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Our Mississippi Hall of Fame is to honor as many Mississippians who have achievements in the arts : writers , journalist , actors , actresses , dancers ,musicians , producers ,directors , radio & TV performers , entertainers , singers , artist , and sculptors who were born in Mississippi or have made Mississippi their home for 50% of their life and have national and/or international recognition. NOTE : no politicians will be included here nor will any sports figures . This is to recognize those Mississippians who have excelled in the fields of artistic endeavor. NOTE : we have listed them in alphabetical order and have tried to be accurate in hometowns and dates of birth and death and artistic field / fields.
William Faulkner New Albany Author Screenwriter Nobel Peace Prize in literature 1949 Pulitzer Prizes [ 2 ] ( fiction) 1955 and 1963 [9/25/1897 - 7/6/1962 ]
Tennessee Williams Columbus Author Dramatist Playwright Screenwriter Pulitzer Prizes for drama [ 2 ] A Streetcar Named Desire {1948 } and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof { 1955 } New York Drama Critic's Circle Award 1944-45 for The Glass Menagerie [ 2/26/1911 - 2 / 25 / 1983 ]
Eudora Alice Welty Jackson Author Pulitzer Prize 1973 [ 4/13/1909 - 2001 ]
David Herbert Donald Goodman Author Pulitzer Prizes [2] in biography 1961 and 1988 [ 1920 - ]
John Grisham Southhaven and Oxford ( born in Jonesboro,AR ) Novelist over 70 million books in print with a record 2.8 million first run of his last three novels. [ 2 / 8 / 1955 - ]
Oprah Winfrey Kosciusko Actress Producer Talk Show Host has received many Emmy Awards [ 1/29/1954 - ]
Sela Ward Meridian Actress Emmy award winner [ 8/11/1956 - ]
Pete Fountain Bay St.Louis Jazz Clarinetist [ 7 / 3 /1930 - ]
Faith Hill Star Singer Music award winner [ 1967- ]
Jim Henson Greenville Puppeteer Creator of the Muppets [1936-1990]
Kermit the Frog Greenville famous muppet [1955- ]
Anthony Herrera Wiggins Actor
Tom '' Bones '' Malone Sumrall Musician CBS Orchestra
Ray Walston Laurel Actor '' our favorite Martian '' [ 1917 -2001 ]
Elvis Aron Presley Tupelo Singer Songwriter Actor ''the king of rock and roll " [ 1 / 8 /1935 - 8 / 16 / 1977 ]
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