Businesspeople from Mississippi

William Arthur Winstead (January 6, 1904 – March 14, 1995) was a farmer and politician, elected as U.

James Breckenridge Speed (middle name sometimes spelled Breckinridge) (1844–1912) was a successful businessman in Louisville, Kentucky and an important philanthropist.

Jeremiah Joseph "Jerry" O'Keefe III (July 12, 1923 – August 23, 2016) was an American World War II veteran and decorated fighter pilot ace.

Nolan Ray Rogers (born July 3, 1931) is an American politician in the state of Mississippi.

Chad McMahan is an American businessman and politician.

John A. Polk (born 1949) is an American businessman and politician.

William Redd, also known as Si Redd (1911-2003) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

Bennett Malone (born January 6, 1944) is an American politician in the state of Mississippi.

Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photographer.

Haskins Montgomery is a Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the 34th District since 2008.

William T. Hawks, known as Bill Hawks (November 22, 1944 near Oxford, Mississippi), is an American politician, former civil servant, agricultural businessman, and founder and CEO of AgWorks Solutions, LLC.

Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was born in Pennsylvania and became a major planter and banker in Mississippi, in the antebellum South.

Gilbert Ellzey "Gil" Carmichael (June 27, 1927 – January 31, 2016) was an American businessman, transportation policy specialist, and Republican politician from Meridian, Mississippi.

Stephen LaTreal McNair (February 14, 1973 – July 4, 2009), nicknamed Air McNair, was an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL).

Leon Crow "Lee" Bramlett, Jr.

Oliver Luckett is an American businessman and art collector.

Travis Wayne Childers (born March 29, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.

Timothy L. "Tim" Johnson (born December 2, 1959) is an American politician.

George W. Bryan (born April 5, 1946) is an American businessman, former Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Foods, Senior VP of Sara Lee Corporation, and founder of Old Waverly Golf Club.

Edwin J. "Jerry" Wilburn (born September 18, 1940) is an American politician in the state of Mississippi.

Joel Bomgar (born 1980) is an American businessman and politician.

George Ellis Johnson, Sr.

Joseph Augustus Biedenharn (December 13, 1866 – October 9, 1952) was an American businessman and confectioner credited in the summer of 1894 with having first bottled the soda fountain drink, Coca-Cola, at his wholesale candy company building in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Colonel Harvey Washington Walter (1819-1878) was an American lawyer and railroad business executive.

William Clark Falkner (July 6, 1825 or 1826 – November 6, 1889) was a soldier, lawyer, politician, businessman, and author in northern Mississippi.

Nathaniel L. Carpenter (November 18, 1805 at Randolph, Vermont – December 23, 1892 at Natchez, Mississippi), was a prominent entrepreneur, builder, owner of a steamboat line, and successful cotton trader of antebellum and postbellum Natchez, Mississippi.

Prentiss Lafayette Walker (August 23, 1917 – June 5, 1998) was a farmer, businessman and politician from the U.

Emanuel Lorenz Philipp (March 25, 1861 – June 15, 1925) was an American railroad executive and politician from Wisconsin, who served as the 23rd Governor of Wisconsin from 1915 to 1921.

Christian Faser Jr.

Phillip Alford (born September 11, 1948) is an American actor best known for his role as Jem Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Toxey Daniel Haas III (born January 21, 1960) is an American entrepreneur and conservationist.

A. Maceo Walker (June 7, 1909 – June 8, 1994) was an African-American businessman who led expansion of the Universal Life Insurance Company, founded by his father Joseph Edison Walker in Memphis, Tennessee.

Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American businessman, media magnate, executive, philanthropist and investor.

Jack Raymond Reed, Sr.

Jay Paul Gumm (born November 29, 1963) is an American economic development professional from Bryan County, Oklahoma who served eight years as a member of the Oklahoma State Senate.