Entertainment
- Hasil Adkins, rockabilly musician
- Michael Ammar, magician
- Samuel Ball, actor
- Charlie Barnett, actor and comedian
- Lina Basquette, actress
- Leon "Chu" Berry, jazz saxophonist
- Chris Booker, radio DJ and TV personality
- Byzantine, progressive extreme metal band
- Bobby Campo, actor
- Jean Carson, actress
- Bernie Casey, actor
- Ted Cassidy, actor
- Joe Cerisano, singer, songwriter
- Larry Combs, clarinetist
- Wilma Lee Cooper, country/bluegrass singer
- Stoney Cooper, country/bluegrass singer
- John Corbett, actor
- Billy Cox, Drummer
- George Crumb, composer
- Joyce DeWitt, actress
- Joanne Dru, actress
- Virginia Egnor, AKA Dagmar - actress, pin-up model, TV personality
- Little Jimmy Dickens, country singer, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee
- Hazel Dickens, bluegrass singer
- Brad Divens, former vocalist/bassist for Wrathchild America, former guitarist for Kix
- Paul Dooley, actor, writer and comedian
- Brad Dourif, actor
- Greg Dulli, Afghan Whigs singer
- Conchata Ferrell, actress
- Virginia Fox, silent film actress, frequent co-star of Buster Keaton
- Jennifer Garner, actress
- Larry Groce, musician, radio personality
- Ed Haley, blind professional fiddler
- Joshua Harto, actor
- Steve Harvey, actor, stand-up comedian
- Katie Lee Joel, TV host
- Johnnie Johnson, blues musician
- Daniel Johnston, musician, artist, subject of 2006 Sundance winning documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"
- Lawrence Kasdan, movie director, producer, screenwriter
- Fuzzy Knight, actor
- Jake E. Lee, rock guitarist; formerly w/ Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands
- Kristi Lee, air personality/news director, The Bob and Tom Show
- Karma to Burn, instrumental alt-metal band
- Lesli Kay, soap actress who played Molly Conlan on As The World Turns, and now plays Felicia Forrester on The Bold And The Beautiful
- Don Knotts, actor
- Shannon Larkin, drummer for Godsmack, former Amen, Wrathchild America
- Ann Magnuson, actress
- Peter Marshall, host of "Hollywood Squares" from 1966-1981
- Kathy Mattea, country and bluegrass performer
- Charlie McCoy, musician
- Garnet Mimms, soul singer
- Tim O'Brien, bluegrass musician
- Devon Odessa, film producer, actress - "My So-Called Life"
- Brad Paisley, country singer and songwriter
- Wilber Pan, singer, rapper and actor
- Sam Pancake, actor
- Squire Parsons, gospel singer
- Johnny Paycheck, country musician
- Rachel Proctor, country singer and songwriter
- Walter E. "Jack" Rollins, songwriter
- Soupy Sales, actor and comedian
- Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, musician, guitarist for Neil Young's band Crazy Horse
- Chris Sarandon, actor, activist
- Scenes from a Movie, a Charleston based pop-punk band
- David Selby, actor
- Robert R. Shafer, actor
- Bill Slater, radio personality, sportscaster, host of game show "Twenty Questions"
- Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist for the MC5
- Connie Smith, country singer, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee
- Michael W. Smith, Contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist
- Red Sovine, country singer
- Morgan Spurlock, independent film director and screenwriter
- Blaze Starr, stripper and burlesque star
- Aaron Staton, actor, Mad Men
- Sam Trammell, actor, True Blood
- Teddy Weatherford, jazz pianist
- Patty Weaver, actress
- Donald Ray White, mountain dancer
- Jesse "Jesco" White, mountain dancer
- Steve Whiteman, former Kix singer
- Garland Wilson, jazz pianist
- Melvin Wine, fiddler
- Bill Withers, singer and songwriter
- J. T. Woodruff, Hawthorne Heights singer, songwriter, guitarist
- Wrathchild America, a power/thrash metal band
- Bobby Wright, country singer, son of Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright
- Frankie Yankovic, polka musician
- Travis Titus, Chef
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