People from Knightdale, North Carolina

Francisco Muniz IV (born December 5, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the Fox television family sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations. At the height of his fame, he was considered as one of most popular child actors and in 2003, he was considered "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens." In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open wheel racing career, and competed in the Atlantic Championship. From 2012 to 2014, he was a drummer in the band Kingsfoil.

Joe Lewis (March 7, 1944 – August 31, 2012) was an American kickboxer, point karate fighter and actor. As a fighter, Lewis gained fame for his matches in the 1960s and 1970s. He has twice been voted the greatest fighter in karate history, having won innumerable karate tournaments, and has attained the titles of "United States Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion," "World Heavyweight Full Contact Karate Champion," and "United States National Black Belt Kata Champion." Bruce Lee also considered him "The Greatest Karate Fighter Of All Time" and The Iron Sheik assented that "Joe Lewis was no jabroni." and "The Greatest Fighter Of His Time". He was also named by the STAR System Records as the "STAR Historic Undisputed Heavyweight World Champion" and is credited on their site as the "Father of Modern Kickboxing".

Barbara Pierre (born April 28, 1986) is a Haitian-born American track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for the United States. Her specialty is the 60-meter dash and the 100-meter dash. She had her highest world ranking in 2013, when she was the fourth fastest sprinter in the world over 100 m with her personal best of 10.85 seconds.

Jesse Ferguson (born March 20, 1957) is a retired American boxer who fought in several noteworthy boxing matches in the 1980s and 1990s. His professional career is filled with matches with champions and contenders and his name is linked with numerous boxing stars of the '80s and '90s.

Jeanne Milliken Bonds is an American mayor, lobbyist, consultant, community developer and professor. Milliken Bonds represented the North Carolina Judiciary before the North Carolina General Assembly as the deputy director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts. She was the first female mayor of Knightdale, North Carolina. Milliken Bonds later served as the Leader of Community Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Rachelle Friedman Chapman (born 1985, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American blogger best known for becoming paralyzed after a 2010 accident where her best friend playfully pushed her into a pool during her bachelorette party.

Jeanne Milliken Bonds was the first female Mayor of Knightdale, North Carolina. She was first appointed to the Town Council in 1994. She was elected Mayor Pro Tem in 1995, elected by the citizens in 1995 (top vote getter); re-elected in 1999 (top vote getter); and appointed Mayor in 2002 upon the election of Joe Bryan to the Wake County Commissioners.

Mary Hilliard Hinton (June 7, 1869 – January 6, 1961) was an American painter, historian, clubwoman, and anti-suffragist. She was a leader in North Carolina's anti-suffragist movement and an outspoken white supremacist, co-founding and running North Carolina's branches of the States Rights Defense League and the Southern Rejection League. A prominent clubwoman, Hinton was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Colonial Dames of America, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America; serving as a booklet editor, artist, registrar, and state regent for the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Nathaniel Harvey IV (born September 15, 1996) is an American football outside linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at East Carolina.

Herbert Joseph Schowalter (March 30, 1927 – March 23, 1998) was an American electrical engineer and Republican politician from Saukville, Wisconsin. He served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Ozaukee County during the 1969 and 1971 sessions.