List of Famous people born in Georgia, United States of America
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock is an American actress and dancer. While she was a dancer with the Harkness Ballet, she appeared as a dancing character in five productions in television and film. She was nominated for the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role as Susan the Silent in Finian's Rainbow.
Wayne Weaver
J. Wayne Weaver is an American businessman. He owns the shoe store chains Shoe Carnival and Nine West, and was the first owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) from 1993 to 2011.
Sleepy Brown
Patrick "Sleepy" Brown is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Savannah, Georgia. He is one-third of the successful Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for acts such as Outkast, Goodie Mob and TLC. TLC's "Waterfalls", penned by Brown and Organized Noize's Rico Wade and Ray Murray, was a #1 hit single on Billboard's Hot 100 in the summer of 1995.
Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is an American poker player from Dunwoody, Georgia. He graduated from Dunwoody High and the University of Georgia.
Jamal Lewis
Jamal Lewis is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens fifth overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee. After spending his first seven seasons with the Ravens, Lewis signed a free agent contract with the Cleveland Browns prior to the 2007 season and retired after the 2009 season.
Jay Carson
Jay Carson is an American screenwriter and producer. Carson worked in domestic and international politics for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Bill Bradley, Chuck Schumer, Mike Bloomberg, and Tom Daschle before his career in film and television. He was Hillary Clinton's press secretary in her 2008 presidential campaign. He is the former Chief Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, serving under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Travis Fine
Travis Lane Fine is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his film Any Day Now, and for his roles in Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.
Tracy Reed
Tracy Reed is an American actress.
Austin Scott
James Austin Scott is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 8th congressional district since 2011. The district stretches down the middle of the state, from just outside Macon to the Florida border. Scott prior served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. House.
IronE Singleton
Robert "IronE" Singleton is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Alton in The Blind Side and for starring as Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas in the AMC series The Walking Dead. Since leaving the cast of The Walking Dead he has continued to be involved in fan events and conventions as well as developing his own one-man show Blindsided by The Walking Dead.