Famous Georgians
Famous Georgians
Biographical information about a
number of famous Georgians can also be found in This Day in
Georgia History. On this page, famous Georgians are listed both by category and by name.
Many of the links to Famous Georgians are courtesy of The New Georgia Encyclopedia
By Category:
African Americans with Georgia Ties
Famous Georgia Women
Georgia Artists
Georgia Athletes and Coaches
Georgia Authors
Georgia Business Leaders
Georgia Civil Rights Activists
Georgia Educators
Georgia Entertainers
Georgia Journalists
Georgia Military Leaders
Georgia Musicians
Georgia Political Leaders
Georgia Religious Leaders
Georgians in Science and Medicine
Native Americans with Georgia Ties
By Name (Famous Georgia Men, for Famous Georgia Women, see link above):
Last Name Starting with:
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - Y - Z
Hank Aaron
Tommy Aaron
John Abbot
Ralph Abernathy
Conrad Aiken
Amos T. Akerman
Edward Porter Alexander
Charles Allen
Ivan
Allen, Jr.
Ivan Allen, Sr.
John Amos
Paul Anderson
Peyton Anderson
William G. Anderson
James Osgood Andrew
Benny Andrews
Garnett Andrews
Raymond Andrews
Daniel Appling
Luke Appling
Ellis Arnall
Bill Arp
William
Yates Atkinson
Alfred Austell
Augustus
Octavious Bacon
Clarence A. Bacote
John Baker
Clifford "Baldy" Baldowski
Abraham
Baldwin
Richard
Banks
Coleman Barks
Roy Barnes
David
Crenshaw Barrow
Francis
S. Bartow
William Bartram
Griffin Bell
Malcolm Bell, Jr.
Vereen Bell
Robert Benham
Berry Benson
John Macpherson
Berrien
Harrison Berry
William
Wyatt Bibb
Furman Bisher
Michael Bishop
Arthur Blank
John Blassingame
Logan
Bleckley
James Blount
Mel Blount
Roy Blount, Jr.
Johann Martin Boltzius
Julian
Bond
William Bootle
Daniel Boorstin
William Holmes Borders
David Bottoms
Elias Boudinot
Edgar Bowers
William
Gordon Brantley
Thomas Brewer
Brims
Van K. Brock
D.W. Brooks
Paul Broun, Sr.
J.J. Brown
James Brown
John Brown
Joseph Emerson Brown
Joseph Mackey Brown
Ralph "Country" Brown
Thomas Brown
Walter J. Brown
Nathan Brownson
Andrew Bryan
Donald Bryan
Jonathan
Bryan
Tom Buck
Eugene Bullard
Archibald
Bulloch
James D. Bulloch
Rufus Bullock
George Busbee
David Bushnell
Archibald Butt
Ernest Butts, Jr.
Wally Butts
Erskine Caldwell
Bo Callaway
Archibald Campbell
Tunis Campbell
Allen
D. Candler
Asa Candler
Warren Akin Candler
William Ragsdale Cannon
James V. Carmichael
Fiddlin' John Carson
Jimmy Carter
Edward J. Cashin
Turner Cassity
Truett Cathy
Spud Chandler
Ray Charles
Robert
M. Charlton
Brainard Cheney
Thomas Holley Chivers
John Clark
Elijah
Clarke
Lucius Clay
Augustin
Clayton
Max Cleland
Duncan
Clinch
Howell
Cobb
Thomas R.R. Cobb
Thomas W. Cobb
Ty Cobb
Charles Coburn
John Coffee
Howard Coffin
Kenneth Coleman
Alfred H. Colquitt
Walter
T. Colquitt
William A. Connelly
Pat Conroy
Philip Cook
Mark Anthony Cooper
Stephen Corey
Alfred Corn
E. Merton Coulter
Paul Coverdell
Bobby Cox
William Craft
George W. Crawford
William
Harris Crawford
Harry Crews
Charles
F. Crisp
Henry Cumming
Austin Dabney
John Leadley Dagg
Ossie Davis
Raymond G. Davis
William
Crosby Dawson
Tom Deitz
James Dickey
John Wesley Dobbs
Bobby Dodd
Ed Dodd
Lamar Dodd
William
Dodge
Vince Dooley
John Dooly
Hugh Dorsey
Charles
Dougherty
Melvyn Douglas
Charles Dryden
W.E.B. Du Bois
Peter Early
Robert Echols
Mike Egan
Samuel Elbert
Henry Ellis
Bill Elliott
David Emanuel
Ben Epps
Clement Anselm Evans
William Ewen
James W. Fannin
William Few
Howard Finster
Berry Fleming
Henry O. Flipper
Tiger Flowers
Charles Rinaldo Floyd
John Floyd
Francis Fontaine
John Forsyth
Ben Fortson
Wyche Fowler
Jeff Foxworthy
Walt Frazier
John C. Fremont
Millard Fuller
J.B. Fuqua
George Galphin
Walter F. George
Josh Gibson
Hugh Gillis
George Gilmer
Newt Gingrich
Thomas Glascock
John B. Gordon
William Washington Gordon
Henry Grady
Bryan "Bitsy" Grant
Lemuel Grant
John D. Gray
Julien Green
Robert B. Greenblatt
Nathanael Greene
Marvin Griffin
Walter Griffin
Millard Grimes
Lewis Grizzard
Anthony Grooms
Denmark Groover
Button Gwinnett
Joseph Habersham
Lyman Hall
George Handley
Lee Haney
Hugh Haralson
Will Harben
William J. Hardee
Lamartine Hardman
Thomas Hardwick
Oliver Hardy
Charles Harris
Joe Frank Harris
Joel Chandler Harris
Julian Harris
Nathaniel Harris
William B. Hartsfield
Benjamin Hawkins
Isaac Hayes
Roland Hayes
Atticus G. Haygood
James Healy
Patrick Healy
Stephen Heard
John Heisman
Fletcher Henderson
Alonzo Herndon
Charles Herty
Benjamin
Hill
Jesse Hill
Hugh Hodgson
William Brown Hodgson
Sterling Holloway
Donald Hollowell
Larry Holmes
Hamilton Holmes
Hopkins Holsey
Lucius Holsey
Evander Holyfield
John Hope
John Houstoun
William Houstoun
Clark Howell
Benjamin Hunt
Joel Hurt
Mac Hyman
Arthur Crew Inman
Alfred Iverson, Jr.
Jared Irwin
Thornwell Jacobs
Alan Jackson
Henry Rootes Jackson
James Jackson
Maynard Jackson
Harry James
William Jasper
Charles Jenkins
Jesse Jewell
Ha Jin
Greg Johnson
Herschel Johnson
James Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Leroy Johnson
Richard Malcolm Johnston
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.
Bobby Jones
Chipper Jones
J. William Jones
James Jones
Noble Wymberly Jones
Sam Jones
William Louis Jones
Clarence Jordan
Vernon Jordan
Terry Kay
DeForest Kelley
G. Lombard Kelly
Culver Kidd
James Kilgo
John Oliver Killens
C.B. King
Horace King
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Preston King
Primus E. King
Roswell King
Slater King
Thomas Butler King
Lucian Lamar Knight
Lucius Q.C. Lamar
Mirabeau
Lamar
Bert Lance
Mills B. Lane, Jr.
Sidney Lanier
W.W. Law
Bill Lee
John Lewis
Crawford Long
Jefferson Franklin Long
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
James Longstreet
Davis Love III
E.K. Love
Joseph Lowery
Mike Luckovich
Ludacris
Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Wilson Lumpkin
Lester Maddox
Malatchi
Frank Manley
Earl Mann
Pete Maravich
Bernie Marcus
Sidney J. Marcus
Daniel Marshall
John Martin
Eddie Mathews
George Mathews
Curtis Mayfield
Benjamin
Mays
Charles McCartney "The Goat Man"
Henry McDaniel
Charles McDonald
Ralph McGill
Alexander McGillivray
Lachlan McGillivray
William McIntosh
Lachlan
McIntosh
James Allen McPherson
Patrick Hues Mell
Jesse Mercer
Johnny Mercer
David Meriwether
Ralph Metcalfe
John Milledge
Andrew J. Miller
Zell Miller
Judson Mitcham
David B. Mitchell
Henry Mitchell
Johnny Mize
Bob Montag
Marion Montgomery
Arthur J. Moore
Pink Morton
Edwin Moses
Raphael Moses
Elijah Muhammad
Larry Munson
Christopher Murphy, Jr.
Tom Murphy
Thomas W. Murray
Leon Neel
Larry Nelson
John Newton
Louie D. Newton
Phil Niekro
Eugenius A. Nisbet
Willard Nixon
William J. Northen
Samuel Nunes
Sam Nunn
Eugene Odum
James Oglethorpe
Gram Parsons
George Foster Peabody
Nat Peeples
John Pemberton
Sonny Perdue
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
George Foster Pierce
William Pierce
Jody Powell
Wyatt Prunty
Casimir Pulaski
William Rabun
Arthur F. Raper
Usher Raymond
Otis Redding
Byron Herbert Reece
Jerry Reed
Burt Reynolds
John Reynolds
John Rollin Ridge
Major Ridge
Eurith D. Rivers
Jackie Robinson
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Bobby Ross
John Ross
Jacob Rothschild
Larry Rubin
Nap Rucker
Thomas Ruger
Dean Rusk
Richard B. Russell, Jr.
Richard B. Russell, Sr.
Ferrol Sams
Carl Sanders
Steadman V. Sanford
David Satcher
Albert B. Saye
William Schley
Robert Scott
James Screven
Sequoyah
Robert Shaw
Mordecai Sheftall
William T. Sherman
Adiel Sherwood
Bill Shipp
Frank Sinkwich
John M. Slaton
Charles Henry Smith (Bill Arp)
Charlie Smith
Hoke Smith
James M. Smith
Sherrod "Sherry" Smith
John Smoltz
Joe South
Phinizy Spalding
Thomas Spalding
George Stallings
Alexander Stephens
William Stephens
William Bacon Stevens
Daniel Stewart
Herbert L. Stoddard
John Stone
Louis Sullivan
Matthew Talbot
Benjamin Taliaferro
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
Chuck Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Fran Tarkenton
Josiah Tattnall, Jr.
Josiah Tattnall, Sr.
Edward Telfair
Joseph M. Terrell
William Terrell
Clarence Thomas
Jett Thomas
Melvin Thompson
William Tappan Thompson
Francis Orray Ticknor
Nelson Tift
Henry Tift
Tomochichi
Peter Tondee
Robert Toombs
Jean Toomer
George W.B. Towns
Cecil Travis
John Treutlen
Charley Trippi
Travis Tritt
George Troup
Henry G. Turner
Henry McNeal Turner
Joseph Addison Turner
Ted Turner
Elbert Parr Tuttle
John Twiggs
Alfred Uhry
Stephen Upson
W.J. Usery, Jr.
Ernest Vandiver, Jr.
Joseph Vann
Carl Vinson
John Donald Wade
A.T. Walden
Clifford Walker
Freeman Walker
Herschel
Walker
Sidney "Beau Jack" Walker
George Walton
Horace T. Ward
Malthus Ward
Nicholas Ware
Glenn "Pop" Warner
Hiram Warner
Thomas Watson
Anthony
Wayne
Charles Weltner
John Wereat
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Don West
Joseph Wheeler
David T. White
Henry Clay White
Joseph Hill White
Walter White
George Whitefield
Eli Whitney
Mark Wilcox
Dominique Wilkins
Hosea Williams
Philip Lee Williams
Calder Willingham
Scott Wilson
Jasper Guy Woodroof
George "Kid" Woodruff
Hale Woodruff
Robert Woodruff
Stuart Woods
Ambrose Wright
James Wright
Whitlow Wyatt
Frank Yerby
Rudy York
Andrew Young
John J. Zubly
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