This includes people who have lived in your city, were born in your, or grew up in your city. (In order from most famous) For MACON, GEORGIA 1 Cher-- Lived in Macon for two yrs. while married to Gregg Allman 2 Little Richard--Born/Raised (King of Rock?? Ever heard of him?) 3James Brown. Lived in Macon for some years and recorded many albums in Macon 4Duane Allman/Gregg Allman== The Allman Brother's Band. Recorded Eat A Peach and others at Capricorn Studios in Macon 5Otis Redding--Famous soul singer. Born/Raised in Mac-town 6Nancy Grace-Has her own show on CNN formerly of Court TV 7 Young Sleezy--A very popular rapper. Grew up in Macon and nearby Hawkinsville 8Jason Aldean--Country Music Star-- Grew up in Macon 9Sonny Carter--Famous Astronaut born/raised in the "Big M" 10Jeff Malone--Former NBA player. Born/raised/and currently resides in Macon 11 Sidney Lanier-- Famous civil war poet and flute player 12-Norm Nison--NBA player 13 Soong Ai Ling (wife of famous wealthy Chinese man HH. Kung), Soong Ching Ling, and Soong May Ling (wife of Chiang-Kai-Shek) all went to Wesleyan College (First all woman college in the U.S.) 14 Sam Mitchell- Went to college in Macon-- Head Coach of Toronto Raptors. 14Catherine Benson- First female in the world to earn a college degree @ Wesleyan 15 Neva Fickling-- Ms. America 1953 16 Phil Walden--Founder of Capricorn Studios. Died a few weeks ago. 17 Roy Fickling-- Founder of Fickling& Co. Real Estate. 18 Bernard Ramsey--Born and raised-- Merrill Lynch Executive 19 Toni Jenning-- Florida Liet. Governer. 20Wesley Duke-- Went to college at Mercer in Macon. Tight end for Denver Broncos-- 2005 AfC West Champions> |
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