List of Louisiana Creoles
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This is a list of notable Louisiana Creole people.
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[edit] List
[edit] Arts, Culture, and Entertainment
- Veronica Porsche Ali (1955) – actress and psychologist and the former wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
- Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin (1915–2007) – accordionist
- Amede Ardoin (1898–1942) – zydeco musician
- Richmond Barthé (1901–1989) – sculptor
- Sidney Bechet (1897–1959) – jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer
- E.J. Bellocq (1873–1949) – photographer
- Barney Bigard (1906–1980) – jazz clarinetist[1]
- John Boutte (1958) – jazz singer[2]
- Wellman Braud (1891–1966) – jazz upright bassist.
- Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) – native of New Orleans, 20th-century writer and critic who worked in New York City, New York
- Calvin Carriere (1921–2002) – fiddler
- Clifton Chenier (1925–1987) – zydeco musician
- Savannah Churchill (1920–1974) – singer of pop, jazz, and blues music
- Robert Colescott (1925–2009) – painter
- Warrington Colescott (1921) – artist[3]
- Louis Cottrell, Jr. (1911–1978) – jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
- Edmonde Dede (1829–1903) – composer
- Geno Delafose (1972) – zydeco accordionist
- Toi Derricotte (1941) – poet and a professor of writing at the University of Pittsburgh
- Brandon DeShazer (1984) – actor, model
- Fats Domino (born 1928) – classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist[4]
- Sheila E. (1957) – percussionist, singer, composer and producer[5]
- Canray Fontenot (1922–1995) – fiddle player
- Alcée Fortier (1856–1914) – late 19th-century professor of languages and folklore; influential in preservation of the French language in Louisiana
- Vernel Fournier (1928–2000) – jazz drummer
- Norman Francis (1931) – president of Xavier University of Louisiana.
- D'Jalma Garnier (1954) – musician and composer
- Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau (1859–1915) – model and socialite
- Sheryl St. Germain (1954) – poet, essayist, and professor.
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) – composer and pianist, known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano pieces[6]
- George Herriman (1880–1944) – cartoonist, known for his comic strip Krazy Kat[7]
- Andrew Hilaire (1899–1935) – jazz drummer
- Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820–1894) – writer
- Julien Hudson (1811–1844) – painter and art teacher
- Ice-T (1958) – musician, actor
- Queen Ida (1929) – zydeco accordion player
- Beau Jocque (1953–1999) – zydeco musician
- Beverly Johnson (1952) – model, actress, and businesswoman.[8]
- Sybil Kein – poet, playwright, scholar and musician
- Freddie Keppard (1890–1993) – jazz cornetist
- Beyoncé Knowles (born 1981) – R&B singer
- Solange Knowles (born 1986) – R&B singer
- Delphine LaLaurie (1775–1842) – socialite
- Charles Lucien Lambert (1828–1896) – pianist and composer
- Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert (1858-1945) – pianist and composer
- Sidney Lambert (born 1838) – pianist and composer
- Armand Lanusse (1810–1867) – poet and educator
- Carmen De Lavallade (1931) – choreographer, actress
- Sabrina Le Beauf (born 1958) – actress including role as Sandra on the television series The Cosby Show
- Rosie Ledet (1971) – zydeco singer and accordion player
- Jules Lion (1809–1866) – photographer
- Victor-Eugene McCarty (born between 1817 and 1823) – composer
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868) – actress, painter, poet
- Michel'le (born 1970) – R&B singer, former girlfriend of Dr. Dre; married to Suge Knight
- Lizzie Miles (1895–1963) – blues singer[9]
- Morris W. Morris (1845–1906) – American Civil War soldier of the Louisiana Native Guards; stage actor[10]
- Jelly Roll Morton (1885–1941) – virtuoso pianist, bandleader and composer;[11]
- Archibald Motley (1891–1981) – painter[12]
- Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) – poet, journalist and political activist[13]
- Aaron Neville (1941) – soul and R&B singer and musician.
- Kid Ory (1886–1973) – jazz trombonist and bandleader[14]
- Jimmy Palao (1879 –1925) – jazz bandleader
- Ernest "Doc" Paulin (1907–2007) – jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Manuel Perez (musician) (1871–1946) – clarinetist and bandleader
- Fats Pichon (1906–1967) – jazz pianist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter.
- Alphonse Picou (1878–1961) – jazz clarinetist
- Armand J. Piron (1888–1943) – jazz violinist, band leader, and composer[15]
- Wardell Quezergue (1930–2011) – music arranger, producer, and bandleader[16]
- Phylicia Rashād (1948) – Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.[17]
- Robert Ri'chard (1983) – actor
- Nicole Richie (1981) – television personality, fashion designer
- Victor Sejour (1817–1874) – writer
- Omer Simeon (1902–1959) – jazz clarinetist
- Terrance Simien (1965) – zydeco musician, vocalist, songwriter
- Lorenzo Tio Jr. (1893–1933) – jazz clarinetist
- John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) – author; won a Pulitzer Prize for his Picaresque novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Jean Toomer (1894–1967) – poet and novelist[18]
- Cedric Watson (1983) – zydeco musician
[edit] Business
- Harold Doley (1947) – businessman[19]
- Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist
- Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba (1795–1874) – businesswoman[20]
- Mary Ellen Pleasant (between 1814 and 1817–1904) – entrepreneur and human rights activist[21]
- Peter A. Sarpy (1894–1865) – businessman
- Jacques Telesphore Roman (1800–1848) – businessman
- Virginie de Ternant (1818–1887) – businesswoman
[edit] Journalism
- Bryant Gumbel (born 1948) – television journalist
- Greg Gumbel (1946) – television sportscaster
- Charlie LeDuff (1966) – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer[22]
- Suzanne Malveaux (born 1966) – television news reporter[23]
- Arthel Neville (1962) – journalist and television personality.
[edit] Law and Politics
- Caesar Antoine (1836–1921) – Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, businessman, soldier, editor
- Sidney Barthelemy (born 1942) – former Mayor of New Orleans
- Armand Julie Beauvais (1783–1843) – 7th Governor of Louisiana.[24]
- Ward Connerly (born 1939) – former University of California regent, moderate conservative political activist, and businessman[25]
- Pierre Derbigny (1769–1829) – 6th Governor of Louisiana
- Antoine Dubuclet (1810–1887) – State Treasurer of Louisiana
- Jacques Dupre (1773–1846) – 8th Governor of Louisiana.[26]
- Keith Ellison (1963) – U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district.[27]
- Charles Gayarré (1805–1895) – lawyer, judge, politician, historian, essayist, dramatist and novelist[28]
- Paul Octave Hebert (1818–1880) – 14th Governor of Louisiana from 1853–56 and a General in the Confederate Army.[29]
- Valerie Jarrett (1956) – senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration, lawyer and businesswoman.[30]
- Pierre Caliste Landry (1841–1921) – Mayor of Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- Richard W. Leche (1898–1965) – 44th Governor of Louisiana from 1936 until 1939.
- Bernard de Marigny (1785–1868) – politician
- John Willis Menard (1838–1893) – U.S. congressman[31]
- Ernest Nathan Morial (1929–1989) – political figure and leading civil-rights advocate[32]
- Marc Morial (born 1958) – former Mayor of New Orleans; son of Ernest Nathan Morial
- Ray Nagin (1956) – former Mayor of New Orleans[33]
- Homer Plessy (1863–1925) – plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson[34]
- Denis Prieur – the 10th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Condoleezza Rice (1954) – 66th United States Secretary of State[35]
- Desiree Rogers (1959) – former White House Social Secretary and businesswoman[36]
- Andre B. Roman (1795–1866) – 9th Governor of Louisiana
- A.P. Tureaud (1899–1972) – attorney for the New Orleans chapter of the NAACP[37]
- Jacques Villere (1761–1830) – 2nd Governor of Louisaina
[edit] Military
- P. G. T. Beauregard (1818–1893) – a general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; also a writer, civil servant and inventor[38]
- Andre Cailloux (1825–1863) – officer in the Confederate and Union armies
- Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958) – military aviator.
- Russel L. Honoré (born 1947) – commanding general of the U.S. First Army in Fort Gillem, Georgia, and commander of Joint Task Force Katrina responsible for coordinating military relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina-affected areas across the Gulf Coast[39]
- John A. Lejeune (1867–1942) – 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps.[40]
[edit] Religion
- Henriette Delille (1812–1862) – founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family, declared venerable by the Pope in 2010
- Marie Laveau (1794–1881) – practitioner of voodoo[41]
- Harold Robert Perry (1916–1991) – auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans
[edit] Science and Technology
- John James Audubon (1785–1851) – ornithologist, naturalist and painter[42]
- Norbert Rillieux (1806–1894) – inventor and engineer[43]
[edit] Sports
- Matt Forte (1985) – running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
- Oliver Marcelle (1895–1949) – professional baseball player
- Paul Charles Morphy (1837–1884) – chess master, lawyer[44]
- Paul Sentell (1879–1923) – professional baseball player[45]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- ^ [2] "Born into a large Creole family that goes back seven generations in Louisiana, he was exposed to music early in life, soaking up New Orleans jazz, soul, blues and gospel, then adding his own Creole traditions along the way."
- ^ [3] "The painter Robert Colescott, who died in 2009 at age 83, is often remembered as the first African American to earn a solo exhibit in the Venice Biennale—a milestone not reached, incredibly, until 1997. In truth, Colescott was of Creole stock, mixed in race and culture. His parents, both musicians, emigrated from New Orleans to Oakland in no small part to be near the University of California."
- ^ French Creole | Fats Domino
- ^ [4] "She is the first born of Latin jazz percussionist Pete, who is Mexican-American, and Juanita Escovedo, who is Creole, meaning part French and part black."
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- ^ [7] "A refined, harmonious beauty that reflects her own genetic mix: her father is part Blackfoot Indian and her mother is a Louisiana Creole."
- ^ [8] "Born Elizabeth Landreaux, she was a light-skinned Creole who was born on Bourbon Street in New Orlean, LA."
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- ^ [11] "Beginning as a portraitist in the 1910s, Motley subsequently explored his African and southern Creole roots, Mexican culture, and life in Chicago's 'Bronzeville.'"
- ^ [12] "Alice Dunbar Nelson was born Alice Ruth Moore into the Creole society of New Orleans in 1875."
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- ^ [14].
- ^ Wardell Quezergue, the Creole Beethoven, Passes | NOLA DEFENDER
- ^ [15] "Rashād was born in Houston, Texas to Andrew Arthur Allen (d. 1984), an African-American descended from the Louisiana Creoles and Vivian Ayers, an African American"
- ^ [16] "American novelist, born in Washington, DC to parents of Louisiana Creole stock, educated at the University of Wisconsin and at City College, New York."
- ^ [17] "The first person of color (Creole) to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Doley now runs an investment firm that has offices in New York and New Orleans."
- ^ Micaela Almonester, Baroness Pontalba - Encyclopedia of Louisiana
- ^ [18] "According to local legends recorded at FoundSF.com, Pleasant was a person of African heritage who lived as a white woman during the mid-1800s. However, she was never far from her Creole ancestry and was a secret agent for the Underground Railroad. After she moved from the Canadian border to New Orleans, Pleasant allegedly studied under the voodoo high priestess Marie Laveau."
- ^ Charlie LeDuff, "Charlie LeDuff: My Detroit Story", "myfoxdetroit.com", February 17, 2011
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- ^ Armand Julie Beauvais, Governor of Louisiana 1829-1830, Burial Location Unknown
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- ^ [21] "To counteract the threat posed by Mouton's popularity among the district's Creole population, Bullard adroitly allied himself with Creole Jacques Dupre, a longtime legislator with unrivaled influence in southwestern louisiana"
- ^ [22] "And, you know, it's true that I do find my ancestral roots back in Natchitoches (ph), Louisiana, Cane River, Louisiana, 1742. I go back -- I'm about as American as they come."
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- ^ [24] "He was frequently mentioned by General Pierce in his reports as the gallant young Creole colonel."
- ^ [25] "Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Adviser on Public Information and Intergovernmental Affairs to U.S. President Barack Obama, is a great-granddaughter of Victor Rochon."
- ^ French Creole | John Willis Menard
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- ^ [27] "Nagin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a Creole family."
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- ^ CNN Wire Staff, "Condoleezza Rice: 'I cannot imagine myself running for office'", "cnn.com", January 19, 2011
- ^ Amy Chozick, "Desiree Rogers' Brand Obama", "wsj.com", April 30, 2009
- ^ [29] "A French Creole, he was born in 1899 and grew up on Kerlerec Street in the 7th Ward with 10 brothers and sisters."
- ^ [30].
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- ^ [32] "The Lejeune family, who are natives of Baton Rouge, La., prefer the French-Creole pronunciation and Brent said they "cringe" when they hear it pronounced otherwise."
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- ^ [37] "Paul Sentell now takes the Honor of Being the first Player of Color to play in the Major Leagues as he was a French Creole from Louisiana."
