Purviance

• David Purviance, member of the Kentucky legislature, of the Ohio legislature, early leader in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
• Douglas Purviance, former member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, playing bass trombone and tuba from 1975 to 1977.
• Edna Purviance, an American actress during the silent movie era.
• Samuel Anderson Purviance, was a Whig, Opposition Party and Republican politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• Samuel Dinsmore Purviance was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.