South Carolina People
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is a contemporary street artist and graphic designer. He is known for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster and "Andre the Giant has a Posse."
Shannon Faulkner
Shannon Faulkner was the first female student to attend The Citadel.
Peter Fayssoux
Physician
Cool John Ferguson
Cool John Ferguson is a blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for playing his guitar "upside down."
Mamie Garvin Fields
Mamie Garvin Fields was a teacher, civil rights and religious activist, and memoirist.
Eugene C. Figg
Eugene Figg was a structural engineer who designed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.
Ernest Adolphus Finney, Jr.
Ernest Adolphus Finney, Jr. was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court since the Reconstruction Era.
Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney is a poet and writer from Sumter, South Carolina.
Martha Thomas Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Martha Thomas "Mattie" Fitzgerald was an educator and politician. She was the first woman elected in South Carolina in the House of Representatives in a General election.
Sarah Mae Flemming
Sarah Mae Flemming sued bus owners in Columbia, SC for an incident that occurred 17 months before Rosa Parks took her stand in Montgomery, Alabama.
Tyler Florence
Tyler Florence is a celebrity Chef and television host of several Food Network shows.
Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd was an opera composer and librettist from Latta, SC. He is considered the "Father of American Opera."
Starkey Flythe, Jr.
Starkey Flythe, Jr. was an award-winning writer whose short stories were widely anthologized in Best American Short Stories.
James Fooshe
James Fooshe was a soldier, author, farmer, philosopher, and Methodist churchman.
Nick Aaron Ford
Nick Aaron Ford was a pioneer of Black literary criticism and a crucial voice in the establishment of Black studies as an academic discipline.
Ruby Ethel Middleton Forsythe
Educator
William Price Fox
William Price Fox was an author and television producer.
Dorothea Benton Frank
Best-selling author Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivan’s Island and has written several novels set in the Lowcountry.
Rosa Franklin
Born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Rosa Franklin is the first African American woman elected to the Washington State Senate, serving the 29th Legislative District in the Tacoma area.
Charles Fraser
Charles Fraser was a Charleston painter who created miniature portraits for people to carry with them.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier was a professional boxer from Beaufort, SC who defeated such greats as Muhammad Ali.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was a lyricist and film producer. He produced and was co-lyricist for the iconic film "Singin' in the Rain."
Pearl Fryar
Pearl Fryar is a topiary artist in Bishopville, SC. His garden has over 1,000 ornate art pieces.
Richard Furman
Richard Furman was a pastor who influenced the development of the Baptist denomination in the South.
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