List of Famous people born in Georgia, United States of America
LaVan Davis
LaVan Davis is an American singer, comedian, and actor best known for portraying the character Curtis Payne on Tyler Perry's TV shows House of Payne and The Paynes TBS Network (2007–2012), OWN Network (2018) and BET Network (2020–present).
Laura Slade Wiggins
Laura Slade Wiggins is an American actress, singer and musician. She is most known for her roles in Stand, Shameless, The Tomorrow People, Starving in Suburbia and Rings.
James Ponsoldt
James Adam Ponsoldt is an American film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed the drama films Off the Black (2006) and Smashed (2012), the romantic comedy-drama The Spectacular Now (2013), and the dramas The End of the Tour (2015) and The Circle (2017).
Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s and Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s.
Barry Loudermilk
Barry Dean Loudermilk is an American politician from the state of Georgia. He is the U.S. Congressman from Georgia's 11th congressional district, serving since 2015. The district covers a large slice of Atlanta's northern suburbs, including Marietta, Acworth and Smyrna, as well as a sliver of Atlanta itself.
Butch Walker
Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist for the glam metal band SouthGang from the late 1980s to early 1990s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.
Kennedy Brice
Toney Douglas
Toney Bernard Douglas is an American professional basketball player who plays for Pallacanestro Varese of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for Auburn for one year, eventually becoming frustrated with his role on the team as a shooting guard. He subsequently transferred to Florida State University for the remainder of his collegiate career, where he switched to the point guard position. Emerging as a defensive force in his junior season, Douglas set school and conference records for steals. He stepped up as a team leader in his final season, breaking personal records in several statistical categories and helped lead the Seminoles to their first NCAA Tournament in 11 years.
Ernest Miller
Ernest Clifford Miller is an American actor and former professional wrestler who worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) better known by his ring name, Ernest "The Cat" Miller. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2008 drama The Wrestler.
Robert Charles Evans
Robert Charles Evans, is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Providence (2009–present).