Biographical Records
Notable People from Georgia
1,758 notable figures born in Georgia, showing page 17 of 36, ranked by historical prominence.
Eli Sims Shorter
1823 – 1879
politicianlawyer
Crawford Barton
1943 – 1993
photographer
Thomas James Reddy
1945 – 2019
artistpoet
Kim Porter
1970 – 2018
modelactor
Jabbo Smith
1908 – 1991
jazz musiciantrumpetercomposer
James S. Calhoun
1802 – 1852
governorcolonelpolitician
Bobbie E. Brown
1907 – 1971
military personnel
Leonard Blumenthal
1901 – 1984
university teachermathematician
Dan Hornsby
1900 – 1951
record producersinger
Elijah B. Lewis
1854 – 1920
politician
Mary Ann Harris Gay
1829 – 1918
poetwriter
Harold S. Johnston
1920 – 2012
university teacherchemist
Edwin Le Roy Antony
1852 – 1913
politicianlawyerjudge
Lonne Elder III
1927 – 1996
stage actorplaywrightactor
Larry Jon Wilson
1940 – 2010
songwritersinger
Benjamin Purcell
1928 – 2013
politicianmilitary personnel
Wendell Logan
1940 – 2010
musicologistsaxophonisttrumpeter
Charles Dougherty
1850 – 1915
politician
Eugene Kurtz
1923 – 2006
composer
Lee Moses
1941 – 1998
singer-songwriter
Hines Holt
1805 – 1865
politicianlawyer
Charles Merian Cooper
1856 – 1923
politicianlawyer
Harold G. Clarke
1927 – 2013
politicianlawyerjudge
Kathryn Stripling Byer
1944 – 2017
poetwriter
Phil Douglas
1890 – 1952
baseball player
Larry Leon Palmer
1948 – 2021
diplomat
Harris Hines
1943 – 2018
judge
Randall C. Berg, Jr.
1949 – 2019
lawyer
Karl Adams
1891 – 1967
baseball player
Bill Greason
1924
baseball player
Jon Hunter Spence
1945 – 2011
literary criticjournalistwriter
"Killer" Buddy Austin
1929 – 1981
professional wrestler
Alice Birney
1858 – 1907
educator
David Clopton
1820 – 1892
politicianlawyerjudge
George Atkinson
1947 – 2025
American football player
Elizabeth O. King
1912 – 1966
bacteriologistmicrobiologist
Mary Logan Reddick
1914 – 1966
neuroembryologistuniversity teacher
William Sanders Scarborough
1852 – 1926
classical philologistuniversity teacher
Augustus Maxwell
1820 – 1903
politicianlawyerjudge
Lloyd Marshall
1914 – 1997
boxer
Matt Snell
1941 – 2026
American football player
Florence Reville Gibbs
1890 – 1964
politician
Ellamae Ellis League
1899 – 1991
architect
Henry W. Grady
1850 – 1889
journalisteditor
Albert Merriman Smith
1913 – 1970
journalist
Anne Nichols
1891 – 1966
theatrical producerplaywrightwriter
Malcolm E. Beard
1919 – 2019
politician
Walter A. Gordon
1894 – 1976
American football playerpolice officerjurist
Albert Sidney Camp
1892 – 1954
politicianlawyer
Robert Ramspeck
1890 – 1972
politicianlawyer