Scientists and Inventors
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), inventor of rodeo equipment, (Columbia)
- Gail Borden (1801–1874), inventor of condensed milk, (Amite county)
- Harry A. Cole, inventor of Pine-Sol, (Jackson)
- James A. Ford (1911–1968), archaeologist, (Water Valley)
- Fred Haise (born 1933), engineer, astronaut, (Biloxi)
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975), microbiologist, developer of nystatin, (Rich)
- Joseph Newman, inventor of the Newman motor, (Lucedale)
- Henry Sampson (born 1934), inventor, (Jackson)
- Roy A. Tucker (born 1951), astronomer, (Jackson)
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“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“They will call you the annihilators of morals: but you are simply the inventors of yourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)