- Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election. - Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the Senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana, as well as the first, and as of 2007, only woman from that state to be elected to the Senate. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the sister of current Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate. - Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and other 1960s blues and rock legends, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues. He is the father of female rapper Shawnna. Guy is known for his showmanship; for example, he plays his guitar with drumsticks, or strolls into the audience while jamming and trailing a long guitar cord. - Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893-September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, … - Richard Baker
Richard Hugh Baker (born May 22 1948), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the 6th District of Louisiana (map). The district is based in the state capital, Baton Rouge, and includes much of that city's metropolitan area. The son of a Methodist Minister, he was born in New Orleans and graduated from Louisiana State University. - Kip Holden
Melvin L. "Kip" Holden (born August 12, 1952) is the Democratic Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The parish includes the state capitol of Baton Rouge and smaller suburban cities like Baker and Zachary. He was elected the city's mayor on November 3, 2004. He unseated the Republican incumbent, Bobby Simpson, even as President George W. Bush and Congressman Richard Baker were winning in East Baton Rouge Parish. Holden was inaugurated on January 3, 2005. - Derrick Todd Lee
Derrick Todd Lee (born in 1968 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, USA), dubbed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, has been linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana. Newspapers have suggested a link with other unsolved murders in the area, but the police lack DNA evidence to prove these connections. The murder method has varied with nearly each case. - John Folse
John Folse is a noted Louisiana chef and restaurant owner, and a leading authority on Cajun and Creole cuisine and culture. In 1978, Folse opened Lafitte’s Landing Restaurant in the historic Viala Plantation House in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The house and restaurant were destroyed by fire in 1998. In May 1999, Folse opened his former Donaldsonville home as the new Lafitte’s Landing Restaurant at Bittersweet Plantation, … - John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (last name pronounced BRO) was a United States senator from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - Jay Dardenne
Jay Dardenne was sworn in as Secretary of State of Louisiana in November, 2006, filling the remaining year on an unexpired term and ending a 15-year career in the State Senate. He was reelected in the 2007 primary with 64% of the vote, receiving the largest number of votes cast for any candidate in the statewide election. Secretary Dardenne has championed increased early voting opportunities and helped win legislative approval of a pay raise for poll commissioners. - Andy Pettitte
Andrew Eugene Pettitte (pronounced "PET-it"), born June 15, 1972 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an American left-handed starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In his major league career, he played for the New York Yankees from 1995-2003. He then signed with the Houston Astros, playing from 2004 through 2006. In 2007, Pettitte rejoined the Yankees. He won four championships as a Yankee and made the playoffs every year except for 2006. - Steve Scalise
Stephen Joseph "Steve" Scalise (born October 10, 1965) is a Republican lawmaker from Jefferson Parish (District 82) in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He has been elected three times: 1995, 1999 and 2003. His legislative peers named him to the House Appropriations Committee as the representative of the First Congressional District. Scalise initially succeeded fellow Republican Representative Quentin D. Dastugue, … - Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jack Jordan, Jr., (born 1952) is the sitting Democratic district attorney for Orleans Parish, Louisiana, the first African American to hold the elected position. Jordan was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Jordan, Sr. He grew up in the middle class African American Pontchartrain Park neighborhood of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, … - Seimone Augustus
Seimone Augustus (born April 30, 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. - Charlie Melancon
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Melancon (born October 3, 1947, in Napoleonville) is a Democrat who was elected in to represent Louisiana's 3rd congressional district.(map) in a December 4, 2004, general election, and re-elected in 2006. The grandson and great-grandson of sugar cane farmers, … - Tab Benoit
Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is a blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of Swamp blues, Soul blues and Chicago blues. He plays Fender guitars and writes his own music compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana in May, 1985. - Cleo Fields
Cleo Fields (born November 22, 1962) is a lawyer and politician. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana. Fields was born in Port Allen, Louisiana. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern University in his Baton Rouge. He failed his bar exam approximately 6 times before eventually passing. Field was elected as a Democrat to the Louisiana Senate in 1986. - Ben Sheets
Ben M. Sheets (born July 18, 1978 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. He throws a four-seam fastball clocked between 94-98 MPH, a big, sharp breaking curveball in the 80-83 MPH range, and a changeup. He also has great command of his three pitches, as evidenced by the outstanding strikeout-walk ratios he has posted over recent seasons. - Brandon Bass
Brandon Bass (Born April 30, 1985 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets of the NBA. A 6'8", 240 lbs. power forward from LSU, Bass was selected by the Hornets in the 2nd round (33rd overall) of the 2005 NBA Draft. In 1994, he moved to New Roads, Louisiana, when his mother died, to live with his father. In 1996, he moved to Baton Rouge. - Slim Harpo
Slim Harpo was a blues musician. Born James Moore in Lobdell, Louisiana, the eldest in an orphaned family, Moore worked as a longshoreman and building worker during the late 1930s and early 1940s. One of the foremost proponents of post-war rural blues, he began performing in Baton Rouge bars under the name Harmonica Slim. He later accompanied Lightnin' Slim, his brother-in-law, both live and in the studio, … - Alvin Batiste
Alvin Batiste (November 7, 1932 - May 6, 2007) was an avant garde jazz clarinetist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He taught at his own jazz institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He recorded with Cannonball Adderley. His most recent CD is with Branford Marsalis and other notable jazz musicians. Several well-known musicians studied under Batiste while at Southern University. They include Marsalis, Randy Jackson ("American Idol"), his brother Herman, … - Billy Cannon
William Abb "Billy" Cannon (born August 2, 1937) is an All-American and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players. He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and moved to Baton Rouge when his father got a job there during World War II. He graduated from Istrouma High School. - Larry Garner
Larry Garner is an American blues musician. He was born in 1952 and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He first performed in the evenings while holding a regular job at Dow Chemical, but he became much bigger after breaking out at a Blues festival in the UK in 1992. He recorded for Verve for a few years, and now records for the German label Ruf Records. - Bill Cassidy
William Morgan "Bill" Cassidy, M.D. (born September 28, 1957), is a Louisiana state senator, physician, teacher, community leader, and Republican Party activist from Baton Rouge. Cassidy specializes in the treatment of diseases of the liver, both in private practice and at the Earl K. Long State Hospital. He is married to Laura Cassidy, herself a physician, and they have three children: Will, Meg, and Kate. - Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels, also known as Stormy Waters and simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe whose bassist Nikki Sixx named his son Storm. - T. Harry Williams
Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 -- July 6, 1979) was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death. A popular faculty member, Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, "Lincoln and His Generals", a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and his 1969 work "Huey Long" (the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, … - Justin Wilson
Justin E. Wilson (April 24, 1914 - September 5, 2001) was a southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun cuisine-inspired cooking and humor. He was a self-styled "raconteur". Wilson was born in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" east of Baton Rouge. He began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana. - Clyde Fant
Clyde Edward Fant, Sr. (October 18, 1905 -- July 6, 1973), was a 20-year Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, having served from 1946-1954 and again from 1958-1970. Fant was cited as "Louisiana's Mayor of the Year" in 1953 by the Louisiana Municipal Association, which he headed for three consecutive years. In 1948, with fewer than two years of mayoral experience, he had been among four mayors in the United States invited to The Hague, Netherlands, … - Tabby Thomas
Tabby Thomas (born Ernest Joseph Thomas, January 5, 1929; also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas) is an American blues musician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He sings and plays the piano and guitar, and specializes in a substyle of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana called "swamp blues." Thomas is one of the best known blues musicians in Baton Rouge, and has operated his own blues club there, called Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, … - Barry Seal
Adler Berriman Seal, or "Barry Seal" (July 16, 1939-February 19, 1986) was a pilot, allegedly with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and later drug smuggler turned Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. After a 1984 arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for money laundering and Quaalude smuggling, Seal negotiated a plea bargain that included him becoming an informant for the DEA and testifying against his former Colombian employers, … - Chris John
Christopher Charles "Chris" John (born January 5 1960), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2005, representing the Seventh District of Louisiana (the southwestern or "Cajun" part of the state). John was born in Crowley, Louisiana, the seat of Acadia Parish (county), one of six children. He was educated at Notre Dame Catholic High School and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. - Gus Young
Gustav Young (September 10, 1909 -- March 19, 1969) was a prominent civil rights leader in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital. In 1932, Young was one of only three blacks in East Baton Rouge Parish to have been allowed to register to vote. He was a member of the board of directors of his local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter and his city's Bi-Racial Committee. - Jim Donelon
James J. "Jim" Donelon (born December 14, 1944) has been the Republican insurance commissioner of Louisiana since February 15, 2006. Though he has been actively involved in Louisiana politics since the early 1970s, it is said that he is unrecognized by many of his state's 2.9 million voters. Donelon was elected to complete a 15-month unexpired term as insurance commissioner in a special election held on September 30, 2006. - Lightnin' Slim
Otis Hicks (March 13 1913 - July 27 1974), better known by the stage name Lightnin' Slim, was an American blues artist. Specialising in Louisiana and swamp blues, Lightnin' was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died of stomach cancer in Detroit, Michigan. Lightnin' moved from Missouri to Louisiana at the age of thirteen. Taught guitar by his older brother Layfield, Lightnin' was playing bars in Baton Rouge by the late 1940s. - Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist. He has published material related to cryptography and quantum information. He is notable for publications outside of his field, from an India-centric "Indigenous Aryans" ideology, including history and philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and history of mathematics. - Dennis Shaver
Dennis Shaver (born in Salina, Kansas) is the current track & field coach at Louisiana State University. Shaver came to LSU in 1995 as an Assistant Coach. Since his arrival, he has coached 182 All-Americans, 26 individual National Champions, and 13 national championship relay teams. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in physical education. - Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Long was born in Shreveport, and received bachelor's and law degrees from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was a naval officer during World War II. Long was the son of the flamboyant Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long, … - Richard Ieyoub
Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. (born August 11, 1944), is a Baton Rouge lawyer with the firm Couhig Partners and a Democratic politician who was the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992-2004 and was the Calcasieu Parish district attorney in Lake Charles from 1984-1992. Ieyoub, a political personality allied with his party's liberal wing, finished in a disappointing third place in the jungle primary for the U.S. Senate in 1996 and for the Louisiana governorship in 2003. - David Dellucci
David Michael Dellucci (born October 31, 1973 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians in Major League Baseball. Dellucci graduated from Catholic High in Baton Rouge in 1991. He earned the team's Most Valuable Player honors in both baseball and football, and also earned All-State honors for baseball. Dellucci was voted "Man of the Year" in high school for his success as a student athlete and for being a role model for youth. - Billy Montgomery
Billy Wayne Montgomery (born July 7, 1937) is a former educator who has represented the Bossier City-based District 9 in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 1988. Montgomery has relocated from his previous residence in Haughton in western Bossier Parish to live once again in Bossier City. He was elected as a Democrat, but he switched affiliation to the Republican Party on October 3, 2006.
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