List of Tulane University people

This is a list of notable people 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

Selected Tulane people
Edward Douglass White (Law 1868), 9th Chief Justice of the United States
Newt Gingrich (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1971), 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Luis Guillermo Solís (M.A. 1981), President of Costa Rica
David Filo (B.S. 1988), co-founder of Yahoo!

Academia

Arts and letters

Architecture

Film and television

Literature and poetry

Music

Non-fiction writing and journalism

Visual arts

Other

Business and economics

Government and politics

Heads of state

U.S. Senators and Congressmen

U.S. Governors

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and other prominent federal officials

  • Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1945, U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[12]
  • Donald Ensenat, Law, 1973, White House chief of protocol
  • Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (D)[29] (2009-2013)
  • Stephen Douglas Johnson, AB '85, L '88, U.S. House Chief Counsel for Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit(1995–98) and Bush White House Senior Advisor to the Office of Federal Housing Oversight (2001–03)[30]

Diplomats

  • Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1945), U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[12]
  • Kristie Kenney, G '79, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, former ambassador to the Philippines and Ecuador [31]
  • 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

City and state officials

Other

Law

U.S. Supreme Court justices

Federal and state judges

Attorneys

Other

Math, science and technology

  • Jon-Erik Beckjord, paranormal investigator and photographer
  • Ruth Benerito, Newcomb alumna and inventor of wrinkle-free cotton
  • 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.[67]
  • David Filo, B.S.C.E, co-founder, Yahoo!
  • Kurt Mislow, 1944, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University [68]
  • Harold Rosen, B.S.E.E, 1947, engineer/inventor, famous for inventing the geostationary communications satellite
  • 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

Military

Royalty and religion

Sports

Faculty

Tulane presidents

President Years
Francis Lister Hawks**1847-1849
Theodore Howard McCaleb**1850-1862
University closed during the Civil War1862–1865
Thomas Hunt**1865-1867
Randell Hunt**1867-1884
William Preston Johnston1884–1899
William Oscar Rogers1899–1900 (acting)
Edwin Alderman1900–1904
Edwin Boone Craighead1904–1912
Robert Sharp1912–1913 (acting)
1913–1918
Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie1918–1935
Douglas Smith Anderson1935–1936 (acting)
Robert Leonval Menuet1936–1937 (acting)
Rufus Carrollton Harris1937–1960
Maxwell Edward Lapham1960 (acting)
Herbert Eugene Longenecker1960–1975
Sheldon Hackney1975–1980
Eamon Kelly1980–1981 (acting)
1981–1998
Scott Cowen1998–2014
Michael Fitts2014–present
** denotes Presidents of The University of Louisiana

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