- Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Armybrigadier general[13]
- George Edmund Badger, politician
- Graham Arthur Barden, 13-term US Congressman (1935–1961).
- Cullen A. Battle, postbellum Mayor of New Bern
- Samuel J. Battle, first African-American policeman in New York City.
- Walt Bellamy, NBA Hall of Fame basketball player
- Caleb Bradham, inventor of Pepsi-Cola.
- John Heritage Bryan, US Representative
- Davon Drew, football player, tight end for the Baltimore Ravens
- Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's "You've got mail"
- William Gaston, jurist and U.S. Representative
- Montario Hardesty, NFL running back for the Cleveland Browns
- George Koonce, NFL player for the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks, Athletic Director of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Bob Mann, NFL Football player, first African American to play for the Detroit Lions, and later also the Green Bay Packers.
- Aaron Martin, former NFL player
- Linda McMahon, wife of World Wrestling Entertainment founder Vince McMahon
- Eliza Jane McKissack, First Director and a founding member of the Conservator of Music at the University of North Texas
- James E.C. Perry, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
- Teddy Shapou, Distinguished and awarded Flying Tiger during World War ll
- Brian Simmons, NFL player
- William Henry Singleton, former slave who became a Civil War soldier
- Furnifold Simmons, U.S. Senator
- Richard Dobbs Spaight, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Edward Stanly Son of John Stanly, US Representative 1837-1843, appointed Military Governor of North Carolina in 1862
- John Stanly, Father of Edward Stanley, Congressman 1801-1803 1809-1811
- Adam Warren, baseball player in the New York Yankees organization
- George Henry White, attorney, banker, last of four African-American US Congressmen from NC in the 19th century; next was not elected until 1992
- Kevin Meade Williamson, American screen writer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, television series Dawson's Creek
- Nicholas Sparks, novelist and screenwriter lives in New Bern, and has used the city as the inspiration for novels such as The Notebook (novel)
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