American football player Arna Bontemps – African American poet and member of Harlem Renaissance Thomas "Bud" Brady – state representative (1976-1988) from La Salle Parish; thereafter a real estate appraiser in Alexandria Bubby Brister – Quarterback Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, Denver Broncos, and Minnesota Vikings Markel Brown – guard in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Arthur H. Butler – Marine Corps Major General and Navy Cross recipient D. J. Chark - American football player Carl B. Close – state representative (1944-1947) and mayor of Alexandria (1947-1953) Luther F. Cole – associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1986 to 1992, former state representative from East Baton Rouge Parish; born in Alexandria Clifford Ann Creed – golfer; winner of eleven LPGA Tour events William A. Culpepper – Judge for one term on the 9th Judicial District Court and twenty-two years on the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit, Alexandria native who spent later years in Little Rock, Arkansas Israel "Bo" Curtis – African-American Democrat member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 26 from 1992 to 2008 Cleveland Dear – U.S. representative from 1933 to 1937, district attorney, and state district court judge Herbert B. Dixon – member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 26 (2008-2014) and member of the Rapides Parish School Board from District D (1992-2008) Demar Dotson - American football player C. H. "Sammy" Downs – attorney and politician Mike Edmonson – superintendent of the Louisiana State Police since 2008 James R. Eubank – Alexandria lawyer; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Rapides Parish in 1952; died in office at the age of thirty-seven Steve Gainer – Cinematographer and Director H. N. Goff – state representative from Rapides Parish, 1952–1956; insurance agent in Alexandria Layon Gray – Playwright and director of the Off-Broadway hit play Black Angels Over Tuskegee. The story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves – Roman Catholic bishop of Alexandria from 1973 to 1982 Charles Pasquale Greco – Roman Catholic bishop of Alexandria from 1946 to 1973 Jeff Hall – incoming first African-American mayor of Alexandria; state representative for District 26 in Rapides Parish, 2015-2018 Lance Harris – District 25 state representative Eric Johanson – blues rock musician Josh Johnson – comedian. Gary Lee Jones – Rapides Parish school superintendent, 2003–2012; member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education since