List of people from Roanoke, Virginia

The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, raised in, or were one-time residents of Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke natives are also referred to as Roanokers.

Born in Roanoke

 * Tony Atlas, wrestler
 * Ronde Barber, NFL player
 * Tiki Barber, NFL player
 * Beth A. Brown, NASA astrophysicist
 * George E. Bushnell, Michigan Supreme Court justice
 * Tai Collins, model and actress
 * Lew DeWitt, founding tenor and guitarist of the Statler Brothers
 * Henry H. Fowler, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
 * Dorothy Gillespie, artist, sculptor
 * Antoinette Hale, painter
 * Luke Hancock, basketball player
 * Jim Harrell, professional wrestler
 * K. J. Hippensteel, tennis player
 * James Hylton, racing driver
 * Louis A. Johnson, United States Secretary of Defense
 * Danny Karbassiyoon, soccer player
 * Henrietta Lacks, medical patient
 * George Lynch, NBA player
 * John C. Mather, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
 * John Alan Maxwell, artist
 * Walter Muir, International Master of Correspondence Chess
 * John Payne, actor
 * Don Pullen, jazz pianist
 * Billy Sample, MLB player
 * John St. Clair, NFL player
 * Curtis Staples, basketball player
 * Lee Suggs, NFL player
 * Nicholas F. Taubman, former United States Ambassador to Romania
 * Lois Weaver, artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London
 * Eric Weinrich, NHL player

Raised in Roanoke

 * George Canale, MLB player
 * India Ferrah, drag queen
 * Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association of America
 * John McAfee, founder of McAfee
 * Wayne Newton, singer
 * J. J. Redick, NBA player
 * Joshua Strachan, musician

One-time resident

 * Fleming Alexander, minister, businessman and publisher of the Roanoke Tribune
 * Nelson S. Bond, author
 * Sarah Johnson Cocke, writer and civic leader
 * Whitney Cummings, comedian and actress
 * Nidal Hasan, shooter in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
 * Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney
 * Kermit Hunter, playwright
 * Johan Kriek, tennis player
 * Quigg Lawrence, Anglican bishop
 * Samuel W. Martien, Louisiana cotton planter and politician
 * Oscar Micheaux, early 20th century filmmaker
 * John Forbes Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate
 * Harry Penn, dentist and civic rights activist
 * John Henry Pinkard, businessman, banker and herb doctor
 * G. Samantha Rosenthal, historian, author, and academic
 * Curtis Turner, NASCAR driver and Hall of Famer
 * Harriet French Turner, folk artist