Editing Belzoni, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Eddie "Guitar" Burns]], [[Delta blues]] musician<ref name="KRAMPERT2016">{{cite book|author=Peter Krampert|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4|pages=29}}</ref>
* [[Jim Clark (American football coach)|Jim Clark]], head football coach at [[McNeese State University]] from 1966 to 1969<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Frank |title=Clark Succeeds DeVall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=27818699&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE0ODY3ODgwLCJpYXQiOjE2MjMwMzQ2NTEsImV4cCI6MTYyMzEyMTA1MX0.QiVbz6IamD5yxBs1SevPZdrWt_pwR1oC2sS29rEN02M |access-date=7 June 2021 |work=Lake Charles American-Press |date=20 December 1965}}</ref>
* [[Boyd Gilmore]], Delta blues singer and guitarist<ref name="Hay2005">{{cite book|author=Fred J. Hay|title=Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the Blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzuxDb0r5zcC&pg=PA214|date=1 March 2005|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2732-7|pages=214}}</ref>
* [[Charles Gordon (producer)|Charles Gordon]], film producer. Brother to Lawrence Gordon.<ref>{{cite book|title=International Television & Video Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8EVAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-900610-81-3|page=202}}</ref>
* [[Lawrence Gordon (producer)|Lawrence Gordon]], film producer and former president of [[20th Century Fox]] and [[American International Pictures]]<ref>{{Cite news | last = Erikson| first = Hal| newspaper = New York Times| location = New York| url =http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=92107| access-date = November 13, 2009| title=We're Sorry| date=February 7, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Elmore James]], [[blues]] guitarist <ref name=nps>{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/people/sonnyboy_williamson.htm| title=Trail of the Hellhound| work=National Park Service| date=April 20, 2001| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503172125/http://www.nps.gov/history/DelTA/BlueS/people/sonnyboy_williamson.htm| archive-date=May 3, 2010| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Denise LaSalle]], blues singer and member of the [[Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame]] was raised in Belzoni.
* [[Ethel Wright Mohamed]], 'Grandma Moses of Stitchery' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa761.htm |title=The Needle's Song: The Folk Art of Ethel Wright Mohamed|work= Resource Library|date= June 4, 2007|first=  Jill R. |last=Chancey |publisher=Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. |access-date=August 27, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Ollie Mohamed]], former member of the [[Mississippi Senate]]<ref name="Martin2015">{{cite book|author=Isaac William Martin|title=Rich People's Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RP8TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|date=February 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-938999-5|pages=158}}</ref>
* [[Pinetop Perkins]], [[Grammy Award]] winning blues musician, and [[Blues Hall of Fame]]r was born in Belzoni in 1913.
* [[Otis Spann]], blues pianist and longtime member of [[Muddy Waters]]'s band
* [[Benjamin Swan]], member of [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]
* [[Monroe Swan]], [[Wisconsin State Senate]]
* [[Ernie Terrell]], boxer
* [[Jean Terrell]], [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] and [[jazz]] singer, replaced [[Diana Ross]] in [[The Supremes]] in 1970
* [[Herb Washington]], [[track and field]] athlete and [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[Annette Polly Williams]], [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]
* [[Ben Williams (American football, born 1970)|Ben Williams]], former [[National Football League]] [[defensive end]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Ben Williams Stats |url=https://profootballarchives.com/playerw/will01650.html |website=Profootball Archives |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>