brittney spears went to school here at parklane academy.
Lance Alworth (Brookhaven) - College and Pro Football Hall of Famer
Edward Barq (Biloxi) - Inventor of Barq's Root Beer
James "Cool Papa" Bell (Starkville) - Negro League star; Baseball Hall of Famer
Willie Brown (Yazoo City) - Pro Football Hall of Famer
Jimmy Buffett (Pascagoula) - Singer; Song Writer, Author; author
Jerry Clower (Liberty) - Comedian
Charley Conerly (Clarksdale) - New York Giants Football Player
Jefferson Davis (Biloxi) - U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and President of the Confederacy
Dizzy Dean (Bond) - Baseball pitcher and commentator; Hall of Famer
Bo Diddley (McComb) - Singer; Song Writer, Author
Medgar Evers (Decatur) - Civil Rights leader
William Faulkner (Oxford) - Nobel Prize winning novelist
Brett Favre (Kiln) - Quarterback, Green Bay Packers; two-time NFL MVP
Cynthia Geary (Jackson) - Actress
Mark Gray (Hinds County) - Country Music composer
John Grisham (Oxford) - Author
Fred Haise (Biloxi) - Apollo 13 Astronaut; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dr. James D. Hardy (Jackson) - Surgical innovator; performed world's first human kidney autotransplant, first lung transplant, and first animal-to-human heart transplant
Spencer Haywood (Silver City) - Olympic and Pro Basketball Player
Beth Henley (Jackson) - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
Jim Henson (Leland) - Creator of the Muppets
Faith Hill (Star) - Country Music performer
John Lee Hooker (Clarksdale) - Blues performer; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Howlin' Wolf (West Point) - Blues performer; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Robert Johnson (Hazlehurst) - "King of the Delta Blues"; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
B. B. King (Itta Bena) - Grammy Award winning Blues performer; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Trent Lott (Pascagoula) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Archie Manning (Drew) - NFL player and commentator; College Hall of Famer
Steve "Air" McNair (Mt. Olive) - NFL Quarterback, Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titians
Walter Payton (Columbia) - Chicago Bears Football Player; Hall of Famer
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Bob Pittman (Brookhaven) - Founder of MTV
Elvis Presley (Tupelo) - "King of Rock and Roll"
Cheryl Prewitt (Ackerman) - Miss America 1980
Jerry Rice (Crawford) - Wide Receiver, San Francisco 49'ers
LeAnn Rimes (Pearl) - Country Music performer
Ike Turner (Clarksdale) - Singer; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Conway Twitty (Friars Point) - Country Music performer
Muddy Waters (Rolling Fork) - Blues performer; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Eudora Welty (Jackson) - Pulitzer Prize winning Author
Tennessee Williams (Columbus) - Pulitzer Prize winning Author; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Oprah Winfrey (Kosciusko) - Talk Show Host
Richard Wright (Natchez) - Author
Tammy Wynette (Tremont) - Country Music performer
Zig Ziglar (Yazoo City) - Motivational speaker and author
i could go on and on..........