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
- Sasha Hutchings, actress, Hamilton, 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
- Corliss Palmer, silent screen actress and model; lived in Macon and worked at the Dempsey Hotel
- 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
- 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 1960sâÂÂ1970s
- 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
- Sarah Randolph Bailey, educator and Girl Scout pioneer
- 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
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
- Chris Crawford, NFL cheerleader, Carolina Panthers
- 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
- 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, soccer player, United States Navy aviator and officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut
- Carla Koplin Cohn, personal secretary to Hall of Fame Hank Aaron during his home run chase
- 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
- Nancy Grace, television personality
- LeRoy Wiley Gresham, disabled person during the American Civil War who left behind diaries which were later published
- Victoria Groce, Jeopardy! Masters champion and television personality
- Beverly Harvard, first black female police chief of a major city (Atlanta) in the United States, former US marshal
- Ozella Shields Head, writer
- 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
- Hubert Humphrey, founder and CEO of Multi-level marketing financial and insurance services company World Marketing Alliance World Financial Group)
- John Oliver Killens, 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 female 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, 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 female 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 in Macon
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