NOTABLE CITIZENS OF BERKELEY COUNTY

• Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War

• Belle Boyd, Confederate spy in the American Civil War

• Vicky Bullett, Olympic gold medalist in women's basketball

• Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., United States Senator and Governor of Virginia

• Charles James Faulkner, United States Representative from Virginia

• Walter Dean Myers, Author

• John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch, colonel in Confederate States Army

• Kevin Pittsnogle, former West Virginia University basketball player

• David Hunter Strother (aka Porte Crayon), artist

• Absalom Willis Robertson, United States Senator from Virginia

• Hack Wilson, Hall of Fame baseball player

• Shannon Larkin,Drummer for the Hard Rock band Godsmack

• Fulton Walker, Former Miami Dolphin football player. Scored touchdown in SuperBowl XVII.

• Robert Lee Castleman, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter. Won Grammy for an Alison Krauss song he wrote. He's up for another in 2007.