- Bobby Brown
DR. Robert William Brown, M.D. (born October 25 1924 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who served as president of the American League from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who successfully studied for his medical degree during his eight-year (1946-52, 1954) career as a player with the New York Yankees. - David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, … - Evan Farmer
Evan Farmer brings a diverse array of talents to TLC's WHILE YOU WERE OUT as the host of the hit home design series. In addition to his music career and roles on screens large and small, Evan studied architecture at Tulane University and has worked as both a draftsman and as a graphic designer for several firms. He also recently started his own business (Renovolution) renovating single-family homes, and has a strong interest in carpentry and design. - Harold Sylvester
Harold Sylvester (born February 10,1949 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American film and television actor. A graduate of New Orleans' St. Augustine High School and Tulane University, Harold Sylvester is best known for his role on the TV series "Married... with Children" as Griff, the co-worker and friend of Al Bundy at the shoe store. Harold's other TV roles include the short-lived 1981 series "Walking Tall", "Today's F.B.I.", "Mary", … - David Bruce Vitter
David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961) is an American Republican politician, currently serving as the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana. He was formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives, first elected in 1999, to represent the suburban First Congressional District of Louisiana. In July 2007, Vitter was identified as a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service in Washington, D.C. - David C. Treen
David Conner Treen, Sr., (born July 16, 1928) is a retired attorney and politician from Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish -- the first Republican governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He is also the first Republican in modern times to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives from his state. A narrow victor in the gubernatorial general election held in the fall of 1979, Treen served as governor from 1980 to 1984. - Neil Bush
Neil Mallon Bush (born January 22, 1955 in Midland, Texas) is the fourth of six children of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush (Barbara Lane Pierce). Neil is the younger brother of President George Walker Bush, Governor Jeb Bush, and the late Robin Bush who died of leukemia in 1953. He has a younger brother, Marvin, and a younger sister, Dorothy. Neil is a businessman based in Texas. - Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader. In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident. - Ray Nagin
Mayor Nagin said yesterday that "there are way to many frickin' - excuse me - cooks in the kitchen... they should have done these sandbagging operations first thing in the morning and it didn't get done... quite frankly I'm very frustrated" and today he is already on track to get the organizational problems fixed. New Orleans made a very rare, wise decision to elect this man, and I hope they keep him in office for quite a while. - Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943), Ph.D., served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, "Time" magazine selected him as the Man of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of Democratic Party majorities in that body. During his tenure as Speaker he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton. - Gene Taylor
Gary Eugene "Gene" Taylor (born September 17, 1953) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and a U.S. Representative from the 4th District of Mississippi (map). Taylor was born in New Orleans and is a graduate of Tulane University. He completed additional post-graduate work at University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. From 1971 through 1984, he was a member of the United States Coast Guard Reserve, … - Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is a British-born American celebrity, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, musician, television personality, and host of the controversial television tabloid talk show bearing his name, "The Jerry Springer Show". He is also the current host of "America's Got Talent". - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - Shannon Lee
Shannon Emery Lee is an American actress. She is the daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his widow Linda Lee Cadwell. Shannon's brother was the late actor Brandon Lee. Shannon was born in Los Angeles, California, the second child to Bruce and Linda (Emery) Lee. Shannon and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father. - John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 - March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces". Toole's novel remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of "A Confederacy of Dunces" to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. - Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. (born November 15, 1925) is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan. Known in Washington, D.C. as the "Great Conciliator," Baker is often regarded as one of the most successful Senators in terms of brokering compromises, enacting legislation, and maintaining civility. - Michael E. Debakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi on September 7, 1908, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States) is a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher. His motto is "Strive for nothing less than excellence." - Rob Couhig
Robert Emmet "Rob" Couhig, Jr. (born April 20, 1949), is a New Orleans lawyer, businessman, entrepreneur, and longtime Louisiana Republican Party activist. A former partner of the Adams and Reese law firm, he now heads his own Couhig Partners. Couhig has twice lost races for the United States House of Representatives. A persistent Republican in a heavily Democratic city, he was defeated in a race for mayor of New Orleans in the spring of 2006. - Bruce Paltrow
Television and film producer Bruce Paltrow was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the late 1960s he began directing stage productions in New York City, where he met actress Blythe Danner, whom he married in 1970. He is probably best known as the producer of the television series "The White Shadow" and "St. Elsewhere". He also worked on the critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street". - Paul Morphy
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his time, and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was also one of the first chess prodigy after the creation of the modern rules of chess. - Howard K. Smith
Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman and commentator, and one of the original Murrow boys. Born in Ferriday (Concordia Parish) in eastern Louisiana, Smith graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1936, with both a bachelor's degree and an L.L.D. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (Merton College) from which he graduated in September 1939. - Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser (born March 25, 1943) is an American actor and director. Originally Paul Manfred Glaser, he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His parents were Dorothy and Samuel Glaser. Glaser attended Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. - Lawrence Gordon
Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) Grew up in Belzoni, Mississippi. He attended Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Is an American producer and motion picture executive. Gordon specializes in producing action oriented films. Some of his most popular productions include "Predator" (1987), Die Hard" (1988) and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). He served as President of 20th Century Fox from 1984 to 1986. - Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist specializing on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. Bremmer’s books include the bestselling "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall" (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine, and "Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States" (Cambridge University Press, … - Amy Carter
Amy Lynn Carter (born October 19, 1967) is the youngest of the four children and the only daughter of U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. Amy was born and raised, until her father's presidency, in Plains, Georgia, with her father serving as governor of the state for much of the period. Amy has three brothers who are roughly 15 to 20 years older than she. - Francis Cardinal George
"His Eminence" Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, Ph.D, S.T.D. (born January 16, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Chicago and was elevated to Cardinal by Pope John Paul II. The Cardinal is the vice-president of the conference of American bishops, and is in charge of the second largest U.S. diocese—in terms of Catholic population—after Los Angeles. - Jock Scott
John Wyeth "Jock" Scott, II (born June 29, 1947), is a lawyer and college professor in Alexandria, who served three terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives, first as a Democrat (1976-1985) and then as a Republican (1985-1988). He was defeated in a race for the Louisiana State Senate in 1987. He has also lost two bids for the United States House of Representatives: a 1985 special election, when he ran as a Democrat, … - Ned Randolph
Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. (born January 1942), a veteran Democratic Party politician, was the mayor of Alexandria in central Louisiana for 20 years. He turned over the office to fellow Democrat Jacques M. Roy on December 4, 2006. Randolph was also a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1972-1976) and the Louisiana State Senate (1976-1984). In 1982 and 1992, Randolph was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives, … - Jared Y. Sanders Jr.
John Young Sanders, Jr., was a prominent Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, perhaps best known for his conservative opposition to legendary Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and his support of the States' Rights Party in 1960. Sanders was born in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish to Governor Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (1908-1912), … - Jared Y. Sanders Sr.
Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (January 29, 1869 - March 22, 1944), was a journalist and attorney from Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana, who served as his state's House speaker (1900-1904), lieutenant governor (1904-1908), governor (1908-1912), and U.S. representative (1917-1921). Near the end of his political career he was a part of the anti-Long faction within the Louisiana Democratic Party. - Shirley Ann Grau
Shirley Ann Grau (born July 8, 1929) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer. Born in New Orleans, her work is set in the Deep South and deals primarily with the sad plight of unhappy rich people. She spent much of her childhood in rural Alabama with her mother. She graduated in 1950 from Newcomb College of Tulane University. Her 1964 saga, "The Keepers of the House" was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. - Suzanne Haik Terrell
Suzanne Haik Terrell (born 1954) is a Louisiana lawyer who failed in a high-profile Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and for state attorney general in 2003. She was the state's last commissioner of elections, having served from 2000 to 2004. In 2005, President George W. Bush named Mrs. Terrell to a position in the Economic Development Administration. - Charlton Lyons
Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. (September 3, 1894 - August 8,1973), was a Shreveport oilman who in 1964 waged the first well-organized Republican bid for the Louisiana governorship since Reconstruction. Lyons also made a strong but losing bid for the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1961. He is often considered the "father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana." - Michael White
Michael White (born 29 November, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Scott Yanow, a jazz critic, said in a review that Michael "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists." - Nauman Scott
Nauman Steele Scott, II (June 15, 1916 - September 19, 2001), was a Republican-appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana from 1970 until 2001, who ordered cross-parish busing guidelines in 1980 to foster racial balance in Rapides Parish public schools. Because of his active fight against lingering remnants of segregation, … - John Malcolm Duhé Jr.
John Malcolm Duhé, Jr. is a retired senior judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He currently practices law in Lafayette. Duhé was appointed as appellate judge in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan, and he has been a senior judge since 1999. He was named to the seat vacated by the death of Judge Albert Tate, Jr., of Opelousas. Duhé received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University in 1955 and his law degree from Tulane Law School in 1957. - Newton C. Blanchard
Newton Crain Blanchard (January 29, 1849 - June 22, 1922) was a United States Representative, Senator, and Governor of Louisiana. Born in Rapides Parish, he completed academic studies, studied law in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1868, and graduated from the law department of the Tulane University in 1870 (then named the University of Louisiana). - Edwin S. Broussard
Edwin Sidney Broussard, I (December 4, 1874 - November 19, 1934), was a United States senator from Louisiana. He was born in the village of Loureauville in Iberia Parish in the sugar-growing country of south Louisiana and attended public schools. He graduated from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1896. He taught in the public schools of Iberia and St. Martin parishes from 1896 to 1898. - Janell Burse
Janell Burse (born May 19, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a 6'5" women's basketball player who is the starting center for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA. After playing college ball at Tulane University, Burse was drafted in the second round (28th overall) by the Minnesota Lynx in 2001, and played her first three professional seasons with that team. As part of an ill-fated attempt by the Lynx to land hometown sensation Lindsay Whalen in the 2004 WNBA Draft, … - Christian Whiton
Christian Whiton is the deputy to Jay Lefkowitz, the President's Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. In this capacity, Mr. Whiton advises the Special Envoy on policy, communications and programmatic activities related to the promotion of human rights for the North Korean people. Previously in this Administration, Mr. Whiton was a speechwriter and special advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, …
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