Bill Anderson
Born in Columbia, SC, Bill Anderson is a country music singer and songwriter nicknamed "Whisperin' Bill."
Pink Anderson
Born in Laurens, SC, Pinkney "Pink" Anderson was a blues singer and guitarist who inspired the "Pink" in the name of the English rock band Pink Floyd.
Joseph Alston
Born in All Saints Parish (Georgetown County), Joseph Alston was the governor of South Carolina from 1812 - 1814.
John Adair
Born in Chester County, South Carolina, John Adair was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician.
Anna Heyward Taylor
(1879-1956) Anna Heyward Taylor was an artist active in the Charleston Renaissance who became well-known for her woodblock prints.
Jeremiah Theus
Jeremiah Theus was a painter from Switzerland who came to Charleston and became a well-established portrait artist, painting many people from Charleston society families.
Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond was a governor of South Carolina from 1947-1951 and the oldest and 2nd longest-serving U.S. Senator.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman was the governor of South Carolina from 1890-1894 who founded what is now Clemson University.
Elizabeth Timothy
Elizabeth Timothy was America’s first female newspaper editor.
Henry Timrod
Henry Timrod was a poet, sometimes called the poet laureate of the Confederacy.
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