Notable People from Georgia

Thomas W. Hardwick

American politician (1872-1944)

Jesse Fuller

American one-man band musician, songwriter

Alma Thomas

American painter and art educator (1891-1978)

Ida Cox

African American singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1967)

Thomas A. Dorsey

American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music

Trummy Young

American jazz trombonist (1912–1984)

Al Ries

American advertising executive

W. Jason Morgan

American geophysicist (1935–2023)

Allen Kelley

American basketball player (1932–2016)

Billy Joe Royal

American singer (1942-2015)

James Alan McPherson

American short story writer and essayist (1943–2016)

Leonard Matlovich

American Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star (1943–1988)

James Rachels

American philosopher (1941–2003)

Ron Lester

American actor

Alfred H. Colquitt

Confederate Army general (1824-1894)

Washington Bartlett

Governor of California (1824-1887)

Lafayette McLaws

Confederate Army general (1821-1897)

Charles S. Thomas

American politician (1849–1934)

John Wellborn Root

American architect (1850–1891)

William Fielding Ogburn

American sociologist (1886–1959)

Gypsy Abbott

Silent film actress (1896–1952)

Lena Baker

American maid (1901–1945)

Johnny Mize

American baseball player and coach (1913–1993)

Walter Washington

American politician and former mayor of the District of Columbia (1915–2003)

Maidie Norman

actress, drama teacher (1912-1998)

Chuck Willis

American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter (1926-1958)

Sahib Shihab

American jazz musician, saxophonist and flutist (1925–1989)

Howell Heflin

Democratic United States Senator from Alabama (1921-2005)

Tempest Storm

American burlesque dancer (1928-2021)

Al Jaffee

American cartoonist (1921–2023)

George Busbee

American politician (1927-2004)

Thomas Hunter

American actor (1932-2017)

Stuart Woods

American novelist (1938–2022)

Hiram Keller

American actor (1944-1997)

Ricky Wilson

American guitarist (1953–1985)

JonBenét Ramsey

American victim and beauty pageant contestant

John Rambo

American athletics competitor (1943–2022)

Joseph Habersham

American Postmaster General (1751-1815)

George W. Crawford

American politician (1798-1872)

George Tyler Wood

2nd Governor of Texas (1795-1858)

John Milledge

American politician (1757-1818)

Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Herschel V. Johnson

American and Confederate politician (1812-1880)

Mary Ellen Pleasant

African-American entrepreneur (1814-1904)

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

American lawyer, politician and judge (1825-1893)

Harriet Powers

American quilter (1837–1910)

Thomas G. Jones

American politician (1844-1914)

George Foster Peabody

American banker and philanthropist (1852-1938)

Hardee Kirkland

American film actor and director (1868-1929)

Walter F. George

American politician (1878-1957)