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Actors, authors, and entertainers

• Danni Ashe, adult entertainer
• Tom Berenger, actor
• Pat Conroy, author of numerous novels with several depicting communities resembling Beaufort'
• Esther Dale, former actress
• Jazzy Jay, hip-hop disc jockey
• Jessica Verday, author

Athletes

• Kevin Brooks, basketball, National Basketball Association and National Basketball League (Australia)
• Joe Frazier, boxer
• Joe Montford, football, Canadian Football League
• James Saxon, football player and coach, National Football League
• Greg Jones, (American football) Jacksonville Jaguars fullback

Politicians & leaders

• Robert Barnwell, former U.S. Congressman
• Robert Woodward Barnwell, former U.S. and Confederate Congressman
• Edward Junius Black, former U.S. Congressman (represented Georgia)
• William F. Colcock, former U.S. Congressman
• Charles Craven, former governor and founder of Beaufort
• William Elliot, former U.S. Congressman
• John Floyd, former U.S. Congressman (represented Georgia)
• Richard Howell Gleaves, former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
• William J. Grayson, former U.S. Congressman and poet
• Francis Lubbock, former governor of Texas
• Michael P. O'Connor, former U.S. Congressman
• Libby Pataki, wife of former Governor of New York George Pataki
• Clementa C. Pinckney, current state senator
• Robert Rhett, former U.S. Congressman and leading secessionist politician
• Robert Smalls, former slave who became one of the first African-Americans elected to the U.S. Congress
• William Verity, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Others

• Richard W. Colcock, former president of The Citadel
• Donald Conroy, former colonel, USMC; also known as "The Great Santini" and father of Pat Conroy
• Stephen Elliot, former Episcopal bishop
• John Edwards Holbrook, former zoologist
• Anita Pollitzer, former photographer
• Anne Pressly, former news anchor whose murder in Arkansas attracted national attention