Mississippi
Mississippi is a southern U. S. state with the Mississippi River to its west, the state of Alabama to its east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its Mississippi Delta region is considered the birthplace of blues music, honored at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. Also in the region is the Vicksburg National Military Park, preserving the site of a critical Civil War battle.
People born in Mississippi (First 49 people) - Page 9
Guy M. Townsend
General
William S. Barry
American Politician
Arthur Cyprian Harper
Former Mayor of Los Angeles
Sedric Toney
American basketball player
Leo Randolph
American boxer
James P. Whyte Jr.
Attorney
Joseph Jackson Schwab
Educator
Charles Younger
Member of the Mississippi State Senate
JJ Jones
American football wide receiver
Bobby Richards
American football player
Kylin Hill
American football running back
Malcolm Bowen
Actor
Charlie Spand
American pianist
Gunter Brewer
American football player
Tennessee Williams
American playwright
John Jay Good
Former Mayor of Dallas
Angela Turner-Ford
Member of the Mississippi State Senate
Tobias Smith
American football offensive lineman
Cheikh Taylor
Mississippi State Representative
DeWitt Menyard
American professional basketball player
Tyson Lee
Former American football player
Robert Woodard II
American professional basketball player
Birney Imes
American photographer
Rachel Hollivay
Basketball player
Blewett Harrison Lee
American legal scholar
Eliza Mae Wilson
Jackie Wilson's mother
Jessie Mae Hemphill
American guitarist
R.L. Boyce
Singer
Napoleon Strickland
Vocalist
Tommy Joe Martins
Sid Hemphill
American instrumentalist
Rosa Lee Hill
American musician
Stark Young
American playwright
Floyd Chance
American session musician
Alvin Ray Jackson
American football player
Luther Perkins
American guitarist
Miriam Greene Paslay
Professor
Joe Overstreet
American painter
Troy H. Middleton
Educator
Hiram B. Granbury
Lawyer
William P. McLean
Willie Piazza
Joseph Edison Walker
American physician
Tommie O’Quinn
Robert W. Walker
Author
Etheridge Knight
American poet
Steve Gaines
Pastor
