Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
- Jim Barksdale (born 1943), president and CEO of Netscape, (Jackson)
- James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), industrial pioneer
- Fred Carl, Jr., founder of Viking Range Corporation, (Greenwood)
- Cully Cobb (1884–1975), agricultural publisher
- Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom vice president, whistleblower (Clinton)
- Bernard "Bernie" Ebbers (born 1941), founder and CEO of WorldCom, convicted of fraud and conspiracy, (Brookhaven)
- Joshua Green (1869–1975), shipping magnate, banker, (Jackson)
- Toxey Haas, founder and CEO of Haas Outdoors, Inc.
- Sam Haskell (born 1955), former worldwide head of television for the William Morris Agency, (Amory)
- Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), founder of Black Entertainment Television, (Hickory)
- Ken Lewis (born 1947), Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America Corporation, (Meridian)
- Walter E. Massey (born 1938), corporate executive and board member of several organizations, (Hattiesburg)
- Glenn McCullough (born 1954), chairman and CEO of GLM Associates, LLC, (Tupelo)
- Charles Moorman (born 1953), CEO of Norfolk Southern, (Hattiesburg)
- Clarence Otis, Jr. (born 1956), CEO of Darden Restaurants, (Vicksburg)
- Hartley Peavey (born 1941), founder of Peavey Electronics, (Meridian)
- Pig Foot Mary (1870–1929), culinary entrepreneur, (Mississippi Delta)
- Robert "Bob" Pittman, founder MTV, former CEO and COO AOL, (Jackson)
- J. H. Rush (1868–1931), founder of Rush's Infirmary, the first private hospital in Meridian, Mississippi, (De Kalb)
- Fred Smith (born 1944), founder of FedEx, (Marks)
- Antonio Maceo Walker (1909–1994), president of the Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tennessee, (Indianola)
- Zig Ziglar (1926–2012), motivational speaker, author, salesman (Yazoo City)
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