Educators
- James Madison Carpenter (1888–1983), folklorist, (Prentiss County)
- Joseph Crespino (born 1972), political scientist (Macon)
- Jesse Dukeminier (1925–2003), professor of law, (West Point)
- William R. Ferris (born 1942), folklorist, chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities, (Vicksburg)
- George W. Grace (born 1921), linguist, (Corinth)
- Robert Khayat (born 1938), chancellor of the University of Mississippi, (Moss Point)
- Mamie Locke (born 1954), political scientist, dean at Hampton University, (Brandon)
- John A. Lomax (1867–1948), folklorist, (Goodman)
- Frances Lucas (born 1957), president of Millsaps College, (Jackson)
- Bernie Machen (born 1944), president of University of Florida, (Greenwood)
- Walter E. Massey (born 1938), physicist, University of Chicago, (Hattiesburg)
- William H. Miller (born 1941), theoretical chemist, (Kosciusko)
- William Muse, chancellor at East Carolina University
- Rod Paige (born 1933), U.S. secretary of education, (Monticello)
- Milburn Price (born 1938), hymnologist, dean of School of Performing Arts, Samford University (Electric Mills)
- Dan Reneau (born 1940), president of Louisiana Tech University (Woodville)
- Roy Vernon Scott (born 1927), historian, (Starkville)
- Jimmy G. Shoalmire (1940–1982), historian (Starkville)
- Louis Westerfield (born 1949), law professor, first African-American Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law, (De Kalb)
- Fannie C. Williams (1882–1980), normal school educator (Biloxi)
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“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)