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Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
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This is a list of famous and notable people who were born or lived in Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
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Activists and advocates

  • Curtis Conway "C.C." Bryant, African American civil rights
    African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

    The African-American Civil Rights Movement refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racism against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states....
     leader, (Tylertown
    Tylertown, Mississippi

    Tylertown is a town in Walthall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,910 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Walthall County, Mississippi....
    )
  • James Chaney
    James Chaney

    James Earl "J.E." Chaney was one of three United States civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
    , African American civil rights worker, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Vernon Dahmer
    Vernon Dahmer

    Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr. was an American civil rights leader and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi....
    , African American civil rights leader, (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Charles Evers
    Charles Evers

    James Charles Evers is an important civil rights advocate in the United States. The older brother of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, Charles Evers is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi....
    , African American civil rights leader, (Decatur
    Decatur, Mississippi

    Decatur is a town in Newton County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Newton County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers

    Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American African-American Civil Rights Movement activism from Mississippi who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan....
    , African American civil rights leader, (Decatur
    Decatur, Mississippi

    Decatur is a town in Newton County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Newton County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Myrlie Evers, African American civil rights leader, (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Clarence LaVaughn "C.L." Franklin
    C. L. Franklin

    The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin was an United States Baptist minister as well as a Civil Rights Activism. He was also the father of soul singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin....
    , African American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, Father of Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
    , (Shelby
    Shelby, Mississippi

    Shelby is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,926 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Dianna Freelon-Foster, African American civil rights activist, Member of the Mississippi Civil Rights Education Commission, (Grenada
    Grenada, Mississippi

    Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,879 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
    Fannie Lou Hamer

    Fannie Lou Hamer was a beautiful United States voting rights Activism and American Civil Rights Movement leader.She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic Nationa...
    , American voting rights activist, Civil rights leader, (Ruleville
    Ruleville, Mississippi

    Ruleville is a small city in the fertile Mississippi Delta region in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,234 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Clyde Kennard
    Clyde Kennard

    Clyde Kennard was an African-American student born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who attempted several times to enroll at Mississippi Southern College, still reserved for whites in the segregated 1950s....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • James Meredith
    James Meredith

    James H. Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure. He was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, an event that was a flash point in the American civil rights movement....
    , First African-American student at the University of Mississippi
    University of Mississippi

    The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a state university , co-education research university located in Oxford, Mississippi, Mississippi....
    , (Kosciusko
    Kosciusko, Mississippi

    Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,372 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Attala County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Anne Moody
    Anne Moody

    Anne Moody is an African-American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, joining the Civil Rights Movement, and fighting racism against blacks in the United States beginning in the 1960s....
    , (Centreville
    Centreville, Mississippi

    Centreville is a town in Amite County, Mississippi and Wilkinson County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 1,680 at the United States Census, 2000....
    )
  • Jody Renaldo, LGBT civil rights
    LGBT social movements

    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender social movements share related goals of social acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism....
     activist, founder Equality Mississippi
    Equality Mississippi

    Equality Mississippi was a statewide LGBT rights in the United States organization founded March 15, 2000 in Mississippi. The organization posted a bulletin on MySpace stating that as of December 3, 2008, the Board of Directors decided, due to financial hardships, the organization was to be closed....
    , (Pearl
    Pearl, Mississippi

    Pearl is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    Ida B. Wells

    Ida B Wells was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader and a women's rights leader active in the History of women's suffrage in the United States|Woman Suffrage Movement....
    , African American civil rights activist, Women's rights activist, (Holly Springs
    Holly Springs, Mississippi

    Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi....
    )


Actors/Actresses

  • Mary Alice
    Mary Alice

    Mary Alice is an United States Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning actress.Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar and Sam Smith....
    , (Indianola
    Indianola, Mississippi

    Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews

    Dana Andrews was an United States film actor....
    , (Covington County
    Covington County, Mississippi

    Covington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 19,407. Its county seat is Collins, Mississippi....
    )
  • Roscoe Ates
    Roscoe Ates

    Roscoe Ates was a prolific actor and musician in primarily Western films and television....
     (1895-1962), Grange, Mississippi
  • Jimmy Boyd
    Jimmy Boyd

    Jimmy Boyd was an United States of America singer, musician, and actor....
    , (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Lacey Chabert
    Lacey Chabert

    Lacey Nicole Chabert is an United States actress and voice actor, best known for her roles as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls....
    , (Purvis
    Purvis, Mississippi

    Purvis is a city in Lamar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Hattiesburg metropolitan area. The population was 2,164 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Jason Dottley, actor in Sordid Lives
    Sordid Lives

    Sordid Lives is a 2000 in film independent film comedy written and directed by Del Shores. The movie is based on Shores' play of the same name and includes elements of his life, according to the director's DVD commentary....
     stage production and Logo
    Logo (TV channel)

    Logo is an United States digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Targeting programming aimed at the LGBT community; it launched on June 30, 2005....
     television series, (Florence
    Florence, Mississippi

    Florence is a town in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the town population was 2,396....
    )
  • John Dye
    John Dye

    John Carroll Dye is an United States film and television actor known for his role as Touched by an Angel#Cast in the television series Touched by an Angel....
    , (Amory
    Amory, Mississippi

    Amory is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population is 6,956 at the 2000 census.History...
    )
  • Darrell Evers, (Mound Bayou
    Mound Bayou, Mississippi

    Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,102 at the 2000 census. It is notable for being founded by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery; by percentage it has one of the largest List of U.S....
    )
  • Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice....
    , (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Allie Grant
    Allie Grant

    Allie Grant is an United States actress who has had a brief but rising career in film and television. After originally getting stints in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and That's So Raven, Grant got her big break on Weeds in 2005....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Gary Grubbs
    Gary Grubbs

    Gary Grubbs is an United States actor.Grubbs has several film and television credit to his name, including his portrayal of attorney Al Oser in Oliver Stone's JFK ....
    , (Amory
    Amory, Mississippi

    Amory is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population is 6,956 at the 2000 census.History...
    )
  • Lynn Hamilton
    Lynn Hamilton

    Lynn Hamilton is an United States actor, who made her film debut in John Cassavetes' Shadows .She may be best known for her role as "Donna Harris", a role she played infrequently on the sitcom Sanford and Son, from 1972 to 1977 as Fred Sanford's mature girlfriend....
    , (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Beth Henley
    Beth Henley

    Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American dramatist and actor. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart ....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Jim Henson
    Jim Henson

    'James Maury "Jim" Henson' , was one of the most widely known puppeteers in American television history. He was the creator of The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, and the leading force behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and films such as The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth...
    , creator of The Muppets
    The Muppets

    ----The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is one of the puppets made by Jim Henson or his The Jim Henson Company....
    , (Leland
    Leland, Mississippi

    Leland is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,502 at the 2000 census.The town is located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta on the banks of Deer Creek, which is decorated each Christmas season with floats that bring visitors from afar to view the colorful displays....
    )
  • Anthony Herrera
    Anthony Herrera

    Anthony Herrera is an United States actor. Among roles in various movies, he is most known for his role as James Stenbeck on the soap opera As the World Turns, a role he has been playing from 1980 to 1984, from 1986 to 1989, in 1996, from 1997 to 1999, in 2001 and 2002-2005....
    , (Wiggins
    Wiggins, Mississippi

    Wiggins is a city in Stone County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • Eddie Hodges
    Eddie Hodges

    Eddie Hodges is a United States former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Don Jeffcoat
    Don Jeffcoat

    Don Jeffcoat is an United States actor....
    , (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones

    James Earl Jones is an United Statesn actor of theater and screen, well known for his deep bass voice....
    , (Arkabutla
    Arkabutla, Mississippi

    Arkabutla is a small unincorporated area in northwestern Tate County, Mississippi.Arkabutla lies approximately two miles from the southern side of Arkabutla Lake....
    )
  • Simbi Khali
    Simbi Khali

    Simbi Khali is an United States actress, known for her role as Nina Campbell on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi, Khali was raised in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, the youngest of seven children....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Diane Ladd
    Diane Ladd

    'Diane Ladd' is an American actress, film director and film producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose , Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors , 28 Days...
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Daniel Curtis Lee
    Daniel Curtis Lee

    Daniel Curtis Lee is an United States actor who had a starring role in Nickelodeon 's Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, in which he played the nerdy Simon Nelson-Cook, known as "Cookie" or "P Cookie"....
    , (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Tom Lester
    Tom Lester

    Thomas William "Tom" Lester is an United States actor and Evangelism. The naturally brown-headed Lester may be best remembered for his role as Eddie Albert's and Eva Gabor's outrageous twenty-something farmhand, Eb Dawson, in the Television program Green Acres, and appeared in the movie Gordy....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Shane McRae
    Shane McRae

    Shane McRae is an United States actor. He appeared in Hack, guest starred on One Life to Live, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and "Cold Case", and was one of the stars of the ill-fated sitcom, Four Kings....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Gerald McRaney
    Gerald McRaney

    Gerald Lee "Mac" McRaney is an USA television and Film actor....
    , (Collins
    Collins, Mississippi

    Collins is a city in Covington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,761 at the 2005 census. It is the county seat of Covington County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Mary Ann Mobley
    Mary Ann Mobley

    Mary Ann Mobley . She is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM Television....
    , (Brandon
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Parker Posey
    Parker Posey

    Parker Christian Posey is an United States actor. She became known during the 1990s, after a series of roles in several well-received independent films....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Evelyn Preer
    Evelyn Preer

    Eveleyn Preer was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Thalmus Rasulala
    Thalmus Rasulala

    Thalmus Rasulala was an African American actor who was an original cast member of American Broadcasting Company's soap opera One Life to Live from its inception in 1968 until he left the show in 1970....
    , (Arkabutla
    Arkabutla, Mississippi

    Arkabutla is a small unincorporated area in northwestern Tate County, Mississippi.Arkabutla lies approximately two miles from the southern side of Arkabutla Lake....
    )
  • Beah Richards
    Beah Richards

    Beah Richards was an American actress with a long career on stage, screen and television. She was also a poet, playwright and author.Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Eric Roberts
    Eric Roberts

    Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut....
    , (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Stella Stevens
    Stella Stevens

    Stella Stevens is an United States actor, who began her acting career in 1959. She has also been a film producer, film director and pin-up model...
    , (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Tonea Stewart
    Tonea Stewart

    Dr. Tonea Stewart is an States actor and University Professor best known for her role as Aunt Etta on the television series In the Heat of the Night ....
    , (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • James Michael Tyler
    James Michael Tyler

    James Michael Tyler is an actor, best known for playing Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends. He is 5ft 11in ....
    , (Winona
    Winona, Mississippi

    Winona is a city in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,482 at the 2000 census. The name of the city comes from a Sioux word meaning "first-born daughter." It is the county seat of Montgomery County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Ray Walston
    Ray Walston

    Ray Walston was an American Stage , television and feature film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Sela Ward
    Sela Ward

    Sela Ann Ward is an United States actor, perhaps best known for her Golden Globe- and Emmy Award award-winning television roles as free-spirited Teddy Reed on Sisters and single mother Lily Manning on Once and Again ....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • James Wheaton
    James Wheaton

    James Wheaton , was an United States motion picture and television actor.He may be best known as the voice actor "OMM" in George Lucas's THX 1138, a role for which he was chosen over Orson Welles....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
    , (Kosciusko
    Kosciusko, Mississippi

    Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,372 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Attala County, Mississippi....
    )


Artists

  • James McConnell Anderson
    James McConnell Anderson

    James McConnell "Mac" Anderson was an American painter, muralist, and pottery designer and decorator, youngest of the three brothers who collaborated at Shearwater Pottery, Ocean Springs, Mississippi ....
    , potter, painter, (Ocean Springs
    Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi , about east of Biloxi, Mississippi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Peter Anderson (artist)
    Peter Anderson (artist)

    Peter Anderson , American ceramist and founder of Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had absorbed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts...
    , potter, (Ocean Springs
    Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi , about east of Biloxi, Mississippi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Rick Anderson, painter, children's book illustrator, (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Walter Inglis Anderson
    Walter Inglis Anderson

    Walter Inglis Anderson was an American painter, writer, and naturalist.Known to his family as "Bob", he was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had absorbed the ideals of the American Arts an...
    , painter, (Ocean Springs
    Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi , about east of Biloxi, Mississippi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Howard Bingham
    Howard Bingham

    Howard Bingham He was the son of a minister and Pullman porter for the US railroad. After initially failing a photography course, he was hired by a local newspaper and there he met the young Cassius Clay ....
    , photographer, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Bruce Brady, bronze sculptor, Sculpted Conerly Trophy, (Brookhaven
    Brookhaven, Mississippi

    Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 9,861 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County, Mississippi....
    )
  • William Dunlap, painter, (Webster County
    Webster County, Mississippi

    Webster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 10,294. Its county seat is Walthall, Mississippi....
     native)
  • William Hollingsworth, Jr., painter, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • George E. Ohr
    George E. Ohr

    George E. Ohr was an early United States Pottery who broke new ground in the late 1890s as he experimented with modern clay forms. Some consider him the father of the American Abstract-Expressionism movement....
    , potter, (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Chase Quarterman, painter (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • J. Kim Sessums
    J. Kim Sessums

    Dr. J. Kim Sessums is an American artist and physician, best known for his sculptures. Sessums resides in Brookhaven, Mississippi.Sessums earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi....
    , bronze sculptor and painter, (Brookhaven
    Brookhaven, Mississippi

    Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 9,861 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Floyd Shaman
    Floyd Shaman

    Floyd Shaman was a prominent twentieth century United States sculptor.Born in Wyoming, Shaman studied sculpture as an undergraduate at the University of Wyoming where he trained under Robert I....
    , sculptor, (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • Wyatt Waters, painter, (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty

    Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the Southern United States....
    , primarily a writer but also known for her photography, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )


Athletes and sports-related people

  • Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
    Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

    Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is an former United States professional basketball player....
    , (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Lance Alworth
    Lance Alworth

    Lance Dwight Alworth is a former American football wide receiver. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame....
    , (Brookhaven
    Brookhaven, Mississippi

    Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 9,861 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jerome Barkum
    Jerome Barkum

    Jerome Barkum was a wide receiver and tight end in the National Football League. He played 12 years with New York Jets. He was drafted by the Jets out of Jackson State University with the 9th overall pick in the first round of the 1972 NFL Draft....
    , WR, TE New York Jets. (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Lem Barney
    Lem Barney

    Lemuel Joseph "Lem" Barney is a former American Football cornerback who played for the Detroit Lions. He was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992....
    , (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Cool Papa Bell
    Cool Papa Bell

    James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was an United States center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many baseball observers to have been the fastest man ever to play the game....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Jonathan Bender
    Jonathan Bender

    Jonathan Rene Bender is a retired United States professional basketball player in the NBA.Jonathan Bender has Donald and Willie Mae as his parents....
    , (Picayune
    Picayune, Mississippi

    Picayune is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. The population according to the 2007 census estimate was 11,591....
    )
  • Ruthie Bolton
    Ruthie Bolton

    Alice Ruth Bolton , better known as Ruthie Bolton and also by her former married name of Ruthie Bolton-Holifield, is a former collegiate, Olympic and professional basketball player....
    , (Lucedale
    Lucedale, Mississippi

    Lucedale is a city in George County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Ralph Boston
    Ralph Boston

    Ralph Harold Boston is an United States Athletics . He was an all around athletic star, but he is best remembered for his successes in the long jump during the 1960s....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd
    Oil Can Boyd

    Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. Boyd played for the Boston Red Sox , Montreal Expos , and Texas Rangers ....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Jeff Brantley
    Jeff Brantley

    Jeffrey Hoke Brantley, , is a former relief pitcher with a 14 year career from to ....
    , former major-league pitcher, current ESPN
    ESPN

    ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
     analyst, played baseball at Mississippi State University
    Mississippi State University

    Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, adjacent to the town of Starkville, Mississippi and is situated 125 miles northeast of Jackson, Mississippi and 23 miles west of Columbus, Mississippi....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Terrell Buckley
    Terrell Buckley

    Douglas Terrell Buckley is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League.Buckley played professional baseball for the Mobile BaySharks in the Central Baseball League....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Ellis Burks
    Ellis Burks

    Ellis Rena Burks is a former outfielder and designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball for 18 seasons. He batted and threw right-handed....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Cooper Carlisle
    Cooper Carlisle

    Cooper Carlisle is a American football player. He is a Guard and Tackle for the Oakland Raiders. He was taken in the fourth round, 113th overall in 2000....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Lee Calhoun
    Lee Calhoun

    Lee Quincy Calhoun was an United States Athletics , a double winner of 110 m hurdles at the Olympic Games.Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Lee Calhoun, representing North Carolina Central University, won the National Collegiate Athletic Association 120 yd hurdles in 1956 and 1957....
    , winner of two Olympic
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     gold metals, (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Van Chancellor
    Van Chancellor

    Van Chancellor is the current LSU Lady Tigers basketball coach. He was named head coach on April 11, 2007, replacing Pokey Chatman. He was enshrined as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2007....
    , (Louisville
    Louisville, Mississippi

    Louisville is a city in Winston County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,006 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Winston County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Rod Coleman
    Rod Coleman

    Roderick Dwayne Coleman is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He most recently played for the Atlanta Falcons....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Reggie Collier
    Reggie Collier

    Reginald C. Collier is a former professional American football player. Best known as a dynamic college football star, Collier had a short-lived professional career in both the USFL and NFL....
    , (D'Iberville
    D'Iberville, Mississippi

    D'Iberville is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, immediately north of Biloxi, Mississippi, across the back bay....
    )
  • Charlie Conerly
    Charlie Conerly

    File:1947 Ole Miss football media guide.jpgCharles Albert Conerly, Jr. was an American football quarterback in the National Football League for the New York Giants from 1948 NFL season through 1961 NFL season....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Joe Courtney
    Joe Courtney (basketball)

    Joseph Pierre Courtney is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA.He attended both the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State University....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Erick Dampier
    Erick Dampier

    Erick Travez Dampier is an United States professional basketball player who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association....
    , (New Hebron
    New Hebron, Mississippi

    New Hebron is a town in Lawrence County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 447 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Rod Davis, Carolina Panthers, (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Dizzy Dean
    Dizzy Dean

    Jerome Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an United States pitcher in Major League Baseball, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Logan County, Arkansas, Arkansas, and was a life-long resident of Bond, Mississippi....
    , (Wiggins
    Wiggins, Mississippi

    Wiggins is a city in Stone County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • Ted DiBiase
    Ted DiBiase

    Theodore Marvin "Ted" DiBiase, Sr. is a retired professional wrestling, Manager , and color commentator who wrestled as the "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase....
    , former professional wrestler, (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Ted DiBiase Jr, professional wrestler, (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Jim Dunaway
    Jim Dunaway

    James Kenneth Dunaway born September 3, 1941 in Columbia, Mississippi, Mississippi) was an American football player. A defensive tackle, he played college football at the University of Mississippi, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills, as part of a defensive line that held opposing runners without a...
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Marcus Dupree
    Marcus Dupree

    Marcus L. Dupree was one of the most highly recruited high school American football players ever. Dupree was so heavily recruited that Willie Morris wrote a book about his recruiting called ....
    , (Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Mississippi

    Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. With a population of 7,303 at the 2000 census, Philadelphia is most noted for the racial violence, murders, and other civil rights violations that occurred in the mid 1960s....
    )
  • Ronald Dupree
    Ronald Dupree

    Ronald Edmund Dupree is an United States professional basketball player. A 6'7" small forward, he has played for a number of NBA teams....
    , (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Monta Ellis
    Monta Ellis

    Monta Ellis is an United States professional basketball player, who plays the point guard and shooting guard positions for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Brett Favre
    Brett Favre

    Brett Lorenzo Favre is a retired American football quarterback of the National Football League . He was the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers between the 1992 Green Bay Packers season and 2007 Green Bay Packers season NFL seasons and the New York Jets in 2008....
    , former quarterback of the Green Bay Packers
    Green Bay Packers

    The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League and are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL....
    , currently with New York Jets
    New York Jets

    The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. They are members of the AFC East of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     (Kiln
    Kiln, Mississippi

    Kiln is a census-designated place in Hancock County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • David "Boo" Ferriss
    Dave Ferriss

    Dave Meadow Ferriss is a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He was born in Shaw, Mississippi, Mississippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta....
    , pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, (Shaw
    Shaw, Mississippi

    Shaw is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi and Sunflower County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region....
    )
  • Tim Floyd
    Tim Floyd

    Tim Floyd is the current head coach of the University of Southern California men's college basketball team. Floyd is also a former head coach of several teams in both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Basketball Association....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Nell Fortner
    Nell Fortner

    Nell Fortner is the current women's college basketball coach at Auburn University. She is most well known for leading the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympics team to a gold medal....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    ), head women's basketball coach at Auburn University
    Auburn University

    Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, Alabama, United States With more than 24,100 students and 1,200 faculty, it is one of the largest university in the state....
  • Jim Gallagher, Jr.
    Jim Gallagher, Jr.

    James Thomas "Jim" Gallagher, Jr. is an United States professional golfer and sportscaster.Gallagher was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His father, a career club pro, started him in golf at age 6....
    , professional golfer, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Leslie Frazier
    Leslie Frazier

    Leslie Antonio Frazier was a cornerback/Defensive back in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears. He is currently the Defensive Coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings....
    , defensive coordinator for the Minnesota vikings (Columbus
    Columbus, Mississippi

    Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
    )
  • Charles E. Gavin, Tennessee State, Denver Broncos, (Lake
    Lake, Mississippi

    Lake is a town in Newton County, Mississippi and Scott County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 408 at the United States Census, 2000....
    )
  • Gerald Glass
    Gerald Glass

    Gerald Damon Glass is an United States former professional basketball player.Glass played collegiately at Delta State University and then transferred to the University of Mississippi where he placed fourth in the nation in scoring as a junior....
    , professional basketball player, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Lancaster Gordon
    Lancaster Gordon

    Lancaster Gordon is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1st round of the 1984 NBA Draft....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Hugh Green, football, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Litterial Green
    Litterial Green

    Litterial Maurice Green is a former United States of America professional basketball player, in the point guard position.Green played college basketball at the University of Georgia, where he became their all-time leading scorer....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Louis Green
    Louis Green

    Louis Edward Green is a American football player. Green attended Jefferson County High School in Fayette, Mississippi and was a letterman in football....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • L. C. Greenwood
    L. C. Greenwood

    L.C. Henderson Greenwood is a former American football defensive end for the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers....
    , (Canton
    Canton, Mississippi

    Canton is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,911 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi, and situated in the northern part of the Jackson metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi....
    )
  • Cedric Griffin
    Cedric Griffin

    Cedric Leonard Griffin is an American football cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.He was born in Natchez, Mississippi and graduated from Holmes High School in San Antonio, Texas....
    , football, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Justin Griffith
    Justin Griffith

    Justin Montrel Griffith is an American football Fullback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft....
    , (Magee
    Magee, Mississippi

    Magee is a city in Simpson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,200 at the 2000 census and now stands at 5,019 as of February 2007....
    )
  • Bobby Hamilton
    Bobby Hamilton

    Charles Robert Hamilton, Sr. was a driver and owner in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit and the winner of the 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship....
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Othella Harrington
    Othella Harrington

    Othella Harrington is an United States professional basketball player. After he finished his high school career at Murrah High School, he played in college at Georgetown University where he teamed with NBA superstar Allen Iverson....
    , professional basketball player, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Charlie Hayes
    Charlie Hayes

    Charles Dewayne Hayes is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants , Philadelphia Phillies , New York Yankees , Colorado Rockies , Pittsburgh Pirates , Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros ....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Joe Horn
    Joe Horn

    Joseph Horn is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1995 NFL Draft....
    , receiver for the Atlanta Falcons
    Atlanta Falcons

    The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia . They are currently a member of the NFC South division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Lindsey Hunter
    Lindsey Hunter

    Lindsey Benson Hunter, Jr. is an United States professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He is a point guard for the Chicago Bulls....
    , professional basketball player, (Utica
    Utica, Mississippi

    Utica is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 966 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the URJ Henry S....
    )
  • Al Jefferson
    Al Jefferson

    Al Jefferson is an United States professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association....
    , (Monticello
    Monticello, Mississippi

    Monticello is a town in Lawrence County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,726 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lawrence County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Matt Lawton
    Matt Lawton

    Matthew Lawton III is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins , New York Mets , Cleveland Indians , Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs , New York Yankees , and Seattle Mariners ....
    , (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Nook Logan
    Nook Logan

    Exavier Prente "Nook" Logan is a former Major League Baseball outfielder currently playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball....
    , baseball, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Ken Lucas
    Ken Lucas

    Kenneth Ray "Ken" Lucas is an Politics of the United States. Lucas, a Democratic Party , was a United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th congressional district from 1999 until 2005....
    , Carolina Panthers, (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • Kris Mangum
    Kris Mangum

    Kris Thomas Mangum is a former American football player who played tight end for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League throughout his entire NFL career....
    , Carolina Panthers, (Magee
    Magee, Mississippi

    Magee is a city in Simpson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,200 at the 2000 census and now stands at 5,019 as of February 2007....
    )
  • Archie Manning
    Archie Manning

    Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the father of current Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback Peyton Manning, current New York Giants starting quarterback Eli Manning, and former University of Mississippi receiver, Cooper Manning....
    , Former quarterback of the New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints

    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , father of Payton Manning Quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts
    Indianapolis Colts

    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team is part of the American Football Conference South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     and 2007 Super Bowl MVP and Eli Manning
    Eli Manning

    Elisha Nelson Manning is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is the younger brother of Peyton Manning and Cooper Manning and the son of Archie Manning and Olivia Manning....
     Quarterback 2008 Super Bowl MVP of the New York Giants
    New York Giants

    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex....
     (Drew
    Drew, Mississippi

    Drew is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,434 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Danny Manning
    Danny Manning

    Daniel Ricardo "Danny" Manning is a retired United States professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He is an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, the University of Kansas Kansas Jayhawks....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Justin Mapp
    Justin Mapp

    Justin Mapp is an United States soccer midfielder, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire S.C. in Major League Soccer.Mapp graduated from the Bradenton Academy in 2001 and signed with MLS as a Project-40 player....
    , (Brandon
    Brandon, Mississippi

    Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi...
    )
  • Shane Matthews
    Shane Matthews

    Michael Shane Matthews is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He most recently played for the Miami Dolphins, and college football at University of Florida....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Fred Lee McAfee, (Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Mississippi

    Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. With a population of 7,303 at the 2000 census, Philadelphia is most noted for the racial violence, murders, and other civil rights violations that occurred in the mid 1960s....
    )
  • Deuce McAllister
    Deuce McAllister

    Dulymus Jenod "Deuce" McAllister is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints 23rd overall in the 2001 NFL Draft....
    , New Orleans Sants (Morton
    Morton, Mississippi

    Morton is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,482 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Antonio McDyess
    Antonio McDyess

    Antonio Keithflen McDyess is an American professional basketball player. McDyess is listed at 6'9" , 245 lb. and is a Power forward . He plays for the Detroit Pistons....
    , (Quitman
    Quitman, Mississippi

    Quitman is a city in Clarke County, Mississippi, Mississippi, USA, along the Chickasawhay River. The population was 2,463 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clarke County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Derrick McKey
    Derrick McKey

    Derrick Wayne McKey is a retired United States basketball player who played the most part of his National Basketball Association career between the small forward and the power forward positions....
    , former professional basketball player, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Steve McNair
    Steve McNair

    Steve LaTreal McNair , nicknamed Air McNair, is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans third overall in the 1995 NFL Draft....
    , quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens
    Baltimore Ravens

    The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , (Mount Olive
    Mount Olive, Mississippi

    Mount Olive is a town in Covington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 893 at the 2000 census. It is also the hometown of former NFL quarterback Steve "Air" McNair....
    )
  • Eric Moulds
    Eric Moulds

    Eric Shannon Moulds is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills 24th overall in the 1996 NFL Draft....
    , (Lucedale
    Lucedale, Mississippi

    Lucedale is a city in George County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Steve Newsome, Chicago Bulls, University of Houston, (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Jerious Norwood
    Jerious Norwood

    Jerious Montreal Norwood is a American football running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Falcons in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft....
    , Atlanta Falcons (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Roy Oswalt
    Roy Oswalt

    Roy Edward Oswalt is an United States Major League Baseball player who debuted on May 6, . Oswalt, a slender six-foot zero-inch right-handed starting pitcher, is currently in his seventh major league season....
    , (Weir
    Weir, Mississippi

    Weir is a town in Choctaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 553 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Joe Owens
    Joe Owens

    Joe Owens is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the 9th round of the 1969 NFL Draft....
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Claude Passeau
    Claude Passeau

    Claude William Passeau was an United States starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From through , Passeau played with the Pittsburgh Pirates , Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs ....
    , former major-league pitcher, (Lucedale
    Lucedale, Mississippi

    Lucedale is a city in George County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Eddie Payton
    Eddie Payton

    Edward Payton is a former American football running back and kick returner who played five seasons in the National Football League from 1977 to 1982 for the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings....
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Walter Payton
    Walter Payton

    Walter Jerry Payton was an American football player who spent his entire professional career with the National Football League's Chicago Bears....
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Todd Pinkston
    Todd Pinkston

    Todd Pinkston is an United States American football player. He played five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles where he caught 184 passes for 2,816 yards and 14 touchdowns....
    , (Forest
    Forest, Mississippi

    Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,987 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Clinton Portis
    Clinton Portis

    Clinton Earl Portis is an American football running back for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Armintie Price
    Armintie Price

    Armintie Ada Price is an United States professional basketball player. Price, who played collegiately at the University of Mississippi, was drafted third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2007 WNBA Draft....
    , (Myrtle
    Myrtle, Mississippi

    Myrtle is a town in Union County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 407 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Justin Reed
    Justin Reed

    Justin Michael Reed is an United States professional basketball player....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Jerry Rice
    Jerry Rice

    Jerry Lee Rice is a former football wide receiver in the National Football League. Rice is widely regarded as the greatest wide receiver ever and one of the greatest players in NFL history, consistently showing exceptional performance and strong work ethic on and off of the field....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • James Robinson
    James Robinson

    James Robinson, Jim Robinson or Jamie Robinson is a name shared by the following individuals:...
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Billy Shaw
    Billy Shaw

    William Lewis "Billy" Shaw was an United States college and professional American football player.Drafted in 1961 by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, Billy Shaw of Georgia Institute of Technology was the prototypical "pulling guard" who despite his size held his own against much bigger defensive linemen like Ernie Ladd, Earl F...
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Chris Shivers
    Chris Shivers

    Chris Shivers is a top-rated bull rider on the Professional Bull Riders' Built Ford Tough Series with career PBR Earnings of $3,300,849.94 Shivers has earned the title of PBR World Champion Bull Rider in 2000 and 2003....
    , professional bull rider, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Eugene Short, (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Purvis Short
    Purvis Short

    Purvis Short is a retired American professional basketball player, who starred with the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association during the 1980s....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Jackie Slater
    Jackie Slater

    Jackie Ray Slater and graduated from Wingfield High School in 1972. He is a former American football offensive tackle who played his entire 20-year career with the St....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Calvin Smith
    Calvin Smith

    Calvin Smith is a former Sprint Athletics from the United States. He is a former World Record holder in the 100 metre sprint, and was twice World Champion over 200 metres....
    , (Bolton
    Bolton, Mississippi

    Bolton is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 629 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Jimmy Lee Smith
    Jimmy Lee Smith

    Jimmy Lee Smith is a retired heavyweight professional boxing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Lake Speed
    Lake Speed

    Lake Chambers Speed is a former NASCAR driver....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
    Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

    Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. is a full-time competitor in the ARCA RE/MAX Series and a developmental driver for Roush Fenway Racing.Stenhouse, Jr. won his first ARCA RE/MAX Series event on May 11, 2008, the Drive Smart! Buckle Up Kentucky 150 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY....
    , (Olive Branch
    Olive Branch, Mississippi

    Olive Branch is a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the ninth largest city in Mississippi. Olive Branch is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Savante Stringfellow
    Savanté Stringfellow

    Savant? Stringfellow is a United States born long jumper. A student at the University of Mississippi, he was selected for the United States 2000 Summer Olympics Team....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Fred Thomas
    Fred Thomas

    Fred Thomas may refer to:*Fred Thomas *Fred Thomas *Fred Thomas , baseball manager of the 1890s*Fred Thomas , Major League Baseball player from 1918 to 1920...
    , cornerback for the New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints

    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , (Bruce
    Bruce, Mississippi

    Bruce is a town situated along the Skuna River in Calhoun County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,097 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Willie Totten
    Willie Totten

    Willie "Satellite" Totten is the head coach of the Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils American football team, a job he has held since 2001....
    , (Leflore County
    Leflore County, Mississippi

    Leflore County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 37,947. The county seat is Greenwood, Mississippi....
    )
  • Billy Truax
    Billy Truax

    William Frederick Truax is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League from 1964-1973 for the St. Louis Rams and the Dallas Cowboys....
    ,TE Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
  • Jermaine Van Buren
    Jermaine Van Buren

    Jermaine Russell Van Buren is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the La New Bears of the Chinese Professional Baseball League....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Margaret Wade
    Margaret Wade (basketball coach)

    Lily Margaret Wade was an American basketball player and coach. She played high school basketball for Cleveland High School and college basketball for Delta State University in 1930-1932....
    , (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • Todd McLaurin Wade, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Harry Walker
    Harry Walker

    Harry William Walker, known to baseball fans of the middle 20th century as "Harry the Hat" , was an American baseball player, manager and coach ....
    , former professional baseball player, (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Wesley Walls
    Wesley Walls

    Charles Wesley Walls is a former American football tight end who played 14 seasons in the National Football League....
    , (Batesville
    Batesville, Mississippi

    Batesville is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,113 at the 2000 census but has grown to about 14,000....
    )
  • Tom Walters
    Tom Walters

    Thomas Herrin Walters is a former American football Safety in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for The University of Southern Mississippi....
    , safety for the Washington Redskins
    Washington Redskins

    The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, Maryland, which is in Prince George's County, Maryland....
    , (Petal
    Petal, Mississippi

    Petal is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, along the Leaf River . It is part of the Hattiesburg metropolitan area....
    )
  • Herb Washington
    Herb Washington

    Herbert Lee Washington became one of the world's most celebrated sprinters as a student-athlete at Flint Central High School and Michigan State University....
    , sprinter and a successful owner of McDonald's
    McDonald's

    McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts....
     franchises, (Belzoni
    Belzoni, Mississippi

    Belzoni is a city in Humphreys County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, on the Yazoo River. The population was 2,663 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Clarence Weatherspoon
    Clarence Weatherspoon

    Clarence Weatherspoon is an United States professional basketball player formerly in the NBA.After a college career at The University of Southern Mississippi, Weatherspoon was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers as the ninth pick in the 1992 NBA Draft....
    , (Crawford
    Crawford, Mississippi

    Crawford is a town in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 655 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Skeeter Webb
    Skeeter Webb

    James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb was a Major League Baseball infielder who played twelve season in the major leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals , Cleveland Indians , Chicago White Sox , Detroit Tigers , and Philadelphia Athletics ....
    , professional baseball player, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Frank White, professional baseball player, (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Sammy Winder
    Sammy Winder

    Sammy Winder is a former professional American football running back who spent his entire professional career playing for the Denver Broncos, from 1982 to 1990....
    , (Madison
    Madison, Mississippi

    Madison is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,691 at the 2000 census. The population is currently 16,930....
    )
  • Floyd Womack
    Floyd Womack

    Floyd Seneca Womack nicknamed "Pork Chop" is an American football offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League....
    , Seattle Seahawks, (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • Dmitri Young
    Dmitri Young

    'Dmitri Dell Young' is a Major League Baseball first baseman for the Washington Nationals. His nickname is "'Da Meat Hook'". He is 6'2 and 300 pounds....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Walter Young
    Walter Young (baseball player)

    Walter Earnest Young, Jr. is a first baseman and designated hitter who played for the Baltimore Orioles in 2005 and is currently playing for the independent Sioux City Explorers....
    , professional baseball player, (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )


Broadcast media personalities

  • Red Barber
    Red Barber

    Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was an United States sportscaster.Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds , Brooklyn Dodgers , and New York Yankees ....
    , sportscaster, (Columbus
    Columbus, Mississippi

    Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
    )
  • Robin Roberts
    Robin Roberts (newscaster)

    Robin Rene Roberts is an United States television broadcaster. Roberts is the co-anchor of American Broadcasting Company's morning show Good Morning America....
    , (Pass Christian
    Pass Christian, Mississippi

    Pass Christian is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, along the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • Doug Russell
    Doug Russell

    Doug Russell is the host of The Doug Russell Show weekday mornings from 5a-9a CDT on WSSP in Milwaukee. Russell joined WSSP in January 2007 after leaving Sporting News Radio....
    , sportscaster, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Tavis Smiley
    Tavis Smiley

    Tavis Smiley is an African American author, journalist, political commentator, and talk show host....
    , (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Shepard Smith
    Shepard Smith

    Shepard Smith is an United States TV news presenter. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on the Fox News Channel....
    , newscaster, (Holly Springs
    Holly Springs, Mississippi

    Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
    , talk show hostess, (Kosciusko
    Kosciusko, Mississippi

    Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,372 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Attala County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Wilbert Montgomery
    Wilbert Montgomery

    Wilbert Montgomery is a former American football player in the National Football League. He currently is the running backs coach for the Baltimore Ravens....
     -Philadelphia Eagles
  • Cleotha Montgomery -Oakland Raiders
  • George Scott
    George Scott

    George Scott can refer to:*George Scott , who wrote a 1683 book extolling the virtues of Scottish settlement in East Jersey.*George Scott , British Army officer, fought in the Seven Years' War in Canada...
     -Boston Redsox
  • Willie Richardson
    Willie Richardson

    Willie Richardson is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for nine seasons for the History of the Indianapolis Colts and Miami Dolphins....
     -Baltimore Colts
  • Gloster Richardson
    Gloster Richardson

    Gloster Van Richardson is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, and thn in the NFL for the Chiefs, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Cleveland Browns....
     -Kansas City Chiefs


Comedians

  • Jerry Clower
    Jerry Clower

    Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower was a popular country music comedian best known for his stories of the rural Southern United States.Clower began a 2-year stint in the US Navy immediately after graduating high school....
    , (Liberty
    Liberty, Mississippi

    Liberty is a town in Amite County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi McComb micropolitan area. The population was 633 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • David L. Cook
    David L. Cook

    David L. Cook is an United States Christian country music singer-songwriter, comedian and a multiple Emmy Award and Telly Award winner. In 2007 Cook was inducted into the ....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Mack Dryden
    Mack Dryden

    Mack Leon Dryden is an United States comedian, motivational speaker, actor, illustrator, and writer....
    , (Moss Point
    Moss Point, Mississippi

    Moss Point is a city, north of Pascagoula, Mississippi, in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )


Educators

  • Fannie C. Williams
    Fannie C. Williams

    Fannie C. Williams,1882-1980 an educator, was born inBiloxi, Mississippi. In 1904, she graduated from Straight College, a school that later merged with New Orleans University....
    , (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )


Entrepreneurs/Business leaders

  • Jim Barksdale
    Jim Barksdale

    Jim Barksdale was the president and Chief executive officer of Netscape from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999....
    , founder of Netscape, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Fred Carl, Jr.
    Fred Carl, Jr.

    Fred E. Carl, Jr. is founder and current president and chief executive officer of Viking Range, a manufacturer of professional kitchen appliances for use in the home....
    , founder of Viking Range Corporation
    Viking Range

    Viking Range Corporation is a privately held company which manufactures professional kitchen appliances for home use. Viking originated the "professional" segment of kitchen appliances with its introduction of the first commercial-grade range for home use in 1987....
    , (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • James Breckenridge Speed
    James Breckenridge Speed

    James Breckenridge Speed was a successful businessman in Louisville, Kentucky and an important philanthropist.Although he was born in Mississippi and only came to Louisville as an 11-year-old, James B....
    , industrial pioneer
  • Toxey Haas, founder Mossy Oak Brand camouflage, (West Point
    West Point, Mississippi

    West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,145 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County, Mississippi and the principal city of the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Sam Haskell, former worldwide head of television for the William Morris Agency
    William Morris Agency

    William Morris Agency, founded in 1898 as a vaudeville booking broker, is a Hollywood talent agency that represents many well-known performers and filmmakers....
    , (Amory
    Amory, Mississippi

    Amory is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population is 6,956 at the 2000 census.History...
    )
  • Ken Lewis
    Ken Lewis (executive)

    Kenneth D. Lewis is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001....
    , Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America Corporation, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Hu Meena, founder of Cellular South
    Cellular South

    Cellular South is the largest privately held wireless provider in the United States and is licensed to provide wireless service to a population of more than five million people, which includes the Memphis, Tennessee Metropolitan Area, Jackson, Mississippi area, throughout all of Mississippi, along Coastal Alabama including Mobile, Alabama, an...
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Hartley Peavey
    Hartley Peavey

    Hartley Peavey is a founder and CEO of Peavey Electronics and a well-known innovator in the musical equipment industry. A 1965 graduate of Mississippi State University, Peavey has been recognized by his alma mater as an Alumni Fellow and as the 2004 commencement speaker....
    , founder of Peavey Electronics, (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Robert "Bob" Pittman
    Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment

    Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company was a joint venture owned and operated by Warner Communications and American Express that developed and worked on interactive television systems in the late 1970s and initiated several successful cable networks that remain well-known....
    , founder MTV
    MTV

    MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
    , former CEO and COO AOL
    AOL

    AOL LLC is an United States global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner and was headquartered in Loudoun County, Virginia until late April 2008 when it was moved to new offices at 770 Broadway in New York City....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • J. H. Rush
    J. H. Rush

    Jesse Hackley Rush was an United States physician who founded the first private hospital in Meridian, Mississippi.Rush was born in De Kalb, Mississippi....
    , founder of Rush's Infirmary, the first private hospital in Meridian, Mississippi
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    , (De Kalb
    De Kalb, Mississippi

    De Kalb is a town in Kemper County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 972 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kemper County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Fred Smith
    Fred Smith

    Fred, Frederic, or Frederick Smith may refer to:*Fred Smith , North Carolina legislator and attorney*Fred Smith , bassist for the 1970s proto-punk band Television...
    , founder and CEO of FedEx
    FedEx

    FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used until 2000....
    , (Marks
    Marks, Mississippi

    Marks is a city in Quitman County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 1,551....
    )
  • , television producer, (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )


Filmmakers

  • Charles Burnett
    Charles Burnett (director)

    Charles Burnett is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker. Like many black families, his parents decided to leave Mississippi for California in the Great Migration, in search of jobs in the booming defense industry and better living conditions, including the chance to vote....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Jamaa Fanaka
    Jamaa Fanaka

    Jamaa Fanaka is an award-winning American filmmaker....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Lawrence Gordon, producer of Die Hard
    Die Hard

    Die Hard is the first action film in the Die Hard series. The film was produced by Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon , along with Joel Silver....
     and other films, (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )


Historians

  • David Herbert Donald
    David Herbert Donald

    David Herbert Donald is a historian of the American Civil War....
    , (Goodman
    Goodman, Mississippi

    Goodman is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,252 at the 2000 census....
    )


Inventors

  • Harry A. Cole
    Pine-Sol

    Pine-Sol is a registered trade name of Clorox for a line of household cleaning products. Although the original Pine-Sol formulation is pine oil based, all other cleaners sold under the Pine-Sol brand do not contain pine oil at all.....
    , inventor of Pine-Sol
    Pine-Sol

    Pine-Sol is a registered trade name of Clorox for a line of household cleaning products. Although the original Pine-Sol formulation is pine oil based, all other cleaners sold under the Pine-Sol brand do not contain pine oil at all.....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Joseph Newman
    Joseph Newman (inventor)

    The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman is a DC-fed electric motor consisting of a rotor stacked with permanent magnets surrounded by wide turns of an electromagnetic coil....
    , inventor of the Newman motor, (Lucedale
    Lucedale, Mississippi

    Lucedale is a city in George County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )


Jurists and lawyers

  • William Wirt Adams
    William Wirt Adams

    William Wirt Adams , was a United States district court judge for the state of Mississippi, a soldier for the Republic of Texas, and a Confederate States of America officer and general in the American Civil War....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Rhesa H. Barksdale
    Rhesa H. Barksdale

    Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale is a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Gerald Chatham, lawyer, lead prosecutor in the Emmett Till case , (Hernando
    Hernando, Mississippi

    Hernando is a city in central DeSoto County, Mississippi. The population was 6,812 at the 2000 census. The 2006 census estimate reflects a population of 10,580....
    )
  • Bobby DeLaughter
    Bobby DeLaughter

    Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter is a Mississippi prosecutor, judge, and author. He prosecuted and secured the conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers, a noted civil rights leader....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Felix Huston
    Felix Huston

    Felix Huston was a lawyer, soldier and the first commanding general of the Army of the Republic of Texas.Huston was born in Kentucky. He was a slavery, planter and Whig Party politician and attorney in Natchez, Mississippi....
    , lawyer, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Thomas Rodney
    Thomas Rodney

    Thomas "Tommy" Rodney was an United States lawyer and politician from Jones Neck in East Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, Delaware and Natchez, Mississippi, Mississippi....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Richard "Dick" Scruggs
    Richard Scruggs

    Richard F. "Dickie" Scruggs is a former naval fighter pilot, a prominent trial lawyer, one of the richest men in Mississippi, and the brother-in-law of former U.S....
    , attorney, (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )


Military figures

  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
    Nathan Bedford Forrest

    Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self made and innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a figure in the postwar establishment of the first Ku Klux Klan organization opposing the Reconstruction era of the United States in the South....
    , (Hernando
    Hernando, Mississippi

    Hernando is a city in central DeSoto County, Mississippi. The population was 6,812 at the 2000 census. The 2006 census estimate reflects a population of 10,580....
    )
  • Felix Huston
    Felix Huston

    Felix Huston was a lawyer, soldier and the first commanding general of the Army of the Republic of Texas.Huston was born in Kentucky. He was a slavery, planter and Whig Party politician and attorney in Natchez, Mississippi....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Samuel Reeves Keesler
    Samuel Reeves Keesler

    Samuel Reeves Keesler, Jr. was a World War I American army hero.He was an outstanding student leader and athlete in high school and at Davidson College in North Carolina....
    , (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • John S. McCain, Sr.
    John S. McCain, Sr.

    John Sidney McCain Sr. was a United States Navy Admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific War of World War II.McCain was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations who in 1942 commanded all land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign, and who ultimately in 1944?1945 aggressively led the Fast Carrier...
    , Admiral in the US Navy, (Teoc)
  • Charles Read
    Charles Read

    Charles William "Savvy" Read was an officer in the antebellum United States Navy and then in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )


Musicians and performers

  • 3 Doors Down
    3 Doors Down

    3 Doors Down is an United States Rock music band formed in 1994 in , by Brad Arnold , Matt Roberts and Todd Harrell . The band signed to Universal Records after the success of their song "Kryptonite "....
    , band, (Escatawpa
    Escatawpa, Mississippi

    Escatawpa is a census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Tommy Aldridge
    Tommy Aldridge

    Tommy Aldridge , is a veteran heavy metal music and hard rock drummer. Aldridge is noted for his work with numerous bands and vocalists, most notable being Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy....
    , drummer for Ozzy Osbourne
    Ozzy Osbourne

    John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
     and Whitesnake
    Whitesnake

    Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
    . (Pearl
    Pearl, Mississippi

    Pearl is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Afroman
    Afroman

    Joseph Edgar Foreman , cousins with George Foreman better known by his stage name Afroman, is a Grammy-nominated American rapper who came to prominence with the release of 2001's RIAA Gold-certified album "The Good Times"....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Steve Azar
    Steve Azar

    Steve Azar is an American country music artists. Azar was signed to River North Nashville in 1995, and he released his debut album on February 27, 1996....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Glen Ballard
    Glen Ballard

    Glen Ballard is a veteran songwriter and record producer, best known as the producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, which went platinum sixteen times in the U.S....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • David Banner
    David Banner

    Levell Crump is an American rapper, occasional actor, record producer, record label executive, and philanthropist. He is better known by his stage name David Banner which is taken from the lead character of the 1970s and 1980s CBS television series The Incredible Hulk ....
    , rapper/producer, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Lance Bass
    Lance Bass

    James Lance Bass is an United States Pop music singer, actor, film producer and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the Bass singer for the American Pop music boy band 'N Sync....
    , member of pop group 'N Sync
    'N Sync

    N Sync was an American pop music group. The group's launch to fame was financed by the boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. Since 1995, 'N Sync has sold over 56 million records worldwide....
    , born in Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    , raised in Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
  • Beanland
    Beanland

    Beanland was a roots rock jam band, based in Oxford, Mississippi, which performed and recorded primarily from 1986 to 1993.Beanland was founded in Oxford in 1985 by guitarists Bill McCrory and George McConnell....
    , jam band (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon

    Blind Melon is an American rock band that originally existed from 1989 to 1995, and ceased with the death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon shortly after the release of the band's second album....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Eddie Boyd
    Eddie Boyd

    Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd was a blues piano player, born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, Mississippi....
    , blues musician, (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Bobby Bradford
    Bobby Bradford

    Bobby Lee Bradford is an United States jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman.Bradford grew up in Mississippi and moved with his family to Dallas, Texas in 1946....
    , (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • Cory Branan
    Cory Branan

    Cory Branan is an United States singer-songwriter who was born in Southaven, Mississippi....
    , (Southhaven)
  • Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy

    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific United States blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences....
    , (Scott County
    Scott County, Mississippi

    Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 28,423. Its county seat is Forest, Mississippi....
    )
  • Eddie "Bongo" Brown, percussionist, (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jimmy Buffett
    Jimmy Buffett

    James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • R. L. Burnside
    R. L. Burnside

    R. L. Burnside was a North Mississippi hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist who lived much of his life in and around Holly Springs, Mississippi, Mississippi....
    , (Harmontown
    Harmontown, Mississippi

    Harmontown is an unincorporated area in Lafayette County, Mississippi in the U.S. state of Mississippi. In the hill country of North Mississippi, Harmontown is located in the northwest corner of Lafayette County, just off Mississippi State Highway 310 and just to the north of Sardis Lake ....
    )
  • G. C. Cameron
    G. C. Cameron

    George Curtis "G.C." Cameron is an United States soul music and R&B singer. G.C. is credited with having "six different voices." He has, on occasion, sounded like Smokey Robinson, Edwin Starr, The Isley Brothers and his replacement in The Spinners , Phillipe Wynne....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Odia Coates
    Odia Coates

    Odia Coates was an United States singer, best known for her work with Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Hank Cochran
    Hank Cochran

    Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran is an United States country music singer and songwriter....
    , (Isola
    Isola, Mississippi

    Isola is a town in Humphreys County, Mississippi. The population was 768 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Colour Revolt
    Colour Revolt

    Colour Revolt is an American indie rock band from Oxford, Mississippi....
    , (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • David L. Cook
    David L. Cook

    David L. Cook is an United States Christian country music singer-songwriter, comedian and a multiple Emmy Award and Telly Award winner. In 2007 Cook was inducted into the ....
    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Sam Cooke
    Sam Cooke

    Samuel Cook, better known as Sam Cooke, was an United States gospel music, R&B, soul music, and popular music singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • The Cook Family Singers
    The Cook Family Singers

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    , (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • James Cotton
    James Cotton

    James Cotton , is an United States blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to this day....
    , (Tunica
    Tunica, Mississippi

    Tunica is a town in Tunica County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located near the Mississippi River. Historically part of an agricultural area, the town lies on the fringe of a growing gambling resort area, with major casinos attracting visitors from nearby Memphis, Tennessee and all over the Southeastern United States....
    )
  • Arthur Crudup
    Arthur Crudup

    Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for songwriter songs later cover version by Elvis Presley , such as "That's All Right " , "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine."...
    , (Forest
    Forest, Mississippi

    Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,987 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi....
    )
  • George Cummings
    George Cummings

    George Cummings is a guitarist and songwriter based in Bayonne, New Jersey and Nashville, Tennessee in recent years.Darryl Vincent and the Flares was formed in Meridian in 1956, and Cummings joined the group in 1959....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Olu Dara
    Olu Dara

    Olu Dara is an United States cornetist, guitarist and singer. He first became known as a jazz musician, playing alongside avant-garde musicians such as David Murray , Henry Threadgill, and Art Blakey....
    , jazz musician, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Paul Davis
    Paul Davis (singer)

    Paul Davis was an United States singer, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul music, country music and pop music, and he wrote many memorable country music hits....
    , singer, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Al Denson
    Al Denson

    Albert Wray Denson , more commonly known as Al Denson, is a contemporary Christian music artist and a Christian radio and television show host....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
    , (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon

    William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Nate Dogg
    Nate Dogg

    Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, is a Grammy-nominated United States R&B/hip hop music artist and singer born in Long Beach, California....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Shelly Fairchild
    Shelly Fairchild

    Shelly Fairchild is an American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 2004, she released her debut album Ride in early 2005....
    , (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Charlie Feathers
    Charlie Feathers

    Charles Feathers, , was an influential rockabilly and country music performer.Charles Arthur Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s....
    , (Holly Springs
    Holly Springs, Mississippi

    Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Steve Forbert
    Steve Forbert

    Steve Forbert is an United States pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart in 1980....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • C. L. Franklin
    C. L. Franklin

    The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin was an United States Baptist minister as well as a Civil Rights Activism. He was also the father of soul singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin....
    , (Sunflower County
    Sunflower County, Mississippi

    Sunflower County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 34,369. Its county seat is Indianola, Mississippi....
    )
  • Bobbie Gentry
    Bobbie Gentry

    Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
    , (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Mickey Gilley
    Mickey Gilley

    Mickey Gilley is an United States country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop music-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Glen Graham
    Glen Graham

    Glenn Graham was an United States Athletics who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed in Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won silver medal, behind fellow American polevaulter Lee Barnes who won gold....
    , (Columbus
    Columbus, Mississippi

    Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
    )
  • Caroline Herring
    Caroline Herring

    Caroline Herring is an Mississippi-born, Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia-based country and folk singer-songwriter. Caroline now lives in Atlanta with her son, daughter, and singer-songwriter husband....
    , bluegrass musician, (Canton
    Canton, Mississippi

    Canton is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,911 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi, and situated in the northern part of the Jackson metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi....
    )
  • Michael Henderson
    Michael Henderson

    Michael Henderson is a bass guitarist and vocalist best known for his work with Miles Davis in the early 1970s, providing a deep funky groove to early Jazz fusion albums such as A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Pangaea , and Live-Evil....
    , (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Faith Hill
    Faith Hill

    Faith Hill is an United States country music singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw....
    , country/pop singer, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Big Walter Horton
    Big Walter Horton

    Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton was an American blues harmonica player.Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a harmonica by the time he was five years old....
    , (Horn Lake
    Horn Lake, Mississippi

    Horn Lake is a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Horn Lake is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, which is located just a few miles to the north....
    )
  • Son House
    Son House

    Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music....
    , (Riverton)
  • Guy Hovis
    Guy Hovis

    Guy Lee Hovis Jr. is an United States-born singer who was one of the featured performers of television's The Lawrence Welk Show, but is best known as one half of the singing couple Guy & Ralna....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Cary Hudson
    Cary Hudson

    Cary Hudson is the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative country/Southern rock band, Blue Mountain . Cary was born in the small town of Sumrall, MS, located approximately 15 miles from Hattiesburg....
    , lead singer and guitarist for alt-country band Blue Mountain
    Blue Mountain (band)

    Blue Mountain is an United States alt-country band formed in 1991 in Oxford, MS, Mississippi by husband and wife duo Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt , who is notably the twin sister of John Stirratt, the bass player for the like-minded Americana band Wilco....
     (Sumrall
    Sumrall, Mississippi

    Sumrall is a town in Lamar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Hattiesburg metropolitan area. The population was 1,005 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Mississippi John Hurt
    Mississippi John Hurt

    "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt was an influential blues singer and guitarist....
    , (Teoc)
  • Clifton Hyde
    Clifton Hyde

    Clifton Hyde is a Hattiesburg, Mississippi born guitarist/composer/multi-instrumentalist/Producer/Arranger currently living and working in New York City....
    , Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
  • Elmore James
    Elmore James

    Elmore James was an United States blues guitarist, singer, song writer and band leader.He was known as "The King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice....
    , (Richland
    Richland, Mississippi

    Richland is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 6,027 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Skip James
    Skip James

    Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an United States Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter....
    , (Bentonia
    Bentonia, Mississippi

    Bentonia is a town in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 500 at the 2000 census. Some blues scholars maintain that there is a "Bentonia School" of blues singing and guitar-playing, and that "Bentonia-style" is a distinct style of Delta Blues, but Bentonia lies outside the Mississippi Delta proper....
    )
  • Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson
    Jai Johanny Johanson

    Jai Johanny Johanson , frequently known by the stage names Jaimoe, is an United States drummer and percussionist. He is best known as one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band....
    , drummer in The Allman Brothers Band
    The Allman Brothers Band

    The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
    , (Ocean Springs
    Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi , about east of Biloxi, Mississippi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Big Jack Johnson
    Big Jack Johnson

    Big Jack Johnson is a modern electric blues musician.He has recorded both solo and as a member of the blues groups the Jelly Roll Kings and Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers....
    , blues musician, (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Robert Johnson, (Hazlehurst
    Hazlehurst, Mississippi

    Hazlehurst is the county seat of Copiah County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located about 30 miles south of the state capital Jackson, Mississippi along Interstate 55....
    )
  • Junior Kimbrough
    Junior Kimbrough

    Junior Kimbrough was a prominent American bluesman from Mississippi....
    , (Hudsonville
    Hudsonville, Mississippi

    Hudsonville is an unincorporated area in Marshall County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located in the hill country of north Mississippi....
    )
  • Albert King
    Albert King

    Albert King was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
    , (Indianola
    Indianola, Mississippi

    Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County, Mississippi....
    )
  • B. B. King
    B. B. King

    B. B. King is an United States blues guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his expressive singing and inimitable guitar playing. As Komara has written, "King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." Critic...
    , (Itta Bena
    Itta Bena, Mississippi

    Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,208 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Mississippi Valley State University....
    )
  • Fern Kinney
    Fern Kinney

    Fern Kinney is an United States Rhythm and blues and disco singer, who is best remembered for her releases, "Groove Me" and "Together We Are Beautiful"....
    , rhythm & blues and disco music entertainer, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Kudzu Kings
    Kudzu kings

    Kudzu Kings were a musical outfit from Oxford, MS. Their sound has been categorized as a unique blend of country, bluegrass and improvisational rock & roll....
    , band (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • Sonny Landreth
    Sonny Landreth

    Sonny Landreth is a United States blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana....
    , (Canton
    Canton, Mississippi

    Canton is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,911 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi, and situated in the northern part of the Jackson metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi....
    )
  • Denise LaSalle
    Denise LaSalle

    Denise LaSalle is an United States Urban contemporary, Rhythm and blues/Soul music singer, songwriter, and record producer....
    , (Belzoni
    Leflore County, Mississippi

    Leflore County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 37,947. The county seat is Greenwood, Mississippi....
    )
  • Chris LeDoux
    Chris LeDoux

    Chris LeDoux was an United States country music singer-songwriter, Bronze sculpture and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded thirty-six albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007....
    , (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Tommy McClennan
    Tommy McClennan

    Tommy McClennan was a delta blues singer and guitarist....
    , (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • George McConnell
    George McConnell

    George McConnell is an American guitarist from Vicksburg, Mississippi who played for Widespread Panic, Kudzu Kings, and Beanland. He attended the University of Mississippi where he was in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity....
    , guitarist, (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    )
  • Kansas Joe McCoy
    Kansas Joe McCoy

    Kansas Joe McCoy was an African American blues musician and songwriter....
    , (Raymond
    Raymond, Mississippi

    Raymond is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,664. Raymond is one of the two county seats of Hinds County and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College....
    )
  • Papa Charlie McCoy
    Papa Charlie McCoy

    Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy was an African American delta blues musician and songwriter....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Fred McDowell
    Fred McDowell

    Fred McDowell , often known as Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the Delta blues style....
    , (Como
    Como, Mississippi

    Como is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States which borders the Mississippi Delta. The population was 1,310 as of the 2000 census....
    )
  • Little Milton
    Little Milton

    Milton "Little Milton" Campbell, Jr. was a blues and Soul music vocalist and guitarist best known for his hits "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It." Most popular in 1960s, he became one of the lesser known greats of the genre, combining traditional lyrical structure with smoother production....
    , (Inverness
    Inverness, Mississippi

    Inverness is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,153 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Mississippi Mass Choir
    Mississippi Mass Choir

    The Mississippi Mass Choir is an American gospel music choir based in Jackson, Mississippi....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Dorothy Moore
    Dorothy Moore

    Dorothy Moore is an United States pop music, Rhythm & blues, and Soul music singer best known for her 1976 hit record song, "Misty Blue"....
    , gospel singer, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Charlie Musselwhite
    Charlie Musselwhite

    Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
    , (Kosciusko
    Kosciusko, Mississippi

    Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,372 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Attala County, Mississippi....
    )
  • North Mississippi Allstars
    North Mississippi Allstars

    North Mississippi Allstars is a blues-Rock music/jamband from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson , and Chris Chew ....
    , band, (Hernando
    Hernando, Mississippi

    Hernando is a city in central DeSoto County, Mississippi. The population was 6,812 at the 2000 census. The 2006 census estimate reflects a population of 10,580....
    )
  • Brandy Norwood, (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Willie Norwood
    Willie Norwood

    William Ray Norwood, Sr. known as Willie Norwood is an United States Gospel music singer and has been involved in singing since early childhood....
    , (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • William Ray Norwood, Jr., stage name Ray J., (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Alexander O'Neal
    Alexander O'Neal

    Alexander O'Neal is an United States singer.O'Neal sings in the retro-style of Soul music in both dance-pop numbers and modern, mainstream Urban ballads....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Paul Ott, (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Junior Parker
    Junior Parker

    Junior Parker, also known as Little Junior Parker or "Mr Blues" was a successful and influential Memphis blues singer and musician....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Michael Passons
    Michael Passons

    Michael Passons , a native of Yazoo City, Mississippi, is the founding member of the Christian band Avalon . After moving to Nashville in 1990, he began to meet and collaborate with friends in the music industry which ultimately led to him receiving an offer to help assemble a band with Sparrow Records in 1995....
    , gospel singer, (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Charley Patton
    Charlie Patton

    Charlie Patton, better known as Charley Patton is best known as an United States Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of Delta Blues" and therefore one of the oldest known figures of American popular music....
    , (Edwards
    Edwards, Mississippi

    Edwards is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,347 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Leontyne Price
    Leontyne Price

    Mary Violet Leontyne Price in Laurel, Mississippi in the United States is one of America's most beloved and widely recorded operatic sopranos....
    , opera singer, (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Charley Pride
    Charley Pride

    Charley Frank Pride is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs charts....
    , (Sledge
    Sledge, Mississippi

    Sledge is a town located in Quitman County, Mississippi. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 529.Famous African American Country singer Charley Pride is from Sledge....
    )
  • Newt Rayburn, (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • Jimmy Reed
    Jimmy Reed

    Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an United States blues singer notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries....
    , (Dunleith)
  • Del Rendon
    Del Rendon

    Del Rendon was a musician from Starkville, Mississippi whose music entertained and inspired millions for 20 years. He has toured throughout the southeastern United States and even Nashville, Tennessee....
    , (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • LeAnn Rimes
    LeAnn Rimes

    Margaret LeAnn Rimes is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress, who records under the name LeAnn Rimes. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy Cline,...
    , (Pearl
    Pearl, Mississippi

    Pearl is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • William Leonard Roberts II, stage name Rick Ross (Rapper), (Coahoma
    Coahoma County, Mississippi

    Coahoma County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 30,622. Its county seat is Clarksdale, Mississippi....
    )
  • Fenton Robinson
    Fenton Robinson

    Fenton Robinson was a blues singer and exponent of the Chicago Blues guitar.His signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" was cover version by Boz Scaggs, but attributed to Scaggs himself, resulting in legal battles....
    , blues musician, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

    Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers

    Jimmy Rogers was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s....
    , blues musician, (Ruleville
    Ruleville, Mississippi

    Ruleville is a small city in the fertile Mississippi Delta region in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,234 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • David Ruffin
    David Ruffin

    David Ruffin was an American soul music singer most famous for his work as lead singer of The Temptations from 1964 to 1968 . His was the lead voice on such classic songs as "My Girl " and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"....
    , former lead singer of The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
    , (Whynot
    Whynot, Mississippi

    Whynot is a rural unincorporated area in southeastern Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States.Its history dates back to the 1840s....
    )
  • Jimmy Ruffin
    Jimmy Ruffin

    Jimmy Ruffin is an United States soul music singer and elder sibling of David Ruffin, one of the lead singers for The Temptations. Jimmy himself was offered a chance to sing with the Temptations, but he declined in favor of David....
    , singer, (Collinsville
    Collinsville, Mississippi

    Collinsville is a census-designated place in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,823 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Bobby Rush
    Bobby Rush

    Bobby Lee Rush is an Politics of the United States from Illinois. A Democratic Party , he has served in the United States House of Representatives as the member from Illinois' 1st congressional district since 1993....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Otis Rush
    Otis Rush

    Otis Rush is a blues music musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes....
    , blues musician, (Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Mississippi

    Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. With a population of 7,303 at the 2000 census, Philadelphia is most noted for the racial violence, murders, and other civil rights violations that occurred in the mid 1960s....
    )
  • Magic Sam
    Magic Sam

    Samuel "Magic Sam" Gene Maghett was an American blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter....
    , (Grenada
    Grenada, Mississippi

    Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,879 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jeff Savage, Grammy Nominated and Dove award winning producer and songwriter for such Gold and Platinum selling groups and artists TobyMac, dc Talk
    DC Talk

    DC Talk is the first studio album released from DC Talk. This is the most hip hop oriented of all of their albums....
    , Jars of Clay
    Jars of Clay

    Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band from Franklin, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on singer, Charlie Lowell on piano and Keyboard instrument, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars....
    , Natalie Imbruglia
    Natalie Imbruglia

    Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress.In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Willis in the popular Australian Soap opera Neighbours....
    , and Plumb
    Plumb

    Plumb may refer to:* Plumb-bob, a type of tool* Plumb , a Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter* Plumbing* Plumb, to measure the depth of water with a sounding line...
     among others, (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Scott Savage, former drummer of Grammy and Dove award winning band Jars of Clay,(Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Saving Abel
    Saving Abel

    Saving Abel is an United States Rock music band formed by Jared Weeks and Jason Null in 2004. The band's name references the Bible story of Cain and Abel....
    , band (Corinth
    Corinth, Mississippi

    Corinth is a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,054 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jumpin' Gene Simmons
    Jumpin' Gene Simmons

    Jumpin' Gene Simmons was an American rockabilly singer and songwriter.Simmons began his recording career with Sun Records in 1958 . He performed as an opening act for Elvis Presley ....
    , rockabilly singer, (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Brad Smith
    Brad Smith

    Brad Smith or Bradley Smith may refer to:* Brad Smith , American football player* Brad Smith , , Canadian football player, son of former CFL Commissioner & player Larry Smith...
    , bass player for Blind Melon
    Blind Melon

    Blind Melon is an American rock band that originally existed from 1989 to 1995, and ceased with the death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon shortly after the release of the band's second album....
    , (West Point
    West Point, Mississippi

    West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,145 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County, Mississippi and the principal city of the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Otis Spann
    Otis Spann

    Otis Spann was an United States blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist....
    , blues musician, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Britney Spears
    Britney Spears

    'Britney Jean Spears' is a Grammy Awards-winning American pop music singer, dancer, actress, and glamour model.Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#199...
    , (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Pops Staples
    Pops Staples

    Roebuck "Pops" Staples was a Mississippi-born Gospel music and Rhythm and blues musician. He was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer....
    , lead singer of The Staple Singers
    The Staple Singers

    The Staple Singers were an United States Gospel music, soul music, and R&B singing group. Pops Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis Staples ....
    , (Winona
    Winona, Mississippi

    Winona is a city in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,482 at the 2000 census. The name of the city comes from a Sioux word meaning "first-born daughter." It is the county seat of Montgomery County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Rogers Stevens
    Rogers Stevens

    Rogers Stevens is the guitarist from Blind Melon, an alternative rock band which began in the '90s.He and Rene Lopez formed a band called in 1999 and made a CD in 2001 but the band spilt up in 2002....
    , (West Point
    West Point, Mississippi

    West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,145 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County, Mississippi and the principal city of the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Lisa Stewart
    Lisa Stewart

    Lisa Stewart is an American country music artist. In 1993, she signed to BNA Records , releasing her self-titled debut album that year. This album produced two singles for her on the Billboard country charts....
    , (Louisville
    Louisville, Mississippi

    Louisville is a city in Winston County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,006 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Winston County, Mississippi....
    )
  • William Grant Still
    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to hav...
    , (Woodville
    Woodville, Mississippi

    Woodville is a town in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,192 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wilkinson County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Marty Stuart
    Marty Stuart

    John Marty Stuart is an United States country music singer, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music....
    , (Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Mississippi

    Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. With a population of 7,303 at the 2000 census, Philadelphia is most noted for the racial violence, murders, and other civil rights violations that occurred in the mid 1960s....
    )
  • Hubert Sumlin
    Hubert Sumlin

    Hubert Sumlin is an United States blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band....
    , blues musician, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Ty Tabor
    Ty Tabor

    Ty Tabor is the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the progressive metal band, King's X.Tabor has a wide-ranging guitar style, from big guitar riffs to soaring melodic passages....
    , (Pearl
    Pearl, Mississippi

    Pearl is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Melvin Taylor
    Melvin Taylor

    Melvin Taylor is an United States blues guitarist, based in Chicago, Illinois....
     blues musician, born Jackson, Mississippi
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
  • Eddie Taylor
    Eddie Taylor

    Edward "Eddie" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer.As a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing at venues around Leland, Mississippi, where he taught his friend Jimmy Reed to play guitar....
    , (Benoit
    Benoit, Mississippi

    Benoit is a town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 611 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Hound Dog Taylor
    Hound Dog Taylor

    Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Jean Terrell
    Jean Terrell

    Jean Terrell is an United States Rhythm and blues and jazz singer, singularly known for having replaced Diana Ross in The Supremes in 1970 in music....
    , (Belzoni
    Belzoni, Mississippi

    Belzoni is a city in Humphreys County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, on the Yazoo River. The population was 2,663 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Rufus Thomas
    Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas, Jr. was a rhythm and blues, funk and soul music singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
    , (Cayce)
  • Ike Turner
    Ike Turner

    Ike Wister Turner was an United States musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer. His first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "First rock and roll record" ever....
    , (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Conway Twitty
    Conway Twitty

    Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
    , (Friars Point
    Friars Point, Mississippi

    Friars Point is a town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,480 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters

    McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
    , (Rolling Fork
    Rolling Fork, Mississippi

    Rolling Fork is a city in Sharkey County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,486 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sharkey County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Bukka White
    Bukka White

    Bukka White was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Given name by his second record label, ....
    , (Houston
    Houston, Mississippi

    Houston is a city in and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,079 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Carson Whitsett
    Carson Whitsett

    Carson Whitsett was a keyboardist, songwriter, and producer.Carson Whitsett joined his older brother Tim's band, Tim Whitsett & The Imperials and quickly became a stand-out on the B-3 organ....
    , keyboardist and songwriter, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Tim Whitsett
    Tim Whitsett

    Tim Whitsett is a music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant.His lifelong association with the music business began professionally as a sixteen-year-old recording artist signed to Imperial Records....
    , band leader and publisher, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Webb Wilder
    Webb Wilder

    Webb Wilder is a musician who famously mixes the sounds of Country music, Surf music and Rock and roll known as "swampedelic". He also produced an award-winning collection of short films under the title of Corn Flicks....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Big Joe Williams
    Big Joe Williams

    Big Joe Williams was an United States Delta blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality....
    , (Crawford
    Crawford, Mississippi

    Crawford is a town in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 655 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Sonny Boy Williamson II

    Aleck "Rice" Miller , a.k.a. Aleck Ford, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter....
    , (Glendora
    Glendora, Mississippi

    Glendora is a village in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 285 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Al Wilson
    Al Wilson (singer)

    Allen LaMar Wilson was an United States soul music singer best known for the chart-topper song "Show and Tell "....
    , singer and drummer, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson

    Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She has won two Grammy Awards....
    , jazz singer and songwriter, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Mary Wilson
    Mary Wilson (singer)

    Mary Wilson is an United States singer best known as a member of the legendary Motown group The Supremes. Wilson was notably the only original member of The Supremes who remained in the group from its founding in 1959 to its disbandment in 1977....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Howlin' Wolf
    Howlin' Wolf

    Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular...
    , (West Point
    West Point, Mississippi

    West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,145 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County, Mississippi and the principal city of the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Tammy Wynette
    Tammy Wynette

    Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Lester Young
    Lester Young

    Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
    , (Woodville
    Woodville, Mississippi

    Woodville is a town in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,192 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wilkinson County, Mississippi....
    )


Physicians

  • Blair E. Batson, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center
    University of Mississippi Medical Center

    University of Mississippi Medical Center is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi....
     and namesake of the Blair E. Batson Children's Hospital, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Arthur Guyton
    Arthur Guyton

    Arthur Clifton Guyton was an American physiologist. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi, to Dr. Billy S. Guyton, a highly respected eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist, who later became Dean of the University of Mississippi Medical School, and Kate Smallwood Guyton, a mathematics and physics teacher who had been a missionary in China before...
    , wrote the Textbook of Medical Physiology, (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • John Hall, continues to work on Textbook of Medical Physiology
  • James Hardy, surgeon performed the first successful cadaveric lung transplant, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • T. R. M. Howard
    T. R. M. Howard

    Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, surgeon, and entrepreneur. He was a mentor to Medgar Evers and Charles Evers, head of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and played a prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till....
    , former chief surgeon at the Taborian Hospital and Friendship Clinic, (Mound Bayou
    Mound Bayou, Mississippi

    Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,102 at the 2000 census. It is notable for being founded by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery; by percentage it has one of the largest List of U.S....
    )


Politicians

  • Robert H. Adams
    Robert H. Adams

    Robert Huntington Adams was a Mississippi lawyer and politician who, in the final months of his life, briefly served as United States senator from Mississippi....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Haley Barbour
    Haley Barbour

    Haley Reeves Barbour is an United States politician currently serving as the List of Governors of Mississippi of Mississippi. He gained a national spotlight in August 2005 after Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina....
    , (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Ethelbert Barksdale
    Ethelbert Barksdale

    Ethelbert Barksdale was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, as well as a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • William Barksdale
    William Barksdale

    William Barksdale was a lawyer, newspaper editor, United States House of Representatives, and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Ross Barnett
    Ross Barnett

    Ross Robert Barnett was the Democratic Party List of Governors of Mississippi of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964.Born in Standing Pine, Mississippi in Leake County, Mississippi, Barnett was the youngest of ten children of a Confederate Army veteran....
    , (Standing Pine
    Standing Pine, Mississippi

    Standing Pine is a census-designated place in Leake County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 509 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Marion Barry
    Marion Barry

    Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. , is an American politician who served as the second elected List of mayors of Washington, D.C. of Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999....
    , (Itta Bena
    Itta Bena, Mississippi

    Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,208 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Mississippi Valley State University....
    )
  • Theodore Bilbo, (Poplarville
    Poplarville, Mississippi

    Poplarville is a city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 2,601....
    )
  • Marsha Blackburn
    Marsha Blackburn

    Marsha Blackburn is a Tennessee politician. A member of the Republican Party , she represents Tennessee's 7th congressional district, which stretches from the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee to the suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • Hale Boggs
    Hale Boggs

    Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. was an United States Democratic party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana....
    , (Long Beach
    Long Beach, Mississippi

    Long Beach is a city located in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • Blanche Bruce
    Blanche Bruce

    Blanche Kelso Bruce was an Politics of the United States. Bruce represented Mississippi as a Republican Party United States Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S....
    , Mississippi Senator
  • Thomas Jefferson Busby, proponent of the Natchez Trace Parkway
    Natchez Trace Parkway

    The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 444 mile long parkway, in the form of a Limited-access road Two-lane freeway, in the southeastern United States....
    , (Houston
    Houston, Mississippi

    Houston is a city in and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,079 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.
    Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.

    Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. was a United States Representative from Mississippi. He was the nephew of Milton A. Candler and cousin of Allen Daniel Candler....
    , (Corinth
    Corinth, Mississippi

    Corinth is a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,054 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Joseph W. Chalmers
    Joseph W. Chalmers

    Joseph Williams Chalmers was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born in Halifax County, Virginia, he studied law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and in Richmond, Virginia....
    , (Holly Springs
    Holly Springs, Mississippi

    Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,957 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jacqueline Y. Collins
    Jacqueline Y. Collins

    Jacqueline Y. Collins is a Democratic Party member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 16th district since 2003....
     (McComb), Illinois state senator
  • John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne
    John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne

    John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne was a Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Mississippi.Claiborne was named after Jean Fran?ois Hamtramck and was a nephew of William Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, grandnephew of Thomas Claiborne , great-grandfather of Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr., great-great-grandfathe...
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Thad Cochran
    Thad Cochran

    William Thad Cochran is the senior United States Senate from Mississippi, and is a member of the Republican Party . In April 2006, he was selected by Time as one of "America's 10 Best Senators."...
    , (Pontotoc
    Pontotoc, Mississippi

    Pontotoc is a city in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Pontotoc is west of the much larger city of Tupelo, Mississippi....
    )
  • James P. Coleman
    James P. Coleman

    James Plemon "J.P." Coleman was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi.Coleman was born in Ackerman, Mississippi. He obtained a law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1939....
    , (Ackerman
    Ackerman, Mississippi

    Ackerman is a town in Choctaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,696 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi....
    )
  • George Dale, former insurance commissioner
  • Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis

    Jefferson Finis Davis was an United States politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War....
    , US Senator and President of the Confederate States of America
    Confederate States of America

    The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
    , (Warren County
    Warren County, Mississippi

    Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. In 2000, its population was 49,644. Its county seat is Vicksburg, Mississippi....
    )
  • James Eastland
    James Eastland

    James Oliver Eastland was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the United States Senate as a United States Democratic Party briefly in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978....
    , (Sunflower
    Sunflower, Mississippi

    Sunflower is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 696 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Alphonso Michael Espy, (Yazoo City
    Yazoo City, Mississippi

    Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle....
    )
  • Kirk Fordice
    Kirk Fordice

    Daniel Kirkwood "Kirk" Fordice, Jr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was the List of Governors of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000....
    , (Vicksburg
    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
    ) and other cities
  • Evelyn Gandy
    Evelyn Gandy

    Edythe Evelyn Gandy was an United States politician who was the first female elected to a statewide office in Mississippi that of State Treasurer of Mississippi....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • James Z. George
    James Z. George

    James Zachariah George was an United States military officer, lawyer, writer, and politician. He was known as Mississippi's "Great Commoner."...
    , (Carrollton
    Carrollton, Mississippi

    Carrollton is a town in Carroll County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 408 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area....
    )
  • Charles H. Griffin
    Charles H. Griffin

    Charles Hudson Griffin was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, great-great-grandson of Isaac Griffin.Born on a farm near Utica, Mississippi, Griffin was educated at Utica High School, Hinds Junior College, and graduated from Mississippi State University in 1949....
    , (Utica
    Utica, Mississippi

    Utica is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 966 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the URJ Henry S....
    )
  • Pat Harrison
    Pat Harrison

    Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death....
    , (Crystal Springs
    Crystal Springs, Mississippi

    Crystal Springs is a city in Copiah County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,873 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Patrick Henry
    Patrick Henry (U.S. Congressman)

    Patrick Henry was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, uncle of Pat Henry .Born near Cynthia, Mississippi, Henry attended the common schools, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, Madison College, Sharon, Mississippi, and the Nashville Military College....
    , (Brandon
    Brandon, Mississippi

    Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi...
    )
  • Thomas C. Hindman
    Thomas C. Hindman

    Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr. was a lawyer, United States House of Representatives from the Arkansas's 1st congressional district of Arkansas, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
    , (Ripley
    Ripley, Mississippi

    Ripley is a city in Tippah County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,478 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Tippah County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jon Hinson
    Jon Hinson

    Jon Clifton Hinson was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    , (Tylertown
    Tylertown, Mississippi

    Tylertown is a town in Walthall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,910 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Walthall County, Mississippi....
    )
  • David Holmes
    David Holmes (politician)

    David Holmes was the last governor of the Mississippi Territory and the first Governor of Mississippi of the U.S. state of Mississippi.Born in York County, Pennsylvania, Holmes and his family moved to Virginia when he was a child....
    , first Governor of Mississippi
  • Benjamin G. Humphreys
    Benjamin G. Humphreys

    Benjamin Grubb Humphreys was an United States politician from Mississippi. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and served as List of Governors of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, during Reconstruction era of the United States....
    , (Claiborne County
    Claiborne County, Mississippi

    Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 11,831. Its county seat is Port Gibson, Mississippi....
    )
  • Benjamin G. Humphreys II
    Benjamin G. Humphreys II

    Benjamin Grubb Humphreys was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, father of William Y. Humphreys, and son of Benjamin G. Humphreys....
    , (Claiborne County
    Claiborne County, Mississippi

    Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 11,831. Its county seat is Port Gibson, Mississippi....
    )
  • William Y. Humphreys
    William Y. Humphreys

    William Yerger Humphreys was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, son of Benjamin G. Humphreys II.Born in Greenville, Mississippi, Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, Humphreys attended the public schools and Sewanee Grammar School, Sewanee, Tennessee....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Paul B. Johnson, Sr.
    Paul B. Johnson, Sr.

    Paul Burney Johnson, Sr. was a judge, United States Representative and Governor of Mississippi. From 1907 to 1908 he was a judge of the city court of Hattiesburg, Mississippi....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Paul B. Johnson, Jr.
    Paul B. Johnson, Jr.

    Paul Burney Johnson, Jr. was a United States United States Democratic Party Mississippi politician and son of former Mississippi List of Governors of Mississippi Paul B....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)
    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)

    Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was an United States politician and jurist from Mississippi. A United States Representative and United States Senate, he also served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, as well as an Associate Justice of the U.S....
    , US Senator and US Supreme Court Justice
    Supreme Court of the United States

    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
    , (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • Elmer Litchfield
    Elmer Litchfield

    Elmer B. Litchfield was a long-serving sheriff of populous East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, known for his modernization of law-enforcement procedures....
    , former sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
    Louisiana

    The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Trent Lott, Sr.
    Trent Lott

    Chester Trent Lott Sr. is a former United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party . He has served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, including Party whips of the United States House of Representatives, Party leaders of the United States Senate, Part...
    , (Grenada
    Grenada, Mississippi

    Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,879 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi....
    )
  • John R. Lynch
    John R. Lynch

    John Roy Lynch was the first African-American Speaker of the House in Mississippi. He was also one of the first African-Americans elected to the U.S House of Representatives during Reconstruction era of the United States, the period in United States history after the American Civil War....
    , first African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Ray Mabus
    Ray Mabus

    Raymond Edwin "Ray" Mabus, Jr. is an American business and political leader. Based in Mississippi, he works on international business matters, is involved in political campaigns, and serves on various corporate and charitable boards....
    , governor, (Starkville
    Starkville, Mississippi

    Starkville is a city in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of 2008, the city population was 24,000. It is the county seat of Oktibbeha County....
    )
  • Hernando Money
    Hernando Money

    Hernando De Soto Money was an American politician from the state of Mississippi.Money was born in Zeiglersville, Mississippi. He was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto ....
    , (Carrollton
    Carrollton, Mississippi

    Carrollton is a town in Carroll County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 408 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area....
    )
  • "Sonny" Montgomery
    Gillespie V. Montgomery

    Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery was an United States politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1967?1997. Montgomery, who was considered a "hawkish," pro-defense and pro-veterans Democratic Party, resided in Meridian, Mississippi, the seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, in eastern Mississippi....
    , (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Mike Moore
    Mike Moore (Mississippi politician)

    Michael Moore was the Attorney General for the U.S. State of Mississippi from 1988 to 2004. In 1994, he filed the first lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies, claiming that they should reimburse the State for the costs of treating those with smoking-related illnesses....
    , Attorney General, (Pascagoula
    Pascagoula, Mississippi

    Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area, as a part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi–Pascagoula, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula combined statistical area....
    )
  • Ronnie Musgrove
    Ronnie Musgrove

    David Ronald "Ronnie" Musgrove is an United States politician who was the Democratic Party List of Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi from 1996 to 2000 and the List of Governors of Mississippi from 2000 to 2004 of the U.S....
    , (Tocowa)
  • Charles W. Pickering
    Charles W. Pickering

    Charles Willis Pickering, Sr. is a retired United States federal judge and former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit....
    , (Jones County
    Jones County, Mississippi

    Jones County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 64,958. Its county seats are Laurel, Mississippi and Ellisville, Mississippi....
    )
  • Chip Pickering
    Chip Pickering

    Charles "Chip" Willis Pickering, Jr. is a politician in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He represented as a Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives....
    , (Laurel
    Laurel, Mississippi

    Laurel is a city located in Jones County, Mississippi in Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina....
    )
  • John E. Rankin
    John E. Rankin

    John Elliott Rankin was a congressman from the U.S. State of Mississippi....
    , (Itawamba County
    Itawamba County, Mississippi

    Itawamba County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 22,770. Its county seat is Fulton, Mississippi....
    )
  • Hiram Rhodes Revels
    Hiram Rhodes Revels

    Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Since he preceded any African American in the United States House of Representatives, he was the first African American in the U.S....
    , first African-American US Senator
  • Larry Speakes
    Larry Speakes

    Larry M. Speakes is a former acting spokesman for the White House under President of the United States Ronald Reagan, having held the position from 1981 to 1987....
    , (Cleveland
    Cleveland, Mississippi

    Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,841 at the 2000 census.It is best known as the home of Delta State University....
    )
  • John Stennis, (De Kalb
    De Kalb, Mississippi

    De Kalb is a town in Kemper County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 972 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kemper County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Gene Taylor, (Bay St. Louis
    Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

    Bay Saint Louis is a city located in Hancock County, Mississippi. It is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi–Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area....
    )
  • Bennie Thompson
    Bennie Thompson

    Bennie G. Thompson is an American politician from the United States Democratic Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Mississippi since 1993....
    , (Bolton
    Bolton, Mississippi

    Bolton is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 629 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi Jackson metropolitan area....
    )
  • Amy Tuck
    Amy Tuck

    Amy Tuck is a former lieutenant governor of Mississippi. A United States Republican Party, she is only the second woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi and the first to have been re-elected....
    , (Maben
    Maben, Mississippi

    Maben is a town in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and Webster County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 803 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • James Vardaman, (Yalobusha County
    Yalobusha County, Mississippi

    Yalobusha County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 13,051. Its county seats are Water Valley, Mississippi and Coffeeville, Mississippi....
    )
  • Jamie L. Whitten
    Jamie L. Whitten

    Jamie Lloyd Whitten was a United States United States House of Representatives from Mississippi. He is the List of United States Congressmen by longevity of service#House Time and the List of United States Congressmen by longevity of service#House and Senate Time....
    , (Cascilla)
  • Roger Wicker
    Roger Wicker

    Roger Frederick Wicker is an American politician from the state of Mississippi. A Republican Party , he is currently Mississippi's junior United States Senate....
    , (Pontotoc
    Pontotoc, Mississippi

    Pontotoc is a city in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Pontotoc is west of the much larger city of Tupelo, Mississippi....
    )
  • William Winter
    William Winter (politician)

    William Forrest Winter is an United States politician from Mississippi. He served as List of Governors of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984 as a United States Democratic Party....
    , (Grenada
    Grenada, Mississippi

    Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,879 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Fielding L. Wright
    Fielding L. Wright

    Fielding Lewis Wright was a Democratic Party politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor of Mississippi after the incumbent, Thomas L....
    , (Rolling Fork
    Rolling Fork, Mississippi

    Rolling Fork is a city in Sharkey County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,486 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sharkey County, Mississippi....
    )


Writers

  • Earl W. Bascom
    Earl W. Bascom

    Earl W. Bascom was an United States painting, printmaking and sculpting, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American West and Canadian American Old West....
    , (Columbia
    Columbia, Mississippi

    Columbia is a city in Marion County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, which was formed six years before Mississippi was admitted to statehood....
    )
  • Lerone Bennett, Jr.
    Lerone Bennett, Jr.

    Lerone Bennett, Jr. is an American scholar, author and historian....
    , editor of Ebony
    Ebony (magazine)

    Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the Autumn of 1945....
     magazine, (Clarksdale
    Clarksdale, Mississippi

    Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Bruce Brady, writer, editor of Outdoor Life
    Outdoor Life

    Outdoor Life is an outdoors magazine about hunting, fishing, survival and camping. It is a sister magazine of Field & Stream.Outdoor Life launched in Denver, Colorado in January 1898....
    , (Brookhaven
    Brookhaven, Mississippi

    Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 9,861 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Charlie Braxton, poet and author (McComb
    McComb, Mississippi

    McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, just off the Interstate 55....
    )
  • Larry Brown
    Larry Brown (author)

    Larry Brown was an United States writer who was born and lived in Oxford, Mississippi. Brown wrote non-fiction and fiction. He graduated from high school in Oxford but did not go to college....
    , (Oxford
    Oxford, Mississippi

    Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
    )
  • Jill Conner Browne, author, Sweet Potato Queen
    Sweet Potato Queens

    The Sweet Potato Queens is a women's organization based in Jackson, Mississippi, that has over 5500 chapters in over 20 countries....
    , (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )
  • Hodding Carter, II
    Hodding Carter

    William Hodding Carter, II was a prominent Southern United States U.S. Political progressivism journalism and author. Carter was born in Hammond, Louisiana, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding Carter, I , and the former Irma Dutartre....
    , editor, journalist, (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Craig Claiborne
    Craig Claiborne

    Craig Claiborne was an United States restaurant critic, food writer and former food editor of the New York Times. He was the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography....
    , (Sunflower
    Sunflower, Mississippi

    Sunflower is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 696 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • William Faulkner
    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning United States author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short story....
    , (New Albany
    New Albany, Mississippi

    New Albany is a city in Union County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. New Albany is northwest of the much larger city of Tupelo, MS. The population was 7,607 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Bill Fitzhugh, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Vic Fleming
    Vic Fleming

    Victor Anson Fleming is an American judge, teacher and author residing in Little Rock, Arkansas.He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on December 26, 1951, and educated at Davidson College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where he has taught Law and Literature as an adjunct faulty member since 2003....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Shelby Foote
    Shelby Foote

    Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an United States novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative....
    , historian, novelist, (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • Richard Ford
    Richard Ford

    Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs , which contains several widely anthologized stories....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • John Grisham
    John Grisham

    John Ray Grisham is an United States ex-politician, lawyer and novelist is best known for his works of modern legal drama. As of 2008, his books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide....
    , (Southaven
    Southaven, Mississippi

    Southaven, a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Mississippi. Southaven is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 28,977....
    )
  • Barry Hannah
    Barry Hannah

    Barry Hannah is an United States novelist and short story writer....
    , (Clinton
    Clinton, Mississippi

    Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi....
    )
  • Thomas Harris
    Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris is an United States author and screenwriter, best known for a series of novels about his most famous character, psychopathic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who has since become a cultural icon....
    , (Rich)
  • Beth Henley
    Beth Henley

    Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American dramatist and actor. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981 for her play, Crimes of the Heart ....
    , (Hattiesburg
    Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Hattiesburg, known as "The Hub City", is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi and Lamar County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi....
    )
  • Greg Iles
    Greg Iles

    Greg Iles is an United States bestselling novelist who lives in Natchez, Mississippi.Iles was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father ran the United States Embassy Medical Clinic....
    , (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Greg Keyes, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Donna Ladd
    Donna Ladd

    Donna Ladd is an United States investigative journalist who helped create Jackson Free Press, an award-winning freely distributed newsweekly....
    , investigative journalist, (Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Mississippi

    Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. With a population of 7,303 at the 2000 census, Philadelphia is most noted for the racial violence, murders, and other civil rights violations that occurred in the mid 1960s....
    )
  • Muna Lee
    Muna Lee (writer)

    Muna Lee was an United States author and poet who became widely known for her writings that promoted Pan-Americanism and Feminism.Born in Raymond, Mississippi, Mississippi, Lee began her writing career as a well-known lyric poet....
    , (Raymond
    Raymond, Mississippi

    Raymond is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,664. Raymond is one of the two county seats of Hinds County and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College....
    )
  • Justin Mapp
    Justin Mapp

    Justin Mapp is an United States soccer midfielder, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire S.C. in Major League Soccer.Mapp graduated from the Bradenton Academy in 2001 and signed with MLS as a Project-40 player....
    , (Brandon
    Brandon, Mississippi

    Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi...
    )
  • Anne Moody
    Anne Moody

    Anne Moody is an African-American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, joining the Civil Rights Movement, and fighting racism against blacks in the United States beginning in the 1960s....
    , (Centreville
    Centreville, Mississippi

    Centreville is a town in Amite County, Mississippi and Wilkinson County, Mississippi Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 1,680 at the United States Census, 2000....
    )
  • Willie Morris
    Willie Morris

    William Weaks "Willie" Morris , was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Lewis Nordan
    Lewis Nordan

    Lewis Nordan grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi. In 1983, at age forty-five, Nordan published his first collection of stories, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair....
    , (Forest
    Forest, Mississippi

    Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,987 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Walker Percy
    Walker Percy

    Walker Percy was an American Southern literature whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • William Alexander Percy
    William Alexander Percy

    William Alexander Percy , was a lawyer, planter and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller....
    , (Greenville
    Greenville, Mississippi

    Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 41,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2007 census bureau estimates, has since declined to 36,178....
    )
  • William Raspberry
    William Raspberry

    William Raspberry is an American columnist. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated urban affairs columnist at The Washington Post, as well as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University....
    , (Okolona
    Okolona, Mississippi

    Okolona is a city in and one of the county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,056 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Kevin Sessums
    Kevin Sessums

    Kevin Sessums is an openly gay United States author from Forest, Mississippi. Sessums served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of both Vanity Fair and Allure ....
    , (Forest, Mississippi
    Forest, Mississippi

    Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,987 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt

    Donna Tartt is an United States writer and author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend . She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003....
    , author, (Greenwood
    Greenwood, Mississippi

    Greenwood is the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Mildred Taylor, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Natasha Trethewey
    Natasha Trethewey

    Natasha Trethewey is an American poet, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi....
    , 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, (Gulfport
    Gulfport, Mississippi

    Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson, Mississippi. It is the larger of two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area....
    )
  • Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty

    Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the Southern United States....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Tim Whitsett
    Tim Whitsett

    Tim Whitsett is a music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant.His lifelong association with the music business began professionally as a sixteen-year-old recording artist signed to Imperial Records....
    , music business, (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
    , (Columbus
    Columbus, Mississippi

    Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, MS, north of Meridian, MS, south of Tupelo, Mississippi, and west of Birmingham, AL ....
    )
  • Richard Nathaniel Wright
    Richard Wright (author)

    Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversialnovels, short stories and non-fiction.Much of his literature concerned racial themes....
    , (Roxie
    Roxie, Mississippi

    Roxie is a town in Franklin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 569 at the 2000 census....
    )
  • Al Young
    Al Young

    Al Young is an United States poet, novelist, essayist and screenwriter. On May 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....
    , (Ocean Springs
    Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, Mississippi , about east of Biloxi, Mississippi. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula metropolitan area....
    )
  • Stark Young
    Stark Young

    Stark Young was an United States teacher, playwright, novelist, Painting, literary critic and essayist....
    , (Como
    Como, Mississippi

    Como is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States which borders the Mississippi Delta. The population was 1,310 as of the 2000 census....
    )


Others

  • Susan Akin
    Susan Akin

    Susan Akin, from Meridian, Mississippi, Mississippi, was Miss America 1986. Born in 1965, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women at the University of Mississippi....
    , Miss America
    Miss America

    The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands....
     1986, (Meridian
    Meridian, Mississippi

    Meridian is a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The city is the county seat of Lauderdale County, the sixth largest city in Mississippi, and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area....
    )
  • Cat Cora
    Cat Cora

    Catherine 'Cat' Cora is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on the Food Network television show Iron Chef America....
    , Iron Chef America
    Iron Chef America

    Iron Chef America: The Series is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA....
    , (Jackson
    Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
    )
  • Fred Haise
    Fred Haise

    Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. He is one of only List_of_Apollo_astronauts#People_who_flew_around_the_Moon_without_landing....
    , former NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
     astronaut
    Astronaut

    An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
    , (Biloxi
    Biloxi, Mississippi

    Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2000 United States Census recorded the population as 50,644....
    )
  • Lypsinka
    John Epperson

    John Epperson is an American drag queen, actor, pianist, vocalist and writer who is mainly known for creating his stage character Lypsinka....
    , drag performer and model, (Hazlehurst
    Hazlehurst, Mississippi

    Hazlehurst is the county seat of Copiah County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States, located about 30 miles south of the state capital Jackson, Mississippi along Interstate 55....
    )
  • Lynda Lee Mead
    Lynda Lee Mead

    Lynda Lee Mead Shea , from Natchez, Mississippi, Mississippi, attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, and won the Miss America pageant in 1960....
    , Miss America 1960, (Natchez
    Natchez, Mississippi

    Natchez is the county seat of and the largest and only incorporated city within Adams County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464....
    )
  • Mary Ann Mobley
    Mary Ann Mobley

    Mary Ann Mobley . She is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM Television....
    , Miss America 1959, (Brandon
    Brandon, Mississippi

    Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi...
    )
  • Cheryl Prewitt
    Cheryl Prewitt

    Cheryl Prewitt , from Chester, Mississippi, Mississippi, was Miss America 1980. Cheryl Salem grew up in the Chester community of Choctaw County, Mississippi....
    , Miss America 1980, (Ackerman
    Ackerman, Mississippi

    Ackerman is a town in Choctaw County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,696 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi....
    )
  • Felder Rushing, Horticulturist, gardening book author, radio and TV host, (Indianola, Jackson)
  • Amy Wesson
    Amy Wesson

    Amy Wesson is an United States fashion model from Tupelo, Mississippi....
    , Fashion model, (Tupelo
    Tupelo, Mississippi

    Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
    )