Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (1911–2001), author, Cheaper by the Dozen Dubose Heyward (1885–1940), writer and lyricist, Porgy and Bess Jessica Hische (born 1984), illustrator Caroline Howard Jervey (1823–1877), author, poet Robert Jordan (1948–2007), novelist, author of The Wheel of Time series Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), author, Scarlett Eden Royce, gothic horror writer Stella F Simon (1878–1973), photographer Philip Simmons (1912–2009), ironworker William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), poet, novelist, and historian Merton Simpson, (born 1928), abstract expressionist artist, African art collector, musician Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927), lyricist; columnist for the Atlanta Constitution; author of the lyrics of "Just Awearyin' for You" Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883–1979), artist, author, lecturer, and preservationist Norb Vonnegut (born 1958), author Lily C. Whitaker (1850–1932), educator, writer Eliza Yonge Wilkinson (1757–?), letter-writer and patriot during the American Revolutionary War Other William Abbott (1790–1843), manager of the New Charleston Theatre Bill Backer (1926–2016), advertising executive know for Coca-Cola campaigns Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987), educator, civil rights activist; "grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement" Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (1905–1968), well-known African American mob boss Sallie Krawcheck (born 1964), Citigroup chief financial officer Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), firebrand rancher from whom the term "maverick" was coined Robert Mills (1781–1855), architect Vanessa Joy Lachey (née Minnillo) (born 1980), Miss USA 1998, MTV VJ, and Entertainment Tonight correspondent George B. Rabb (1930–2017), zoologist James C. Saltus (1837–1883), carpenter David Stahl (1949–2010), conductor Elizabeth Timothy (1702–1757), the first female newspaper publisher in America Lewis Timothy (1699–1738), first American librarian Denmark Vesey (1767–1822), freedman tried and executed for allegedly plotting a slave revolt J. Waites Waring (1880–1968), United States District Court for District of South Carolina judge; part of a three-judge panel that heard school desegregation case Briggs v. Elliott Reuben Greenberg (1943–2014), first black police chief of Charleston Richard Worley, pirate References External links IMDB's List of People from Charleston, SC Charleston Charleston, South Carolina