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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.
ZZ Packer, writer; born in Chicago; lived in Louisville in her teens and graduated from Seneca High School in 1990; Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles sports columnist, panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn; George Dennison Prentice, newspaper editor and journalist for the Louisville Journal; Scott Ritcher, magazine publisher of K Composite Magazine, musician
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In 1841, the diocese was moved from Bardstown to Louisville, and Saint Louis Church became Saint Louis Cathedral. Bishop Flaget, now the Bishop of Louisville, decided in 1849 that a new cathedral should be built. However, Bishop Flaget died on February 11, 1850, a few months after the laying of the cornerstone for the new church building.
[19] For his efforts and those of the religious sisters and Knights of Columbus in Louisville during the pandemic, General Fred Thaddeus Austin of Camp Zachary Taylor wrote him a public letter of gratitude. [20] The Sisters of Charity opened Nazareth College, now Spalding University, in Louisville in 1920, the first four-year Catholic college ...
David Kirke, the inventor of bungee jumping, has died at the age of 78, a friend of his family told The Independent. The co-founder of the Dangerous Sports Club based in Oxford and London ...
The Kentucky Medal of Honor Memorial is a statue in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, honoring all recipients of the Medal of Honor from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.Located at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson Streets on the grounds of the old Jefferson County Courthouse, the Memorial was sculpted by Doyle Glass and dedicated on Veterans Day 2001.
The 2013 class included people such as Jerry Carroll who was a golf professional, Donna Bender a student-athlete/athletic director at Sacred Heart Academy, University of Louisville basketball player Pervis Ellison, Calvin Borel who was a Kentucky horse racer, Pro football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers Dwayne D. Woodruff, and Tennis player ...