Who's on Wilmington's Walk of Fame?

StarNews Staff
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Wilmington's Walk of Fame at the Cotton Exchange celebrates famous residents. Here's who's on the list:

  • 2014: Col. Charles P. Murray Jr., Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class William Halyburton Jr., Admiral Edwin A. Anderson and Sgt. Eugene Ashley Jr., Congressional Medal of Honor recipients

  • 2014: Grenoldo Frazier, musician

  • 2013: Trot Nixon, baseball star

  • 2010: Champion McDowell "Champ" Davis, business executive and philanthropist

  • 2009: Fred Eshelman, businessman

  • 2008: Pat Hingle, actor

  • 2007: James H. Goodnight, businessman

  • 2006: Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star

  • 2005: Don Payne, screenwriter

  • 2004: Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback

  • 2003: Isaac B. Grainger, banker, golfer

  • 2002: Percy Heath, jazz musician

  • 2002: Claude Howell, artist

  • 2001: David Brinkley, journalist

  • 2001: Charlie Daniels, country music star

  • 2000: Althea Gibson, tennis star

  • 2000: Robert C. Ruark Jr., author

  • 1999: Frank Capra Jr., movie producer

  • 1999: Caterina Jarboro, opera singer

  • 1998: Hugh Morton, civic leader, conservationist, photographer

  • 1998: Henry Bacon, architect

  • 1997: Minnie Evans, artist

  • 1997: Roman Gabriel, NFL quarterback

More: Wilmington's Walk of Fame has been forgotten for a decade. Could it be revived?

Walk of Fame Plaza in the Cotton Exchange parking lot in 2023. No new names have been added to the walk since 2014.
Walk of Fame Plaza in the Cotton Exchange parking lot in 2023. No new names have been added to the walk since 2014.

This article originally appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Who's on Wilmington's Walk of Fame at the Cotton Exchange