Notable People
- Mark Twain - writer, whose novel Roughing It is set in and around the city.
- John Brayshaw Kaye - poet and politician, worked in the town in the 19th century.
- Albert Abraham Michelson - who became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics (1907) grew up in this rough mining town, where his father was a merchant.
- Julia Bulette - (1832–1867), English-born prostitute and madam.
- Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council president, born here
- Charles Clegg, an American author, photographer, and railroad historian.
- Lucius Beebe, an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist; resident of Virginia City.
- Richard Kirman, Sr., 17th Governor of Nevada from 1935 to 1939; born in Virginia City.
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