(1749-1779) Thomas Lynch, Jr. from Georgetown County, SC, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
(1902-1969) Born in Columbia, SC, Barton MacLane was an actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
(1813-1893) Andrew Gordon Magrath was a federal judge and later governor of South Carolina during the Civil War.
(1919-2001) From Greenville, SC, Elizabeth "Lib" Mahon was a baseball player in the 1940s in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
(ca. 1732-1795) Born in Winyah (Winyah Bay, SC), Francis Marion was a strategic fighter against the British during the War of Independence.
(1894-1984) Born in Greenwood, SC, Benjamin Elijah Mays was a teacher, civil rights leader, president of Morehouse College, dean of Howard University's School of Religion, and first black president of Atlanta's sc
(1970- ) Born in Greenville, SC, Edwin McCain is an alternative rock singer-songwriter and musician.
(1950-1986) Born in Lake City, SC, Ronald McNair is an astronaut killed in the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
(1742-1787) Born in Charleston, SC, Arthur Middleton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
(1781-1855) Born in Charleston, SC, Robert Mills was one of the first Americans to become a professional architect.
(1738-1805) Rebecca Motte was a widower and landowner along the Congaree River who graciously allowed Francis Marion and other Patriot soldiers to set fire to her plantation home when the British took command of t
(1730-1805) William Moultrie was a general in the Revolutionary War who had Fort Moultrie built out of Palmetto logs on Sullivan’s Island, in the Charleston Harbor.
(1944- ) Kary Mullis grew up in Columbia, SC and is an esteemed biochemist and Nobel laureate.
(1911-1985) Reverend Isaiah DeQuincey Newman was a minister and civil rights leader who became the first African American since 1887 to serve in the state Senate.
(fl.1560) Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who built missions and forts in the Southeast in 1566 and 1567.
(1927-1988) An author from Manning, SC, Peggy Parish wrote the Amelia Bedelia children’s book series.
(1962- ) William Perry is a former professional football player. He was a Chicago Bears defensive lineman and key player in Superbowl XX in 1986. His nickname is "The Refrigerator" because of his size.
(1880-1961) Born in Laurens County, SC, Julia Peterkin was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who wrote about the African American experience in the South.
(1739-1817) Andrew Pickens was a militia leader in the American Revolutionary War and US Representative from Abbeville County, SC.
(1757-1824) Charles Pinckney was a lawyer, governor of South Carolina, and signer of the United States Constitution.
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