List of people associated with Hurricane Katrina

People who made the news, either in positive or negative ways, as a result of Hurricane Katrina and the storm recovery. Their relationships to the storm or aftermath or noted in their respective articles.

* J. T. Alpaugh - American helicopter pilot and cameraman who ran the media pool chopper in the aftermath
* Haley Barbour - Mississippi governor
* Kathleen Blanco - Louisiana governor
* Aaron Broussard - Jefferson Parish president
* Michael D. Brown - Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
* George W. Bush - 43rd U.S. President
* Michael Chertoff - United States Secretary of Homeland Security
* Eddie Compass - former New Orleans Chief of Police
* Barry Cowsill - American musician whose death was attributed to floodwaters from the hurricane
* Fats Domino - R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter who lost his home to the storm
* Jabbar Gibson - commandeered an abandoned New Orleans school bus to Houston, Texas, to rescue victims of the flooded city
* Milvirtha Hendricks - African American woman photographed by the Associated Press outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center huddled in one of several American flag blankets. This photograph became an iconic symbol of the Katrina survivors.
* A. J. Holloway - mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi
* Russel L. Honoré - 33rd commanding general of the U.S. First Army during the Katrina event
* Lootie - An unnamed man in an Associated Press photo taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, under the caption "A looter carries a bucket of beer out of a grocery store in New Orleans."
* Ian McPhillips - Coast Guardsman during who rescued more than 100 civilians from New Orleans.
* Ray Nagin - mayor of New Orleans
* R. David Paulison - Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
* Anna Pou - New Orleans surgeon accused, though not indicted, of administering lethal painkiller injections to four elderly intensive-care patients
* Rigsby Sisters - managers overseeing catastrophe claims adjusters before their resignation who claimed State Farm Insurance Company ignored or minimized wind damage to avoid payments.
* Garland Robinette - news anchor and investigative reporter on New Orleans TV station
* Junior Rodriguez - former president of the St. Bernard Parish Council
* Chris Rose - journalist who chronicled of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
* Rockey Vaccarella - resident of St. Bernard Parish who drove his FEMA trailer to the White House
* Ivor van Heerden - author of "The Storm"
* Brod Veillon - coordinated the Louisiana National Guard's support of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries search and rescue efforts
* Nick Walters - spearheaded USDA Rural Development’s efforts in Mississippi to help victims of Hurricane Katrina
* Kanye West - during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."