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David Pajo, indie musician known for work in Slint, Tortoise, and Zwan; Buddy Pepper, songwriter, pianist, and actor, best known as co-writer of Les Paul and Mary Ford song "Vaya Con Dios," the most popular song of 1953; Wilson Pickett, R&B singer, buried at Evergreen Cemetery; Artimus Pyle, drummer for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
People from Louisville call themselves Louisvillians. All notable people born or raised, or have maintained significant residency within the limits of today's Louisville Metro ( Jefferson County, Kentucky ) belong in this category or subcategories.
Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. [a] [11] By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city.
People care about that, because it's their voice that's being represented." Attica Scott, a former Kentucky state representative and a candidate in the 2024 Democratic primary for Senate District 33.
Louisville residents have also called for an Ali statue over the years, even offering his name as a replacement to the statue of John B. Castleman, which had been removed from a Cherokee Triangle ...
The names of Louisville's saintly neighborhoods can be directly traced back to some of the area's first churches and hospitals, not the holy men themselves. Just Askin': Some Louisville ...
William Thomas "Cactus" Brooks, (March 3, 1910 – December 14, 1997) was a well-known television star and radio announcer in Louisville, Kentucky, for many years.. Brooks was best known as "Cactus", the cowboy clown character and sidekick to Randy Atcher on T-Bar-V Ranch and Hayloft Hoedown, two popular local shows on Louisville's WHAS-TV from 1950 until 1971.