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John Tyler
president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States general (1807–1870)
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor and producer who began his career in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005), and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012).
Warren Beatty
American actor and filmmaker
Patton Oswalt
American actor
Tim Kaine
American lawyer and politician (born 1958)
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921
Michael Flynn
U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor (born 1958)
Jim Webb
American politician, military officer and author (born 1946)
Mark Warner
United States Senator from Virginia
Ethel Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy was an American human rights advocate. She was the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and a daughter of businessman George Skakel.
Diedrich Bader
American actor
Mary Chapin Carpenter
American singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
Lyndon LaRouche
American political activist
Harry F. Byrd Jr.
politician from the United States (1914-2013)
Bill Kristol
American writer
Elmo Zumwalt
United States Navy admiral (1920–2000)
Gerry Connolly
American politician (1950–2025)
Douglas Wilder
American politician
John W. Johnston
American lawyer and politician from Abingdon, Virginia
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
American jurist (1907–1998); US Supreme Court justice from 1972 to 1987
Evan Ryan
American vice presidential advisor
John Floyd
American politician and military officer (1783–1837)
Toni Atkins
American politician from California
Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second African American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia, after Douglas Wilder. In 2019, he faced sexual assault allegations dating to 2000 and 2004, resulting in his departure from his law firm and calls for his resignation as lieutenant governor. He served out the remainder of his term.
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1944)
Bobby Scott
U.S. Representative from Virginia
Krystal Ball
American journalist and TV host
William Cabell Rives
American politician (1793–1868)
Mills E. Godwin
American politician (1914-1999)
Thomas S. Martin
American politician (1847–1919)
John W. Daniel
Confederate Army officer (1842-1910)
Charles Schultze
American government official (1924–2016)
Howard Phillips
American politician (1941-2013)
Robert E. Withers
Confederate Army officer (1821-1907)
James A. Walker
Confederate Army general (1832-1901)
Stephen Early
American journalist (1889–1951)
Carlos Del Toro
78th United States Secretary of the Navy
James Walkinshaw
American politician from Virginia (born 1982)
Steve Ricchetti
American political adviser and lobbyist (born 1957)
Lee J. Carter
American politician
Daniel B. Lucas
American politician (1836–1909)
John Rutherfoord
American politician (1792-1866)
Kate Waller Barrett
American physician
William Lowther Jackson
American lawyer, politician, slaveholder and jurist (1825–1890)
Richard Joseph Davis
American politician (1921–1999)
Alexander Boteler
American politician (1815–1892)
David Gardiner Tyler
Confederate Army soldier (1846-1927)
Anne Holton
American lawyer and judge (born 1958)
Charles Goodyear
American politician (1804–1876)
Edward C. Eicher
American politician (1878-1944)
Levar Stoney
American politician
Lois Kelso Hunt
American actor, theatre director and arts advocate (1926-2018)
Mojo Nixon
American psychobilly musician (1957–2024)
Sheila Crump Johnson
American businesswoman
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr.
American politician (1822-1881)
Mortimer Caplin
American tax attorney and Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1916-2019)
Claudia Kennedy
United States general
Rachel Lambert Mellon
American horticulturalist and philanthropist (1910-2014)
Mortimer L. Downey
American government official