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
 * Jeezy, rapper
 * 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
 * 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
 * Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of the first woman's secret society established at a girls' college
 * 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
 * Zachery S. Mitcham, Author