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List of University of Louisiana at Lafayette people

This is a list of University of Louisiana at Lafayette people, alumni or faculty affiliated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana. To be included in this list, the person must demonstrate notability by having a Wikipedia article, and the article must state their connection to the school.

Alumni

Academia, scholars

Actors, models

Artists, designers

Filmmakers

Journalists

Musicians

Writers, poets

Law, government, and politics

Military

Science and technology

Religion

Sports

American football

Baseball

Basketball

Golf

  • Mike Heinen, former professional golfer
  • Craig Perks, former professional golfer, 2002 New Zealand Sportsman of the Year

Tennis

  • Tony Minnis, UL Lafayette's all-time winningest singles player with a 94–40 college career; Louisiana Coach of the Year 1995 and 1999

Track and field

  • Hollis Conway, high-jump athlete; Olympic medalist, 1988 silver, 1992 bronze
  • John McDonnell, UL Lafayette track athlete (1966–1969); coached Arkansas to 42 NCAA championships

Other

Faculty

  • Barry Jean Ancelet (born 1951), ULL faculty since 1977; ULL alumni, graduated in 1974; folklorist of Cajun culture and expert on Cajun music and language
  • Carl L. Bankston (born 1952), former professor; sociologist, author, immigration expert
  • Carl W. Bauer (1933–2013), lawyer, politician and businessman; chief ULL lobbyist 1990–2010; member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from St. Mary Parish 1966–1976
  • Carl A. Brasseaux (born 1951), historian who helped pioneer the field of Cajun history; University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor and director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and the Center for Eco-Tourism, also an alumnus
  • Richard Cusimano (1939–2024), historian, distinguished professor in the department of history
  • Michael Doucet (born in 1951), Cajun fiddler; winner of National Heritage Fellowship; designed and taught the first college course on Cajun music
  • Phebe Hayes, ULL faculty in speech pathology 1986–2013, also served as a dean; an independent historian of Iberia Parish
  • Jeff Hennessy (1929–2015), associate professor of Physical Education 1959–1986; former trampoline coach to world champions
  • Elemore Morgan, Jr. (1931–2008), associate professor 1965–1998; landscape painter
  • Paul Prudhomme (1940–2015), chef famous for his Cajun cuisine; former adjunct
  • Burton Raffel (1928–2015), former professor and chair in Humanities department 1989–2015 and professor emeritus of English starting in 2003; poet, noted for his translations of Beowulf and Cervantes' Don Quixote
  • James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University
  • John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), former professor in 1959; novelist, author of A Confederacy of Dunces

Artists in residency

  • Ernest Gaines (1939–2019), writer-in-residence; nominated for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying
  • Jesse Glass (born 1954), former resident poet

See also

References

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