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 (musical)
• Sasha Hutchings, actress, Hamilton (musical) , 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
• 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 ^[1]
• Randy Howard, outlaw country singer
• Jerry Jemmott, soul bassist
• Johnny Jenkins, blues guitarist ^[2]
• Ben Johnston, composer of contemporary music
• Rosa King, jazz and blues saxophonist, singer ^[3]
• Chuck Leavell, Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones pianist
• Little Richard Penniman, 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 ^[4]
• Howard Tate, soul singer-songwriter
• Eddie Tigner, blues pianist and singer ^[5]
• 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
• 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 singer ^[6]
• George D. Webster, Brigadier general of the United States Marine Corps
• Blanton Winship, Major general of the United States Army, Judge Advocate General
• Kelvin D. McElroy Brigadier General of the United States Air Force

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
• Bud Dupree, NFL player
• Larry Emery, football player
• Terry Fair, American-Israeli professional basketball player
• Ron Fairly, Major League Baseball player and broadcaster ^[7]
• 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

Other

• 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, astronaut and professional soccer player
• 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, invalid, Civil War diarist
• Beverly Harvard, first black female police chief of a major city (Atlanta) in the United States, former US Marshal
• 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
• John Oliver Killens, American 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 woman 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, renowned 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 women 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
• Lee Everett, main character of the 2012 video game The Walking Dead

References

1. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. p. 229. ISBN   0813512808.
2. Richard Skelly (June 26, 2006). "Johnny Jenkins | Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved July 14, 2014.
3. "Rosa King | Songs". AllMusic . Retrieved November 25, 2019.
4. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices (2. ed., revised and enl ed.). New York: Books & Music. p. 615. ISBN   978-0-9617485-1-7.
5. Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (May 1, 2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. ABC-CLIO. p. 274. ISBN   9780313344244 . Retrieved March 7, 2019.
6. Buddy Kelly Moore, Machine Gun Ronnie' Thompson: A Political Biography (1976), Master's thesis at Georgia College & State University at Milledgeville, Georgia
7. "Ron Fairly Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 3, 2012.