Editing Okolona, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Thomas Abernethy (politician)|Thomas Abernethy]], former US Congressman
* [[Bob Anderson (Mississippi politician)]], Mississippi state senator
* [[Tim Bowens]], NFL player for the [[Miami Dolphins]] for 10 seasons
* [[Tom Bowens]], former professional basketball player<ref name="RywellWesley1974">{{cite book|author1=Martin Rywell|author2=Charles Harris Wesley|title=Afro-American Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPx1AAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Educational Book Publishers|page=367}}</ref>
* [[Frank Burkitt]], former member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] and the [[Mississippi State Senate]]<ref name="History1912">{{cite book|author=Mississippi. Department of Archives and History|title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA364|year=1912|publisher=Department of Archives and History|pages=364}}</ref>
* [[DeVan Dallas]], Mississippi state legislator
* [[Meredith Gardner]], linguist and codebreaker
* [[Jack Gordon (Mississippi politician)|Jack Gordon]], former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and the Mississippi State Senate<ref name="NashTaggart2006">{{cite book|author1=Jere Nash|author2=Andy Taggart|title=Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mv-V2cfzKpEC&pg=PA321|year=2006|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-140-8|pages=321}}</ref>
* [[James Gordon (Mississippi politician)|James Gordon]], [[United States Senator]]<ref name="Capace2001">{{cite book|author=Nancy Capace|title=Encyclopedia of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlLDIiQv9twC&pg=PA406|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-0-403-09603-9|pages=406}}</ref>
* [[Jack Gregory (defensive end)|Jack Gregory]], NFL player; member, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame
* [[Russell Jolly]], member of the Mississippi State Senate<ref>{{cite web |title=Russell Jolly's Biography |url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/130639/russell-jolly |website=Project Vote Smart |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[William Raspberry]], columnist<ref>{{cite news | last = Raspberry | first = William | title = What I'll Do Next | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500653.html | access-date = 2007-03-14 | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=December 26, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Rosa Lee Tucker]] (1866–1946), Mississippi State Librarian
* [[Milan Williams]], keyboardist and composer for [[The Commodores]]
* [[List of American supercentenarians|Delphia Welford]], supercentenarian and third-oldest person ever from the United States