“I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.”
“As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.”
| Bob Balaban, Actor (1945) |
| Angela Bassett, Actress (1958) |
| James Cameron, Director (1954) |
| Steve Carell, Actor (1963) |
| Vanessa Carlton, Musician (1980) |
| Arthur Cayley, Mathematician (1821) |
| Hugh Dalton, Politician (1887) |
| Francis Darwin, Scientist (1848) |
| Stockwell Day, Politician (1950) |
| William F. DeVault, Poet (1955) |
| Idi Amin, Statesman (2003) |
| Wolcott Gibbs, Writer (1958) |
| Robert Johnson, Psychologist (1938) |
| Wanda Landowska, Musician (1959) |
| Irving Langmuir, Scientist (1957) |