Notable People from Georgia

Augustus Holmes Kenan

American politician (1805-1870)

Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.

Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1910-1943)

Alf Anderson

American baseball player

Calvert Hinton Arnold

American military personnel

B. Ed Johnson

American mayor (1914-1983)

Bernard Ramsey

American businessman

Eugene Mead Caffey

American army officer (1895–1961)

Bill Atwood

American baseball player

James H. Pruitt

American politician in Florida (1917-2002)

Pearly Brown

American musician

Tom Nash

American Football Player (1905-1972)

Nick Rogers

Player of American football (1979-2010)

Cary Cox

American football player (1917-1991)

Avery Garrett

American politician

Wilson A. Head

Canadian social worker and sociologist (1914-1993)

Ulysses Davis

American artist (1913–1990)

Penny Thompson

American aviator and air race-show promoter from the 1940s

Marilyn Duke

American singer

Hazel Jane Raines

American pioneer aviator and flight instructor (1916–1956)

Purnell Mincy

American baseball player

Charles William Woodward

American Chief Judge in Maryland

Marion Wilson

American convicted criminal and father

Reginald Kernan

American actor (1914-1983)

Thomas Louis Spence

American football player (1896-1918)

Pup Phillips

American football player (1895-1953)

Ella Gaines Yates

American librarian

Eugene Patterson

journalist (1923–2013)

Frank Ziegler

American football running back (1923-2011)

George E. Kent

American academic

Gloria Carter Spann

sister of former United States President Jimmy Carter (1926–1990)

Grady Wilson

American baseball player (1922-2003)

Hal Griggs

American baseball player (1928–2005)

Ernest Neal

American writer

Harold Kite

American racing driver (1921–1965)

Harold Lloyd Murphy

United States federal judge (1927–2022)

Harvey Hardy

American football player (1922-1992)

Horace Ward

American jurist, lawyer, politician and civil rights activist (b.1927)

Howell Cobb

American judge (1922-2005)

Alonzo Herndon

American businessman (1858-1927)

Louis Lomax

American journalist

Marion Mann

American physician and pathologist

Frederick Corbet Davison

American academic administrator

Luke Allen

American baseball player

Bud Asher

American lawyer and politician

Herb Jones

American basketball player (1970-)

Jay Heard

American baseball player (1920-1999)

Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr.

American businessman, philanthropist and Chairman of J.C. Lewis Enterprises, Lewis Broadcasting Corporation, J.C. Lewis Investment Company, and Island Investments

John P. Yates

American politician

Donald Pippin

American conductor, composer, and musical theatre director

Lamar Davis

football player (1921-2014)