- Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low (October 31, 1860 - January 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912. - Noble Jones
Noble Wimberly (or Wymberley) Jones (1723 - January 9, 1805) was an American physician and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. He served as a Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress in 1781 and 1782. Born in Lambeth, England (near London), he immigrated to North America with his parents, who settled in Savannah, Georgia in 1723. He studied medicine and practiced in Savannah from 1756 to 1774, and was a member of the colonial assembly in 1755, 1756, 1760-1762, 1764, 1768, … - Big Boi
Big Boi is an American hip hop artist and producer; one half of the alternative hip-hop duo OutKast. He also goes by the aliases "Daddy Fat Sacks", "General Patton", "Sir Lucious L. Leftfoot", "Billy Ocean", "Hot Tub Tony" and "Francis the Savannah Chitlin' Pimp". - Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation. - Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25 1925, Savannah, Georgia - d. August 3 1964, Baldwin County, Georgia) was an American author. - Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is a writer on social issues and, particularly more recently, on religion. He tends to write in an accessible, conversational style, blending travelogue, interviews, autobiography, and personal musings with history and archaeology. He writes on religion from a progressive point of view. Some of his back catalog of books was republished in paperback after the commercial success of his "Walking the Bible"(2001). - John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont, was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the epithet "The Pathfinder", which remains in use, sometimes as "The Great Pathfinder". - George Jones
George Jones (February 25, 1766 - November 13, 1838) was a United States Senator from Georgia. Born in Savannah, he received an academic training, studied medicine with his father, and practiced for a number of years. He participated in the American Revolutionary War and during 1780 and 1781 was imprisoned upon an English ship. He was later a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia Senate, … - James Jackson
James "Left Eye" Jackson (September 21, 1757-March 19,1806) was an early Georgia politician of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 until 1791. He was also a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1793 to 1795 then from 1801 until his death, and was Governor of Georgia from 1798 to 1801. Jackson was well known as a duelist with a fiery temper. Jackson County, Georgia is named in his honor. - John Milledge
John Milledge (1757-February 9, 1818) was an American politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was later a United States Representative and a Senator representing Georgia. He was a founder of Athens, Georgia, and the University of Georgia. Milledge was born in Savannah, Georgia, the grandson of an original settler of Georgia. He was tutored privately and studied law. After being admitted to the bar, he opened a law practice in Savannah. - Josiah Tattnall
Commodore Josiah Tattnall, Jr. (14 June 1794 - 14 June 1871) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, and the Mexican-American War. He later served in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. - Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 (N.S.) - June 19, 1786), a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. - Otis Johnson
Otis Samuel Johnson is, as of 2004, the current mayor of Savannah, Georgia. He is a Democrat. Mayor Johnson is a Savannah native who graduated from A.E. Beach High School in 1960, Armstrong Junior College (now Armstrong Atlantic State University) in 1964 (the first African American to graduate from that school) and the University of Georgia (A.B.) in 1967. He served from 1959 to 1965 in the U.S. Naval Reserve. - Bucky Dent
Bucky Dent (born November 25, 1951), born Russell Earl O'Dey, is an American former Major League Baseball player and manager. He earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978, and was voted the World Series MVP in 1978. Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1978 season. - Charles Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 - August 30, 1961) was an Oscar-winning American film and theater actor. - Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert (December 23, 1785 - July 9, 1856) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. Cuthbert was born in Savannah, he was instructed by private tutors and graduated from Princeton College in 1803. He studied law and was admitted to the state bar about 1805 but did not practice. In 1809, he was captain of a company of volunteer infantry, and was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1810 to 1813. - Bertice Berry
Dr. Bertice Berry (b. 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator. Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State University in Ohio, at the age of 26. She later worked as an entertainer, lecturer, and comedian. She was the host co-executive producer of her own nationally syndicated talk show, "The Bertice Berry Show", from 1993 to 1994. - Jack Leigh
John David "Jack" Leigh II (8 November 1948 - 19 May 2004), a native of Savannah, Georgia and a graduate of The Savannah Country Day School and the University of Georgia, was a photographer and author, best known for the cover photograph on the novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". The photograph itself, largely considered a major factor in the success of the novel, featured the "Bird Girl" statue from the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. - Steve Charnovitz
Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights. - Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5 1889 - August 17 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography. When he was 11, his physician father killed his mother, then himself because of family financial problems. According to some accounts, Aiken witnessed the killings; other sources say he found the bodies. He was raised by his great-great-aunt in Massachusetts. - Phoebe Pember
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (August 18, 1823 - March 4, 1913) of Savannah, Georgia was the woman in charge of housekeeping and patient diet at one of the divisions of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. She had the job at the age of 39, and over 15,000 patients were under her direct care during the war. Pember was born into an assimilated Charleston, South Carolina, family on August 18, 1823. - Brooke Anderson
Brooke Victoria Anderson is a culture and entertainment anchor and producer for CNN and serves as a correspondent and regular co-host for "Showbiz Tonight" on CNN Headline News. Based in CNN's Los Angeles, California bureau, Anderson joined the network in July 2000. Anderson graduated in 2000 with honors from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. - Fredi Washington
Fredi Washington (Fredericka Carolyn Washington) (December 23 1903 - June 28 1994) was an African-American film actress of the 1930s. She is most notable for portraying Peola, the daughter who passes for white in the 1934 Academy Award-nominated film "Imitation of Life". She had also appeared with Paul Robeson in "The Emperor Jones" in 1933. Her first movie role was in 1929's Black and Tan, … - James Moore Wayne
James Moore Wayne (1790 - July 5, 1867) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and was a United States Representative from Georgia. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Wayne graduated from Princeton University in 1808, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and began his practice in Savannah. He served in the military during the War of 1812 as an officer in the Georgia Hussars. - Ward Morehouse
Ward Morehouse (November 24, 1899 - December 8, 1966) was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Ward Morehouse first worked as a reporter for The Savannah Press and The Atlanta Journal. He arrived in New York City in 1919 and wrote for The New York Tribune, and The Herald Tribune. In 1926, he began writing the Broadway After Dark column for the New York Sun. - John M. Berrien
John MacPherson Berrien (August 23, 1781-January 1, 1856) of Georgia was a United States Senator and Andrew Jackson's Attorney General. Born at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, to a family of Huguenot ancestry, Berrien moved with his parents to Savannah, Georgia, in 1782; was graduated from Princeton College in 1796; studied law in Savannah; was admitted to the bar at the age of 18, and began practice in Louisville, Georgia, in 1799. - Pervis Ellison
Pervis Ellison (born April 3, 1967 in Savannah, Georgia) is a former college and professional NBA basketball player. Ellison was nicknamed "Never Nervous Pervis" for his play with the University of Louisville. At 6'9" (206 cm) and 210 lb (95 kg), he started all four years as the center under coach Denny Crum. - Ken Harrelson
Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941 in Woodruff, South Carolina), nicknamed "The Hawk" due to his distinctive profile, is a former first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who currently serves as a television broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox. - Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792- August 11, 1872) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymns, many of which are often sung today. He was also largely responsible for introducing music into American public schools, and is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States. - Ellen Axson Wilson
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 - August 6, 1914), first wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death. Ellen Louise Axson was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1860. She grew up in Rome, Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S.E. Axson, was a Presbyterian minister. Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about six and she only a baby. In 1883, as a young lawyer from Atlanta, … - Julian Larcombe Schley
Julian Larcombe Schley (February 23 1880- March 29 1965) was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1932 to 1936. Schley was born in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1903 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He and classmate Douglas MacArthur had their first service with the 3d Battalion of Engineers in the Philippines (1903-04). - Dj Lord
DJ Lord (born Lord Aswod in Savannah, Georgia), is an internationally known DJ and turntablist. DJ Lord has been acknowledged in the competition circuit as one of the best turnablists in the United States. In 1999, DJ Lord joined the hip-hop group Public Enemy on their 40th World Tour replacing Terminator X. Soon after, DJ Lord had his own performance segment within the Public Enemy show. - Robert M. Charlton
Robert Milledge Charlton (January 19, 1807 - January 18, 1854) was an American politician and jurist. He served as a Senator representing Georgia (U.S. State) from 1852 to 1853. Charlton was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 19, 1807. A lawyer by training, Charlton served in various positions at the city and state level in addition to his U.S. Senate term. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1828), … - Gregory Keyes
Gregory Keyes is a writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names "J. Gregory Keyes" and "Greg Keyes". He is famous for his quartet "The Age of Unreason", a steampunk/alchemical story starring Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton. He wrote the Babylon 5 "Psi Corps" trilogy, a history of the Psi Corps and a biography of Psi Corps member Alfred Bester. - Moxley Sorrel
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel (February 23, 1838 - August 10, 1901) was a Confederate States Army officer and historian of the Confederacy. Sorrel was the son of one of the wealthiest men in Savannah, Georgia, Francis Sorrel. In 1861, Moxley left his job as a Savannah bank clerk, taking part in the Confederate capture of Fort Pulaski as a private in the Georgia Hussars. With letters of introduction from Colonel Jordan, from Gen. - Joseph Habersham
Joseph Habersham (July 28, 1751-November 17, 1815) was an American businessman, Continental Congressman, soldier in the Continental Army and Postmaster General of the United States. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he attended preparatory schools and Princeton College and became successful merchant and planter. - Richard Wayne
Dr. Richard Wayne served as mayor of Savannah, Georgia for four terms: 1844 - 1845, 1848 - 1851, 1852 - 1853 and 1857 - 1858. He died while in office. Wayne was the first mayor of Savannah elected by its citizens. Prior to his election, mayors were appointed by the city aldermen. He is buried in Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery - Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor (February 26, 1907 - October 3, 1994) was a prolific American character actor who worked extensively in Westerns. - Miriam Hopkins
Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Oscar-nominated American actress. - Robert Houston Anderson
Robert Houston Anderson (October 1, 1835 - February 8, 1888) was a cavalry and artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Anderson was stationed in upstate New York, and later as an infantry lieutenant at Fort Walla Walla in the Washington Territory. In early 1861, shortly before the official succession of his home state, Anderson accepted a commission in the Confederate Army as a lieutenant in the artillery.
|
| |