List of University of Louisiana at Lafayette people explained

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 an article and the article must state a connect the person to the school.

Alumni

Religious

• Roy Bourgeois, priest; founder of the human rights group SOA Watch (1990–)
• Sam Seamans, bishop, Reformed Episcopal Church

Sports

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

• Dorien Llewellyn, three-time Water Ski World Championships gold medalist; won 2021 men's collegiate overall national title while competing for Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns water skiing
• Alan Jouban (attended), professional mixed martial artist, currently for the UFC's Welterweight Division^[1]
• H. Micheal Tarver, Latin American historian; Commissioner on the Arkansas History Commission and the Arkansas Historical Records Advisory Board

Faculty

• Barry Jean Ancelet (born 1951), ULL faculty since 1977; ULL alumni, graduated in 1974; folklorist of Cajun culture and expert of 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
• 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 from 1986 until 2013, and she also served as a dean; and an independent historian of Iberia Parish.^{[2] [3]}
• Jeff Hennessy (1929–2015), associate professor of Physical Education 1959–1986; former trampoline coach to world champions^[4]
• 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
• John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), former professor in 1959; novelist, author of A Confederacy of Dunces^[5]

Artists in residency

• Ernest Gaines (1939–2019),^[6] 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

• List of University of Louisiana at Lafayette presidents

External links

• MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, LA)" at Baseball-Reference.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alan Jouban UFC Bio. 2014-01-01.
2. Web site: Esker . Fritz . 2019-04-01 . Trailblazers: Dr. Phebe Hayes . 2024-02-22 . New Orleans.
3. Web site: Simerman . John . 2018-11-24 . For black New Iberians, racist policing under Ackal's watch dredges up these painful memories . 2024-02-22 . . en.
4. Web site: 2009-09-13. UL's 2019 Louisiana Athletics Hall of Fame class announced. 2021-05-15. The Daily Advertiser. en-US.
5. Book: Fletcher, Joel L.. Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces. Pelican. 2017. 978-1455622825. 16.
6. Web site: Ernest J. Gaines Obituary (1933 - 2019) The Advocate. 2022-02-11. Legacy.com.