Don Juan Filhiol's most noted accomplishments are associated with the European settlement of the Ouachita River Valley and include the founding of the Poste d'Ouachita and Fort Miro, which later became Monroe, Louisiana.
Painter Dona Lief was part of the regional school of artists known as "visionary imagists" that emerged from the Faubourg Marigny gallery of George Febres in the 1990s.
Dr. John was an important New Orleans-born rhythm and blues singer, composer, and keyboardist.
Created in the 1930s, Dr. Nut is best remembered as the favorite beverage of Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole’s New Orleans–set novel, Confederacy of Dunces.
Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African American elected mayor of New Orleans, served two terms in office, from 1978 to 1986.
Edward Austin Burke, known as Major E. A. Burke, was a Louisiana politician during the Reconstruction era.
Photographer E. J. Bellocq gained fame after his death for his portraits of prostitutes in Storyville.
Earl Palmer was an innovative, influential drummer in New Orleans and Los Angeles.
Edward Noon Johnson was a New Orleans musical personality, multi-instrumentalist, and inventor.
Eleanor McMain was a settlement house worker and progressive reformer in early-twentieth-century New Orleans.
Ella Brennan was the matriarch of the family that owns many restaurants in New Orleans, including Commander's Palace.
Ellen Dunn-Burch was a politically engaged philanthropist credited with convincing her husband Oscar J. Dunn to accept the nomination for lieutenant governor of Louisiana, making him the nation’s first Black executive officer.
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