and director
* Zac Hanson, musician
* Julia Kwon, visual artist
* Shirley MacLaine, actress
* Jim Morrison, rock musician, song writer, and lead vocalist, The Doors
* DeStorm Power, American Internet personality
* Natalie Wynn, YouTube personality

## Astronauts

* David M. Brown, astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
* John Glenn, former U.S. Senator and NASA astronaut

## Business

* Frank Lyon, lawyer, newspaper publisher and land developer
* Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-founder of Yelp

## Civil rights

* Esther Cooper Jackson, African-American civil rights activist and social worker
* Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, activist known for helping plan the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and taking part in Freedom Rides

## Crime

* Aldrich Ames, Central Intelligence Agency agent convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union
* Nidal Hasan, sole suspect in the November 5, 2009, Fort Hood shooting
* Mikhail Kutzik and Natalia Pereverzeva, accused spies

## Journalism

* Katie Couric, television journalist and talk show host

## Medicine

* Patch Adams, physician
* Charles R. Drew, physician, most prominent African-American researcher in the field of blood transfusions in the 1940s; namesake of Drew School in San Francisco

## Military

* Holmes E. Dager, U.S. Army major general, lived in Arlington during his retirement
* Grace Hopper, pioneering computer scientist, and United States Navy rear admiral
* George Juskalian, decorated member of the United States Army; served for over three decades; fought for three wars, including World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War
* Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general who lived at [Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial[|Arlington House]]
* George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army general during World War II
* Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain, United States Navy, led the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze

## Politics and government

* W. Sterling Cole, former U.S. Congressman
* Al Gore, former Vice President
* Betty Heitman, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1983-1987; ran The Heitman Group consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; resided in Arlington
* Mary Landrieu, former U.S. Senator raised in Louisiana
* Ilhan Omar, U.S. Congresswoman
* Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

## Sports

* Nataly Arias, Colombian association footballer
* Gboly Ariyibi, soccer player
* Connor Barth, former professional professional football player
* Paul Beachem, Olympic paddler, 1960 and 1968
* Michael Callahan, U.S. National Team and Olympic rower (spare-2004)
* Bruce Djite, American-Australian soccer player
* Tom Dolan, Olympic swimmer
* Azzi Fudd, college basketball player, UConn Huskies
* Ryan Hall, mixed martial arts, UFC featherweight
* Sean Hall, Olympic rower, 1992 and 1996
* DeShawn Harris-Smith, college basketball player, Maryland Terrapins
* John Hummer, former professional basketball player and entrepreneur
* Torri Huske, Olympic swimmer, 2020
* Tony Johnson, Olympic rower, 1948 and 1968 silver medalist
* M. J. Stewart, former professional football player, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers

## Other

* David Chang, chef
* Anne Carter Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee
* Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee
* Mildred Childe Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee
* Robert E. Lee Jr., son of Robert E. Lee
* William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, son of Robert E. Lee