Editing Macon, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Chapman L. Anderson]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1887 to 1891<ref>{{cite web |title=ANDERSON, Chapman Levy |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000183 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Larry Anderson (basketball)|Larry Anderson]], basketball coach for [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]<ref name="Cleveland">{{cite news |last1=Cleveland |first1=Rick |title=From Macon to MIT: Larry Anderson's Amazing Story |url=https://mississippitoday.org/2019/06/04/from-macon-to-mit-larry-andersons-amazing-story/ |access-date=5 June 2019 |date=June 4, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Buster Barnett]], former NFL player for the [[Buffalo Bills]]
* [[Carey Bell]], blues [[harmonica|harmonicist]]
* [[McArthur Binion]], artist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://camh.org/exhibitions/perspectives-177-mcarthur-binion#.WLx6vCMrI1J|title=Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion {{!}} Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|website=camh.org|access-date=2024-01-16}}</ref>
* [[Cornelius Cash]], basketball player
* [[Eddy Clearwater]], blues guitarist and singer, born Edward Harrington in Macon in 1935. Cousin of Harmonicist Carey Bell.
* [[Quincy Coleman]], former NFL and [[Canadian Football League|CFL]] player<ref>{{cite web |title=Quincy Coleman Cards |url=https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/180812/Quincy-Coleman?MODE=Filters&ColType=0&sYear=0&sTeam=696&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand= |website=tcdb.com |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Darion Conner]], former professional football player with the [[Atlanta Falcons]] convicted of vehicular homicide
* [[Fest Cotton]], former NFL [[defensive tackle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Fest Cotton Stats |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CottFe20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Crespino]], historian<ref>{{cite web |title=Crespino Featured as One of Emory's "Fab Five" in 'Emory Magazine' |url=https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/emoryhistorynews/2018/03/06/crespino-featured-as-one-of-emorys-fab-five-in-emory-magazine/ |website=scholarblogs.emory.edu |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Albert Tatum Dent]], member of the Mississippi Senate from 1902 to 1908 and 1924 to 1928<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ |title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form|first=Dunbar|last=Rowland|date=May 15, 1907|publisher=Southern Historical Publishing Association|isbn=9780871522221 |page=222 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[Reecy Dickson]], member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] from 1993 to 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=Reecy Dickson's Biography |url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/3653/reecy-dickson |website=justfacts.votesmart.org |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Henry Minor Faser]], founding dean of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy<ref>{{cite book|last1=LLoyd|first1=James B.|title=Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967|date=1981|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Oxford, Mississippi|isbn=9781604734119|oclc=320801688|page=164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfXGJBB1HvoC}}</ref>
* [[Hezekiah William Foote]], planter and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and [[Mississippi Senate]]. Father of Huger Lee Foote.<ref name="foote">{{cite book |editor1-last=Carter |editor1-first=William C. |title=Conversations with Shelby Foote |date=1989 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi |isbn=0-87805-385-9 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHec5x22fBEC}}</ref>
* [[Huger Lee Foote]], planter and former member of the [[Mississippi Senate]]. Grandfather of [[Shelby Foote]].<ref name="foote"/>
* [[Jesse Fortune]], blues singer
* [[Victoria Clay Haley]], suffragist
* [[Reggie Holmes (Canadian football)|Reggie Holmes]], former CFL player<ref>{{cite web |title=1972 Calgary Stampeders Roster |url=https://www.statscrew.com/football/roster/t-CFLCGY/y-1972 |website=statscrew.com |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Nate Hughes]], former professional football player with the [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] and [[Detroit Lions]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Nate Hughes|publisher=NFL Enterprises|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/natehughes/2507449/profile|access-date=November 23, 2014}}</ref>
* [[T. R. Hummer]], poet<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wells |first1=Sean Harrington |title=T. R. Hummer |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/tr-hummer/ |website=Mississippi Encyclopedia |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Chris Jones (wide receiver, born 1982)|Chris Jones]], former NFL and CFL wide receiver<ref>{{cite web |title=Chris Jones Gallery |url=https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryP.cfm/pid/197987/Chris-Jones?ColType=1&sYear=0&sTeam=&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand= |website=tcdb.com |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Lorenzo Houston King]], bishop of the [[Methodist Church (USA)]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Lorenzo Houston King |journal=The Journal of Negro History |date=April 1947 |volume=32 |issue=2 |page=261 |doi=10.1086/JNHv32n2p261 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/JNHv32n2p261?journalCode=jnh}}</ref>
* [[William Manly King]], architect<ref>{{cite web |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/abea939d-60a3-47e9-92b6-62bd5da4755f |website=npgallery.nps.gov |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Clarke Lewis]], member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893<ref>{{cite web |title=LEWIS, Clarke |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000276 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[William Brooks Lucas]], former member of the Mississippi Senate<ref>{{Cite news |date=1970-03-29 |title=Obituary for William Brooks Lucas |pages=4 |work=Clarion-Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112641828/obituary-for-william-brooks-lucas/ |access-date=2024-01-16}}</ref>
* [[Brother Joe May]], gospel singer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ankeny |first1=Jason |title=Brother Joe May |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brother-joe-may-mn0000937715 |website=allmusic.com |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Andy P. Mullins]], educator<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew P. Mullins Jr. Collection |url=https://libraries.olemiss.edu/cedar-archives/finding_aids/MUM00736.html |website=libraries.olemiss.edu |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Pandolfo]], businessman
* [[Bubba Phillips]], Major League Baseball player
* [[John Alton Phillips]], member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1932 to 1940 and 1944 to 1965<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mississippi. Legislature|date=1964-01-01|title=Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1964]|url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sta_leghb/11|journal=Mississippi Legislature Hand Books}}</ref>
* [[John Q. Poindexter]], member of the Mississippi Senate from 1916 to 1920<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 |page=776 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[America W. Robinson]], African American educator; contralto ([[Fisk Jubilee Singers]])
* [[Gene Short]], former [[National Basketball Association]] player<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://whlt.com/2016/03/18/former-nba-player-and-hattiesburg-high-graduate-passes-away/ |title=Former NBA player and Hattiesburg High graduate passes away |access-date=2016-03-18 |archive-date=2016-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318213530/http://whlt.com/2016/03/18/former-nba-player-and-hattiesburg-high-graduate-passes-away/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Jeffery Simmons]], [[defensive end]] for the [[Tennessee Titans]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jeffery Simmons |url=https://www.tennesseetitans.com/team/players-roster/jeffery-simmons/ |website=tennesseetitans.com |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Deontae Skinner]], NFL player
* [[Isham Stewart]], former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and the Mississippi Senate<ref>{{cite web |title=Isham Stewart (Noxubee County) |url=https://much-ado.net/legislators/legislators/isham-stewart/ |website=much-ado.net |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[William Ward (poet)|William Ward]], poet and editor of the ''Macon Beacon''.<ref name=sage>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3QOAAAAIAAJ&dq=william+ward+mississippi+poet&pg=RA1-PA23|title=Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society|first=Mississippi Historical|last=Society (Founded 1890)|date=May 4, 1898|publisher=The Society|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Murray Washington]], educator; wife of [[Booker T. Washington]]
* [[Nate Wayne]], former NFL football player with Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos, and Philadelphia Eagles
* [[Israel Victor Welch]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] politician and lawyer lived in Macon after the war
* [[Sherman W. White]], fighter pilot with the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sherman W. White, Jr. |url=https://cafriseabove.org/sherman-w-white-jr/ |website=cafriseabove.org |date=November 3, 2021 |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Ben Ames Williams]], novelist
* [[Big Joe Williams]], [[Delta blues]] guitarist and songwriter<ref>{{cite web |title=Big Joe Williams |url=https://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/big-joe-williams |website=msbluestrail.org |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Henry Williams (soldier)|Henry Williams]], soldier who was murdered by a bus driver in 1942<ref name=newman>{{cite web |title=The Death of Henry Williams |date=June 10, 2013 |first1=Michelle |last1=Newman |first2=Hannah |last2=Adams |website=Civil Rights & Restorative Justice |publisher=[[Northeastern University]] |url=https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m042w372n?datastream_id=content |accessdate=June 23, 2021}}</ref>