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Former Falcons kicker Morten Andersen, former Georgia Tech wide receiver Calvin Johnson and former Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo headline the latest list of selections for the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, joining former Oglethorpe men’s basketball coach Garland Pinholster, Peach Bowl executive Gary Stokan and former Olympic athlete Margaret Matthews Wilburn. An induction ceremony is planned for Feb. 8 at the College Football Hall of Fame.

Morten Andersen, Calvin Johnson and Dikembe Mutombo headline the latest list of selections for the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Chosen along with those three were Garland Pinholster, Gary Stokan and Margaret Matthews Wilburn. An induction ceremony is planned for Feb. 8 at the College Football Hall of Fame.

Andersen played for the Falcons from 1995-2000 and again from 2006-07, best remembered locally for his field goal in overtime that defeated the Vikings to win the 1998 NFC championship and propel the Falcons to their first Super Bowl appearance. Johnson ranks as one of the great football players in Georgia Tech history, playing for the Yellow Jackets from 2004-06, and before that at Sandy Creek High School. Mutombo spent five seasons with the Hawks, signing in July 1996 as a free agent, and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Pinholster was head men’s basketball coach at Oglethorpe from 1956-66. Stokan is the CEO/president of the Peach Bowl and served as president of the Atlanta Sports Council from 1988-2009. Wilburn attended the now-defunct David T. Howard High School, where she was a Georgia long-jump champion in 1952 and 1953, and at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne she won the bronze medal in the 4x100 meters.