Ernie Whitt (1952– ), former Major League Baseball catcher and coach
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Whitt L. Moreland (1930–1951), a U.S. Marine posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for his sacrifice during the Korean War
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Les Whitt (1952–2008), also known as Robert Leslie Whitt, director of Alexandria Zoological Park
The Grand Prairie Independent School District (ISD) in Texas implemented a digital teaching platform in two classes each at Austin Elementary and Whitt Elementary schools during the 2009-10 school year.
Survivors included his wife of thirty-four years, Lee Ann Whitt, the educational curator of the zoo who is originally from Meadville in Franklin County in southwestern Mississippi; two daughters, Sarah Mathews, later Sarah Salley, and Hanna Lee Whitt, all of Alexandria, and two brothers, James M. Whitt of Natchez and John V. Whitt, Jr., of Dauphin Island, Alabama.
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Whitt was appointed zookeeper by Malcolm P. Hebert (1926–2006), Alexandria's last elected streets and parks commissioner prior to the establishment in 1977 of the Mayor-council government, in which Hebert initially served as the director of public works under Mayor Carroll E. Lanier.