People always tell me, "Hey why aint there any FAMOUS people from your state?" Well, there's a ton of famous people from Louisiana. You'd be surprised actually at all the people that are from there, and as a matter of fact, if all the famous people went BACK to La it'd be DA BOMB. I mean, you'd walk across the street and here sweet-playing jazz only to see the Marsalis brothers going through a dizzying around of tunes; you'd walk one block from there and here Fats Domino with those thick fingers dancing on the piano.
As for potent musicians, there's not a place on Earth that can match the wizardry of the Bayou. The pianists, the guitarists, the horn blowers. Louisiana has it all. Can you imagine Mahalia Jackson wailing to a jazz standard with Louis Armstrong on trumpet? Awesome. Below is a partial list:Geoffrey Beene fashion designer, Haynesville
Truman Capote writer, New Orleans
Kitty Carlisle singer, actress, New Orleans
Van Cliburn concert pianist, Shreveport
Michael De Bakey heart surgeon, Lake Charles
Fats Domino musician, New Orleans
Louis Moreau Gottschalk pianist, composer, New Orleans
Bryant Gumbel TV newscaster, New Orleans
Lillian Hellman playwright, New Orleans
Al Hirt trumpeter, New Orleans
Mahalia Jackson gospel singer, New Orleans
Dorothy Lamour actress, New Orleans
Jerry Lee Lewis singer, Ferriday
Huey P. Long politician, Winnfield
Wynton Marsalis musician, New Orleans
Jelly Roll Morton jazz musician, composer, New Orleans
Huey Newton black activist, New Orleans
Paul Prudhomme chef, Opelousas
Cokie Roberts journalist, New Orleans
Kordell Stewart football player, Marrero
Ray Walston actor, New Orleans
Edward Douglas White jurist, Lafourche Parish
