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Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...

Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

. This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university.

Notable graduates and attendees

Business and industry

John Branca John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(entertainment industry lawyer) *

Norton Clapp Matthew Norton Clapp (April 15, 1906 – April 22, 1995) was a successful businessman, and eventually served as chairman of the Weyerhaeuser Corporation. He was active in civic service and a philanthropist. Early life and career Clapp was born i ...

(an original owner of

Space Needle The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center f ...

) * Stephen Cooper (CEO of

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

) * W. Don Cornwell (CEO of

Granite Broadcasting Granite Broadcasting LLC is a broadcasting holding company in New York City which owns one television station in the United States, in Syracuse, New York. Granite was founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988,

) *

Marsha J. Evans Marsha Johnson "Marty" Evans (born 1947) is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy. Following her retirement from the Navy, she served as executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 1998 to 2002, and president and CEO of the A ...

(CEO of

American Red Cross The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. It is the desi ...

, Navy admiral) *

Frank Hershey Franklin Quick Hershey (1907–1997) was an American automobile designer and student of General Motors Vice President of Design Harley Earl. Hershey is known for his 1932 Peerless V-16 prototype, 1949 Cadillac tailfins, and the 1955 Ford Thun ...

(automotive designer) *

Arthur Peck Group Captain Arthur Hicks Peck, (25 April 1889 – 14 February 1975) was an officer of the Royal Air Force, who was a flying ace credited with eight aerial victories in the First World War. Family background and education Arthur Peck was born ...

(CEO of

Gap Inc. The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap (stylized as GAP), is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer. Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The c ...

) * Linda Bradford Raschke (commodities and futures trader)

Entertainment and the arts

Ben Affleck Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educationa ...

(actor, director, screenwriter) *

Stephen Beal Stephen Beal is an American artist recognized for his colorful grid paintings. In addition to his artistic career, Beal is an educator and since 2008 has been the president of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif ...

(visual artist) *

Ashly Burch Ashly Burch (born June 19, 1990) is an American voice actress, singer, and television writer. She is known for her roles as Aloy in ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' and ''Horizon Forbidden West'', Mel in ''The Last of Us Part II'', Tiny Tina in the ''Borde ...

(actress) * John Callas (writer, director, producer) *

Sadie Calvano Sadie Calvano (born April 8, 1997) is an American actress, known for her role as Violet Plunkett on the CBS sitcom ''Mom ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given childbirth, bi ...

(actress) * August Coppola (academic, author, film executive and advocate for the arts) *

Glenn Corbett Glenn Corbett (born Glenn Edwin Rothenburg; August 17, 1933 – January 16, 1993)"CORBETT Obituary — Corbett, 59, starred in 'Route 66,' Wayne films." ''San Antonio Express-News'' January 18, 1993. Web. May 29, 2012. Document #0F22314D ...

(television actor) *

Gabriela Cowperthwaite Gabriela Cowperthwaite (born 1971) is an American/Brazilian filmmaker. She has directed documentaries and feature films, and she also produces, edits, writes, and directs for television and documentary films. Her films often deal with social, cultu ...

(documentary filmmaker, ''

Blackfish Blackfish is a common name for the following species of fish, dolphins, and whales: Fish * Alaska blackfish, (''Dallia pectoralis''), an Esocidae from Alaska, Siberia and the Bering Sea islands * Black fish (''Carassioides acuminatus'') a cyprin ...

'') *

Will Friedle Will Friedle () (born August 11, 1976) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for his role as Eric Matthews on the ABC sitcom ''Boy Meets World'' (1993–2000). In animation, he voices Terry McGinnis / Batman on ''Batman Beyond'' (19 ...

(actor) *

Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''B ...

(animator and comedian in

Monty Python Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four ...

comedy troupe; filmmaker: ''

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

'', ''

12 Monkeys ''12 Monkeys'' is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film ''La Jetée'', starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in sup ...

'', others) *

Joanna Gleason Joanna Gleason (née Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She's known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife ...

(actor) *

Mike Hoover Mike Hoover is an American mountaineer, rock climber and cinematographer. He first became known for an Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated documentary short, ''Solo'', in which he climbed a fictional mountain solo. His first major involvement in ...

(cameraman, journalist, documentarian, winner of Academy and Emmy Awards) *

Terry Kitchen Terry Kitchen (born Max Pokrivchak in Phillipsburg, New Jersey) is an American folk music, folk singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem and Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton, Pennsylvania and Findlay, Ohio and attended colle ...

(musician) *

Loren Lester Loren Lester (born October 4, 1960) is an American screen, stage and voice actor best known as the voice of DC Comics superheroes Nightwing and Robin in various media, starting with the DC Animated Universe. He is also a graduate of the Occidental ...

(actor) * Thomas Murray (organist) *

George Nader George Garfield Nader, Jr. (October 19, 1921 – February 4, 2002) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 to 1974, including ''Sins of Jezebel'' (1953), ''Congo Crossing'' (1956), and ''The Female Animal'' ...

(actor) *

Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls (; born 1 November 1927) is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films ''The Sorrow and the Pity'' and '' Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie''. Life and career Ophuls was bor ...

(filmmaker) *

Emily Osment Emily Jordan Osment (born March 10, 1992) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Osment began her career as a child actress, appearing in numerous television shows and films, before co-starring as Gerti ...

(actress; Class of 2015) *

Cooper Raiff Cooper Michael Raiff (born February 11, 1997) is an American filmmaker and actor. He has received critical acclaim for his films '' Shithouse'' (2020) and ''Cha Cha Real Smooth'' (2022). He appeared on the 2022 ''Variety'' list of directors to w ...

(actor, director) *

Joe Rohde Joseph Rohde is the ''Experience Architect'' for Virgin Galactic. Rohde was previously a veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, the division of The Walt Disney Company that designs and builds Disney's theme parks and resort hotels. Rohde's ...

( Imagineer) *

Peter Scolari Peter Thomas Scolari (September 12, 1955 – October 22, 2021) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Michael Harris on ''Newhart'' (1984–1990), Henry Desmond on ''Bosom Buddies'' (1980–1982) and Wayne Szalinski on ''Hone ...

(actor) *

Jake Shears Jake Shears (born October 3, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the male lead singer of pop-rock band Scissor Sisters. Early life Shears was born in Mesa, Arizona, the son of an entrepreneur father and a Baptist moth ...

(lead singer of Scissor Sisters) * Anna Slotky (actress) *

Dan Slott Dan Slott (born July 3, 1967) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on Marvel Comics books such as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', as well as '' She-Hulk'', ''Silver Surfer'', ''The Superior Spider-Man'', '' Tony Stark: Iron Man'', ''Th ...

(comic book writer) * Kirsten Smith (screenwriter, '' Ten Things I Hate About You'', ''

Legally Blonde ''Legally Blonde'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic in his List of directorial debuts, feature-length directorial debut, and scripted by Karen McCullah, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (writer), Kirsten Smith from ...

'', ''

The Ugly Truth ''The Ugly Truth'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. The film was released in North America o ...

'') *

Roger Guenveur Smith Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee. Early life Smith was born on July 27, 1955 in Berkeley, California, the son of Helen Guenveur, a dentist, and ...

(actor) *

Rider Strong Rider King Strong (born December 11, 1979) is an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for starring as Shawn Hunter on the ABC sitcom ''Boy Meets World'' (1993–2000), which he reprised in its sequel series ''Girl ...

(actor) *

Taku Takahashi is a Japanese hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer who debuted in 1997 as a record producer of the hip hop group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Agai ...

(musician) *

Maurissa Tancharoen Maurissa Tancharoen () in Los Angeles, California)Maurissa Tancharoen
biographical inf ...

(actress, singer, dancer, television writer and lyricist) *

Jesús Salvador Treviño Jesús Salvador Treviño (born March 26, 1946 in El Paso, Texas) is an American television director of Mexican descent. He is alternatively credited under a number of names: ''Jesus Salvador Trevino'', ''Jesus Trevino'', ''Jesus Travino'', ''J ...

(television director) *

Tui St. George Tucker Tui St. George Tucker (born Lorraine St. George Tucker; November 25, 1924 – April 21, 2004) was an American modernist composer, conductor, recorder virtuoso and creator of unique musical instruments. Her compositions often feature microtonality ...

(composer) *

Luke Wilson Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor known for his roles in films such as '' Bottle Rocket'' (1996), '' Rushmore'' (1998), ''My Dog Skip'' (2000), ''Legally Blonde'' (2001), ''The Royal Tenenbaums'' (2001), ''Id ...

(actor) *

Michael Whaley Michael Whaley is an American film and television actor. He graduated from Culver City High School in 1980. Some of his most known characters are Dr. Wesley 'Wes' Hayes on ''Sisters'', Det. Nathan Brubaker on '' Profiler'', Detective Paul Armstro ...

(actor, director, writer)

Government, diplomacy, and law

Kathy Augustine Kathy Marie Alfano Augustine (May 29, 1956 – July 11, 2006) was an American politician from Nevada. A Republican, Augustine served in the Nevada Assembly (1993–1995) and in the Nevada Senate (1995–1999). She was Nevada's first femal ...

(U.S. politician from Nevada) * Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr. (U.S. Congressman) * David S. Cunningham, Jr. (Los Angeles City Council member, 1973–87) *

Gloria Duffy Gloria Charmian Duffy (born September 4, 1953) is a former U.S. Department of Defense official, businesswoman, social entrepreneur and nonprofit executive. Since 1996, she has been the president, CEO and a member of the Board of Governors of the Co ...

(President and CEO o
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former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction) * Richard Falkenrath (former deputy homeland security advisor) * Robert Finch (Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare 1969–1970, Lieutenant Governor of California 1967–1969) *

U. Alexis Johnson Ural Alexis Johnson (October 17, 1908 – March 24, 1997) was a United States diplomat. Background Ural Alexis Johnson was born in Falun, Kansas, into a family of Swedish descent. His mother named him for Ural Mountains, the mountain range, of w ...

(U.S. diplomat) Jack Kemp-Congressional Portrait Collection

Jack Kemp Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional football player. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bu ...

(AFL and NFL player from 1958 to 1970,

U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...

from New York 1971–1989, U.S. Secretary

Department of Housing and Urban Development The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urb ...

1989–1993, Republican vice presidential nominee in 1996) Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2009. * David M. Louie (

Attorney General of Hawaii The Attorney General of Hawaii ( haw, Loio Kuhina) is the chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer of Hawaii. In present-day statehood within the United States, the Attorney General is appointed by the elected governor with the approv ...

) *

Pete McCloskey Paul Norton McCloskey Jr. (born September 29, 1927) is an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. Born in Loma Linda, California, McCloskey pursued ...

(U.S. Representative 1967–83) *

Jacqueline Nguyen Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen ( vi, Nguyễn Hồng Ngọc; born May 25, 1965) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a United States d ...

(federal judge,

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts: * District ...

) *

Chris Norby Chris Norby (born December 3, 1949) is an American politician and educator. He served on the Fullerton City Council (1984–2002) including three years as mayor, on the Orange County Board of Supervisors (2003–2010), on the California State A ...

(

California State Assembly The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The A ...

man)

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

( 44th

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

) *

Dennis R. Patrick Dennis Roy Patrick (born June 1, 1951) served as the chairman of the FCC from April 18, 1987, through August 7, 1989, appointed by Ronald Reagan, notably helping to finalize the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. He currently serves as president and ...

(Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1987 - 1989) *

Thomas M. Rees Thomas Mankell "Tom" Rees (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1966 to 1977. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, California, R ...

(U.S. Congressman) *

Janette Sadik-Khan Janette Sadik-Khan (born April 28, 1961) is a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (2007–2013) and an advisor on transportation and urban issues. She works for Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy es ...

(commissioner,

New York City Department of Transportation The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is the agency of the government of New York City responsible for the management of much of New York City's transportation infrastructure. Ydanis Rodriguez is the Commissioner of the Departm ...

) *

Janis Lynn Sammartino Janis Lynn Sammartino (born April 24, 1950) is a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Early life and education Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, P ...

(federal judge,

United States District Court for the Southern District of California The United States District Court for the Southern District of California (in case citations, S.D. Cal.) is a federal court in the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appe ...

) * Mark S. Scarberry (professor of law at

Pepperdine University School of Law The Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law (formerly Pepperdine University School of Law) is the law school of Pepperdine University, a private research university in Los Angeles County, California. The school offers the Juris Doc ...

) * Kristina A Kvien (United States Ambassador, U.S. Embassy of Armenia) *

Grant Woods J. Grant Woods (May 19, 1954 – October 23, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as Attorney General of Arizona from 1991 until 1999. Woods was a moderate-to-liberal Republican who served as John McCain's chief of staff w ...

(

Arizona Attorney General The Arizona Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Arizona, in the United States. This state officer is the head of the Arizona Department of Law, more commonly known as the Arizona Attorney General's Office. The state attorn ...

)

Higher education and academia

Coit D. Blacker Coit Dennis Blacker is the Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs a ...

(Political Science Professor at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

) *

Glenn S. Dumke Glenn Schroeder Dumke (May 5, 1917 – June 30, 1989; pseudonym Glenn Pierce) was an American historian, educator, university president, and chancellor of the California State University system. Dumke was the 6th President of San Francisco St ...

(history professor and chancellor of the California State University) *

Sharon Gaber Sharon Gaber (born 1964) is the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to that, she served as the first female president of the University of Toledo, selected to the post on March 12, 2015. Before serving as president o ...

(President of the

University of Toledo The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a public research university in Toledo, Ohio. It is the northernmost campus of the University System of Ohio. The university also operates a Health Science campus, which includes the University of T ...

) *

Karen L. Gould Karen L. Gould (born June 17, 1948) is a scholar of French-Canadian literature, and an academic administrator who has been a dean at Old Dominion University and the University of Cincinnati, provost and senior vice president at California State Uni ...

(President of

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

) *

Lewis Sargentich Lewis Daniel "Lew" Sargentich (b. 1944), frequently referred to simply as "Sarge", has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1973 where he teaches courses tort law and jurisprudence. Sargentich is well known for his record as a student at ...

(legal scholar at

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

)

Journalism

Bessie Beatty Elizabeth Mary "Bessie" Beatty (January 27, 1886 – April 6, 1947) was an American journalist, editor, playwright, and radio host. Early life and education Elizabeth Mary "Bessie" Beatty was born and raised in Los Angeles, one of four children o ...

(1886-1947), reported on Russian Revolution *

Steve Coll Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an Americans, American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. A staf ...

(former ''Washington Post'' managing editor, Pulitzer Prize winner) *

Andrea Elliott Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and a staff writer for ''The New York Times''. She is the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in both Journalism (2007) and Letters (2022). She received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a ser ...

(reporter for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', Pulitzer Prize winner) *

Chris Gulker Christian Frederick "Chris" Gulker (March 10, 1951 – October 27, 2010) was an American photographer, programmer, writer, and pioneer in electronic publishing. A "Silicon Valley pioneer," Gulker was "instrumental in introducing the digital p ...

(photographer) *

Margot Mifflin Margot Mifflin is an author who has written for ''The New York Times, ARTnews, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Elle Magazine,The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books'', and other publications. Mifflin holds an M.A ...

(professor of journalism, feminist cultural critic) * James Andrew Miller reporter for ''

Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...

'', author of oral histories on ESPN, CAA *

Patt Morrison Patt Morrison is a journalist, author, and radio-television personality based in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles and Southern California. Media Morrison is a writer for the ''Los Angeles Times'', with the weekly '' 'Patt Morrison Asks' '' ...

(NPR radio personality and columnist for the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

'') *

Sam Rubin Sam Rubin (born 1960) is an American journalist who serves as the entertainment reporter for the ''KTLA Morning News'' and as a correspondent for Reelz production ''Hollywood Dailies''. He hosts ''Live From the Academy Awards'' and the celebrit ...

(

KTLA KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the seco ...

entertainment anchor)

Literature and writing

Mark Dery Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)''Contemporary Authors Online'', s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008). is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the ter ...

(author and cultural critic) *

M. F. K. Fisher Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of ''The Physiology of Taste'' by Brillat-S ...

(writer) *

Robinson Jeffers John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his short ...

(poet) *

Scott O'Dell Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 – October 15, 1989) was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels ...

(author, Newbery Award winner) *

Carrie Vaughn Carrie Vaughn (born January 28, 1973) is an American writer, the author of the urban fantasy '' Kitty Norville'' series. She has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and ...

(writer) * Gladys Waddingham (teacher and local historian) *

Rosalind Wiseman Rosalind Wiseman is an American author and public speaker. She is a multiple New York Times bestselling author, including ''Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence''� ...

(writer)

Medicine

* David G. Armstrong (physician/medical researcher) *

Howard Judd Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...

(medical researcher)

Science

Brent Dalrymple G. Brent Dalrymple (born May 9, 1937) is an American geologist, author of ''The Age of the Earth'' and ''Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies'', and National Medal of Science winner. He was born in Alhambra, California. After receiving a Ph.D. from Unive ...

(geologist and National Medal of Science winner) * William Goddard (engineer) *

Edmund C. Jaeger Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc.,University of California, Riverside, Science Library (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther ...

(naturalist, author, teacher) *

J. P. Mallory James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast; a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the former editor of the ''Journal of Ind ...

(archaeologist) *

John E. McCosker John Edward McCosker is an American ichthyologist and as has been part of expeditions to many countries such as Antarctic, Australia, and the Galapagos. After extensive study and ten expeditions he is one of the foremost experts on the Galapag ...

(ichthyologist) *

Fred Lawrence Whipple Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the " dirty snowball" h ...

(astronomer)

Social action, philanthropy, and community service

Howard Ahmanson, Jr Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson Jr. (born February 3, 1950) is an American philanthropist and writer whose public activities focus on deepening awareness and fostering better policy regarding issues including housing affordability, land use, the abuse ...

(philanthropist, financier, and writer) *

Cameron Townsend William Cameron Townsend (July 9, 1896 – April 23, 1982) was an American Christian missionary-linguist who founded Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International), both of which emphasized transla ...

(founder, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics) *

Rex Weyler Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American-Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher. In the 1970s, Weyler served as a director of the original ''Greenpeace Foundation'', and as campaign ...

(author, journalist, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace International; did not graduate)

Sports and athletics

Keith Beebe Hiram Keith Beebe (March 16, 1921 – July 13, 1998) was an American football back who played one season with the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 24th round of the 1943 NFL Draft. He p ...

, football player *

Ron Botchan Ronald Leslie Botchan (February 15, 1935 – January 28, 2021) was an American football official from the National Football League (NFL). Prior to that he was an American football linebacker in the American Football League from 1960 to 1962. As ...

, five-time

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...

official for NFL from 1980 to 2002 *

Olin Browne Olin Douglas Browne (born May 22, 1959) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Browne was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H. in 1977. He ...

, PGA Tour winner *

Dean Cromwell Dean Bartlett Cromwell (September 20, 1879 – August 3, 1962), nicknamed "Maker of Champions", was an American athletic coach in multiple sports, principally at the University of Southern California (USC). He was the head coach of the USC trac ...

, USC and Olympic track-and-field coach * Luke Collis, arena football player * Joe Faust, Olympic high jumper *

Justin Goltz Justin Goltz (born August 23, 1987) is a gridiron football quarterback who is retired. He played college football at Occidental College. Goltz has also been a member of the Detroit Lions, Sacramento Mountain Lions, and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. ...

, NFL/CFL quarterback *

Bob Gutowski Robert Allen "Bob" Gutowski (25 April 1935 – 2 August 1960) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Pole Vault where he w ...

, pole vaulter, 1956 Olympic silver medalist *

, AFL and NFL star quarterback of Buffalo Bills * Sammy Lee, two-time Olympic gold medalist in diving * Jim Mora, Sr., coached NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts *

Vance Mueller Vance Mueller (born May 5, 1964 in Tucson, Arizona) is a retired American football running back. Professional career Mueller played for the National Football League's Los Angeles Raiders. Vance Mueller was drafted by the Los Angeles Raiders in th ...

, NFL running back *

Bill Redell Bill Redell (born April 17, 1941) is a former American football coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Redell served as head coach at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, where in 1986, he led the Celts to a 13-1 r ...

, college and pro quarterback, high school coach * Johnny Sanders, NFL general manager *

Danny Southwick Daniel Aaron Southwick (born September 28, 1981) is an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He played college football for BYU, Oregon State, Dixie State, and Occidental. He previously played for the Louisville Fire of the af2; Oak ...

, arena football player *

Jim Tunney Jim or JIM may refer to: * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy * OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * ''Jim ...

, NFL official from 1960 to 1991; three Super Bowls

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Martha Ronk Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet. Life She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at Colorado University and Otis College of Art and Design, and Naropa University Summer Writi ...

, Price Professor of English Literature, is a 2005

PEN American Center PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate Freedom of speech, free expression in the United States and worldwide through the ad ...

Literary Award winner in poetry. *

Peter Dreier Peter Dreier is an American urban policy analyst, author, Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal commentator and college political science professor. He is the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Lo ...

, Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department, was the Director of Housing at the

Boston Redevelopment Authority The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), is a Massachusetts public agency that serves as the municipal planning and development agency for Boston, working on both housing and commercial de ...

and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for nine years. Eric Garcetti official mayoral portrait

Eric Garcetti Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 Los An ...

, former assistant professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs; currently

mayor of Los Angeles The mayor of the City of Los Angeles is the official head and chief executive officer of Los Angeles. The officeholder is elected for a four-year term and is term limit, limited to serving no more than two terms. (Under the Constitution of Califo ...

* George R. Goldner, art historian,

Drue Heinz Drue Heinz, DBE (born Doreen Mary English; March 8, 1915 – March 30, 2018) was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite. She was the publisher of the literary magazine ''The Paris Review'' (1993 to 2007), c ...

Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Paints of the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

Julia Holter Julia Shammas Holter (born December 18, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist and academic, based in Los Angeles. Following three independent album productions, Holter released ''Tragedy'' as her first official ...

, singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist; appointed Professor of the Practice of Songwriting in 2021. *

Derek Shearer Derek Shearer (born December 5, 1946) is an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Finland.Wadler, Joyce.Lloyd Shearer, Longtime Celebrity Columnist, Dies at 84" ''The New York Times''. May 27, 2001. Retrieved on A ...

, director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, is former

United States Ambassador to Finland United may refer to: Places * United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Arts and entertainment Films * ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film * ''United'' (2011 film), a BBC Two fi ...

.Derek Shearer

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Presidents

* Samuel H. Weller (1887–1891) * J. Melville McPherron (1892–1894) * Elbert Nevius Condit (1894–1896) * James W. Parkhill (1896–1897) * Guy W. Wadsworth (1897–1905) * William Stewart Young (1905–1906, acting) *

John Willis Baer Dr. John Willis Baer (March 2, 1861 – February 8, 1931) was an American official of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. President of Occidental College in Los Angeles (then a Presbyterian school) from 1906 to 1916. In 1919 was elected Mode ...

(1906–1916) * Thomas Gregory Burt (1916–1917) * Silas Evans (1917–1920) * Thomas Gregory Burt (1920–1921, acting) * Remsen Bird (1921–1927, 1928–1945) * Robert G. Cleland (1927–1928, acting) * Arthur G. Coons (1945–1965) * Richard C. Gilman (1965–1988) *

John Brooks Slaughter John Brooks Slaughter (born 16 March 1934) is an American electrical engineer and former college president who served as the first African-American director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). His work focuses on development of computer al ...

(1988–1999) * Theodore R. Mitchell (1999–2005) * Kenyon S. Chan (2005–2006, acting) *

Susan Westerberg Prager Susan Westerberg Prager (born December 14, 1942) is an American legal scholar and administrator. Prager served as the 11th Dean and President of Southwestern Law School for eight years from 2013 to 2021, and was the first woman in the history of ...

(2006–2007) * Robert Skotheim (2008–2009) *

Jonathan Veitch Jonathan Veitch (born 1959) is an American college administrator, author and former professor. He was the 15th President of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He became president in July 2009, succeeding interim president Robert Skoth ...

(2009–2020) * Harry J. Elam Jr. (2020–present)

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