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• Charlie Adams
• Skip Alexander
• Johnny Allen
  Johnny Allen (baseball)
  John Thomas Allen was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants....
  
  
• Maxine Allen
  Maxine Allen
  Maxine Allen was an American bowler specializing in duckpin bowling, although when duckpin lanes began disappearing in the 1960s she switched to in ten pins. Born in West Virginia, Allen attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina from 1931 until 1935...
  
  
• Herb Appenzeller
• Gerald Austin
  Gerald Austin
  Dr. Gerald "Gerry" Austin is a retired American football official, who worked in the National Football League from the 1982 season through the 2007 season. He wore uniform number 34, which is now worn by Clete Blakeman. Austin has officiated in three Super Bowls, one as a side judge and two as a...
  
  
• Dugan Aycock
  Dugan Aycock
  Dugan "Doog" Aycock was an American professional golfer and golf course designer. Aycock was a member of the PGA of America for 68 years and served as the Carolinas Section President for more than 15 years and as National Vice President .Aycock was born in Charlotte, North Carolina...
  
  

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• Elzie "Buck" Baker
  Buck Baker
  Elzie Wylie Baker Sr. , better known as Buck Baker, was an American race car driver.-Racing career:...
  
  
• Dr. Lenox Baker
  Lenox Baker
  Lenox Dial Baker Sr. was an American orthopedic surgeon and athletic trainer at both Duke University and University of Tennessee. The Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital at Duke is named in his honor...
  
  
• John Baker, Jr.
• George Barclay
• Frank Barger
  Frank Barger
  Frank Barger was an American high school football coach at Hickory High School in Hickory, North Carolina. A graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, Barger compiled a 273-120-5 record coaching the Hickory Tornadoes, including 12 conference titles, during a 31-year tenure...
  
  
• Billy Ray Barnes
  Billy Ray Barnes
  William Ray Barnes is a former professional American football player and coach.-Early life:Barnes' sports career began at Landis High School were he was a three sport star and led his 1953 football team to an undefeated season.-College career:In the fall of 1953, Barnes enrolled at Wake Forest...
  
  
• Smith Barrier
  Smith Barrier
  Smith Barrier , was an American sports journalist. He was the longtime Executive Sports Editor of Greensboro News & Record and served as president of United States Basketball Writers Association from 1970 - 1971. He is a charter member of the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of...
  
  
• Bob Bartholomew
• Genia Beasley
• Jim Beatty
  Jim Beatty
  James Tully Beatty is a former American track and field athlete who is best remembered as the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on an indoor track when he ran 3:58.9 on February 10, 1962 in Los Angeles, California.Beatty graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
  
  
• Bobby Bell
  Bobby Bell
  Bobby Lee Bell, Sr is a former professional American football linebacker/defensive end. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame, and was a member of the Chiefs' team that won Super Bowl IV against the Minnesota Vikings.- High school career :He excelled in...
  
  
• Peggy Kirk Bell
  Peggy Kirk Bell
  Margaret Anne "Peggy" Kirk Bell is a former American professional golfer and golf instructor and is a strong advocate of women's golf....
  
  
• Walt Bellamy
• Connie Mack Berry
  Connie Mack Berry
  Connie Mack Berry was an American who played professional football, baseball, and basketball....
  
  
• Elvin Bethea
  Elvin Bethea
  Elvin Lamont Bethea is a former American football defensive end who played his entire career with the Houston Oilers...
  
  
• Furman Bisher
  Furman Bisher
  Furman Bisher is a columnist for the Gwinnett Daily Post in Gwinnett County, Georgia. He ended his retirement from writing on January 4th, 2010....
  
  
• Russell Blunt
  Russell Blunt
  Dr. Russell Blunt was an American high school and collegiate track and basketball coach.Blunt's mother moved to Massachusetts from Virginia to work as a domestic...
  
  
• Pete Brennan
  Pete Brennan
  Peter Joseph "Pete" Brennan is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiately for the University of North Carolina, where he was chosen ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year in the 1957-58 season....
  
  
• Cary Brewbaker
  Cary Brewbaker
  Cary Brewbaker was an American high school and college football coach. He started coaching at Durham High School, where his teams won or shared five state championships from 1938 to 1945. He then spent eighteen years as the defensive line coach on Earle Edwards' coaching staff at North Carolina...
  
  
• Dave Bristol
  Dave Bristol
  James David Bristol is a former manager in Major League Baseball in the 1960s and 1970s. He managed the Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, and San Francisco Giants during this period....
  
  
• Leon Brogden
  Leon Brogden
  Leon Brogden was an American high school football, basketball and baseball coach in Edenton, Wilson and Wilmington, North Carolina. His most famous products are two quarterbacks: Roman Gabriel, who spent 16 seasons in the NFL, and Sonny Jurgensen, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of...
  
  
• Bill Brooks
• Ted Brown
  Ted Brown
  Ted Brown is an American and former collegiate and professional football player. He attended High Point high school, before attending North Carolina State University.-Football career:...
  
  
• Charlie Bryant
• Vic Bubas
  Vic Bubas
  Vic Bubas is a former basketball coach of Duke University.-Early life:Bubas graduated from Gary Lew Wallace High School in 1944. He then went on to North Carolina State University where he played for Everett Case. Bubas was an All-Southern Conference selection twice...
  
  
• Al Buehler
  Al Buehler
  Al Buehler is an American former track and cross-country coach at Duke University. His cross-country teams captured six ACC championships and finished second on 10 occasions. Buehler was active in the U.S. Olympic program, serving as coach or manager at 1972, 1984 and 1988 Games...
  
  
• Willie Burden
  Willie Burden
  Willie Burden is a former professional Canadian football player with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League and is currently an academic and sports administrator....
  
  
• Forrest "Smokey" Burgess
• Tommy Burleson
  Tommy Burleson
  Tommy Loren Burleson is an American and former collegiate and professional basketball player...
  
  
• Marge Burns
  Marge Burns
  Marjorie "Marge" Burns was an American and former collegiate and professional golfer. A graduate of Woman's College UNC in 1948, Burns went on to win the North Carolina Amateur Championship an unprecedented ten times and won the Teague Award as the outstanding amateur athlete in the Carolinas...
  
  
• Tom Butters
  Tom Butters
  Thomas H. "Tom" Butters, is a retired politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He had a long career as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1970 until 1991....
  
  
• Dennis Byrd
  Dennis Byrd
  Dennis DeWayne Byrd is a former defensive end and defensive tackle for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He attended college at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He played professionally for the Jets for four seasons beginning in 1989...
  
  
• Tommy Byrne
  Tommy Byrne (baseball)
  Thomas Joseph Byrne was an American left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from through , primarily the New York Yankees. He also played for the St. Louis Browns , Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators...
  
  

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• Mike Caldwell
• Eddie Cameron
  Eddie Cameron
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• Gordon Carver
• Everett Case
  Everett Case
  Everett N. Case , nicknamed "Gray Fox", was a basketball coach most notable for his tenure at North Carolina State University, from 1946 to 1964....
  
  
• Willis Casey
• Peggy Pate Chappell
• Castleman D. Chesley
• Joe Cheves
  Joe Cheves
  Joe Cheves was a professional golfer and co-founder of the American Golf Association. He was born on May 23, 1918 in Cheraw, South Carolina and died in Morganton, North Carolina on July 31, 2007...
  
  
• Richard Childress
  Richard Childress
  Richard Childress is a former NASCAR driver and the current team owner of Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. As a business entrepreneur, Childress became one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina...
  
  
• Jimmy Clack
• Dwight Clark
  Dwight Clark
  Dwight Edward Clark is a former American Pro Bowl wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1987...
  
  
• George Clark
  George Clark
  George Clark may refer to:*George Rogers Clark , American Revolutionary War military leader*George Clark , creator of The Neighbors*Sir George Clark, 1st Baronet, MP*George Anthony Clark, unionist politician and Orangeman*Col...
  
  
• Wilburn Clary
• Tony Cloninger
  Tony Cloninger
  Tony Lee Cloninger , is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves , the Cincinnati Reds , and the St. Louis Cardinals...
  
  
• John "Jack" Cobb
• Whit Cobb
• Jack Coombs
  Jack Coombs
  John Wesley "Jack" Coombs , nicknamed Colby Jack after his alma mater, was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Philadelphia Athletics , Brooklyn Robins , and Detroit Tigers...
  
  
• Billy Cox
  Billy Cox (baseball player)
  William Richard Cox was a Major League Baseball third baseman....
  
  
• Roger Craig
  Roger Craig (baseball)
  Roger Craig may refer to:*Roger Craig , former NFL running back*Roger Craig , former pitcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball...
  
  
• Fred Crawford
• Alvin Crowder
  Alvin Crowder
  Alvin Floyd Crowder , nicknamed "General," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played eleven seasons in the American League with the Washington Senators, the St. Louis Browns, and the Detroit Tigers...
  
  
• Carlester Crumpler

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• Brad Daugherty
• Tom Davis
• Walter Davis
  Walter Davis (basketball)
  Walter Paul Davis is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" forward/guard, Davis spent 15 years in the National Basketball Association, spending the bulk of those years with the Phoenix Suns...
  
  
• John Derr
• Prince Nufer Dixon
• Bill Dooley
  Bill Dooley
  Bill Dooley is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , and Wake Forest University , compiling a career college football record of...
  
  
• Jim Donnan
  Jim Donnan
  Jim Donnan is a former American football player and coach and now a television analyst for college football and a motivational speaker. He served as the head football coach at Marshall University and the University of Georgia , compiling a career record of 104–40–1...
  
  
• Anson Dorrance
  Anson Dorrance
  Anson Dorrance is the head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance's leadership, the Tar Heels have won 20 of the 28 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships...
  
  
• Al Dowtin
• Jim Duncan
• Woody Durham
  Woody Durham
  Woody Lombardi Durham , known as "The Voice of the Tar Heels", was the longtime play-by-play radio announcer for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football and basketball teams from 1971 to 2011. Durham grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina alongside Bob Harris, longtime accouncer for UNC...
  
  

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• Dale Earnhardt
  Dale Earnhardt
  Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR...
  
  
• Earle Edwards
  Earle Edwards
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• Carl Eller
  Carl Eller
  Carl Eller is a former professional American football player in the National Football League who played from 1964 through 1979. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and attended the University of Minnesota...
  
  
• Chuck Erickson
• Bill Eutsler
• Jerome T. Evans

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• Joe Ferebee
  Joe Ferebee
  Joe Ferebee is a former athletic director and baseball coach at Pfeiffer University. He won 677 games with Pfeiffer University and 694 with American Legion teams....
  
  
• Rick Ferrell
  Rick Ferrell
  Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout and executive. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball from to for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. Ferrell was regarded as one of the best catchers in baseball during the...
  
  
• Wes Ferrell
  Wes Ferrell
  Wesley Cheek Ferrell was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball from 1927 through 1941. Primarily a starting pitcher, Ferrell played for the Cleveland Indians , Boston Red Sox , Washington Senators , New York Yankees , Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves...
  
  
• Bob Fetzer
  Bob Fetzer
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• Darrell Floyd
• Raymond Floyd
  Raymond Floyd
  Raymond Loran "Ray" Floyd is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....
  
  
• Phil Ford
• Peter Fogarassy
• Marvin "Skeeter" Francis
• Russ Frazier
• Eunies Futch

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• Roman Gabriel
  Roman Gabriel
  Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. is a former American football player. The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 70s.Gabriel attended and...
  
  
• Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines
  Clarence Gaines
  Clarence Edward "Big House" Gaines, Sr. was a college men's basketball coach with a 47-year coaching career at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.-Early years:...
  
  
• Bob Gantt
• Mary Garber
  Mary Garber
  Mary Ellen Garber was an American sportswriter, who was a pioneer among women sportswriters. She received over 40 writing awards and numerous honors in a sports-writing career that spanned seven decades, the most prestigious of which was the 2005 Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award...
  
  
• Jim Garrison
• Paul Gay
  Paul Gay
  Paul Gay is a notable French bass-baritone who sings opera and other classical forms. He has performed in France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, with a number of significant companies and directors....
  
  
• Betty Springs Geiger
• Claude Gibson
• Mike Gminski
  Mike Gminski
  Michael Thomas Gminski is a retired American college and professional basketball player. Gminski played his high school ball for Masuk High School in Monroe, CT. From there he played four seasons with the Duke Blue Devils, from 1977 to 1980. He led the team in scoring during his junior and senior...
  
  
• Billy Goodman
  Billy Goodman
  William Dale Goodman was an infielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox , Baltimore Orioles , Chicago White Sox and Houston Colt .45's ....
  
  
• Julie Shea Graw
• Murray Greason
• Ron Green, Sr.

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• Jesse Haddock
• Ellis "Dumpy" Hagler
• Dee Hardison
  Dee Hardison
  William David Hardison is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills , the New York Giants , the San Diego Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs...
  
  
• Bob Harris
  Bob Harris (sportscaster)
  Bob Harris, the "Voice of the Blue Devils" is a Hall of Fame-inducted play-by-play announcer for Duke University men's basketball and football teams....
  
  
• Dave Harris
  Dave Harris
  Dave Harris is an American disc jockey, songwriter, and musician.He was born in Glasgow, Kentucky and has hosted the syndicated radio show, Retro Rewind since 1999. Harris created Retro Rewind in October 1997. He also wrote for other syndicated radio shows in the late 1980s...
  
  
• Leo Hart
• Charlie Harville
• Sylvia Hatchell
  Sylvia Hatchell
  Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell is head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.She competed with USA Basketball as the Head Coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.-College:...
  
  
• H. C. "Joby" Hawn
• Clayton Heafner
• Bunn Hearn
  Bunn Hearn
  Charles Bunn "Bunny" Hearn was a major league baseball pitcher, major league scout, and minor league, semi-pro and college level manager.-Biography:He was born on May 21, 1891 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina....
  
  
• Dickie Hemric
  Dickie Hemric
  Ned Dixon Hemric is a former basketball player for Wake Forest University and the NBA's Boston Celtics ....
  
  
• Bill Hensley
• Dick Herbert
• Dan Hill
• Bobby Hodges
• Terry Holland
  Terry Holland
  Michael Terrence "Terry" Holland is the Athletics Director and Executive Assistant to Chancellor Steve Ballard at East Carolina University...
  
  
• Gene Hooks
• Lou Hudson
  Lou Hudson
  Louis Clyde Hudson is a former NBA basketball player.-NBA career:Lou graduated from Dudley High School in Greensboro. After starring at the University of Minnesota, Hudson was selected by the St. Louis Hawks with the 4th pick of the 1966 NBA Draft...
  
  
• Ken Huff
  Ken Huff
  Kenneth Wayne Huff is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He was also an All-American guard at the University of North Carolina.-College career:...
  
  
• Jim "Catfish" Hunter
  Catfish Hunter
  James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter , was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. During a 15-year baseball career, he pitched from 1965-1979 for both the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees...
  
  

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• Carl James
• Bob Jamieson
  Bob Jamieson
  Robert John Jamieson, known as Bob Jamieson, was a television news correspondent for ABC News until January 2008. After getting his start in local news in St. Louis and Chicago, he joined NBC's national news bureau in 1971. There he reported on a variety of national and international news,...
  
  
• Ned Jarrett
  Ned Jarrett
  Ned Jarrett is a retired race car driver and two-time NASCAR champion.Jarrett was best known for his calm demeanor, and he became known as "Gentleman Ned Jarrett", yet he was an intense competitor when he put his two hands on the steering wheel of a NASCAR Grand National stock car...
  
  
• Jack Jensen
• Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson
  Junior Johnson
  Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr. , better known as Junior Johnson, is a retired moonshiner in the rural South who became one of the early superstars of NASCAR in the 1950s and 1960s. He won 50 NASCAR races in his career before retiring in 1966...
  
  
• Bobby Jones
• Charlie Jones
  Charlie Jones (American football player)
  Charlie Edward Jones is a former professional American football player who was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 4th round of the 1996 NFL Draft. A 5'8" wide receiver from Fresno State University, Jones played in 4 NFL seasons for the Chargers from 1996 to 1999....
  
  
• Sam Jones
  Sam Jones (basketball)
  Samuel Jones is a retired American professional basketball player at shooting guard and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was known for his quickness and game-winning shots, especially during the NBA Playoffs...
  
  
• Steve Jones
  Steve Jones (basketball)
  Stephen Howard "Snapper" Jones is one of the most esteemed and watched National Basketball Association television analysts.-Basketball career:...
  
  
• Eckie Jordan
• Michael Jordan
  Michael Jordan
  Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...
  
  
• Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen
  Sonny Jurgensen
  Christian Adolph "Sonny" Jurgensen III is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983....
  
  
• Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice

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• Clyde King
  Clyde King
  Clyde Edward King was an American pitcher, coach, manager, general manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. King, whose career in baseball spanned over 60 years, was perhaps best known for his longtime role as a special baseball advisor to George Steinbrenner, late owner of the...
  
  
• Jack King
• Gordon "Chubby" Kirkland
• Mike Krzyzewski

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• Max Lanier
  Max Lanier
  Hubert Max Lanier was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals. He led the National League in earned run average in , and was the winning pitcher of the clinching game in the 1944 World Series against the crosstown St. Louis...
  
  
• Luther "Wimpy" Lassiter
• Page Marsh Lea
• Meadowlark Lemon
  Meadowlark Lemon
  Meadow "Meadowlark" Lemon is an American basketball player, actor, and minister. For 22 years, Lemon was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He played in more than 16,000 games for the Globetrotters and is a 2003 inductee of the Naismith Memorial...
  
  
• Walter "Buck" Leonard
  Buck Leonard
  Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in along with his long-time teammate Josh Gibson.-Biography:...
  
  
• John "Buddy" Lewis
• Carroll "Whitey" Lockman
  Whitey Lockman
  Carroll Walter "Whitey" Lockman was a player, coach, manager and front office executive in American Major League Baseball.-Role in miraculous 1951 comeback:...
  
  
• Henry Logan
  Henry Logan (basketball)
  Henry Lee Logan was an American basketball player. Logan was a 6'0" guard. He played high school basketball at Stephens-Lee High School in Asheville, North Carolina....
  
  
• John Lucas
  John Lucas II
  John Harding Lucas II is a retired American professional basketball player and a current assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers.-Basketball playing career and substance abuse:...
  
  
• James Lytle

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• Johnny Mackorell
• Glenn E.(Ted) Mann
• Jack Marin
  Jack Marin
  John Warren "Jack" Marin is a retired American professional basketball player. A 201 cm guard/forward from Duke University, Marin was named to the 1967 NBA All-Rookie Team and spent 11 seasons in the NBA , playing for the Baltimore Bullets, Houston Rockets, Buffalo Braves and Chicago Bulls...
  
  
• Bob Matheson
  Bob Matheson
  Robert Matheson was a linebacker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League...
  
  
• Cedric Maxwell
  Cedric Maxwell
  Cedric Bryan Maxwell is a retired American professional basketball player now in radio broadcasting. Nicknamed "Cornbread", he played 11 seasons in the NBA, and played a key role in two championships with the Boston Celtics.-College career:Maxwell was a star forward/center for the Charlotte 49ers...
  
  
• Robert McAdoo
• George McAfee
  George McAfee
  George Anderson McAfee was a former American football player. McAfee is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played college football at Duke University. He is a former running back who played for the Chicago Bears...
  
  
• Fred McCall
• Don McCauley
  Don McCauley
  Don McCauley was a tailback for the University of North Carolina from 1968 to 1970 and he attended the Garden City High School.He was a two-time First Team All-Conference selection and two-time Conference Player of the Year. He garnered the 1971 ACC Athlete of the Year award. He broke many rushing...
  
  
• Dr. Angus "Monk" McDonald
  Monk McDonald
  Angus Morris "Monk" McDonald was an American college athlete, a head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, and a urologist...
  
  
• Jack McDowall
  Jack McDowall
  Jack McDowall was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975....
  
  
• Mike McGee
• Jack McKeon
  Jack McKeon
  John Aloysius McKeon , nicknamed Trader Jack, is a former Major League Baseball manager. In 2003, he won a World Series with the Florida Marlins...
  
  
• Horace "Bones" McKinney
• John McLendon
  John McLendon
  John B. McLendon, Jr. was a pioneering American basketball coach who is recognized as the first African American basketball coach at a predominantly white university. He was a major contributor to the development of modern basketball and coached on both the college and professional levels during...
  
  
• Kathy McMillan
  Kathy McMillan
  Kathy McMillan is a retired American athlete, who mainly competed in the long jump event....
  
  
• Henry Lee "Spec" Meadows
• Jim Mills
  Jim Mills
  James Anthony Mills is a former American football and Canadian football offensive lineman....
  
  
• Sam Moir
• Vic Molodet
• Dale Morey
• Jerry Moore
  Jerry Moore
  Gerald Hundley "Jerry" Moore is the current head football coach of the Appalachian State University Mountaineers located in the town of Boone in Watauga County, North Carolina. He has filled the position since 1989. Moore has had a winning record in 19 out of the last 20 seasons. He led the...
  
  
• Allen Morris
  Allen Morris (tennis)
  Allen Morris is a former tennis player and coach.Morris was the 16th ranked player in the US in 1956. That same year he was a quarterfinalist at the Wimbledon tournament....
  
  
• Jeff Mullins
• Jack Murdock
  Jack Murdock
  Jack Murdock was a head basketball coach at Wake Forest. In 1953, he led Hugh Morson High School to the North Carolina state basketball championship. He was also the MVP of the 1953 East-West Basketball All-Star Game. From 1954 to 1957, he played basketball at Wake Forest. In 1956, he was a...
  
  
• Bill Murray

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• Billy Packer
  Billy Packer
  Anthony William "Billy" Packer is a former American sportscaster for CBS Sports and a published author.-Early life:Packer is a graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Estelle Lawson Page
• Arnold Palmer
  Arnold Palmer
  Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...
  
  
• Johnny Palmer
  Johnny Palmer
  John C. Palmer was an American professional golfer.Palmer was born in Eldorado, North Carolina. A seven time winner on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s, he represented the United States on the 1949 Ryder Cup team....
  
  
• Clarence "Ace" Parker
• Billy Joe Patton
  Billy Joe Patton
  William Joseph Patton was an American amateur golfer best known for almost winning the 1954 Masters Tournament.Patton was born in Morganton, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1943....
  
  
• Add Penfield
  Add Penfield
  Add Penfield, a pioneer in North Carolina sports radio, was the original radio "Voice of the Blue Devils".A native of Meriden, Connecticut, Penfield moved to North Carolina to become a Duke University student in 1938...
  
  
• Gaylord Perry
  Gaylord Perry
  Gaylord Jackson Perry is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He pitched from 1962-1983 for eight different teams in his career. During a 22-year baseball career, Perry compiled 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average...
  
  
• Jim Perry
  Jim Perry (baseball)
  James Evan Perry, Jr. is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for 1959-1975 for four different teams. During a 17-year baseball career, Perry compiled 215 wins, 1,576 strikeouts, and a 3.45 earned run average....
  
  
• Lindsay J. "Hap" Perry
• Lee Petty
  Lee Petty
  Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars. He was born near Randleman, North Carolina.-Career:...
  
  
• Richard Petty
  Richard Petty
  Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...
  
  
• Pat Preston
• Lou Pucillo
  Lou Pucillo
  Lou Pucillo Lou Pucillo Lou Pucillo (born 1936 in Philadelphia is best known for being an outstanding college basketball player for North Carolina State University Wolfpack from 1956-1959. Being only 5 foot 9 inches and 155 lbs., he was the smallest player to ever be recruited by Everett...
  
  
• Jethro Pugh
  Jethro Pugh
  Jethro Pugh, Jr. is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.-College career:...
  
  

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• Walter Rabb
• Sam Ranzino
  Sam Ranzino
  Samuel Salvador "Sam" Ranzino was an American college and professional basketball player. He was an All-American guard at North Carolina State University and played one season in the NBA with the Rochester Royals....
  
  
• Ray Reeve
  Ray reeve
  * Ray Reeve - 1901-1980Pioneer sports radio and television broadcaster, 1939–1973. Long association with Tobacco Sports Network and WRAL-TV. Radio broadcasts of early ACC games in 1950s carried the league to millions of listeners across the eastern seaboard. He was a graduate of Dartmouth...
  
  
• Harvey Reid Jr.
• Steve Rerych
• Jerry Richardson
  Jerry Richardson
  Jerry Richardson is the current majority owner and founder of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League.-Biography:...
  
  
• Herman Riddick
  Herman Riddick
  Herman H. Riddick was the ninth head football coach for the North Carolina Central University Eagles located in Durham, North Carolina and he held that position for twenty seasons , from 1945 until 1964. His coaching record at North Carolina Central was 111 wins, 57 losses, and 11 ties...
  
  
• Oliver "Bo" Roddey Jr.
• Jim Ritcher
  Jim Ritcher
  -Career:He started his career playing high school football for Highland High School in Medina, Ohio and was an All-American at North Carolina State and won the Outland Trophy in 1979 as the nation's best offensive lineman. In the National Football League, Richer was moved to guard from center by...
  
  
• Francis Rogallo
  Francis Rogallo
  Francis Melvin Rogallo was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S.A.; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or "flexible wing", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider...
  
  
• Donald Ross

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• Charlie Sanders
  Charlie Sanders
  Charles Alvin Sanders is a former American football player who played tight end for the Detroit Lions from 1968-77. On February 3, 2007, Sanders was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Lee Shaffer
  Lee Shaffer
  Lee Philip Shafer II is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward, Shaffer starred at the University of North Carolina, where he was the ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1960. He then played three seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the...
  
  
• Joel Shankle
  Joel Shankle
  Joel Shankle was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles.He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the bronze medal....
  
  
• Ronnie Shavlik
  Ronnie Shavlik
  Ronald Dean "Ronnie" Shavlik was an All-American center for the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the 1950s. He later played briefly for the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks...
  
  
• Karen Shelton
  Karen Shelton
  Karen Christina Shelton is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the national team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She also represented her country on the US Olympic team in 1980.-Highlights:* U.S...
  
  
• Wallace Shelton
• Ernie Shore
  Ernie Shore
  Ernest Grady Shore was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox during some of their best years in the 1910s....
  
  
• Charlie Sifford
  Charlie Sifford
  Charles Sifford is an African American former professional golfer who helped to desegregate the PGA of America.Sifford was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began work as a caddy at the age of thirteen...
  
  
• Dave Sime
• Tony Simeon
• Floyd "Chunk" Simmons
• Paul Simson
• Enos "Country" Slaughter
  Enos Slaughter
  Enos Bradsher Slaughter , nicknamed "Country", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder. During a 19-year baseball career, he played from 1938–1942 and 1946-1959 for four different teams, but is noted primarily for his time with the St...
  
  
• Norm Sloan
  Norm Sloan
  Norman Sloan , nicknamed "Stormin' Norman," was an American college basketball player and coach. Sloan played college basketball for North Carolina State University, and thereafter, he was the men's basketball head coach for Presbyterian College, The Citadel, the University of Florida and North...
  
  
• Irwin Smallwood
• Belus Smawley
  Belus Smawley
  Belus Van Smawley was an American basketball player.A 6'1" guard/forward from Rutherford County, North Carolina, Smawley was one of the first basketball players to regularly use the jump shot. Smawley developed his shot in an abandoned train depot near his home that was fashioned into a basketball...
  
  
• Dean Smith
  Dean Smith
  Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
  
  
• Earl Smith
  Earl Smith (coach)
  Norman Earl Smith is an American former coach of many sports at Campbell University and also a basketball and baseball coach at East Carolina University. Smith attended East Carolina and participated in baseball, basketball, and football from his sophomore year through his senior year...
  
  
• Vic Sorrell
  Vic Sorrell
  Victor Garland Sorrell , nicknamed "Lawyer" and "The Philosopher," was a Major League pitcher who played his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. In 10 Major League seasons, Sorrell had a 92-101 record with a 4.43 career ERA...
  
  
• Jack Stallings
• Clarence Stasavich
  Clarence Stasavich
  Clarence Stasavich was East Carolina College's tenth head football coach, and arguably one of the best in the school's history. He was the football coach from 1962 to 1969 and the athletic director from 1963 to 1975. During those eight years Stasavich posted a 50-27-1 record...
  
  
• Jim Staton
  Jim Staton
  James Brooks Staton, Jr. was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins...
  
  
• Jerry Steele
  Jerry Steele
  Jerry Steele was an American basketball player and coach.Steele was a native of Elkin, North Carolina. He played basketball at Wake Forest University from 1958 to 1961 and in two of those years he was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference All Academic team.Steele was the basketball coach at...
  
  
• Lee Stone
  Lee Stone
  Lee Stone is a male heterosexual pornographic actor.Stone has appeared in over 1,900 adult films ever since his debut in 1999.-Awards:*2001 AVN Award nominee – Best Group Sex Scene in a Video...
  
  
• Ed Sutton
  Ed Sutton
  Edward Wike Sutton was an American football halfback and defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants...
  
  
• John Swofford
  John Swofford
  John Swofford is currently the Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference He was born on December 6, 1948 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While at Wilkes Central High School, he played as quarterback for the Wilkes Central Eagles football team...
  
  
• Paul Sykes

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• Danny Talbott
• Simon Terrell
• Herb Thomas
  Herb Thomas
  Herbert Watson Thomas was a NASCAR pioneer who was one of the series' most successful drivers in the 1950s.-Background:...
  
  
• David Thompson
  David Thompson (basketball)
  David O'Neil Thompson is a former American professional basketball star with the Denver Nuggets of both the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association , as well as the Seattle SuperSonics...
  
  
• Richard Tufts
  Richard Tufts
  Richard Tufts was a notable figure in American golf in the mid-20th century.Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort. Richard Tufts grew up in Massachusetts and...
  
  

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• Jake Wade
• Wallace Wade
• Tony Waldrop
  Tony Waldrop
  Tony Waldrop is an American professor, academic administrator and athlete, currently serving as the provost and executive vice president of the University of Central Florida. Waldrop is best known for setting the world indoor record in the mile...
  
  
• Douglas Clyde "Peahead" Walker
  Peahead Walker
  Douglas Clyde "Peahead" Walker was a former head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and of the Montreal Alouettes....
  
  
• LeRoy Walker
  LeRoy T. Walker
  LeRoy T. Walker was the first black president of the United States Olympic Committee. In the 1996 Olympics, Dr. Walker was delegated to lead a 10,000 member group of the most talented athletes in the world. His goal is to make sure that American citizens have a feeling of ownership in the program,...
  
  
• Michael Gerard "Mickey" Walsh
• Sue Walsh
• Harvie Ward
  Harvie Ward
  Edward Harvie Ward, Jr. was an American golfer best known for his amateur career. He is best known for winning both the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur....
  
  
• Roger Watson
• Jim Weaver
  Jim Weaver (ACC Commissioner)
  James H. Weaver was the first commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference , head football coach and athletic director at Wake Forest University...
  
  
• Art Weiner
  Art Weiner
  Art Weiner played American football as All American end at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946-1949....
  
  
• Alan White
  Alan White
  Alan White may refer to:*Alan White , English footballer*Alan White , English novelist, author of The Long Day's Dying*Alan White , English drummer in rock group Oasis...
  
  
• Burgess Whitehead
  Burgess Whitehead
  Burgess Urquhart "Whitey" Whitehead was a Major League Baseball second baseman from 1933 to 1946. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates.-Biography:...
  
  
• George Whitfield
• Hoyt Wilhelm
  Hoyt Wilhelm
  James Hoyt Wilhelm was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985....
  
  
• Doug Wilkerson
  Doug Wilkerson
  Douglas Wilkerson is a former American football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and San Diego Chargers. Wilkerson played college football at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina....
  
  
• Charles "Buck" Williams
  Buck Williams
  Charles Linwood Williams , better known as "Buck", is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was well known for his rebounding ability and trademark goggles.Williams, 6 ft 8 in , ranks 13th all-time in NBA career rebounds...
  
  
• George Williams
• Roy Williams
  Roy Williams (coach)
  Roy Williams is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging nearly an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003...
  
  
• Harry Williamson
  Harry Williamson
  Harry Williamson is a British musician, producer and inventor.He is the son of noted author Henry Williamson and his second wife Christine Duffield. Divorced, one daughter Bee Williamson...
  
  
• Shirley "Red" Wilson
• James Worthy
  James Worthy
  James Ager Worthy is a retired Hall of Fame American college and professional basketball player. Named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, "Big Game James" was a seven-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA champion...
  
  
• Taft Wright