Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home · Photo: Annalisa.frazier · CC BY-SA 3.0Augusta has yet to put a famous person on the list
Next door, the list for North Augusta holds 6, Matt Hazel first. 344 of the towns in Georgia list at least one person. Rome has the most of any town in Georgia: 66. After Rome, the next longest list in Georgia is Albany’s, with 62.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Augusta), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Augusta has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Augusta
Around it, North Augusta has the most people on record, 6 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Augusta and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (3)
- Matt Hazel: C Watts, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Itoro Umoh-Coleman: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cordrea Tankersley: TigerNet.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons