- 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. - Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr (born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), better known as Lil' Wayne, is an American, Grammy-nominated rapper, Songwriter, and is known as the president of the New Orleans-based label Cash Money Records and the CEO of Young Money Entertainment. - 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. - Wynton Marsalis
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. His prominent position in American culture was solidified in April 1997, when he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields , which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. - 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. - Harry Connick Jr.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. The music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues. - Currency
Currency (real name Shante Franklin) aka "Tha Hot Spitta", is a rapper signed to Young Money Entertainment / Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne's label. - Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. - Master P
Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known as Master P is an entrepreneur, businessman, marketer, and rap artist. He is the founder and CEO of No Limit Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate." Fortune" magazine listed Master P as one of the wealthiest men under the age of 40 in North America, with a net worth of $361 million in 1999 - Peyton Manning
Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise. He is the son of former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and Olivia Manning. He is the older brother of current New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and the younger brother of former Ole Miss receiver Cooper Manning, whose college career was cut short by spinal stenosis. - Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history. - Mitch Landrieu
Mitchell Joseph Landrieu (born August 16, 1960) is the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. A Roman Catholic, he is the son of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the brother of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. He is a candidate for a second term as lieutenant governor in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary. The singer Sammy Kershaw, a Vermilion Parish native and a Republican, announced in June that he will challenge Landrieu in the primary. - Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (August 26, 1960, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana) is an American jazz and classical saxophonist. He was born the oldest of six sons to Delores Ferdinand Marsalis and famed pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr.. He is the oldest of the six Marsalis brothers: Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis III, Delfeayo Marsalis, Mboya Kinyatta, and Jason Marsalis. Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason are also jazz musicians. Ellis is a poet, photographer, & network engineer based in Baltimore. - Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". - Walter Maestri
Walter S. Maestri III has been the director of emergency management for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana-which contains several suburbs of New Orleans-since 1996. After taking the position, Maestri became one of many academics and officials that promoted the idea that much of the region could become an uninhabitable floodscape following a major hurricane. In a 2002 interview for "NOW with Bill Moyers" and "American RadioWorks", … - Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 - January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre. - 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, … - Harry Lee
Harry Lee is the long-time Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He was first elected in 1979 and has been re-elected six times, serving over twenty-five years. He is one of the most popular, well-known, and sometimes controversial politicians in the Greater New Orleans Area. On April 17, 2007, Lee announced that he had been diagnosed with leukemia. - Emeril Lagasse
Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry. He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts, where he later received an honorary doctorate in 1990. He is married and has four children. Emeril is most well-known for his TV show "Emeril Live" on the Food Network, one of its highest-rated programs. - Eli Manning
Elisha "Eli" Nelson Manning (born January 3, 1981) is the starting quarterback for the New York Giants NFL franchise and formerly for the Ole Miss Rebels college football team. - Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Witherspoon is frequently cited by media to be one of the most beautiful leading ladies in today's cinema and her off screen life is widely reported. Her first role was in the made for television movie "Wildflower" (1991), … - Marie Laveau
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. - Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders. - Juvenile
Juvenile (born Terius Gray on March 25, 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) is an American rapper. At the age of 19, he began recording in a distinctive southern style with "Being Myself" (1994, Warlock Records). The album's hit song "Bounce for the Juvenile" gave name to the southern sing-songy rap style known as "bounce". In 1997, "Solja Rags", Juvenile's debut with Cash Money Records, was an underground hit. - Magic
Magic (born Aywood Johnson in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a New Orleans hip hop artist, who first worked the city's underground circuit, before signing with Master P's No Limit Records label thanks to the mogul's brother, C-Murder. Magic met C-Murder at a party and impressed him with his rapping ability. Magic was intended to become part of TRU, but Master P insisted that he instead rap on the parent label with a broader fan base. - Marc Morial
Marc Haydel Morial (born January 3, 1958) is an American political and civic leader and former mayor of New Orleans. Morial served as mayor from 1994 to 2002. - Tom Benson
Tom Benson (born 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the owner of the New Orleans Saints NFL team. He is also the owner of several automobile dealerships in the Greater New Orleans and San Antonio areas. Benson became wealthy by investing profits from his automobile dealerships in local banks. He eventually purchased several small Southern banks and formed Benson Financial, which he sold to Wells Fargo in 1996. - Poppy Z. Brite
Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana. - 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. - Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey (born Irving Lee Dorsey, December 24 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana - died December 1 1986 in New Orleans) was an Afro-American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his best work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by The Meters. Born in New Orleans, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. - Mannie Fresh
Mannie Fresh (born Byron O. Thomas on March 20, 1974 In New Orleans, Louisiana) is the former in-house producer for the successful New Orleans-based record label Cash Money Records. Among his biggest hit productions are "Back That Azz Up" by Juvenile, "Tha Block is Hot" by Lil' Wayne, and "Bling Bling" by B.G., and most recently T.I.'s "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)." He is seen as one of the pioneers of Bounce music. - Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield, Jr. (born) is an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He has been serving as Cultural Ambassador of the City of New Orleans since 2003. He co-founded and has co-led the Afro-Cuban jazz group Los Hombres Calientes since 1998. Their debut album won Billboard's 2000 Contemporary Latin Jazz Album of the Year. Mayfield has released ten albums since 1998, and has played at prominent Jazz Festivals during his career. - Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is a prolific author and a professor of history at Tulane University, where he also serves as director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. He is slated to join Rice University and the James Baker Institute on July 1, 2007. The late historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, once called Brinkley "the best of the new generation of American historians." During the early 1990s, … - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lee Lewis (born November 14, 1971 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football wide receiver and kick returner. Lewis graduated from Grace King High School in Metairie. In 2000, he was a former Budweiser beer truck driver (thus, the nickname "Beer Man") who never went to college, and waded through the various semi-professional football leagues, pro indoor leagues, and the Arena Football League and, finally, … - Truman Garcia Capote
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on the 30th September 1924. Born as "Truman Streckfus Persons " to a 16yr old beauty queen and a salesman Capote was to become one of America 's most controversial authors, a repuation he gained both for his literary works and for his flamboyant life style . - Charles Foti
Charles C. Foti, Jr. (born 1937), is the current Democratic Attorney General of the state of Louisiana, United States, having served since 2004. Prior to becoming the attorney general, Foti served for thirty years as Orleans Parish Criminal sheriff. He faces reelection in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary. Foti won the post when the incumbent, Richard Ieyoub, ran unsuccessfully for governor in October 2003. Foti defeated the Republican candidate, Suzanne Haik Terrell, … - D.J. Augustin
Darryl Jerard Augustin, Jr. (born November 10, 1987 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American basketball player who is currently the point guard for the University of Texas Longhorns. His family was forced out of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and he played his senior (final) year at Hightower High School in Missouri City, Texas. However he got his diploma from Brother Martin High School in New Orleans. While at Brother Martin, DJ led the team to two state championships. - Jim Garrison
Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) - who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early '60s - was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - Michael Smith
Michael Smith (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an NFL reporter for ESPN. He is a regular guest on the channel's "Around the Horn". He has won "Facetime" on Around the Horn 78 times (as of May 3, 2007). He has also written for the Boston Globe. Michael Smith joined ESPN full time in September 2004 as an NFL reporter and a regular on Around the Horn. Smith covered the New England Patriots at the Boston Globe for three years.
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