The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or closely associated with the U.S. state of 'North Carolina. Academia Graham Allison (born 1940), political scientist and professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Charlotte) Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963), pathologist and pediatrician, first physician to identify cystic fibrosis as a disease (Asheville) Fred Brooks (born 1931), computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist (Durham) Carrie Lougee Broughton (1879–1957), librarian and first woman State Librarian (Raleigh) John Chavis (1763–1838), African American educator and theologian (Oxford) Anna J. Cooper (1858–1964), prominent African American scholar, author, sociologist, and educator (Raleigh) Elson Floyd (1956–2015), 10th president of Washington State University, former president of University of Missouri System and of Western Michigan University (Henderson) Phillip Griffiths (born 1938), mathematician, known for work in the field of geometry (Raleigh) Jay U. Gunter (1911–1994), pathologist and amateur astronomer (Sanford) John Kuykendall (born 1938), served as 15th president of Davidson College (Charlotte) Daniel McFadden (born 1937), economist, winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in economics (Raleigh) Kary Mullis (1944–2019), biochemist, inventor of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique (Lenoir) James E. Shepard (1875–1947), pharmacist, civil servant and educator, founder of what became North Carolina Central University (Raleigh) Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, social critic, political commentator, and author (Gastonia) Martin Wohl (1930–2009), transportation economist and professor (Greensboro) Anne D. Yoder, biologist, researcher, and professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University (Charlotte) Artists Charles Alston (1907–1977), painter, illustrator, muralist, and sculptor (Charlotte) Murphy Anderson (1926–2015), comics artist (Asheville) Ernie Barnes (1938–2009), Neo-Mannerist artist and former professional football player (Durham) James Barnhill (born 1955), sculptor (Asheville) Romare Bearden (1911–1988), artist (Charlotte) John T. Biggers (1924–2001), painter and muralist (Gastonia) Elizabeth Bradford (born 1950), painter (Huntersville) Selma Burke (1900–1995), sculptor and ceramicist (Mooresville) Amanda Crowe (1928–2004), woodcarver (Cherokee) Minnie Evans (1892–1987), folk artist (Pender County) Herb Jackson (born 1945), painter, given North Carolina Award by governor in 1999 (Raleigh) John Littleton (born 1957), glass artist with collaborative partner Kate Vogel, based in (Bakersville) Beverly McIver (born 1962), contemporary artist, mostly known for self-portraits (Greensboro) Kenneth Noland (1924–2010), painter (Asheville) Mabel Pugh (1891–1986), painter (Morrisville) Isaiah Rice (1917–1980), photographer (Asheville) Bob Timberlake (born 1937), realist artist, known for watercolor paintings and home furnishings (Lexington) Kate Vogel (born 1956), glass artist with collaborative partner John Littleton, based in (Bakersville) Business Louis Bacon (born 1956), hedge