Who's your favorite person ever born in New Orleans?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

My guess? Famed Sheffield Hallam University professor Lee Harvey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_(academic)

[GreenStormCloud]

1. My daughter is my favorite person born in New Orleans.

No she isn't famous, but she is my favorite.

[Botany]

2. My favorite thing that was born in New Orleans

The muffaletta

[Dappleganger]

10. Oooh, come to Mama!

[Poll_Blind]

19. That is, unmistakably, a muffuletta!

Oh, so good....

PB

[Cresent City Kid]

26. Do you know what it means to miss DiMartino's

Modesty precludes me from nominating myself so I say Rock 'n Roll.

[Botany]

28. Looks good

Worth the trip????

[Cresent City Kid]

30. It is to me

You can find them in many places in the New Orleans area, but my favorite is DiMartino's on the Westbank. If you're in the Quarter, look up Pierre Maspero's on Chartres Street. I'm going back for a wedding in October and it's on my must do list while I'm there.

[fishwax]

31. good stuff!

:woohoo:

[Jazz Ambassador]

3. Guess

<-- ;)

[jwirr]

7. Mine to. He was the first person I thought of. I love Fats. That is Fats

Domino isn't it? Or maybe Louis Armstrong?

[Jazz Ambassador]

17. Louis Armstrong

But Fats is great too. Or Jelly Roll Morton. Or any of the Marsalis brothers. Or, or, or...

[newspeak]

25. Yep, Satchmo

of course I love beignets and muffellettas, (sp).

[Mist]

4. A toss-up between Jim Garrison and Anne Rice. I know, what an odd pairing, but I've so

enjoyed wallowing in Rice's elegant-trashy novels...

[Dappleganger]

11. Same here.

[Upton]

5. Will Clark..

[haikugal]

6. ME....:0)

[Poll_Blind]

8. Me!

PB

[ImNotTed]

9. Puck

[damntexdem]

12. Rockin Dopsie Junior.

At least, assuming he WAS born in New Orleans -- I can't find clarification on the web.

[SidDithers]

13. Louis Prima...

no question about it.

Sid

[sofa king]

14. Satchmo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFXP-eEVVXg

[ImNotTed]

15. Epsilon Eridani

[Freddie Stubbs]

Richard Simmons

[theophilus]

16. Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Look him up and listen to all of his music. n/t

[pipi_k]

18. Marie Laveau n/t

[Tennessee Gal]

20. Peyton Manning, James Carville, Harry Connick, Jr.

John Goodman, Tyler Perry, Ellen DeGeneres, Reese Witherspoon

[closeupready]

21. I don't know if she was born there, but Anne Rice is on my list.

nt

[Mimosa]

32. Rice was born in NOLA

My fave NOLA people:

Mahalia Jackson, Sheriff Harry Lee, Louis Armstong, Louis Prima, chess champion Paul Morphy...there are probably dozens more.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. John Wayne

Wasn't he born everywhere?

[MilesColtrane]

23. George Porter, Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Porter_Jr.

[Bucky]

24. me

[KamaAina]

27. My friend's daughter

born there in the mid-'80s.

Her name is....

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Katrina. For real. I kept hearing her Mom's shrill voice yelling "Trini, put that garden hose down this instant! You're gonna flood out the whole yard!"

Poor thing. Even though she and Mom left town years before You-Know-What, she's probably still in therapy...

[JVS]

29. Ignatius Reilly

[hfojvt]

33. John Wayne

of course.

[Contrary1]

35. My favorite too!

:rofl:

[JonLP24]

34. Aeneas Williams

Sorry for going with a sports guy. I'm a big Cardinals fan and he is one of the greatest players in franchise history.