Columbus, Georgia

Columbus is a city located in Muscogee County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the entire city-county had a total population of 186,291, though Columbus itself is actually less than this. The city is the county seat of Muscogee County{{GR|1}}, with which it is a consolidated city-county.

Famous Columbus residents

• Robert M. Barr, Band Director and teacher.
• W.C. Bradley, banker and industrialist.
• General Henry Lewis Benning, Confederate general.
• Eugene Bullard, first African-American fighter pilot.
• William Calley, convicted Vietnam war criminal.
• Augusta Jane Evans, novelist.
• Nunnally Johnson, writer and screen writer.
• Carson McCullers, novelist and author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
• George Foster Peabody, banker and philanthropist. The Peabody Award is named for him.
• John Stith Pemberton, creator of Coca-Cola.
• Robert Poydasheff, Mayor of Columbus since 2003.
• Ma Rainey, blues-musician known as 'The Mother of the Blues".
• Alma Thomas, African-American artist.
• Frank Thomas, baseball player for the Chicago White Sox.
• Tim Wilson, comedian.