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John Merrick

Wanchese

Pam Grier

Herman Husband

Rhiannon Giddens

Black Beard, eventually

Ernie Barnes

Thelonious Monk.

9th Wonder

Doc Watson

Nina Simone (born and raised) Evan Rachel Wood (born and raised) Hunter Schafer (raised)

Omie Wise lived and died in Randolph County. youtu.be/iEwU4C4TPU8?...

Doc Watson - Little Omie Wise (Official Visualizer)YouTube video by Doc Watsonyoutu.be

George Clinton! Born in Kannapolis, which is about 30-45 minutes north of Charlotte.

Oh Yeah Dance PerformanceAlt: George Clinton (of Parliament-Funkadelic fame) dancing at a microphone in a red costume.static.klipy.com

CP3

Zach Galifianakis

O. Henry

Patrick Ball from The Pitt

DALE

Laura Ballance

Ben Folds

Fantasia Barrino

Maceo! 🎷

Petey Pablo

How about Blackbeard (Edward Teach)? Not born in North Carolina but lived and died here.

Blind Boy Fuller

My grandma Ida Bea Hicks.

Thomas Wolfe

Also going to throw one out from my hometown: Harriet Jacobs

Ashley Fliehr

Imagining a bizzaro dinner party...Ric Flair, Fortune Feimster, Reginald VelJohnson (!), Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Hilaire, Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, claiming Billy Strayhorn, claiming Maya Angelou, Dr. Pauli Murray, claiming Dean Smith, and Meadowlark Lemon.

James Taylor

John Coltrane

Nas. Allegedly.

Jamie Fraser

Frankie Silver

Abraham Lincoln

This piece of shit

David Thompson...

My neighbor Mike. You don’t know him. Good guy.

The pirate Jean Lafitte allegedly faked his death and moved to my hometown Lincolnton. Lived out his life and died and is buried there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_La...

Jean Lafitte - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Ava Gardner

John Coltrane

Me

My ancestor, "Aunt Fat Mary" (no, she was not)

Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh

Howard Cosell

My 8th grade science teacher, Ernie Morgan, at Morganton Junior High was a finalist (like, final 8) to be the teacher in space back in ‘86.

Ryan McGee

James Worthy, Fred Durst, Sleepy Floyd, Silvia Hatchell, Leonard Hamilton - Gastonia stand up

how about Robert F. Williams

Is that a threat?

Scott & Seth. They’re brothers.

Zach Galifinakis. Edward R. Murrow.

Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro.

meeeeeeee 😇

I know a few

Libba Cotton

Mojo Nixon

Mr. Beast, Michael Jordan, Charles Kuralt…

Charlie Gaddy

native ✋

George. Clinton.

Roberta Flack

From Salemburg, North Carolina, the baddest bass player in the country, WILLIE WEEKS!

Charles Kuralt. Tori Amos. Zach Galifianakis.

André the Giant

Madison Bumgarner. And, his less-famous high school girlfriend, Madison Bumgarner.

Sleepy Floyd.

Ella Baker

Tiny Broadwick. Art Bell. Edward R Murrow. David and Amy Sedaris.

George White

John Coltrane

me

Michael Jordon. David Brinkley. John Coltrane. Ava Gardner.

My grandparents are from around Rutherfordton which is the only reason I know who Smoky Burgess is

My best friend Tiffany!

Winston-Salem born: Howard Cosell.

Link Wray.

Jackée. Pam Grier.

Petey Pablo, obviously.

Michael C Hall

Jeremy Markovich

Michael Jordan

me.

Governor Cooper

J Cole.

we talkin bout doc watson

Fun idea building off this: name the NC town based on the town’s Wikipedia list of notable people:

Julian Shakespeare Carr

Amy Sedaris

Terry Sanford a.k.a. the main reason we have nice things

Former President James Taylor

Andre Leon Talley

William Sydney Porter, aka O. Henry.

Dale Earnhardt

Meadowlark Lemon, James B. Dudley, 9th Wonder, Clay Aiken, Fantasia, Chris Paul, Christine Koch. Can we count Stuart Scott??

Caleb Bradham, the inventor of Pepsi

I am not using this prompt to train AI, I am using it to train my actual intelligence

Me

Michael Jordan #23

Nina Simone

Mary Robinette Kowal. Randy Jones. Bill Campbell. Chris Wilcox. LeVelle Moton. Travis Cherry. All went to my high school.