List of University of Southern Mississippi people

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

• 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

• 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

• 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^[11]
• Frances E. Lee, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
• Hannah Roberts, Miss Mississippi 2015 and 1st runner-up to Miss America 2016

• 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