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Pervis Ellison, basketball player; born in Savannah, Georgia; "Never Nervous Pervis" was the starting center for the University of Louisville for four years, including the 1986 national championship year; second freshman to be named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four; first overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings
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.
Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s iconic greeting “You’ve Got Mail,” has died at age 74 after a long illness, his family said. Edwards recorded four lines and received $200 for his work.
Neal has a different view of the 2024 General Assembly. Louisville scored plenty of wins in the new two-year budget, he contended, and with 35 years in office, building connections on both sides ...
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 ...
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.
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.