- Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. Young is the namesake of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. International Boulevard, near the Centennial Olympic Park, has been re-named Andrew Young International Boulevard, …
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a primatologist most famous for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their apparent use of "Great Ape language" using lexigrams and computer-based keyboards. Until recently based at Georgia State University's Language Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, she has now moved to the Great Ape Trust of Des Moines, Iowa.
- Glenn Richardson
Glenn Richardson is the current Speaker of the House for the state of Georgia. Richardson was born in Douglas County, Georgia, where he graduated from Douglas County High School in 1978. In 1981, Glenn earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Georgia State University and earned his Juris Doctor in 1984 as a member of the first graduating class from the Georgia State University College of Law.
- David Brown
David Brown is a lawyer, radio personality and journalist who hosted the nationally syndicated "Marketplace" radio program from American Public Media from September, 2003 to August, 2005. Prior to becoming host of that program, David Brown was one of its senior producers. Before joining the "Marketplac"e team, Brown worked in several roles including reporter and producer for The Christian Science Monitor newspaper's "Monitor Radio" service.
- Bruce Yandle
Bruce Yandle is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics at Clemson University and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center. He received his MBA and PhD from Georgia State University. From 1976 to 1978, Yandle served on the "President's Council on Wage and Price Stability". His main research interest is free market environmentalism.
- Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966) is a basketball coach and is currently the head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association.
- Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright (born January 22, 1980) is an American jazz singer and composer. Wright was born in the small town of Hahira, Georgia, one of three children and the daughter of a minister. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child, and also became interested in jazz and blues. She attended Houston County High School, where she was heavily involved in choral singing, receiving the National Choral Award.
- David Bottoms
David Bottoms (born 1949, Canton, Georgia) is an American poet. Bottoms' first book, "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump", was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in magazines such as "The Atlantic", "The New Yorker", "Harper's", "The Paris Review", and "Poetry", as well as in over four dozen anthologies and textbooks.
- Michael Perry
Mike Perry was the head men's basketball coach at the Georgia State University from 2003 through 2007. Prior to taking the helm of the Panthers basketball program, he held assistant coaching positions at Georgia State, Richmond, and Virginia Union University. Perry played for the University of Richmond from 1978 through 1981 and finished his career as the Spiders' career leader in points scored (2,145). Only Johnny Newman has since surpassed that total in a Spider uniform.
- Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer (born 8 May 1945, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an American orchestral conductor. Since 1993 he has served as Artistic Director of the annual Bellingham Festival of Music (Bellingham, Washington, USA). He has also served as Artistic Director of the Quartz Mountain Music Festival's Orchestral Institute since 2006. Palmer began his professional career at age 21 when he became Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1967, …
- Lisa Delpit
Lisa Delpit is the director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence and the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her most recent book is Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (New Press). <
- Max Burns
O. Maxie "Max" Burns (born November 8 1948) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005, representing. He was born in Millen, Georgia, was educated at Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University (Ph.D.) and served in the United States Army Reserve. He was a professor at Georgia Southern University for 20 years.
- Ken Lewis
Kenneth D. Lewis (Born 9 April 1947 in Meridian, Mississippi) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001. He joined the organization (at that time NCNB) as a credit analyst in 1969, and served as the head of both international and domestic operations during his tenure at NationsBank. He is a graduate of Georgia State University, …
- Robert Ambrose
Dr. Robert J. Ambrose is the sixth musical director and conductor of the Atlanta Wind Symphony. He serves on the faculty of Georgia State University. Ambrose received a "Bachelor of Arts" in computer science with a concentration in music from Boston College. He holds a Master of Music in music education from Boston University and a Doctor of Music in conducting from Northwestern University. Working under Mallory Thompson, Frank Battisti and Eric Rombach-Kendall, …
- Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization.
- Predrag Gosta
Predrag Gosta (born 14 January, 1972 in Belgrade, Serbia) is an American conductor and harpsichordist. Predrag Gosta is the Artistic Director and conductor of New Trinity Baroque, an early music ensemble, baroque orchestra and choir based in Atlanta, USA. He is also the Music Director and conductor of the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, based in Snellville, Atlanta vicinity. He was educated in Europe and USA, and has recorded several CDs, …
- Matthew Hilger
Matthew Hilger is an American professional poker player and author from Atlanta, Georgia. He also operates his own poker-related website.
- Robert L. Arrington
Robert L. Arrington (b. 19 October 1938) is an American philosopher, specialising in moral philosophy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of psychology. Arrington was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, and educated at Vanderbilt University (B.A. 1960, "cum laude") and Tulane University (M.A. 1962 and Ph.D. 1966). After three years as assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (1963-1966), …
- Sonny Emory
Sonny Emory (born December 27 1962) is a freelance touring and studio drummer. He has worked with many famous acts, including Earth Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Bruce Hornsby, and the B-52s.
- Susan J. Kelley
Susan J. Kelley, Ph.D., R.N. is the Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University. She is also currently the Director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, at Georgia State University. Prior to her current positions, Dr. Kelley had previously served as Chairperson and Professor, Department of Maternal-Child Health Nursing at Boston College.
- Calvin Thomas
Calvin Thomas is an American academic who works in the fields of critical theory, modern and postmodern literature and culture. He is an associate professor at Georgia State University. Thomas' writings have focused on gender, sexuality and the body, with an especial interest in "straight" responses to queer theory.
- Eva Galambos
Eva Cohn Galambos (born circa 1928) is the mayor of Sandy Springs, Georgia. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University, master's degree (M.A.) in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois, and Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) from the University of Georgia (1948). She has held various positions in the Sandy Springs community before becoming the first mayor of the city.
- Eason Jordan
Eason T. Jordan is a former Chief News Executive for CNN. He worked at the news network from 1982 until his resignation in 2005 and was the recipient of two Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Award. He studied journalism at Georgia State University.
- Rick Crawford
Rick Crawford (born 1953) is an American politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Georgia. In the 2004 election, he ran for the House of Representatives as a Democrat against the incumbent Phil Gingrey. He lost this race, gaining 43 percent of the vote to Gingrey's 57 percent. Crawford was born in Cedartown and was the first in his family to graduate from high school and college, graduating from Jacksonville State University.
- John B. Haberlen
John B. Haberlen has served as the Director of the Georgia State University School of Music since 1996. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting with a minor in music literature from the University of Illinois. Dr. Haberlen is a past national President of the American Choral Directors Association. John Black Haberlen is Professor of Music and has served as Director of the School of Music since 1996. Prior to his appointment as Director, Dr.
- Meri Wilson
Meri Wilson (15 June, 1949 - 28 December, 2002) was an American popular music singer, specializing in double entendre novelty songs. She was born in Nagoya, Japan, at a U.S. military base, but raised in Marietta, Georgia. Wilson later gained a Masters Degree in Musical Education at Georgia State University. In the Summer of 1977, she achieved fame after she recorded a song titled "Telephone Man", which was filled with suggestive lyrics and her breathy squealing voice.
- Lanard Copeland
Lanard Copeland (born July 26 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American-born Australian professional basketball player in the National Basketball League, currently with the Adelaide 36ers. Copeland played collegiately for Georgia State University before being picked up undrafted by the Philadelphia 76ers of the American National Basketball Association in 1989.
- Brittany Swann
Brittany Ryan Swann (born December 25, 1983) is a beauty queen from Tyrone, Georgia who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007. Swann won the Miss Georgia USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Newnan, Georgia on 11 November 2006. She competed as Miss Peachtree City in the pageant. This was her second attempt at the title, as she had placed third runner-up to Lisa Wilson of Atlanta in 2006. Wilson placed second runner-up in the Miss USA 2006 pageant held in April 2006.
- Henry Doctor Jr.
Lieutenant General Henry Doctor Jr. was the Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth United States Army, Republic of South Korea. In 1954, he graduated from South Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. He earned his Masters of Arts from Georgia State University. He is a graduate of United States Army War College and U. S. Army Command and General Staff College.
- Scott Youngbauer
Scott Youngbauer is an American baseball player, born January 14, 1979 in Wichita, Kansas. Youngbauer attended Georgia State for college. While primarily a shortstop, he has seen time at second base as well as third base. Youngbauer spent the 2005 season with the Akron Aeros and Portland Sea Dogs of the Eastern League. Youngbauer started the 2006 season with the Tacoma Rainiers, …
- Tomika Skanes
Tomika Skanes (born on August 21, 1978 in Columbus, GA), is an established professional model/actress of African American and Korean American heritage. Her mother is full Korean and her father is African American. Her parents met while her father was stationed in Seoul, Korea. Tomika is the only girl and a middle child, she has two brothers, Jimmy Skanes (older) and Donald Skanes, JR (younger). After traveling to various military bases all over the world, …
- Eugene D. Genovese
Eugene Dominic Genovese (born May 19, 1930) is a noted historian of the American South and American slavery. Genovese was born in Brooklyn and was awarded a BA from the Brooklyn College in 1953, a MA from Columbia University in 1955, and a PhD in 1959. Genovese taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn from 1958 to 1963. He was a highly controversial history professor at Rutgers University (1963-1967), and at the University of Rochester (1969-1986).
- Sandra Mackey
Sandra Mackey is an award winning and highly regarded expert on Middle Eastern culture and politics. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and has taught political science at Georgia State University. She has served as a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her writings have appeared on numerous periodicals such as Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, …
- Joey Cape
Joey Cape is the lead vocalist for the melodic punk rock band Lagwagon, from Santa Barbara, California who have released nine albums to date. He is also lead vocalist for the experimental band Bad Astronaut and guitarist in the cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. In addition, Joey Cape released a split CD with Tony Sly of No Use for a Name, featuring acoustic versions of Lagwagon and No Use For a Name songs.
- Naomi B. Lynn
Naomi Burgos Lynn (b. 1933) was the first Hispanic woman president of an American public university. She served as President of Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, beginning in 1991 and through its entrance into the University of Illinois system as the University of Illinois at Springfield. She retired as Chancellor of UIS in 2001.
- Joseph Lester Powell
Joseph "Jody" Lester Powell (born September 30 1943) was the White House Press Secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Born in Cordele, Georgia, Powell grew up in the nearby town of Vienna. He attended the United States Air Force Academy, but did not graduate. He then attended Georgia State University and received a Masters in Political Science from Emory University. He married Nan Sue Jared in 1966.
- Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games .
- W. Frank Blount
W. Frank Blount is the chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc. Prior to his current position, Mr. Blount served as chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc. (telecommunications) and director and CEO of Telstra Corporation Limited (telecommunications). He is also a director at Adtran, Inc.; Alcatel S.A.; Caterpillar Inc.; Entergy Corporation; and Hanson plc. Mr. Blount has been a director of Caterpillar since 1995. In 1999 Mr.
- Christopher C. Odom
Christopher C. Odom (born July 7, 1970 in Manhasset, New York), is an independent digital film director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer and actor. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video with a Minor in Theater from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and a Professional Certificate in Screenwriting, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Video, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Ralph Knowles
24.131.37.75 12:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)Ralph Knowles (b. 1945, Huntsville, Alabama) is a major class action attorney, best known for winning the Dow Corning breast implant case with damages of $4+ billion. He earned a BA at University of Alabama in 1966 and JD at the University of Alabama Law School in 1969. He has worked as an attorney with the Atlanta law firm of Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles & Devine since 1991.