Residents
Other notable current and/or former residents of Lafayette:
- Royd Anderson, filmmaker
- Robert Angers (1919–1988), journalist, founded Acadiana Profile magazine, 1968
- Kevyn Aucoin (deceased), professional makeup artist
- Ray Authement (born 1928), president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1974 to 2008
- Carl W. Bauer (1933-2013), member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature; lobbyist for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1990 to 2010
- Stuart Bishop (born ca. 1975), incoming member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette
- Henri Willis Bendel, fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Captain Steven L. Bennett, posthumous Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
- Kathleen Blanco, former Louisiana governor
- Roy Bourgeois, priest and founder of human rights group SOA Watch
- Marc Broussard, musician
- James Lee Burke, mystery novelist, Pulitzer Prize nominee.
- Kody Chamberlain, comic book writer and artist
- Hollis Conway, Olympic medalist
- Albert H. Crews, astronaut
- Aaron Dalbec, musician
- Charles B. DeBellevue, highest-scoring American flying ace during the Vietnam War
- Jefferson J. DeBlanc, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient
- Jake Delhomme, NFL quarterback
- Henry C. Dethloff, American historian, resided in Lafayette from 1962–1968
- Gil Dozier, Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1976 to 1980; convicted felon; he graduated from and played basketball at ULL prior to 1956 and is now retired in Lafayette.
- Ernest Gaines, fiction author, Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Deirdre Gogarty, World champion female boxer
- Hedwig Gorski, poet and writer
- Amy Guidry, surrealist painter
- Leigh Hennessy, world champion gymnast and movie/TV stuntwoman
- Sammy Kershaw, country & western musician
- Bennett Landreneau, United States Army major general
- Ali Landry, former Miss USA, model and actress
- Ben Earl Looney (deceased), painter originally from Webster Parish
- Eugene J. Martin (deceased), visual artist originally from Washington D.C.
- Alex McCool, manager of NASA Space Shuttle Projects Office
- Elizabeth McNulty, Miss Louisiana 2007
- Brian Mitchell, former NFL running back, special teams returner
- Elemore Morgan, Jr. (deceased), professor and visual artist
- George B. Mowad (deceased), physician and politician
- Paul Prudhomme, chef
- Robert Rauschenberg (deceased) American Artist, National Medal of Arts winner
- Zachary Richard, musician
- George Rodrigue, artist, 'The Blue Dog'
- Bryan Roy, Scholar and Gentleman
- Chanda Rubin, USTA tennis player
- J. Minos Simon, attorney, author, sportsman
- Richard Simmons, exercise guru
- Clifford Schoeffler, United States Air Force general
- Brandon Stokley, NFL wide receiver
- Daniel Sunjata, film, television, and Tony Award-nominated stage actor
- Sam H. Theriot, Louisiana state representative from Vermilion Parish from 1979 to 1996, subsequently relocated to Lafayette
- Hugh Thompson, Jr., Hero of My Lai, helicopter pilot
- John Kennedy Toole, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
- A. Hays Town, architect
- C. C. Adcock, musician, producer
- Javon Walker, NFL wide receiver
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Famous quotes containing the word residents:
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)