Academia
- Stephen Ambrose, historian and University of New Orleans professor
- Charles C. Bass, physician and researcher in tropical medicine and dental health
- Joan W. Bennett, biologist and former Tulane University professor
- Cyril Y. Bowers, physician and endocrinology researcher
- Douglas Brinkley, historian, author and former University of New Orleans and Tulane University professor
- George E. Burch, pioneering physician, cardiovascular disease researcher, medical school professor
- Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator
- Michael DeBakey, world-famous pioneer in heart surgery
- Henry C. Dethloff, American historian
- Alcée Fortier, folklorist, historian, and university professor
- Edgar Hull, Louisiana physician, professor, and hospital administrator
- James A. Knight, psychiatriast, theologian, and medical ethicist
- Marietta LeBreton, Louisiana historian
- Rudolph Matas, Innovative Surgeon at Tulane Medical School
- Alton Ochsner, Surgeon and Medical Researcher who later founded the Ochsner Medical Center
- Max Rafferty, California Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1963 to 1971, former U.S. Senate candidate in California, and an author on educational topics was born in New Orleans in 1917.
- Charles P. Roland, historian at Tulane and later the University of Kentucky who specializes in American Civil War and American South
- Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist and Nobel Laureate
- Harry V. Sims, surgeon, hospital administrator, gynecological researcher
- Lewis Thomas, physician, researcher, and author of popular non-fiction
- Jeffrey Vitter, computer scientist and Purdue University dean
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