Arts, Entertainment, Media, and Humanities
- Mose Allison, jazz pianist, vocalist and songwriter
- Elizabeth Ashley, actress
- Anthony Ryan Auld, fashion designer, came in 7th place on Project Runway (season 9)
- Donna Britt, television news anchorwoman
- James Belton Bonsall, artist
- Better Than Ezra, an American alternative rock band formed at Louisiana State
- Brett Blackledge, is a reporter for The Associated Press in Washington D.C.. While working for The Birmingham News, he won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
- Kenneth Brown, interior designer, host of HGTV show "reDesign"
- Bill Conti, Academy Award and Emmy-winning composer
- Beth Courtney, president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- Christina Cuenca, Miss Louisiana USA 2006
- Tom Drummond, bassist for Better Than Ezra
- Jennifer Dupont, Triple Crown winner, Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998, Miss Louisiana USA 2000, Miss Louisiana (America) 2004
- Carl Fontana, jazz trombonist
- Julie Giroux, Emmy-award winning composer.
- Mark Grant, CBS Sports-TV Director
- Grits Gresham, outdoorsman, author, sportsman, cohost of ABC's The American Sportsman (1966–1979), champion of the Louisiana wetlands
- Kevin Griffin, lead singer of Better Than Ezra, songwriter
- John Thomas Griffith, guitarist in rock band Cowboy Mouth
- Sam Hanna, Sr., Class of 1955, newspaper publisher
- Joshua Holmes, founder/publisher Bumpshack.com, International model
- Eddie Jemison, actor
- J. G. Jones, comic book artist.
- Amanda Joseph, Miss Louisiana (America) 2007
- Elizabeth McNulty, Miss Louisiana USA 2007
- Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, Turkish harpist
- Edwin Newman, NBC-TV newsman and anchor
- Ursula Pari, KSAT-TV reporter and anchor
- Randy Price, WCVB-TV newscaster, first openly gay newscaster in America.
- Jonathan Pretus, guitarist in rock band Cowboy Mouth
- Lisette Oropesa, International operatic soprano
- H. Owen Reed, composer
- Rex Reed, author and film critic
- Claibe Richardson, composer
- Lisa Rhoades, poet
- Chad Shelton, operatic tenor
- David Snell, journalist and cartoonist
- John Tenta, Amateur and professional wrestler
- Rebecca Wells, author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Dede Wilson, poet and writer
- Fonville Winans - Photographer
- Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author known for his lush gardens in Southern Vermont.
- Joanne Woodward, Academy Award-winning actress
- Will Wright, The Sims creator
- Dee-1, rapper/lyricist
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