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Famous People from Georgia
Georgia
Biographies, Famous People from Georgia
Alexander McGillivray
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James Brown (1933 -
) Singer, often called "the
Godfather of Soul;" raised
in Augusta.
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Jimmy Carter (1924 -
) 39th president of the
United States; born in
Plains.
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Ty Cobb (1886 -
1961) Baseball player in the
Hall of Fame; born in Banks
City.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968) Civil rights
leader and winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize; born in
Atlanta.
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Gladys Knight (1946 - )
Singer and winner of four
Grammy awards; born in
Atlanta.
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Juliette Low (1860 -
1927) Founder of the Girl
Scouts of America; born in
Savannah.
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Margaret Mitchell
(1900 - 1949) Author of
Gone with the Wind
(1936) that won a Pulitzer
Prize; born in Atlanta.
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Little Richard (1932
- ) Singer, considered to be
"the architect of rock and
roll", born in Macon.
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Jackie Robinson
(1919 - 1972) The first
African American baseball
player in the major leagues;
born in Cairo.
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Sequoya (1770 -
1843) Invented the first
alphabet of the Native
American language; lived in
New Echota.
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Travis Tritt (1963 -
) Famous County/Western
singer and songwriter; born
in Marietta.
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Ted Turner (1938 - )
Media Mogul. Owner of the
Atlanta Braves and the
Atlanta Hawks.
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Trisha Yearwood
(1964 - ) Country-western
singer; born in Monticello.
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Alice Walker (1944 -
) Author of many books
including the Pulitzer
Prize-winning The Color
Purple, born in
Eatonton.
More Famous Georgians:
- Conrad Aiken
poet, Savannah
- James Bowie
soldier, Burke County
- Jim Brown actor,
athlete, St. Simons
Island
- Erskine Caldwell
writer, Moreland
- James E. Carter
U.S. president, Plains
- Ray Charles
singer, Albany
- Lucius D. Clay
banker, general, Marietta
- Charles Coburn
movie and TV actor, Macon
- Ossie Davis
actor, writer, Cogdell
- James Dickey
poet, Atlanta
- Mattiwilda Dobbs
soprano, Atlanta
- Melvyn Douglas
actor, Macon
- Pete Drake
musician/record producer,
Augusta
- Rebecca Latimer
Felton first appointed
woman U.S. senator,
Decatur
- Lawrence Fishburne
III actor, Augusta
- Henry W. Grady
journalist, Athens
- Amy Grant singer,
Augusta
- Oliver Hardy
comedian, Harlem
- Joel Chandler Harris
journalist, author,
Eatonton
- Roland Hayes
singer, Curyville
- Fletcher Henderson
musician/songwriter,
Cuthbert
- Hulk Hogan
professional wrestler,
Augusta
- John Henry Doc
Holliday western hero,
Griffin
- Larry Holmes
boxer, Cuthert
- Miriam Hopkins
actress, Bainbridge
- Harry James
trumpeter, Albany
- Jasper Johns
painter, sculptor,
Augusta
- Bobby Jones
golfer, Atlanta
- Stacy Keach
actor, Savannah
- DeForest Kelley
actor, Atlanta
- Joseph R. Lamar
jurist, Elbert
- Brenda Lee
singer, Lithonia
- Carson McCullers
author, Columbus
- Blind Willie McTell
blues pioneer, Thomson
- Johnny Mercer
songwriter, Savannah
- John Robert Johnny
Mize baseball player,
Demorest
- Jessye Norman
singer, Augusta
- Otis Redding
singer, Dawson
- Jerry Reed
singer/songwriter/actor,
Atlanta
- Burt Reynolds
actor, Waycross
- Tommy Roe
singer/songwriter,
Alpharetta
- Billy Joe Royal
singer, Valdosta
- Dean Rusk
secretary of state,
Cherokee Cty
- Nipsey Russell
comedian, Atlanta
- Ray Stevens
singer/songwriter,
Clarksdale
- Janelle Taylor
romance novelist, Athens
- Clarence Thomas
supreme court associate
justice, Savannah
- Alice Walker
author, Eatonton
- Joanne Woodward
actress, Thomasville
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