Blowfish, and country star Josh Strickland (born 1983), singer and actor Elise Testone (born 1983), singer, American Idol contestant Melanie Thornton (1967–2001), singer, member of La Bouche Matt Watson (born 1996), YouTuber, Member and Co-Founder of SuperMega Military figures Arthur L. Bristol (1886–1942), United States Navy vice admiral Mark Wayne Clark (1896–1984), United States Army general; Supreme commander of the United Nations Command James H. Conyers (1855–1935), first black person admitted to the United States Naval Academy Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (born 1949), former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA astronaut Percival Drayton (1812–1865), United States Navy officer, commanded Union Naval forces during the Civil War Thomas Drayton (1809–1891), Confederate States Army general, brother of Percival Drayton Samuel Wragg Ferguson (1834–1917), Confederate States Army general James L. Holloway III (1922–2019), United States Navy admiral and navy aviator Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), Confederate States Army general Ralph H. Johnson (1949–1968), United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor John Laurens (1754–1782), soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War Stephen Dill Lee (1833–1908), Confederate States Army general; 1st president of Mississippi State University Barnwell R. Legge (1891–1949), United States Army general during World War I Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr. (1882–1954), United States Army general William Childs Westmoreland (1914–2005), United States Army general; 25th chief of staff of the United States Army Political figures William Aiken Jr. (1806–1887), Governor of South Carolina Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Confederate States Secretary of State and Attorney General Don C. Bowen (b. 1945), represented District 8 at the South Carolina House of Representative, 2007-2014 James Francis Byrnes (1879–1972), U.S. Representative and Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, and Governor of South Carolina Floride Calhoun (1792–1866), Second Lady of the United States; wife of John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), U.S. Representative and Senator, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of War George Heriot DeReef (1869–1937), American lawyer, political candidate, civil rights leader, and businessman Henry William de Saussure (1763–1839), second director of United States Mint; intendant (mayor) of Charleston William Drayton Sr. (1733–1790), associate justice of South Carolina Supreme Court Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), American Revolutionary War leader James Gadsden (1788–1858), U.S. minister to Mexico; president of the South Carolina Railroad Company Francois P. Giraud (1818–1877), Mayor of San Antonio from 1872–1875 Robert Young Hayne (1791–1839), Mayor of Charleston