Hooray for Georgia!

http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst090.gif

From Stone Mountain
http://www.stonemountainpark.org/ass...opGraphic2.jpg

to MLK

http://thekingcenter.com/images/misc/mlk.jpg

to the 96 olympics

http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...s/b61c1vwq.jpg

True Famous Born and Bred Georgians".
Some names listed multiple times in different catagories.



Music Industry:

Atlanta Rhythum Section (band)-Doraville, Georgia

B52's (band)-Athens, Georgia

Black Crows (band)-Atlanta, Georgia

R.E.M. (band)-Athens, Georgia

Widespread Panic (band)-Athens, Georgia

Wendy Lee Bagwell (singer,soldier)-Chamblee, Georgia

T. Graham Brown (singer)-Athens, Georgia

Ray Charles (musician, singer)-Albany, Georgia

Mattiwilda Dobbs (soprano)-Atlanta, Georgia

Pete Drake (musician,record producer)-Augusta, Georgia

Amy Grant (singer)-Augusta, Georgia

Roland Hayes (singer)-Curyville, Georgia

Fletcher Henderson (musician, songwriter)-Cuthbert, Georgia

Alan Jackson (singer)-Newnan, Georgia

Harry James (trumpeter)-Albany, Georgia

Gladys Knight (from Gladys Knight and the Pips) (singer)-Atlanta, Georgia

Brenda Lee (singer)-Atlanta, Georgia

Johnny Mercer (songwriter)-Savannah, Georgia

Blind Willie McTell (blues pioneer)-Thomson, Georgia

Jessye Norman (singer)-Augusta, Georgia

Jerry Reed (singer,actor)-Atlanta, Georgia

Otis Redding (singer)-Dawson, Georgia

Little Richard (musician,singer)-Macon, Georgia

Tommy Roe (singer,songwriter)-Atlanta, Georgia

Billy Joe Royal (singer)-Valdosta, Georgia

Ray Stevens (singer,songwriter)-Clarksdale, Georgia

Travis Tritt (singer)-Marietta, Georgia

Mark Wills (singer)-Blue Ridge, Georgia

Trisha Yearwood (singer)-Monticello, Georgia

Sports Industry:

Baseball Players (Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, etc.)-Born In Georgia

Jim Brown (football athlete, actor)-St. Simons Island, Georgia

Bill Elliot (racecar driver)-Dawsonville, Georgia

Walt Frazier (basketball hall of fame)-Atlanta, Georgia

Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) (wrestler, actor)-Augusta, Georgia

Larry Holmes (boxer)-Cuthert, Georgia

Bobby Jones (golfer)-Atlanta, Georgia

Products & Industries:

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House -Hapeville, Georgia

Coca~Cola (Coke)-Atlanta, Georgia

Indian Springs (Oldest State Park in United States)-Flovilla, Georgia

The Varsity- Atlanta, Georgia

Waffle House -Atlanta, Georgia

Actors & Actresses:

Claude Akins (actor)-Nelson, Georgia

Kim Basinger (actress)-Athens, Georgia

Jim Brown (football athlete,actor)-St. Simons Island, Georgia

Charles Coburn (actor)-Savannah, Georgia

Ossie Davis (actor,writer)-Cogdell, Georgia

Melvyn Douglas (actor)-Macon, Georgia

Jeff Foxworthy (comedian,actor)-Hapeville, Georgia

Lawrence Fishburne III (actor,playwright)-Atlanta, Georgia

Oliver Hardy (actor,comedian)-Harlem, Georgia

Miriam Hopkins (actress)-Bainbridge, Georgia

Stacy Keach (actor)-Savannah, Georgia

DeForest Kelley (actor)-Atlanta, Georgia

Jerry Reed (actor,singer)-Atlanta, Georgia

Burt Reynolds (actor)-Waycross, Georgia

Julia Roberts (actress)-Atlanta, Georgia

Nipsey Russell (actor, comedian)-Atlanta, Georgia

Joanne Woodward (actress,former Miss Georgia)-Thomasville, Georgia

Celebrities & Notables:

Robert Houstoun Anderson (brigadier general )-Savannah, Georgia

Henry Lewis Benning (jurist, statesman, soldier)-Columbia County, Georgia

Martha Berry (founder of Berry College)-Rome, Georgia

James Bowie (soldier)-Burke County, Georgia

Lucius D. Clay (general)-Marietta, Georgia

John Fremont (explorer)-Savannah, Georgia

Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holliday (gunslinger)-Griffin, Georgia

Jasper Johns (painter,sculptor)-Augusta, Georgia

Martin Luther King Jr. (civil rights leader)-Atlanta, Georgia

Spike Lee (director, producer)-Atlanta, Georgia

Crawford Long (doctor,founder of anesthesia)-Danielsville, Georgia

Juliette Gordon Low (founder of U.S. girl scouts)-Savannah, Georgia

Bert Parks (host of Miss America Pagent)-Atlanta, Georgia

Authors, Writers, & Poets:

Conrad Aiken (poet)-Savannah, Georgia

Erskine Caldwell (writer)-Moreland, Georgia

Ossie Davis (actor,writer)-Cogdell, Georgia

James Dickey (poet)-Atlanta, Georgia

Henry W. Grady (journalist)-Athens, Georgia

Lewis Grizzard (comedian,writer)-Fort Benning, Georgia

Joel Chandler Harris (writer,journalist)-Eatonton, Georgia

Sydney Lanier (writer,poet)-Macon, Georgia

Carson McCullers (author)-Columbus, Georgia

Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone With The Wind)-Atlanta, Georgia

Janelle Taylor (romance novelist)-Athens, Georgia

Alice Walker (author)-Eatonton, Georgia

Political Industry:

James (Jimmy) E. Carter & wife Rosalyn (39th president,nobel prize winner)-Plains, Georgia

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1st woman appointed U.S.senator)-Decatur, Georgia

Joseph Rucker Lamar (secretary of state)-Cherokee County, Georgia

Zell Miller (governor,senator)-Young Harris, Georgia

Dean Rusk (U.S. Supreme Court)-Elbert, Georgia

Clarence Thomas (supreme court associate justice)-Pin Point (Savannah), Georgia


Georgia is definately on my mind!

States...
 

Born in CT, Lived in CA and WA State and now reside in ME!!!!


Nat

I'll be the first to say that I am born and raised in INDIANA! Go Hoosiers!

Living in northern CA.:)

born in the VA
lived in beautiful ala-freakin-bama (WAR EAGLE)
and now in the KY

*edited to add pics of--

lexington horse farm:
http://www.visitlex.com/grafix/003.jpg

beautiful mobile bay:
http://www.crowwilkinson.com/images/...ope%20Pier.jpg

and i'd post a pic of where i was born, but i don't remember anything about it.

oh, what the heck:

downtown lynchburg, VA:
http://www.lynchburgonline.com/lbdowntn.jpg

Right now, Gauteng Province.

out in the west texas town of el paso....

how about Province roll call
 

I will be the first Canadian to interject into this thread ;).

I was born and bred in Beautiful British Columbia
http://www.herenthere.com/cards/Canada/bc.gif
http://www.kanada-british-columbia.de/pics/bc_5s.jpg


and am (more or less) a native Vancouverite
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart...ancouver06.jpg

AlphaGamDiva, I adore that Lexington picture, but it makes me SO homesick!

I fell in love with a Mexican girl... ;)

NEW YORK! :)

Lawn Guyland, Noo Yawk!!!!!!!!!! (Long Island, New York :) )

FLORIDA :)

Way down here in Miami, Florida (where it always feels like a completely different COUNTRY!)

Boring ol' Maryland here:cool:

Woot!
 

Philadelphia PA!!

http://www.slickflicks.com/images/philadelphia.jpg

http://www.mardi-gras-beads.com/nhl-...iladelphia.jpg

http://www.nestofdeath.com/philadelphia/Santa/Big3.jpg

And what we're really known for!

http://www.markshields.com/images/20...ia-pa-3231.jpg

Nothing like a cheesesteak from Pat's Steaks on South Street after a night out at the bars!