Editing Port Gibson, Mississippi (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Samuel Reading Bertron]], banker
* [[Cleo W. Blackburn]], educator<ref name="BodenhamerBarrows1994">{{cite book|author1=David J. Bodenhamer|author2=Robert G. Barrows|title=The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bg13QcMSsq8C&pg=PA323|date=22 November 1994|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-11249-4|pages=323}}</ref>
* [[Pete Brown (golfer)|Pete Brown]], golfer, first [[African American]] to win on the PGA Tour
* [[Jay Disharoon]], lawyer and Mississippi legislator
* [[Henry Hughes (sociologist)|Henry Hughes]], lawyer, sociologist, state senator, and [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] colonel<ref name="Faust1981">{{cite book|author=Drew Gilpin Faust|title=The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830–1860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JkulqInISsC&pg=PA239|date=1 September 1981|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-0892-5|pages=239}}</ref>
* [[Yolanda Moore]], former professional basketball player and girls basketball coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Yolanda Moore Named Girls Basketball Coach At Heritage Academy |url=https://olemisssports.com/news/2011/5/6/Yolanda_Moore_Named_Girls_Basketball_Coach_At_Heritage_Academy.aspx |website=Ole Miss Sports |access-date=20 May 2020}}</ref>
* [[Betty Berry Morgan (writer)|Betty Berry Morgan]], writer
* [[Jacob S. Raisin]], rabbi
* [[Irwin Russell (poet)|Irwin Russell]], poet
* [[Bob Shannon (American football)|Bob Shannon]], [[high school football]] coach, known for his work in [[East St. Louis, Illinois]]<ref name="Horrigan1993">{{cite book|author=Kevin Horrigan|title=The Right Kind of Heroes: Coach Bob Shannon and the East St. Louis Flyers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kb8gsAmo68QC|year=1993|publisher=HarperPerennial|isbn=978-0-06-097578-4|page=84}}</ref>
* [[V. C. Shannon]], born in Port Gibson in 1910, one-term member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], serving from 1972 to 1974
* [[J. D. Short]], [[Delta blues]] guitarist, singer, and [[List of harmonicists|harmonicist]]<ref name="KRAMPERT2016">{{cite book|author=PETER KRAMPERT|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4|pages=159}}</ref>
* [[James G. Spencer]], U.S. Representative from 1895 to 1897<ref name="Capace2001">{{cite book|author=Nancy Capace|title=Encyclopedia of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlLDIiQv9twC&pg=PA405|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-0-403-09603-9|pages=405}}</ref>
* [[Clement Sulivane]], Confederate officer, politician, and member of the [[Maryland Senate]] from 1878 to 1880<ref name="Krick2003">{{cite book|author=Robert E. L. Krick|title=Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKvqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA278|date=4 December 2003|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-6307-7|pages=278}}</ref>
* [[Earl Van Dorn]], Confederate Civil War general
* [[Peter Aaron Van Dorn]], lawyer, judge, plantation owner, and one of the founders of [[Jackson, Mississippi]]<ref name="Gupton2013">{{cite book|author=Linda Gupton|title=Seasons in the South: The Lives Involved in the Death of General Van Dorn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OB8eDbukv9gC&pg=PA41|date=5 June 2013|publisher=Author House|isbn=978-1-4817-5365-4|pages=41}}</ref>
* [[F. S. Wolcott]], minstrel show proprietor