Notable People from Mississippi

Harmonica Frank

American musician (1908–1984)

Hattie Littles

American musician (1937-2000)

Henry T. Sampson

American engineer, inventor and film historian (1934–2015)

James Gilreath

American musician (1936–2003)

James S. Johnston

American bishop (1843–1924)

Barbara Siggers Franklin

American singer (1917-1952)

Walter M. Denny

American politician (1853–1926)

Captain John Handy

American musician (1900–1971)

Paige Cothren

American football player and author (1935-2016)

Doc Marshall

American baseball player (1906-1999)

Doug Crothers

American baseball player (1859-1907)

Robert Savon Pious

American painter and illustrator (1908-1983)

Lubertha Johnson

American nurse and community activist

Ceola Wallace

American seamstress and civil rights activist

Katie Booth

(1907–2005) African American biomedical chemist and community activist. Born , to Joseph Patterson and Ida Coffye. She attended a one room scho

Houston Antwine

Player of American football (1939-2011)

Fishbait Miller

Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives (1909-1989)

Halbert Marion Harris

American entomologist

Caroline Russell Compton

American painter

Willa Beatrice Player

educator, government official, consultant

Ethel Wright Mohamed

American artist (1906-1992)

Henry Hughes

American lawyer, politician and Confederate Colonel from Mississippi

Jack Reed

American baseball player

Jack Spinks

American football player (1930-1994)

Jackie Simpson

American gridiron football player (1936-1983)

Joe Gibbon

American baseball player

John H. Bryan

American businessman

Bucky Moore

American football player (1905-1980)

Katie G. Dorsett

American politician (1932-2020)

Little Arthur Duncan

American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter

Little Smokey Smothers

American musician

Louis Satterfield

musician

Pinetop Sparks

American blues pianist

J.D. Short

American Delta blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist

Milt Bolling

American baseball player

Neal Brooks Biggers Jr.

United States federal judge

Norm Bass

American football player

Annibel Jenkins

American scholar

Robert Powell

American composer, organist and choir director

Sarah Dorsey

American novelist

Sam Chu Lin

American journalist

Terry Schreiber

American theatre director

Blewett Harrison Lee

American lawyer, 1867-1951

Eli Abbott

American college football coach, college baseball coach (1869-1943)

Henry Clay Niles

United States federal judge (1850–1918)

Walter J. Gex III

United States federal judge

William Brown

African-American operatic tenor

William Raspberry

American journalist

Willie Daniel

American football player (1937-2015)

Willie Richardson

American football player (1939-2016)