This is a list of notable present and former faculty, staff, and students of the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

(UCLA).

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

Ralph Bunche Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize ...

– recipient of the 1950

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolo ...

Richard F. Heck Richard Frederick Heck (August 15, 1931 – October 9, 2015) was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes ...

– recipient of the 2010

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* Robert Bruce Merrifield – recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Elinor Ostrom Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, ...

– recipient of the 2009

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

Ardem Patapoutian Ardem Patapoutian (born 1967) is an Armenian-American molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate. He is known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature ...

- recipient of the 2021

Nobel Prize in Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according ...

Randy Schekman Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' and former editor of ''Annual Review of Cell and ...

– recipient of the 2013

* Glenn T. Seaborg – recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * William F. Sharpe – recipient of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences *

Andrea Ghez Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that ref ...

- recipient of the 2020

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Academia, science and technology

Arts and literature

* Amy Adler – artist * Luis Aguilar-Monsalve – writer and educator * Sara Kathryn Arledge – artist *

Catherine Asaro Catherine Ann Asaro (born November 6, 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, singer and teacher. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty, called the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Biography Catherine Asaro was b ...

–

Nebula Award The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of prof ...

-winning

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

novelist * Glenna Avila – artist *

James Robert Baker James Robert Baker (October 18, 1947 – November 5, 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After gra ...

– novelist *

Gary Baseman Gary Baseman (born September 27, 1960) is an American artist, cartoonist, and animator who investigates history, heritage, and the human condition (especially love, longing, and loss). Through iconography and visual narratives that celebrate “ ...

– artist *

Edith Baumann Edith Baumann (1 August 1909 – 7 April 1973) was a German politician. She was a co-founder and official of the Free German Youth (''Freie Deutsche Jugend'' / FDJ), the youth organisation that after 1946 became the youth wing of East Germany's ...

– abstract artist * Rosa Beltrán – writer, lecturer and academic * Guy Bennett – writer, translator and educator *

Susan Berman Susan Jane Berman (May 18, 1945 – December 23, 2000) was an American journalist and author. The daughter of mobster David Berman, she wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in organized crime. In 2000, Berman was f ...

– author and screenwriter *

Stan Bitters Stan Bitters is an American ceramics sculptor whose work was instrumental in shaping the organic modernist movement in the 1960s. His work has achieved international recognition and is a staple in many modern design and art shows, and has been fe ...

– sculptor *

Justina Blakeney Justina Blakeney is an American designer, artist, interior designer, writer, and speaker who is well-known by the bright colorful and vibrant bohemian style. She founded a houseware and home decoration brand ''Jungalow''. Her first book, ''The Ne ...

– designer and author * Slater Bradley – artist * Kenneth Wayne Bushnell – artist and educator * Jan Butterfield – art writer and educator * Vija Celmins – artist * Judy Chicago – artist and educator *

Vicky A. Clark Vicky A. Clark (born December 19, 1950) is an American independent curator of contemporary art, art historian, and writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Early life and education Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Clark moved to Santa Monica, Califo ...

– curator * Coleman Collins – artist * Jennifer Dalton – artist *

Agnes de Mille Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Early years Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMill ...

– dancer and choreographer * Jacques Ehrmann – literary theorist *

Dan Eldon Daniel Robert Eldon (18 September 1970 – 12 July 1993) was a British-Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist, killed in Somalia while working as a Reuters photojournalist. His journals were published posthumously in four volumes by Chronic ...

–

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

Warren Farrell Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American political scientist, activist, and author of seven books on men's and women's issues. He is a leading figure of the Men's Rights Movement. Farrell initially came to prominence in the 1 ...

– educator, gender equality activist and author of

The Myth of Male Power ''The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex'' is a 1993 book by Warren Farrell, in which the author argues that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically di ...

* Alyce Frank – artist * Martin Friedman – former director of

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...

* Charles Garabedian – artist * Kelly Grovier – poet and

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. ...

Kim Gruenenfelder Kim Gruenenfelder is an American author and screenwriter. She became known for writing women's fiction, specifically romantic comedy fiction, novels. Her debut novel, '' A Total Waste of Makeup'', has been published in six languages and eight ...

– author *

Sam Harris Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics ...

– writer *

Florence Parry Heide Florence Parry Heide (February 27, 1919 – October 23, 2011) was a bestselling American children's writer. Early life Born in Pittsburgh, Heide spent most of her childhood in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Her father, who was a banker, died ...

– author of children's literature *

Juan Felipe Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera (born in December 27, 1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers ...

– professor, 21st U.S. poet laureate *

Gilah Yelin Hirsch Gilah Yelin Hirsch (born 1944) is a mwod:multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary artist who works as a painter, writer, curator, and filmmaker. Her work explores the connections between science, art, and spirituality. She has been a leader in the Int ...

– artist *

Diane Johnson Diane Johnson (born Diane Lain, April 28, 1934), is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel ''Persian ...

– novelist *

Jane Jin Kaisen Jane Jin Kaisen (born May 28, 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Kaisen was born in Jeju Island, South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. She is Professor of Media Arts at The Royal Danish Academy ...

– artist *

Craig Kauffman Craig Kauffman (March 31, 1932 – May 9, 2010) was an artist who has exhibited since 1951. Kauffman's primarily abstract paintings and wall relief sculptures are included in over 20 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whit ...

– artist *

Jonathan Kellerman Jonathan Seth Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American novelist, psychologist, and Edgar- and Anthony Award–winning author best known for his popular mystery novels featuring the character Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults ...

–

Edgar Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...

-winning novelist and

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the pre ...

* Toba Khedoori - painter * Annie Lapin – painter * Mitchell Landsberg – journalist *

Gaylord Larsen Gaylord Larsen (born January 4, 1932) is an American crime writer. He is well known for his fictional murder mystery ''Dorothy and Agatha'', incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, ...

–

mystery writer Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a rea ...

* Russell Leong – author and philosopher of Asian-American studies * Linda Levi – artist *

Dave McNary David Nathan McNary (1950/1951 – December 26, 2020) was an American journalist best known for his work at ''Variety''. Early life and career Born the oldest of five children in Berkeley, California, McNary was raised in San Rafael and Wood ...

– entertainment journalist * Edward Meshekoff – artist *

Meleko Mokgosi Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) is an artist and associate professor of painting and drawing at the School of Art at Yale University. His work includes large-scale paintings that explore themes of colonialism, democracy, nationalism, and life in South ...

– artist * Ed Moses – artist *

Alexandra Nechita Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-American cubist painter and philanthropist. At age 12 she was dubbed the "Petite Picasso" by the media and the art community. She has been praised for her paintings and vision of art. Earl ...

– painter * John D. Nesbitt – writer and educator * Tameka Norris – artist *

Flo Perkins Flo Perkins (born 1951) is an American glass artist currently working and residing in the Pojoaque Valley north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art (1974), Master of Arts from the Universit ...

– glass artist *

Raymond Pettibon Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for ...

–

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

, known for creating the

cover art Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game ( box art), music album ( album ...

for punk-rock band Black Flag's albums * Jenelle Porter – art curator and author *

Jason Rhoades Jason Fayette Rhoades (July 9, 1965 – August 1, 2006) was an American installation artist. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was celebrated for his combination dinner party/ ...

– artist * Kay Ryan – poet and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate (2008–2010);

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

(2011) *

Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an African-American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which eng ...

– artist * Ben Sakoguchi – artist *

Shizu Saldamando Shizu Saldamando (born 1978 in San Francisco, CA), is an American visual artist. Her work merges painting and collage (often using origami paper) in portraits that often deal with social constructs of identity and subcultures. She has worked in t ...

– artist * Sarah Seager – artist * Cindy Shih – artist * Jan Stussy (1921–1990) – artist *

Wu Tsang Wu Tsang (born 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker, artist and performer based in New York and Berlin, whose work is concerned with hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. In 2018, Tsang received a ...

– artist *

Billie Tsien Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (also known as Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects , Partners) are a husband-and-wife architectural firm founded in 1986, based in New York. Williams and Tsien began working together in 1977. Their studio focu ...

– architect,

Barack Obama Presidential Center The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a planned architectural project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. The center will include a museum and library and is headed by the nonpro ...

Harry Turtledove Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He is a student of history and completed hi ...

–

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier ...

and Nebula Award-winning

novelist * Barbara Brooks Wallace – award-winning

children's author Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

, including two

s and a

William Allen White Children's Book Award The William Allen White Children's Book Award is a set of two annual awards for books selected by vote of Kansas schoolchildren from lists prepared by committee. As a single award it was established in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, a children's l ...

Emma Walton Hamilton Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton (née Walton; 27 November 1962) is a British-American children's book author, theatrical director, and actress. She is an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she serves as Director of ...

(UCLA Lab School) – actress, author of children's book *

Idelle Weber Idelle Lois Weber (born Tessie Pasternack; March 12, 1932 – March 23, 2020) was an American artist most closely aligned with the Pop art and Photorealist movements. Early life Weber was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1932 as Tessie Pa ...

– artist *

Antoine Wilson Antoine Wilson (born 1971) is a Canadian-American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and later lived in Southern California, Central California, and Saudi Arabia. He attended UCLA and Iowa Writers' Workshop. He ...

– novelist * Jan Wurm – artist * Richard Wyatt Jr. – artist

Film, television and theater

Athletics

Hall of Famers in major team sports

=National Baseball Hall of Fame

= *

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...

(inducted in 1962)

=Pro Football Hall of Fame

= *

Bob Waterfield Robert Stanton Waterfield (July 26, 1920 – March 25, 1983) was an American professional football player and coach. He played quarterback for the UCLA Bruins and Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame i ...

(inducted in 1965) *

Tom Fears Thomas Jesse Fears (December 3, 1922 – January 4, 2000) was a Mexican-American professional football player who was a split end for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League (NFL), playing nine seasons from 1948 to 1956. He was lat ...

(inducted in 1970) * Jimmy Johnson (inducted in 1994) *

Troy Aikman Troy Kenneth Aikman (born November 21, 1966) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. After transferring from Oklahoma, he played college football at UCLA, ...

(inducted in 2006) * Jonathan Ogden (inducted in 2013) * Kenny Easley (inducted in 2017)

=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Baseball

Basketball

American football / Gridiron

Golf

* John Merrick – professional golfer *

Corey Pavin Corey Allen Pavin (born November 16, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and currently on the PGA Tour Champions. He spent over 150 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1986 and 1997 a ...

– professional golfer, 1995 U.S. Open champion, 2010

Ryder Cup The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe. The Ryder Cup is named af ...

captain *

Tom Pernice Jr. Thomas Charles Pernice Jr. (born September 5, 1959) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He previously played on the PGA Tour, where he won two tournaments. Pernice was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He attende ...

– professional golfer * Monte Scheinblum – 1992 U.S. National and World Long Drive ChampionMonte Scheinblum Shines When He's Hitting Off the Tee
Bucky Albers, ''

Dayton Daily News The ''Dayton Daily News'' (''DDN'') is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximatel ...

'', May 19, 1993. Retrieved December 23, 2010. *

Duffy Waldorf James Joseph "Duffy" Waldorf, Jr. (born August 20, 1962) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was previously a member of the PGA Tour, where he won four times. Biography Waldorf was born in Los Angeles, Cal ...

– professional golfer

Gymnastics

Association football / soccer

Tennis

Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the Un ...

(1943–1993) – tennis player (ranked as high as # 1) and social activist; Wimbledon champion and member of the

International Tennis Hall of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It honors both players and other contributors to the sport of tennis. The complex, the former Newport Casino, includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indo ...

Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 ...

(born 1952) – tennis player (ranked as high as # 1); two-time Wimbledon champion and member of the

* Herbert Flam (1928–1980) – tennis player (ranked as high as # 4) * Zack Fleishman (born 1980) – professional tennis player * Allen Fox (born 1939) – tennis player (ranked as high as # 4) and coach * Mike Franks (born 1936) – professional tennis player *

Justin Gimelstob Justin Jeremy Gimelstob (born January 26, 1977) is a retired American tennis player. Gimelstob has been a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, and as of 2009 lived in Santa Monica, California. He was the top-ranked boy in his age group at the ag ...

(born 1977) – professional tennis player *

Julius Heldman Julius Heldman (May 9, 1919 – September 22, 2006) attended Hollywood High School in Los Angeles and entered UCLA at age 15, became the National Junior Tennis Champion in 1936 and was the Tennis Team Captain at UCLA. He received a Doctorate from ...

(1919-2006) - professional tennis player was the National Junior Tennis Champion in 1936 *

Anita Kanter Anita Kanter (born 1933) is a former amateur tennis player from the U.S. who played in the 1950s. In singles, Kanter was ranked # 6 in the United States (and # 10 in the world by ''World Tennis'' magazine) in 1952, and # 9 in the US in 1 ...

(born 1933) – tennis player ranked in world top 10 *

Tom Karp Thomas Karp (born October 13, 1946) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Karp played tennis for University High School. Stan Smith beat him in the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament 1964 Boys’ High School final. Karp, a top ...

(born 1946) - tennis player * Jeff Klaparda (born 1963) - professional tennis player won the 1984 USTA National Amateur Clay Courts title *

Steve Krulevitz Steve "Lightning" Krulevitz (born May 30, 1951) is an American- Israeli former professional tennis player, and current coach. Playing for UCLA, he was an All-American. He won gold medals for the United States in singles and doubles at the 197 ...

(born 1951) – professional tennis player *

Kimberly Po Kimberly Po (born October 20, 1971) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In her career, she won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000, partnering Donald Johnson. She also was a runner-up at the US Open in wome ...

– professional tennis player * Brian Teacher (born 1954) – professional tennis player (ranked as high as # 7);

Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Ope ...

champion; and coach *

Eliot Teltscher Eliot Teltscher (born March 15, 1959) is a retired professional American tennis player. He won the 1983 French Open Mixed Doubles. His highest ranking in singles was #6 in the world and in doubles was #38 in the world. Tennis career Early year ...

(born 1959) – professional tennis player (ranked as high as # 6) *

Van Winitsky Van Winitsky (born March 12, 1959) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He achieved a career-high rankings of World No. 7 in doubles in October 1983 and world No. 35 in singles in February 1984. Early and personal life ...

(born 1959) - professional tennis player ranked as high as # 7 in doubles

Track and field

Evelyn Ashford Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957) is an American retired track and field athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100-meter dash. She ran under the 11-second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Game ...

– Olympic track and field athlete and multiple

gold medalist A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have be ...

Ato Boldon Ato Jabari Boldon (born 30 December 1973) is a Trinidadian former track and field athlete, politician, and four-time Olympic medal winner. He holds the Trinidad and Tobago national record in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64 ...

– Olympic track and field athlete 1997 200 meter World Champion and four-time Olympic Sprint medalist *

Gail Devers Yolanda Gail Devers ( ; born November 19, 1966) is an American retired track and field sprinter who competed in the 60 metres, 60 m hurdles, 100 m and 100 m hurdles. One of the greatest and most decorated female sprinters of all time, she was t ...

– track and field runner; multiple Olympic

* Danny Everett – Olympic bronze medalist in track and field * Millard Hampton – track and field athlete, gold (4X100 relay) and silver (200 meters) medalist in the 1976 Montreal Olympics * Dawn Harper –

2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

100m Hurdles gold medalist *

Joanna Hayes Joanna Dove Hayes (born December 23, 1976, Williamsport, Pennsylvania) is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She originally specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the silver ...

– Olympic

track and field 100 m hurdles record holder * Monique Henderson – track and field runner; Olympic gold medalist in 4 × 400 m relay *

Rafer Johnson Rafer Lewis Johnson (August 18, 1934 – December 2, 2020) was an American decathlon, decathlete and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold in the 1955 Pan Amer ...

– several-time world-record holder in the

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄ ...

, and gold medalist at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1 ...

– Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in 100 meter race *

Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in tho ...

– track and field athlete, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

* Meb Keflezighi – Olympic silver medalist, NCAA championships and

New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon (currently branded TCS New York City Marathon after its headline sponsor (commercial), sponsor) is an annual Marathon (sport), marathon () that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest mar ...

winner * Steve Lewis – Olympic gold medalist in track and field *

Andre Phillips André Lamar Phillips (born September 5, 1959) is a retired American track and field athlete who is best known for winning the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. Phillips spent most of his career in the shadow of his idol, ...

– track and field athlete, 400 meter hurdle gold medalist in the 1988 Seoul Olympics * Mike Powell – former track and field athlete, current coach and holder of the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

Yang Chuan-kwang Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang ( Amis: Maysang Kalimud, ) (July 10, 1933 – January 27, 2007), was an Olympic decathlete from Taiwan. Yang attended college at UCLA where he trained and competed with team mate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and wa ...

(also known as C.K. Yang) – former world-record holder in the

, silver medalist in the decathlon in the

; first man to score over 9,000 points (using the tables at the time) * Kevin Young – Olympic gold medalist in track and field, current world record holder 400 meters hurdles

Volleyball

Karch Kiraly Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly () (born November 3, 1960) is an American volleyball player, coach and broadcast announcer. In the 1980s he was a central part of the United States men's national volleyball team, U.S National Team that won gold ...

– volleyball player and coach; only person to win Olympic

gold medals A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

in both indoor and

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of th ...

Holly McPeak Holly McPeak (born May 15, 1969 in Manhattan Beach, California) is a retired American indoor and beach volleyball player. McPeak was three-times an Olympian in beach volleyball. In the professional circuit, she garnered 72 career beach volleybal ...

– beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist *

Elaine Youngs Elaine Youngs (born February 14, 1970 in Orange, California) is an American former professional volleyball player who competed both indoors and on the beach. Youngs attended UCLA, where as a freshman she started on a team that went undefeated t ...

– beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist

Water polo

James Ferguson James Ferguson may refer to: Entertainment * Jim Ferguson (born 1948), American jazz and classical guitarist * Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, past member of Lotion * Jim Ferguson, American movie critic, Board of Directors member for the Broadc ...

– 1972 Olympic bronze medalist
USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
*

Natalie Golda Natalie Golda (now Benson, born December 28, 1981) is a former American water polo player and currently the head coach of the newly formed Fresno State Bulldogs water polo team to begin competition in 2018. Considered one of the greatest women's ...

– water polo player; Olympian *

Adam Krikorian Adam Krikorian (born July 22, 1974) is an American water polo coach and the head coach of the United States women's national water polo team. He coached the team to gold medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, 2016 Olympic Games, and 2020 Olympic Games. ...

–

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with th ...

player and coach; won 14 national titles *

Jillian Kraus Jillian Amaris Kraus (born December 18, 1986) is a water polo player. She won a gold medal in the 2005 Junior World Championships, won four straight NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships with UCLA, and has played with the United States women's na ...

(born 1986) - water polo player *

Monte Nitzkowski Kenneth Monfore "Monte" Nitzkowski (September 7, 1929 – July 28, 2016) was an American former competition swimmer and water polo coach. He represented the United States in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer ...

– Olympic water polo coach and swimmer *

Josh Samuels Joshua Martin Kugler Samuels (born 8 July 1991) is a water polo player from the United States. He played for the United States men's national water polo team that won a gold medal in water polo at the 2015 Pan American Games, and competed for th ...

(born 1991) - Olympic water polo player *

Jovan Vavic Jovan Vavic (born ) is the former head coach of both the University of Southern California (USC) men's and women's water polo teams. In 2012, he was interim head coach of the United States men's national water polo team. While coaching USC he won ...

- former head coach of the USC men's and women's water polo teams

Other

Glenn Cowan Glenn L. Cowan (August 25, 1952 – April 6, 2004) was an American table tennis player. Biography Cowan was from New Rochelle, New York, and was Jewish. His parents were Phil (a television executive, who died at age 48) and Fran Cowan. The family ...

(1952–2004) - table tennis player *

Lisa Fernandez Lisa Maria Fernandez (born February 22, 1971) is an American former softball player and current associate head coach at UCLA. She played college softball at UCLA as a pitcher and third baseman, and is a three-time medal winning Olympian with Te ...

– Olympic

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

* Brian Goodell – swimmer; nine NCAA individual championships, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder * Tommy Kendall – race car driver and television analyst * Erwin Klein (d. 1992) - table tennis player * Dan Kutler – Olympic swimmer *

Michelle Kwan Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time ...

– world champion

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

; record nine-time U.S. National Champion * Ken Pavia – former sports agent, founder of MMAagents Sports Agency, and the former CEO of India's first MMA Promotion

Super Fight League Super Fight League is a mixed martial arts promotion, based in India. The organisation was formed in 2012 by actor Sanjay Dutt and British-Indian businessman Raj Kundra, and is currently co-owned by British-Indian businessman Bill Dosanjh and ...

Dot Richardson Dorothy Gay Richardson (born September 22, 1961) is an American physician and former two-time gold medal-winning Olympian softball player at shortstop. Richardson is currently the head coach at Liberty. Richardson played college softball at UCLA ...

– softball player, Olympic gold medalist * Mark Schultz (attended), 3x NCAA Champion, Olympic and world champion wrestler *

Doug Shaffer Doug Shaffer (born July 8, 1963) is an American college diving coach. He is the current co-head coach of the LSU Tigers and LSU Lady Tigers swimming and diving teams at Louisiana State University with responsibilities for the dive team. Dave ...

– platform diving, U.S. National champion, NCAA Diver of the Year, Head coach at UCLA, Minnesota and LSU * Tim Thackrey – US National Team and Pan Am Games gold medalist

Business and law

* Nancy J. Adler – Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Univer ...

Eugene Anderson Eugene Robert Anderson (October 24, 1927 – July 30, 2010) was an American trial lawyer who developed creative solutions to require insurance companies to cover commercial claims related to asbestos exposure and pollution, years after the ...

– attorney *

Shawn Holley Shawn Katherine Holley is an American defense attorney. Holley attended UCLA and Southwestern University School of Law. She began her career in the Los Angeles public defender's office before being hired by Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. She eventually ...

– member of O. J. Simpson murder case defense team *

Fred D. Anderson Fred D. Anderson (born 1945) is an American business executive known for his time with Apple Inc. and as a managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners. Early life Anderson completed his BA from Whittier College and his MBA from UCLA ...

– former CFO of

Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...

* John Edward Anderson – president of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of

UCLA Anderson School of Management The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, also known as the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is the graduate business school at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of eleven professional schools. The school offers MBA (ful ...

* Tom Anderson – founder of MySpace * Nancy Austin –

management consultant Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultants ...

and author of ''The Assertive Woman'' * Stephen F. Bollenbach – CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation * Saul Brandman (1925–2008) – garment manufacturerLos Angeles Times: "Obituary:Saul Brandman"
May 29, 2008 * Bernard Briskin – co-founder and Chairman of

Gelson's Markets Gelson's is a regional supermarket chain operating in Southern California. It operates service-oriented stores mostly in upscale neighborhoods. The Mayfair Connection actually began years before Gelson's did. Estimates put the genesis of the chai ...

* Janice Rogers Brown – judge for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals *

Vincent Bugliosi Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. (; August 18, 1934 – June 6, 2015) was an American prosecutor and author who served as Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office between 1964 and 1972. He became best known for s ...

– attorney and writer *

Michael Burry Michael James Burry (; born June 19, 1971) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and physician. He founded the hedge fund Scion Capital, which he ran from 2000 until 2008 before closing it to focus on his personal investments. He is best ...

– hedge fund manager * Frieda Rapoport Caplan – Entrepreneur in Specialty Produce * Cormac J. Carney – United States federal judge * Phil Carter – attorney, writer, and U.S. Army adviser in Iraq * Morgan Chu – attorney, intellectual property expert *

Frank Chuman Frank Fujio Chuman ( ja, 中馬藤男, born April 29, 1917) is a Japanese-American former civil rights attorney and author, involved in several important Japanese American civil rights cases and in the redress movement. Early life Frank Fujio Chu ...

– attorney and author * Marcia Clark – attorney, lead prosecutor in O. J. Simpson murder case *

Johnnie Cochran Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr.Adam Bernstei ''The Washington Post'', March 30, 2005; retrieved April 17, 2006. (; October 2, 1937 – March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal ...

– attorney *

Leslie Abramson Leslie Hope Abramson (born October 6, 1943) is an American criminal defense attorney best known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez. She is also a published author. Education Born in Flushing, Queens, New York, Abramson ...

- attorney, best known for the defense of Erik Menendez * Jeff Cohen – entertainment lawyer best known for work as

child actor The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in movies or television. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated t ...

in ''

The Goonies ''The Goonies'' is a 1985 American adventure comedy film co-produced and directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by Chris Columbus, based on a story by Steven Spielberg. In the film, kids who live in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astor ...

'' (1985) *

Lynn Compton Lynn Davis Compton (December 31, 1921 – February 25, 2012), known as Buck Compton, was an American jurist, police officer, and soldier. In his legal career, he served as a prosecutor and California Court of Appeal judge, and is most not ...

– former judge for the California Court of Appeals and served as a

commissioned officer An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant officer. However, absent contex ...

with E Company, 2nd

Battalion A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of 300 to 1,200 soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel, and subdivided into a number of companies (usually each commanded by a major or a captain). In some countries, battalions ...

, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the

101st Airborne Division The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles") is a light infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations. It can plan, coordinate, and execute multiple battalion-size air assault operati ...

of the

United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, ...

Roger Curtis Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, 1st Baronet, GCB (4 June 1746 – 14 November 1816) was an officer of the British Royal Navy, who saw action in several battles during an extensive career that was punctuated by a number of highly controversial incide ...

– founder of

Associated Electrics Associated Electrics, Incorporated of Lake Forest, California is one of the world's leading manufacturers of radio controlled cars, trucks and accessories. Associated Electrics is now owned by Thunder Tiger Corporation from Taiwan. The company is ...

Keith Fink Keith Fink is an American attorney, author, and academic. He represented a business in a contract dispute with Ellen DeGeneres dubbed by the media as "Iggygate". In 2017, Fink became embroiled in a dispute with the University of California, Los ...

– attorney * Laurence D. Fink – CEO and Chairman of

BlackRock BlackRock, Inc. is an American multi-national investment company based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with trill ...

Dolly Gee Dolly Maizie Gee (born July 1, 1959) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Early life and education Gee was born in Hawthorne, California, the daughter of Cantonese immi ...

– U.S. District Court judge * Bill Gross – co-founder of

PIMCO PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC) is an American investment management firm focusing on active fixed income management worldwide. PIMCO manages investments in many asset classes such as fixed income, equities, commodities, a ...

; philatelist * Vinita Gupta – first Indian-origin woman to take her company public *

Horace Hahn Horace L. Hahn (July 23, 1915 – January 31, 2003) was an American actor best known for working with Cecil B. DeMille on several films as a young man, including a supporting role in '' This Day and Age'' (1933). He also served in the Office of ...

– assisted Justice

Robert H. Jackson Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as Unit ...

as an interrogator in the prosecution of

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

war criminals at the

Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies of World War II, Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 ...

Sam Hamadeh Hussam "Sam" Hamadeh (1971 – December 10, 2015) was a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film. Hamadeh co-founded Vault.com in 1997 with his brother, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman. an ...

– co-founder, Vault.com * John W. Henry – money manager and principal owner of the

Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ...

and

Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has ...

* Nita Ing – chairman of Continental Engineering Corporation and

Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction and operations managed by a pri ...

William R. Johnson William R. Johnson is an American businessman and is the former president, CEO and chairman of H. J. Heinz. He worked at Drackett as an assistant product manager for Behold furniture polish, starting at $13,000 a year. He worked at Ralston Pu ...

– chief executive officer,

H.J. Heinz Company The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contine ...

Alex Kozinski Alex Kozinski (; born July 23, 1950) is a Romanian-American jurist and lawyer who was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 2017. He was a prominent and influential judge, and many of his law clerks went on to ...

– judge for the

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 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 ...

* Ryan Lee – hedge fund manager and radio commentator *

Hardy McLain Bruce Hardy McLain (born September 1952) is an American retired hedge fund manager, and a co-founder and former managing partner of CVC Capital Partners. Early life Bruce Hardy McLain was born in September 1952, in San Francisco, US. McLain e ...

(born 1952) – hedge fund manager; managing partner of

CVC Capital Partners CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based French private equity and investment advisory firm with approximately US$133 billion of assets under management and approximately €157 billion in secured commitments since inception across American, Eu ...

* Billy G. Mills –

Los Angeles City Council The Los Angeles City Council is the legislative body of the City of Los Angeles in California. The council is composed of 15 members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro temp ...

member, 1963–74, Superior Court judge thereafter *

Marvin Mitchelson Marvin M. Mitchelson (May 7, 1928 – September 18, 2004) was an American celebrity lawyer who pioneered the concept of palimony, calling it "marriage with no rings attached". Early life Mitchelson was born in Detroit, Michigan, the younges ...

– attorney *

Irwin Molasky Irwin Molasky (February 22, 1927 – July 4, 2020) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist from Las Vegas, Nevada. He was the Chairman of The Molasky Group of Companies. Early life Irwin Molasky was born to a Jewish family on Fe ...

– real estate entrepreneur and early developer of Las Vegas *

Ezri Namvar Ezri Namvar (born ) is an Iranian-born Jewish American businessman, philanthropist and convicted criminal. He was the founder and chairman of Namco Capital Group, an asset management firm based in Los Angeles, California. In the wake of the financi ...

– former founder and chairman of Namco Capital Group * Dorothy W. Nelson – senior judge for the

* Michael Newdow –

plaintiff A plaintiff ( Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an ''action'') before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy. If this search is successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of t ...

in Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the

Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. The first version, with a text different from the one used ...

Robert C. O'Brien Robert Charles O'Brien Jr. (born June 18, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the 27th United States national security advisor from 2019 to 2021. He was the fourth and final person to hold the position during the presidency of Donald Tru ...

, United States National Security Advisor *

Michael Ovitz Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as presid ...

– Hollywood power broker and former president of the

Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

Robert O. Peterson Robert Oscar Peterson (March 13, 1916 – April 18, 1994) was an American businessman and philanthropist. As the founder of the Jack in the Box restaurant chain, he popularized the drive-through fast food restaurant concept. He is credited with ...

– founder of the

Jack in the Box Jack in the Box is an American fast-food restaurant chain founded February 21, 1951, by Robert O. Peterson (1916–1994) in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered. The chain has over 2,200 locations, primarily serving the West Coast ...

restaurant chain * Daniel Petrocelli – attorney *

Harry Pregerson Harry Pregerson (October 13, 1923 – November 25, 2017) was a United States circuit judge appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Pregerson was regarded as one of the judiciary's m ...

– judge for the

Donald Prell Donald B. Prell (July 7, 1924 – July 28, 2020) was an American World War II veteran, venture capitalist and futurist who created ''Datamation'', the first magazine devoted solely to the computer hardware and software industry. Early life Prell ...

– venture capitalist, author and futurist * Subramaniam Ramadorai – chief executive officer and managing director,

Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries. In July ...

* Jennifer Rodgers, former

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan. Establish ...

and CNN legal analyst * Nobutada Saji – chief executive officer,

Suntory (commonly referred to as simply Suntory) is a Japanese multinational brewing and distilling company group. Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages in Japan, and makes Japanese whisky. I ...

* Robert Shapiro – attorney, part of defense team in O. J. Simpson murder case * Sanford C. Sigoloff – businessman and philanthropist *

Stacey Snider Stacey Snider (born April 29, 1961) is an American film industry executive. She previously served as Chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox before its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company. Biography Snider was born to a Jewish family. From 1 ...

– president of DreamWorks *

Ronald Sugar Ronald D. Sugar (born July 30, 1948) is an American business executive. He served as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Northrop Grumman Corporation from 2003 to 2009. On August 1, 2018 he was unanimously elected as ind ...

– chief executive officer,

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military tech ...

* Jay Sures – co-president of

United Talent Agency United Talent Agency (UTA) is a global talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California. Established in 1991, it represents artists and other professionals across the entertainment industry. , the company has more than 1,400 global employees. U ...

Variety Magazine 500: Jay Sures
retrieved October 21, 2017 * Edward Tabash – Constitutional attorney specializing in church and state issues; Board of Directors for the

Center for Inquiry The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a US nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal, as well as to fight the influence of religion in government. History The Center for Inquiry was established in 19 ...

Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (September 12, 1930 – August 4, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Early life Takasugi was born in Tacoma, Washington. When he w ...

– federal judge *

A. Wallace Tashima Atsushi Wallace Tashima (born June 24, 1934) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central Distric ...

– judge for the

* Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – founder, chairman and CEO of

ILFC The International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) was an aircraft lessor headquartered in the Constellation Place in Century City, Los Angeles, California, US. It was the world's largest aircraft lessor by value, though ILFC's rival, General E ...

Kim McLane Wardlaw Kim McLane Wardlaw (born July 2, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998. She is the first Hispanic American woman to be appointed to a federal appeals c ...

– judge for the

Surangel Whipps Jr. Surangel S. Whipps Jr. (born 9 August 1968) is a Palauan businessman and politician, who has served as the president of Palau since 2021. He served as senator from 2008 to 2016. He is from Ngatpang state, Republic of Palau. Whipps assumed office ...

- President of the Republic of Palau (2021 - Present) * Don Yee – NFL sports agent * James Yenbamroong – space entrepreneur and founder of Mu Space * Ken Ziffren (J.D. 1965) – entertainment attorney, L.A.'s film czar (2014–present)

Music

* Jenni Alpert – singer-songwriter *

Sara Bareilles Sara Beth Bareilles (, ; born December 7, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She has sold over three million albums and over 15 million singles in the United States. She has earned various awards and nominations including nin ...

–

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...

-winning singer-songwriter and pianist * Jan Berry – singer-songwriter; member of the rock-and-roll duo Jan & Dean *

Jeff Blue Jeffrey Blue (born November 21, 1967) is a A&R executive, record-producer, and songwriter who is currently an A&R consultant for Atlantic Records. He has worked as the Senior Vice President of A&R and staff producer for Warner Bros. Records, Int ...

– music producer for various labels; vice president of Warner California's artists-and-repertoire division *

Alison Brown Alison Brown (born August 7, 1962) is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer. She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style o ...

– Grammy Award-winning

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

player *

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading f ...

– composer; student of Schoenberg * Don Davis – film-score composer, including the

action Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video game Film * Action film, a genre of film * ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford * ''Action'' (1980 fil ...

film franchise ''The Matrix'' trilogy (1999, 2003 and 2003) *

Brad Delson Bradford Phillip Delson (born December 1, 1977) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the rock band Linkin Park.

– guitarist; lead guitarist and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning rock band

Linkin Park Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drumm ...

Ryan Dusick Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Mor ...

– drummer, member of the Grammy Award-winning

pop-rock Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, ear ...

band

Maroon 5 Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine (musician), James Valentine, drummer Matt ...

* Doriot Anthony Dwyer – principal flautist, Boston Symphony Orchestra *

Blake McIver Ewing Blake McIver Ewing (born March 27, 1985), also known as Blake McIver and Blake Ewing, is an American actor and musician. He was known for playing Michelle Tanner, Michelle's friend, Derek, on the sitcom ''Full House'', a role he reenacted on '' ...

− singer, pianist, actor * John Fahey – experimental guitarist *

Jill Gibson Jill Gibson (born June 18, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor. She is mostly known for her collaboration work with Jan & Dean and for having briefly been a member of the successful 1960s rock group the Mama ...

– singer-songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor *

Greg Ginn Gregory Regis Ginn (born June 8, 1954) is an American guitarist, bassist, singer and songwriter, best known for being the leader, primary songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led ...

– guitarist and singer-songwriter; guitarist of the punk-rock band Black Flag *

Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, Califor ...

– musician; member of the

alternative-rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial ...

band

Sonic Youth Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of t ...

* Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter; lead singer of the punk-rock band

Bad Religion Bad Religion is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1980. The band's lyrics cover topics related to religion, politics, society, the media and science. Musically, they are noted for their melodic sensibilitie ...

Conan Gray Conan Lee Gray (born December 5, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Lemon Grove, California and raised in Georgetown, Texas, he began uploading vlogs, covers and original songs to YouTube as a teenager. Gray signed a record ...

– singer-songwriter;youtuber * Joshua Guerrero, operatic tenor *

Este Haim Este Haim (born 14 March 1986) is an American musician and composer. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock trio Haim, which Este formed with her younger sisters Alana and Danielle. Este is Haim's bass player and a vocalist. She co-write ...

, — member of Grammy nominated sister band HAIM. *

Jake Heggie Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961) is an American composer of opera, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. He is best known for his operas and art songs as well as for his collaborations with internationally renowned performers and writers. ...

– opera composer, '' Dead Man Walking'' *

Marilyn Horne Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages. She is a recipient of the Natio ...

– mezzo-soprano opera singer *

James Horner James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner's first film score was in ...

– Academy Award,

Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of ...

, and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer *

Anthony Kiedis Anthony Kiedis ( ; born November 1, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter. He is a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of F ...

– singer-songwriter; lead vocalist of the

band

Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983, comprising vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante. Their music incorporates elements of alternative rock, funk ...

* Jim Lindberg – singer-songwriter; lead singer of the punk-rock band Pennywise * Jon MacLennan – session musician and author of ''Melodic Expressions: The Art of the Line'' (2012) *

Mickey Madden Michael Allen Madden (born May 13, 1979) is an American musician and a former bassist for the pop rock band Maroon 5. Life and music career Madden was born in Austin, Texas. He began playing in junior high school at the Brentwood School in L ...

– bass guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning

band Maroon 5 * Ron Mael – musician and songwriter; co-founder (with brother Russell Mael) and keyboardist of the

band Sparks * Russell Mael – singer-songwriter; co-founder (with brother Ron Mael) and lead vocalist of the pop-rock band Sparks *

Ray Manzarek Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. (né Manczarek; February 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013) was an American keyboardist. He is best known as a member of the Doors, co-founding the band with singer and lyricist Jim Morrison in 1965. Manzarek was induc ...

– co-founder and keyboardist of the rock band

The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts ...

* Maile Misajon – singer-songwriter; former member of the pop

girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of wh ...

Eden's Crush Eden's Crush was an American girl group who were created on the American television series ''Popstars'' which aired on the now defunct WB. The group was formed in late 2000 and released the hit song "Get Over Yourself" in 2001, following the fi ...

Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his wild personality, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, unpredictable and err ...

– poet and singer-songwriter; co-founder and lead vocalist of rock band The Doors *

Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and vari ...

– composer, pianist and singer-songwriter; Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer (dropped out one semester short of a B.A. in music) *

NS Yoon-G Kim Yoon-ji ( English name: Christine Kim; Hangul: 김윤지) is a Korean-American singer in South Korea. She performs under the stage name NS Yoon-G (Hangul: NS윤지) and debuted in 2009 with the digital single "Head Hurts" under JTM Enterta ...

, stage name of Christine Kim, aka Kim Yoonji – South Korean singer * John Ondrasik – singer-songwriter; performs

pop rock Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, ear ...

under the stage name

Five for Fighting Vladimir John Ondrasik III (born January 7, 1965), also known by his stage name Five for Fighting, is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for his piano-based soft rock ballads, such as the top 40 hits " Superman (It's No ...

* Mo Ostin – music executive, Chairman Emeritus of Warner Bros. Records * Kira Roessler – musician and film and television dialogue editor; bass guitarist of the punk-rock band Black Flag; film and television work includes

Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ...

-winning dialogue editor for her work on the biographical television miniseries ''

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

'' (2008) episode "Don't Tread On Me" * Laura Roppé – singer-songwriter and writer; cancer survivor who wrote

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...

''Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer'' * Seo Jung-kwon – Korean-American rapper under the stage name Tiger JK, and leader of hip hop group

Drunken Tiger Drunken Tiger () was a Korean hip hop group that debuted in 1999 and has since released several albums and won numerous awards. They are known as pioneers of Korean hip-hop who helped bring the genre into the mainstream. The group's original lin ...

Andy Sturmer Marvin Andrew Sturmer (born March 11, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and composer who co-founded the rock band Jellyfish in 1989. He was the group's lead vocalist, drummer, and primary songwriter. Following their break-up in 1 ...

– singer-songwriter and drummer of

Jellyfish Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbre ...

, producer for Puffy AmiYumi, composer of theme songs for ''

Ben 10 ''Ben 10'' is an American media franchise created by Man of Action Studios, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The series centers on a boy named Ben Tennyson who acquires the Omnitrix, an alien device resem ...

'' and ''

Teen Titans The Teen Titans are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, frequently in eponymous monthly series. As the group's name indicates, the members are teenage superheroes, many of whom have acted as sidekicks to ...

'' * Paul Tanner – member of the

Glenn Miller Orchestra Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and com ...

, inventor of the

Electro-Theremin The Electro-Theremin is an electronic musical instrument developed by trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell in the late 1950s to produce a sound to mimic that of the theremin. The instrument features a tone and portamento sim ...

instrument * David Tao – singer *

Brian Tyler Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and record producer, best known for his film, television, and video game scores. In his 24-year career, Tyler has scored '' Transformers: Prime'', ''Eagle E ...

– BAFTA-nominated film score composer, conductor and film producer; his compositions include scores for ''

Iron Man 3 ''Iron Man 3'' (titled onscreen as ''Iron Man Three'') is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to ''Ir ...

'', '' Thor: The Dark World'', and ''

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune ''Frank Herbert's Children of Dune'' is a three-part science fiction miniseries written by John Harrison and directed by Greg Yaitanes, based on Frank Herbert's novels '' Dune Messiah'' (1969) and ''Children of Dune'' (1976). First broadcast i ...

'' *

Kamasi Washington Kamasi Washington (born February 18, 1981) is an American jazz saxophonist, usually playing tenor saxophone. Archived July 9, 2015. Career Washington was born in 1981 and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of ...

– jazz saxophonist, composer, producer and bandleader *

John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review '' WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who w ...

– Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning composer; conductor and pianist; compositions include scores for the

space opera Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it features technological and soc ...

''Star Wars'' film series *

La Monte Young La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. He is best k ...

– composer, leading figure in musical minimalism

Politics

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Shahid Khaqan Abbasi ( ur, ; born 27 December 1958) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 21st prime minister of Pakistan from August 2017 to May 2018. Abbasi is the senior vice president of the Pakiatan Muslim League ...

– Prime Minister of Pakistan *

Farid Abboud Farid Abboud ( ar, فريد عبود, born 1951) is a Lebanese diplomat who served as Lebanese Ambassador to China from June 2013 to December 2017. Before becoming ambassador to China, he was the ambassador of Tunisia from July 2007 to June 2013 ...

– ambassador of

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lie ...

to United States *

Senu Abdul Rahman Senu bin Abdul Rahman ( ms, سنو بن عبدالرحمن, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; 10 October 1919 – 16 June 1995) was a Malaysian politician and former federal minister and diplomat. Early life, education and early career ...

– former Member of the

Malaysian Parliament The Parliament of Malaysia ( ms, Parlimen Malaysia) is the national legislature of Malaysia, based on the Westminster system. The bicameral parliament consists of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives, lit. "People's Assembly") and the ...

, Malaysia's first

Minister of Information An information minister (also called minister of information) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with information matters; it is often linked with censorship and propaganda. Sometimes the position is given to ...

Glenn M. Anderson Glenn Malcolm Anderson (February 21, 1913 – December 13, 1994) was an American politician. He was the 37th Lieutenant Governor of California and later represented Southern Los Angeles County (including Carson, San Pedro, and Long Beach) in ...

–

United States 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 ...

from California (1969–1993) * Patrick Argüello – Nicaraguan-American revolutionary''

Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educa ...

'' website fo
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Howard Berman Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 26th congressional d ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Tom Bradley –

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 limited to serving no more than two terms. (Under the Constitution of California, all ...

(1973–1993) * Yvonne Braithwaite Burke – Los Angeles County Supervisor * John Campbell – member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Benjamin Cayetano –

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(1994–2002) *

Judy Chu Judy May Chu (born July 7, 1953) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held a seat in Congress since 2009, representing until redistricting. Chu is the first Chin ...

– first Chinese-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress * James C. Corman – Los Angeles City Council member; member of the U.S. House of Representatives * J. Curtis Counts – director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service *

Edmund D. Edelman Edmund D. Edelman (September 27, 1930 – September 12, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994. Ear ...

– Los Angeles City Council member (1965–1974);

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (LACBOS) is the five-member governing body of Los Angeles County, California, United States. History On April 1, 1850 the citizens of Los Angeles elected a three-man Court of Sessions as their firs ...

member (1975–1994) *

John Ehrlichman John Daniel Ehrlichman (; March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as the White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important i ...

– assistant and counsel to the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration *

Elizabeth Emken The 2012 United States Senate election in California took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state an ...

– 2012 Republican U.S. Senate Candidate * Robert C. Farrell – journalist; Los Angeles City Council member (1974–1991) *

Dean Florez Dean Raymond Florez (born April 5, 1963 in Shafter, California) is a former California State Senator from the 16th Senate District, who served from 2002 until the end of his second term in November 2010. He was first elected to the California ...

– member of the

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

, student body president at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

Kirsten Gillibrand Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand (; ; born December 9, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from New York since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as member of the U.S. House of ...

– U.S. Senator from New York *

H.R. Haldeman Harry Robbins Haldeman (October 27, 1926 – November 12, 1993) was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate s ...

– Chief of Staff for the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration; a key figure in the

Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's contin ...

* James Day Hodgson – former

United States Secretary of Labor The United States Secretary of Labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the United States Department of Labor, controls the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all ot ...

and Ambassador to Japan *

Andrei Iancu Andrei Iancu (born April 2, 1968) is an American-Romanian engineer and intellectual property attorney, who served as the under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ...

- Director of the

United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States. The USPTO's headquarters are in Alex ...

Paul Koretz Paul Koretz (born April 3, 1955) is an American politician, who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 5th district from 2009 to 2022. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly and the West Hollywood City Cou ...

– former member of the

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 ...

; Los Angeles City Council member * Sheila Kuehl – former member of the

, California State Assembly, and current

Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian. As his contributions to comedy and charity made him a global figure in popular culture, pop culture ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman of the

U.S. House Committee on Appropriations The United States House Committee on Appropriations is a committee of the United States House of Representatives that is responsible for passing appropriation bills along with its Senate counterpart. The bills passed by the Appropriations Comm ...

* Calum MacDonald – former Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom *

Roberto Madrazo The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

– candidate for president of Mexico in the 2006 presidential elections *

Jim Matheson James David Matheson (born March 21, 1960) is an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Utah from 2001 to 2015. He represented Utah's 2nd district from 2001 to 2013 and its from 2013 to 2015 as a member of the De ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives for

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...

Tom McClintock Thomas Miller McClintock II (; born July 10, 1956) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2009. His district stretches from the Sacramento suburbs to the outer suburbs of Fresno; it includes Yosemite National ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

David McReynolds David Ernest McReynolds (October 25, 1929 – August 17, 2018) was an American politician and social activist who was a prominent democratic socialist and pacifist activist. He described himself as "a peace movement bureaucrat" during his 40-yea ...

– activist and socialist political candidate * Lloyd Monserratt – California political and community leader * Bill Morrow – member of the

* Gordon L. Park – former member of the

Wyoming House of Representatives The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming Legislature, Wyoming State Legislature. There are 60 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the Wyoming, st ...

Dennis Ross Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948) is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clin ...

– U.S. diplomat to the Middle East * Edward R. Roybal – member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

Brad Sherman Bradley James Sherman (born October 24, 1954) is an American accountant and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 30th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

Helen Singleton Helen Singleton (born November 27, 1932) was an activist during the Civil Rights Movement, most notable for her participation as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi. Personal life Singleton was born Helen Irene Williams on November 27, 1932, i ...

– civil rights activist and Freedom Rider * William French Smith – former United States Attorney General *

Todd Spitzer Todd Spitzer (born November 26, 1960) is an American attorney and politician serving as the district attorney of Orange County, California. Spitzer successfully ran for Orange County district attorney in 2018 against incumbent Tony Rackauckas. ...

– member of the

William R. Steiger William Raymond Steiger (born 1969 in Arlington, Virginia) is a Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.. He served as Chief of Staff at the United States Agency for international Development from 2017 to 2021. Previously, Ste ...

– director,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is " ...

's Office of Global Health Affairs in the George W. Bush administration *

Ted Stevens Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left ...

– former senator of Alaska and alumnus to

Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Kappa Epsilon (), commonly known as ''DKE'' or ''Deke'', is one of the oldest fraternities in the United States, with fifty-six active chapters and five active colonies across North America. It was founded at Yale College in 1844 by fiftee ...

Rick Tuttle Rick Tuttle (born January 5, 1940) is an American politician, university administrator and educator from Los Angeles, California. Early life Rick Tuttle was born in New Haven, Connecticut, one of four children of Frederick Burton Tuttle and his w ...

– Freedom Rider and

Los Angeles City Controller The Los Angeles City Controller is an official in the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. The City Controller is the paymaster and chief accounting officer of the city. Along with the Mayor and the City Attorney, the City Controlle ...

* Peggy Stevenson – Los Angeles City Council member (1975–1985) *

Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa (; né Villar Jr.; born January 23, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Villaraigosa was a national co-chairman of Hillary ...

–

; former Speaker of the California Assembly *

Joel Wachs Joel Wachs (, ; born March 1, 1939) is an American former politician and lawyer. He is the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 30 years, where he was ...

– Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001); president of the

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...

in New York City * Mimi Walters – member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

Diane Watson Diane Edith Watson (born November 12, 1933) is a former American politician who served as US Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011, after first being elected in the 32nd District in a 2001 special election. She is a member of the Dem ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

Henry Waxman Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1975 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district included much of the western part of the city of ...

– member of the U.S. House of Representatives *

Shirley Weber Shirley Weber (née Nash; born September 20, 1948) is an American academic and politician serving as the secretary of state of California. She was previously a member of the California State Assembly for the 79th Assembly District, which includ ...

–

Secretary of State of California The secretary of state of California is the chief clerk of the U.S. state of California, overseeing a department of 500 people. The secretary of state is elected for four year terms, like the state's other constitutional officers; the officeh ...

* Harold Willens – Jewish American businessman, political donor, nuclear freeze activist * Helena Wong – member of the

Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kon ...

, lecturer at

Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...

* Zev Yaroslavsky (born 1948) – Los Angeles City Council member; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member * Ehsan Zaffar – author; faculty; senior advisor on civil right,– U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security

Miscellaneous

Rodney Alcala Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor; August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021), dubbed the Dating Game Killer, was an American serial killer and sex offender who died of natural causes while on death row in California. He was se ...

– convicted rapist and serial killer active from 1968 to 1979, aka the "Dating Game Killer" for his successful appearance on ''

The Dating Game ''The Dating Game'' is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it ...

'' * Gustavo Arellano – ''

OC Weekly ''OC Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly paper distributed in Orange County and Long Beach, California. OC Weekly was founded in September 1995 by Will Swaim, who acted as editor and publisher until 2007. The paper was distributed at coffe ...

'' writer and author of the "

¡Ask a Mexican! ''¡Ask a Mexican!'' was a syndicated satirical weekly newspaper column written by Gustavo Arellano in the Orange County, California alternative weekly '' OC Weekly''. Publication of ''¡Ask a Mexican!'' began in 2004 as a one-time spoof, but p ...

" column * Jules Asner – model and television personality * Tony Auth – Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist * Rudi Bakhtiar – national news anchor *

Tony Blankley Anthony David Blankley (January 21, 1948 – January 7, 2012) was an American political analyst who gained fame as the press secretary for Newt Gingrich, the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years, and as a regular panelist on '' T ...

– commentator on ''

The McLaughlin Group ''The McLaughlin Group'' was a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, during which a group of four pundits, prompted by the host, discusses current political issues in a round table format. John ...

'' *

Joseph Blatchford Joseph Blatchford (June 7, 1934 - October 7, 2020) was the third Director of the United States Peace Corps succeeding Jack Vaughn. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. Early life and education Blatchf ...

– third Director of the United States Peace Corps * Barbara Branden – author, '' Who is Ayn Rand?'' *

Nathaniel Branden Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal; April 9, 1930 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand ...

– psychologist, author, ''Who is Ayn Rand?'', '' Psychology of Self-Esteem'' and ''

Judgment Day The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...

'' * Judge Joe Brown – television judge * Linda Burhansstipanov –

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma The Cherokee Nation ( Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ''Tsalagihi Ayeli'' or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ ''Tsalagiyehli''), also known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. ...

member, public health educator and researcher focused on Native American cancer care and support *

William George Carr William George Carr (1901 – March 1, 1996) was an educator and author who is most known for being the Executive Secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association from 1952 to 1967. He was the teaching consultant for the U.S. d ...

– Executive Secretary of the

National Education Association The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college stud ...

, 1952–1967 *

Carlos Castaneda Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting with ''The Teachings of Don Juan'' in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that purport to describe training in shamanism that he received under the tu ...

–

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms an ...

and writer *

Paul Colichman Paul Colichman (born 1962) is an American media entrepreneur who founded the gay cable channel Here!. In 2008, John Waters nicknamed Colichman "the gay Citizen Hearst." He is the CEO of Here Media, Inc. and has produced and/or distributed over 20 ...

– founder of

Here! Here TV is an American premium television network targeting LGBT audiences. Launched in 2002, Here TV is available nationwide on all major cable systems, fiber optics systems, and Internet TV providers as either a 24/7 premium subscription channe ...

cable TV network *

Allen Cunningham Allen Cunningham (born March 28, 1977) is an American professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets. Career Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally. ...

– professional poker player *

Iva Toguri D'Aquino Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino ( ja, 戸栗郁子アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was a Japanese-American disc jockey and radio personality who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied t ...

–

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

radio propagandist, "

Tokyo Rose Tokyo Rose (alternative spelling Tokio Rose) was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The programs were broadcast in the South Pacific ...

" * Giada De Laurentiis –

Food Network Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group ( ...

Chef (''Every Day Italian'') * Clifford B. Drake - Marine Corps Major general * Chris "Jesus" Ferguson –

World Series of Poker The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Paradise, Nevada and, since 2004, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment. It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker pl ...

main event winner and

poker Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game wa ...

professional * Harvey J. Fields – Reform rabbi. * Alice Taylor Gafford – artist *

Vanessa Getty Vanessa Getty (born 1972) is an American socialite and philanthropist. Life and career Getty was born in San Francisco to Claude Jarman Jr., an actor, and Maryann Opperman, a ballerina. She is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles ...

- socialite and philanthropist *

Jonathan Gold Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic and music critic. He was for many years the chief food critic for the '' Los Angeles Times'' and also wrote for '' LA Weekly'' and ''Gourmet'', in addition to serving as ...

– Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic * Kelly Goto –

User experience design User experience design (UX design, UXD, UED, or XD) is the process of defining the experience a user would go through when interacting with a digital product or website. Design decisions in UX design are often driven by research, data analysis, an ...

researcher and author of "Web Redsign, Workflow that Works." * Josh E. Gross – publisher of '' Beverly Hills Weekly'' * Todd Harris – Republican strategist on ''

Hardball with Chris Matthews ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'' was an American television talk show that was hosted by Chris Matthews. The program premiered on the now-defunct America's Talking network in 1994 (as ''Politics with Chris Matthews'') before moving on CNBC, and t ...

'' * Frank B. James –

U.S. Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Sign ...

general *

Arthur Janov Arthur Janov (; August 21, 1924October 1, 2017), also known as Art Janov, was an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and writer. He gained notability as the creator of primal therapy, a treatment for mental illness that involves repeatedly de ...

– psychologist, inventor of

primal therapy Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness for resolut ...

* Stephen Francis Jones – American architect known for high-end restaurant designs * Kang Dong-suk – yachtsman, first Korean solo circumnavigator *

Jill Kinmont Jill Kinmont Boothe (February 16, 1936 – February 9, 2012) was a notable American alpine ski racer. Her life story was turned into two major Hollywood movies ''The Other Side of the Mountain'' and its sequel ''The Other Side of the Mountain Part ...

– educator, quadriplegic, alpine ski racer in the 1950s * Ida B. Kinney – civil rights activist *

Ezra Klein Ezra Klein (born May 10, 1984) is an American journalist, political analyst, ''New York Times'' columnist, and the host of ''The Ezra Klein Show'' podcast. He is a co-founder of '' Vox'' and formerly served as the website's editor-at-large. He h ...

– blogger; journalist, ''

Vox.com ''Vox'' () is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media. The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell, and is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism. Vox's media presence also ...

'' * Ralph Lazo – civil rights activist, only known non-spouse and non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp *

Flora Lewis Flora Lewis (25 July 1922—June 2, 2002) was an American journalist. Background Lewis was born into a Jewish family in Los Angeles. Her father Benjamin Lewis was a lawyer and mother Pauline Kallin a pianist. She graduated high school at the age ...

– journalist with ''

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 ...

'' *

Carol Lin Carol Lin is an American former journalist, best known as the first national television news anchor to report on the September 11 attacks, reporting for CNN, at 8:49 a.m. on the day of the attacks. Lin previously worked as a reporter for A ...

– national news anchor *

Laura Ling Laura Ling (born December 1, 1976) is an American journalist and writer. She worked for Current TV as a correspondent and vice president of its Vanguard Journalism Unit, which produced the ''Vanguard'' TV series. She was the host and reporter ...

– journalist with

Current TV Current TV was an American television channel which broadcast from August 1, 2005, to August 20, 2013. Prior INdTV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, with Ronald Burkle, each held a sizable stake in Current TV. Comcast and DirecTV each held a smal ...

, notable for her detainment in

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

Bridget Marquardt Bridget Marquardt (born September 25, 1974) is an American television personality and model, known for her role in the reality TV series ''The Girls Next Door'', which depicted her life as one of ''Playboy'' founder Hugh Hefner's girlfriends. A ...

– co-star of ''

The Girls Next Door ''The Girls Next Door'' (also known as ''The Girls of the Playboy Mansion'') is a reality television series which focuses on the lives of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion. The series was created by executive pr ...

'' *

Nana Meriwether Nana Meriwether (born May 24, 1985) is an American philanthropist, former professional volleyball player, and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed at Miss USA 2012, representing Maryland, and finished as the first runner-up. On December 19, ...

–

Miss Maryland USA The Miss Maryland USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Maryland in the Miss USA pageant. The pageant is directed by D&D Productions. The first Miss USA winner from Maryland, Mary Leona Gage, won Miss ...

2012,

Miss USA 2012 Miss USA 2012 was the 61st Miss USA pageant, held on June 3, 2012, at The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada and it was televised live on NBC. Alyssa Campanella of California crowned her successor Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island at the end of the event. ...

* Donn Moomaw – Presbyterian minister, member of the

College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vo ...

* K. Patrick Okura – Japanese American psychologist and civil rights activist *

Zoltan Pali Zoltan Pali (born 1960) is an architect from Los Angeles, California. Early life Zoltan Pali was born May 28, 1960 at the French Hospital in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California to Emery Pali and Maria zalacsyPali. His parents were immigrants from ...

– architect * Steve Parode – U. S. Navy Rear Admiral *

William R. Peers William Ray Peers (June 14, 1914 – April 6, 1984) was a United States Army general, who is most notable for presiding over the Peers Commission investigation into the My Lai massacre and other similar war crimes during the Vietnam War. Bio ...

–

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...

Lt. General best known for leading the army's investigation of the My Lai incident *

Kelly Perdew Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29, 1967) is an American businessman and winner of '' The Apprentice 2''. Before ''The Apprentice'' Perdew was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised in Florida and Wyoming. Prior to winning the show, he ...

– winner of ''

The Apprentice ''The Apprentice'' is a reality talent game show franchise originally aired in 2004 in the United States. Created by U.S.-based British producer Mark Burnett, the show depicts contestants from around the country with various professional backg ...

'' * Brian R. Price – author, editor, publisher, martial-arts instructor of the Italian school of swordsmanship, reconstructive armorer, and dissertation fellow in history at the

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School, ...

Lila Rose Lila Grace Rose (born July 27, 1988) is an American anti-abortion activist who is the founder and president of the anti-abortion organization Live Action. She has conducted undercover, investigative exposés of abortion facilities in the United ...

– activist and president of

Live Action Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ...

* Steve Sailer – paleoconservative blogger and journalist ('' VDARE'', ''

Taki's Magazine ''Taki's Magazine'', called ''Takimag'' for short, is an online magazine of politics and culture published by the Greek paleoconservative commentator and socialite Taki Theodoracopulos and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. Initia ...

'') * James M. Seely –

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

rear admiral and acting

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) (abbreviated ASN FM) is a civilian office of the United States Department of the Navy. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) is respon ...

from December 18, 1988 to January 1990 *

Ben Shapiro Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American attorney, businessman, columnist, conservative political commentator, and media personality. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. ...

- conservative commentator for

The Daily Wire ''The Daily Wire'' is an American conservative news website and media company founded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro and film director Jeremy Boreing. The company is a major publisher on Facebook, and produces podcasts such as ...

* Marcus Stern – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Alan S. Thompson – retired

vice admiral * Daniel Thompson – inventor of the automatic

bagel A bagel ( yi, בײגל, translit=beygl; pl, bajgiel; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. It is traditionally shaped by hand into a roughly hand-sized ring from yeasted wheat dough that is fi ...

maker and the folding

ping pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

table * Princess Ubol Ratana of

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

Francis B. Wai Francis Brown Wai (April 14, 1917 – October 20, 1944) was a United States Army captain who was killed in action during the U.S. amphibious assault and liberation of the Philippine Islands from Japan in 1944, during World War II. He was awarde ...

–

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of val ...

recipient * J. Warner Wallace – homicide detective and

Christian apologist Christian apologetics ( grc, ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity. Christian apologetics has taken many forms over the centuries, starting with Paul the Apostle in ...

Stephen Worth Stephen Worth is an American producer of animation. Worth was a producer for Bagdasarian Productions, Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi's production company Spümcø. Career Worth studied at University of California, Los Angeles, receiving a ...

– director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project * Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol of

* Kelly, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

Paul D. Boyer Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzy ...

– professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1997

* Donald Cram (1919–2001) – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1987

* Louis J. Ignarro – professor of molecular and medical pharmacology; recipient of the 1998

Willard Libby Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contribution ...

(1908–1980) – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1960

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, a ...

(1872–1970) – mathematician and philosopher; recipient of the 1950

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* Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) – professor of physics; recipient of the 1965

Lloyd Shapley Lloyd Stowell Shapley (; June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of ...

– professor of economics; recipient of the 2012

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

* Andrea M. Ghez - American astrophysicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

Administrators

Ernest Carroll Moore Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955) was an American educator. He co-founded the University of California, Southern Branch, in Los Angeles, California. Biography Early life Moore was born in 1871 in Youngstown, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Norma ...

, 1919–1936 * Earle Raymond Hedrick, 1937–1942 *

Clarence Addison Dykstra Clarence Addison Dykstra (February 25, 1883 – May 6, 1950) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the first City Manager in the US in Cincinnati, Ohio after teaching government at the University of Chicago. He then became Chancellor of the Univ ...

, 1945–1950 *

Raymond B. Allen Raymond B. Allen (1902-1986) was an American educator. He served as the President of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington from 1946 to 1951, and as the first Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1951 to 1959 ...

, 1951–1959, First chancellor * Vern Oliver Knudsen, 1959–1960 *

Franklin David Murphy Franklin David Murphy (January 29, 1916 – June 16, 1994) was an American administrator, educator, and medical doctor. During his life, he served as Chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU) and Chancellor of the University of California, Los ...

, 1960–1968 * Charles E. Young, 1968–1997 *

Albert Carnesale Albert Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard K ...

, 1997–2006 * Norman Abrams, 2006–2007 * Gene D. Block, 2007–present

Business

Mark A.R. Kleiman Mark Albert Robert Kleiman (May 18, 1951 – July 21, 2019) was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy. A professor of public policy at New York University, in 2015, Kleiman became th ...

– professor of public policy, noted expert on crime and drug policy * Paul Habibi - professor of real estate and finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management *

Richard Riordan Richard Joseph Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is an American investment banker, businessman, lawyer, and former Republican politician who was the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, from 1993 to 2001. Born in New York City and raised in New Rochelle, New Y ...

- professor of business at UCLA Anderson School of Management * William Ouchi – professor of management and best-selling author

Law

Medicine

Michael S. Gottlieb Michael Stuart Gottlieb (born 1947) is an American physician and immunologist known for his 1981 identification of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a new disease, and for his HIV/AIDS research, HIV/AIDS activism, and philanthropic eff ...

– first physician to diagnose AIDS * Roberta Gottlieb - oncologist *

David Ho David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher, physician, and virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and treatment of HIV infection. He is the founding scientific ...

– AIDS researcher * Howard Judd –

menopause Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children. Menopause usually occurs between the age of 47 and 54. Medical professionals often d ...

expert and medical researcher * Martha Kirkpatrick (1925–2015) – clinical professor of psychiatry * Kimberly J. Lee – reconstructive surgeon *

Linda Liau Linda M. Liau is an American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and the W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Liau was elected to the Society of Neurological Surgeons in 2013 and the Nat ...

– W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery * Courtney Lyder – expert in

gerontology Gerontology ( ) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek , ''geron'', "old man" and , ''-logia'', "study of". The fi ...

; first black dean of the UCLA School of NursingBloomekatz, Ari (October 9, 2013
"A Nurse Who's Healing Patients and Himself"
''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved December 17, 2018. * No-Hee Park, DMD, PhD – Dean, UCLA School of Dentistry and notable researcher of oral (head and neck) cancer and aging researchDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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Patrick Soon-Shiong Patrick Soon-Shiong (born July 29, 1952) is a Chinese-South African transplant surgeon, billionaire businessman, bioscientist, and media proprietor. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, bre ...

– executive director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute *

Sarah Meeker Jensen Sarah Louise Meeker Jensen, FAIA, is an American architect, licensed general contractor, LEED-certified professional, healthcare planner, and founder of the firm Jensen Partners. Early life and education Sarah Louise Meeker was born in Washi ...

– FAIA, Founder of Jensen Partners Healthcare Planning

Politics

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history ...

– professor of policy studies, former governor of

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and 1988 presidential candidate *

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic ...

– visiting professor, 45th

Vice President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice p ...

Larry Pressler Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from South Dakota who served in the United States House of Representatives (1975–1979) and United States Senate (1979–1997) as a Republican. He remained active in ...

– teacher and visiting fellow, former Senator from

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large po ...

Science and technology

* George O. Abell (1927–1983) – professor of astronomy * Asad Ali Abidi – professor of electrical engineering; pioneer of CMOS RF circuits; member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...

* Margaret W. "Hap" Brennecke – NASA metallurgist * M. C. Frank Chang – professor of electrical engineering; member of the

Alonzo Church Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, philosopher, professor and editor who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer scien ...

– known for the

lambda calculus Lambda calculus (also written as ''λ''-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. It is a universal model of computation th ...

used in

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

* Steven Clarke – professor of chemistry and

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

; pioneer in protein repair in aging ( L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase) *

Vijay K. Dhir Vijay K. Dhir is the former Dean of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, holding the position from March 2003 to January 2016. He is also a professor of mechanical and aeros ...

– dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering *

François Diederich François Diederich (9 July 1952, in Ettelbruck – 23 September 2020) was a Luxembourgian chemist specializing in organic chemistry. Education He obtained both his diploma and PhD (first synthesis of Kekulene) from the University of Heidelb ...

– professor of chemistry * Paul Eggert - professor of computer science on *

David Eisenberg David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist and biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology and computational molecular biology, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the earl ...

– professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of biological chemistry; Director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics *

Sergio Ferrara Sergio Ferrara (born May 2, 1945) is an Italian physicist working on theoretical physics of elementary particles and mathematical physics. He is renowned for the discovery of theories introducing supersymmetry as a symmetry of elementary particles ...

– professor of physics; co-discovered

supergravity In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory; SUGRA for short) is a modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as ...

in 1976 * Rajit Gadh – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; founder and director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center and Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium * William Gelbart – professor of chemistry and biochemistry *

– professor of astronomy; expert in the galactic center and adaptive optics;

Crafoord Prize The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. The Prize is awarded in partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord Foun ...

recipient *

Sheila Greibach Sheila Adele Greibach (born 6 October 1939 in New York City) is a researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Lo ...

– professor of computer science, known for the

Greibach normal form In formal language theory, a context-free grammar is in Greibach normal form (GNF) if the right-hand sides of all production rules start with a terminal symbol, optionally followed by some variables. A non-strict form allows one exception to this f ...

* A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist; member,

Nobel Committee for Physics The Nobel Committee for Physics is the Nobel Committee responsible for proposing laureates for the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Steve Horvath Steve Horvath is a German–American aging researcher, geneticist, and biostatistician. As the familyname Horváth indicates, he is of hungarian ancestry. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles known for developing the H ...

- professor of human genetics * Kendall Houk – professor of chemistry *

Tatsuo Itoh Tatsuo Itoh (1940-2021) was Professor and holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught and conducted ...

– professor of electrical engineering; member of the

* Michael E. Jung – professor of chemistry * Richard Kaner – professor of chemistry *

Alan Kay Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) d ...

– professor of computer science; Turing Award laureate * John Kim – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; member of the

* Margaret Kivelson – professor of

space physics Space physics, also known as solar-terrestrial physics or space-plasma physics, is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere ( aeronomy) and within the Solar System. As such, it encompasses a far-ranging number of ...

; expert in planetary magnetospheres; member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...

Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...

– professor of computer science; Internet pioneer; recipient of the 2007

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

* William Scott Klug – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; killed in the 2016 UCLA shooting * Raphael David Levine – professor of chemistry * Tung Hua Lin – professor of civil and environmental engineering; designer of China's first twin-engine aircraft *

Seymour Lubetzky Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898 – April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Biography Born in the Russian Empire as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher befo ...

– professor of library and information science *

Donald A. Martin Donald Anthony Martin (born December 24, 1940), also known as Tony Martin, is an American set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA, where he is an emeritus professor of mathematics and philosophy. Education and career Martin receiv ...

– professor of mathematics and philosophy * Mildred Esther Mathias – professor of botany (1962 – 1974), eponym of the campus' Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden * Jordan Mendler - professor of applied statistics and quantitative economics * William V. Mayer – professor of zoology *

Carlo Montemagno Carlo Montemagno (August 7, 1956 – October 11, 2018) was an American engineer and expert in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering, focusing on futuristic technologies to create interdisciplinary solutions for the grand challenges in health ...

– Associate Director, California Nanosystems Institute; Founding Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Carol and Roy Doumani Professor of Biomedical Engineering (2001-2006); Father of Bionanotechnology * Stanley F. Nelson - processor of human genetics * Henry John Orchard – professor of electrical engineering; pioneer of the field of filter design * Mangalore Anantha Pai – power engineer,

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar OBE, FNI, FASc, FRS, FRIC, FInstP (21 February 1894 – 1 January 1955) was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Indust ...

laureate * Stott Parker - Professor of computer science *

Judea Pearl Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief ...

– professor of computer science; pioneer of

Bayesian network A Bayesian network (also known as a Bayes network, Bayes net, belief network, or decision network) is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Bay ...

s and the probabilistic approach to

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

; Turing Award laureate *

Roberto Peccei Roberto Daniele Peccei (; January 6, 1942 – June 1, 2020) was a theoretical particle physicist whose principal interests lay in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology. He was mo ...

– professor of physics; former dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences;

Sakurai Prize The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award ($10,000 U ...

recipient *

Theodore M. Porter Theodore M. Porter (born 1953) is a professor who specializes in the history of science in the Department of History at UCLA. He has authored several books, including ''The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900''; and ''Trust in Numbers: The ...

– professor of history of science *

Abraham Robinson Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorpo ...

– professor of mathematics and philosophy *

Leonard H. Rome Leonard H. Rome is a cell biologist and biochemist who has been a faculty member of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, since he joined the Department of Biological Chemistry there, in 1979. He became a full professor in 1988 and has als ...

- professor of biochemistry; former dean of the medical school * Joseph Rudnick – professor of physics; former dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences *

Amit Sahai Amit Sahai (born 1974) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at UCLA and the director of the Center for Encrypted Functionalities. Biography Amit Sahai was born in 1974 in Thousand Oaks, California, to parents wh ...

- professor of computer science * Arnold Scheibel - professor of psychiatry and neuroanatomy *

– professor of mathematics; known for the

Shapley value The Shapley value is a solution concept in cooperative game theory. It was named in honor of Lloyd Shapley, who introduced it in 1951 and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for it in 2012. To each cooperative game it assigns a uniq ...

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

* Elizabeth Stern – professor of

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...

* Ernst G. Straus – professor of mathematics *

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

– professor of mathematics;

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...

ist in 2006;

recipient *

Sarah Tolbert Sarah Helen Tolbert is an American chemist who is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers self-assembled nanomaterials, which includes inorganic phases and ...

– professor of chemistry * Jean L. Turner – professor of astronomy and physics * Edward Wright – professor of astronomy; expert in cosmology and infrared astronomy; member of the

* Jeffrey Zink – professor of chemistry and biochemistry

Social science, arts and humanities

* Rogers Albritton – late professor of philosophy *

Perry Anderson Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) is a British intellectual, historian and essayist. His work ranges across historical sociology, intellectual history, and cultural analysis. What unites Anderson's work is a preoc ...

- Marxist historian; professor emeritus of History and Sociology * Carol Aneshensel - sociologist; professor and vice chair for the Department of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health *

Joyce Appleby Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997). Lif ...

– U.S. historian; specialist in intellectual history and the legacy of liberalism *

Ann Bergren Ann Bergren (7 October 1942 – 10 May 2018) was Professor of Greek literature, Literary Theory, and Contemporary Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her scholarship on Ancient Greek language, gender, and contem ...

– professor of

Greek Literature Greek literature () dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving writte ...

, winner in 1988 of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award. *

William Bodiford William M. Bodiford (born December 3, 1955) is an American professor and author. He teaches Buddhist Studies and the religion of Japan and East Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles. Education and early career In his section "Acknowle ...

– professor of

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

and

Buddhist studies Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Budd ...

Tyler Burge Tyler Burge (; born 1946) is an American philosopher who is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. Burge has made contributions to many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, philosop ...

, Professor, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences *

Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...

– professor of jazz studies; jazz guitarist and composer *

Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap (; ; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. He ...

– late professor of the

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

– pioneer in the philosophy of language and computer science *

James Smoot Coleman James Smoot Coleman (4 February 1919 – 20 April 1985) was an American scholar, professor and administrator in political science, but more specifically in African studies. He is noted for two of his books, ''Nigeria: Background to Nationalism''C ...

– Africanist; founded the UCLA African Studies Center *

Brian Copenhaver Brian P. Copenhaver (born December 21, 1942) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at The University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches and writes about philosophy, religion and science in late medieval and early moder ...

– emeritus historian of philosophy *

Denis Cosgrove Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948, in Liverpool – 21 March 2008, in Los Angeles) was a distinguished British cultural geographer and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before this, he was Professor of Human Ge ...

– Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography *

James Cuno James "Jim" Bash Cuno (born April 6, 1951 in St. Louis) is an American art historian and curator. From 2011–22 Cuno served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Career A native of St. Louis, Cuno received ...

– Director of the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of ...

– assistant professor of philosophy, fired in 1969 by the

Board of Regents In the United States, a board often governs institutions of higher education, including private universities, state universities, and community colleges. In each US state, such boards may govern either the state university system, individual col ...

and California Governor

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

for her membership in the Communist Party *

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books ''The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); ...

– professor of geography and

physiology Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

-winning author of '' Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies'' * Keith Donnellan – late professor of philosophy * Frederick Erickson – professor emeritus of educational anthropology * Kit Fine – former professor of philosophy * Philippa Foot – late professor of philosophy * Steven Forness – Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences * Andrea Fraser – professor of interdisciplinary studio * Saul Friedländer – European historian; specialist in Holocaust studies * Lowell Gallagher – literary theorist * James Gimzewski – physicist and nanotechnology pioneer * Carlo Ginzburg – European historian; pioneer of microhistory * Juan Gómez-Quiñones – U.S. historian; specialist in Chicano history * Lev Hakak – Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at UCLA * N. Katherine Hayles –

* Barbara Herman – professor of philosophy * Thomas Hines (architectural historian), Thomas Hines – architectural historian; professor emeritus * James N. Hill (1934–1997) – Processual archaeology, processualist archaeologist * Darnell Hunt (PhD UCLA) – Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Dean of Social Sciences * Neil Peter Jampolis – professor of theater Design; Tony Award Winning Designer; Director and Designer of Theater, Dance, and Opera * Donald Kalish – late professor of philosophy * Abraham Kaplan – late professor of philosophy * David Kaplan (philosopher), David Kaplan – professor of the

* Edmond Keller – professor of political science; African studies, Africanist * Harold Kelley (1921–2003) – professor of psychology; social psychologist * Mark Kleiman – professor of public policy, expert on crime and drug policy * Peter Kollock (1959–2009) – associate professor of sociology, specialist in collaboration and online participation in Virtual community, virtual communities * Peter Ladefoged – professor of linguistics, specialist in phonetics * Deborah Nadoolman Landis — professor of costume design; Oscar-nominated costume designer of ''Coming to America''; founding director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design * David Kellogg Lewis – former assistant professor of philosophy * Barbara Kruger – professor of new genres, recipient of the Leone D’Or award from the Venice Biennale * Ole Ivar Lovaas – professor of psychology, specialist in applied behavior analysis therapy for autism * Michael Mann (sociologist), Michael Mann – professor of sociology; author of ''The Sources of Social Power'' volumes I and II * Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma – Zambian musicologist * Julián Marías – philosopher, opponent of Francisco Franco, author of ''History of Philosophy'' * Thom Mayne – professor of architecture, architect, co-founder of firm named Morphosis * Susan McClary – musicologist; prominent in the new musicology, new-musicology movement;

; works have been translated into over twelve languages; wrote ''Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality'' * Vasa Mihich – professor of design and media arts; artist and sculptor * Richard Montague – late professor of philosophy * Charles Moore (architect), Charles Moore – professor of architecture, author and architect, Beverly Hills Civic Center * Richard Thacker Morris (1917–1981) – chairman of the sociology department, author * Donald Neuen – professor of choral studies; conductor; apprentice of Robert Shaw (conductor), Robert Shaw * Calvin Normore – professor of philosophy * Karen Orren – professor of political science; noted for her work in American political development * Catherine Opie – professor of photography and recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship * Terence Parsons – professor of philosophy * John Perry (philosopher), John Perry – former professor of philosophy * Lari Pittman – distinguished professor of painting * Hans Reichenbach – late professor of philosophy * Amy Richlin – professor in Department of Classics * Amy Rowat - Associate professor of biophysics and Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair in Food Studies * Walter H. Rubsamen – professor of musicology * Teofilo Ruiz – European historian; specialist in medieval history *

– former professor of philosophy; taught as a guest lecturer for one year * David Schaberg – Dean of Humanities * Arnold Schoenberg – professor of music; composer * Seana Shiffrin – professor of philosophy and law known for her work in legal and moral philosophy * Josef von Sternberg – taught film aesthetics * Shelley Taylor – professor of psychology; social psychologist * Dominic Thomas (academic), Dominic Thomas – chair of the department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA * Eugen Weber – historian; author of ''Peasants Into Frenchmen'' * Luc E. Weber – Rector Emeritus of the University of Geneva * Dixon Wecter – professor of English (1939 to 1945). * Louis Jolyon West – professor of psychiatry; specialist in brainwashing * Gerald Wilson – professor of ethnomusicology, jazz studies; jazz composer, arranger and musician * Eugene Victor Wolfenstein – professor of political science; author of ''Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork'' * Roy Bin Wong – professor of history; pioneer in modern Chinese economic history * Medha Yodh – professor of classical Indian dance * John Zaller – political scientist; author of ''The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion'' * Amy Zegart – professor of public policy and U.S. intelligence analyst; author of ''Spying Blind''

Athletics

Athletic directors

*Fred Cozens – Director of Physical Education and Athletics (1919–1942), first basketball (1919–1921) and football (1919) head coach *Dan Guerrero, B.A. 1974 – athletic director (2002–2020) *Martin Jarmond – athletic director (2020–present) *Wilbur Johns, 1925 – athletic director (1948–1963), men's basketball head coach (1939–1948), basketball player *J. D. Morgan – athletic director (1963–1979), head tennis coach (1949–1966), tennis player (1938–1941)

Basketball coaches

*Steve Alford – men's basketball head coach (2013–2018) *Frank Arnold (basketball), Frank Arnold – men's basketball assistant coach (1971–1975) *Gene Bartow – men's basketball head coach (1975–1977) *Larry Brown (basketball), Larry Brown – men's basketball head coach (1979–1981), List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Basketball Hall of Fame *Tasha Butts – women's basketball assistant coach *Nikki Caldwell – women's basketball head coach (2008–2011) *Cori Close – women's basketball head coach (2011–present), women's basketball head coach (1993–1995) *Mick Cronin (basketball), Mick Cronin – men's basketball head coach (2019–present) *Denny Crum, 1958 – men's basketball assistant coach (1963–1971), player (1956–1958), member of the Basketball Hall of Fame *Gary Cunningham – men's basketball head coach (1977–1979), basketball player (1960–1962) *Donny Daniels – men's basketball assistant coach (2003–2010) *Larry Farmer (basketball), Larry Farmer – men's basketball head coach (1981–1984), basketball player (1970–1973) *Mark Gottfried – men's basketball assistant coach (1987–1995) *Jim Harrick – men's basketball head coach (1988–1996) *Walt Hazzard – men's basketball head coach (1984–1988), basketball player (1961–1964), NBA and Olympic player *Jack Hirsch – men's basketball assistant coach (1984–1988), player (1961–1964) *Brad Holland, B.A. 1979 – men's basketball assistant coach (1988–1992), player (1975–1979) *Michael Holton – men's basketball assistant coach (1996–2001), player (1979–1983) *Ben Howland – men's basketball head coach (2003–2013); 2006 Pac-12 Conference, Pac-10 Coach of the Year *Chad Kammerer – men's basketball assistant coach *Kerry Keating – men's basketball assistant coach (2003–2007) *Steve Lavin – men's basketball head coach (1996–2003) *Gerald Madkins – men's basketball assistant coach, player *Phil Mathews (basketball), Philip Mathews – men's basketball assistant coach (2010–2013) *Billie Moore – women's basketball head coach (1977–1993), member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Basketball Hall of Fame *Kevin O'Connor (basketball), Kevin O'Connor – men's basketball assistant coach (1979–1984) *Kathy Olivier – women's basketball head coach (1993–2008), women's basketball head coach (1986–1993) *Lorenzo Romar – men's basketball assistant coach (1992–1996) *Jim Saia – men's basketball assistant coach (1996–2003) *Ivo Simović – men's basketball assistant coach (2022–present) *Kenny Washington (basketball), Kenny Washington – first women's basketball head coach (1974), basketball player (1963–1966) *Greg White (basketball coach), Greg White – men's basketball assistant coach (1995–1996) *Sidney Wicks – men's basketball assistant coach (1984–1988), player (1968–1971) *John Wooden – men's basketball head coach (1948–1975), won 10 NCAA championships, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a List of players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, player and List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, coach *Caddy Works – men's basketball head coach (1921–1939) *Ernie Zeigler – men's basketball assistant coach (2003–2006)

Football coaches

*Sal Alosi – strength and conditioning coordinator *Jerry Azzinaro – defensive coordinator (2018–2021) *Dino Babers – assistant head coach (2004–2007) *William F. Barnes – head football coach (1958–1964) *Eric Bieniemy – running backs coach (2003–2005) *Gary Blackney – assistant coach (1978–1979) *Sam Boghosian – assistant coach (1957–1964), player (1952–1954) *Tom Bradley (American football), Tom Bradley – defensive coordinator (2015–2017) *James J. Cline – head football coach (1923–1924) *George W. Dickerson – interim head football coach (1958) *Terry Donahue – head football coach (1976–1995), football player (1965–1966), member of the

*Karl Dorrell – head football coach (2003–2007), football player (1983–1986) *Justin Frye – offensive line coach (2018–2021), offensive coordinator (2019–2021) *Edwin C. Horrell – head football coach (1939–1944), member of the College Football Hall of Fame *Mike Johnson (American football coach), Mike Johnson – interim head coach (2011) *Chip Kelly – head football coach (2018-present), former NFL coach *Ed Kezirian – interim head football coach (2002), football player *Adrian Klemm – run game coordinator and offensive line coach *Bert LaBrucherie, 1929 – head football coach (1945–1948), football player (1926–1928) *Demetrice Martin – defensive backs coach *Noel Mazzone – offensive coordinator (2012-2015) *Bill McGovern (American football), Bill McGovern – defensive coordinator (2022–present) *Jim L. Mora – head football coach (2012–2017) *Rick Neuheisel, B.A. 1984 – head football coach (2008–2011), football player (1980–1983) *Kennedy Polamalu – running backs coach *Tommy Prothro – head football coach (1965–1970), member of the College Football Hall of Fame *Pepper Rodgers – head football coach (1971–1973) *Henry Russell Sanders – head football coach (1949–1957) *Lou Spanos – defensive coordinator (2012–2013) *William H. Spaulding – head football coach (1925–1938) *Bob Toledo – head football coach (1996–2002) *Harry Trotter – head football coach (1920–1922), track coach (1919–1946) *Jeff Ulbrich – assistant head coach *Dick Vermeil – head football coach (1974–1975) *DeWayne Walker – interim head football coach (2007) *Eric Yarber – wide receivers coach

Miscellaneous coaches

* Elvin C. Drake – head sports trainer, 1942–1972; head track and field coach, 1947–1964, winning the NCAA championship in 1956; coached decathletes

and

during the 1960 Summer Olympics, in which they won the gold and silver medals; UCLA's Drake Stadium (UCLA), Drake Stadium named in his honor *

– men's and women's water polo coach, won nine NCAA championships; assistant coach, won one NCAA championship; UCLA water polo player, won 1995 NCAA championship * Al Scates – men's volleyball coach, won 19 NCAA championships * John Smith (sprinter), John Smith – track and field coach, inventor of the drive phase and world record holder at event

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