Charles Pinckney
Charles Pinckney was a lawyer, governor of South Carolina, and signer of the United States Constitution.
Julia Peterkin
Julia Peterkin was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who wrote about the African American experience in the South.
Peggy Parish
Peggy Parish was an author known best for her children's book series Amelia Bedelia.
Juan Pardo
Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who built missions and forts in the Southeast in 1566 and 1567.
Nancy O'Dell
Nancy O'Dell is a television host and entertainment journalist.
Lloyd "Fig" Newton
Lloyd "Fig" Newton was the first African American pilot in the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
Isaiah DeQuincey Newman
Reverend Isaiah DeQuincey Newman was a minister and civil rights leader who became the first African American since 1887 to serve in the state Senate.
Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis grew up in Columbia, SC, and was an esteemed biochemist and Nobel laureate.
William Moultrie
William Moultrie was a general in the Revolutionary War who had Fort Moultrie built out of Palmetto logs on Sullivan’s Island, in the Charleston Harbor.
Rebecca Motte
Rebecca Motte was a widower and landowner along the Congaree River who graciously allowed Francis Marion and other Patriot soldiers to set fire to her plantation home when the British took command of the house.
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