Notable People From Fairfax County
See also: Notable people from McLean, Virginia
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Historic figures
- George Mason - Of Gunston Hall, "Father of the Bill of Rights"
- George Washington - Proprietor of Mount Vernon Plantation in Fairfax County, first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and first President of the United States
- Richard Bland Lee I - Of Sully Plantation, Representative to the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1795
- Fitzhugh Lee - Of Clermont (Alexandria, Virginia), Governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890
Politicians
- Sharon Bulova - Current chairman of the board of supervisors
- Gerry Connolly - U.S. Congressman (VA-11) and former Chairman of the Fairfax County board of supervisors
- Tom Davis - former U.S. Congressman (VA-11)
- Katherine Hanley - Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth and former County Board Chair
- John Warner - former U.S. Senator (R)
- Jim Webb - U.S. Senator (D)
Professionals
- Catherine Coleman - Astronaut
- Sean Parker - co-founder of Napster, Plaxo, and Causes
- Urban Search and Rescue Virginia Task Force 1 - a response team that has been deployed to recent disasters in Haiti and Japan
Sports figures
- Bruce Arena - Head Coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy
- Eric Barton - Linebacker for the New York Jets
- Brian Carroll - Midfielder for the Philadelphia Union
- Hubert Davis - Retired basketball player
- Mia Hamm - U.S. Olympic and professional soccer player
- Andy Heck - former NFL football player
- Grant Hill - Small forward for the Los Angeles Clippers
- Bhawoh Jue - Defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals
- Brian Kendrick - Professional Wrestler
- Javier López - Pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
- Keith Allen Lyle - Retired safety for the Los Angeles / St Louis Rams
- Michael McCrary - Former NFL Defensive End
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- Ed Moses - U.S. Olympic swimmer
- Scott Norwood - Retired kicker for the Buffalo Bills
- Alex Riley - Professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment
- Eddie Royal - Wide Receiver for the Denver Broncos
- Evan Royster - Running Back for the Washington Redskins
- Joe Saunders - Starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks
- Justin Spring- U.S. Olympic gymnast
- Tommy Steenberg - U.S. Figure Skater
- Chris Warren - former NFL running back
- Alan Webb - U.S. Olympic track runner
- Michael Weiss - Figure skater
- Kate Ziegler - U.S. Olympic Swimmer
Entertainers
- Kevin Michael "Toby" McKeehan - Grammy Award winning artist, producer, and songwriter
- Kristi Lauren Glakas - Third-runner-up in 2006 Miss America pageant
- Julianne Moore - Oscar-nominated actress lived in Fairfax County in the mid-1970s and attended JEB Stuart HS two years
- Yoochun "Micky" Park - Singer in the Korean group TVXQ and JYJ
- Chung Jae Young - K-pop R&B/Soul artist
- Lauren Graham - Actress on Gilmore Girls
- Dave Grohl - Drummer for Nirvana and front man for The Foo Fighters
- Dismemberment Plan - former band led by Travis Morrison
- John Jackson - Blues guitarist, master of the Piedmont style
- Jason Sudeikis - Writer and actor (Saturday Night Live writer 2003-2005)
- Jimmy Workman - Actor in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
- Christina Hendricks - Actress in Mad Men and Firefly, attended Fairfax High School.
- Prince Poppycock - Season Five fourth place finalist of America's Got Talent from Great Falls.
Other
- Jayson Blair - former New York Times reporter who fabricated stories
- John Davidson - Union Army general
- Robert Hanssen - American spy who sold secrets to the USSR and Russia.
- Christopher McCandless - American wanderer who went to Alaska to try to "find himself" and died in the process. The novel Into the Wild is based on his journey.
- Seung-hui Cho - Shooter who perpetrated the Virginia Tech massacre
- Steve Scully - Host, political editor, and senior producer of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, resides in Fairfax Station with his family.
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