Government & Politics
Buddy Roemer
Charles "Buddy" Roemer III served as the governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992.
Caddo
Music
Dale Hawkins
Raised in northeastern Louisiana, Dale Hawkins is most famous for "Susie Q" which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named among the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.
Music
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter is one of the most important grassroots musicians of the twentieth century.
Music
James Burton
James Burton (born August 21, 1939) is one of the most highly respected and prolific guitarists in contemporary popular music.
Sports & Recreation
Joe Dumars
Despite growing up in a region where football was king, Shreveport native Joe Dumars enjoyed a successful career as a player and executive in the NBA.
Music
Louisiana Hayride
The Louisiana Hayride was a radio barn dance broadcast from Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium between 1948 and 1960.
Geography
Red River Raft
The Great Raft was a thousand-year-old logjam in the Red River that prevented transportation downriver to New Orleans.
Sports & Recreation
Robert Parish
Shreveport native Robert Parish was the calm, collected, confident center on the Boston Celtics NBA championship teams in the 1980s.
Sports & Recreation
Terry Bradshaw
Louisiana's Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls as quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
Art
William Joyce
Widely know as a prolific and imaginatively versatile children's book writer and illustrator, Shreveport native William Joyce was named one of the "Top 100 people to watch in the new millennium" by Newsweek magazine.
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