Editing Aberdeen, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Joel M. Acker]], member of the [[Mississippi State Senate]] and [[Mississippi House of Representatives]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=College (1718-1887) |first1=Yale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFgdAQAAIAAJ |title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University ... Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alumni |last2=University |first2=Yale |date=1900 |publisher=The College |pages=361 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Adams (politician)|Stephen Adams]], member of [[United States House of Representatives]] and [[United States Senate]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1967}}</ref>
* [[Steve Baylark]], [[running back]] for [[Sacramento Mountain Lions]] of [[United Football League (2009)|United Football League]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nfl.com/player/stevebaylark/2507267/profile
|title = Steve Baylark |publisher= NFL Enterprises LLC|access-date= December 10, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Guy Bush]] ("the Mississippi Mudcat"), [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]] 
* [[Ollie Darden|Oliver Darden]], basketball player for [[University of Michigan]] 
* [[Reuben Davis (representative)|Reuben Davis]], [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] and Confederate general
* [[James Bell Dickson]], [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] pilot
* [[Wilma Cozart Fine]], [[record producer]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kozinn |first1=Alex |title=Wilma Cozart Fine, Classical Music Record Producer, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/arts/music/25fine.html |access-date=August 13, 2023 |work=New York Times |date=September 24, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Jeff Fort]], [[mobster]] and co-founder of the [[Almighty Black P. Stone Nation|Black P. Stones]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mogharei |first1=Phoebe |title=From the Vault: The Making of Jeff Fort |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/november-2018/the-making-of-jeff-fort/ |access-date=August 13, 2023 |work=Chicago |date=November 5, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Samuel J. Gholson]], [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]], judge and general in the [[Confederate States Army]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Losson |first1=Christopher |title=Samuel Jameson Gholson |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/samuel-jameson-gholson/ |website=Mississippi Encyclopedia |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Joe Green (American football)|Joe Green]], former NFL [[defensive back]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Green Stats |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GreeJo20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Ann Gregory]], golfer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Farrell |title=Remembering The Queen, Ann Gregory |url=https://www.lpga.com/news/2023/remembering-the-queen-ann-gregory |website=lpga.com |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Moses Hardy]], formerly oldest living American man, one of the oldest veterans of [[World War I]]
* [[Lock E. Houston]], former member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]]<ref name=knox>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3YLAAAAYAAJ|title=Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association|first=American Bar|last=Association|date=August 29, 1897|publisher=E.C. Markley & Son|via=Google Books |page=547}}</ref>
* [[Reggie Kelly]], former NFL [[tight end]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Reggie Kelly: Former NFL Player, Author and Owner of KYVAN Foods |url=https://shoutoutatlanta.com/meet-reggie-kelly-former-nfl-player-author-and-owner-of-kyvan-foods/ |website=shoutoutatlanta.com |date=June 10, 2021 |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Albert King]], blues guitarist<ref>{{cite web |title=Albert King |url=https://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/albert-king |website=msbluestrail.org |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Fredrick McGhee]], first black lawyer in Minnesota, co-founder of the [[Niagara Movement]]
* [[James Phelan Sr.]], member of the [[Confederate Congress]] from 1862 to 1864<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Ezra J. Jr. |title=Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress |date=1975 |publisher=LSU Press |location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana |isbn=978-0-8071-4942-3 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6VyjF_ZTukC}}</ref>
* [[James Phelan Jr.]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1887 to 1891<ref>{{cite journal |title=Duel |journal=Ansearchin' News: Journal of the Tennessee Geneaological Society |date=1996 |issue=43 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCtZAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
* [[R. O. Reynolds]], member of the [[Mississippi State Senate]]<ref name="Memorial">{{cite news |title=Memorial Service - Tribute to the honored memory of R. O. Reynolds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107891047/memorial-service-tribute-to-the/ |access-date=August 13, 2023 |work=Clarion-Ledger |date=12 February 1888 |page=7}}{{Open access}}</ref>
* [[Roscoe Simmons]], orator and journalist, nephew of [[Booker T. Washington]]<ref name=hall>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSsOAQAAMAAJ|title = The African American National Biography: Roman-Tzomes|isbn = 978-0-19-516019-2|last1 = Gates|first1 = Henry Louis|last2 = Higginbotham|first2 = Evelyn Brooks|year = 2008| publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>
* [[Georgia Speller]], artist<ref>{{cite web |title=Head of the Penitentiary |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/653751 |website=metmuseum.org |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Eugene Sykes]], justice of the [[Supreme Court of Mississippi]] and chairman of [[Federal Communications Commission]]
* [[Rozzell Sykes]], artist<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Art |url=https://ackland.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1075/2022/01/G12-About-the-Art_2022.1.19.pdf |website=ackland.org |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Butch Thompson (baseball)|Butch Thompson]], college baseball head coach<ref>{{cite news |last1=Portnoy |first1=Ben |title=Forever a Mississippi man: Aberdeen native, former MSU assistant leads Auburn against his former team in Omaha |url=https://cdispatch.com/news/2019-06-15/forever-a-mississippi-man-aberdeen-native-former-msu-assistant-leads-auburn-against-his-former-team-in-omaha/ |access-date=August 13, 2023 |work=The Dispatch |date=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Frederick I. Thompson]], commissioner of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] from 1939 to 1941<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Flannery |editor1-first=Gerald V. |title=Commissioners of the FCC, 1927-1994 |date=1995 |publisher=University Press of America |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=0-8191-9669-X |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xr-PSj-sp6YC}}</ref>
* [[Andre Townsend]], former defensive end for the Denver Broncos 
* [[Jim Walden]], head football coach at [[Washington State University|Washington State]] and [[Iowa State University]]
* [[Channing Ward]], former NFL [[defensive tackle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Channing Ward |url=https://247sports.com/player/channing-ward-7459/ |website=247sports.com |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Bukka White]] (Booker T. Washington White), blues musician
* [[Dwayne Whitfield]], former [[National Basketball Association]] player<ref>{{cite web |title=Dwayne Whitfield Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/whitfdw01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Chris Willis (American football)|Chris Willis]], former head football coach of the [[University of North Alabama]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Meador |first1=Melissa |title=UNA's Willis prepares for chaos, uncertainty of 2020 season |url=https://www.djournal.com/monroe/sports/una-s-willis-prepares-for-chaos-uncertainty-of-2020-season/article_c01f4887-6385-54d0-882d-8dd0f8398564.html |access-date=August 13, 2023 |work=Monroe Journal |date=July 23, 2020}}</ref>