This is a list of famous people who have lived in the area in and near Atlanta, Georgia, including both natives and residents. [edit] Early Settlers [edit] Politicians and activists [edit] Statesmen [edit] Jurists [edit] Diplomats [edit] Activists - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights Leader; Nobel Peace Laureate 1964 (he was the youngest man ever to receive this award)
- Charlotte Laws - Animal Rights
- William Luther Pierce - neo-Fascist
- [Dr. C.T Vivian] - Civil Rights Leader; is a minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. during the American Civil Rights Movement
[edit] Atlanta Mayors [edit] Military [edit] Generals [edit] Sports figures [edit] Baseball [edit] Basketball [edit] Hockey [edit] Boxing [edit] Soccer [edit] Wrestling [edit] Olympians - Dick Buerkle - 1976 Olympian featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated
[edit] Musicians, actors, artists and entertainers [edit] Country [edit] Conductors [edit] Singers and Musicians [edit] Hip Hop and Rap [edit] Producers [edit] Film and acting - Jennifer Holliday - Broadway Actress/Singer
- Brittany Murphy - actress
- Monica Calhoun - actress
- Jane Fonda - actress
- David Cross - stand-up comedian/actor
- Jeff Foxworthy - actor & comedian
- Oliver Hardy - comedian
- Tyler Perry - playwright, actor, director
- Joel Chandler Harris - author of the Uncle Remus tales
- Shuler Hensley - Broadway and film actor
- RonReaco Lee - actor
- Spike Lee - film director
- Elijah Kelley - actor
- Jasmine Guy - actress
- Christopher Massey - actor (Zoey 101)
- Kyle Massey - actor, (That's So Raven!)
- Chloe Moretz - child actress
- Wylie Draper - actor, dancer, best remembered as older Michael Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream
- Ty Pennington - actor
- Julia Roberts - actress
- Chris Tucker - film actor
- Robert Patrick - actor, best remembered as the "T-1000" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Holly Hunter - actress
- Ryan Seacrest - actor
- Dakota Fanning - actress
- Kip Pardue - actor
- Steven Soderbergh - film director
- Kenny Leon - former artistic director of the Alliance Theatre Company
- Raven Symone - actress
- Chris Lowell - actor, Veronica Mars
- DeForest Kelley - actor, "Star Trek"
- Devon Werkheiser - actor, (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide)
- Kenan Thompson - actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Fat Albert)
- C. Martin Croker - voice actor, Zorak and Moltar on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
- Victoria Principal - Actress (Dallas)
- Ron And Richard Harris-(Aswirl Twins) "America's Next Top Model"
- Maggie Hatcher - actress
- Tilly Hatcher - actress
- Bradford Mills - actor
[edit] Visual Arts Moises Arias - actor, comedian Mateo Arias - actor, comedian [edit] Radio and Television [edit] Writers, journalists and photographers [edit] Pulitzer Prize Winners - Margaret Mitchell - 1937 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Gone with the Wind
- Alice Walker - 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple
- Alfred Uhry - 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and more, Driving Miss Daisy
- Ralph McGill - 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, editorial "A Church, A School...." and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership
- Daniel Boorstin - 1974 Pulitzer Prize for History The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987
- Clark Howell - 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing the Atlanta graft ring
- Mike Luckovich - 1995 and 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
- George Goodwin - 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting of the Atlanta Journal for his story of the Telfair County vote fraud, published in 1947
- Atlanta Constitution - 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a successful municipal graft exposure and consequent convictions.
- Arnold Hardy - 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography amateur photographer, Georgia Tech student, for his photo of a woman leaping from a fire in the Winecoff Hotel resulting in national fire safety standards
- Jack Nelson - 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the excellent reporting in his series of articles on mental institutions in Georgia.
- Mike Toner - 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for "When Bugs Fight Back," a series that explored the diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics and pesticides.
- Eugene Patterson - 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing The Atlanta Constitution, for his editorials during the year
- Doug Marlette - 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Atlanta Constitution and Charlotte Observer
[edit] Historians - W. E. B. Du Bois - Taught at Atlanta University and lived in the city for 6 years, during which he wrote The Souls of Black Folk(1903), in which he identified, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line".
- Franklin Garrett - Atlanta's official historian wrote the massive Atlanta and Environs (1954), the best reference for the city's history.
[edit] Journalists [edit] Playwrights and Screenwriters Tyler Perry [edit] Contemporary Paul Bowles [edit] Scientists and Technology [edit] Business people [edit] Architecture - John Portman - international architect and developer - designer of the groundbreaking atrium style hotel
- Neel Reid - he "made Atlanta beautiful," a student of École des Beaux-Arts who died at the height of his career
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