KS Karin Slaughter
born 1971 American crime writer
Stephon Castle
born 2004 American basketball player
Elija Godwin
born 1999 American athlete
George Adams
1940–1992 American jazz musician
Curley Weaver
1906–1962 American blues musician
George T. Anderson
1824–1901 Confederate Army general
Collin McHugh
born 1987 American professional baseball pitcher
Ellia English
born 1960 American actress
Eric Stokes
born 1999 American football cornerback
Leonidas F. Livingston
1832–1912 American politician
Sheldon Rankins
born 1994 American football player
Dale Carter
born 1969 All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, cornerback
Harry Pace
1884–1943 American music executive
Jake Reed
born 1967 American football player
James P. Simms
1837–1887 Confederate States Army brigadier general
JD Notae
born 1998 American basketball player
Jimmy Clark III
born 2001 American basketball player
Donald Corley
1886–1955 American writer
Dylan Gaither
born 2000 American soccer player
Luke Allen
1978–2022 American baseball player
Mike Benton
born 1980 American basketball player
Stephen Croone
born 1994 American basketball player
Ardie Clark Halyard
1896–1989 Business woman, civil rights advocate, education reformer
Charles W. Dyke
1935–2025 American Army general
Count Dillon Gibson
1921–2002 American physician
David Grier Martin
1910–1974 American academic
Dudley Williams
1912–2004 American physicist
Miriam D. Mann
1907–1967 Human Computer, NACA/NASA
Tay Gowan
born 1998 American football player
Akeem Hunt
born 1993 American gridiron football player
Jack Westwood
born 1944 American politician
Steadman Vincent Sanford
1871–1945 American academic and administrator
Claude Carr Cody
1854–1923 Teacher, mathematician, and university administrator
Elizabeth McDuffie
1881–1967 Housekeeper for FDR and civil rights advocate
Genevieve Arnold
1928–2005 American artist
John Bentley Williams
1917–1976 American city official, director of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency
Miriam Daniel Mann
born 1907 African American mathematician
Also called Covington home
AE Arester Earl
1892–1988 African American artist
Allen Fuller
Ph.D. Emory University 1996