List of people from Macon, Georgia

This is a list of notable people from Macon, Georgia.

Actors

Luke Askew, actor, Walker, Texas Ranger Blake Clark, actor, several Adam Sandler films and Boy Meets World Charles Coburn, Academy Award-winning actor, films including The More the Merrier and The Devil and Miss Jones Melvyn Douglas, Oscar-winning actor, Hud, Being There, Ninotchka Sam Edwards, actor, Little House on the Prairie Montego Glover, actress, Broadway Grey Henson, actor, Mean Girls Sasha Hutchings, actress, Hamilton, Broadway Felix Knight, actor and tenor, Babes in Toyland Natalia Livingston, Emmy Award-winning actor, including Days of Our Lives and General Hospital Jack McBrayer, actor, 30 Rock, Wreck-It Ralph Corliss Palmer, silent screen actress and model; lived in Macon and worked at the Dempsey Hotel Carrie Preston, actress, True Blood, The Good Wife Shavar Ross, actor Lisa Sheridan, actress Cassie Yates, actress

Music

Jason Aldean, country music singer The Allman Brothers, Southern rock band Bill Berry, member of R.E.M.; lived in Macon in early 1970s Claudine Clark, R&B musician and composer Randy Crawford, jazz and R&B singer Buddy Greene, singer-songwriter, guitar player and harmonica player; gospel music Ronnie Hammond, lead singer, Atlanta Rhythm Section Mark Heard, record producer, folk-rock singer-songwriter Lucille Hegamin, singer, entertainer, pioneer African-American blues music recording artist Randy Howard, outlaw country singer Jerry Jemmott, soul bassist Johnny Jenkins, blues guitarist Ben Johnston, composer of contemporary music Rosa King, jazz and blues saxophonist, singer Chuck Leavell, Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones pianist Little Richard, singer-songwriter, and pianist; pioneer of rock and roll Robert McDuffie, violinist Emmett Miller, minstrel show singer noted for a yodel-like falsetto voice Mike Mills, member of R.E.M.; lived in Macon in early 1960s–1970s The Pickens Sisters, singing trio The Reddings, Dexter Redding, Otis Redding III, and Mark Lockett Otis Redding, soul musician Margaret Vardell Sandresky, composer Howard Tate, soul singer-songwriter Eddie Tigner, blues pianist and singer Torres, musician Phil Walden, record producer and music businessman

Politics and government

Augustus O. Bacon, U.S. senator and president pro tempore of the United States Senate Sarah Randolph Bailey, educator and Girl Scout pioneer Charles Lafayette Bartlett, U.S. congressman William Shepherd Benson, admiral in the United States Navy; first chief of Naval Operations (CNO), holding the post throughout World War I Ellen and William Craft, abolitionist leaders John C. Daniels, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut and Connecticut state senator Eugene Ely, first naval aviator; crashed and died in Macon in 1911, in an exhibition, after removing his front elevator from his plane Nate Holden, former California state senator Perry Keith, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; born near Macon in 1847 David Perdue, former United States senator of Georgia P. B. S. Pinchback, Republican governor of Louisiana for 35 days from 1872 to 1873 Arnold L. Punaro, major general, United States Marine Corps Christopher N. Smith, honorary consul of the Kingdom of Denmark Ronnie Thompson, city's first Republican mayor, Republican candidate for governor of Georgia in 1974, gospel and country singerBuddy Kelly Moore, Machine Gun Ronnie' Thompson: A Political Biography (1976), Master's thesis at Georgia College & State University at Milledgeville, Georgia George D. Webster, brigadier general of the United States Marine Corps Blanton Winship, major general of the United States Army, Judge Advocate General

Sports

Julius Adams, NFL football player, New England Patriots Dave Bristol, former MLB manager of Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, and San Francisco Giants Durant Brooks, former NFL player Kevin Brown, MLB pitcher Bobby Bryant, football player Mallory Burdette, tennis player Sugar Cain, baseball player Chris Crawford, NFL cheerleader, Carolina Panthers Bud Dupree, NFL player Larry Emery, football player Terry Fair, American-Israeli professional basketball player Ron Fairly, Major League Baseball player and broadcaster Gerald Fitch, NBA player George Foster, NFL player Tony Gilbert, former NFL player Terrance Gore, MLB player Russell Henley, golfer on PGA Tour Richard Howard, U.S. bobsled athlete; silver medalist America's Cup; attended Southwest High School Kareem Jackson, BCS champion with Alabama Crimson Tide, now cornerback for the NFL's Denver Broncos Roger Jackson, football player Marquette King, former NFL player Al Lucas, football player in NFL and Arena Football League Jeff Malone, NBA player Cole Miller, UFC fighter and reality television star; raised in Macon and attended Mount de Sales Academy Chip Minton, member of 1994 and 1998 U.S. Olympic bobsled teams Quintez Cephus, NFL player Norm Nixon, NBA player Blue Moon Odom, MLB pitcher, won three World Series with Oakland Athletics, born in Macon Jim Parker, NFL Hall of Famer for Baltimore Colts; born in Macon Jerry Pate, pro golfer Myles Patrick, basketball player Antonio Pettigrew, sprinter, 1991 world champion in 400 meters; disqualified 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist Kevin Reimer, MLB player for Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers John Rocker, MLB pitcher Theron Sapp, University of Georgia and NFL football player Ken Shamrock, UFC champion and former professional wrestler; DeAndre Smelter, NFL player Elmore Smith, NBA player Le Kevin Smith, former NFL player for New England Patriots and Denver Broncos; attended Stratford Academy Vernon "Catfish" Smith, football player J. T. Thomas, football player Charles Tidwell, NASCAR pioneer Corey Williams, NBA basketball Champion, Chicago Bulls Sharone Wright, basketball player

Mathuren Arthur Andrieu, painter Samaria (Mitcham) Bailey, local civil rights activist and trailblazer Mary Ross Banks, litterateur and author Catherine Brewer Benson, first woman to earn a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan John Birch, missionary Sonny Carter, soccer player, United States Navy aviator and officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut Carla Koplin Cohn, personal secretary to Hall of Fame Hank Aaron during his home run chase Randolph Royall Claiborne, Jr., bishop David P. Currie, professor at the University of Chicago Law School Rodney Maxwell Davis, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam War (buried outside the city due to his race) Bascom S. Deaver, physicist Nancy Grace, television personality LeRoy Wiley Gresham, disabled person during the American Civil War who left behind diaries which were later published Victoria Groce, Jeopardy! Masters champion and television personality Beverly Harvard, first black female police chief of a major city (Atlanta) in the United States, former US marshal Ozella Shields Head, writer James Augustine Healy, first African-American Roman Catholic bishop in United States Michael A. Healy, captain in United States Revenue Cutter Service Patrick Francis Healy, 29th president of Georgetown University Hubert Humphrey, founder and CEO of Multi-level marketing financial and insurance services company World Marketing Alliance World Financial Group) John Oliver Killens, fiction writer Marcus Lamb, founder of international Christian TV network called Daystar Television Network Lucy Craft Laney, African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia Sidney Lanier, poet and musician Harriet Nisbet Latta, founding state regent of the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Ellamae Ellis League, architect, first female FAIA from Georgia John LeConte, president of University of California Joseph LeConte, geologist James Creel "Jim" Marshall, mayor and U.S. congressman Earl W. McDaniel, physicist Rhett McLaughlin, YouTuber with Link Neal for the channels Rhett and Link and Good Mythical Morning Lydia Meredith, author Wilbur Mitcham, Southern chef Eric Newcomer, journalist Adam Ragusea, YouTube chef Neel Reid, architect Gwyn Hyman Rubio, author William Sanders Scarborough, scholar Anya Krugovoy Silver, poet Celestine Smith, psychoanalyst Laurence Stallings, playwright Edgar Wayburn, longtime Sierra Club president, helped double U.S. parkland Leila Ross Wilburn, one of the first female architects in Georgia Rufus Youngblood, deputy director of the US Secret Service; bodyguard of Lyndon B. Johnson at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; born in Macon

Fictional Lee Everett, main character of the 2012 video game The Walking Dead

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