List_of_people_from_Columbia,_South_Carolina Knowpia

The following people were born in, residents of, or closely associated with Columbia, South Carolina.

Government and law edit

Weston Adams, United States ambassador
Stephen K. Benjamin, politician, mayor of Columbia , Director of the Office of Public Engagement for the Biden administration, and one of the senior advisors to president Biden
DeAndrea G. Benjamin, lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Adair Ford Boroughs, United States attorney for the District of South Carolina
John T. Campbell, politician, mayor of Columbia
J. Michelle Childs, U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jim Clyburn, US House Assistant Democratic Leader
Bob Coble, politician, mayor of Columbia
John E. Courson, politician, President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate
Kirkman Finlay, Jr., politician, mayor of Columbia
Dick Harpootlian, politician and attorney
Robert H. Hodges, Jr., federal judge
Henry McMaster, incumbent governor of South Carolina, since 2017
Matthew J. Perry, lawyer, judge
Carol Rasco, director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton; advocate for disability rights, education, and children
Jennifer Clyburn Reed, federal co-chair of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
Daniel Rickenmann, mayor of Columbia
Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States
Bill Workman, economic consultant, Greenville mayor; former Columbia resident

Sarah Mae Flemming, civil rights activist
Kevin Alexander Gray, activist
Taylor Richardson, advocate, activist, speaker, student and philanthropist
Tom Turnipseed, activist, formerly of State Senate
Modjeska Monteith Simkins, civil rights activist, Secretary of the South Carolina NAACP

Annie Maria Barnes, journalist, editor, and author
James Dickey, poet, author of Deliverance in 1970, #42 on Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels.
William Price Fox, novelist
Terrance Hayes, poet
Ed Madden, poet, professor, and editor
Ryan Magee, editor
John Henry McCray, African American newspaper journalist and publisher, politician, and civil rights activist
Ray McManus, poet^[5]
Tom Poland, author
Julian Selby, printer, journalist and writer
W. D. Workman, Jr., newspaper editor

Kimberly Clarice Aiken, Miss USA 1994
Joseph Bernardin, Catholic cardinal
Marie Boozer, adventuress from Civil War era
Mark Cerney, founder of the Next of Kin Registry (NOKR)
Craig Melvin, news anchor
Dylann Roof, terrorist and white supremacist mass murderer behind the Charleston church shooting
Ainsley Earhardt, news anchor

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