This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Bluefield, West Virginia.
Athletics Roy Hawley, former athletic director for Marshall University and West Virginia University, namesake for Hawley Field Christy Martin, professional boxer, International Boxing Hall of Fame member Cal Ripken Jr., former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played with the Bluefield Orioles Toni Stone, first of three women to play professional baseball full-time Buzzy Wilkinson, former Boston Celtics guard, West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame
Arts and entertainment Denise Giardina, award-winning novelist, former candidate for governor of West Virginia Argyle Goolsby, musician, best known for being the lead vocalist, bassist, and co-founder of Bluefield-based horror punk band Blitzkid John S. Knight, newspaper publisher Alex B. Mahood, architect Eva Pilgrim, South Korean-born American broadcast journalist Maceo Pinkard, composer, lyricist, and music publisher known for Sweet Georgia Brown Brian Platnick, contract bridge champion Hugh Ike Shott, Newspaper editor, broadcaster, and politician Anna Stuart, soap opera actress
Education, politics and service James E. Brown III, former aerospace executive, test pilot instructor, United States Air Force officer Othello Maria Harris-Jefferson, educator, activist Hamilton Hatter, professor at Storer College, president of Bluefield State College Elizabeth Kee, First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from West Virginia Stephen Murphy, retired federal agent John Forbes Nash, Jr., Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Zirl A. Palmer, businessman and civil rights activist Robert Page Sims, an early African American academic, civil rights leader, scientist, and college president Stella James Sims, an African-American science professor who held positions at Storer College, Virginia University of Lynchburg, and Bluefield Colored Institute Junior J. Spurrier, U.S. Army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in World War II Charles Kenzie Steele, civil rights activist
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