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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
Jeezy , rapper
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
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
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
Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of the first woman's secret society established at a girls' college
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
^ Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s . New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. p. 229.
ISBN
0813512808 .
^ Richard Skelly (June 26, 2006).
"Johnny Jenkins | Biography" .
AllMusic . Retrieved July 14, 2014 .
^
"Rosa King | Songs" .
AllMusic . Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
^ 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 .
^ Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (May 1, 2013).
Blues: A Regional Experience . ABC-CLIO. p. 274.
ISBN
9780313344244 . Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
^ Buddy Kelly Moore, Machine Gun Ronnie' Thompson: A Political Biography (1976), Master's thesis at
Georgia College & State University at
Milledgeville, Georgia
^
"Ron Fairly Stats" . Baseball Almanac. Retrieved December 3, 2012 .