List of Famous people born in Georgia, United States of America
Drew Ferguson
Anderson Drew Ferguson IV is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district. The district stretches from the southern suburbs of Atlanta to the northern suburbs of Columbus, including a sliver of Columbus itself.
Elmore Smith
Elmore Smith is an American former professional basketball player born in Macon, Georgia. A 7'0" center from Kentucky State University, he played in the National Basketball Association from 1971 to 1979. He was a member of the Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Cleveland Cavaliers.
Ellis E. Williams
Ellis E. Williams is an American film and television actor/comedian who is better known for playing "Henry Hugley" on the sitcom, The Hughleys.
Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker is an American computer programmer. He is best known for rewriting the software upon which Wikipedia runs, to address scalability problems. This software, originally known as "Phase III", went live in July 2002 and became the foundation of what is now called MediaWiki. MediaWiki's code repository was still named "phase3" until the move from Subversion to Git in March 2012.
Melanie Oudin
Melanie Jennings Oudin is a retired American tennis player and former world junior No. 2. She was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and winner of the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title, with fellow American player Jack Sock.
Isabella Amara
Isabella Amara is an American actress and singer. She gained attention for her role as Sally Avril in the films Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). She also became known for her roles in the films Wilson (2017) and The Tale (2018), as well as the television series Queen America (2018–2019).
Briana Blair
Hunter Wendelstedt
Harry Hunter Wendelstedt III is a baseball umpire who has worked in the National League in 1998–1999 and throughout both major leagues since 2000. His father Harry Hunter Wendelstedt, Jr. was an NL umpire from 1966 to 1998. Hunter Wendelstedt goes by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father.
Tyler Magner
Tyler Magner is an American cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Rally Cycling.
Julie Moran
Julie Moran is an American journalist, television host, and sportscaster. She was the first female host for ABC’s Wide World of Sports. She was the weekend anchor and co-host for Entertainment Tonight from 1994 – 2001, and hosted the Academy Awards pre-show in 2001.