People from colonial Virginia

President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)

Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia.

First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809

American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor (1770-1838)

First lady of Virginia, wife of Thomas Jefferson (1748-1782)

Founding Father of the United States (1732–1794)

American politician, governor, and representative (1756–1818)

first child born in the Americas to English parents (fl. 16. century)

American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)

American pioneer, soldier, and politician (1736-1802)

British born, American entomologist, ornithologist and scientific illustrator (1751-1840)

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1798 to 1829

American woman, convicted and posthumously pardoned for witchcraft

English privateer

American general during the American Revolution (1734–1832)

American politician (1759-1821)

American diplomat (1730-1816)

governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812

American politician (1762-1830)

colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)

American politician (1753-1799)

United States federal judge (1749-1810)

English diplomat

thumb|A 1585 painting of a Chesapeake Bay warrior by John White; this painting was adapted to represent Opechancanough in the engraving above.

American politician (1772-1853)

English nobleman (1576–1618)

English theologian

American lawyer and statesman, Virginia (1757-1837)

American politician (1760-1823)

Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary War

American politician (1748–1818)

American soldier and surveyor (1722-1782)

American admiral (1756-1826)

(1774-1826)

American politician

American politician (1748-1828)

American politician (1743-1808)

American naval officer (1768-1851)

American politician (1768-1835)

American politician (1739-1812)

Native American orator and war leader (c. 1723-1870)

American politician (1749-1802)

1759–1849 Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789, later ambassador

United States Founding Father. He signed the Articles of Confederation, served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and cast an electoral vote for George Washington.

American Continental Army officer (c1733–c1785)

Son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe

American politician (1754-1806)

16th/17th-century English admiral

American politician

U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1774-1826)

American politician (1733-1819)

American politician (1756-1818)

American lawyer and politician from Virginia (1758-1810)

indentured servant, farmer, slaveholder in colonial Virginia

American merchant, surveyor, and politician from Winnsboro, South Carolina

English-born soldier and colonial politician (1612–1687)

American planter and statesman who player a key role in securing Kentucky statehood (1748–1837)

American preacher 1738-1808

Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".

American physician