# 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
* 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 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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