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==Notable people== {{Div col|colwidth=30 em}} * [[Seth Adams]] (born 1985), [[University of Mississippi]] football quarterback * [[Robert Belfour]] (1940-2015), blues musician * [[Spires Boling]] (1812β1880), architect and builder<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 18, 2018|title=Spires Boling gets monument|url=https://www.southreporter.com/news/spires-boling-gets-monument}}</ref> * [[R. L. Burnside]] (1926β2005), blues musician * [[Kate Freeman Clark]] (1875β1957), painter<ref name="SwainPayne2003">{{cite book|author1=Martha H. Swain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYGy386DxT8C|title=Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives|author2=Elizabeth Anne Payne|author3=Marjorie Julian Spruill|publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8203-2502-6}}</ref> * [[E. H. Crump|Edward Hull "Boss" Crump]] (1874β1954), head of the dominant [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] political machine in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] during the first half of the 20th century; born in Holly Springs * [[Cassi Davis]] (born 1964), actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visithollysprings.com/holly-springs-star-cassandra-cassi-davis/ |title=Holly Springs Star!! Cassandra "Cassi" Davis |date=August 21, 2015 |website=Visit Holly Springs |access-date=September 12, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223093857/http://www.visithollysprings.com/holly-springs-star-cassandra-cassi-davis/ |archive-date=December 23, 2015 }}</ref> * [[Clifton DeBerry]] (1924β2006), first African American nominated for [[President of the United States]] by a political party ([[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]], 1964, 1980); born in Holly Springs * [[Wall Doxey]] (1892β1962), Mississippi politician, served as congressman and U.S. senator; Wall Doxey State Park was named after him * [[Charlie Feathers]], (1932-1998), rockabilly musician * [[Winfield S. Featherston]] (1820β1891), two-term member of [[United States House of Representatives]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[brigadier general]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], later a state politician and circuit court judge * [[William Baskerville Hamilton]] (1908-1972), historian who taught public school in Holly Springs in the 1930s<ref>{{cite encyclopaedia |author1-first=Robert Franklin |author1-last=Durden |pages=214–215 |article=Hamilton, William Baskerville|encyclopaedia=Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817–1967|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=1981|isbn=9781617034183}}</ref> * [[Syl Johnson]] (1936-2022), blues and [[soul music|soul]] singer *[[Verina Morton Jones]] (1865β1943), African-American physician and the first woman to practice medicine in the state; served as resident physician at [[Rust College]] * [[Junior Kimbrough]] (1930β1998), blues musician * [[Jeremy LeSueur]] (born 1980), [[University of Michigan]] football defensive back<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/player/jeremylesueur/2505951/profile |title=PLAYERS: Jeremy LeSueur | website= National Football League |access-date= September 12, 2015}}</ref> * [[Paul Maholm]] (born 1982), pitcher for four major league teams over his career<ref>{{cite news |last=Kovacevic |first=Dejan |date=September 25, 2005 |title=Paul Maholm: Steeliness in the eye of storms |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2005/09/25/Paul-Maholm-Steeliness-in-the-eye-of-storms/stories/200509250313 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |access-date=September 12, 2015 }}</ref> * [[Gary Montez Martin]] (1973β2019), perpetrator of the [[Aurora, Illinois shooting|2019 Aurora, Illinois shooting]] * [[Mel and Tim]] (Mel Hardin and Tim McPherson), soul musicians from Holly Springs who recorded at [[Stax Records]] in Memphis * [[Hiram Rhodes Revels]] (1822β1901), first African American to serve in the [[United States Senate]]; first president of [[Alcorn State University]]; taught theology at Shaw University (present-day [[Rust College]])<ref>{{cite web|title=REVELS, Hiram Rhodes|url=http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/REVELS,-Hiram-Rhodes-(R000166)/|access-date=September 12, 2015|website=History, Art & Archives: United States House of Representatives}}</ref> * [[Lation Scott]] (1893-1917), African American lynching victim * [[Shepard Smith]] (born 1964), American broadcast journalist for NBC News and CNBC; born in Holly Springs<ref>{{cite web|title=Shepard Smith|url=http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/shepard-smith/bio/#s=r-z|access-date=September 12, 2015|website=Fox News}}</ref> and attended high school at Marshall Academy, one of the private schools in town * [[James F. Trotter]] (1802β1866), judge and U.S. senator who resided in Holly Springs until his death<ref>{{cite web|title=TROTTER, James Fisher, (1802 - 1866)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000380|access-date=September 12, 2015|website=United States Congress}}</ref> * [[Irving Vendig]] (1902β1995), television writer * [[Edward Cary Walthall]] (1831β1898), Confederate general, lawyer, and U.S. senator from Mississippi * [[Ida B. Wells]] (1862β1931), African-American journalist, anti-lynching activist, and advocate for civil rights and women's rights; born in Holly Springs<ref>{{cite book|last=Dorrien|first=Gary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qe-ACgAAQBAJ&q=Spires+Boling&pg=PA85|title=The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel|date=2015|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300205602|location=New Haven, Connecticut|page=85}}</ref> *[[Absolom M. West]] (1818β1894), planter, politician, Civil War general and labor organizer, resided in Holly Springs after the Civil War until his death {{div col end}} {{wide image|Holly Springs square 1.JPG|1000px|alt=Town square in Holly Springs|Town square in Holly Springs}}
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