Mansfield was the childhood home of Joshua Logan, an award-winning director, producer, playwright and screenwriter for film and stage.

He is most famous for directing Hollywood classics such as South Pacific, Picnic, Paint Your Wagon, Sayonara, Bus Stop and Fanny.

Logan received the Pulitzer Prize at the age of forty for the libretto of South Pacific, which he cowrote with Oscar Hammerstein II.

Ocie Lee Smith was an American singer, who performed with Count Basie's band from 1961 to 1965 and sang on the 1969 Grammy Award-winning recording of the song "Little Green Apples".

NFL cornerback Fakhir Brown (born on September 21, 1977) initially attended Mansfield High School.