Looney was born in the Yellow Pine community, located south of Sibley, Louisiana, to Julian A. Looney (1871–1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872–1932).
The American artist Ben Earl Looney was born and reared in Yellow Pine but graduated from Minden High School before launching a career which took him to many parts of the United States.
Looney Tunes | James Earl Jones | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | David Ben-Gurion | Ben Affleck | Ben Jonson | Earl | Ben Harper | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Earl of Derby | Big Ben | Ben Kingsley | Earl Warren | Earl of Pembroke | Ben Stiller | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Earl of Warwick | Ben Folds | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Sylvester (Looney Tunes) | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Earl of Shrewsbury | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | Ben Hecht | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Ben Casey | Ben Bernanke |