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COLUMBIA
Most Famous People Born in Columbia, United States
- Notable people
- 556
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1952
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Columbia during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Columbia Is Known For
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Politician is Columbia's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (85).
Columbia over-indexes on baseball — 6.2× the global rate.
Columbia under-produces writer — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Columbia's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
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Michael Boulware
Born 1981
Ashley Tuttle
Born 1971
Braeden Troyer
Born 1993
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
Born 1859
Taylor Guerrieri
Born 1992
Angelo King
Born 1958
Ike Anderson
Born 1957
Jay Lucas
Born 1957
Jim Kelly (tight end, born 1951)
Born 1951
Bobby Hamilton (American football)
Born 1971
Katherine Hanley
Born 1943
John Douglas (linebacker)
Born 1945
Jean H. Toal
Born 1943
Susan H. Rodger
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Joe Landrum
1928 - 2018
Carolyn Shuster Fournier
Born 1956
Katon Dawson
Born 1956
Gloria Saunders
1927 - 1980
Gerry Ellis
Born 1957
Barney Martin (baseball)
1923 - 1997
Corey Jenkins
Born 1976
Jody Richards
Born 1938
Beth Bernstein
-
John H. Yardley
1926 - 2011
John Boozer
1938 - 1986
Tyler Johnson (baseball)
Born 1981
Freddie Summers
Born 1947
Logan Cooke
Born 1995
Dorothy Spruill Redford
Born 1943
Willie Williams (cornerback, born 1970)
Born 1970
Ben West
1911 - 1974
Arthur C. Davis
1893 - 1965
R. Goodwyn Rhett
1862 - 1939
Eugene Clark
1873 - 1942
Jane Cunningham
Born 1946
Tara Killian
Born 1977
Bill Landrum
Born 1957
Brett Jodie
Born 1977
Nade Haley
1947 - 2016
Virginia C. Purdy
1922 - 2015
Jody Lumpkin
Born 1978
Marlon Kimpson
-
Pam Kelly
-
Lyn Moran
Born 1978
John E. Courson
Born 1944
Charles Warren (golfer)
Born 1975
Benjamin B. Dunlap
Born 1937
Charles Jeter
Born 1973
Clay Parker
Born 1962
Lloyd E. Jones
1889 - 1958
Stephen Latchford
1883 - 1974
Red Lucas
1902 - 1986
William O. Brice
1898 - 1972
Thomas Welsh (general)
1824 - 1863
Rick Latham
Born 1955
Michael Kratsios
Born 1986
Nathan Ballentine
Born 1970
Trey Millard
Born 1991
Eddie Pye
Born 1967
Josh Kroenke
Born 1980
Nelson Mathews
Born 1941
Johnny Maxey
Born 1993
Darell Scott
Born 1986
Jeffrey W. Johnson
Born 1960
Jimmie Jones (defensive end)
Born 1947
Horacena J. Taylor
Born 1940
Eugenie Blair
1864 - 1922
John B. Sylvester
-
Christopher R. Hart
Born 1972
Irvin C. Miller
1884 - 1975
Alex Sanders (politician)
Born 1939
Red Kress
1907 - 1962
Dimeco Childress
Born 1980
John Knox MacArthur
1891 - 1918
Eddie Payton
Born 1951
Lethon Flowers
Born 1973
Sara Mearns
Born 1986
Tyrone Legette
Born 1970
C. Norman Shealy
-
J. D. DeBlieux
1912 - 2005
Frank Woodruff
1906 - 1983
David Young (gridiron football)
Born 1979
Alonzo Clifton McClennan
1855 - 1912
Joel Lourie
Born 1962
Alma Wheeler Smith
Born 1941
Garland Gregory
1919 - 2011
John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)
1906 - 1999
Christy G. Turner II
1933 - 2013
Seventh Woods
Born 1998
Darryl Gee
Born 1963
Zach Prince
Born 1988
Harold Goodwin (American football)
Born 1973
Edna Gallmon Cooke
1918 - 1967
Mike White (acteur)
Born 1961
Gerry E. Hinton
1930 - 2000
Julius N. Richardson
Born 1976
Jontay Porter
Born 1999
Stevie Stone
Born 1981
Aedan Stanley
Born 1999
Bradley Walker
1877 - 1951
Darrell Jackson (politician)
Born 1957
Duncan Brown Cooper
1844 - 1922
Leo Lewis (wide receiver)
Born 1956
Mike Derrick (baseball)
1943 - 2009
Mike Burns (politician)
Born 1952
Nina Bo'nina Brown
Born 1982
Danny Pearson
Born 1963
Catharine Rembert
1905 - 1990
William Franklin Switzler
1819 - 1906
Gary Anderson (running back)
Born 1961
Marty Simpson (comedian)
Born 1972
Tom McVea
Born 1945
Whitney Ann Kroenke
Born 1977
Earle Edward Eubank
1887 - 1945
Gary Leach
Born 1957
Kirkman Finlay III
Born 1970
Vernie McGaha
Born 1947
Ken Morgan (politician)
Born 1951
Anthony Young (American football)
Born 1963
John Mistler
Born 1958
Nathan O. Hatch
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Clyde A. Vaughn
Born 1946
Henry McKee Minton
1870 - 1946
Al Russell
1921 - 2011
Stephen Taber III
1924 - 2008
Dutch McCall
1920 - 1996
Taylor Marsh
Born 1954
Mike Jones (defensive lineman)
Born 1969
Robert L. Sumwalt (U.S. government official)
Born 1950
Steadman Marlin
Born 1980
Kenny Johnson (American football)
Born 1958
Bobby Clatterbuck
1932 - 2004
Buddy Blair
1910 - 1996
Andy Akiho
Born 1979
Grayson Greiner
Born 1992
Bob Musgrave
1934 - 2012
Joe Owens
1946 - 2013
Evelyn West
1921 - 2004
Jan Jeffcoat
Born 1978
Kit Spires
Born 1954
Nischelle Turner
-
Derham Cole
Born 1977
Walter Arnold Baker
1937 - 2010
J. Michael McGinnis
Born 1944
George Dean Johnson Jr.
Born 1942
Ralph Shealy Kennedy Jr.
Born 1958
Spence M. Armstrong
Born 1934
Mac Toole
Born 1946
Casey Beyers
Born 1994
Glenn Gore
Born 1939
Hal H. Sevier
1878 - 1935
Daniel Donche Jr.
Born 1979
Michelle Davison
Born 1979
John A. Polk
Born 1949
Ronnie Amadi
Born 1981
Nick Harrison (racing)
Died 2019
Ted Alford
Born 1971
Charles Proctor
1906 - 1996
Jack Kiefer (golfer)
1940 - 1999
Vanessa Atterbeary
Born 1975
Chuck Graham
1965 - 2020
Drew Gagnon
Born 1990
Jason Williams (actor)
-
Kenneth Bingham (politician)
Born 1962
Bayard T. Hainer
1860 - 1933
Travis Williams (linebacker)
Born 1983
Edmund Kelly
1818 - 1894
Erica Dawson
Born 1979
Billy Higgins (vaudeville)
1888 - 1937
Micah Caskey
Born 1981
Jim Peebles (American football)
1920 - 1997
D’Lesha Lloyd
Born 1986
Johnny Helms
1935 - 2015
Sean Berton
Born 1979
Susan Clough
Born 1945
Rick Redewill
1952 - 1993
Robert H. Hodges Jr.
Born 1944
Honus Craig
1881 - 1942
Jamia Wilson
Born 1980
Bryant Matthews
Born 1982
Javaid Siddiqi
Born 1977
Will Allison
Born 1968
Parker Watkins Hardin
1841 - 1920
William Evans Bruner
1866 - 1964
William Van Landingham
Born 1970
Slim Embry
1901 - 1947
Dan Birkey
Born 1957
Elizabeth Bass
1876 - 1956
Andrew Frierson
1929 - 2018
Margaret Towner
Born 1925
Ruby Terry
Born 1952
Tony Mills (physician)
Born 1961
Kirkman Finlay Jr.
1936 - 1993
Brendan Toibin
Born 1964
Troy Lee Mikell
Born 1960
William Osceola Gordon
1837 - 1914
Tommy Mitchell
1926 - 2003
Gerald Perry (American football)
Born 1964
Lauren Andino
Born 1986
Donna Drake
Born 1953
Carlos Hopkins
Born 1971
Robert H. Burnside
Born 1933
James S. Rollins (20th-century politician)
1887 - 1972
Steven Jackson (fullback)
Born 1984
Tramaine Billie
Born 1983
Jack Felder
1939 - 2017
Gerrick McPhearson
Born 1983
Ike Okoli
Born 1988
Graham T. Perry
1894 - 1960
Mike Fall
Born 1961
Jason F Beans
Born 1969
Tommy Scaffe
Born 1896
Stephen Sene
Born 1983
Joel Wells
Born 1935
Chris Love
-
Dijon Prioleau
Born 1992
Billy Campbell (TV executive)
Born 1959
Robert F. Looney
1824 - 1899
Margaret Anne LeMone
Born 1946
Carter Arey
Born 1989
James H. Akin
1832 - 1911
Tristram T. Hyde
1862 - 1931
James Barber (politician)
1921 - 2001
John Hancock LaFitte Jr.
Born 1936
I. S. Leevy Johnson
Born 1942
Ralph Pruitt
1925 - 1986
Terry Irvin
Born 1954
Elton Pollock
Born 1973
Mike Cunningham (politician)
Born 1947
Thomas L. Maddin
1826 - 1908
Benjamin Holman
1930 - 2007
John P. Weinel
1916 - 2004
Irene Krugman Rudnick
1929 - 2019
Edwin William Stephens
1849 - 1931
Kevin Whitesides
Born 1964
John Boatright
1923 - 2006
Brandon Jay
Born 1984
Ox McKibbon
Born 1904
John Wesley Terry
Born 1846
John Pointer (American football)
Born 1958
Clyde Eugene Merritt
1936 - 2015
Isaac Melson Meekins
1875 - 1946
Wade Hampton Gibbes
1837 - 1903
Pablo Webster
Born 1979
Tyrell Corbin
Born 1992
William Joseph Martin Jr.
1868 - 1943
Edgar Barnhart
1904 - 1984
R. H. Gordon
1844 - 1917
Donald Mayberry
1951 - 2011
Celia Dial Saxon
1857 - 1935
John P. Bethell
1907 - 1981
Xantippe Saunders
1838 - 1922
Augustus High
1844 - 1927
Margaret Feierabend
Born 1951
Ty Cobb (politician)
Born 1978
Page Miller
Born 1940