Editing Monticello, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Richard Olney Arrington]], justice of the [[Supreme Court of Mississippi]] from 1950-1963<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowland |first1=Dunbar |title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form |date=1907 |publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=21 |isbn=9780871522214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ&dq=Richard+Olney+Arrington+monticello+mississippi&pg=PA21}}</ref>
* [[Erick Dampier]], [[NBA]] [[Center (basketball)|center]]
* [[Katherine Ettl]], sculptor<ref name="northsidesunobit">{{cite news |title=Katherine Speed Ettl |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/237930385/?terms=%22Katherine%2BEttl%22 |accessdate=January 7, 2023 |work=The Northside Sun |location=Jackson, Mississippi |date=January 14, 1993|page=6|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[Major Everett]], former [[NFL]] [[running back]]
* [[Cindy Hyde-Smith]], [[United States Senator]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Criss |first1=Jack |title=Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith |url=https://deltabusinessjournal.com/senator-cindy-hyde-smith/ |access-date=January 7, 2023 |work=Delta Business Journal |date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Al Jefferson]], [[Forward (basketball)|forward]]/[[Center (basketball)|center]] for the NBA [[Indiana Pacers]]
* [[Kendra King]], [[Miss Mississippi USA]] 2006
* [[J. B. Lenoir]], [[Blues music|blues]] singer
* [[Charles Lynch (politician)|Charles Lynch]], 8th and 11th [[Governor of Mississippi]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lawrence County Mississippi Genealogy & History Network |url=https://msghn.org/lawrence/ |website=Mississippi Genealogy & History Network |access-date=January 7, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Henry Mayson]], former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and attended the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riley |first1=Franklin |title=Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society |date=1910 |publisher=University of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_s7AAAAIAAJ}}</ref>
* [[Harvey McGehee]], former member of the [[Mississippi State Senate]] and justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi<ref>{{cite book |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1917 |publisher=Department of Archives and History |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=765 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLC0kgvJJG4C&dq=Harvey+McGehee+monticello+mississippi&pg=PA765}}</ref> from 1937 to 1964
* [[Jim Pace (racing driver)|Jim Pace]], professional racing driver<ref>{{cite news |title=Jim Pace |url=https://www.lawrencecountypress.com/2020/11/24/jim-pace/ |access-date=January 7, 2023 |work=Lawrence County Press |date=November 24, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Rod Paige]], former [[U.S. Secretary of Education]]
* [[Neville Patterson]], justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1962 to 1986<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Payne |first1=Mary Libby |title=The Mississippi Judiciary Commission Revisited: Judicial Administration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come |journal=Mississippi College Law Review |date=1994 |volume=14 |issue=2 |page=426 |url=https://dc.law.mc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1333&context=lawreview |access-date=January 7, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Rosalind Peychaud]], former member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]]<ref>{{cite web |title=A Proclamation By Governor Ronnie Musgrove |url=https://da.mdah.ms.gov/musgrove/pdfs/233.pdf |website=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |access-date=January 7, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Hiram Runnels]], 9th Governor of Mississippi<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rothman |first=Joshua D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820011226 |title=Flush times and fever dreams : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson |date=2012 |page=236 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-4466-9 |location=Athens, Georgia |oclc=820011226}}</ref>
* [[George Washington Russell]], member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] 1916 to 1924<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowland |first1=Dunbar |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4 |date=1917 |publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=851 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8sGAQAAIAAJ&dq=Francis+Marion+Sheppard&pg=PA516}}</ref>
* [[Francis M. Sheppard]], former member of the Mississippi State Senate and Mississippi House of Representatives<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowland |first1=Dunbar |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4 |date=1917 |publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=516 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8sGAQAAIAAJ&dq=Francis+Marion+Sheppard&pg=PA516}}</ref>
* [[Byther Smith]], [[Blues music|blues]] singer
* [[T. B. Stamps]], former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and the [[Louisiana State Senate]]<ref name="obituary">{{cite news |title=Ex-Senator Stamps - Death of a Colored Man Prominent in Republican Politics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112518594/ex-senator-stamps-death-of-a-colored/ |access-date=January 7, 2023 |work=The Times-Democrat |date=28 November 1898 |pages=3}}{{Open access}}</ref>
* William Sutton Sr., former President of [[Mississippi Valley State University]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dillard.edu/communications/stories/sutton_family_legacy.php | title=Dillard University &#124; the Sutton Legacy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mvsu.edu/office-of-the-president/gallery-of-presidents | title=Gallery of Presidents | date=March 20, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Matthew Wells (linebacker)|Matthew Wells]], [[American football]] [[linebacker]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Matthew Wells |url=https://hailstate.com/sports/football/roster/matthew-wells/2763 |website=Hail State |publisher=Mississippi State University |access-date=January 7, 2023}}</ref>