Eudora Welty *

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and leading lady of letters in America.
 

Elizabeth Hazen *

Scientist who was the co-discoverer of the world's leading antifungal medication.
 

Dorothy Bush *

Served as the secretary of the National Democratic Party for 45 years.
 

Blanche Colton Williams *

Writer who started the nationally prominent O.Henry Short Story Awards.
 

Evelyn McPhail *

Served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
 

Lenore Prather

First woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice in Mississippi.
 

Valerie Jaudon

Only Mississippi woman artist featured in H.H. Arnason's History of Modern Art (third edition).
 

Denise Dillard

Playwright and winner of the American Theatre Festival's National Student Playwright Award, whose play, Blue Collar Blues, was performed in the Kennedy Center.
 

Toni Seawright

First black Miss Mississippi

The mothers of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner both attended MUW.

* Deceased