Notable Natives and Residents
- Buddy Caldwell, District Attorney in East Carroll, later elected attorney general of Louisiana.
- Vail M. Delony, state representative, 1950–1967; Speaker of the Louisiana House, 1964–1967
- Mose Jefferson, convicted felon, older brother of William J. Jefferson, was born in Lake Providence.
- William J. Jefferson, convicted felon, former U.S. representative from Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District, was born in Lake Providence.
- Don Johnson, a Transylvania farmer who has run unsuccessfully as a Republican for state agriculture commissioner in 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, and 2007.
- Joseph Ransdell, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1913 to 1931. Ransdell was born in Alexandria but resided for many years in Lake Providence.
- Charles L. Vining, Jr., state representative from East and West Carroll parishes, 1968–1972
- John D. Winters, historian at Louisiana Tech University, author of The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), was born in Mississippi but reared in Lake Providence.
- Captan Jack Wyly, Democratic political activist
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