Daniel Wayne Jones (born March 19, 1949) served as the 16th chancellor of the University of Mississippi.
Jones was formerly the vice chancellor for health affairs, the dean of the school of medicine and the Herbert G. Langford Professor of Medicine—all three at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
He moved to Pusan, Korea in 1985 as a medical missionary, where he was the director of the community health department and hypertension clinic at the Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital.
[2] He serves on the board of directors of Global Resource Services, which provides professional consultation to East Asian nations in the areas of advocacy, humanitarian aid, development and education.
[10] His chancellorship is also marked by continued image changes to the university begun by his predecessor, Robert Khayat, including the appointment of a new mascot,[11] banning of the playing of "From Dixie with Love" and a change in the official use of 'Ole Miss', now relegated to athletics.