Noteworthy Alumni in Fiction
- Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, a character in Star Trek
- Suzanne Sugarbaker, a character in Designing Women (she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority)
- Ellen Roark, a character played by Sandra Bullock in the 1996 movie A Time to Kill, based on the novel by real alumnus John Grisham
- William Faulkner's estate, Rowan Oak, is owned by the university. His Nobel Prize for Literature is held in Archives and Special Collections at J. D. Williams Library on the Ole Miss campus. The town of Oxford surrounds the campus which is located in Lafayette County and inspired Faulkner and his imaginary town of Jefferson, the county seat of Yoknapatawpha County
- Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, the central character of Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help and the film based on the book, graduated from Ole Miss before writing a book in which she told the stories of the African-American maids who worked for white families.
- Viviane Joan Abbot Walker, one of the central characters in The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
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