Nannie Herndon Rice (November 30, 1886 – March 6, 1963) was an American suffragist, writer, and college librarian, based in Mississippi.

Her great-grandfather Arthur F. Hopkins was a railroad president and state Supreme Court justice in Alabama.

[5] After H. L. Mencken wrote a series of articles describing the American South as a cultural desert, Rice wrote an essay in defense of Mississippi, which Mencken published in The American Mercury, in January 1926.

[3] Rice lived most of her life in Meadow Woods, her family's historic plantation home in Oktibbeha County.

[1][13] An oil portrait of Rice was displayed at Mississippi State University's Mitchell Memorial Library.