Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, he returned to Raleigh.

* The house where he was born was preserved and is within Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh.

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.

Maurice Evans was cast as Raleigh.

Colin Clive reprised his role as Stanhope, and David Manners was cast as Raleigh.

Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Raleigh Bakker and Furnia Lynette " Furn " Irwin.

Upshaw was an Atlanta boy, a few months younger than Mitchell, whose family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1916.

Instrumental in the English colonisation of North America, Raleigh was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, which paved the way for future English settlements.

In 1584, the queen granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonisation of Virginia ; it was named in her honour.

Her father, Frank Davis, was a graduate of St. Augustine's College, a historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was briefly a high school history teacher.

At Sir Walter Raleigh's own treason trial later on, in 1603, it was alleged that Raleigh had said to a co-conspirator, " Do not, as my Lord Essex did, take heed of a preacher.

It is a mistake to see Boyle's ' empire ' as merely being exclusively confined to the development of the ' Raleigh estates ': for instance, his acquisition of the entirety of the town of Bandon was not completed until 1625.

Only one of them, Dr. Raleigh Ashlin Skelton, keeper of the Museum's map collection, had significant expertise relevant to the problems posed by the map ( his colleague George Painter, the first person to whom Davis had shown the map in 1957, was brought in for the transcription and translation of the Relation ) and the secrecy almost completely ruled out consultation with specialists.

He was taken to the closest black hospital, Saint Agnes Hospital in Raleigh.

White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.

McFadden was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Nordholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1897, the son of Per Gustav Nordholm from Blekinge, Sweden, and died in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA in 1987.

She was born in a log cabin that was the home of her maternal grandfather, Walter Raleigh McCullough, a Scots-Irish pioneer.

* October 29-Sir Walter Raleigh, adventurer and author ( executed ) ( born c. 1553 )

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (; born January 23, 1924 ) is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party.

Clay Aiken was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Sir Walter Raleigh ( born 1544 ) sailed on many of his voyages from Exmouth harbour.

He was born at the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital, four months before Swaziland attained independence from Britain.

Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York, the daughter of Sharon ( née Leonard ) and Lou Sedaris, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her siblings, David, Lisa, Gretchen, Tiffany, and Paul (" The Rooster ").

He was born on November 17, 1888 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Fred Smith ( born March 27, 1942 in Raleigh, NC ) is a North Carolina politician who served in the North Carolina Senate and ran for Governor of North Carolina in 2008.

He was not affiliated with any party ; a Representative from North Carolina ; born near Clinton, Sampson County, N. C., in 1769 ; attended Zion Parnassus Academy in Rowan County and Harvard University ; studied law in Raleigh, N. C .; was admitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in Clinton, N. C .; served in the State House of Commons 1794 and 1795 ; member of the State Senate 1797-1802, 1812, and 1813 ; Governor of North Carolina 1821-1824 ; elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, until his death near Clinton, Sampson County, N. C., September 26, 1829 ; Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Twentieth Congress ); burial in the John Sampson Cemetery.

The oldest child of a brick layer and former slaves Allen and Eliza Atkins, Simon Green Atkins was born on June 11, 1863, in the village of Haywood, in Chatham County, North Carolina, between Sanford and Raleigh.

Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Sarah ( Hawkins ) Polk and Colonel William Polk, a Revolutionary War veteran and prosperous planter.

Najeh Trenadious Monté Davenport ( born February 8, 1979 in Raleigh, North Carolina ) is a former American football running back.

Lassiter was born in Washington, D. C., but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina where he attended Athens Drive High School.

Evan Rachel Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The ancestors of Sir Walter Raleigh, who was born at East Budleigh, held considerable estates in the county from a similar period.

Harry ( Henry ) Garnet Bedford Miner was born in Raleigh County, near Cedar Springs, Ontario, on 24 June 1891.

Their second son, Levi John Staal, was born December 11, 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In Raleigh, Jacob Johnson became town constable, married and started a family.

The Gentry family consisted of Raleigh, his wife, and their several adult sons.

Ball along with his family originated in Raleigh, N. C., traveling to South Georgia on the Brunswick and Western Railroad.

Ball returned to Raleigh to bring back a man named Tubb Daughtry and his family to help run the business.

Muniz was first discovered at the age of eight, at a talent show in Raleigh, North Carolina ( shortly after the family moved from New Jersey ), where he was cast as Tiny Tim in a local production of A Christmas Carol.

His family home was often visited by Sir Walter Raleigh, half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

In 1981, she and her husband moved their family to Raleigh, where she worked in the Office of the Attorney General, and at the law firm Merriman, Nicholls, and Crampton.

( Other members of the Holt family were operating the Haw River Mills, Glencoe Mills, Carolina Mill, Lafayette Mill, the Pilot Mill of Raleigh, and others in their expanding family empire.

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina to a prominent family, Haywood attended the Raleigh Male Academy and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1819.

While Walter is making plans for her to stay, Kate and Douglas secretly plan to move to Raleigh, North Carolina and live there as a family.

In 2007, the Cowher family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina from suburban Pittsburgh ( Fox Chapel ).

Later, the family moved to Beaverton, Oregon, where Rodgers attended Vose Elementary School and Whitford Middle School, playing baseball in the Raleigh Hills Little League at the positions of shortstop, center field and pitcher.

Merritt was born in Houston but her family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina soon after.

In his five terms as mayor and during previous service on the Raleigh City Council ( 1985 – 89 and 1991 – 95 ), Meeker, living and raising his family in Boylan Heights, has notably advocated downtown redevelopment and the creation of a light rail system connecting Raleigh to Durham, Research Triangle Park, and Chapel Hill under the auspices of the Triangle Transit Authority.

The rest of the family call him from outside and Lisa tells him that he can use a secret tunnel that Sir Walter Raleigh built to escape.

Elliston family Raleigh, North Carolina

The family lived in Raleigh, North Carolina for four years until Lou accepted a head coaching job for the National Football League's New York Jets.

In the Fall of 1867 he moved his family to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he became North Carolina's Supreme Court Reporter.

The most recognizable monument to Richard Stanhope Pullen for Raleigh residents is the obelisk on the Pullen family plot in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.