page_title: Orange County, North Carolina
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Orange County, North Carolina / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the Davie Poplars, a notable landmark of [[:Category:|McCorkle Place|McCorkle Place]], on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) campus.
context_page_description: Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 133,801. Its county seat is Hillsborough.
  Orange County is included in the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had a 2012 estimated population of 1,998,808.
  It is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the flagship institution of the University of North Carolina System and the oldest state-supported university in the United States.
context_section_description: Alice Adams, author, who grew up in Chapel Hill
  K.A. Applegate, author
  Thomas Samuel Ashe, United States Congressman from North Carolina
  Lewis Black, comedian
  David Brinkley, newscaster
  Fred Brooks, computer science pioneer
  Larry Brown, basketball coach
  Cam Cameron, football coach
  William Carter Love, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
  Spencer Chamberlain, musician
  Elizabeth Cotten, blues singer who grew up in Carrboro
  Floyd Council, blues singer, the "Floyd" in Pink Floyd
  Butch Davis, football coach
  Sarah Dessen, author
  Elizabeth Edwards, an attorney and activist for liberal causes, Chapel Hill
  John Edwards, former North Carolina Senator, 2008 Presidential candidate, Chapel Hill
  Sam Ervin, former North Carolina senator, chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, beat poet, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers
  Ben Folds, musician
  Paul Green, playwright
  Andy Griffith, actor
  Mia Hamm, soccer player
  Harpe Brothers, Micajah and Wiley, America's first serial killers
  Bunny Hearn, major league baseball pitcher
  Jack Hogan, actor, noted for his role as Private William Kirby on Combat! television series, 1962–1967
  Laurel Holloman, actress
  Herman Husband, a leader of the North Carolina Regulator Movement
  Marion Jones, former track and field athlete
  Michael Jordan, basketball player
  Elizabeth Keckley, former slave and servant of Mary Todd Lincoln
  Charles Kuralt, longtime journalist with CBS
  Jim Lampley, sportscaster
  Howard Lee, pioneering politician
  Doug Marlette, cartoonist and writer
  Alexander Mebane, Jr. (1744–1795), Revolutionary War militia general and U. S. Congressman
  Benjamin Merrill, leader in the Regulator movement and at the Battle of Alamance
  Elisha Mitchell, geologist
  Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician
  Beverly Perdue, 73rd Governor of North Carolina
  Nick Perumov, author
  Mary Pope Osborne, author
  Frank Porter Graham, United States senator and president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  David Price, U.S. congressman
  Connie Ray, actress and playwright
  David Rees, satirist
  Dexter Romweber, rockabilly roots-rocker
  Terry Sanford, United States senator and governor of North Carolina
  Stuart Scott, sportscaster
  Dean Smith, former basketball coach
  Lee Smith, author, lives in Hillsborough
  Oliver Smithies, 2007 recipient of the Nobel Prize
  Silda Wall Spitzer, wife of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer
  Chris Stamey, musician
  James Taylor, popular musician
  Lawrence Taylor, football player
  Manly Wade Wellman, novelist
  Daniel Wallace, author, lives in Carrboro
  Kent Williams, painter, illustrator and comics artist
  Roy Williams, basketball coach
  Thomas Wolfe, novelist
  James Worthy, basketball player
caption: UNC's wooded campus buffers the town center of Chapel Hill
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