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I knew about both of those pictured and most of the others on the video. Steph Curry played ball at Davidson College. That's right down the road from me.
Here is a list of some people from Greensboro. There are more but this is just a small list.
- Joey Cheek, Olympic gold-medal speed skater.
- Inez and Charlie Foxx, rhythm-and-blues and soul duo known for the 1963 hit "Mockingbird" Chevy Chase and Beverly DeAngelo sang it at the beginning of the movie "Vacation"
- O. Henry, short-story writer (wrote Gift of the Magi)
- John Isner, professional tennis player
- Loretta Lynch, former Attorney General of the United States for President Obama.
- Dolley Madison, First Lady and wife of President James Madison
- Kelly Wigglesworth, runner up on season 1 of Survivor
- Jeff Varner, Survivor contestant on season 2 Australian Outback.
- Fantasia Barrino winner of American Idol season 3, from High Point but lived in Greensboro.
- Chris Daughtry, American Idol contestant
- Whitney Way Thore, from TLC's My Big Fat Fabulous Life
- Ken Jeong, actor
- Edward R. Murrow, World War II CBS radio broadcaster and award-winning television journalist
- Morgan Radford, journalist and reporter for MSNBC.
- Nash Grier, internet personality
- MacKenzie Mauzy, actress
- Brett Claywell, actor
- David Dimuzio, music artist
- Tal Farlow, jazz guitarist
OMG, that orator really can't pronounce city names. He called Greenville, Greensville and Raleigh as Rayleigh. He also screwed up Ravenscroft School.
I'll add one to this list: Evan Rachel Wood, also from Raleigh. I remember watching her as a kid performing in her dad's comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol. In fact, I'll add another one to the list: Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) grew up in the Raleigh suburb of Knghtdale after moving there with his family when he was 4. He too performed in Wood's "A Christmas Carol". Somewhere I have his autograph (when he was a little kid) on a program from a local production of Sound of Music that I saw in Southern Pines. It was quite evident that he was going places.
By the way, it should be common knowledge that Stephen Curry is from Charlotte (In response to the thumbnail in the OPs video), what probably isn't as well known is he was actually born in Ohio as his father was playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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