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Richard Simmons
American fitness instructor and video producer (1948–2024)

Kate Chopin
American author (1850–1904)

Amy Coney Barrett
American lawyer and jurist (born 1972)

Jamie Lynn Spears
American actress and singer (born 1991)

James Longstreet
Confederate Army general (1821–1904)

P. G. T. Beauregard
Confederate general (1818–1893)

Walker Percy
American philosophical novelist

Harry Connick Jr.
American musician and actor (born 1967)
Mark Duplass
American actor and director
Edward Douglass White Jr.
chief justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921
Marie Laveau
American Voodoo practitioner
Joseph Cao
Vietnamese-American activist and politician
Norma McCorvey
plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1947–2017)
Faith Domergue
American actress (1924–1999)
Garret Graves
American politician (born 1972)
Helen Prejean
advocate for the abolition of the death penalty
Edwin Edwards
American politician, including Governor of Louisiana (1927-2021)

Jay Duplass
American actor and director

Lindy Boggs
American politician (1916-2013)
Elaine Edwards
American politician (1929-2018)

Samuel D. McEnery
American politician (1837-1910)
Donna Brazile
American author, educator, and political activist and strategist (born 1959)

Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.
American politician (1914–1972)

Sean Payton
Patrick Sean Payton is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is the head coach for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). Previously, he served as the head coach of the New Orleans Saints from 2006 to 2021, leading the franchise to its first Super Bowl victory during the 2009 season. Payton played college football for the Eastern Illinois Panthers and played professionally in 1987 with the Chicago Bears and in 1988 overseas in Britain for the Leicester Panthers.
William Donald Borders
Catholic bishop (1913–2010)
Michael Duca
Catholic bishop

Raymond Arroyo
American author, journalist, and producer
René Henry Gracida
American Roman Catholic bishop
Paul Octave Hébert
Confederate Army general (1818–1880)

Shelton Fabre
Catholic archbishop

Joseph E. Ransdell
American politician and lawyer (1858-1954)
Roy Bourgeois
Founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
United States Ambassador to Austria since 2022
Lynne Spears
mother of Britney Spears
David Ferrie
Accused of involvement in JFK assassination
Jacques Villeré
American politician (1761–1830)
Thomas John Rodi
Catholic archbishop
John Douglas Deshotel
Catholic bishop
Henriette DeLille
American nun (1813–1862)
F. Edward Hébert
American politician (1901-1979)
Jake Delhomme
American football player

Bob Livingston
American politician and lobbyist
Chris John
American politician

Gerard Louis Frey
Catholic bishop (1914–2007)
Joachim O. Fernández
American politician (1896-1978)
Edmond Dédé
American composer (1827–1903)
J. Terry Steib
Catholic bishop
Louis Frederick Kihneman
American prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1952)
Harold Robert Perry
Catholic bishop (1916-1991)
Leander Perez
American judge
H. Garland Dupré
American politician (1873-1924)

Dominic Carmon
Catholic bishop (1930–2018)
Warren Louis Boudreaux
Catholic bishop (1918–1997)
Compton I. White
American politician (1877-1956)
Jude Speyrer
American Roman Catholic prelate (1929-2013)
Maurice Schexnayder
American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1895-1981)
Joseph Nunzio Latino
Catholic bishop
Kevin Roberts
American academic, president of Heritage Foundation

Jourdan Thibodeaux
American Cajun singer and fiddler from Louisiana
Leonard Olivier
Roman Catholic bishop (1923-2014)