List of people from Savannah, Georgia

The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Savannah, Georgia and includes people that were born or lived in Savannah, Georgia for a nontrivial amount of time. Individuals included in this listing are people presumed to be notable because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.^[A]

Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia.^[1] It is known as America's first planned city and attracts millions of visitors who enjoy the city's architecture and historic structures such as the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest black Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America).^[1][2] Today, Savannah's downtown area is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated in 1966).^[B][1]

Savannah natives

Actress Miriam Hopkins from the film Becky Sharp (1935)

Name	Notability	References
Dianna Agron	actress, known for role as Quinn Fabray on the TV series Glee
Charles Coburn	Academy Award-winning actor (1943: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The More the Merrier)
Desmond Harrington	2004 Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema Award-winning actor (Best Actor for Love Object)
J. G. Hertzler	actor from Star Trek Deep Space Nine series
Miriam Hopkins	Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actress
James Keach	actor and Producers Guild Awards-nominated producer (2006: Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Theatrical Motion Pictures for Walk the Line) ^[C]
Stacy Keach	Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor (1989: Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for Hemingway) ^[D]
Isabel Keating	Tony Award-nominated actress and singer (2004: Best Featured Actress in a Musical)	[3]
Mammy Lou	world's oldest actress
Alicia Rhett	actress in the film Gone with the Wind
Diana Scarwid	Academy Award and Emmy-nominated actress
Fredi Washington	1930s film actress who appeared in The Emperor Jones and Imitation of Life

Athletes

Name	Notability	References
Taz Anderson	NFL tight end for the St. Louis Cardinals (1961–1964) and Atlanta Falcons (1966–1967)	[4]
George Atkinson	AFL and NFL defensive back and kick returner for Oakland Raiders (1968-1977) and Denver Broncos (1979); member of Raiders' Super Bowl XI championship team, AFL All Star in 1968 and 1969	[5]
Edwin Bailey	NFL guard for the Seattle Seahawks (1981-1991)	[6]
Solomon Brannan	AFL defensive back for the Kansas City Chiefs (1965-1966) and the New York Jets (1967); member of the Chiefs' 1966 AFL championship team	[7]
Roland Daniels	professional wrestler known by ring names "Leroy Brown" and "Elijah Akeem"
Bucky Dent	Major League Baseball player and manager, 1978 World Series Most Valuable Player
Pervis Ellison	college and NBA center for the Sacramento Kings (1989–1990), Washington Bullets (1990–1994), Boston Celtics (1994–2000) and Seattle SuperSonics (2000–2001); nicknamed "Never Nervous Pervis"; led University of Louisville to national championship; named Most Outstanding Player as freshman	[8]
Cheryl Haworth	Olympic weightlifting medalist (bronze, 2000); 1998–2005 national champion; 2001 and 2002 junior world champion)	[9]
Percy Howard	NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys (1975)	[10]
Kevin Mawae	NFL center for the Seattle Seahawks (1994–1997), New York Jets (1998–2005), and Tennessee Titans (2006–2009)	[11]
Dustin McGowan	Major League Baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays (2005–present)	[12]
Casey Mitchell	basketball player for Elitzur Ashkelon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League	[13]
Bobby Norfleet	NASCAR driver
Terry Orr	NFL tight end for the Washington Redskins (1986–1990 and 1991–1993) and San Diego Chargers (1990)	[14]
Gerald Perry	MLB outfielder and first baseman for the Atlanta Braves (1983–1989), Kansas City Royals (1990), and St. Louis Cardinals (1991–1995) and former Chicago Cubs hitting coach	[15]
Marty Pevey	MLB catcher for the Montreal Expos (1989) and coach for the Toronto Blue Jays	[16]
Andrew Provence	NFL player
Josh Reddick	Major League Baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics	[17]
Eron Riley	wide receiver, National and Canadian Football Leagues; initially signed by Baltimore Ravens (2009–2010), then Carolina Panthers (2010), Denver Broncos (2010–2011), New York Jets (2011), and Saskatchewan Roughriders (2013-2014)
Kenny Rogers	MLB pitcher for the Texas Rangers (1989–1995, 2000–2002, 2004–2005), New York Yankees (1996–1997), Oakland Athletics (1998–1999), New York Mets (1999), Minnesota Twins (2003), and Detroit Tigers (2006–2008)
Al Seeger	former International Boxing Association world super-bantamweight title holder	[18]
Jason Shiell	MLB pitcher for the San Diego Padres (2002), Boston Red Sox (2003), Atlanta Braves (2006)	[19]
Roy Simmons	NFL guard for the New York Giants (1979–1982) and Washington Redskins (1983)	[20]
Hollis Stacy	three-time U.S. Women's Open champion golfer (1977, 1978, and 1984)	[21]
Dusty Zeigler	NFL center for the Buffalo Bills (1996–1999) and New York Giants (2000–2002)	[22]

Business people

Former Savannah Mayor and businessman J.C. Lewis, Jr.
(used with permission)

Name	Notability	References
Mills B. Lane Jr.	former president of Atlanta, Georgia-based Citizens and Southern National Bank who played an important role in Atlanta's political development and economic expansion during the 1950s and 1960s	[23]
J.C. Lewis	businessman, philanthropist, former Savannah mayor	[24]
Cornell McBride, Sr.	founder, president and CEO of McBride Research Laboratories, Inc., which manufactures and distributes African-American hair care products	[25]

Judicial

Official 2004 photo of Justice Clarence Thomas

James Moore Wayne

Name	Notability	References
Orinda D. Evans	Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia (1979–2006) and chief district judge (1999–2006)	[26]
Clarence Thomas	associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (October 19, 1991–present)	[27]
James Moore Wayne	congressman and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (January 14, 1835 – July 5, 1867)	[28]
Walter Wyatt	former Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States (1946–1963)

Military

Photo of Moxley Sorrel from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

Name	Notability	References
Robert Houston Anderson	cavalry and artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
James Dunwoody Bulloch	Confederate States of America's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War	[29]
Leonard Matlovich	Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient; gay rights activist	[30]
Moxley Sorrel	youngest general in the Confederate Army	[31]
Julian Larcombe Schley	former Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
Josiah Tattnall	officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, and the Mexican-American War	[32]
William F. Train	United States Army lieutenant general and veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War

Musicians

Big Boi from Outkast playing at Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia

James Moody performing during a jazz festival

Tom Turpin

Name	Notability	References
Tony Arata	country music singer	[33]
Baroness	metal music band whose 2007 album (Red Album) was named Album of the Year by heavy metal magazine Revolver	[34]
Big Boi	rapper from Grammy Award-winning hip-hop music duo OutKast
James Bignon	swing-era trumbonist	[35]
Camoflauge	rapper	[36]
Mike Curb	Curb Records and Word Label Group executive; Lieutenant Governor of California (1979–1983)	[37]
Mary Davis	R&B singer; member of the S.O.S. Band and lead singer on "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"	[38]
Stephanie Edwards	11th-place finalist on American Idol, season 6	[39]
Arthur Gibbs	jazz singer	[40]
Connie Haines	performer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	[41]
Kylesa	metal music band	[42]
DJ Lord	music turntablist currently with hip hop group Public Enemy
Kate McTell	blues musician; former wife of blues musician Blind Willie McTell	[43]
Johnny Mercer	composer of more than 1,000 songs; received 19 Academy Award nominations; wrote music for Broadway shows; co-founded Capitol Records
James Moody	jazz musician (saxophone, flute), composer, actor known for his song "Moody's Mood for Love"
Ben Riley	hard bop drummer who worked with artists including Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz	[44]
Mark Sadane	R&B singer; lead singer for the band Tungsten Steele	[45]
Edward Schell	R&B singer; member of the band New York City	[46]
Debi Burk Scott	entertainer and cabaret vocalist
Huxsie Scott	gospel music and jazz music singer	[47]
Millie Scott	jazz singer	[48]
Sahib Shihab	jazz saxophonist and flautist who performed with Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey Dizzy Gillespie, and Quincy Jones	[49]
Showbread	Christian post-hardcore alternative rock band	[50]
Squad 5-O	Christian ska-punk
Tom Turpin	composer credited with the first published ragtime by an African-American ("Harlem Rag", 1897)	[51]
Jared Wade	country music singer-songwriter, from Savannah suburb Pooler	[52]
Eric "Samarai Celestial" Walker	jazz drummer	[53]
Trummy Young	swing-era trumbonist who performed with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz at the Philharmonic and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars	[54]

Politicians

Francis S. Bartow

Library of Congress photo of John C. Frémont

Illustration of Joseph Habersham from Benson J. Lossing's The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution

Official U.S. Congress photo of Bob Inglis, member of the United States House of Representatives

Name	Notability	References
Francis S. Bartow	Confederate States of America political leader, and military officer during the early months of the American Civil War	[55]
Joseph Bryan	U.S. Representative from Georgia who served in the 8th and 9th U.S. Congresses (from 1803 until his resignation in 1806)	[56]
William Bellinger Bulloch	Senator from Georgia appointed as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate who served from April 8, 1813 until November 6, 1813	[57]
Robert M. Charlton	U.S. Senator representing Georgia from 1852-1853	[58]
Alfred Cuthbert	U.S. Representative (the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congress, 1813-1816) and Senator (Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses, from 1821-1827)	[59]
Samuel Elbert	Governor of the State of Georgia (1785–1786)	[60][61][62]
Ion Farris	Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (1909 and 1913) and member of Florida Senate	[63]
John C. Frémont	first U.S. Republican Party candidate for President of the United States; 1864 candidate of the Radical Republicans)	[64]
Joseph Habersham	delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (1785); member of the convention which ratified the U.S. Constitution (1788); 3rd Postmaster General of the United States (1795–1801)	[65]
F. Ross Holland, Jr.	National Park Service historian noted for his books on lighthouses	[66]
William Houstoun	delegate to the Continental Congress and to the United States Constitutional Convention (1787)	[67]
Bob Inglis	twice elected to represent South Carolina's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives	[68]
Otis Johnson	former mayor of Savannah, Georgia, first elected in 2004	[69]
George Jones	U.S. Senator serving from August 27, 1807, to November 7, 1807	[70]
Edward Langworthy	delegate to the Continental Congress from Georgia and signature to the U.S. Articles of Confederation	[71]
John Milledge	elected to Second Congress (1792-1793) and Fourth and Fifth Congresses (1795-1799); again elected (1801 until he resigned in May 1802 to become Governor of Georgia); U.S. Senate in 10th U.S. Congress as the President pro tempore of the Senate (1806-1809)	[72]
Dennis Smelt	U.S. Representative to the 9th, 10th and 11th United States Congresses (1806-1811)	[73]
Josiah Tattnall	U.S. Senator (1796-1799) and Georgia governor (1801-1802)	[74]
Thomas Telfair	elected to the 13th and 14th United States Congresses (1813-1817)	[75]

Scientists and inventors

Official NASA photo of Col L. Blaine Hammond

Name	Notability	References
L. Blaine Hammond	NASA astronaut and current Chief of NASA's Astronaut Office Safety Branch	[76]
W. Jason Morgan	geophysicist, made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics

Writers

Author Bruce Feiler

Name	Notability	References
Conrad Aiken	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry recipient for Selected Poems (1930)	[77]
Henry Coppée	author, educator, first president of Lehigh University	[78]
Charles Elmore	African American scholar, jazz historian, and educator	[79]
Bruce Feiler	journalist; formulated the Feiler Faster Thesis; producer of the television mini-series Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Chris Fuhrman	author of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Anne Green	novelist, memoirist, translator; brother of Julien Green	[80]
Al Jaffee	writer and cartoonist for Timely Comics, Atlas Comics, and Mad Magazine	[81]
James Alan McPherson	short story writer and essayist, awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection, Elbow Room	[82]
Ward Morehouse	theater critic and newspaper columnist for The Atlanta Journal, The New York Tribune, the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Sun
Flannery O'Connor	short story writer and novelist, namesake of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction	[83]
Charles Perry	author of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, which was made into the film Six Ways to Sunday
Sally Quinn	author, reporter for the Washington Post, and co-anchor of the CBS Morning News with CBS News reporter Hughes Rudd (August 6, 1973 - February 1, 1974)[84]
Mary Schmich	columnist for the Chicago Tribune; author of Wear Sunscreen; current author of the Brenda Starr comic strip	[85]
Frank Lebby Stanton	lyricist, columnist for the Atlanta Constitution, author of the words for "Just Awearyin' for You"

Others

Library of Congress photo of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson

Name	Notability	References
Steve Charnovitz	law professor best known as a scholar on international trade law	[86]
Curtis Cooper	civil rights leader, served as president of the Savannah Chapter of the NAACP	[87]
Ralph Mark Gilbert	civil rights leader; as president of the Savannah Chapter of the NAACP, helped initiate hiring of Savannah's first African-American police officers along with other black city employees (one of the first cities in the South to do so)	[88]
William Gardner Hale	classical scholar best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax	[89]
Brittany Hatch	contestant on America's Next Top Model, season 8	[90]
W. W. Law	civil rights leader; influential in the establishment of the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, the Beach Institute of African American Culture, and the Negro Heritage Trail Tour	[91]
Jack Leigh	photographer best known for the "Bird Girl" statue photograph on the cover of the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Juliette Gordon Low	founder of Girl Scouts of the USA	[92]
Sonny Seiler	owner of the University of Georgia mascot Uga
Leighton Stultz	male fitness and Playgirl model; reality television star	[93]
Kirk Varnedoe	art historian and curator of painting and sculpture at the New York City Museum of Modern Art
Akintunde Warnock	comedian
Frank Wills	security guard at Watergate break-in
Ellen Axson Wilson	first wife of Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death	[94]
Rufus Youngblood	bodyguard to Lyndon B. Johnson at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas; resided in later years and died in Savannah	[95]

Current notable residents (non-natives)

Official U.S. House of Representatives photo of Representative Jack Kingston

Name	Notability	References
Bertice Berry	sociologist, author, former host of her own nationally syndicated talk show, The Bertice Berry Show (1993-1994)	[96]
The Lady Chablis	transsexual entertainer featured as a character in John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Paula Deen	restaurateur and host of the Food Network show Paula's Home Cooking
Ruby Gettinger	reality TV star
Gregory Keyes	author and educator
Jack Kingston	member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Georgia's 1st congressional district	[97]
Billy Joe Royal	1960s singer	[98]
Jack Sherman	former guitarist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, later played with Bob Dylan and John Hiatt
Dr. Earl G. Yarbrough	former president of Savannah State University	[99]

Former notable residents (non-natives)

Name	Notability	References
Danny!	recording artist for Okayplayer Records, former student of the Savannah College of Art & Design	[100]
Mills Lane	professional boxing referee and television court show judge (Judge Mills Lane)
Phoebe Pember	woman in charge of housekeeping and patient diet at one of the divisions of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War	[101]
John Wesley	Anglican minister and Christian theologian; early leader in the Methodist movement
Eli Whitney	inventor of the modern cotton gin	[102]

See also

• Dorothy Barnes Pelote Bridge
• Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange
• List of mayors of Savannah, Georgia

Notes

A.^{^} Notability for inclusion in this listing is based upon the standards outlined in Wikipedia:Notability.

B.^{^} Savannah had 24 original squares. Today 21 are still in existence.

C.^{^} The 2006 Producers Guild Award nomination (Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award) was shared with Cathy Konrad.

D.^{^} Tied with Michael Caine ("Jack the Ripper") for the 1989 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.

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