Lou Myers (1915—November 20, 2005) was a cartoonist and short story writer.
He was the first person since James Thurber to contribute both cartoons and articles to The New Yorker. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse and Mother Jones.
Lou Leabengula Myers (born September 26, 1945) is an American actor. Myers is typically typecast as a grumpy old man, but he has appeared in many movies, stage plays, television sitcoms, and dramas. He got his first break as an understudy in the Broadway play, The First Breeze of Summer as Reverend Mosley. He is probably best known as the feisty Mr. Vernon Gaines in the sitcom A Different World.
Myers was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Dorothy Jeffries (née Brown).
