List Of University Of California, Riverside People

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Riverside.

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

* Richard R. Schrock – Chemistry, 2005, professor at University of California, Riverside

Academia, science, and technology

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* Harmohinder Singh Gill – plant pathologist who pioneered fungus classification by disc electrophoresis
* Lynn G. Gref – technologist and systems engineer
* Matthew Haughey – blogger and founder of MetaFilter
* Marigold Linton – director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas
* Gary North – economist and author
* Arthur Riggs – director of the Beckman Research Institute and former geneticist with Genentech and father of modern biotechnology
* Pedram Salimpour – physician-scientist, author, and professor
* Bettie Steinberg – microbiologist, Chief Scientific Officer for The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
* Peter Steinberger – Dean of the Faculty at Reed College, Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities
* Tim White – professor of integrative biology and research, paleoanthropologist
* Jennifer Wilby – director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
* Charles E. Young – first UCR student body president and former chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles

Arts, film, and literature

* Earl W. Bascom – inventor, actor, rodeo cowboy, Hall of Fame inductee, international artist and sculptor
* Amine Bouhafa – Tunisian composer and engineer, winner of the 2015 César Award for Best Music for the movie ''Timbuktu''
* Steve Breen – 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
* Jamie Chung – actress, TV series '' The Real World: San Diego'' and films, such as ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'', ''Sorority Row'', ''Grown Ups'', ''The Hangover II''
* Billy Collins – eleventh US Poet Laureate
* Katherine Fugate – screenwriter Valentine's Day and creator of ''Army Wives'' TV series
* Elizabeth George – mystery writer
* Barbara Hambly – novelist and screenwriter
* Howard Hendrix – novelist
* Ryan Holiday – author of ''Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator''; director of marketing for American Apparel
* Lisa Kekaula – lead singer for The Bellrays
* Patricia Ja Lee – actress known for role as Cassie Chan as the Pink Ranger in the television series '' Power Rangers: Turbo'' and ''Power Rangers in Space''
* Nakul Dev Mahajan – choreographer
* Daryl F. Mallett – author, editor, publisher
* Steve Nguyen – film director, producer
* Ruben Quesada – poet
* Lindsay Ridgeway – actress, ''Boy Meets World''
* Charlyne Yi – actress, comedian, and performance artist (''Knocked Up'')
* Philip Michael Thomas – actor, ''Miami Vice''

Athletics

* Matt Andriese – Major League pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
* Michael Basinger – former professional football player for the Green Bay Packers
* Jennifer Bermingham – golfer
* Pat Hill – head football coach of Fresno State
* Butch Johnson – former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos
* Joe Kelly – Major League pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
* Aaron Long – professional MLS soccer player for the New York Red Bulls
* John Lowenstein – former Major League Baseball player
* Steve Lubratich – former Major League Baseball player and current Cleveland Indians Special Assistant to the GM
* AnnMaria De Mars – 1984 Judo World Champion, mother of Ronda Rousey
* Brenda Martinez – track and field athlete
* Gary McCord – professional golfer, CBS announcer and analyst and won the DII individual golf championship in 1970
* Troy Percival – all-time saves leader for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
* Dan Runzler – Major League pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
* Marc Rzepczynski – Major League pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks
* Michael Salazar – professional MLS soccer player
* Eric Show – former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics
* Chris Smith – Major League pitcher for the Oakland Athletics
* Erasmo Solorzano – professional MLS soccer player for the Chivas USA acquired in the 2007 draft
* Brendan Steele – professional golfer on the PGA Tour

Business, politics, and law

* David S. Cunningham, Jr. – Los Angeles City Council member, 1973–87
* Eduardo Garcia – current California State Assemblyman for the 56th District
* Gloria Romero – former State Senate Majority Whip, former California Assembly member, 49th District
* Holly J. Mitchell – current California State Senator for the 30th and 26th (2013–2014) District, former California State Assemblymember to the 54th and 47th (2010–2012) Districts
* Jose Medina – current California State Assemblyman for the 61st District
* Julie Furuta-Toy – current U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea
* Ken Mettler – past President of the California Republican Assembly
* Lloyd Levine – former California State Assemblyman for the 40th District
* Marc Steinorth – current California State Assemblyman for the 40th District
* Mark Takano – current U.S. House of Representative for the 41st District
* Michael Huerta – former Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
*Paul Cook – former U.S. Member of Congress for the CA-08 district, current Supervisor for San Bernardino County
* Rod Pacheco – former Riverside County District Attorney, California Assembly member
* Ronald Neumann – former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
* Ruben Barrales – deputy assistant to President Bush and director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House, former San Mateo County supervisor
* Sabrina Cervantes – current California State Assemblywoman for the 60th District
* Stefanie Schaeffer – defense attorney, 2006 winner of Donald Trump's reality show, ''The Apprentice''

Other

* Jeff Cooper – creator of the modern technique of shooting; firearms expert who defined the modern scout rifle
* James Holmes – gunman in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting; currently serving a life sentence for murder
* Shruti Kapoor – economist, women's right's activist, and social entrepreneur
* Anil Raj – humanitarian activist killed in 2019 in a terrorist attack in Kabul while working for U.N.

Notable faculty

* Chris Abani – professor of creative writing and recipient of the Pen Center Freedom to Write Award, Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
* Reza Aslan – Professor of Creative Writing, writer, producer, critic, religion scholar, television celebrity James Joyce Award
* John Baez – professor of mathematics, mathematical physicist
* Alexander A. Balandin – professor of electrical engineering
* Lindon W. Barrett – professor and cultural theorist
* Bir Bhanu – Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems
* Alfred M. Boyce – first dean of the College of Agriculture
* Patricia Cardoso – Award-winning filmmaker, Professor of Film
* Christopher Chase-Dunn – sociologist, contributor to world-systems theory
* Sean Cutler – plant scientist noted for discovery of pyrabactin
* Mike Davis – Emeritus Professor, urban theorist and author MacArthur Fellow in 1998. He won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
* James H. Dieterich – Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, member of the National Academy of Sciences
* Josh Emmons – American novelist
* Steve Erickson – Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, American author, essayist, critic Lannan Literary Award Guggenheim
* John Martin Fischer – professor of philosophy, Vice-President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, primary proponent of semi-compatibilism
* Katie Ford – American Poet
* Theodore Garland, Jr. – a founder of the field of evolutionary physiology
* Gail Hanson – Distinguished Professor of Physics
* Allison Adelle Hedge Coke – Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, poet, writer, editor, China's First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award, a Witter Bynner Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholar, American Book Award,
* Juan Felipe Herrera – Emeritus Professor, poet, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair, National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN USA Poetry Award, American Book Award, California State Poet Laureate, United States Poet Laureate
* Ivan Hinderaker – former chancellor
* Nalo Hopkinson – Professor of Creative Writing, science fiction and fantasy writer Andre Norton Award and British Fantasy Award
* Theodore L. Hullar – former chancellor
* Laila Lalami – professor, Pulitzer Prize finalist
* Perry Link – Chancellorial Chair, professor of China Studies
* Ronald O. Loveridge – Mayor of Riverside, California
* Tom Lutz – Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, author, literary critic, founder and editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books
* Robert Nisbet – conservative sociologist and early Dean of Letters and Science at UCR
* John W. Olmsted – first chairman of the Humanities division
*Raymond L. Orbach – former chancellor and first Under Secretary of Energy for Science
* Michelle H. Raheja – Associate Professor of English, autobiography, visual culture, and film critic, Director of California Center for Native Nations, Fulbright Scholar awarded the first annual Emory Elliott Book Award
* Robert Rosenthal – professor of psychology, former chair of Harvard's psychology department
* Irwin Sherman – professor of biology, specializing in malariology
* George Edgar Slusser – professor of comparative literature, science fiction expert
* Andrea Smith – Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Nobel Peace Prize nominee
* Jane Smiley – Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, writer, Pulitzer Prize winning author
* Harry Scott Smith – entomologist
* Susan Straight – Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, writer, National Book Award finalist Lannan Literary Award
* Karl Taube – professor of anthropology, specializing in research into pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
* Bob Toledo – former UCR football coach, 13th head coach of UCLA
* John V. Tunney – professor of business law, former United States Senator and member of Congress
* Jonathan H. Turner – sociologist, one of the last remaining grand theorists in the discipline, author of ''Structure of Sociological Theory'' and ''Emergence of Sociological Theory''
* Seymour Van Gundy – former dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
* Georgia Warnke – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for Ideas and Society

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