List of Tulane University people

This is a list of notable individuals affiliated with Tulane University, including alumni of non-matriculating and graduates, faculty, former faculty and major benefactors. Some especially notable individuals also are listed in the main university article.

Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. For alumni, the degree and year of graduation are noted when available.


Alumni

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Selected Tulane people
Sergio Rossetti Morosini (2017), Artist, naturalist, Filmmaker
David Filo (B.S. 1988), co-founder of Yahoo!

Academia

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Arts and letters

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Architecture

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Film and television

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Literature and poetry

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Music

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Non-fiction writing and journalism

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Visual arts

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Other

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Business and economics

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Government and politics

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Heads of state

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U.S. Senators and Congressmen

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U.S. Governors

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U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and other prominent federal officials

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Diplomats

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  • Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1945), U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[14]
  • Lindy Boggs, Newcomb 1935, U.S. Representative 1973–1991, Tulane benefactor (D), U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, 1997-2001
  • Kristie Kenney, G '79, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, former ambassador to the Philippines and Ecuador [33]
  • John Giffen Weinmann, (A&S ’50, L ’52), former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and chief of protocol in the White House
  • Clint Williamson, (L '86) U.S. Ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, UN envoy, White House policy official

Mayors

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City and state officials

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  • Buddy Caldwell, attorney general of Louisiana 2008-16; former district attorney in Tallulah (D)-turned-(R)[citation needed]
  • Philip Ciaccio, state representative, New Orleans City Council member, state circuit judge 1982–1998[36]
  • John Elton Coon, state representative from Ouachita Parish; mayor of Monroe 1949–1956, and state fire marshal 1956–1964 (D)[37]
  • Grey Ferris, member of the Mississippi State Senate (D)
  • Cameron Henry, member of Louisiana House (R)[citation needed]
  • Adam Kwasman, B.A. Economics 2003, member of Arizona House of Representatives District 11; 2014 candidate for U.S. Congress (R)
  • Karen Carter Peterson, former state senator and state representative; candidate for United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd District (D)
  • Weldon Russell, state representative from Tangipahoa and St. Helena parishes 1984–1988; realtor in Amite (D)
  • Scott M. Simon, architect and state representative (R)
  • Eric Skrmetta, attorney from Metairie, Louisiana; Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for District 1 (R)
  • Chris Ullo, member of both houses of the Louisiana legislature 1972–2008 (D)

Other

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U.S. Supreme Court justices

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Federal and state judges

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Attorneys

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Other

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Math, science and technology

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  • Jon-Erik Beckjord, paranormal investigator and photographer
  • Ruth Benerito, Newcomb alumna and inventor of wrinkle-free cotton
  • Delzie Demaree, 1889 – 1987, botanist and plant collector who taught botany at Tulane from 1956 to 1958
  • Willey Glover Denis, 1879–1929, Newcomb A.B. 1899, Tulane M.A. 1902. Biochemist; her appointment as assistant professor at Tulane Medical School has been identified as the first appointment of a woman as a faculty member of a major medical institution in the U.S.
  • Anna Epps, microbiologist; possibly the first African-American woman with a PhD to lead a medical school[56]
  • Joseph Fair, virologist
  • David Filo, B.S.C.E, co-founder of Yahoo!
  • Kurt Mislow, 1944, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University [57]
  • Harold Rosen, B.S.E.E, 1947, engineer/inventor, famous for inventing the geostationary communications satellite
  • Evelyn Walton Ordway, (1853 - 1928) a chemist, suffragist and professor at Newcomb College from 1887 until 1905
  • Dave Winer, B.A, Mathematics, 1976, Weblog and RSS pioneer, former Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Fellow
  • A. Baldwin Wood, B.S.M.E., 1899, engineer and inventor of the wood screw pump (1913) and the wood trash pump (1915)
  • Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 1989–2011, student, co-founder of the social network Diaspora

Medicine

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Military

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Royalty and religion

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Sports

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Faculty

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Tulane presidents

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President Years
Francis Lister Hawks** 1847-1849
Theodore Howard McCaleb** 1850-1862
University closed during the Civil War 1862–1865
Thomas Hunt** 1865-1867
Randell Hunt** 1867-1884
William Preston Johnston 1884–1899
William Oscar Rogers 1899–1900 (acting)
Edwin Alderman 1900–1904
Edwin Boone Craighead 1904–1912
Robert Sharp 1912–1913 (acting)
1913–1918
Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie 1918–1935
Douglas Smith Anderson 1935–1936 (acting)
Robert Leonval Menuet 1936–1937 (acting)
Rufus Carrollton Harris 1937–1960
Maxwell Edward Lapham 1960 (acting)
Herbert Eugene Longenecker 1960–1975
Sheldon Hackney 1975–1980
Eamon Kelly 1980–1981 (acting)
1981–1998
Scott Cowen 1998–2014
Michael Fitts 2014–present
** denotes Presidents of The University of Louisiana

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