Notable Residents and Natives
- Byron Buxton, 2012 MLB Prospect- the second overall pick (drafted by the Minnesota Twins) in the 2012 MLB Draft.
- Caroline Miller, author who was Georgia's first Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist; she received the award for Lamb in his Bosom in 1934.
- Janisse Ray, author and setting of her memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (the maternal side of her family-tree—two pages before its title-page—begats also from Wilson Baxley "for whom the town was named").
- Dexter Carter, running back for San Francisco 49ers and New York Jets from 1990 to 1996, was born in Baxley and graduated from Appling County High School.
- , recording artists who were formerly called Melvin & The Allstars. The artists names are Melvin R. Mims Jr, Venis Lamar Mims, Hubert John C Mims, Glanda L. Mims / Jackson, Joy S. Mims / Roberts, Dennis Ontonia Mims, Amy L Mims / Perry, Kimberly L Mims / Beard and Jarvis M. Mims.
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