Alumni
Selected Tulane people
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Academia
- Ian Bremmer, political scientist
- Cleanth Brooks, literary critic
- Winston Chang, president of Soochow University
- John R. Conniff, New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator; president of Louisiana Tech University 1926–1928[1]
- Light Townsend Cummins, Bryan Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas and former official State Historian of Texas[2]
- James H. Dillard, professor and early advocate for education of African-Americans
- Edward F. Fischer, M.A. and Ph.D, Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University
- Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill, American poet, writer, professor at St. Mary's University, Texas and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts[3]
- James (Mac) Hyman, applied mathematician at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States
- T.R. Kidder, archaeologist
- Sang-don Lee, South Korean legal scholar
- Sarah Miller, health economist and winner of the 2022 ASHEcon medal
- John Mosier, historian
- Bradley Peterson, neuroscientist
- Blake Simmons, chemical engineer
- Frank Vandiver, Civil War scholar, acting president of Rice University 1969–1970, president of Texas A&M University 1981–1988
- Linda Wilson, 1957, former president of Radcliffe College
Arts and letters
Architecture
- Robert Ivy, CEO AIA
- Richard Koch, first graduate of the Tulane School of Architecture, architectural preservationist
- Albert C. Ledner, designer of National Maritime Buildings in New York City and many other commercial and residential projects
- Edward F. Neild, architect of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and many buildings in his native Shreveport and Louisiana
- Henry Hobson Richardson, inventor of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture
- Leonard Spangenberg, architect and apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright
- A. Hays Town, architect
Film and television
- Marion Abramson, founder of WYES-TV
- Bryan Batt, BA 1985, actor
- Les Blank, BA 1958, MFA 1960, documentary filmmaker
- Marshall Colt, Class of 1970, psychologist and former actor
- Doug Ellin, A&S 1990, television writer/director, creator of HBO's series Entourage
- Evan Farmer, actor
- Paul Michael Glaser, BA 1966, actor, TV's Starsky and Hutch
- Carlin Glynn, NG-N ’61, actress, Tony award winner
- Lawrence Gordon, 1958, producer of popular films such as Predator and Die Hard
- Karen Grassle, actress
- Robert Harling, movie screenwriter, producer and director[4]
- Courtney Hazlett, A&S '99, columnist and celebrity correspondent for MSNBC
- Jonathan Hensleigh, Law, writer of Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Jumanji, Armageddon
- Rick Hurst, actor; A&S '68
- Lauren Hutton, 1964, actress; model
- Anthony Jeselnik, comedian
- Dave Jeser, A&S 2001, co-creator of Comedy Central's Drawn Together
- Anthony Laciura, G '79, actor
- Christian LeBlanc, 1980, actor
- Shannon Lee, daughter of martial arts legend Bruce Lee
- Elyse Luray, NC ’89, star of PBS' History Detectives
- Olga Merediz, NC '78, actress
- Linda Taylor Miller, 1976, actress
- Alicia Morton, actress
- Enrique Murciano, TC ’95, actor, TV's Without a Trace
- Ed Nelson, A&S ’53, UC ’00, actor, Peyton Place
- Bruce Paltrow, 1965, television and film producer
- Meryl Poster, Academy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated producer
- Michael Price, Emmy award-winning writer and producer best known for his work on The Simpsons
- Al Shea, actor and theatre critic
- Jerry Springer, B.A., 1965, talk show host and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Harold Sylvester, actor, director
- Ian Terry, winner of the fourteenth season of Big Brother
- Ronald A. Weinberg, American-born Canadian children's television producer (Cinar)
Literature and poetry
- John Gregory Brown, novelist, 1982
- Amy Carter, G ’96, children's book author; daughter of former President Jimmy Carter
- Rich Cohen, writer, 1990
- Nicole Cooley, poet; Walt Whitman Award recipient
- Peter Cooley, poet
- Alcée Fortier, folklorist and recorder of the story of Br'er Rabbit
- Whitney Gaskell, Law 1997, novelist
- Shirley Ann Grau, 1950, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Jennifer Grotz, poet
- N. K. Jemisin, science fiction and fantasy writer, three time Hugo Award recipient
- John Reed, author, Snowball's Chance
- John Kennedy Toole, BA 1958, author, Pulitzer Prize winner for A Confederacy of Dunces
- Dede Wilson, poet and author
Music
- Les Crane, pioneer in interactive broadcasting, co-creator of pop music "Top 40"
- Paul Crawford, jazz musician, music historian, and music arranger who served as associate curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive
- Odaline de la Martinez, composer and conductor; first woman to conduct in a BBC Proms concert
- John Doheny, jazz saxophonist, band-leader, and historian
- Scott Greenstein, A&S ’81, president of Sirius XM Radio
- Zachary Richard, A&S ’72, Cajun singer/songwriter and poet
- Emily Saliers (attended), singer
- Theo Hilton, indie folk musician of Nana Grizol and Defiance, Ohio
- Sonia Tetlow, bass player in rock band Cowboy Mouth
- Janice Torre, lyricist of the song "Paper Roses"
- Michael White, jazz historian and musician
Non-fiction writing and journalism
- Andrew Breitbart, '91, publisher and author[5][6]
- Hodding Carter, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Christopher Drew, journalist and book author
- Bessie Alexander Ficklen (1861–1945), writer, poet, artist
- Robert Lane Greene, magazine journalist
- Ira B. Harkey Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Nate Lee, B.A. 1978, writer, senior editor for Chicago's Newcity[7]
- Bill Monroe, A&S ’42, broadcast journalist, former host of Meet The Press
- Mike Sacks, editor, writer, 1990
- Thomas Sancton, editor, writer, civil rights journalist, teacher, 1935[8]
- Howard K. Smith, television journalist
- Lawrence Wright, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and journalist
Visual arts
- Lynda Benglis, N ’64, sculptor
- Jacqueline Bishop, MFA, 1982, visual artist
- Deborah Czeresko, M.A., 1992, glass blower, won first season of Blown Away[9]
- Jane Davis Doggett, 1952, graphic artist and pioneer designer of wayfinding and graphics systems for airports
- Mignon Faget, Newcomb 1955, artist, jewelry designer
- Mary Garrard, 1958, art historian
- Bryan Nash Gill, 1984, artist
- Gary Russell Libby, art historian, curator, museum director
- Sergio Rossetti Morosini, artist, conservator
- Frank Relle, photographer
- Wendi Schneider, Newcomb 1977, artist, photographer
- Hunt Slonem, B.A., 1973, artist
- Meredith Stern, B.F.A. 1998, artist
- Cora Kelley Ward, painter
Other
- Alice K. Bache (1903-1977), philanthropist and art collector
- May Hyman Lesser, medical illustrator
- Howard Scott Warshaw, video game programmer/designer and documentary filmmaker
Business and economics
- Matt Battiata, CEO, real estate economics expert
- Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- Neil Bush, B.A., M.B.A., 1979, presidential brother, ex-savings and loan executive
- Philip J. Carroll, M.S., 1961, former CEO, Shell Oil Company and Fluor Corporation
- James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and WebMD
- Charles E. Fenner, founder of Fenner & Beane, a forerunner of Merrill Lynch
- David Filo, B.S. 1988, co-founder of Yahoo!
- Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry Ford
- Talia Goldstein, B.A. 2002, entrepreneur, company founder[10]
- C. Jackson Grayson, professor at Harvard, Stanford and Tulane; member of the Nixon Cabinet
- Thomas M. Humphrey, PhD. 1970, economist
- Samuel Israel III, fraudulent hedge fund manager
- Jeff Klein - hotelier and real estate developer
- Dean Lombardi, J.D., President and GM of the Los Angeles Kings
- Peter McNamara, B.S. CEO, McNamara Enterprises Underground Casino & Book Broker
- Ricardo Salinas Pliego, M.B.A., 1979, Forbes' World's Richest People
- Muhamed Sacirbey, Bosnian-American businessperson
- Peter Schloss, Chief Executive Officer, Broadwebasia, Director, Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA)
- Aaron Selber Jr. B.B.A., 1950, businessman and philanthropist in Shreveport[11]
- Fred L. Smith, president and founder of Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Paul Tulane (benefactor), philanthropist
- Sam Zemurray (benefactor)
- Nicholas Moore CFO, Jaxon E&M
Government and politics
Heads of state
- Luis Guillermo Solis, M.A. 1981, President of Costa Rica
U.S. Senators and Congressmen
- William L. Armstrong, B 1958, former U.S. Representative and U.S. senator from Colorado; president of Colorado Christian University (R)[12]
- Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1945, U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[13]
- Hale Boggs, Law, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972; house majority leader (D)[14]
- Lindy Boggs, Newcomb 1935, U.S. Representative, 1973–1991, Tulane benefactor, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, 1997-2001, (D)[15]
- Edwin S. Broussard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (D)[16]
- Donelson Caffery, Law, U.S. Senator, 1892–1900 (D)
- James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, Law, Lafayette congressman and Cajun cultural spokesman (D)[17]
- Allen J. Ellender, Law 1913, U.S. Senator, agriculture committee chair; appropriations committee chair; President Pro Tempore 1971-72 (D)[18]
- Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative, 1979–1998 and Speaker of the House, 1995–1998 (R)[19]
- Tim Griffin, L '94, U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas (R)[20]
- Felix Edward Hébert, U.S. Representatives, 1940–1977 (D); chair, House Armed Services Committee[21]
- Bob Livingston, former U.S. Representative, 1977–1999; chair, House Appropriations Committee, 1995-98 (R)[22]
- John H. Overton, Law, 1897, former U.S. senator from Louisiana (D)
- Cedric Richmond, L '98, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district (D); currently senior adviser to President Joe Biden
- Jared Y. Sanders Jr., U.S. Representative (D), later States Rights Party
- Luther Strange, B.A. 1975, Law 1978, U.S. Senator from Alabama, 2017–2018 (R)
- Gene Taylor, U.S. Representative, 1989–2011 (D-turned-R)
- Dave Treen, U.S. Representative, 1973-80 (R)
- David Vitter, Law, former U.S. senator from Louisiana, 2005–2017; former U.S. Representative, 1999-2005 (R)
U.S. Governors
- Newton C. Blanchard, former governor of Louisiana (D)[23]
- Murphy J. Foster Sr., governor of Louisiana (D)[24]
- Michael Hahn, governor of Louisiana (D)[25]
- Luther E. Hall, governor of Louisiana (D)[26]
- Alvin Olin King, former governor of Louisiana (D)[27]
- Richard W. Leche, former governor of Louisiana (D)[28]
- Huey Long, Law, former governor of Louisiana (D, 1928-32)[29]
- John McEnery, former governor of Louisiana (D)[citation needed]
- Francis T. Nicholls, governor of Louisiana (D)
- Jared Y. Sanders Sr., former governor of Louisiana (D)
- Oramel H. Simpson, former governor of Louisiana (D)
- David C. Treen (1928-2009), former governor of Louisiana (R, 1980-84)
- Bob Wise, Law, 1975, former governor of West Virginia (D)
- Pedro Pierluisi, B.A., 1980, governor of Puerto Rico, New Party for Progress
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)[13]
- Regina Benjamin, MBA 1991, Surgeon General of the United States (2009–13)
- Donald Ensenat, Law, 1973, White House chief of protocol[citation needed]
- Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (D)[30] (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)[31]
Diplomats
- Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1945), U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[13]
- 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 [32]
- 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
- Sidney Barthelemy, mayor of New Orleans (D, 1986-94)[33]
- Ravinder Bhalla, J.D., mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
- Paul Capdevielle, Law, mayor of New Orleans[34]
- Sandra Frankel (née Applebaum), 1963, Arts and Sciences, former mayor of the Town of Brighton, NY (D)
- Ray Nagin, M.B.A. 1994, mayor of New Orleans (D, 2002-10)
- Robert Poydasheff, Law, former mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003–2007) (R)
- Jerry Springer, B.A. 1965, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio and television personality
- T. Semmes Walmsley, Law, mayor of New Orleans (D)
City and state officials
- 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[35]
- John Elton Coon, state representative from Ouachita Parish; mayor of Monroe 1949–1956, and state fire marshal 1956–1964 (D)[36]
- 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
- Hanan Al-Ahmadi, Assistant Speaker of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia
- Ashley Biden, social worker, activist, and daughter of President Joe Biden
- Amy Carter, '96, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter; children's book author (D)[citation needed]
- Jan Crull Jr., Law, 1990, former Native American rights advocate, Hill staffer, international investment banker; multi Marquis Who's Who biographee[37]
- C. B. Forgotston, fellow of Tulane Institute of Politics, lecturer in law, political activist, state government watchdog[citation needed]
- Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, 1967, late leading political analyst in Puerto Rico (D)[citation needed]
- Pedro A. Gelabert, 1956, Puerto Rico Secretary of Natural Resources[citation needed]
- Victor Gold, journalist and political consultant[38]
- John Grenier, Birmingham, Alabama, lawyer and leader of the Alabama Republican Party (R)[citation needed]
- Supriya Jindal, E '93, B '96, first lady of Louisiana (R)[citation needed]
- Kenneth McClintock, Law, 1980, Puerto Rico's former Senate President (2005–2008); former Secretary of State/Lt. Governor (D) (2009–2013)[39]
- Paul Morphy, L.L.B., April 7, 1857, chess prodigy and unofficial world chess champion [40]
- Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Martha Gilmore Robinson (1888–1981), women's rights and civic activist[41][42]
Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices
- Edward Douglass White Jr., Law, 1868, 9th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (D)
Federal and state judges
- Edith Brown Clement, Law, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[43]
- William Tharp Cunningham, preparatory curriculum, Law, judge of the 11th Judicial District in Natchitoches and Red River parishes, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1908–1912 (D)[44]
- W. Eugene Davis, Law, 1960, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[45]
- John Malcolm Duhé Jr., Law, Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[46]
- Martin Leach-Cross Feldman, B.A. 1955, J.D. 1957 Federal Judge (R)[47]
- Rufus E. Foster, Law, 1895, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[48]
- F.A. Little Jr., Class of 1958, former judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (R)[49]
- Ángel Martín, Law, former associate justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court[citation needed]
- Tucker L. Melancon, Law, 1973, justice, 5th Circuit since 1994 (D)[50]
- Judge Henry Mentz, U.S. federal district judge 1982–2005[51]
- Bill Pryor, Law, 1987, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (R)
- Robert Reid, Law, 1875, Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[52][53]
- Christian Roselius, 1857, chief justice, Louisiana Supreme Court (D)
- Alvin A. Schall, Law, 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Nauman S. Scott, one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation (D)-turned-(R)
- Elizabeth Weaver, N ’62; L ’65, Michigan Supreme Court justice
- Jacques Loeb Wiener, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- John Minor Wisdom, Law, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit (R)
Attorneys
- Dean Andrews Jr., attorney convicted of perjury by Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison
- Sean M. Berkowitz, 1989, chief prosecutor, Enron Task Force[citation needed]
- Terry Michael Duncan, lawyer killed in 1993 Russian constitutional crisis[citation needed]
- William T. Dzurilla, Law, 1981, international attorney and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White (1982–1983)[citation needed]
- Jim Garrison, Law, New Orleans district attorney (D, 1962-74) and state appeals court judge[54]
- Marc Kligman, J.D. 1995, sports agent and criminal lawyer
- Jim Letten, L '79, U.S. attorney
- Leander Perez, Law, judge and district attorney of Plaquemines Parish in first half of twentieth century (D)
- Ira Sorkin, BA 1965, attorney for Bernard Madoff
Other
- Yaw Darko Asare, active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana 2024–present
- William Suter, Law 1962, clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court 1991–present
Math, science and technology
- 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[55]
- Joseph Fair, virologist
- David Filo, B.S.C.E, co-founder of Yahoo!
- Kurt Mislow, 1944, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University [56]
- 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
- James Andrews, M.D., orthopedic surgeon
- Dale Archer, B.A., 1978, M.D., doctor and television personality
- Jim C. Barnett, physician and surgeon from Brookhaven, Mississippi, member of Mississippi House of Representatives 1992–2008[57]
- Charles C. Bass, MD, Tulane Medical School dean 1922–1940, researcher in tropical medicine, inventor of modern dental floss
- Regina Benjamin, M.B.A., 1991, U.S. Surgeon General under President Barack Obama; first African-American woman on the American Medical Association Board of Trustees
- Gerald Berenson, B.S. 1943, M.D. 1945, heart researcher, preventive medicine pioneer and founder of the Bogalusa Heart Study[58][59]
- Cyril Y. Bowers, M.D., professor of medicine and medical researcher
- George E. Burch, M.D., 1933, cardiologist
- Jay Cavanaugh, Ph.D, 1994, member of California State Board of Pharmacy 1980–90; director of American Alliance for Medical Cannabis, 2001
- Wallace H. Clark Jr., B.S. 1944, M.D. 1947, pathologist, cancer researcher
- Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., 1932, pioneer of modern medicine and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal
- Theodore John Dimitry Jr. M.D. 1901, pioneer of modern optometry[60]
- E. Wesley Ely, B.S., 1985; M.P.H., 1989; M.D., 1989,[61] physician researcher of delirium[62] at Vanderbilt University Medical Center[63]
- Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner
- Elizabeth Fontham, M.P.H., 1978, D.P.H., 1983, American cancer epidemiologist, public health researcher, and founding dean of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health
- Robert I. Grossman, B.S., 1969, physician-researcher, Dean of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Thomas Naum James, M.D., 1949, director, World Health Organization cardiovascular center
- Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., 1951, director, National Institutes of Health, for whom the Kirschstein NRSA grant program is named
- Abraham L. Levin, M.D., 1907, inventor of the Levin Tube, which is still used for duodenal drainage after surgery
- Rudolph Matas, M.D., 1880, "father of vascular surgery"
- William Larimer Mellon Jr., M.D., M ’53, founder of Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Haiti
- José Gilberto Montoya, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service and works at the Positive Care Clinic at Stanford
- Kelly Overton, Activist
- Imperato Pascal, MPH & TM, author
- Steven M. Paul, B.S. 1972, M.D. 1975, neuroscientist and pharmaceutical executive
- Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., 1935, U.S. surgeon general 1961–1965; chair of the committee that produced Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service
- Xiaobin Wang, M.P.H., 1987, molecular epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Paul Wehrle, physician who helped develop of methods to prevent and treat polio and smallpox
- Charles B. Wilson, pioneer in pituitary tumor treatment; Cushing Medal recipient
Military
- George K. Anderson, General in the United States Air Force
- Wayne Downing, General in the US Army
- Douglas G. Hurley, NASA astronaut
- John L. McLucas, G ’43, Secretary of the Air Force
- Richard I. Neal, General in the US Marine Corps
- William Suter, Law 1962, General, US Army
- Tate Westbrook, Captain, US Navy[64]
- James C. Yarbrough, General in the US Army
- David H. Berger E '81, The 38th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
- Christina Maria Rantetana, MPH '97, rear admiral in the Indonesian Navy[65]
Royalty and religion
- Jorge Bolaños, son of Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños
- Francis George, Ph.D., 1970, cardinal archbishop of Chicago
- James G. Heller, rabbi and composer
Sports
- Stephen Alemais, baseball player[66]
- Michael Aubrey, baseball player[67]
- David Mark Berger, A&S '66, NCAA champion, member of 1972 Israeli Olympic weightlifting team[68]
- Jim Boyle, NFL offensive tackle[69]
- Bubby Brister, NG-UC ’85, former NFL quarterback [70]
- Bobby Brown, Medicine 1950, baseball player, president of the American League[71]
- Janell Burse, basketball player in the WNBA[72]
- Chris Bush, 2004, NFL receiver[73]
- Andy Cannizaro, MLB shortstop and baseball All American[74]
- Jerry Dalrymple, football All-American[75]
- Quincy Davis, 2006, naturalised Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player[76][77]
- JaJuan Dawson, 1999, NFL receiver[78]
- Burnell Dent, NFL linebacker[79]
- Corey Dowden, NFL defensive back[80]
- Barbara Farris, UC ’98, WNBA forward, New York Liberty[81]
- Steve Foley, football, quarterback in 1973 season when Tulane beat LSU for the first time in 25 years; played in two Super Bowls with Denver Broncos[80]
- Matt Forte, NFL running back[80]
- Nolan Franz, NFL wide receiver[80]
- Lester Gatewood, NFL center[80]
- Tony Giarratano, MLB, Detroit Tigers[82]
- Fred Gloden, NFL player[83]
- Brandon Gomes, MLB, Tampa Bay Rays[84]
- Jim Gueno, NFL linebacker[80]
- Ryan Grant, NFL wide receiver who is currently a free agent
- Nickie Hall, football player[85]
- Ruffin Hamilton, NFL linebacker[80]
- Phil Hicks, NBA basketball player[86]
- Rodney Holman, 1981, NFL pro bowl tight end with Cincinnati Bengals[80]
- Linton Johnson III, 2004, NBA player[87]
- Robert Kelley, NFL running back[88]
- Shaun King, 1999, NFL quarterback[80]
- Dominik Köpfer, German tennis player
- Troy Kropog, 2009–present, NFL lineman Tennessee Titans[89]
- Eric Laakso, 1976 Tulane Athlete of the year, NFL offensive tackle; started in Super Bowl XVII for Miami Dolphins[80]
- J. P. Losman, NFL quarterback[80]
- Aaron Loup, MLB pitcher
- Seth Marler, B ’03, NFL kicker[80]
- Lonnie Marts, 1990, NFL linebacker 1991–2001[80]
- Tommy Mason, NFL running back[80]
- Max McGee, NFL wide receiver; caught first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history for Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I[80]
- Sylvester McGrew, NFL defensive end[80]
- Mewelde Moore, NFL running back[80]
- Ed Morgan, baseball player[90]
- Kevin Mmahat, baseball player[91]
- Steve Mura, baseball player[92]
- Eddie Murray, UC ’80, NFL kicker[citation needed]
- Herman Neugass, track & field athlete noted for his boycott of the 1936 Olympic trials[93]
- Phil Nugent, football player[80]
- Micah Owings, MLB, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds[94]
- Richie Petitbon, NFL player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Washington Redskins)[80]
- Michael Pratt, current Green Wave quarterback[95]
- Tyjae Spears, current NFL running back
- Eddie Price, football player[80]
- Patrick Ramsey, NFL quarterback[80]
- Ham Richardson, 1955, tennis player[citation needed]
- Taylor Rochestie (born 1985) American-Montenegrin player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Cairo Santos, NFL kicker
- Andy Sheets, MLB shortstop[96]
- Joe Silipo, football player in the CFL, USFL and NFL[80]
- Jerald Sowell, NFL running back[80]
- Mike Tannenbaum, former general manager, New York Jets (NFL)[97]
- Eric Thomas, 1987, NFL defensive back 1987–1995[80]
- Michael Thompson, PGA Tour golfer[98]
- Paul Thompson, NBA player[99]
- Dalton Truax, NFL tackle, Oakland Raiders[80]
- Linda Tuero, tennis, winner of Italian Open[100]
- John "Hot Rod" Williams, NBA player[101]
- Roydell Williams, NFL wide receiver[80]
- Frank Wills, MLB relief pitcher[102]
- Josh Zeid, MLB pitcher[103]
- Darnell Mooney, NFL wide receiver[104]
- Thakarius “BoPete” Keyes, NFL cornerback[105]
