- Mark Richt
Mark Richt (born February 18, 1960 in Omaha, Nebraska) is the current head coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team. - Dennis Felton
Dennis Felton is an American basketball coach. He is currently serving as the 20th head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia. Felton was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent his early years living in and visiting a variety of locales around the world, due to his father's career in the United States Air Force. His family eventually moved to Clinton, Maryland, a suburban town in the Washington, D.C., area, a short distance from Andrews Air Force Base. - Vince Dooley
Vincent Joseph Dooley (born September 4, 1932 in Mobile, Alabama) was the head football coach (seasons 1964 through 1988) and athletic director (1979 to 2004) at the University of Georgia. During his 25 year coaching career at UGA, Dooley compiled a 201-77-10 record. His teams won 6 Southeastern Conference titles and the 1980 National Championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations, … - John Brown
John Brown was the third president of the University of Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1811 until his resignation in 1816. Brown was born on June 15, 1763 in County Antrim, Ireland and died on December 11, 1842 in Fort Gaines, Georgia. - Jim Harrick
Jim Harrick (born July 25, 1938 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former college basketball head coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia. Harrick graduated in 1960 from Morris Harvey College, now known as the University of Charleston. He is of Lebanese ancestry. - Larry Munson
Larry Munson (born September 28, 1922) is a famous sports announcer and talk-show host who has been based in Atlanta for over four decades. He has been the play-by-play voice of the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team throughout that time, and has also hosted sports-related talk shows. He has also handled the play-by-play for the Atlanta Falcons radio broadcasts in the past. Munson was born September 28, 1922. - Michael F. Adams
Michael F. Adams (B.A., speech and history, David Lipscomb College, 1970; M.A., communication research methodologies, Ohio State University, 1971; Ph.D., political communication, Ohio State University, 1973) is the president of the University of Georgia. Adams began his career in education as faculty at Ohio State University 1973-1975. He later served as vice president for university affairs at Pepperdine University 1982-1988. - Matthew Stafford
John Matthew Stafford (born February 7, 1988) is a quarterback for the University of Georgia football team. He is in his sophomore year of college, having enrolled at the school in January 2006. He is majoring in Speech Communications. - Saxby Chambliss
Chambliss was born in Warrenton, North Carolina. He graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1961. He attended Louisiana Tech University from 1961-1962. Chambliss earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1966 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. - Lamar Dodd
Lamar Dodd (September 22, 1909 - September 26, 1996) was a U.S. painter whose work reflected a love of the American South. Born in Fairburn, Georgia to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland (Ed Dodd, creator of the Mark Trail comic strip, was his first cousin), and reared in LaGrange, Georgia, Dodd trained in the South, including a short stay at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault , former NPR correspondent and author, delivered a public lecture as a Halle Distinguished Fellow, in February on her new book, New News Out of Africa . After the lecture, Hunter-Gault signed copies of her book. Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been a journalist for more than 40 years, in various forms of media, including National Public Radio, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and various newspapers. - George Foster
George Foster (born June 9, 1980 in Macon, Georgia) is an American football player who currently plays for the Detroit Lions. A veteran at Tackle, he switched from left Tackle to right in 2004. Was selected in 2003 in the first round, 20th over all by the Denver Broncos. He went to the University of Georgia. George Foster started all 16 games in 2005 for Denver. He helped block for Mike Anderson who rushed for 1,014 yards and Tatum Bell who rushed for 921 yards. - Damon Evans
Damon M. Evans is the Athletic Director (AD) at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. After graduating from Gainesville High School in Hall County, Georgia, Evans played football for UGA from 1988 to 1992 and graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1992 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in finance and earned his Master of Education (M.Ed.) in sports management from UGA in 1994. - George Foster Peabody
George Foster Peabody (July 27, 1852 - March 4, 1938) was born in Columbus, Georgia. He was educated there in private schools. A lifelong Democrat, he broke temporarily with the party in 1896 because of William Jennings Bryan's opposition to the gold standard. Instead, Peabody supported the "National Democratic" third party, as did his friend President Grover Cleveland. The National Democrats championed the gold standard and limited government. - D. J. Shockley
Donald Eugene "D. J." Shockley (born March 23 1983 in College Park, Georgia) is a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. He played for the University of Georgia football team from 2002-2005. The 2005 season, D.J.'s senior season, was the only season in which he started for the team. He was the 2nd-string quarterback behind David Greene for the previous 3 seasons. - David Greene
David Greene (born June 22, 1982) is a National Football League quarterback with the Seattle Seahawks. He was a standout player at the University of Georgia. - Ryuji Imada
Aflac proudly sponsors Ryuji Imada , a professional golfer playing on the U.S. PGA Tour. Imada was born in Mihara, Hiroshima, Japan, and moved to the U.S. when he was 14 to attend a Florida golf academy. He attended the University of Georgia on a golf scholarship. While at Georgia, Imada led the Bulldogs to the 1999 NCAA championship and was runner-up individually en route to All-American honors that year. - Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005. - Dan Magill
Daniel Hamilton "Dan" Magill, Jr., longtime Sports Information Director, Head Tennis Coach, and Georgia Bulldog Club secretary for the University of Georgia, is known throughout the state of Georgia and the South for his unparalleled contributions to the Georgia Bulldog athletic program. Magill is also an accomplished tennis player, still competing in (and winning) tournaments today. - D. W. Brooks
David William Brooks (September 11, 1901 - August 5, 1999) was an American farmer and businessman. Born in Royston, Georgia, Brooks enrolled at the age of 16 at the University of Georgia (UGA) and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (1922) and an Master of Science in Agriculture (1924). While working on his Masters, Brooks also taught agronomy at UGA as an instructor. He started his first farm cooperative, Georgia Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, … - Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. - Andy Landers
Andy Landers (born October 8, 1952 in Maryville, Tennessee) is the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren (20) and Drew Joseph (16). Following the 2005-06 season, Landers had compiled an overall record of 739-229 (.763) and a record of 657-208 (.760) at Georgia. Landers graduated from Friendsville (Tenn.) High School in 1970, … - Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson (born July 10, 1986) is a defensive end that attends the University of Georgia. He is a top prospect for the 2007 NFL Draft. - Fred Gibson
Fred Gibson (born October 26, 1981 in Waycross, Georgia), is an American football wide receiver currently on the Atlanta Falcons. He attended University of Georgia. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He was cut by them post-training camp and later was signed to the Dolphins practice squad. After his practice squad contract expired on January 8,2007, he was signed by the Falcons in February 2007. - Mike Mills
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County, California) is the bass player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist and piano player, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, string, wind and percussion instruments. He also contributes to much of the band's songwriting. - Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge was an American politician who served as Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955, and as a U.S. Senator from 1957 until 1981. Talmadge was born in McRae, Georgia, the only son of Eugene Talmadge, who served as Governor of Georgia during much of the 1930s and '40s. He earned a law degree from the University of Georgia in 1936, … - Josiah Meigs
Josiah Meigs (August 21, 1757 in Middletown, Connecticut - September 4, 1822 in Washington, D.C.) was an American academic, journalist and government official. Meigs was the 13th child of Return J. Meigs, Sr. and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs. His younger brother Return J. Meigs, Jr. served as a United States Senator and Governor of Ohio. After graduating from Yale University in 1778 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A), … - Suzanne Yoculan
Suzanne Paige Yoculan is the head coach of the women's gymnastics program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She has built the Georgia gymnastics program into a perennial national powerhouse, and is one of the most successful college gymnastics coaches in history. Yoculan graduated from Penn State University in 1975, was named the head women's gymnastics coach at the University of Georgia on August 24, 1983, … - Karen Holbrook
Karen A. Holbrook (born November 6, 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa) was the 13th presiding president of The Ohio State University. She took office on October 1, 2002, replacing Interim President Edward H. Jennings. Holbrook earned her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in zoology. After teaching biology at Ripon College, she earned a Ph.D. in biological structure from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1972, … - Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck (born 6 December, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe of the alternative rock band R.E.M. - Jim Donnan
Jim Donnan was a college football coach and is now an on-air television analyst for college football games. A Burlington, North Carolina native and graduate of North Carolina State University, Donnan was head football coach at Marshall University, where he led the Thundering Herd to a 64-21 record from 1990 to 1995, including five consecutive 11-plus win seasons and the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA national football championship. - James Johnson
James Johnson (February 12, 1811 - November 20, 1891) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia and served as provisional governor of Georgia between June and October of 1865. He was born in 1811 in Robeson County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1832 and moved to Columbus, Georgia where he started his law practice after passing the bar in 1835. - Sonny Seiler
Frank W. "Sonny" Seiler (born February 20, 1933) is a Savannah, Georgia attorney who, despite much success in the courtroom, is best known as the owner of perhaps the world's most famous dynasty of bulldogs. Since the 1950s, he and his family have cared for and maintained the unbroken line of mascots of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, known successively as Uga I - VI. The family received the first member of the line (today referred to as Uga I) in 1956, … - Robert Toombs
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War. - Jack Bauerle
Jack Bauerle is the head coach of the University of Georgia (UGA) men's and women's swimming teams. In the spring of 2006, he finished his 27th year as a head coach for UGA. Bauerle began coaching the women's team in 1979 and then became head coach for the men as well in 1983. - Frank Thomas
Frank W. Thomas (November 15, 1898-May 10, 1954) was the head football coach of the University of Alabama from 1932 to 1946. During his tenure, he compiled a 115-24-7 (.812) record and won two national championships (1934 and 1941). His winning percentage ranks second all-time among Alabama coaches (behind Paul "Bear" Bryant). He never coached a losing season, but coached two 10 win seasons. - Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a United States Democratic Party politician who served as governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. Elected to another term in 1946, he died before taking office. To date only Joe Brown and Eugene Talmadge have been elected four times as Governor of Georgia. Talmadge was born in Forsyth, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia and graduated from the University's law school. - Joe Frank Harris
Joe Frank Harris (born February 16, 1936) is an American Democratic politician who served as the Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1983 to 1991. Harris was born in Atco, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1958. Harris was persuaded to run for the Georgia House of Representatives in 1964 and served nine terms. Harris became the chairman of the Appropriations Committee in 1974. - George Walton
George Walton (1749 or 1750-February 2, 1804) signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as Governor of that state. - Hamilton Jordan
William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan (born September 21, 1944) served as White House Chief of Staff in 1979 - 1980 and was a key advisor and strategist for President Jimmy Carter. Jordan was born in Charlotte, Georgia, in 1944 and raised in Albany, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and graduated with an A.B. in Political Science in 1967. In 1986, he ran for the Democratic nomination for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate.
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