Former James B. Duke Professors ( Deceased )
- Ralph J. Braibanti — political science
- Louis J. Budd — English literature
- John Hope Franklin — history
- Paul J. Kramer - biology
- Reynolds Price — English literature
- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen — biology
- Joseph J. Spengler — economics
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