List of Famous people born in Louisiana, United States of America
Kenny Young
Kenneth Kim Young is an American football linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at UCLA, and was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
Brandon Bass
Brandon Samuel Bass is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent.
Derek Stingley Jr.
Derek Stingley Jr. is an American football cornerback for the LSU Tigers.
Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter". Clayton is featured in 20 Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary about background singers and their contributions to the music industry. In 2013, she released The Best of Merry Clayton, a compilation of her favorite songs.
David Suhor
David Suhor is an American jazz musician and teacher living in Pensacola, Florida; he is the founder of a local business called ShamaLamaGram that delivers singing telegrams.
Albert Belle
Albert Jojuan Belle, known until 1990 as Joey Belle, is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, and Baltimore Orioles. Belle was one of the leading sluggers of his time, and in 1995 became the only player to ever hit 50 doubles and 50 home runs in a season. He was also the first player to break the $10 million per year compensation contract in Major League Baseball.
Lil' Fizzle Pop
Dreux Pierre Frédéric better known by his stage name Lil' Fizz, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and television personality best known for being the youngest member and rapper of the R&B group, B2K. Formerly, he starred on the television show Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
Betty DeGeneres
Elizabeth Jane DeGeneres is an American LGBT rights activist and former speech therapist. She is the mother of Ellen and Vance DeGeneres and the first straight spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project and an active member of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). She gained notability following her lesbian daughter Ellen's highly publicized coming out in 1997.
PJ Morton
P.J. Morton is an American Grammy winning musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 2012, he has been one of the keyboardists, alongside Jesse Carmichael, for the pop rock band Maroon 5. Morton originally joined the band as a touring member in 2010 and became an official member in 2012 after Carmichael went on indefinite hiatus.
Delvin Breaux
Delvin Lionel Breaux is an American professional Canadian football cornerback of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. He attended McDonogh 35 High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of the Louisiana Bayou Vipers, New Orleans VooDoo, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and New Orleans Saints.