•
James Markham Ambler, naval surgeon •
Turner Ashby, born in Fauquier County, Confederate Army colonel in the American Civil War. •
Martin Berkofsky, classical pianist and philanthropist. •
Matt Carson, entrepreneur and author •
Irv Cross,
American footballer and
sportscaster. •
Susan Cummings, an heiress infamous for killing Argentine polo player Roberto Villegas. •
Robert Duvall, actor. He maintains a farm in The Plains. •
Bertram and Diana Firestone, owners of
Newstead Farm. •
George B. Fitch, businessman, Mayor of Warrenton, founder of Jamaican Bobsled Team. •
Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson, owner of
historic Blue Ridge Farm. •
Eppa Hunton, U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia, born and lived in Warrenton. •
Sandy Lerner,
Cisco founder who maintains a farm in Upperville. •
Charles Marshall, born in Warrenton, assistant
adjutant general,
aide de camp and
military secretary to
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Grandnephew of Chief Justice John Marshall. •
James K. Marshall,
Colonel in the
Confederate States Army,
killed in action during
Pickett's Charge at the
Battle of Gettysburg while leading the
brigade of
J. Johnston Pettigrew, grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall. •
John Marshall, born in Fauquier County,
Chief Justice of the United States. •
Paul Mellon, philanthropist, an
Exemplar of Racing and owner of
Rokeby Farm. •
John S. Mosby, lived in Warrenton, was a
Confederate partisan ranger and
cavalry officer during the American Civil War. Buried in Warrenton cemetery. •
Presley O'Bannon, of the First Barbary War, born in Fauquier County •
Karen O'Connor and
David O'Connor, Olympic eventing riders •
Dorothy B. Porter, bibliographer and curator, built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at
Howard University •
Albert Rust, 19th-century politician who served as a senior
officer of the
Confederate States Army during the
American Civil War (1861–1865). •
Michaele Salahi and
Tareq Salahi, the
White House Gate Crashers. •
Willard Scott, media personality best known for his work on
NBC's
The Today Show who lived in Paris, Virginia. •
Scott Shipp, born in Warrenton, Superintendent of
Virginia Military Institute from 1890 to 1907. •
Isabel Dodge Sloane, owner of
Brookmeade Stud. •
William "Extra Billy" Smith, died in Warrenton, was a lawyer, congressman, two-time Governor of Virginia and one of the oldest Confederate generals in the American Civil War. •
Shedrick Thompson, disputed lynching victim •
Liz Whitney Tippett, owner of the
Llangollen estate. •
William B. Waddell (Pony Express founder), Pony Express founder ==See also==