Notable People Governor William Tryon and the NC Regulators Sidney Lanier Emma Payne Erskine Nina Simone Carter Brown Margaret Culkin Banning Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald Lilian Jackson Braun Famous Women Visiting Tryon 'El Taarn' - Artist Homer Ellertson's 'castle' (Copy) James Payne Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall Kenneth Lackey Original Stooge Josephine Sibley Couper Charles Austin Beard