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Marie Laveau (1783? - June 16, 1881?) was an American practitioner of voodoo. Very little is known with any certainty about the life of Marie Laveau. She is supposed to have been born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1801, the daughter of a white planter and a free Creole of Color. She married Jacques Paris, also a free Creole of color, on August 4, 1819; her marriage certificate is preserved in Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. - Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins (born December 19, 1964) is a jazz trumpeter, singer and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He has been heavily influenced by Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Eddy Jefferson. Ruffins accompanies a large portion of his songs with his own vocals, and he says that the highest note he can hit on trumpet is a fortissimo C note. Most of his bands perform New Orleans jazz standards, though he also composes many of his own pieces. - Paul Prudhomme
Paul Prudhomme is an American chef famous for his Cajun cuisine. The youngest of thirteen children, Prudhomme was reared on a farm near Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Members of his family had been active as cooks and in the restaurant business in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1979, he and his late wife, Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme, opened K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen® in the French Quarter of New Orleans. - Pete Fountain
Pete Fountain was born in New Orleans and started playing clarinet heavily influenced by Irving Fazola. Early on he played with the bands of Monk Hazel and Al Hirt. With his long time friend, trumpeter George Girard, Fountain founded The Basin Street Six in 1950. After this band broke up 4 years later Fountain was hired to join the Lawrence Welk band, and became well known for the many solos he took on Welk's national television show, "The Lawrence Welk Show". - Bryan Lee
Born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 1943, Bryan Lee completely lost his eyesight by the age of eight. His avid interest in early rock and blues was fostered through the 1950s by late night listening sessions via the Nashville-based radio station WLAC AM, where he first encountered the sounds of Elmore James, Albert King and Albert Collins. Bryan remembers thinking he didn't understand the music, but knew that's what he wanted to play. - Leah Chase
Leah Chase (1923 -) is a New Orleans chef, author and television personality. A daughter of the same name is a professional singer; see Leah Chase (singer). Known as the "Queen of Creole Cuisine", Chase promoted African American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, "Dooky Chase", was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights movement; and, … - Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne is a Grammy winning songwriter and singer. Anders was born in 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden, left home at age sixteen, and hitchhiked and played music throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the U.S. He settled in New Orleans in 1985 and still calls Louisiana his home. During his first decade in New Orleans, Anders lived in the French Quarter and played regularly in local clubs. - Jackie Clarkson
Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson (born 1935) is a prominent Realtor and Democratic politician from New Orleans. She served on the New Orleans City Council from District C from 1990 to 1994 and from 2002 to 2006 and as state representative for District 102 from 1994 to 2002. The boundaries of District 102 are roughly the same as the Algiers neighborhood (also known as the Fifteenth Ward) in New Orleans. - George Lewis
George Lewis (13 July, 1900 - 31 December, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in his later decades of life. (Some sources give 1969 as the year of his death, but see Lewis' obituary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, cited on page 277 in Tom Bethell's George Lewis: A Jazzman From New Orleans, published in 1977 by University of California Press.) George Lewis' actual legal name was George Louis Francois Zenon. - Chris Owens
Chris Owens is a United States performer, club owner and entrepreneur who bases her act out of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been a French Quarter fixture and celebrity from the start of the 1960s through the early 21st century. Though perhaps not a name of world-wide recognition, Owens is extremely well known in Louisiana and throughout the U. S. South. - Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson (born October 14, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Anderson was a street magician before becoming an actor. He is famous for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984-1992 television series "Night Court". In addition to eight appearances on "Saturday Night Live" between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man "Harry the Hat" on "Cheers", toured extensively as a magician, … - Clay Shaw
Clay Laverne Shaw (March 17, 1913 - August 14, 1974) was a successful businessman in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is notable as the only person ever to be tried for conspiracy in relation to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Shaw was honorably discharged from the United States Army as a major in 1946. He served as a secretary to the General Staff and was decorated by three nations: The United States with the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star, … - Lars Edegran
Lars Ivar Edegran (born 1944) is a Dixieland jazz musician and bandleader. He most often plays piano, guitar, or banjo, but has also played mandolin, clarinet, and saxophone. Edegran was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and played in New Orleans style groups in Sweden before moving full time to New Orleans in 1966. He played with many of both the older and younger New Orleans musicians. Edegran founded and is the leader of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra. - Walter Williams
Walter Williams is a filmmaker and comedy writer, most famous for his "Mr. Bill" shorts that aired on the television series Saturday Night Live. Williams was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the 1970s he worked as a dj at a French Quarter bar. He did comedy sketches, some over local radio, with his friend Vance DeGeneres. Williams became interested in film. Creating the first "Mr. - Cosimo Matassa
Cosimo Matassa is an Italian-American recording engineer and studio owner responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Matassa opened the J&M Recording Studio at the back of his family’s shop on Rampart Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1945, when aged 18. In 1955, he moved to the larger Cosimo Recording Studio. As an engineer and proprietor, he was crucial to the development of the R&B, rock and soul sound of the 1950s and '60s, … - Naked Cowboy
Robert John Burck (born December 23, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio), better known as the Naked Cowboy, is a New York City busker and prominent fixture of Times Square. His routine consists of playing guitar wearing only cowboy boots, a hat, and a pair of briefs. In 2000, he was on the short-lived "Moral Court" starring conservative/libertarian talk show host, Larry Elder. - Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello (Calogero Minacore ) was born in Tunis, North Africa, on 6th February, 1910. Marcello emigrated to the United States and in 1929 was arrested for bank robbery by the police in New Orleans . These charges were later dropped but the following year he was convicted of assault and robbery and was sentenced to the State penitentiary for 9 years (served 5 years). In 1938 Marcello was arrested and charged with the sale of more than 23 pounds of narcotics. - Sweet Emma Barrett
"Sweet Emma" Barrett (March 25, 1897-January 28, 1983) was a New Orleans born self-taught pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and 1936, first under Papa Celestin, then William Ridgely. Also active with Armand Piron, John Robichaux and Sidney Desvigne, she had become a part of her home town's musical fabric when she withdrew from the music business for a few years. In 1947, she returned and accepted a steady job at a local club, … - Tuts Washington
Isidore "Tuts" Washington (born January 24, 1907, New Orleans, Louisiana; died August 5, 1984, New Orleans) was an American pianist who exemplified the New Orleans rhythm and blues style, also made famous by musicians such as Professor Longhair. Washington taught himself piano at age 10, and studied with New Orleans jazz pianist Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a leading player for New Orleans dance and Dixieland bands. - Owen Brennan
Owen Edward Brennan (April 5, 1910 - November 4, 1955) was a New Orleans, Louisiana, restaurateur and founder of Brennan's Restaurant in the French Quarter. Members of his family own and manage several other well-known New Orleans restaurants. Brennan was also the founder of the Bacchus Mardi Gras Krewe. - Narvin Kimball
Narvin Kimball was a jazz musician who played banjo and string bass and was also known for his fine singing voice. The left-handed virtuoso banjo player was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well regarded string bass player Henry Kimball. He was playing music professionally by the mid 1920s with such groups as the bands of Fate Marable and Papa Celestin. He married a fellow member of Celestin's Tuxedo Jazz Band, pianist Jeannette Kimball (née Salvant). - Larry Borenstein
Larry Borenstein (1919–1981) was an American property owner and art dealer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Russian parents and when 13 years old he went to Chicago to join the World's Fair. He traveled with the fair for a while and served in the Navy as a civilian in Hawaii and pursued other ventures before he ended up in New Orleans in the 1950s. Before he died in 1981 he owned over half of the French Quarter, … - George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published story was "The Eight-Thirty to Nine Slot" in "Fantastic" in 1971. During his early period, he also published under a variety of pseudonyms. His first novel, "What Entropy Means to Me" (1972), was nominated for the Nebula Award. - William Spratling
William Spratling (September 22 1900 - August 7 1967) was an American-born silversmith and artist, best known for his influence on 20th Century Mexican silver design. Spratling was born in 1900 in Sonyea, Livingston County, New York, the son of epileptologist William P. Spratling. After the deaths of Spratling's mother and sister, he moved to his father's boyhood home outside of Auburn, Alabama. Spratling graduated from Auburn High School and Auburn University, … - Alice Heine
Alice Heine (February 10, 1858 - December 22, 1925), styled HSH the Princess of Monaco and the Duchess of Richelieu, was the American-born second wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, a great-grandfather of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Marcel Proust used her as a model for the princesse de Luxembourg in "In Search of Lost Time". She was born Marie Alice Heine at 900 Rue Royale, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, … - George Girard
George Girard (October 7, 1930 - January 18, 1957) was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter. He was known for his great technical ability, playing in a style that combined traditional New Orleans Dixieland jazz with the Big Band style trumpet, and member of the Basin Street Six. Girard was born in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In highschool he studied music under Johnny Wiggs and became a professional musician immediately after graduating in 1946. - Laura Misch
Laura Misch (born November 23, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American model, actress and writer. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1975 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Laura worked as a Bunny at the Playboy Club in New Orleans, where she did bit parts in films that were being made locally such as "Hard Times" (1975), "Mandingo" (1975) and "French Quarter" (1977). - Paul Burke
Paul Burke (born July 21, 1926) is an American actor best known for his lead roles in the 1960s television programs Naked City and Twelve O'Clock High. Burke was born in New Orleans, the son of Marty Burke, a boxer who fought Gene Tunney and later owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter. After training at the Pasadena Playhouse, Burke's film career began with a small role in the movie "Golden Girl". - Barthelemy Lafon
Barthelemy Lafon (1769 - 29 September 1820), was a notable architect, engineer, city planner and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. In later life, he turned away from architecture and engaged in piracy and smuggling. Lafon was born in Villepinte, France and travelled to New Orleans c. 1790. He designed several public buildings, including public baths (plans submitted in 1797, but the bath house was never built) and a lighthouse, … - James Bradford
James Bradford, born February 6, 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American actor and singer. He is probably best known for being a reality television subject on the show "Can't Get a Date". Bradford grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. Born under the name James Blackford, he was adopted at the age of 2 1/2 wherein his legal name became James Warnock. He participated in children's theater with a group called The Peter Pan Players, … - Fats Pichon
Walter "Fats" Pichon (April 31906 (?) - 25 February, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) was a jazz pianist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter. Pichon was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and began playing piano in his childhood. He also played baritone horn in brass bands in his youth, already a professional musician by 1920. - Joseph Marshall Walker
Joseph Marshall Walker (1786 - January 20, 1856) was a Louisiana soldier and politician. He was Governor of Louisiana, from 1850 - 1853. Walker was born to an English father and a French-Creole mother in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. At that time Louisiana was a colony of Spain. In 1807, he went to Mexico and joined the Spanish army, serving as a lieutenant of dragoons, and later becoming master of a military school at Chihuahua. - Anthony Lacen
Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen (September 15, 1950 - January 11, 2004) was a jazz tubist and band leader. Tuba Fats was New Orleans' most famous tuba player and played traditional New Orleans jazz and blues for over 40 years. He was born, spent most of his life, and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. His music also took him on a number of tours of Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. - Akbar Cojoe
Akbar Cojoe (born Akbar Buckner on January 2, 1971) an American entertainment publicist and songwriter. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Cojoe was the only child of a New Orleanian school teacher mother, and a Chicagoan musician father (Charles Buckner, singer/songwriter of Earth, Wind & Fire proteges - The Emotions). As a child, Cojoe was immediately immersed in music. At the age of two, his biological parents would divorce, … - Nicole M. Leblanc
Nicole Mercedes LeBlanc grew up in New Orleans and received a B.A. in French and Political Science in 1985 from Newcomb College of Tulane University. She fell into the millinery trade almost accidentally in 1981. Since 1983 she has been designing hats exclusively for Fleur de Paris in New Orleans’ French Quarter (http://www.fleurdeparis.net). Each hat is a one-of-a-kind artwork meant to last a lifetime, … - Alton "big Al" Carson
Alton "Big Al" Carson (Born October 2, 1953) is a United States blues and jazz singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. As of 2006, Big Al sings with his band "The Bluemasters" at the Funky Pirate on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans several nights a week. He also performs irregularly with other bands. Carson formerly played tuba in addition to singing. Carson has performed and recorded with a number of brass bands and jazz band in the city. - French Quarter
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