Famous 7th Ward New Orleanians
Notable people from the 7th Ward include jazz musicians/composers Jelly Roll Morton, Barney Bigard and Sidney Bechet, singer Lee Dorsey, singer Lizzie Miles, rapper/producer Mannie Fresh, rapper Mia X, rapper MC L, civil rights leader A. P. Tureaud, playwright Tyler Perry, author Fatima Shaik, award-winning author & Folklorist Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, singer-songwriter Frank Ocean, Tyrann Mathieu football player for the LSU Tigers, and mayors Ernest Morial, Sidney Barthelemy and C. Ray Nagin
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or ward:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“Books treating of etiquette ... are often written by dancing-masters and Turveydrops and others knowing little of the customs of the best society of any land.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)