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Famous Floridians
Julian Cannonball Adderley jazz
saxophonist, Tampa Famous Hawaiians
George Ariyoshi first
Japanese-American elected governor Famous Georgians
Conrad Aiken poet, Savannah
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James Dickey poet,
Atlanta
Mattiwilda Dobbs soprano, Atlanta Melvyn Douglas actor, Macon Pete Drake musician/record producer, Augusta Rebecca Latimer Felton first appointed woman U.S. senator, Decatur Lawrence Fishburne III actor, Augusta Henry W. Grady journalist, Athens Amy Grant singer, Augusta Oliver Hardy comedian, Harlem Joel Chandler Harris journalist, author, Eatonton Roland Hayes singer, Curyville Fletcher Henderson musician/songwriter, Cuthbert Hulk Hogan professional wrestler, Augusta John Henry Doc Holliday western hero, Griffin Larry Holmes boxer, Cuthert Miriam Hopkins actress, Bainbridge Harry James trumpeter, Albany Jasper Johns painter, sculptor, Augusta Bobby Jones golfer, Atlanta Stacy Keach actor, Savannah DeForest Kelley actor, Atlanta Martin Luther King, Jr. civil rights leader, Atlanta Gladys Knight singer, Atlanta Joseph R. Lamar jurist, Elbert Brenda Lee singer, Lithonia Juliette Gordon Low U.S. Girl Scouts founder, Savannah Carson McCullers author, Columbus Blind Willie McTell blues pioneer, Thomson Johnny Mercer songwriter, Savannah Margaret Mitchell author, Atlanta John Robert Johnny Mize baseball player, Demorest Jessye Norman singer, Augusta Otis Redding singer, Dawson Jerry Reed singer/songwriter/actor, Atlanta Burt Reynolds actor, Waycross Little Richard singer, Macon Jackie Robinson baseball player, Cairo Tommy Roe singer/songwriter, Alpharetta Billy Joe Royal singer, Valdosta Dean Rusk secretary of state, Cherokee Cty Nipsey Russell comedian, Atlanta Ray Stevens singer/songwriter, Clarksdale Janelle Taylor romance novelist, Athens Clarence Thomas supreme court associate justice, Savannah Travis Tritt singer/songwriter, Marietta Alice Walker author, Eatonton Joanne Woodward actress, Thomasville Trisha Yearwood singer, Monticello Famous Idahoans
Joe Albertson grocery chain founder Famous IllinoisansFranklin Pierce Adams author, Chicago
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Jane Addams social
worker, Cedarville Gillian Anderson actress,
Chicago
Mary Astor actress, Quincy Arnold O. Beckman inventor, Cullom Jack Benny comedian, Chicago Black Hawk Sauk Indian chief Harry A. Blackmun jurist, Nashville William E. Borah public official, Fairfield Ray Bradbury author, Waukegan William Jennings Bryan orator, politician, Salem Edgar Rice Burroughs author, Chicago Marvin Camras inventor, Chicago Jennie Garth actress, Urbana Gower Champion choreographer, Geneva John Chancellor TV commentator, Chicago Raymond Chandler writer, Chicago Jimmy Connors tennis champion, East St. Louis James Gould Cozzens author, Chicago Cindy Crawford model, DeKalb Richard J. Daley mayor, Chicago Miles Davis musician, Alton Walt Disney film animator, producer, Chicago John Dos Passos author, Chicago James T. Farrell author, Chicago Harrison Ford actor, Chicago Betty Friedan feminist, Peoria Benny Goodman musician, Chicago John Gunther author, Chicago George E. Hale astronomer, Chicago Dorothy Hamill ice skater, Chicago Ernest Hemingway author, Oak Park John M. Harlan jurist, Chicago Charlton Heston actor, Evanston Wild Bill Hickok scout, Troy Grove William Holden actor, O'Fallon Rock Hudson actor, Winnetka Burl Ives singer, Hunt City James Jones author, Robinson Quincy Jones composer, Chicago Walter Kerr drama critic, Evanston Archibald MacLeish poet, Glencoe David Mamet playwright, Chicago Homer Z. Martin inventor, Chicago Stanley Mazor inventor, Chicago Robert A. Millikan physicist, Morrison Sherrill Milnes baritone, Downers Grove Bill Murray actor, Wilmette John G. Neihardt poet, Sharpsburg Bob Newhart actor, comedian, Chicago Frank Norris author, Chicago William S. Paley broadcasting executive, Chicago Drew Pearson columnist, Evanston Richard Pryor comedian, actor, Peoria Ronald Reagan U.S. president, actor, Tampico Carl Sandburg poet, Galesburg Lewis Hastings Sarett inventor, Champaign Sam Shepard playwright, Fort Sheridan William L. Shirer author, historian, Chicago McLean Stevenson actor, Bloomington Preston Sturges director, Chicago Clyde W. Tombaugh astronomer, Streator Gloria Swanson actress, Chicago Carl Van Doren writer, educator, Hope Melvin Van Peebles playwright, Chicago Irving Wallace author, Chicago Alfred Wallenstein conductor, Chicago Raquel Welch actress, Chicago Florenz Ziegfield theatrical producer, Chicago
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