South Carolina People
Ida Jane Dacus
Librarian
Charles Ezra Daniel
Charles Ezra Daniel was a successful businessman and political figure in South Carolina.
Beth Daniel
Beth Daniel is a professional golfer.
Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport was a writer, translator, illustrator, painter, and teacher from Anderson, SC.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an actress. She is the first African-American and currently the youngest actor to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting."
Gary Davis
Gary Davis was a blind blues and gospel songwriter and innovative guitarist.
Kristin Davis
Kristin Davis is an actress and producer. She is best known for playing Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the HBO series Sex and the City.
Kwame Dawes
Poet, editor, novelist, cultural critic
Manish Dayal
Manish Dayal is an actor best known for his roles in The Resident, The Hundred-Foot Journey, and Viceroy's House.
Francisco de Chicora
Francisco de Chicora was a Native American that was taken to Spain, where he met chronicler Peter Martyr and told him about the Chicora tribe.
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who explored South Carolina.
Joseph Armstrong DeLaine
Reverend Joseph Armstrong Delaine was a civil rights leader from Summerton, SC, who helped end segregation in South Carolina schools.
Martin Robison Delany
Martin Robison Delany was an physician, writer, and first proponent of black nationalism.
Robert Carlos DeLarge
Legislator, congressman
BJ Dennis
Born and raised in Charleston, SC, personal chef and caterer Benjamin “BJ” Dennis infuses the flavors and culture of the Lowcountry into his Gullah Geechee cuisine.
James Dickey
James Dickey was a professor at the University of South Carolina known for his poetry and novels.
Samuel Henry Dickson
Samuel Henry Dickson was a poet, physician, writer, and educator. He was one of the founders of the Medical College of South Carolina (now the Medical University of South Carolina).
Peggy Dillard-Toone
Peggy Dillard-Toone is a model and artist. She was the second Black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue.
Julius Dixson
Julius Dixson (sometimes spelled Dixon) was an African American songwriter and record company executive. He was known for the 1958 hit "Lollipop."
Larry Doby
Lawrence "Larry" Doby was the first African American to play baseball in the American League and the second African American to manage a major league team.
Stanley Donen
American film director and choreographer. Known as "The King of Musicals". Born in Columbia, SC
Ulysses Dove
Ulysses Dove was one of the most innovative contemporary choreographers of the past half-century.
David Drake
David Drake lived in Edgefield, SC, as a slave and, after the Civil War, as a freedman who made distinctive stoneware pottery, often engraved with short poems or couplets.
John Drayton
John Drayton was South Carolina's 40th Governor.
William Henry Drayton
William Henry Drayton was a planter and lawyer from Charleston, SC, who served as a delegate for South Carolina to the Continental Congress.
Louise Jones DuBose
Louise Jones DuBose was the Assistant State Director of the South Carolina Writers' Project.
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Colonel Charles Moss Duke, Jr. is a retired USAF Brigadier General and former NASA astronaut and engineer.
Eugenia Duke
Eugenia Duke created Duke's Mayonnaise
Nathalie Dupree
Nathalie Dupree is an author, chef, and cooking show host whose work has focused on Southern cuisine.
Pam Durban
Aiken native, Pam Durban is a novelist, short story writer, and educator.
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