Editing Madison, Georgia (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Benny Andrews]], nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts, grew up in rural Morgan County.
* [[George Andrews (artist)|George Andrews]] (1911–1996) was a [[self-taught artist]] commonly referred to as the "Dot Man".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Dot Man: George Andrews of Madison Georgia|last=Gruber|first=J. Richard|publisher=Morris Museum of Art|year=1994|location=Augusta, Georgia}}</ref> He fathered ten children, including painter [[Benny Andrews]] and novelist [[Raymond Andrews]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Andrews|first=Benny|last2=Andrews|first2=George|date=1994|title=George Andrews|journal=Art Journal|volume=53|issue=1|pages=22|doi=10.2307/777522|issn=0004-3249|jstor=777522}}</ref>
* [[Raymond Andrews]] (June 6, 1934 – November 25, 1991), African-American novelist, grew up in rural Morgan County.
* [[Tookie Brown]] (born November 22, 1995), professional basketball player
* [[George Gordon Crawford]] (August 24, 1869 – March 20, 1936), industrialist, was born in Madison.
* [[B. J. Elder]] (born September 4, 1982), former Georgia Tech and professional basketball player
* [[Monday Floyd]], carpenter and Georgia Assemblyman who was harassed, threatened, and attacked by the Ku Klux Klan until he fled to Atlanta
* [[Oliver Hardy|Oliver "Ollie" Hardy]] (born Norvell Hardy) (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957), comic actor famous as one half of [[Laurel and Hardy]], lived in Madison as a child where his mother owned a hotel called the Hardy House.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Louvish |first1=Simon |title=Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy |date=June 23, 2005 |publisher=St. Martin's |location=Griffin |isbn=0312325983|pages=40–41}}</ref> The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center is a preserved [[Romanesque Revival]] schoolhouse housing the room where Oliver Hardy attended first grade.
* [[Albert T. Harris]], [[World War II]] naval hero, was born in Madison.
* [[Allie Carroll Hart]] (1913–2003), director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1964 to 1982
* [[Bill Hartman]] (William Coleman "Bill" Hartman Jr., March 17, 1915 – March 16, 2006), Washington Redskins running back, started playing American football in Madison.
* [[Joshua Hill (politician)|Joshua Hill]] (January 10, 1812 – March 6, 1891), U.S. senator who lived in Madison. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], a friend of Hill, did not burn Madison on his "[[Sherman's March to the Sea|March to the Sea]]".
* [[Eugenius Aristides Nisbet]] began his practice of law in Madison Georgia, before later being elected as one of the three initial justices of the [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]] in 1845.
* [[Brooks Pennington Jr.]], businessman, philanthropist and politician, operated his father's seed store on Main Street.
* [[Seaborn Reese]] (November 28, 1846 – March 1, 1907), politician, jurist and lawyer, was born in Madison. Reese filled the seat for Georgia in the [[United States House of Representatives]] during the [[47th United States Congress]]. He was reelected to the [[48th United States Congress|48th]] and [[49th United States Congress|49th]] Congresses, serving from December 4, 1882, until March 3, 1887.
* [[Mark Schlabach]], sports journalist, ''New York Times'' best-selling author and columnist and reporter for [[ESPN.com]], lives in Madison.
* [[William Tappan Thompson]], humorist and writer who co-founded the ''[[Savannah Morning News]]'' newspaper in the 1850s, lived in Madison in the 1840s and worked on the city's first newspaper, ''The Southern Miscellany''.<ref name=MadisonCityDoc>{{cite web|title=Chapter 1 - Madison's History and Development|url=http://www.madisonga.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/209|website=Madison, GA|access-date=May 16, 2017|via=[[CivicPlus]]}}</ref>
* [[Jesse Triplett]], lead guitarist with [[Collective Soul]], was born in Madison<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruggieri|first=Melissa|title=Ed Roland talks Sarah Jones benefit concert, new Collective Soul album|url=http://www.accessatlanta.com/weblogs/atlanta-music-scene/2014/may/26/ed-roland-talks-sarah-jones-benefit-concert-new-co|website=Access Atlanta|publisher=Amy Glennon|access-date=May 26, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603020852/http://www.accessatlanta.com/weblogs/atlanta-music-scene/2014/may/26/ed-roland-talks-sarah-jones-benefit-concert-new-co/|archive-date=June 3, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and attended the Morgan County School System.
* [[Philip Lee Williams]] (born January 30, 1950), novelist, poet, and essayist, grew up in Madison.