Carey Bell
1936–2007 American blues musician
Gene Short
1953–2016 American basketball player
Margaret Murray Washington
1865–1925 American academic and founder of schools
BW Ben Ames Williams
1889–1953 American writer, 1889–1953
Marie Bankhead Owen
1869–1958 Author and historian
Victoria Clay Haley
born 1877 American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser
Brother Joe May
1912–1972 Singer
Clyde R. Conner
1884–1919 College football player
Nate Hughes
born 1985 American football player
Reggie Holmes
born 1945 American gridiron football player
Darion Conner
born 1967 American football player
Fest Cotton
1949–2012 American football defensive tackle
Huger Lee Foote
1854–1915 American politician, planter
Reecy Dickson
born 1944 American politician
Buster Barnett
born 1958 American football player
Cecil L. Simmons
born 1946 American politician
Chris Jones
born 1982 American football player, born 1982
Henry Minor Faser
1882–1960 American academic administrator, life insurance business executive and political activist
Dee Cavette
1914–1978 American boxer and boxing coach
Loyle Hairston
1926–2009 American writer
William Elisha King
1865–1919 American newspaper editor and community activist
William Larkin Duren, Jr.
1905–2008 American mathematician and university administrator
Also called Macon home
LO Lawrence W. Overton
born 1848 Mississippi state legislator
Rod Hickman
Mississippi politician