List of people from Augusta, Georgia
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The city of Augusta, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Richmond County, Georgia, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Augusta, Georgia and includes people who were born or lived in Augusta for a nontrivial amount of time. Individuals included in this listing are people presumed to be notable because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Augusta was first used by Native Americans as a place to cross the Savannah River, because of Augusta's location on the fall line. The city was the second state capital of Georgia from 1785 until 1795 (alternating for a period with
Savannah A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the Canopy (forest), canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to rea ...
, the first).


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Devonte Upson Zwencyl DeVonte Upson (born March 23, 1993) is an American basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He plays the center position. He played college basketball for Trinidad State College and Southeastern Louisi ...
(born 1993), basketball player in the
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See also

* List of mayors of Augusta, Georgia


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Cedar Grove cemetery
— historic black cemetery (includes gravesite photos and information on Augustans interred there) {{Augusta, Georgia Augusta, Georgia Augusta