Editing St. Mary Parish, Louisiana (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Alexander Allain]] (1920 – 1994), lawyer, library advocate who was one of the 100 most influential library leaders of the 20th century.<ref name=mem>"In memoriam: Alexander Peter Allain 1920-1994", ''Louisiana Libraries'', Winter 2006, 4.</ref> The [[Louisiana Library Association]] named its annual [[intellectual freedom]] award for him.<ref>[https://llaonline.org/page-18194 Alex Allain Intellectual Freedom Award] Louisiana Library Association.</ref>
* [[Bret Allain]] (born c. 1958), sugar cane farmer and the current District 21 [[Louisiana State Legislature|state senator]] from St. Mary Parish
* [[C. C. Aycock|Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock]] (1915–1987), state [[Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives|House Speaker]] from 1952 to 1956 and [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana|lieutenant governor]] from 1960 to 1972
* [[Carl W. Bauer]] (1933-2013), attorney-lobbyist; former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
* [[Ralph Norman Bauer]] (1899-1963), attorney; former Speaker of the Louisiana House; a leader of the [[impeachment]] forces against [[governor of Louisiana|Governor]] [[Huey Long|Huey P. Long, Jr.]], in 1929
* [[V.J. Bella]] (born 1927), former state representative (1972–1990) and state fire marshal (1990–1992; 1996–2004)
* [[Elizabeth Bisland]] (1861–1929), noted journalist and author<ref name="marksbook">Marks, Jason. ''Around the World in 72 Days: The race between Pulitzer's Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan's Elizabeth Bisland'' (Gemittarius Press 1993) ({{ISBN|978-0963369628}})</ref>
* [[Sally Clausen]], former president of [[Southeastern Louisiana University]] in [[Hammond, Louisiana|Hammoned]] and Louisiana commissioner of higher education; reared in St. Mary Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://regents.ohio.gov/search/pdfs/OH27Resume.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222144338/http://regents.ohio.gov/search/pdfs/OH27Resume.pdf |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |url-status=live|title=Dr. Sally Clausen|publisher=regents.ohio.gov|access-date=October 7, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Clausen (Louisiana)|Thomas G. Clausen]], Louisiana education superintendent from 1984 to 1988; reared in St. Mary Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanewsbureau.com/inst/2002SS1/SCR/00/SCR32_EN.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222115403/http://www.lanewsbureau.com/inst/2002SS1/SCR/00/SCR32_EN.PDF |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |url-status=live|title=Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 32, 2002|publisher=lanewsbureau.com|access-date=October 7, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Murphy J. Foster, Jr.|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]] (1930-2020), [[governor of Louisiana]] from 1996 to 2004
* [[Elizabeth Francis]] (1909-2024), [[supercentenarian]] who until her death in 2024 was the [[List of American supercentenarians|oldest living American]] and the world's [[Oldest people|third oldest living person]]
* [[Geronimo Pratt]], [[Vietnam War]] veteran who served twenty-seven years in prison wrongfully accused of murder
* [[William Joseph Seymour]] (born 1870), considered to be the most influential African American minister of the twentieth century and pastor of the famous Azusa Street Revival
* [[Warren Wells]], Pro football player for the Detroit Lions and Oakland Raiders
* [[Dale Hawkins]], (born 1936, died 2010) pioneer of swamp rock boogie