Jerry Rice
born 1962 American football player
Hayes Jones
born 1938 American athletics competitor
Latavious Williams
born 1989 American basketball player
Travis Outlaw
born 1984 American basketball player
Ray Mabus
born 1948 American politician
Drew Eubanks
born 1997 American basketball player
A. J. Brown
born 1997 American football player
Tyson Carter
born 1998 American basketball player
Cool Papa Bell
1903–1991 American Hall of Fame baseball player
Robert Woodard II
born 1999 American basketball player
Shauntay Hinton
born 1979 American beauty pageant contestant
Gavin Ware
born 1993 American basketball player
Julio Borbon
born 1986 American baseball player
Kim Hill
born 1963 American musician
April Sykes
born 1990 American basketball player
Harry Burgess
1872–1933 Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, 1928-1932
Willie Gay
born 1998 American football linebacker
Josh Booty
born 1975 American baseball and football player
Parker Washington
born 2002 American football player
Antuan Edwards
born 1977 Player of American football
Ben McGee
born 1939 American football player
Harlan D. Logan
1904–1994 American politician
Hughie Critz
1900–1980 Major League Baseball second baseman
Jim Hill
born 1950 American politician in Alabama
Al Denson
born 1960 American singer and broadcaster
Freddie Milons
born 1980 American football player
Gary Jackson
1950–2017 American politician
James Davis Ray Jr.
1918–1990 Botanist
Joe Carter
born 1962 American gridiron football player
Tony Akins
born 1977 American gridiron football player
Archie Pate
1886–1936 American baseball player
Bruce Johnson
born 1959 American actor
Eugene Butler
1894–1995 American publisher and editor
Fred Bell
born 1902 American baseball player
George Chesser
1942–2008 American football running back and punter
John Janick
born 1978 Music executive
Maurice Henry
born 1967 American football player
Omarr Conner
born 1984 American football player
Sam Creekmore IV
born 1966 American politician
Willie Earl Gillespie
born 1961 American football player
Alex O'Neal
born 1957 American painter and drawer
Gwen Maxwell-Williams
1947–2020 Artist, born Starkville, MS 1947-died 2020
Raymond O. Collier Jr.
1922–2014 Education psychologist
Taylor Williams
American basketball player
Also called Starkville home
MJ Martin F. Jue
American inventor and entrepreneur
Roy Vernon Scott
1927–2021 American historian
DeeDee Baldwin
born 1979 Librarian
Mary Gladys Hoke Lobdell
1895–1981 American entomologist, university teacher and scientific collector