Editing Thibodaux, Louisiana (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Eric Andolsek]], professional football player for the Detroit Lions<ref name="eandolsek">{{cite web | url=http://www.nfl.com/players/ericandolsek/profile?id=AND627998 |title=Eric Andolsek |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=NFL Enterprises LLC |website=[[NFL.com]] |year=2010}}</ref>
* [[Charlton Beattie]], U.S. federal judge; practiced law in Thibodaux
* [[Rezin Bowie]], Louisiana politician and inventor of the Bowie knife; resided six years on Acadia Plantation near Thibodaux
* [[Braxton Bragg]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] general, slave-owner and planter on Bayou Lafourche in 1856-1861
* [[Adrian Joseph Caillouet]], U.S. federal judge
* [[Kody Chamberlain]], comic book writer and artist<ref name="kchamberlain">{{cite web |url=http://kodychamberlain.com/c/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=67 |title=kodychamberlain.com - Official website of Kody Chamberlain - Kody Chamberlain |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=Chamberlain, Kody |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713163339/http://kodychamberlain.com/c/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=67 |archive-date=2011-07-13 }}</ref>
* [[Thomas Clausen (Louisiana)|Thomas G. Clausen]], professor at Nicholls State University from 1967 to 1972; last elected state superintendent of education, 1984-1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlouisiana.org/s3web/1002087/docs/Constitutional%20Amendment%20Archive/CA1979_Sept.pdf|title=Thomas G. Clausen, p. 18|publisher=parlouisiana.org|access-date=October 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111144243/http://www.parlouisiana.org/s3web/1002087/docs/Constitutional%20Amendment%20Archive/CA1979_Sept.pdf|archive-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Mark Davis (NBA)|Mark Davis]], professional basketball player<ref name="mdavis">{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/davisma02.html |title=Mark Davis NBA & ABA Statistics |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=Sports Reference *LLC |year=2010}}</ref>
* [[Ronald Dominique]], serial killer
* [[Jeremy Gaubert]], winner of 2009 [[World Poker Open]]
* [[Mary Gauthier]], folk singer-songwriter; grew up in Thibodaux
* [[Jarvis Green]], defensive end for the [[Denver Broncos]]<ref name="jgreen">{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/players/jarvisgreen/profile?id=GRE251964 |title=Jarvis Green |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=NFL Enterprises LLC |website=[[NFL.com]] |year=2010}}</ref>
* [[Walter Guion]], U.S. senator from Louisiana
* [[Damian Johnson (basketball)|Damian Johnson]], player for the [[Minnesota Golden Gophers]] men's basketball team<ref name="djohnson">{{cite web |url=http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=38664&SPID=3302&DB_OEM_ID=8400&ATCLID=261481&Q_SEASON=2009 |title=Damian Johnson Bio - Gophersports.com - Official Web Site of University of Minnesota Athletics |access-date=2010-07-03 |publisher=NeuLion |author=University of Minnesota |year=2010 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>
* [[Clay Knobloch]], former [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]]
* [[Louis La Garde]], soldier, medical doctor and author
* [[Theodore K. Lawless]], dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
* [[Oliver Marcelle]], baseball player
* [[Graham Patrick Martin]], actor TV: ''Major Crimes, The Closer, Two and a Half Men; Movies: The Anna Nicole Story, Bukowski, Somewhere Slow''
* [[Whitmell P. Martin]], congressman from Louisiana; moved to Thibodaux
* [[Jordan Mills]], football player
* [[Numa F. Montet]], congressman from Louisiana
* [[Doug Moreau]], football player
* [[Amos Moses]], one-armed alligator trapper
* [[Drake Nevis]], football player
* [[Francis T. Nicholls]], Confederate brigadier general, two-term governor of Louisiana, and Louisiana Supreme Court justice; moved to Ridgefield Plantation near Thibodaux
* [[Harvey Peltier, Jr.]], state senator from 1964 to 1976;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-Present|publisher=senate.la.gov|access-date=October 16, 2013}}</ref> first president of the [[University of Louisiana System]] trustees from 1975 until his death in 1980<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ulsystem.net/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleid=74&printer=1|title=History|publisher=ulsystem.net|access-date=October 16, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017062642/http://www.ulsystem.net/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleid=74&printer=1|archive-date=October 17, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Harvey Peltier, Sr.]], member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Thibodaux, 1924-1940<ref name=potofgold>{{cite web|url=http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1079050/index.htm|title=Pot Of Gold For A Nervy Cajun, September 19, 1966|publisher=si.com|access-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017085118/http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1079050/index.htm|archive-date=October 17, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Dee Richard|Jerome "Dee" Richard]], former member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from Thibodaux; one of two [[Independent (politics)|Independents]] in the legislature<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|access-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref>
* [[John Robichaux]], jazz musician<ref name="jrobichaux">{{cite web |url=http://www.hurricanebrassband.nl/Musician%20john%20robichaux.htm |title=John Robichaux |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=Hurricane Brassband |date=2009-05-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706075422/http://www.hurricanebrassband.nl/Musician%20john%20robichaux.htm |archive-date=2010-07-06 }}</ref>
* [[Greg Robinson (offensive tackle)|Greg Robinson]], [[offensive lineman]] for the [[Detroit Lions]]
* [[Junius P. Rodriguez]], academic and author
* [[Tom Roussel]], football player
* [[Dustin Schuetter]], actor, producer, director and screenwriter
* [[Billy Tauzin]], [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]] who lived in Thibodaux while he was in office<ref>[[Michael Barone (pundit)|Barone, Michael]]; and Ujifusa, Grant. ''[[The Almanac of American Politics]] 1988'', p. 494. ''[[National Journal]]'', 1987.</ref> 
* [[Theodore Ward]], noted African-American playwright
* [[Edward Douglass White|Edward Douglass White, Jr.]], [[Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court]] and later [[Chief Justice of the United States]]<ref name="edwjr">{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000366 |title=WHITE, Edward Douglass - Biographical Information |access-date=2010-07-03 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref>
* [[Edward Douglass White, Sr.]], [[list of governors of Louisiana|governor of Louisiana]]<ref name="edwsr">{{cite web|url=http://www.enlou.com/people/whiteed-bio.htm |title=State Governors of Louisiana: Edward Douglas White |access-date=2010-07-03 |author=Encyclopedia Louisiana |date=2001-12-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205141624/http://enlou.com/people/whiteed-bio.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Richard D'Alton Williams]], Irish patriot, poet, and "Shamrock" of ''[[The Nation (Irish newspaper)|The Nation]]''<ref name=boy>{{cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition|page= 448|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|isbn = 0-7171-2945-4}}</ref>
* [[Kyren Lacy]], LSU Wide Receiver