- 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), …
- Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw (born Samuel Timothy McGraw on May 1, 1967) is an American country music singer who has achieved many number one hits on the country singles and album charts, with total sales in excess of 25 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of baseball player Tug McGraw. His trademark hit songs include "Indian Outlaw", "Don't Take the Girl", "I Like It, I Love It", "It's Your Love" (featuring his wife, Faith Hill), …
- 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".
- 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.
- Jimmie Davis
James Houston Davis, better known as Jimmie Davis, (September 11, 1899 - November 5, 2000) was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as a Democratic governor of Louisiana (1944-1948 and 1960-1964). Davis was considered to have been part of the anti-Long faction though Governor Earl Kemp Long endorsed him in the pivotal 1960 runoff election.
- Jo-El Sonnier
Jo-El Sonnier (born October 2, 1946 in Rayne, Louisiana) is an American country music and Cajun music artist.
- Bill Russell
William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. A five-time winner of the NBA Most Valuable Player Award and a twelve-time All-Star, the 6 ft 9 in Russell was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty that won eleven NBA Championships during Russell's thirteen-year career. Along with Henri Richard of the NHL's Montreal Canadiens, …
- Ali Landry
Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world.
- Webb Pierce
Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991) was an American country music singer. Born Webb Michael Pierce in West Monroe, Louisiana, he became a star performer on the Louisiana Hayride and one of country music's most popular honky tonk songsters. He was a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. His biggest hit, 1953's "There Stands the Glass" is regarded as one of country's all-time classic "drinking songs".
- Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978) is an American actor, male fashion model and producer, probably most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama "Lost".
- Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley (b. Mickey Leroy Gilley March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American country music singer and Musician. Although he started out singing straight-up Country material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more Pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the Country charts, but the Pop charts as well.
- Shane West
Shane West (born June 10, 1978) is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles on the television series "ER and Once and Again" and in the film "A Walk to Remember".
- Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 - January 4, 1999) was an actor born in Gueydan, Louisiana. He was born Espera De Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants Francesca Salpietra and Antonio De Corti. He was not born a Native American, but he claimed to be part Cherokee and part Cree. Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American. Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death.
- David Andrews
David Andrews (born 1952) is an American actor. Andrews was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His undergraduate work at LSU was followed by a year of law school at Duke and two at Stanford, from which he received his law degree in the late 1970s. He set his career off in style by starring in the 1984 horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street". For the rest of the 80s Andrews didn't have any major hits, mainly focusing on a TV career.
- Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield (May 6, 1953 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an Emmy Award-winning African American actress most famous for portraying African American entertainment pioneer Josephine Baker in 1991. Her other roles include "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" (1996) and "Eve's Bayou" (1998). Scion of an achievement-oriented Baton Rouge clan with roots in southern black aristocracy, toothsome, …
- Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi Pugh (born September 29, 1980, better known as Zachary Levi), is an American television actor best known for playing Kipp Steadman on the ABC sitcom "Less Than Perfect".
- John McConnell
John McConnell, also known as John "Spud" McConnell (born November 13, 1958) is an actor and a radio personality in New Orleans, Louisiana. McConnell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has acted in more than 40 movies. John is a character actor who appears regularly in movies set or filmed in the Gulf Coast region. He has also appeared in countless plays including a run Off-Broadway in the one man show, …
- Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney (born in Louisiana in 1940, USA) is an American comedian, writer, television and film actor. Mooney is most famous in this account for his infamous impression of Wayne Brady through his work in Chappelle's Show, where he accused Brady's kind-hearted and family-friendly nature as making him appear to be "too white."
- Susan Ward
Susan Ward (born Michelle Susan Ward on April 15 1976 in Monroe, Louisiana) is an American actress and model. She started modeling at the age of 13, leaving school and moving to New York to do so, deciding to try her hand at acting several years later. After a few years of small TV jobs, she landed her first main role as the heroine on Aaron Spelling's daytime soap opera "Sunset Beach", where she played the virginal heroine Meg Cummings.
- John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American Emmy Award-winning film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series "Night Court" and Mike McBride in "McBride". He is expected to join the cast of "Boston Legal" in fall 2007.
- Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969) is an American actress.
- K. D. Aubert
Karen Denise Aubert (born December 6 1978) who usually goes by K.D. Aubert is an American actress and former fashion model, sometimes referred to as "The Black Angelina Jolie."
- Ashley Scott
Ashley McCall Scott (born July 13, 1977) is an American actress. She is known for her work on television and in film, including her roles in the television series "Dark Angel", "Birds of Prey", and "Jericho".
- Pruitt Taylor Vince
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an award-winning American character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.
- Vance Degeneres
Vance DeGeneres (born September 2, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a performer, producer, and writer of several television shows. The son of Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Pfeffer. He is of French, English, German and Irish descent and is also the brother of actress and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Vance DeGeneres was a correspondent on "The Daily Show" from 1999 to 2001.
- 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.
- Angela Kinsey
Angela Kinsey who has a warm sunny personality, came originally from Texas, but she actually grew up in Jakarta Indonesia and lived there for twelve years, she still speaks their language. She was born on the 25th June 1971 at Lafayette in Louisiana America. Angela graduated from Baylor University in 1993 and got an internship with Late Night with Conan O'Brian. She then moved to Los Angeles and took improvisation classes with The Groundlings and Improv Olympic Theatre.
- 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".
- Shannon Leto
Shannon Christopher Leto (b. 9 March 1970) is an American drummer and an occasional actor. Leto was born in Bossier City, Louisiana. Self-taught on the drums since he was eight years old, he plays for the band 30 Seconds to Mars, and is the older brother of the band's singer, actor Jared Leto. Some of Shannon's favorite drummers include John Bonham, Stewart Copeland, Keith Moon, Nick Mason, and Lars Ulrich, all of whom he notes as influencing his own playing style.
- Marques Johnson
Marques Kevin Johnson (born February 6 1956 in Nachitoches, Louisiana, USA) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, playing for the Milwaukee Bucks (1977-84), Los Angeles Clippers (1984-87), and Golden State Warriors (1989-90). Johnson was raised in south Los Angeles, where he attended and graduated from Crenshaw High School, a school well-known for its athletics, especially in basketball.
- Cameron Richardson
Cameron Richardson (born Baton Rouge, Louisiana September 11, 1979) is a US actress. Cameron is 5' 8" (1.73 m) tall. She was ranked #76 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002) and named #52 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
- Eddie Jemison
Eddie Jemison is an American film and television actor. Jemison was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was seen in the hit comedy "Bruce Almighty", with Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston. Previously, he was featured as one of the larcenous 11 in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven", and reprised his role as nervous techie Livingston Dell in the follow-up features, "Ocean's Twelve" and "Thirteen".
- Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman (born Anthony Earl Numkena on September 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American film and television actor. He first appeared in film in 1953 and three years later won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in the 1956 film, "The Rainmaker". Amongst his other notable film appearances were in "Giant", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "Forbidden Planet", …
- Cleo Moore
Cleouna Moore (October 31 1928 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - October 25 1973) was a blonde bombshell of 1950s Hollywood films.
- Brianna Rieffel
Brianna Rieffel (pronounced "ree-fell") (born June 1995 in Mandeville, Louisiana) is an American pre-teen singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer and former beauty pageant contestant best known for performing as a member of the cast of the award-winning show "Country Tonite" and for writing and recording the critically-acclaimed Hurricane Katrina victim anthem "The Promise".
- Bobbie Brown
Bobbie Jean Brown sometimes credited as Bobbie Brown-Lane (born on October 7, 1969 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant and an American actress and model. She is best known for her appearance in Warrant's hair metal anthem, Cherry Pie.
- Ellis Henican
Ellis Henican is an American journalist, commentator, and talk show host. In 1985, Henican joined "Newsday" as a general assignment reporter; currently, he is a staff columnist. In 1999, he joined Fox News Channel as a political contributor. Henican is also a daily commentator on the Bloomberg Radio Network. Henican is also the co-host of "Henican & White", a drive-time radio show aired on WOR-AM.
- Valarie Rae Miller
Valerie Rae Miller (born April 16, 1974 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American actress.
- Cora Witherspoon
Cora Witherspoon (5 January 1890 - 17 November 1957) was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Witherspoon became a memorable if minor character actress in American films of the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's. Among her films are Libeled Lady (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Mating Season (1951), and It Should Happen to You (1954).
- Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actress in silent films.