Crawford Barnett, Georgia Secretary of State for more than 30 years Ella Barksdale Brown, journalist, educator Kevin Brown, professional baseball player Javon Bullard, college football player for the University of Georgia Wally Butts, college football coach Earnest Byner, professional football player Lisa D. Cook, American economist Pete Dexter, novelist, journalist and screenwriter George Doles, Confederate Brigadier General Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of the first secret society at a girls' college Tillie K. Fowler, politician Joel Godard, television announcer Marjorie Taylor Greene, United States Representative Willie Greene, professional baseball player Floyd Griffin, mayor of Milledgeville, state representative, state senator Oliver Hardy, motion picture comedian Nick Harper, professional football player Charles Holmes Herty, academic, scientist and businessman Leroy Hill, professional football player Maurice Hurt, professional football player Edwin Francis Jemison, Civil War soldier who died in battle Sherrilyn Kenyon, author Grace Lumpkin, writer William Gibbs McAdoo, US Secretary of the Treasury Blind Willie McTell, influential blues guitarist Bill Miner, Canada's "Gentleman Bandit" David Brydie Mitchell, the only Gergia Governor buried in Milledgeville Celena Mondie-Milner, professional track and field player Powell A. Moore, politician and public servant Flannery O'Connor, author, honored with a U.S. Postal Service stamp Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, historian Barry Reese, writer Lucius Sanford, professional football player Tut Taylor, bluegrass musician Ellis Paul Torrance, psychologist Larry Turner, professional basketball player William Usery Jr., labor union activist and U.S. Secretary of Labor Carl Vinson, congressman J. T. Wall, professional football player Rico Washington, professional baseball player Rondell White, professional baseball player Robert McAlpin Williamson, Republic of Texas Supreme Court Justice and Texas Ranger See also Bartram Educational Forest List of municipalities in Georgia Lockerly Arboretum National Register of Historic Places listings in Baldwin County, Georgia References Further reading External links Government General information Milledgeville, Georgia at City-Data.com Milledgeville, Georgia at New Georgia Encyclopedia Milledgeville – Baldwin County Convention & Visitors Bureau Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive at Digital Library of Georgia 1804 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Baldwin County, Georgia Cities in Georgia (U.S. state) County seats in Georgia (U.S. state) Former state capitals in the United States Milledgeville micropolitan area, Georgia Planned cities in the United States Populated places established in 1804