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Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Atlanta
4 notable people grew up or lived in and around Atlanta. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
André 30001975–1994
📍 East Point, GA, USA
André Lauren Benjamin was born in Atlanta in May 1975, the only child of Sharon Benjamin, a real estate agent, and Lawrence Harvey Walker, a collections agent. His single mother raised him…
Bobby Jones1908–1920
📍 East Lake, Atlanta, GA 30317, USA
I was born in Atlanta in March 1902, the son of Robert Permedus Jones, a prominent lawyer whom everyone called the Colonel, and Clara. I was a frail, sickly little boy with a digestive…
Julia Roberts1967–1985
📍 Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Julia Roberts grew up in Smyrna, a suburb of Atlanta in Cobb County, the youngest of three children of Walter Roberts and Betty Lou Bredemus. Both her parents had been actors and…
Martin Luther King Jr1929–1948
📍 501 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, USA
I was born on the 15th of January 1929 at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia — a two-storey Queen Anne house in the Sweet Auburn neighbourhood, the heart of Atlanta's Black professional…