Lou Cella is an American sculptor based in Chicago. He studied at Illinois State University and the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany before beginning a 30-year career in sculpture, particularly bronze works of sportspeople in Seattle.^[1]

Cella's works include three statues at T-Mobile Park of Dave Niehaus (2011), Ken Griffey Jr. (2017), and Edgar Martínez (2021) for the Seattle Mariners. He was also commissioned to create a statue of Don James in 2017 for the Washington Huskies football program. His fifth major work in Seattle, a statue of former Seattle SuperSonics player and coach Lenny Wilkens, was unveiled in 2025 at Climate Pledge Arena, the site of the former Sonics home arena.^[1] In 2018, Cella received the United States Sports Academy's Sport Artist of the Year Award for sculpture.^[2]