What are some famous people in Mississippi?

Answer 1

• Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South,
• Curtis Conway "C.C." Bryant (1917-2007), African-American civil rights leader, (Tylertown)
• Dianna Freelon-Foster, African-American civil rights activist, Member of the Mississippi Civil Rights Education Commission, first female and first African-American mayor of her hometown (Grenada)
• C. L. Franklin (1915-1984), Baptist minister and father of Aretha Franklin, (Shelby)
• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), American voting rights activist, Civil rights leader, (Ruleville)
• James Meredith (born 1933), first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, (Kosciusko)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), civil rights activist, Women's rights activist, (Holly Springs)
• Laura Bailey (born 1981), voice actress
• Ruth Ford (born 1915), stage and film actress, (Hazlehurst)
• Morgan Freeman (born 1937), (Greenwood)
• Jim Henson (1936-1990), creator of The Muppets, (Leland)
• James Earl Jones (born 1931), (Arkabutla)
• Robert Earl Jones (1910-2006), (Senatobia)
• Daniel Curtis Lee (born 1991), (Clinton)
• Jamie Lynn Spears (born 1991), acress and singer, (McComb)
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), (Kosciusko)
• Frank Baker (born 1946), shortstop, (Meridian)
• Guy Bush (1901-1985), pitcher, (Aberdeen)
• Terrell Young (born 1985), minor league pitcher, (Grenada)
• Ruthie Bolton (born 1967), shooting guard, head coach (Lucedale)

• Lusia Harris (born 1955), first female player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, (Minter City)
• Antonio Harvey (born 1970), radio broadcaster/retired player, (Pascagoula)
• Carolyn Jones-Young (born 1969), guard and Olympic bronze medalist, (Bay Springs)
• Matthew Mitchell (born 1970), women's head coach, (Louisville)
• Steve Newsome, Chicago Bulls draft (1973), (Columbia)
• Dolph Pulliam, center, sports broadcaster, (West Point)

• Tony Bennett (born 1967), linebacker, (Alligator)
• Darion Conner (born 1967), NFL linebacker and Arena Football League player, (Macon)
• Jim Dunaway (born 1941), defensive tackle, (Columbia)
• Brett Favre (born 1969), quarterback, (Kiln)
• Archie Manning (born 1949), quarterback, (Drew)
• Eli Manning (born 1981), quarterback, (Oxford)
• Eddie Payton (born 1951), running back, (Columbia)
• Walter Payton (1954-1999), half back, (Columbia)
• Harold Shaw (born 1974), fullback and occasional linebacker, (Magee)

• Fletcher Abram (born 1950), Olympic handball player, (Cary)
• Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995), rodeo, Hall of Fame, "Father of Mississippi Rodeo," (Columbia)
• Ralph Boston (born 1939), Olympic long jumper, (Laurel)
• Lee Calhoun (1933-1989), Olympic track athlete and college track coach, (Laurel)
• Floyd Cummings (born 1949), heavyweight boxer
• Tony Dees (born 1963), Olympic hurdler, (Pascagoula)
• Barbara Ferrell (born 1947), Olympic track athlete, (Hattiesburg)
• Jim Gallagher, Jr. (born 1961), professional golfer, (Greenwood)
• Bobby Hamilton (1957-2007), NASCAR driver, (Columbia)
• Otis Harris (born 1982), Olympic Track and Field athlete, (Edwards)
• Leroy Jones (born 1950), professional boxer, (Meridian)
• Larry Myricks (born 1956), Olympic long jumper, (Clinton)
• Terri O'Connell, motorsports racer, (Corinth)
• Brittney Reese (born 1986), Olympic long jumper, (Gulfport)
• Kevin Robertson (born 1959), Olympic water polo player, (Biloxi)
• Calvin Smith (born 1961), Olympic sprinter, (Bolton)
• Ernie Terrell (born 1939), former WBA heavyweight boxing champion, (Belzoni)

• Campbell Brown (born 1968), CNN anchor, (Natchez)
• Ron Franklin (born 1942), ESPN sportscaster, (Jackson)
• Angela McGlowan, Fox News political commentator, (Oxford)
• Shepard Smith (born 1964), Fox News anchor, (Holly Springs)
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), talk show host, (Kosciusko)

• William R. Ferris (born 1942), folklorist, chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities, (Vicksburg)
• Rod Paige (born 1933), U.S. secretary of education, (Monticello)
• Louis Westerfield (born 1949), law professor, first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law, (De Kalb)

• Jim Barksdale (born 1943), president and CEO of Netscape, (Jackson)
• Sam Haskell (born 1955), former worldwide head of television for the William Morris Agency, (Amory)[21]
• Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), founder of Black Entertainment Television, (Hickory)
• Ken Lewis (born 1947), Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America Corporation, (Meridian)
• Robert "Bob" Pittman, founder MTV, former CEO and COO AOL, (Jackson)
• J. H. Rush (1868-1931), founder of Rush's Infirmary, the first private hospital in Meridian, Mississippi, (De Kalb)
• Fred Smith (born 1944), founder of FedEx, (Marks)
• Antonio Maceo Walker (1909-1994), president of the Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tennessee, (Indianola)

• Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995), inventor of rodeo equipment, (Columbia)
• Harry A. Cole, inventor of Pine-Sol, (Jackson)

• Rhesa H. Barksdale (born 1944), federal judge (Jackson)
• Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. (born 1935), federal judge (Corinth)
• Gerald Chatham (1906-1956), lawyer, lead prosecutor in the Emmett Till case, (Hernando)
• Jess H. Dickinson (born 1947), associate justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi, (Charleston)
• Frank Hunger (born 1936), assistant U.S. attorney general, (Greenville)
• E. Grady Jolly (born 1937), judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, (Louisville)
• Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), federal judge, (Jones County)
• Thomas Rodney (1744-1811), federal judge, (Natchez)
• Michael B. Thornton (born 1954), judge, U.S. Tax Court

• William Wirt Adams (1819-1888), brigadier general, CSA (Jackson)
• Van T. Barfoot (born 1919), World War II colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, (Edinburg)
• William Barksdale (1821-1863), brigadier general, CSA, died at Gettysburg, (Jackson)
• William Billingsley (1887-1913), ensign, first Navy aviator killed in an airplane crash, (Winona)
• Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), general, CSA, (Hernando)
• Walter "Smokey" Gordon (1920-1997), World War II veteran, portrayed in the HBO mini-series Band Of Brothers[citation needed]
• Donald H. Peterson (born 1933), USAF colonel and NASA astronaut, (Winona)
• Viola B. Sanders (born 1921), USN captain, director of women, U.S. Navy, (Sidon)
• Daniel Isom Sultan (1885-1947), inspector general, U.S. Army, (Oxford)
• James Monroe Trotter (1842-1892), first man of color to achieve rank of 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army, music historian (Gulfport)
• Richard H. Truly (born 1937), retired United States Navy, former astronaut, and NASA administrator (Fayette)

• Jennifer Adcock (born 1980), Miss Mississippi 2002 and Miss Mississippi USA 2005, (Hattiesburg)
• Kristi Addis (born 1971), Miss Teen USA 1987, (Holcomb)
• Susan Akin (born 1965), Miss Mississippi 1985 and Miss America 1986, (Meridian)
• Jenna Edwards (born 1981), former Miss Florida and Miss Florida USA, (Brandon)
• Taryn Foshee, Miss Mississippi 2006, (Clinton)
• June Juanico (born 1938), beauty queen known for dating Elvis Presley in 1955 and 1956, (Biloxi)
• Nan Kelley, Miss Mississippi 1985 and GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown hostess, (Hattiesburg)
• Kendra King, Miss Mississippi USA 2006, (Monticello)
• Christine Kozlowski, Miss Mississippi 2008, (D'Iberville)
• Leah Laviano (born 1988), Miss Mississippi USA 2008, and 1st runner up in Miss USA 2008, (Ellisville)
• Monica Louwerens (born 1973), Miss Mississippi 1995, (Greenville)
• Lynda Lee Mead (born c.1939), Miss America 1960, (Natchez)
• Mary Ann Mobley (born 1939), Miss America 1959, (Brandon)
• Kimberly Morgan (born 1983), Miss Mississippi 2007, (Taylor)
• Cheryl Prewitt (born 1957), Miss America 1980, (Ackerman)
• Toni Seawright (born 1964), Miss Mississippi 1987 (first African-American winner), (Pascagoula)
• Ellen Stratton (born 1939), model and Playboy Playmate, (Marietta)
• Cindy Williams (born 1964), journalist and Miss Mississippi USA 1986
• Jalin Wood (born 1981), Miss Mississippi 2004 and Miss Mississippi USA 2007, (Waynesboro)

• 3 Doors Down, band, (Escatawpa)
• Lance Bass (born 1979), member of pop group 'N Sync, (Laurel)
• Eddie Boyd (1914-1994), blues musician, (Clarksdale)
• Jackie Brenston (1930-1979), American R&B singer and saxophonist, (Clarksdale)
• Phil Cohran (born 1927), jazz musician, (Oxford)
• David L. Cook (born 1968), Christian country music singer-songwriter, (Pascagoula)
• Barbara Siggers Franklin (1917-1952), gospel singer and mother of Aretha Franklin, (Shelby)
• Faith Hill (born 1967), country/pop singer, (Jackson)
• B. B. King (born 1925), blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, (Itta Bena)
• Elvis Presley (1935-1977), multi-genre musician, (Tupelo)
• LeAnn Rimes (born 1982), country and pop singer, (Pearl)
• Soulja Boy (born 1990), rapper/record producer, (Batesville, Mississippi)
• Britney Spears (born 1981), pop singer, (McComb)

• James Hardy (1918-2003), surgeon who performed the first successful cadaveric lung transplant, (Jackson)[24]

• Thomas Abernethy (1903-1998), U.S. representative, (Eupora)
• Ethelbert Barksdale (1824-1893), U.S. representative and member of the Confederate States Congress, (Jackson)
• Robert G. Clark, Jr. (born 1928), first African American state representative since Reconstruction
• Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), U.S. senator and president of the Confederate States of America, (Warren County)
• Patrick Henry (1843-1930), U.S. representative, (Brandon)
• John R. Lynch (1847-1939), first African-American speaker of the Mississippi House, U.S. representative, (Natchez)
• Ray Mabus (born 1948), governor and Secretary of the Navy, (Starkville)
• Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901), first African-American U.S. senator, (Claiborne County)

• Susie Gibson (1890-2006), lived 115 years & 108 days, (Corinth)
• Moses Hardy (1893/1894-2006), lived 112 to 113 years, (Aberdeen)
• Bettie Wilson (1890-2006), lived 115 years & 153 days

• Richard Ford (born 1944), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, (Jackson)
• John Grisham (born 1955), legal thrillers novelist, (Southaven)
• Patrick D. Smith (born 1927), Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize nominee, (Mendenhall)
• Lynne Spears (born 1955), author and mother of Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears, (McComb)
• Wright Thompson (born 1977), journalist, ESPN.com
• Natasha Trethewey (born 1966), 2007 Pulitzer Prize poet, (Gulfport)
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), (Columbus)

• Arthur Blessitt (born 1940), preacher, most famous for carrying a cross through every nation of the world, (Greenville)
• James Copeland (1823-1857), outlaw and co-leader of the Wages and Copeland Clan, (Jackson County)
• Cat Cora (born 1967), only female Iron Chef America in franchise history, (Jackson)
• Fred Haise (born 1933), former NASA astronaut, (Biloxi)
• Lenny Skutnik (born 1953), celebrity rescuer of 1982 disaster victim

Answer 2

= Famous Mississippians = Red Barber sportscaster, Columbus

Lance Bass singer, Laurel

Theodore Bilbo public official, Poplarville

Jimmy Buffett singer, songwriter, Pascagoula

Craig Claiborne columnist, restaurant critic, Sunflower

Bo Diddley guitarist, McCombs

Charles Evers civil rights leader, Decatur

Medgar Evers civil rights leader, Decatur

Brett Farve football, Kiln

William Cuthbert Faulkner author, New Albany

Shelby Foote historian, Greenville

Richard Ford author, Jackson

Barry Hannah author, Clinton

Elizabeth Lee Hazen inventor,

Beth Henley playwright, actress, Jackson

Jim Henson puppeteer, Greenville

Faith Hill singer, Jackson

James Earl Jones entertainer, Arkabutla

Simbi Khali actress, Jackson

B. B. King guitarist, Itta Bena

Willie Morris writer, Jackson

Brandy Norwood singer,actress, McComb

Walter Payton football player, Columbia

Elvis Presley singer, actor, Tupelo

Charley Pride country singer, Sledge

Leontyne Price soprano, Laurel

William Raspberry columnist, Oklaona

Jerry Rice football player, Starkville

LeAnn Rimes Country Music, Jackson

William Grant Still composer, Woodville

Conway Twitty country music, Friars Point

Sela Ward actress, Meridian

Muddy Waters singer, guitarist, Rolling Fork

Eudora Welty author, Jackson

Tennessee Williams playwright, Columbus

Oprah Winfrey talk-show host, Kosciusko

Richard Wright author, Natchez

Tammy Wynette country music star, Tupelo

Answer 3

Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey

are a couple of famous people from Mississippi

Answer 4

i know Brandy is from Mccomb,Ms.. and Jazmine Sullivan is from Philladephia

Answer 5

Lil Wayne and Bryan Wilders

Answer 6

Oprah Winfrey.

Answer 7

Mark Twain