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AUGUSTA
Most Famous People Born in Augusta, United States
- Notable people
- 306
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1940
- Most distinctive
- Golf 15.4×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Augusta during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Augusta Is Known For
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Football is Augusta's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (47).
Augusta over-indexes on golf — 15.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Augusta's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Military
- Science
- Music
- Other
Hulk Hogan
Born 1953
Laurence Fishburne
Born 1961
Ben Bernanke
Born 1953
Jasper Johns
Born 1930
Danielle Panabaker
Born 1987
Amy Grant
Born 1960
Rachel Nichols (actress)
Born 1980
Jessye Norman
1945 - 2019
Carole Landis
1919 - 1948
Khary Payton
Born 1972
Sharon Jones
1956 - 2016
Richard Dysart
1929 - 2015
Olympia Snowe
Born 1947
Joseph Wheeler
1836 - 1906
Danielle Brooks
Born 1989
Josh Kelley
Born 1980
Melville Fuller
1833 - 1910
Faith Prince
Born 1957
Pastor Troy
Born 1977
Don Galloway
1937 - 2009
Lenny Von Dohlen
Born 1958
Lafayette McLaws
1821 - 1897
Kathryn McCormick
Born 1990
Montgomery C. Meigs
1816 - 1892
Archibald Butt
1865 - 1912
Charles Kelley
Born 1981
Hervey M. Cleckley
1903 - 1984
Austin Scott (politician)
Born 1969
Larry Mize
Born 1958
Pete Drake
1932 - 1988
Rick W. Allen
Born 1951
Frank Yerby
1916 - 1991
D. James Kennedy
1930 - 2007
Jonathan Broxton
Born 1984
Carl Sanders
1925 - 2014
David M. Potter
1910 - 1971
Beau Jack
1921 - 2000
Vernon Forrest
1971 - 2009
Harrison Smith (American football)
Born 1989
Phil Gingrey
Born 1942
Judith Tarr
Born 1955
Horace Grant
Born 1965
Alfred Cumming (governor)
1802 - 1873
James Webb III
Born 1993
Susan Kilrain
Born 1961
Laura Story
Born 1978
Harvey Grant
Born 1965
William Avery (basketball)
Born 1979
Takeo Spikes
Born 1976
Jeff Sanders
Born 1966
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
1790 - 1870
Carlos Rogers (American football)
Born 1981
Mitch Green
Born 1957
Stuart Walker (filmmaker)
1888 - 1941
Buckner Stith Morris
1800 - 1879
Garret Siler
Born 1986
Charles Howell III
Born 1979
James Carpenter (American football)
Born 1989
Tyler Colvin
Born 1985
Ken Whisenhunt
Born 1962
Sean Ryan (swimmer)
Born 1992
Peleg Sprague (Maine politician)
1793 - 1880
Goodwin Liu
Born 1970
Billy Baxter (poker player)
Born 1942
William H. T. Walker
1816 - 1864
Dan Devine
1924 - 2002
Lonnie Youngblood
Born 1941
Clark Gesner
1938 - 2002
Travis Roy
1975 - 2020
Walt Weiskopf
Born 1959
Phil Hankinson
1951 - 1996
Julia Clukey
Born 1985
Samuel Cony
1811 - 1870
Victor Scheinman
1942 - 2020
John S. Cohen
1870 - 1935
Doug Barnard Jr.
1922 - 2018
Dominique Archie
Born 1987
Albert Ernest Radford
1918 - 2006
Joseph H. Williams
1814 - 1896
Octavia Walton Le Vert
1811 - 1877
Richard H. Vose
1803 - 1864
William "Hootie" Johnson
1931 - 2017
Emerson Boozer
Born 1943
Dave Haywood
Born 1982
Jarius Wynn
Born 1986
Frank H. Foss
1865 - 1947
Michael Dease
Born 1982
John F. Potter
1817 - 1899
Guy T. Helvering
1878 - 1946
William Cunningham (basketball)
Born 1974
Cole Miller
Born 1984
Macay McBride
Born 1982
Deon Grant
Born 1979
Seaborn Jones
1788 - 1864
Thomas Glascock
1790 - 1841
Ricky Moore
Born 1976
Michael Woolworth
Born 1960
William Henry Fleming
1856 - 1944
Craig James (politician)
Born 1941
Kendrell Bell
Born 1980
Bennie Briscoe
1943 - 2010
Patty Kempner
Born 1942
Jamal Reynolds
Born 1979
Shlomo Sawilowsky
Born 1954
12 Gauge (rapper)
Born 1968
Arnold Harrison
Born 1982
Bailie Key
Born 1999
Walker Blaine
1855 - 1890
William Ephraim Smith
1829 - 1890
Whittni Wright
Born 1987
Ruby Lafayette
1844 - 1935
Le'coe Willingham
Born 1981
Zaidee Jackson
1898 - 1970
Edward R. Weidlein
1887 - 1983
John D. Price
1892 - 1957
Lott Warren
1797 - 1861
John Hope (educator)
1868 - 1936
Chuck Evans (American football)
1967 - 2008
George Huntington Hartford
1833 - 1917
DJ Spinz
Born 1989
Alfred Cumming (general)
1829 - 1910
George W. Ladd
1818 - 1892
Annie LeBlanc
Born 2004
Antonio Grant
Born 1976
Jimmie Johnson (American football)
Born 1966
William R. Boggs
1829 - 1911
W. Clark Still
Born 1946
George Barnes (American politician)
1833 - 1901
William Duncan Smith
1825 - 1862
Catherine Brewer Benson
1822 - 1908
Augusta Tabor
1833 - 1895
Gazaway Bugg Lamar
1798 - 1874
Ronnie Thompson (Georgia politician)
1934 - 2020
Marrion Wilcox
1858 - 1926
Kenyon Jones (basketball)
1977 - 2005
George L. Vose
1831 - 1910
Horatio Bridge
1806 - 1893
William M. Gardner
1824 - 1901
Brandon Watts
Born 1991
Edwin A. Pollock
1899 - 1982
W. Herbert Dunton
1878 - 1936
Robert Deniston Hume
1845 - 1908
Sanders Commings
Born 1990
Little Johnny Taylor
1943 - 2002
George Stallings
1867 - 1929
Dorianne Laux
Born 1952
Frank M. Hull
Born 1948
Marshall Frady
1940 - 2004
Jerome Preston Bates
Born 1954
Chad Mottola
Born 1971
Effie Germon
1845 - 1914
Robert Battey
1828 - 1895
Chris Corley
Born 1980
Ansley Wilcox
1856 - 1930
John K. Jackson
1828 - 1866
Tony Hill (defensive end)
Born 1968
Slim Sallee
1885 - 1950
Seth Williams
1822 - 1866
Tom Poland
Born 1949
Isaac M. St. John
1827 - 1880
Bill Foster (director)
1932 - 2011
Clement Flagler
1867 - 1922
C. M. Battey
1873 - 1927
Durbin Ward
1819 - 1886
Russ Cohen
1893 - 1981
Raquel Willis
Born 1990
Dudley Hollingsworth Bowen Jr.
Born 1941
Alexander McKinstry
1822 - 1879
Bill Fulcher
Born 1934
Willard G. Wyman
1898 - 1969
Channing Heggie Tobias
1882 - 1961
Peter Pund
1907 - 1987
John Tillman Lamkin
1811 - 1870
William H. Peck
1830 - 1892
Robert H. May
1822 - 1903
Joseph Fletcher Anderson Jr.
Born 1949
Guy Smith (writer)
Born 1957
Virginia Willis
Born 1966
Jim Dent
Born 1939
Ann Baumgartner
1918 - 2008
Scott Shane
Born 1954
Derek Rivers
Born 1994
Isaac S. Hopkins
1841 - 1914
Jimmy Gunn
1948 - 2015
Ben Chestnut
Born 1973
Scott Brown (golfer)
Born 1983
Jermaine Smith
Born 1972
Kelly McQueen
Born 1962
Bobby Lamb (American football)
Born 1962
Corey Thurman
Born 1978
Berry Fleming
1899 - 1989
Victor Rodman
1892 - 1965
Larry Leon Palmer
Born 1948
Florence Brooks Whitehouse
1869 - 1945
Todd Greene
Born 1971
Corvey Irvin
Born 1985
Lee Anderson (politician)
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Amos Mac
Born 1981
Arnold L. Punaro
Born 1946
Preston M. Burch
1884 - 1978
Edward Francis Winslow
1837 - 1914
Ethel Wilson Gammon
1916 - 2009
Hilda Clayton
1991 - 2013
Mike White (defensive lineman)
Born 1957
Dan Miller (journalist)
1941 - 2009
Roger Katz
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William H. Ranlett
1806 - 1865
Willie Simms
1870 - 1927
Jerry Mays (running back)
Born 1967
Manch Wheeler
1939 - 2018
Thurlow Cooper
1933 - 2008
Richard W. Story
Born 1953
Anita Blackmon
1893 - 1943
Mason Carter
1834 - 1909
CJ Pearson
Born 2002
Mike Bobo
Born 1974
Gil Whitney
1940 - 1982
James Randal Hall
Born 1958
C. Ashley Royal
Born 1949
Donald W. MacKinnon
1903 - 1987
Don Brennan (baseball)
1903 - 1953
Mary Norwood
Born 1952
Sandra Dodd
Born 1953
Curtis Rouse
1960 - 2013
Silas X. Floyd
1869 - 1923
Greg Jackson (basketball, born 1959)
Born 1959
Malcolm Sheppard
Born 1988
Anna Gardner Goodwin
1874 - 1959
Samuel Gannett
1862 - 1939
David Peoples (golfer)
Born 1960
Ernie Blandin
1919 - 1968
Harry Smythe
1904 - 1980
Shirley Kitchen
Born 1946
Harry Williams (American football)
Born 1982
Leonora Beck Ellis
1862 - 1951
Jonathan Williams (defensive lineman)
Born 1985
Sheldon Goldstein
Born 1947
Francis A. Dales
1923 - 2003
Robert B. Pamplin Jr.
Born 1941
Wes Cantrell
Born 1960
Brandon Lynch
Born 1982
Chase Parker (golfer)
Born 1991
Raleigh Roundtree
Born 1975
DeVonte Upson
Born 1993
Sandy Beaver
1883 - 1969
Doc Hendley
Born 1979
Norman A. Lebel
1931 - 2003
Chris Brown (offensive lineman)
Born 1978
Henry L. Nichols
1823 - 1915
Orville D. Baker
1847 - 1908
Tillie Lamar
1865 - 1891
William Walker Scranton
1844 - 1916
Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler
1925 - 2007
Henry A. McMasters
1848 - 1872
Brad Keeney
Born 1973
Harold Weinbrecht
Born 1956
Steve Rennie
Born 1955
George Harold
Born 1942
Paul Cram
Born 1985
William B. Hartwell
1814 - 1849
Charles Carpenter (bishop)
1899 - 1969
William C. Micou
1807 - 1854
Christopher Jeburk
Born 1975
George W. Ebbert
1810 - 1890
Earl Stallings
1916 - 2006
Miguel Guante
Born 1984
Frank Booker
Born 1964
Chocolate Williams
1916 - 1984
Wayne Bolt
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Ham Allen
1846 - 1881
Emma Harris
1871 - 1945
Horace Dawson
Born 1926
Obi Egekeze
Born 1985
Branan Murphy
Born 1986
Frank Warren (racing driver)
Born 1937
Jennie Wilde
1865 - 1913
Brooks A. Keel
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Henry Cumming (athlete)
1905 - 1945
Jack Pennington
Born 1953
Pappy Stokes
1920 - 2006
Edward R. Cony
1923 - 2000
Phil Cockrell
1895 - 1951
Washington Poe
1800 - 1876
Chavonda Jacobs-Young
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Maria Louise Eve
Born 1848
Jordan Bankston Noble
1800 - 1890
Charles Peeler
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Kim Dexter
Born 1968
Edward T. Nichols
1823 - 1886
Ben Lucas (American football)
Born 1996
William E. Holmes
1856 - 1931
Olive E. Dana
Born 1859
Jim Coombs
1869 - 1935
Jessie Gray
1910 - 1978
Jerry Ellison
Born 1971
Harvey Schofield
Born 1877
Horace Williams Fuller
1844 - 1901
John S. Davidson
1846 - 1894
Mabel Ridley
1895 - 1938
Eileen Stulb
1923 - 2007