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1 Activists and advocates  




2 Actors and actresses  




3 Artists  




4 Athletes and sports-related people  




5 Broadcast media personalities  




6 Comedians  




7 Educators  




8 Entrepreneurs and business leaders  




9 Explorers  




10 Filmmakers  




11 Jurists and lawyers  




12 Military figures  




13 Models/pageant winners  




14 Musicians  




15 Physicians  




16 Politicians  




17 Scientists and inventors  




18 Supercentenarians  




19 Writers  




20 Other people  




21 References  













List of people from Mississippi






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State flag of Mississippi
Location of Mississippi in the U.S. map

This list contains people who were born or lived in the U.S. stateofMississippi.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Activists and advocates[edit]

Actors and actresses[edit]

Artists[edit]

Athletes and sports-related people[edit]

Main article: List of sports-related people from Mississippi

Broadcast media personalities[edit]

Comedians[edit]

Educators[edit]

Entrepreneurs and business leaders[edit]

Explorers[edit]

Filmmakers[edit]

Jurists and lawyers[edit]

Military figures[edit]

Models/pageant winners[edit]

Musicians[edit]

Main article: List of musicians from Mississippi

Physicians[edit]

Politicians[edit]

See also: List of Governors of Mississippi; List of United States Senators from Mississippi; List of United States Representatives from Mississippi; List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi; and List of mayors of Meridian, Mississippi

Scientists and inventors[edit]

Supercentenarians[edit]

Writers[edit]

Other people[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ruby Bridges". biography.com. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Will D. Campbell". The University of Mississippi. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "James Chaney". .spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Vernon Dahmer". The University of Southern Mississippi. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Charles Evers". clarionledger.com. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Medgar Evers". National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Myrlie Evers- Williams". National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "C. L. Franklin". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Lloyd L. Gaines". Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "The Right Reverend Duncan Montgomery Gray, Jr., 1926-2016". The Archives of the Episcopal Church. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  • ^ Jackson, MS: Winifred Green | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS, accessdate: February 21, 2016
  • ^ "Percy Greene". University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ Harris, Hamil R.; Schudel, Matt (November 25, 2012). "Lawrence Guyot". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Fannie Lou Hamer". National Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ Martin, Douglas (May 9, 2004). "Winson Hudson". The New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  • ^ "Clyde Kennard". Mississippi Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  • ^ "Inventory of the Ed King Collection". Retrieved June 20, 2009.
  • ^ "James Meredith". spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  • ^ "Anne Moody". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  • ^ "Ida B. Wells". The University of Mississippi English Department. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  • ^ "It runs in the family". Mississippi Magazine. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
  • ^ Hevesi, Dennis (June 26, 2011). "Byron Burford, 90, American Figurative Artist, Dies". The New York Times.
  • ^ "Profile for William Dunlap". Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
  • ^ University of Mississippi Dept. of Art Alumni: William Dunlap
  • ^ Paul Grootkerk, "The Visionary Paintings of Theora Hamblett," Woman's Art Journal 11 (Autumn 1990–Winter 1991): 19–22.
  • ^ EdMcGowin.com
  • ^ University Press of Mississippi: Ed McGowin
  • ^ "Ethel Wright Mohamed: biography". Retrieved May 1, 2009.
  • ^ Smithsonian Magazine: Mississippi Cultural Destinations
  • ^ "Profile for Ken Sessums". Retrieved July 27, 2008.
  • ^ Durden, Robert Franklin (1981). "Hamilton, William Baskerville". Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 214–215. ISBN 9781617034183.
  • ^ "Scott Rogers, "Family imprint seen in Monroe a century after arrival", April 21, 2013". Monroe News-Star. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  • ^ Criss, Jack (November 5, 2020). "Bill Bynum". Delta Business Journal. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  • ^ "Rhesa H. Barksdale". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Neal Brooks Biggers Jr". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "William Joel Blass". Legacy.com. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Bobby DeLaughter". American Bar Association. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Jess H. Dickinson". Notable Names Data Base. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Boyce Holleman". University of Mississippi. May 14, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ McMillen, Neil R. (1982). "Perry Wilbon Howard". The Journal of Southern History. 48 (2). Southern Historical Association: 205–224. doi:10.2307/2207107. JSTOR 2207107.
  • ^ "E. Grady Jolly". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Charles W. Pickering". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Thomas Rodney". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Michael B. Thornton". ustaxcourt.gov/. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Michael Wallace". judicialnominees. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "James Hardy, Surgeon Who Paved Way for Transplants, Dies at 84". The New York Times. February 21, 2003. Retrieved June 20, 2009.
  • ^ "Thomas Abernethy". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Robert H. Adams". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "James L. Alcorn". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "William Allain". Mississippi Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "John Mills Allen". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Haley Barbour". MProject Vote Smart. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Ethelbert Barksdale". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "William Barksdale". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Ross Barnett". The New York Times. November 7, 1987. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Theodore G. Bilbo". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Marsha Blackburn". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Hale Boggs". Notable Names Data Base. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  • ^ "Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi". San Jose State University. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  • ^ Montgomery, Frank A. (1901). Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company Press. pp. 136–139. LCCN 01023742. OCLC 1470413. OL 6909271M – via Internet Archive.
  • ^ Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963–1967)", The Journal of Mississippi History XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, pp. 240–264.
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  • ^ "Rubel Phillips Obituary: View Rubel Phillips's Obituary by Clarion Ledger". Legacy.com. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  • ^ "Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880–2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  • ^ "Seelig Bartel "Bushie" Wise, September 7, 2004". Clarksdale Press Register. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  • ^ "Nine named BCoE Distinguished Alumni Fellows". Mississippi State University. March 31, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
  • ^ "Ellen Douglas, Mississippi author". Retrieved June 20, 2009.
  • ^ "Tom Franklin, Mississippi writer". Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  • ^ "Robert Bruce Smith Profile". Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  • ^ Madness and The Mississippi Bonds: A Tale of Old Woodville and the life history of the Planters Bank of Mississippi by Robert Bruce Smith, published by the Woodville Civic Club, 2004
  • ^ White, Neil (2010). Mississippians. Nautilus Publishing Company MS. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-9774562-7-7.

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