With the amount of filming that takes place in the Wilmington area, we get our fair share of celebrities in town from time to time.
But Wilmington also can boast about famous people who are from here or have lived here. The list include actors, athletes, broadcasters, musicians and more.
Here are a few of those people. To see more head-turning names, check out the photo gallery with this story.
David Brinkley
A Wilmington native who graduated from New Hanover High School and started his journalism career at the StarNews, Brinkley would go on to become one of the most famous news broadcasters in the country.
Charlie Daniels
Wilmington native and lifelong (in his words) “Dry Pond boy,” a reference to a neighborhood bordering Castle Street, played in area clubs in Carolina Beach and Jacksonville as a young man. After moving to Nashville and appearing as a guitarist on Bob Dylan’s 1969 album “Nashville Skyline,” Daniels, who died in 2020, shot to country music stardom with such hits as “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and “Long-Haired Country Boy.”…