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William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in Mathematics from Tulane University (1963), and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, … - Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is a prolific author and a professor of history at Tulane University, where he also serves as director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. He is slated to join Rice University and the James Baker Institute on July 1, 2007. The late historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, once called Brinkley "the best of the new generation of American historians." During the early 1990s, … - Lindy Boggs
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as 'Lindy Boggs (born March 13,1916) is a United States political figure who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as ambassador to The Vatican. She was the wife of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, in addition to being the mother of Cokie Roberts (a television news commentator), Tommy Boggs, (a prominent lobbyist), and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, … - Alton Ochsner
Alton Ochsner (May 4, 1896 - September 6, 1981) was a surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established his own world-renowned The Ochsner Clinic. Reared in a small South Dakota town, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of southern medicine. He was recruited to Tulane from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Rick Dickson
Rick Dickson is the athletic director of Tulane University. Since he took over, Tulane teams have won nine Conference USA Championships. Tulane teams have also advanced to NCAA postseason play 15 times (counting three NCAA Tournament appearances each by the Green Wave women’s basketball and men’s tennis teams). Tulane also made it to the 2001 College World Series. Dickson is a graduate of Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa. - Bob Toledo
Bob Toledo (born March 4, 1946, in San Jose, California) is an American football coach, recently hired as head coach at Tulane University. He is best-known as the thirteenth head coach at UCLA. He was the offensive coordinator at New Mexico, where he coached his final game at the December 23 New Mexico Bowl. Toledo is a 1968 graduate from San Francisco State. - Paul Tulane
Paul Tulane (May 10, 1801 - March 27, 1887), an American philanthropist, was born near Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant, and Maria Tulane. He was educated in private schools, including Somerville Academy of New Jersey, until he was fifteen years of age. He clerked briefly in a store in Princeton and thereafter spent three years touring the southern United States with a well-educated male cousin, who was a member of the bar in France. - David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, … - Frank J. Tipler
Frank J. Tipler (born in 1947 in Andalusia, Alabama) is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. - Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson "is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute . He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin : An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007. "Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. - Josephine Louise Newcomb
Josephine Louise Newcomb, born Josephine Le Monnier (October 31, 1816-April 7, 1901), was the philanthropist whose donations led to the founding of Newcomb College at Tulane University. - Michael Aubrey
Robert Michael "Mike" Aubrey is an American baseball player in the Cleveland Indians organization of Major League Baseball. He attended Tulane University from 2001–2003. In 186 games with Tulane, Aubrey hit .368 with 38 home runs and 200 RBI. As a pitcher in 2001 and 2002, he won 11 games and lost 2 with a 4.88 ERA. In 2001, he was named National Freshman of the Year by "Baseball America", "Collegiate Baseball" and "The Sporting News". - Dave Dickerson
Dave Dickerson is the head men's basketball coach at Tulane University. - Eamon Kelly
Eamon Michael Kelly is the President Emeritus of Tulane University, having served as its president for seventeen years. He was born in New York City and attended All Hallows High School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in 1958. After military service, he attended Columbia University from 1960 to 1965, where he earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in economics. - Gene Taylor
Gary Eugene "Gene" Taylor (born September 17, 1953) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and a U.S. Representative from the 4th District of Mississippi (map). Taylor was born in New Orleans and is a graduate of Tulane University. He completed additional post-graduate work at University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. From 1971 through 1984, he was a member of the United States Coast Guard Reserve, … - Carl L. Bankston
Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States, particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese American immigrants, and for his work on ethnicity, social capital and the sociology of education. - Karen Carter
Karen Carter (born November 1, 1969) is a Democratic politician from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a candidate for U.S. Congress in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district (map) in the mid-term election of November 2006. Carter challenged incumbent Democrat Bill Jefferson, who is currently the subject of an FBI investigation, and several other candidates. She finished in second place with 19,972 votes (21.6% of the total votes cast), … - Michael Zimmerman
Michael E. Zimmerman (born 7 July 1946) is an integral theorist whose interests include Buddhism, Heidegger, Nietzsche, space alien abduction, and Ken Wilber. He is Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, and is also affiliated with the Integral Institute. Together with Sean Hargens he is currently writing a book on integral ecology. Zimmerman is the only scholar to take space alien phenomenology seriously and has now joined the University of Colorado at Boulder, … - J. P. Losman
Jonathan Paul "J.P." Losman (born March 12, 1981) is a professional football player who starts at quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. Losman grew up in Venice, California, the son of an Caucasian father and Mexican mother, and played quarterback at Venice High School. Losman accepted an athletic scholarship to attend college at the UCLA and enrolled early during the Spring semester of 1999 in order to compete for the starting quarterback position. - Larry Smith
Larry Smith (born September 12 1939) is a former college football head coach at Tulane University (1976-79), the University of Arizona (1980-86), the University of Southern California (1987-1992), and the University of Missouri (1994-2000). At USC, his teams won three consecutive Pacific Ten Conference titles from 1987-89, and won the 1990 Rose Bowl over Michigan. During his tenure at Missouri, the team compiled a 33-46-1 record. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - Bobby Brown
DR. Robert William Brown, M.D. (born October 25 1924 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who served as president of the American League from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who successfully studied for his medical degree during his eight-year (1946-52, 1954) career as a player with the New York Yankees. - Tommy Bowden
Tommy Bowden (born July 10, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is the head football coach at Clemson University. He is the son of Bobby Bowden, head coach at Florida State University. Bowden has never had a losing season at Clemson. He is a two-time ACC Coach of the Year. In the 2003 season, he became the first coach in NCAA history, to defeat two coaches with 200 or more wins in a one-month span, in Bobby Bowden, and Lou Holtz. - Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter and a staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine, and a current fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years, taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Wright is the author of six books, but is best known for his 2006 book, "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". - Evan Christopher
Evan Christopher is a jazz clarinetist, born in 1974 in Long Beach, California. A master of many styles, he is best known for his playing in the traditional New Orleans jazz of Dixieland and the Creole style. He began learning the clarinet at the age of 11. In high school, he was a recipient of the Louis Armstrong National Jazz Award and was one of the first graduates of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts. - Kevin White
Dr. Kevin White (born September 25, 1950) is the Director of Athletics at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He has held this position since March 13, 2000. He held similar positions at Arizona State University, Tulane University, the University of Maine, and Loras College. White is a career educator, having started as a high school coach and teacher at Gulf High School, in New Port Richey, Florida. - Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina. - Eddie Price
Eddie Price (born September 2, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died July 22, 1979) was an American football running back for the New York Giants of the NFL. He was drafted out of Tulane University by the Giants in 1950. Price led the NFL in rushing in 1951. He died at his home of a heart attack. - Mewelde Moore
Mewelde Jaem Cadere Moore (born July 24, 1982 in Hammond, Louisiana) is an American football running back and punt returner for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) - Sheldon Hackney
Sheldon Francis Hackney (born 1933) is a prominent U.S. educator. He is the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as the provost of Princeton University from 1972 to 1975, the president of Tulane University from 1975 to 1980, and the president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1993. He was also the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from 1993 to 1997, … - Kenneth W. Harl
Kenneth W. Harl is an American scholar, author, classicist and numismatist. He received an undergraduate degree from Trinity College, a PhD from Yale University, and has been Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans since 1978. Although he has a vast body of publications, Harl is most well known for being a world-class teacher. - Humberto Fontova
Humberto Fontova is a Cuban American historian. He was born in Cuba and migrated to the US (New Orleans) at age 7. He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University and is the author of "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant", a highly critical portrait of Fidel Castro and his supporters in the United States, particularly Hollywood actors. He is a frequent contributor to several rightwing publications, an ardent Bush supporter, and blogs on Moonbat. - Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe is a former television journalist for NBC News and was the fourth moderator of the NBC program "Meet the Press" (1975–84), succeeding program founder Lawrence E. Spivak. For some years prior to his assuming the moderator's chair, Monroe served as one of four regular weekly panelists on the show. He also served as Washington bureau chief for NBC and frequenly reported for "The Today Show." Earlier in his career, … - Frans Blom
Frans Blom (Frants Ferdinand Blom, August 9 1893 in Copenhagen - June 23 1963 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico) was a Danish explorer and archaeologist. Frans Blom was born in 1893 in Copenhagen, Denmark to a middle-class family of antique merchants. He was restless and started travelling eventually arriving in Mexico in 1919 where he found work in the oil industry as a paymaster. - Lester Lefton
Lester A. Lefton is an American academic and higher education administrator. Lefton is the current President of Kent State University. He has 35 years of experience in higher education, having served for 25 years at a public institution and 9 at private institutions. During his career, he has been a psychology professor, dean and provost, as well as author of an internationally best-selling psychology textbook. - John Reed
John Reed (b. 1969) is an American author and novelist. Reed attended Tulane University and Hampshire College. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in the mid 90s, with authors Amanda Filipacchi, Jonathan Ames, Matthew Sharpe, Claudia Rankine, Monica de la Torre and writer/director, James Gunn. Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, "Open City (magazine)", a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, … - Geoffrey Beene
Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion. He then worked at a number of fashion houses, both in Paris and New York, including Harmay and Teal Traina. In 1963 he started his own company, Geoffrey Beene, Inc., with a showroom located on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. - A. Baldwin Wood
Albert Baldwin Wood (December 1 1879 - May 10 1956) was an inventor and engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1899. Wood was hired by the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans in 1899 to try to improve the flood-prone city's drainage, Wood invented "flapgates" and other hydraulic devices, most notably efficient low maintenance high volume pumps, … - William Tetley
William Tetley, C.M., Q.C., LL. L. (born February 10, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a lawyer and professor of law at McGill University in Montreal, the visiting Professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister. William Tetley attended the Royal Canadian Naval College and served with the Royal Canadian Navy.
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