Editing Greenville, Mississippi (section)

=== Greenville-related ===
* [[Ray Brown (American football, born 1936)|Ray Brown]], NFL football player 
* [[Hodding Carter]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]-journalist, managed the city's ''[[Delta Democrat Times]].'' 
* [[Hodding Carter III]], also a journalist, lived and worked here during and after the [[civil rights movement]].
* [[Holt Collier]] is buried in Greenville. Collier was an African-American bear hunter and sportsman.<ref>Buchannan, Minor Ferris. [http://library.fws.gov/refuges/HoltCollier_history.pdf "Holt Collier: Guiding Roosevelt through the Mississippi <nowiki>[Canebrake].</nowiki>"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527141217/http://library.fws.gov/Refuges/HoltCollier_history.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227103019/http://library.fws.gov/refuges/HoltCollier_history.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-27 |url-status=live |date=2010-05-27 }} [http://library.fws.gov/About.html U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conservation Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812224315/http://library.fws.gov/About.html |date=2009-08-12 }}</ref>
*[[Samuel Gibbs French]] (1818-1910), Confederate Major General, managed a plantation in Greenville<ref>{{cite web |last1=Losson |first1=Christopher |title=Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910) Confederate General |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/samuel-gibbs-french/ |website=Mississippiencyclopedia.org |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[John F. Harris (Mississippi)|John F. Harris]], Mississippi State Representative from Greenville elected in 1890.
* [[Clarke Reed]], Mississippi state Republican chairman from 1966 to 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=http://desototimes.com/articles/2010/06/28/opinion/doc4c250b9ebe492544706024.txt|title=Sid Salter, GOP pioneer Clarke Reed faces post-crash surgeries, June 25, 2010|date=25 June 2010 |publisher=DeSoto Times Tribune|access-date=May 12, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140512032055/http://desototimes.com/articles/2010/06/28/opinion/doc4c250b9ebe492544706024.txt|archive-date=May 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Yarborough|Thomas R. Yarborough]], first Black city councilman in California<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Forrey |first=Kathy |date=August 1, 1990 |title=More than 200 pay homage to Yarborough |work=Lake Elsinore Valley Sun-Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106096450/more-than-200-pay-homage-to-yarborough/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>