The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a sports hall of fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 located in Portsmouth

Portsmouth, Virginia

Portsmouth is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2010, the city had a total population of 95,535.The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U.S...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. Founded in 1972, it moved to its current location in 2005. More than 200 athletes, coaches, administrators and others have been inducted into the hall.

The museum also features interactive exhibits which allow children to test their skills in basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, soccer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 and more. There are nine exhibit areas featuring twenty sports.

Sports inductees

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• Gene Alley
  Gene Alley
  Leonard Eugene Alley is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Pirates ....
  
  
• George Allen
  George Allen (football)
  George Herbert Allen was an American football coach in the National Football League and the United States Football League. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.-Early life:...
  
  
• Donna Andrews
• Peggy Augustus
• Arthur Ashe
  Arthur Ashe
  Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States...
  
  

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• Marvin Bass
  Marvin Bass
  Marvin Crosby Bass was the head coach of The College of William & Mary's football team in 1951 and 1952. He compiled an 11–8 overall record. He also coached the South Carolina Gamecocks football team for five seasons....
  
  
• Ed Beard
• William "Pete" Bennett
• Melvin Blassingham
• Chuck Boone
• Yogi Hightower Boothe
• Allan Bristow
  Allan Bristow
  Allan Mercer Bristow Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. Bristow played college basketball at Virginia Tech, and was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2nd round of the 1973 NBA Draft...
  
  
• Larry Brooks
  Larry Brooks
  Lawrence Lee Brooks, Sr. , is a former American Football defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams eleven seasons from 1972 to 1982 in the National Football League...
  
  
• Roosevelt Brown
• Roger Brown
  Roger Brown (football player)
  Roger Lee Brown is a former American football defensive tackle who retired after the 1969 NFL season.-Football career:...
  
  
• Jimmie Bryan
• Herbert Bryant
• Al Bumbry
  Al Bumbry
  Alonza Benjamin Bumbry is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres from 1972 through 1985.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Harold "Hal" Burrows
• Raymond Bussard

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• Hunter Carpenter
  Hunter Carpenter
  Caius Hunter Carpenter was an American football player halfback.-Early life:Carpenter was born in Louisa County, Virginia. He attended Clifton Forge High School in Clifton Forge, Virginia.-College career:...
  
  
• Alfred Casey
• Carter "Nellie" Catlett
• Harry "Red" Caughron
• Bill Chambers
  Bill Chambers (basketball)
  William B. "Bill" Chambers is an American former college basketball player for the William & Mary Tribe.He attended E. C...
  
  
• Joseph "Scrap" Chandler
• Christopher Chenery
  Christopher Chenery
  Christopher Tompkins Chenery was an American engineer, businessman, and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat....
  
  
• Lynn Chewning
• Gary Clark
  Gary Clark
  Gary C. Clark is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the Washington Redskins , Phoenix Cardinals and Miami Dolphins .-Early life:...
  
  
• Jack Cloud
  Jack Cloud
  Jack Martin Cloud was an American football linebacker and fullback in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990....
  
  
• Jim Coates
  Jim Coates
  James Alton Coates is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-hander, Coates pitched for the New York Yankees , Washington Senators , Cincinnati Reds and California Angels ....
  
  
• Julius "Julie" Conn
• Eugene F. "Gene" Corrigan
• Lou Creekmur
  Lou Creekmur
  Louis Creekmur was an NFL left offensive tackle/guard for the Detroit Lions from 1950-59. He was also used as a defensive lineman in critical situations...
  
  
• Fanny C. Crenshaw
• Ralph Cummins
• Dell Curry
  Dell Curry
  Wardell Stephen "Dell" Curry is a retired American professional basketball player at the shooting guard and the small forward positions who received his education from Fort Defiance High School in Virginia and Virginia Tech. He then played in the National Basketball Association from 1986 until 2002...
  
  

D

• Carroll Dale
  Carroll Dale
  Carroll Wayne Dale is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Virginia Tech from 1956–59. Dale was named second-team All American in 1958 and 1959....
  
  
• Bobby Dandridge
• Raymond Dandridge
• Jean McLean Davis
• Meb Davis
• Leon Day
  Leon Day
  Leon Day was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played for the Baltimore Black Sox, the Brooklyn & Newark Eagles, and the Baltimore Elite Giants.He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995....
  
  
• Roland Day
• Steven DeLong
• Bobby Dodd
  Bobby Dodd
  Robert Lee Dodd was an American college football coach at Georgia Tech. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach, something that only three people have accomplished....
  
  
• Tom Dolan
  Tom Dolan
  Tom Dolan is a swimmer from the United States, who won a gold medal and silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Jim Dombrowski
  Jim Dombrowski
  James Matthew Dombrowski was an American football guard and tackle in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints. Dombrowski attended Williamsville South High School and the University of Virginia where his Jersey number 73 was retired...
  
  
• Anne Donovan
  Anne Donovan
  Anne Donovan is an American retired basketball player and the current head coach of the women's basketball team at Seton Hall University. She was formerly an assistant coach, then interim head coach of the New York Liberty of the WNBA...
  
  
• Albert "Rasty" Doran
• Otis Douglas
  Otis Douglas
  -External links:* at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum...
  
  
• Lefty Driesell
  Lefty Driesell
  Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Davidson College, James Madison University, and Georgia State University. During his 41-year coaching career, Driesell led teams from each school to the NCAA...
  
  
• James Driver
• Jim Ducibella
• Bullet Bill Dudley
  Bill Dudley
  William McGarvey "Bullet Bill" Dudley was a professional American football player in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, and Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966.-Early life:Dudley was born in Bluefield, Virginia and...
  
  
• Tom Duquette

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• Kenny Easley
  Kenny Easley
  Kenny Mason Easley Jr. is a former American football strong safety who played seven seasons for the Seattle Seahawks from 1981 to 1987 in the National Football League...
  
  
• James "Suey" Eason
• Karl "Dick" Esleeck

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• Earl Faison
  Earl Faison
  Earl Faison was an American college and Professional Football player who played in the American Football League between 1960 and 1966...
  
  
• Donna Floyd Fales
• Beattie Feathers
  Beattie Feathers
  William Beattie "Big Chief" Feathers was an American football running back in the NFL. He played for the Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Green Bay Packers during his seven year career. He was the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in one season...
  
  
• Richard "Dick" Fletcher
• Dr. Harrison Flippin
• Henry "Hank" Foiles
• William Fuller
• J. Stokeley Fulton

G

• Vinny Giles
  Vinny Giles
  Marvin M. "Vinny" Giles III is an American amateur golfer. He his best known for winning both the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur....
  
  
• James Gillette
• Walker Gillette
  Walker Gillette
  Walker Adams Gillette is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Cardinals, and the New York Giants. He played college football for the University of Richmond and was drafted 15th overall in the first round of the 1970 NFL...
  
  
• William "Pappy" Gooch

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• Archie Hahn
  Archie Hahn
  Charles Archibald "Archie" Hahn was a German-American athlete, and one of the best sprinters in the early 20th century....
  
  
• Charles Haley
  Charles Haley
  Charles Lewis Haley is a former American football linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League who played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys . He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1986 NFL Draft out of James Madison University...
  
  
• Granny Hamner
  Granny Hamner
  Granville Wilbur Hamner was an American shortstop and second baseman in Major League Baseball. Hamner was one of the key players on the "Whiz Kids", the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  
• Chandler Harper
  Chandler Harper
  John Chandler Harper was an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1950 PGA Championship. He won seven times on the PGA Tour and played on the 1955 Ryder Cup team....
  
  
• Frank Havens
• Whitney Hedgepeth
  Whitney Hedgepeth
  Whitney Hedgepeth is a former American college and international swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia: in the 100m and 200m Backstroke, and a gold medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay....
  
  
• John Hilton
• Bob Holland
• Terry Holland
  Terry Holland
  Michael Terrence "Terry" Holland is the Athletics Director and Executive Assistant to Chancellor Steve Ballard at East Carolina University...
  
  
• H. Lester Hooker
  H. Lester Hooker
  Henry Lester Hooker, Jr. was an American college basketball and baseball coach. He was the head men's basketball coach at the College of William & Mary from 1951 to 1952 and at University of Richmond from 1952 to 1963. He returned to William & Mary in 1963 to serve as athletic director.In...
  
  
• Stuart "Stukie" Hoskins
• Henry Hucles
• George S. Hughes
• Richard "Dick" Humbert
  Dick Humbert
  Richard Elmer "Dick" Humbert was a professional American football end/defensive end in the National Football League. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles .-External links:...
  
  
• Ricky Hunley
  Ricky Hunley
  Ricky Hunley is an American football coach and former linebacker. He is currently the assistant linebackers coach for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League.-College career:...
  
  

J

• W.S. "Pedie" Jackson
• Mary Patton Janssen
• Betty Jaynes
• Walter "Whirlwind" Johnson
• Arthur "Art" Jones
• Brian Jordan
  Brian Jordan
  Brian O'Neal Jordan is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder and National Football League safety. In the NFL, he played for the Atlanta Falcons, while he played in the MLB for the St...
  
  
• Henry Jordan
  Henry Jordan
  Henry Wendell Jordan was an American football defensive tackle who played for two teams, the Green Bay Packers and the Cleveland Browns, during his thirteen-year National Football League career. He played in the NFL from 1957 to 1969.Jordan attended Warwick High School in Newport News, Virginia...
  
  

K

• Herman "Bucky" Keller
• Ted Keller
• Junius Kellogg
  Junius Kellogg
  Junius Kellogg was an American basketball player, coach, and civil servant. He was the first African-American to play basketball for Manhattan College....
  
  
• Jerome Kersey
  Jerome Kersey
  Jerome Kersey is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association for a number of teams, but most notably for the Portland Trail Blazers. He also has served in various coaching roles in the NBA. Kersey is currently a resident of Happy Valley, Oregon in...
  
  
• Leroy Keyes
  Leroy Keyes
  Marvin Leroy Keyes is a former American football running back and safety who played five seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was drafted by the Eagles in the first round of the 1969 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue...
  
  
• Robert "Bob" Kilbourne
• Glenn C. Knox

L

• George Lacy
• Willie Lanier
  Willie Lanier
  Willie Edward Lanier is a former American football middle-linebacker who played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1967 through 1977. He won postseason honors for eight consecutive years, making the American Football League All-Star team in 1968 and 1969 before being selected to the Pro Bowl from...
  
  
• Henry E. Lauterbach
• Frank Lawrence
• James Leech
• Doris Leigh
• Jim Lemon
  Jim Lemon
  James Robert Lemon was an American right and left fielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. A powerful, right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, Lemon teamed with first baseman Roy Sievers to form the most formidable home run-hitting tandem in the 60-year history of the...
  
  
• William H. Lewis
  William H. Lewis
  William Henry Lewis was an African-American pioneer in athletics, politics and law. He was the first African-American college football player, the first in the sport to be selected as an All-American, the first to be appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney, the first to become a member...
  
  
• Joseph "Buddy" Lex
• Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Lieberman
  Nancy Elizabeth Lieberman , nicknamed "Lady Magic", is a former professional basketball player who played and coached in the WNBA.Lieberman is regarded as one of the greatest figures in women's basketball....
  
  
• Henry "Monk" Little
• Earl Lloyd
  Earl Lloyd
  Earl Francis Lloyd is a retired American basketball player. He was the first African-American to play in the National Basketball Association, in the 1950-51 NBA season...
  
  
• Frank Loria
  Frank Loria
  Frank Loria was an American football defensive back. He was born in the town of Clarksburg, West Virginia in Harrison County and was a three sport athlete at Notre Dame Catholic High School....
  
  

M

• Jane Mack
• Thad Madden
• Moses Malone
  Moses Malone
  Moses Eugene Malone is a retired American Hall of Fame basketball player who starred in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association...
  
  
• Shelley Mann
  Shelley Mann
  Shelley Isabel Mann is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States. At the 1956 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 m butterfly competition and was a member of the relay team that won the silver medal for the 100 m freestyle.Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to...
  
  
• Dr. Thompson Mann
• Dr. John Mapp
• Laura Mapp
• Willard Marshall
  Willard Marshall
  Willard Warren Marshall was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1942 through 1955, Marshall played for the New York Giants , Boston Braves , Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox...
  
  
• Billy Martin Sr.
• Lily Harper Martin
• Eugene Noble "Buck" Mayer
  Eugene Mayer
  Eugene Noble "Buck" Mayer was an All-American football player for the University of Virginia. He was the first football player from a Southern school to be recognized as a consensus first-team All-American....
  
  
• Penelope McBride
• Clyde McCullough
  Clyde McCullough
  Clyde Edward McCullough was an American catcher in Major League Baseball. After his playing career ended, he also managed in the minor leagues and was a major-league coach...
  
  
• Mac McEver
• John McKenna
  John McKenna (American football)
  -External links:...
  
  
• Lee McLaughlin
  Lee McLaughlin
  -Biography:McLaughlin was born Lee Massey McLaughlin on February 28, 1917 in in Brownsburg, Virginia. During World War II, he served as an officer in the United States Navy. He died on August 13, 1968.-Playing career:...
  
  
• George McQuinn
  George McQuinn
  George Hartley McQuinn was a left handed, Major League Baseball first baseman.-Early life:A native of Arlington, Virginia, and a graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia,-Baseball career:...
  
  
• Paul Mellon
  Paul Mellon
  Paul Mellon KBE was an American philanthropist, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame...
  
  
• William "Bill" Merner
• Edwin "Ed" Merrick
• Arthur "Bud" Metheny
  Bud Metheny
  Arthur Beauregard “Bud” Metheny, was an American baseball player and coach. He played professional baseball for the New York Yankees and served Old Dominion University for 32 years as head baseball coach, head basketball coach and athletic director.Metheny was a graduate of the College of...
  
  
• Walt Michaels
  Walt Michaels
  Walt Michaels was a former professional football player and coach who is best remembered for his six-year tenure as head coach of the NFL's New York Jets from 1977-1982.-Collegiate and early NFL career:...
  
  
• C.P. "Sally" Miles
• Louis "Weenie" Miller
• Robert "Emory Express" Miller
• Charles Moir
  Charles Moir
  Charles Moir is a former college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team from 1976 until his resignation in October, 1987. During his eleven seasons at Tech, Moir compiled a 213-119 record, but was forced to resign after the discovery of severe...
  
  
• Herman Moore
  Herman Moore
  Herman Joseph Moore is a former American National Football League wide receiver. At George Washington High School in Danville he played mostly as a kicker and also as a tight end. He went to the University of Virginia, where he was a 2-sport athlete...
  
  
• Leotus "Lee" Morrison
• Frank O. Moseley
• Benita Fitzgerald Mosley
• Alonzo Mourning
  Alonzo Mourning
  Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. is a former American professional basketball player, who played most of his 15-year NBA career for the Miami Heat....
  
  
• Joseph "Joe" Muha

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• Albert M. Nemetz
• Hank Norton

O

• Johnny Oates
  Johnny Oates
  Johnny Lane Oates was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees from 1970 to 1981...
  
  

P

• Joe Palumbo
  Joe Palumbo
  Joseph C. "Joe" Palumbo is a former American football guard. He played college football for the University of Virginia Cavaliers. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999....
  
  
• Clarence "Ace" Parker
  Clarence Parker
  Clarence "Ace" Parker, is a former quarterback who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Boston Yanks , and the New York Yankees. He was an All-American tailback at Duke University in 1936...
  
  
• Barry Parkhill
  Barry Parkhill
  Barry Parkhill is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1st round of the 1973 NBA Draft but elected to play in the American Basketball Association instead...
  
  
• Frank Peake
• Larry Peccatiello
  Larry Peccatiello
  Larry Peccatiello is a former American Football coach. He was an assistant coach with the Washington Redskins from 1981-93. For most of that time, he was defensive coordinator, either alone or sharing it with Richie Petitbon...
  
  
• Charles "Bolo" Perdue
• Deacon Phillippe
  Deacon Phillippe
  Charles Louis "Deacon" Phillippe was a turn-of-the-century pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates....
  
  
• Malcolm "Mac" Pitt
• Lou Plummer
• Bob Porterfield
  Bob Porterfield
  Erwin Coolidge "Bob" Porterfield is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for twelve seasons between 1948 and 1959 for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs...
  
  
• Russ Potts
  Russ Potts
  H. Russell "Russ" Potts Jr. was a Republican state senator in Virginia from Winchester. He was an independent candidate for governor in 2005, receiving 2.22 percent of the vote in a race won by Democrat Tim Kaine. He chaired the Senate Education and Health Committee in the Virginia General Assembly...
  
  
• George Preas
  George Preas
  George Robert Preas was an American football lineman in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts.Preas grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and played high school football at , graduating in 1951...
  
  
• Kelli James Precourt
• William "Dick" Price
• Abisha "Bosh" Pritchard
• George "Gummy" Proctor

R

• Vito Ragazzo
  Vito Ragazzo
  Vito Ragazzo is a former American football player, coach, and scout. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute from 1966 to 1970 and at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1985, compiling a career college football record of 51–72–1.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gerrard "Buster" Ramsey
  Buster Ramsey
  Garrard Sliger "Buster" Ramsey was an American football player who starred at William and Mary and was the first head coach of the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1960...
  
  
• Ulmo "Sonny" Randle
• Victor "Vic" Raschi
  Vic Raschi
  Victor John Angelo "Vic" Raschi was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was responsible for allowing Hank Aaron's first career home run....
  
  
• Paul W. Rice
• Melissa Belote Ripley
• Eppa Rixey
  Eppa Rixey
  Eppa Rixey Jr. , nicknamed "Jephtha", was an American left-handed pitcher who played 21 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1933...
  
  
• Melvin "Mel" Roach
• Dave Robbins
• Glenn Roberts Sr.
• Bobby Ross
  Bobby Ross
  Robert Joseph Ross is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at The Citadel , the University of Maryland, College Park , the Georgia Institute of Technology , and the United States Military Academy , compiling a career college football record of 103–101–2...
  
  
• Bob Rowland
• Ricky Rudd
  Ricky Rudd
  Ricky Rudd is a former American NASCAR driver. He is the uncle of actor Skeet Ulrich and Nationwide Series driver Jason Rudd. Rudd is known as the "Iron Man" of NASCAR; holding the record for most consecutive starts in NASCAR racing. At the conclusion of the 2005 season, Rudd had made 788...
  
  
• Warren Rutledge

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• Ralph Sampson
  Ralph Sampson
  Ralph Lee Sampson, Jr. is a retired American college and professional basketball player.A 7-foot-4 phenom, three-time College Player of the Year, and No...
  
  
• Taylor Sanford
• Paul Sawyer
  Paul Sawyer
  Paul Richard Sawyer is an English cricketer. Sawyer is a left-handed batsman who bowls leg break. He was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire....
  
  
• Herb Scott
• Thomas C. Scott
• Thomas L. Scott
  Tommy Scott (American football)
  Thomas "Tommy" Lawrence Scott was the very first head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs football team , which was established in 1930 and discontinued after the 1939 season for eligibility and debt concerns...
  
  
• Wendell Scott
  Wendell Scott
  Wendell Oliver Scott was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car racing on May 23, 1952, at the Danville...
  
  
• Richard "Dick" Shea
• Bill Shellenberger
• J. Dallas Shirley
  Dallas Shirley
  Dallas Shirley was a basketball referee. He officiated more than 2000 basketball games in his 33-year career, which ended in 1966. He was the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials president from 1952 to 1953. He took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, officiating...
  
  
• Paul Shu
• E. Gray Simons
• Dr. Caroline B. Sinclair
• Ida Simmons Slack
• Barton "Barty" Smith
• Bruce Smith
• C. Alphonso Smith
• Richard A. Smith
• J.C. Snead
• Norm Snead
  Norm Snead
  Norman Bailey Snead is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, and San Francisco 49ers. He played college football for Wake Forest University and was drafted in the first round of...
  
  
• Sam Snead
  Sam Snead
  Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...
  
  
• Bobby Spangler
• Wynsol Spencer
• Robert "Bob" Spessard
• Hope Spivey
• Dawn Staley
  Dawn Staley
  Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball player and coach. Staley is a three-time Olympian and was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was named the University of South Carolina women's head basketball coach on May 7, 2008...
  
  
• Hugh Stephens
• Dwight Stephenson
  Dwight Stephenson
  Dwight Eugene Stephenson is a former American football offensive lineman and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 1998...
  
  
• Bryant Stith
  Bryant Stith
  Bryant Lamonica Stith is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA.A 6'5" shooting guard, Bryant was selected from the University of Virginia with the 13th overall pick by the Denver Nuggets in the 1992 NBA Draft. Bryant played eight seasons with the team before being traded to...
  
  
• Chuck Stobbs
  Chuck Stobbs
  Charles Klein Stobbs was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox , Chicago White Sox , Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins and St...
  
  
• Curtis Strange
  Curtis Strange
  Curtis Northrup Strange is an American professional golfer. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between their debut in 1986 and 1990.-Early years through college:Strange and his...
  
  
• Tom Strange
• Francis Lee Summers
• Charlie Sumner
  Charlie Sumner
  Charles "Charlie" Sumner is a former American football player who was selected by the Chicago Bears in the twenty second round of the 1954 NFL Draft. A 6'1", 194 lbs. safety from the College of William & Mary, Sumner played in 8 NFL seasons from 1955-1962...
  
  

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• Lawrence Taylor
  Lawrence Taylor
  Lawrence Julius Taylor , nicknamed "L.T.", is a Hall of Fame former American football player. Taylor played his entire professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giants in the National Football League...
  
  
• Bob Thalman
  Bob Thalman
  Robert J. Thalman is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1956 to 1959 and at the Virginia Military Institute from 1971 to 1984, winning Southern Conference championships in 1974 and 1977, compiling a career college...
  
  
• Charles "Rosie" Thomas
• William "Bill" Thomas
• Tommy Thompson
  Tommy Thompson (linebacker)
  Thomas Wright Thompson was an American football linebacker in the National Football League and All-America Football Conference for the Cleveland Browns. He played college football at the College of William & Mary and was drafted in the third round of the 1948 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins....
  
  
• Syd Thrift
  Syd Thrift
  Sydnor W. Thrift Jr. was an American scout and executive in Major League Baseball who served as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1985 to 1988, and the de facto general manager of the Baltimore Orioles from 1999 to 2002...
  
  
• Eric Tipton
  Eric Tipton
  Eric Gordon Tipton was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds...
  
  
• John Todd
  John Todd
  John Todd may refer to:*John Todd , early Virginia official, Kentucky soldier, and great-uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln*John Blair Smith Todd , delegate to US Congress from Dakota Territory...
  
  
• Curtis M. "Pops" Turner
• Dave Twardzik
  Dave Twardzik
  David John Twardzik is a former professional basketball player, a player he was a point guard in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association . He is best known for being a starter on the Portland Trail Blazers team that won the 1977 NBA Finals...
  
  
• E.P. "Cy" Twombly

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• Robbye King Unger

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• Charles "Dink" Vail
• Gracie VanDyck
• C. Porter Vaughan

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• Jesse "Sonny" Wade
• Lanny Wadkins
  Lanny Wadkins
  Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins, Jr. is an American professional golfer. He ranked in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks from their debut in 1986 to 1988....
  
  
• Joe Weatherly
  Joe Weatherly
  Joseph "Joe" Weatherly was a two-time NASCAR championship driver. Weatherly was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009 after winning NASCAR's Grand National championships in 1962 and 1963, three A.M.A...
  
  
• Paul Webb
• George Welsh
• Helmut Werner
• Mark West
• J.R. Wilburn
  J.R. Wilburn
  Johnnie Richard "J. R." Wilburn, Jr. is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for five seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers Biggest Badass to walk Salisbury Country Club.-References:...
  
  
• Richard "Buzzy" Wilkinson
• Ken Willard
  Ken Willard
  Kenneth Henderson Willard is a former American football running back/fullback in the National Football League. Willard was drafted with the second pick of the 1965 NFL Draft, by the San Francisco 49ers ahead of future NFL Hall of Famers Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers. He played nine seasons with the...
  
  
• Charles H. Williams
• Leigh Williams
• Lawrence "Lefty" Wilson
• Glen & Leonard Wood
• Lew Worsham
  Lew Worsham
  Lewis Elmer Worsham, Jr. was an American professional golfer.Worsham was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. In 1947, he won the U.S. Open by defeating Sam Snead in an 18-hole playoff at the St. Louis Country Club in Clayton, Missouri after the two men had finished tied at 282 in regulation....
  
  

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• Harry Young
• William "Monk" Younger