List of Famous people born in Georgia, United States of America
Corey Crowder
Jonathan Corey Crowder is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Utah Jazz and the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Phil Gramm
William Philip Gramm is an American economist and politician who represented Texas in both houses of Congress. Though he began his political career as a Democrat, Gramm switched to the Republican Party in 1983.
Norma Stitz
Annie Hawkins-Turner, better known by the stage name Norma Stitz, is a website entrepreneur and fetish model. Her pseudonym is a word-play on "enormous tits". She holds the Guinness World Record for largest natural breasts.
Alan Ball
Alan Erwin Ball is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theater.
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.
Bubba Cathy
Donald M. "Bubba" Cathy is an American billionaire businessman, senior vice-president of the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, founded by his father, the late S. Truett Cathy. He is president of the related restaurant line Dwarf House.
Mitch Green
Mitch Green is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 2005. He is best known for going the distance with Mike Tyson, who was undefeated in 1986, and for his later street brawl with Tyson in 1988. A toothpick dangling between his lips became his trademark at any public appearance.
Gerald Wilkins
Gerald Bernard Wilkins is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" shooting guard/small forward, who played collegiately at Moberly Area Community College and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga before a career in the NBA.
Dan T. Cathy
Daniel Truett Cathy is an American businessman. He is chairman, president, and CEO of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, which was founded and expanded by his father, S. Truett Cathy. He has a net worth of $7.1 billion as of November 2020.
Ben Bernanke
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chair, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chair, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.