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Notable people
Sports figures
Seimone Augustus , WNBA guard for the Minnesota Lynx (b. 1984)[1]
Brandon Bass , NBA power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers (b. 1985)[2]
Odell Beckham Jr. , NFL wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns (b. 1992)
Billy Cannon , former All-American and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner (b. 1937)[3]
Michael Clayton , NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (b. 1982)[4]
Willie Davenport , Olympics gold medal winner[5]
Glen Davis , NBA forward for the Los Angeles Clippers (b. 1986)[6]
David Dellucci , MLB outfielder for the Cleveland Indians (b. 1973)[7]
Warrick Dunn , NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (b. 1975)[8]
Chad Durbin , MLB pitcher for the Cleveland Indians (b. 1977)[9]
Alan Faneca , NFL guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1976)[10]
Randall Gay , NFL cornerback for the New Orleans Saints (b. 1982)[11]
Stephen Gostkowski , American football placekicker
Darryl Hamilton , MLB outfielder for various clubs (b. 1964)[12]
Jeremy Hill , NFL running back for the New England Patriots
Russ Johnson , major league infielder (b. 1973)[13]
Lolo Jones , track and field athlete[14]
Victor Jones , NFL player
Stefan LeFors , former quarterback in American and Canadian football [15]
Norman LeJeune , NFL former football safety[16]
Pete Maravich , LSU and NBA player in Basketball Hall of Fame [17]
Todd McClure , NFL offensive lineman for Atlanta Falcons (b. 1977)[18]
Travis Minor , NFL running back, St. Louis Rams
Yohanan Moyal (b. 1965), Israeli Olympic gymnast
Buddy Myer , MLB 2-time All-Star second baseman, batting and stolen base titles[19]
Aaron Nola (b. 1993), MLB All Star baseball pitcher (b. 1993)
Shaquille O'Neal , LSU and NBA player in Basketball Hall of Fame [20]
Jonathan Papelbon , MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (b. 1980)[21]
Carly Patterson , Olympic gold medalist (b. 1988)[citation needed ]
Bob Pettit , Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1932)[22]
Andy Pettitte , MLB pitcher for the New York Yankees (b. 1972)[23]
Bobby Phills , former professional basketball player (d. 2000)[24]
Pat Screen , former LSU quarterback, Mayor -President of East Baton Rouge Parish from 1981 to 1988 (1943–1994)[25]
Ben Sheets , MLB pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers (b. 1978)[26]
Marcus Spears , NFL defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys (b. 1982)[27]
Jim Taylor , Football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)[28]
Tyrus Thomas , NBA forward for the Chicago Bulls (b. 1986)[29]
Reggie Tongue , NFL safety for the Kansas City Chiefs , Seattle Seahawks , New York Jets , and Oakland Raiders [30] [citation needed ]
Reggie Torbor , NFL linebacker for the Miami Dolphins [31]
Jimmy Williams , NFL cornerback who graduated from Vanderbilt University and played for the Houston Texans [32]
Joe Williams , NFL player[33]
Kevin Windham , professional motocross racer[34]
Walter Williams , NFL player
Entertainers
Wes Brown , actor, We Are Marshall , Glory Road , Beach Girls [35]
Andrei Codrescu , writer[citation needed ]
Bill Conti , conductor and composer
Stormy Daniels , porn star and porn director (b. 1979)
Trent Dawson , actor, As the World Turns (b. 1971)
Don Lemon , CNN TV personality and host of CNN Tonight (b. 1966)
Donna Douglas , actress, The Beverly Hillbillies (1933-2015)[36]
Louis Edmonds , actor, All My Children [citation needed ]
Wesley Eure , actor, author[37]
Foxx , rap artist
John Fred , singer, best known for the song "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" (1941-2005)[38]
Kevin Gates , rap artist
Dale Houston , singer, best known for the song "I'm Leaving It Up To You" (1940-2007)[citation needed ]
Randy Jackson , musician, record producer, and American Idol judge (b. 1956)
Chris Thomas King , blues musician and actor (b. 1962)
David Lambert , actor (b.1992)
Lil Boosie , rap artist (b. 1982)
Lil Phat , rap artist
Master P , rap artist
Rod Masterson , actor (1945-2013)
Reiley McClendon , actor (b. 1990)
John McConnell , actor, radio personality (b. 1958)
Cleo Moore , actress (d. 1973)
Elemore Morgan Jr. , landscape painter and photographer (b. 1931)
James Paul , Conductor Emeritus of the Baton Rouge Symphony (b. 1940)
Cameron Richardson , actress, Open Water 2: Adrift (b. 1979)
Steven Soderbergh , director
Tabby Thomas , blues musician and club owner (b. 1929)
Pruitt Taylor Vince , actor (b. 1960)
Rosalie "Lady Tamborine" Washington , gospel musician and tambourine player (b. 1957)
Webbie , rap artist (b. 1985)
Shane West , actor (b. 1978)
Lynn Whitfield , actress
YoungBoy Never Broke Again , rap artist
Fredo Bang , rap artist
Da Real Gee Money , rap artist
Politicians
Jesse Bankston , president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting; longtime member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee; former confidant of Earl Kemp Long , D (1907-2010)[39]
Larry S. Bankston , lawyer and former state senator, son of Jesse Bankston, D (b. 1951)[40]
Regina Barrow (b. 1966), member of the Louisiana State Senate , former state representative for East and West Baton Rouge parishes, 2005-2016[41]
Gary Beard (b. 1956), former member of Louisiana House of Representatives , R[42]
V.J. Bella (b. 1927), former state representative from St. Mary Parish and state fire marshal, based in Baton Rouge, 1990–1992 and 1996–2004, R[citation needed ]
Sherman A. Bernard (1925-2012), state insurance commissioner from 1972-1988; convicted felon, D[43]
Morton Blackwell (b. 1939), political activist in Louisiana and later Virginia, R[citation needed ]
James H. Boyce (1922-1990), Caterpillar Company industrialist and chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party , 1972-1976, R[44]
Mike Branch (b. 1968), state senator and commercial pilot , later of Las Vegas , Nevada , R[citation needed ]
Overton Brooks (1897-1961), U.S. representative from 1937-1961, representing Louisiana's 4th congressional district based about Shreveport , was born in Baton Rouge, D[45]
Chad M. Brown , member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Iberville and Assumption parishes, effective January 2016, lives in Plaquemine, former Baton Rouge resident[46]
H. Rap Brown , African American activist imprisoned in Georgia [47]
George A. Caldwell , contractor who supervised the construction of twenty-six public buildings in Louisiana; imprisoned in the "Louisiana Hayride" scandals of 1939-1940, D[48]
Barbara West Carpenter (b. 1943), dean of international relations at Southern University and African-American Democrat state representative from District 63 in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2016[49]
Sally Clausen (b. 1945), former university president and commissioner of Louisiana higher education, retired in Baton Rouge[50]
Thomas G. Clausen (1939-2002), last person to be elected to the since appointed position of Louisiana education superintendent; St. Mary Parish native and Baton Rouge resident[51]
Luther F. Cole (1925-2013), legislator, judge, state Supreme Court associate justice, D[52]
William Daniel (B.S. and M.S. in petroleum engineering), state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1996-2008, D-turned-R-turned-I[53]
Paula Davis (b. 1973), state representative for District 69 in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2015[54]
William J. "Bill" Dodd (1909-1991), state representative, lieutenant governor, state auditor, member of Louisiana Board of Education, state education superintendent, D[55]
Gil Dozier , Louisiana agriculture commissioner from 1976 to 1980; convicted felon, D[56]
Ken Duncan , state treasurer from 1996 to 2000; Baton Rouge lawyer and businessman, D[57]
Rick Edmonds , state representative for District 66 in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2016, R[58]
Mike Edmonson , superintendent of the Louisiana State Police since 2008, R[59]
Ronnie Edwards (c. 1952-2016), member of the Baton Rouge Metro Council and the Louisiana House of Representatives in January and February 2016, D[60]
Chris Faser Jr. (1917-2004), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1968-1972; aide to Governor Jimmie Davis , D[61]
Jimmy Field , Louisiana Public Service Commissioner (1996-2012), R[62]
Jeff Fortenberry , U.S. representative from Nebraska (b. 1960), R[citation needed ]
Mike Futrell , former state representative and Metro Council member, R[citation needed ]
Douglas Gonzales , retired U.S. attorney and district and circuit court judge, R (b. 1935)[63]
William H. Gray (1941-2013), U.S. representative from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , born in Baton Rouge, first African American to serve as a House majority whip, D[64]
Douglas D. "Doug" Green (b. c. 1950), state insurance commissioner, 1988-1991; convicted felon, D[citation needed ]
Anthony Guarisco Jr. (b. 1938), former state senator from Morgan City ; lawyer, formerly practiced in Baton Rouge, D[65]
Jesse J. Guidry , state representative for St. Martin Parish, 1972-1981; secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries , 1981 to 1984[66]
John Michael Guidry , circuit court judge since 1997 and former member of both houses of the Louisiana legislature from Baton Rouge[67]
Dudley A. Guglielmo , (1909-2005) Louisiana insurance commissioner from 1964 to 1972, D[68]
Rufus D. Hayes (1913-2002), first state insurance commissioner, former East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney and judge, former state Democratic chairman, D[citation needed ]
Dennis Paul Hebert (1926-2013), state representative for Tangipahoa Parish, 1972 to 1996; thereafter resident of Baton Rouge, D[69]
Betty Heitman , co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee from 1983 to 1987; resided in and died in 1994 in Baton Rouge, R[70]
Charles R. Herring , chiropractor from Baton Rouge since 1998; served in Louisiana House of Representatives from Rapides Parish, 1988-1992, D-turned-R[71]
Kip Holden , Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish (b. 1952), D[72]
Dalton W. Honoré (b. 1943), state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish since 2010, D[73]
Thomas H. Hudson (b. 1946), Baton Rouge attorney and former state senator, 1976-1988, D[74]
Barry Ivey (b. 1979), businessman and current member of the Louisiana House from District 65 (b. 1979), R[75]
Alphonse J. Jackson (1927-2014), state representative from Caddo Parish, 1972-1992; operated public relations firm in Baton Rouge after leaving the legislature; died in and buried in Baton Rouge, D[76]
Edward C. James (b. 1981), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish since 2012, D[77]
Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins (b. 1947), former Louisiana state representative and three-time U.S. Senate candidate, D-turned-R[78]
Bobby Jindal (b. 1971), Governor and Louisiana congressman, R[79]
Edmond Jordan (b. 1971), member of the Louisiana House since 2016 for District 29 in West and East Baton Rouge parishes[80]
Donald Ray Kennard (1936-2011), Louisiana state representative from East Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes from 1976–2008, D-turned-R[81]
Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick (b. 1918), former member of Louisiana Board of Regents , D[citation needed ]
Jeannette Knoll (b. 1943), associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court ; born in Baton Rouge, resident of Marksville, D[82]
Fred S. LeBlanc , mayor of Baton Rouge (1941-1944), state attorney general (1944-1948; 1952-1956), D[citation needed ]
Coleman Lindsey (1892-1968), state senator, lieutenant governor, state district court judge, D[83]
John Maginnis (1948-2014), Louisiana political journalist, author, and commentator; reared and resided in Baton Rouge[84]
Robert M. Marionneaux (b. 1968), attorney and state senator, D[citation needed ]
Sidney McCrory (1911-1985), entomologist who served as state agriculture commissioner from 1956 to 1960, D[citation needed ]
Eugene McGehee (1928-2014), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1960-1972; state district court judge in East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972-1978, D[85]
Henson Moore , U.S. representative from Sixth Congressional District, 1975-1987, R[86]
W. Spencer Myrick , state legislator from West Carroll Parish , later resided in Baton Rouge, D[citation needed ]
Jewel Joseph Newman (1921-2014), member of the East Baton Rouge city-parish council, 1972-1984, and the Louisiana House from 1984 to 1988 from the Scotlandville area; community organizer and Roman Catholic layman, D[87]
J. Kelly Nix (b. 1934), Baton Rouge businessman since 1984; Louisiana superintendent of education, 1976 to 1984, D[88]
Bob Odom (1935-2014), state agriculture commissioner, 1980-2008, D[citation needed ]
Kenneth Osterberger (b. 1930), member of the Louisiana State Senate from East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972-1992; defeated David Duke in 1975, D-turned-R
Darrell Ourso , member of the Louisiana House from Baton Rouge; elected 2015, R[89]
Jessel Ourso , colorful, controversial sheriff of Iberville Parish, began his career in law enforcement in the middle 1950s as a Baton Rouge municipal police officer, D.[90]
John Victor Parker (1928-2014), judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana , 1979-2014[91]
Edward Grady Partin (1924-1990), Teamsters Union figure, D
Paul Pastorek (b. 1954), former Louisiana state superintendent of education, R[92]
Tony Perkins (b. 1963), former state representative and president of the Family Research Council , R[93]
Ralph Perlman , Louisiana state budget director, 1967-1988[94]
Melvin Rambin , mayor of Monroe from 2000 to 2001; former banker in Baton Rouge, interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge, R[95]
Buddy Roemer , former governor and Baton Rouge businessman (b. 1943), I[96]
Sean Reilly , state representative from 1988–1996 and current chief operations officer of Lamar Advertising, D[citation needed ]
Buddy Roemer , former governor of Louisiana; resides in Baton Rouge, R
Chas Roemer , president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education , R
Joe Sevario , member of the Louisiana State Senate for parts of five parishes, including East Baton Rouge and Ascension, from 1976 to 1994, D
Frank P. Simoneaux , member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972-1982; lawyer in Baton Rouge, D[97]
Patricia Haynes Smith , state representative for District 67 in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2008[98]
Mason Spencer , state representative from Madison Parish from 1924 to 1936, born in Baton Rouge in 1892, D[citation needed ]
Edward J. Steimel (1922-2016), founding executive director of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry , R[99]
Raymond Strother , political consultant , lived in Baton Rouge from 1960 to 1980, D[100]
Zachary Taylor , military leader and the twelfth President of the United States (1784–1850), W[101]
Timmy Teepell (b. 1975), political consultant, sometimes called the "alter ego" to Governor Bobby Jindal; Baton Rouge native, R[102]
Sandra Thompson , environmentalist and former director of the Atchafalaya Basin Project ,[citation needed ] R
David Treen , former Louisiana governor (1928-2009), was born in Baton Rouge, R[103]
Lillian W. Walker , former state representative (1964-1972), D[citation needed ]
Gus Weill , public relations consultant, author, television host, D[104]
Mack A. "Bodi" White Jr. , state representative since 2004, R[105]
John C. White , Louisiana education superintendent since 2012, I[106]
Alfred C. Williams , state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish since 2012, D[107]
J. Robert Wooley , insurance commissioner from 2000 to 2006; attorney with Adams & Reese in Baton Rouge, D[citation needed ]
Military commanders
Intellectuals
Morris N. Abrams , LSU vocational agricultural professor, 1956-1960; director of the LSU School of Vocational Education, 1960-1962; dean at Louisiana State University at Alexandria , 1962 until his death in 1975[111]
Louis Berry (1914-1998), civil rights attorney and dean of Southern University Law Center from 1972 to 1974[112]
David French Boyd (1834-1899), former president and professor at LSU[113]
Thomas Duckett Boyd (1854-1932), professor and president of LSU[114]
Mark T. Carleton (1935-1995), Louisiana historian[citation needed ]
John R. Conniff , New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator who served as president of Louisiana Tech University from 1926 to 1928[115]
Edwin Adams Davis , Louisiana historian[citation needed ]
Kenneth L. Dixon , journalist[116]
Mike Dunne (1949-2007), environmental reporter for the Morning Advocate [117]
Leslie Glasgow (1914-1980), LSU biologist, conservationist, director of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission from 1966 to 1968, United States assistant secretary of the interior from 1969 to 1970[118]
John Guckenheimer , mathematician, Cornell University[119]
Kaylee Hartung , CBS News correspondent (b. 1985)[120]
George Hilton Jones III (1924-2008), Rhodes scholar, author, historian, and professor of history[121]
Stephan Kinsella , American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist (b. 1965)[citation needed ]
John LaPlante (1953-2007), Capitol Bureau chief for the Morning Advocate [122]
John L. Loos , historian[123]
Robert "Bob" Mann , journalist, political historian, LSU scholar[124]
Mary Elizabeth Moore , Methodist theologian, author, and Boston University School of Theology dean[125]
Burl Noggle (1924-2013), American historian, LSU professor, author of book on Teapot Dome scandal [126]
Arthur T. Prescott (1863-1942), LSU administrator, founding president of Louisiana Tech University [127]
Jesse N. Stone (1924-2001), president of the Southern University System , 1974-1985; civil rights attorney[128]
Dale Thorn (1943-2014), press secretary to Governor Edwin Edwards, LSU journalism professor, assistant commissioner of higher education for the Louisiana Board of Regents [129]
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985), political theorist and professor at LSU[130]
Jack Wardlaw (1937-2012), Baton Rouge bureau chief of the New Orleans Times-Picayune (1980-2002)[131]
Eugene Wigner , Nobel Prize -winning physicist and emeritus professor at Louisiana State University[132]
Mary Bushnell Williams (1826–1891), American author, poet, translator
T. Harry Williams , Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor at LSU[133]
Other
Don Lemon , news anchor and journalist
Ralph Eggleston , animator at Pixar and director of the academy award-winning short film For the Birds
Yaser Esam Hamdi (b. 1980), captured while fighting in Afghanistan with the Taliban in 2001; known for the Supreme Court case Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [citation needed ]
Todd Graves , entrepreneur and founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
T. J. Moran , businessman, restaurateur, and philanthropist in Baton Rouge[134]
John Allen Muhammad , mass murderer and co-conspirator in the Beltway sniper attacks
Barry Seal , Medellín Cartel Drug Trafficker
Jimmy Swaggart (b. 1935), American Pentecostal televangelist, singer, pianist, pastor, author, and head of his eponymous named Bible college.[135]
Matt Tullos (b. 1963), writer and minister[136]
Rani Whitfield , physician, broadcaster and author[137] [138]
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