The following is a list of famous people born in North Carolina, USA.
- Clay Aiken, (born 1978), singer
- Frances Bavier, (1902 - 1989), actress
- George Clinton, (born 1940) funk musician
- John Coltrane, (1926 - 1967), Jazz musician
- Charlie Daniels, (born 1936), singer/songwriter
- Dale Earnhardt, (1951 - 2001), stock car driver
- Roberta Flack, singer
- Ava Gardner, actress
- Andy Griffith, (born 1926), actor
- Richard Jordan Gatling, M.D., inventor of the Gatling gun
- Jim "Catfish" Hunter, (???? - 1999), baseball player
- Andrew Jackson, (1765-1845), President of the United States
- Andrew Johnson, (1808 - 1875), President of the United States
- Charles Kuralt, journalist and television personality
- Sugar Ray Leonard, (born 1956), boxer
- Thelonious Monk, (1917 - 1982), Jazz pianist
- Edward R. Murrow, journalist
- Kyle Petty, (born 1960), stock car driver
- James K. Polk, (1797 - 1849), President of the United States
- Hiram Revels, (1822 - 1901), first African-American member of the United States Senate
