List of University of Southern Mississippi people explained

The following is a list of notable people associated with the University of Southern Mississippi, located in the American city of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Notable alumni

Media and the arts

• Natalie Allen '84 – CNN International Anchor, CNN Newsroom, Southern Miss Alumni Award Winner
• Patrik-Ian Polk '94 – producer, filmmaker, and artist
• Jimmy Buffett '69 – singer, songwriter, and author
• Cat Cora – celebrity chef, Iron Chef America on Food Network
• M.C. Gainey – actor, Sideways, Con Air, Django Unchained, Lost
• Victor Gischler PHD– novelist, comic book writer: Gun Monkeys aka Fast Charlie, Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse, The Deputy, Stay
• Gary Grubbs '72 – actor, JFK, The Astronaut's Wife, The O. C., Will & Grace
• Ed Hinton '70 – sportswriter for ESPN.com
• Eddie Hodges (B.S. Psychology '73, M.S. Counseling '75) – former child actor, The Music Man on Broadway, numerous movie and TV roles; pop singer and songwriter; mental health counselor
• John Holman '83 – short story writer, novelist, and academic
• Cooper Huckabee – actor
• Clifton Hyde – musician, Blue Man Group
• Ted Jackson – Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist, New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Nan Kelley – host of Grand Ole Opry Live, GAC Network; Miss Mississippi
• Ed McGowin – painter and sculptor,
• Tom Malone – musician, CBS Orchestra, Late Show with David Letterman, Blues Brothers Band
• Whitney Miller '11 – winner of the first MasterChef title from season one of the Fox television show; author of cookbook Modern Hospitality: Simple Recipes with Southern Charm
• Michael Holloway Perronne – novelist
• Sally-Ann Roberts – anchor for WWL-TV in New Orleans
• Jameson Rodgers – country music singer, songwriter
• Phillip Sandifer – singer/songwriter
• Chuck Scarborough – Emmy award-winning anchor at WNBC-TV in New York City; author
• David Sheffield '72 – comedy writer; screenwriter for Saturday Night Live, writing mostly for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo; wrote screenplays for Hollywood movies, including Police Academy II and Coming to America
• Dalton Smith '59 – Grammy Award Winning trumpeter with Stan Kenton
• Tom Smith '79 – musician, Jazz Education Hall of Fame
• Ugly God – Rapper, songwriter, record producer and featured on the 2017 XXL Freshman list.
• Steve Wiest '80 – musician, jazz trombonist with Maynard Ferguson; Grammy-nominated composer, arranger; director of the One O'Clock Lab Band
• Michael Williams – filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• William Garrett Wright – poet
• Clymer Wright – Editor of Fort Bend Reporter in Fort Bend County, Texas; later conservative political activist in Houston^[1]
• William Garrett Wright – poet
• Trishelle Cannatella - reality television personality^[2]

Military

• Major General Jeffery Hammond 1978, 1986 – led one of the initial battalions into Bosnia in enforcement of the Dayton Peace Accords, served as the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, where he served 33,000 troops of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division and Multi-National Division Baghdad
• Colonel Ronald J. Rabin – commissioned as a second lieutenant of infantry from the ROTC program at Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi)
• Major General Walter H. Yates, Jr. – multiple military decorations

Science and technology

• Roger Brent '73 – systems biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Robert Hyatt '83 – author of Cray Blitz, a world chess champion computer program
• Robert L. Stewart '64 – former NASA astronaut; retired Army brigadier general
• Jimmy Mays '79 - professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee

Others

• Gene D. Carlisle'64 - prominent businessman (4th largest Wendy's owner/operator) and developer in downtown Memphis. USM's Carlisle-Faulkner field is named for him
• Lloyd Donald Brinkman '52 – (1929–2015), businessman, cattle breeder, civic leader and art collector^[3]
• Frances E. Lee, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
• Hannah Roberts, Miss Mississippi 2015 and 1st runner-up to Miss America 2016

Notable faculty

• Gordon Gunter (1909–1998) – director (1955–1971) and director emeritus (1971–1979) of the university′s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs; influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• William K. Scarborough professor emeritus of History

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clymer Wright. Houston Chronicle. January 27, 2011.
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/arts/television/reality-stars-keep-on-going-and-going.html
3. News: BRINKMAN, Lloyd Donald "Brink" . November 10, 2018 . Austin American-Statesman . July 16, 2015. B4. Newspapers.com. registration .