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Old 07-05-2003, 08:16 PM
The1calledTKE The1calledTKE is offline
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Hooray for Georgia!



From Stone Mountain


to MLK



to the 96 olympics



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!
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Old 07-05-2003, 10:12 PM
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States...
Born in CT, Lived in CA and WA State and now reside in ME!!!!


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Old 07-05-2003, 11:02 PM
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I'll be the first to say that I am born and raised in INDIANA! Go Hoosiers!
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Old 07-05-2003, 11:25 PM
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Living in northern CA.
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Old 07-06-2003, 03:30 AM
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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:


beautiful mobile bay:


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:
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Old 07-06-2003, 08:12 AM
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Right now, Gauteng Province.
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Old 07-06-2003, 08:51 AM
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out in the west texas town of el paso....
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Old 07-06-2003, 01:56 PM
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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




and am (more or less) a native Vancouverite
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Old 07-06-2003, 03:38 PM
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AlphaGamDiva, I adore that Lexington picture, but it makes me SO homesick!
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Old 07-06-2003, 04:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by mmcat
out in the west texas town of el paso....
I fell in love with a Mexican girl...
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Old 07-06-2003, 07:18 PM
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Old 07-06-2003, 07:38 PM
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Old 07-06-2003, 07:49 PM
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FLORIDA

Way down here in Miami, Florida (where it always feels like a completely different COUNTRY!)
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Old 07-06-2003, 09:03 PM
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Boring ol' Maryland here
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Old 07-06-2003, 09:53 PM
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And what we're really known for!



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