- Sonny Perdue
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin Conley at the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s. Perdue has recently been touted as a potential Vice-Presidential candidate for the GOP.
- Zell Miller
Zell Bryan Miller (born February 24, 1932) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Conservative Democrat, Miller served as Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999 and was a United States Senator from 2000 to 2005.
- 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.
- Henry W. Grady
Henry Woodfin Grady was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the former Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. As a teenager, he witnessed probably the fiercest fighting of that war in his home state and lost his father to a Yankee bullet.
- Lewis Grizzard
Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr. (October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, famous for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American south. Although he spent the early career as a newspaper writer and editor, becoming sports editor of the "Atlanta Journal" at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous columns in the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution".
- Alexander Stephens
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 - March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
- 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.
- Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes (born March 11 1948) was the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. Barnes was born in Mableton, now a suburb just west of Atlanta. He first became successful in politics in 1974, when he was elected to the Georgia state Senate. He served there from 1975 until 1990, when he ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Georgia.
- Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 - October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. He served as a five-term Congressman and in the Presidential Cabinet of James Buchanan and then in the civic and military service of Civil War-era Georgia and the Confederate States of America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Mark Taylor
Mark Fletcher Taylor, American politician and member of the Democratic Party, served two terms between 1999 to 2007 as Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Taylor was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia in the 2006 general election, losing to Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue.
- Ernest Vandiver
Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. (July 3, 1918-February 21, 2005) was an American politician who was Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1959 to 1963. Vandiver was born in Canon, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia. After serving stateside as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he was elected mayor of Lavonia, Georgia in 1946 and supported Eugene Talmadge's candidacy for Governor, …
- 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.
- Phil Gramm
William Philip "Phil" Gramm (born July 8, 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia) served as a Democratic Congressman (1978–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator from Texas (1985–2002).
- John Barrow
John Jenkins Barrow (born October 31, 1955), American politician, is currently a Democratic Congressman from Georgia's 12th District. The district stretches along the eastern portion of the state, from Augusta to Savannah. Barrow is a Blue Dog Democrat as well as a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
- Colleen Haskell
Colleen Marie Haskell (born December 6, 1976) was a contestant on the first season of the American reality show "Survivor". She was born in Bethesda, Maryland to John and Patricia Haskell. Colleen attended Walter Johnson High School and is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
- Jack Kingston
John Heddens "Jack" Kingston (born April 24, 1955), an American Republican politician, has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing in the southeastern part of the state (map).
- George Busbee
George Dekle Busbee was an American politician who served as the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1975 to 1983. Busbee was born in Vienna, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Military College. He served nine terms in the Georgia House of Representatives, and was floor leader for Governor Carl Sanders. Busbee won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1974—Jimmy Carter's final year in that office—over Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox.
- W. R.
William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in Mathematics from Tulane University (1963), and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Carl Sanders
Carl Edward Sanders, Sr. (born May 15, 1925) is an American politician who served as the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1963 to 1967. Sanders was born in Augusta, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia on a football scholarship. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, as well as the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He left to fight in World War II, enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 and became a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot.
- Crawford Long
Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 - June 16, 1878) was an American physician and pharmacist. He was born in Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia. He received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. He performed the first surgical operation in general anesthesia induced by ether. Although William T.G. Morton is well-known for performing his historic anesthesia on October 18, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts, …
- Ellis Arnall
Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907- December 13, 1992) was an American politician who served as the Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. Arnall was born in Newnan, Georgia. He attended the Mercer University before transferring to the University of the South. Arnall then went to the University of Georgia law school, which he finished in 1931. The voters of Coweta County, Georgia elected Arnall to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1932.
- Tom Murphy
Thomas Bailey "Tom" Murphy (b. March 10, 1924) of Georgia was Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1973 till his defeat in the general election of 2002, making him the longest serving Speaker in the history of the state. Murphy was a Democrat first elected to the Georgia House in 1960 and represented the western Georgia town of Bremen. He is an attorney by trade and a graduate of the University of Georgia.
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (September 18, 1812 - August 16, 1880) was an American politician. He was the governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election. Johnson was born near Farmer's Bridge in Burke County, Georgia. In 1834, he graduated from the University of Georgia and passed his bar examination.
- Cathy Cox
Lera Catharine "Cathy" Cox (born 1958) is a Georgia politician, a member of the Democratic Party, the former Secretary of State of Georgia, and a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2006. In March 2007, she was chosen as the 21st president of Young Harris College. Cox is not related to a Republican politician with a similar name, Georgia Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox.
- 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.
- James Jackson
James Jackson (October 18 1819 - January 13, 1887) was a United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Jackson was also a trustee of the University of Georgia. He was the grandson of Georgia governor James Jackson and the nephew of Congressman Jabez Young Jackson. Jackson was born in Jefferson County, Georgia and named for his famous grandfather.
- Walter Barnard Hill
Walter Barnard Hill (September 9, 1851 - December 28, 1905), was chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens from 1899 until his death in 1905 (The head of the University was referred to as chancellor instead of president, from 1860 until 1932). Hill was born in Talbotton, Georgia. He obtained three degrees from the University: A.B. (1870), M.A. (1871), and Bachelor of Laws (B.L.) (1871) and was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.
- Josh Holloway
Josh Holloway (born July 20, 1969 in San Jose, California) is an American actor most known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on ABC's Emmy award-winning show "Lost".
- Pierre Howard
Pierre Howard (born February 3 1943) was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia and was elected to two terms (1990 and 1994). Howard focused on critical issues concerning Georgia families throughout his political career (i.e. graduated licenses and zero tolerance for drinking and driving for teens). Howard attended the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the tennis team and president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Melvin E. Thompson
Melvin Ernest Thompson (May 1, 1903 - October 3, 1980) was an American educator and politician from Valdosta in the U.S. state of Georgia. Thompson was born in Millen, Georgia to Henry J. And Eva (Edenfield) Thompson. He graduated from Emory University in 1926 and earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) from the University of Georgia in 1935. Thompson worked in education, first as a teacher and coach, a principal, a district superintendent, …
- Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (April 10, 1823 - December 13, 1862) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate general, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War.
- Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who was a long-time United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He represented Georgia in the Senate from 1933 until his death in 1971. He was a founder and leader of the Conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963
- Benjamin Harvey Hill
Benjamin Harvey Hill (September 14, 1823 - August 16, 1882) was a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator and a Confederate senator from the state of Georgia. Hill was born September 14, 1823 in Hillsboro, Georgia in Jasper County. He attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, and graduated in 1844 with first honors. He was then swiftly admitted to the Georgia bar later in 1844. He married Caroline E. Holt in Athens, GA in 1845.