Alumni
- Richard Ford - novelist, Pulitzer Prize
- Kathryn Stockett - author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Help"
- Beth Henley - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
- Rea Hederman - publisher, New York Review of Books, Granta
- Othella Harrington - basketball
- Ronnie Henderson - basketball
- Mo Williams - basketball
- Trey Johnson - basketball
- Lindsey Hunter - basketball
- James Robinson - basketball
- Greg "Fingers" Taylor - harmonica player with Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band
- Carson Whitsett - legendary keyboardist, songwriter
- Tim Whitsett - music publisher, producer, author
- Cassandra Wilson - singer
- George Winston - pianist, recording artist
- James Barksdale - Time Warner/Netscape executive
- Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale - Federal judge, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Anton Vincent - President, Baking Division, General Mills, Executive
- Robert L. Gibbs - Award-Winning Lawyer, Sleep Inn Executive,Former Justice Court Judge
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