Althea Gibson tennis champion, Silver
Andrew Jackson U.S. president, Waxhaw
Bernard Baruch statesman, Camden
Charlayne Hunter-Gault journalist, Due West
Charles Hard Townes physicist, Greenville
Dizzy Gillespie jazz trumpeter, Cheraw
DuBose Heyward poet, playwright, author, Charleston
Eartha Kitt singer, North
Francis Swamp Fox Marion general, Berkeley County
James F. Byrnes senator, jurist, Charleston
James Godfather Brown singer, Barnwell
Jesse Louis Jackson civil rights leader, Greenville
Joe Frazier prize fighter, Beaufort
John C. Calhoun statesman, Calhoun Mills
John Rutledge jurist, Charleston
Joseph H. Burckhalter inventor, Columbia
Mary McLeod Bethune educator, Mayesville
Robert Evander McNair governor, Cades
Ronald McNair astronaut, Lake City
Strom Thurmond politician, Edgefield
Vanna White TV personality, North Myrtle Beach
Whispering Bill Anderson songwriter, Columbia
William Westmoreland army chief of staff, Spartanburg