Editing Houston, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Dee Barton]], film and big band composer, Stan Kenton Orchestra drummer, Jackson State University composer in residence
* [[David R. Bowen]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Mississippi's 2nd congressional district]] 1973–1983<ref>{{cite web |title=BOWEN, David Reece |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/9666 |website=United States House of Representatives |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[N. W. Bradford]], member of the [[Mississippi State Senate]] (1916–1920), and of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] (1904–1908)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8sGAQAAIAAJ |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1917 |publisher=Department of Archives and History |language=en}}</ref>
* [[T. Jeff Busby]], U.S. Representative 1923–1935<ref name="Congress1961">{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1961: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States, from the First to the Eighty-sixth Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1961, Inclusive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeBQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA363|year=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=363}}</ref>
* [[Terry Catledge]], NBA player
* [[William R. Dunlap]], artist, writer, and arts commentator<ref>{{cite web |title=William Dunlap |url=https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-artists/william-dunlap |website=Mississippi Writers and Musicians |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[Chris Jones (defensive tackle, born 1994)|Chris Jones]], NFL player
* [[Ricky Love]], former professional basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ricky Love |url=https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Ricky-Love/Summary/65565 |website=Real GM |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[Walter Stanley Mooneyham]], evangelical author<ref>{{cite book|title=Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfXGJBB1HvoC&pg=PA338|year=1981|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-61703-418-3|pages=338}}</ref>
* [[Rosa Lee Tucker]] (1866–1946), Mississippi State Librarian
* [[William F. Tucker]], [[Brigadier General (CSA)|brigadier general]] in the [[Confederate States Army]] and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives<ref>{{cite web |last1=Losson |first1=Christopher |title=William Feimster Tucker |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/william-feimster-tucker/ |website=Mississippi Encyclopedia |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[Howard Waldrop]] (1946–2024), science fiction author<ref>{{cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: Howard Waldrop |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Howard_Waldrop |website=International Speculative Fiction Database |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[Bukka White]], [[Delta blues]] guitarist<ref name="BogdanovWoodstra2003">{{cite book|author1=Vladimir Bogdanov|author2=Chris Woodstra|author3=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYtz7kEHegEC&pg=PA601|year=2003|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-736-3|pages=601}}</ref>