Morris N. Abrams|LSU vocational agricultural professor, dean at Louisiana State University at Alexandria;
James R. Andrews|founder of the American Sports Medicine Institute;
Ray Authement|fifth president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1974 to 2008 and the longest serving president of a public university in the United States; received two graduate degrees from LSU;
Rene J. Bienvenu|former president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches;
Elise Blackwell| professor of English at University of South Carolina, novelist;
Thomas Duckett Boyd |president of LSU from 1896 to 1926; president of Northwestern State University from 1888 to 1896;
Marc W. Buie| astronomer at Lowell Observatory;

Richard M. Weaver|longtime professor of English at the University of Chicago, best known for book, Ideas Have Consequences;

Beth Courtney| president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting;

Lisette Oropesa| International operatic soprano;