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Lists of notable alumni, faculty, and current students of the University of California, Los Angeles.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Nobel laureates

Ralph Bunche in 1963

Ralph Bunche – Peace, 1950
Richard F. Heck – Chemistry, 2010
Bruce Merrifield – Chemistry, 1984
Elinor Ostrom – Economics, 2009
Glenn T. Seaborg – Chemistry, 1951
William Sharpe – Economics, 1990

[edit] Academia, science and technology

Allen Adham, B.S. Engineering, 1990 – co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment^[1]^[2]
Sara Alpern, M.A. History, 1968 – professor of feminist history at Texas A&M University
William Arveson – mathematician; professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley
Guido Tabellini, Ph.D. 1984 - Rector of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Molefi Kete Asante, Ph.D. 1968 – Professor of African American Studies at Temple University, founder of the theory of Afrocentricity
June Bacon-Bercey, B.S. 1954, M.S. 1955 - expert on weather, first African American as well as first woman to be awarded the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval. ^[3]
Paul Baran, M.S. 1959 – Internet pioneer
Barry Boehm, M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1964 – computer scientist; designed the COCOMO model in software engineering
Vinton Cerf, M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1972 – Internet pioneer; recipient of the Turing Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom; frequently called the "Father of the Internet"
Steven N. S. Cheung – former head of School of Economics and Finance at University of Hong Kong
Juan Cole – professor of history at the University of Michigan
Steve Crocker, B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1977 – Internet pioneer
Walter Cunningham, B.A. 1960, M.A. 1961 – astronaut; lunar module pilot
Robert von Dassanowsky – professor of German and film studies at University of Colorado; film and cultural historian; film producer
Mike Davis – writer, urban theorist and creative writing professor at UC Riverside
Edward Diller - B.A. 1953, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon
Glenn S. Dumke, Ph.D. 1942 – historian, chancellor of the California State University
Eliza T. Dresang, MA in information and library sciences
Charles Elachi, M.S. 1983 – director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Larry J. Estrada, Ph.D. 1990 - Professor and President of The National Association for Ethnic Studies 2002 - 2010
Thomas Everhart, M.S. 1955 – physicist and former president of CalTech
Anna Lee Fisher, B.S. 1971, M.D. 1976 – astronaut
Claude S. Fischer, B.A. 1968, sociologist; professor of sociology at the UC Berkeley
Biruté Galdikas, B.S. 1966, M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1978 – primatologist; considered the world's foremost expert in primatology
Louis M. Goldstein, Ph.D. 1977 – professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale University
Marc L. Greenberg, B.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1990, – professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Kansas
David Ho – physician and AIDS researcher; TIME magazine's 1996 Person of the Year
John Keith Irwin, (1929–2010), B.A. – Author and professor of sociology at San Francisco State University^[4]
Charlie Jackson, B.A. 1972 – co-founder of FutureWave Software which created Adobe Flash
Kay Redfield Jamison – writer and psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University
Maulana Karenga – former chairperson of the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach and founder of Kwanzaa
Ed Krupp, Ph.D. 1972; astronomer and author, director of Griffith Observatory
Jim Lanzone - President of CBS Interactive ^[5]
Ralph Larkin – Sociologist, Ph.D. 1969
Steven Lehrer - medical researcher and writer
Garrett Lisi – theoretical physicist
Elizabeth Loftus – psychologist; professor at University of California, Irvine and influential for her studies on human memory
Geoffrey Marcy – astronomer; professor of physics and astronomy at University of California, Berkeley
Nathan Myhrvold, B.A. and M.S. 1979 – former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft; member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Advanced Study
Michael Morhaime, B.S. 1990 – co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment^[1]^[2]
Steven Muller – former president of Johns Hopkins University
Story Musgrave, M.B.A. 1959 – astronaut
David Nagel, Ph.D. – former President and CEO of PalmSource
Hugh Nibley, B.A., History; prolific writer and influential scholar; Professor of Ancient Studies, Brigham Young University
David A. Patterson, A.B. (1960), M.S. (1970), Ph.D. (1976) – professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley; one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID
Frank Pearce, B.S. 1990 – co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment^[1]^[2]
John L. Phillips – astronaut
George C. Pimentel, B.S. 1943 – former professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley; inventor of the chemical laser; namesake of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education (originally sponsored by Dow Chemical and currently by Rohm and Haas), namesake of the Pimental Hall at UC Berkeley
James D. Plummer, B.S. 1966 – dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University
Jon Postel, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1974 – Internet pioneer
Alvin F. Poussaint – professor of psychiatry at Harvard University
Hilary Putnam – philosopher of mind, language and mathematics; philosophy professor at Harvard University
Henry Samueli, B.S. 1975, M.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1980 – professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles; co-founder of Broadcom; namesake of the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science; namesake of the University of California, Irvine School of Engineering
Elliott See, M.S. 1962 – astronaut
Richard A. Tapia – mathematician, advocate for under-represented minorities in science education; professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University
Paul Terasaki – organ transplant medicine and tissue typing
Marc Tremblay, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1991 – Chief Architect at Sun Microsystems, co-designer of several of their microprocessors
Taylor Wang, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 – astronaut, professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University
Fred Whipple, B.S. 1927 – astronomer, proposed the dirty snowball theory of the composition of comets, namesake of the Whipple Observatory in Arizona,
Charles E. Young, M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1960 – former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles

[edit] Arts and literature

Catherine Asaro – Nebula Award winning science fiction novelist
James Robert Baker – novelist
Gary Baseman – artist
Slater Bradley - artist
Judy Chicago – artist and educator
Jennifer Dalton – artist
Gerald Davis – painter
Jacques Ehrmann – literary theorist
Dan Eldon – photojournalist
Kelly Grovier – poet and literary critic
Sam Harris – writer
Diane Johnson – novelist
Craig Kauffman – artist
Jonathan Kellerman – Edgar Award-winning novelist and psychologist
Gaylord Larsen – mystery writer
Russell Leong – author and philosopher of Asian American studies
Agnes de Mille – dancer and choreographer
Alexandra Nechita – painter
Raymond Pettibon – punk artist most popular for creating the cover art of Black Flag albums
Kay Ryan – United States Poet Laureate
Harry Turtledove – Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction novelist
Barbara Brooks Wallace – award-winning children's author

[edit] Film, television, and theatre

Moustapha Akkad – film producer
Sean Astin – actor

Sean Astin was a 2011 Commencement speaker at UCLA

Carroll Ballard – film director
Sunkrish Bala – actor
Carol Barbee – television producer
Xander Bennett - screenwriter and author
Elizabeth Berkley – actress
Sarah Uriarte Berry – actress/singer
Mayim Bialik – actress (Blossom)
Dustin Lance Black – Academy Award winning screenwriter; Milk
Jack Black – actor, comedian, and musician
Shane Black – screenwriter; wrote Lethal Weapon and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
Lo Bosworth – actress, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills
Beau Bridges – actor
Lloyd Bridges – actor
Alexander Brown - model and actor
Carol Burnett – actress and comedian
Charles Burnett – film director
Todd Burns – producer of "The Stoning of Soraya M"
Michael Burns – child star of Wagon Train and professor emeritus in history, Mount Holyoke College
Nancy Cartwright – Emmy Award winning actress; voice of Bart Simpson
Doug Chiang – Academy Award winning film production designer
James Coburn – Academy Award winning actor
Josh Cooke – actor, Better With You
Eleanor Coppola – Emmy Award winning documentarian
Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter; co-wrote and directed the Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now
Alex Cox – film director and screenwriter; wrote and directed Repo Man and Sid and Nancy
Julie Dash – film director; wrote and directed Daughters of the Dust
Jonathan Dayton – film director; co-directed Little Miss Sunshine
James Dean – Academy Award-nominated actor
Robert Englund – actor (Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise)
Josh Evans – actor, director, producer
Hal Fishman – Longest running news anchor in American television. KTLA 5 News Los Angeles.
Will Forte – actor and comedian
James Franco – actor
Eddie Frierson – actor
Alex Gibney – documentary filmmaker
Dan Gordon – screenwriter
Christopher Gorham – actor
Horace Hahn – actor
Kristin Hanggi – Tony Award-nominated theatre director
Chris Hardwick – television personality, host of Wired Science
Catherine Hardwicke – film director and screenwriter
Mariska Hargitay – Emmy Award-winning actress, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mark Harmon – actor, played quarterback for the UCLA football team from 1971–73; graduated with a BA in Communication, cum laude, 1974
Kayo Hatta – film director; Picture Bride
Felicia D. Henderson - television producer, writer, and director, and co-creator of Soul Food
Michael Hitchcock – actor (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Serenity )
Allan Hunt – film, television and stage actor
John Ireland, sportscaster
Anne-Marie Johnson - actress
Judy Kaye – Tony award winning actress and singer
Walter Koenig – actor (Star Trek)
David Koepp – screenwriter
Mila Kunis - actress (That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan)
Carlos Lacámara – actor
Christine Lakin – actress (Step by Step)
Carol Lin – CNN News Anchor
Justin Lin – filmmaker; co-wrote and directed Better Luck Tomorrow
Heather Locklear – actress
Allan Loeb – screenwriter and film producer
Josie Lopez – actress on Make It or Break It
Masiela Lusha – actress/writer
Meredith MacRae – actress
Jayne Mansfield – actress and model
Frank Marshall – film producer
Doug McClure – actor
Elizabeth McGovern – actress
Danica McKellar – actress (The Wonder Years)
Scott Mechlowicz – actor
Darius Mehrjui – film director
Victor Millan - actor and professor
Emud Mokhberi – Academy Award nominated director, photographer
Niels Mueller – film director and screenwriter
Matt Nix – writer / producer ("Burn Notice")
Lisa Onodera – film producer (Picture Bride, The Debut, Day of Independence, Americanese)
John Orloff – screenwriter
Danielle Panabaker – actress
Kay Panabaker – actress
Alexander Payne – Academy Award winning filmmaker; director and co-screenwriter of Election, About Schmidt and Sideways
Nasim Pedrad – actress, cast member on Saturday Night Live
Kal Penn – actor
Frank Peretti - author, film producer, screenwriter
Gina Prince-Bythewood – film director and screenwriter; wrote and directed Love & Basketball
Autumn Reeser – actress

Rob Reiner in 1988

Rob Reiner – actor/film director; directed The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally...
Tim Robbins – Academy Award winning actor, filmmaker and social activist; wrote and directed Bob Roberts and Dead Man Walking
Eric Roth – Academy Award winning screenwriter
Nick Sagan – science fiction novelist and screenwriter
Paul Schrader – screenwriter and film director; wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull
Arnold Shapiro – Oscar and Emmy Award winning director and producer
Harry Shearer – actor and comedian (The Simpsons)
Dax Shepard – actor
Sanjeeda Sheikh - Indian television actress
Armin Shimerman – actor
Joel Siegel – film critic, television journalist
Brad Silberling – film director and screenwriter
David Silverman – animator, director, producer on The Simpsons, director of The Simpsons Movie, and co-director of Monsters Inc.
Tom Skerritt – Emmy Award winning actor
Darren Star – producer; creator of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sex and the City
Ben Stiller – actor and comedian
Joel Surnow – co-creator of 24
George Takei – actor (Star Trek), announcer for The Howard Stern Show
Chris Tashima – Academy Award winning director and actor
Tritia Toyota – Veteran anchor CBS 2 Los Angeles
Ham Tran – film director; Journey from the Fall
Gabrielle Union – actress
Milo Ventimiglia – actor; Heroes (TV Series), Gilmore Girls
Gore Verbinski – film director; directed the Pirates of the Caribbean films
Michael Warren – actor (Hill Street Blues)
Jaleel White- actor (Family Matters)
Amy Winfrey – artist and animator
Eric Winter – actor
Hoyt Yeatman – Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor
Caveh Zahedi – filmmaker
Daphne Zuniga – actress (Melrose Place, One Tree Hill)

[edit] Music

Sara Bareilles – singer-songwriter
Jan Berry – singer; songwriter and member of Jan & Dean
Jeff Blue – music producer; vice president of Warner California's Artists and Repertoire division
Alison Brown – Grammy Award winning banjo player
Don Davis – film score composer; worked on The Matrix trilogy
Brad Delson – Grammy Award winning guitarist of Linkin Park
Dido – singer-songwriter
Ryan Dusick – Grammy Award winning drummer of Maroon 5
John Fahey – experimental guitarist
Jill Gibson – singer and artist
Greg Ginn – guitarist of Black Flag
Kim Gordon – musician, member of Sonic Youth
Greg Graffin – lead singer of Bad Religion
James Horner – Academy, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award winning film score composer
Anthony Kiedis – singer and frontman of L.A. funk/rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mickey Madden – Grammy Award winning bass player of Maroon 5
Ron and Russell Mael – founders of the band Sparks
Ray Manzarek – keyboard player of The Doors
Maile Misajon – singer
Jim Morrison – lead singer of The Doors
Randy Newman – musician; Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Award winning film score composer
John Ondrasik – singer-songwriter; only member of Five for Fighting
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll – singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist^[6]
Kira Roessler – bass player of Black Flag
James Roh - rapper; member of Far East Movement
Laura Roppe - singer-songwriter and cancer survivor
Andy Sturmer – singer-songwriter and drummer of Jellyfish; producer for Puffy AmiYumi; composer of theme songs for Ben 10 and Teen Titans
Susie Tallman – children's musician
David Tao – singer
John Williams – Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Award winning film score composer; composed the music to the Star Wars film

[edit] Athletics

Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[edit] Golf

John Merrick – professional golfer
Corey Pavin – professional golfer, 1995 U.S. Open champion, 2010 Ryder Cup captain
Tom Pernice, Jr. – professional golfer
Duffy Waldorf – professional golfer

[edit] Soccer

Chad Barrett – forward for Los Angeles Galaxy
Carlos Bocanegra – captain of the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team; centerback for Glasgow Rangers FC in Scottish Premier League
Jonathan Bornstein – soccer player
Brad Friedel – Premier League soccer player; 2002 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year
Kevin Hartman – Major League Soccer player; two-time MLS Cup champion and 1999 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year
Jaime Hipp – water polo goalkeeper; Olympian
Patrick Ianni – Defender of Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer, U.S. olympian for 2008 Beijing Olympics
Cobi Jones – Major League Soccer player; two-time MLS Cup champion and 1998 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year
Matt Reis – Major League Soccer player
Nick Rimando – Major League Soccer player; MLS Cup champion
Sigi Schmid – soccer coach and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
Scot Thompson – Major League Soccer player; MLS Cup champion
Peter Vagenas – Major League Soccer player; MLS Cup champion
Marvell Wynne – Major League Soccer player; United States men's national soccer team player

[edit] Tennis

Arthur Ashe – tennis player and social activist; Wimbledon champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
Jimmy Connors – tennis player; two-time Wimbledon champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
Zack Fleishman – professional tennis player
Allen Fox - tennis player (ranked as high as # 4) and coach
Justin Gimelstob – professional tennis player
Kimberly Po - professional tennis player
Brian Teacher – professional tennis player
Eliot Teltscher – professional tennis player
Modesto Vazquez – professional tennis player

[edit] Track and Field

Evelyn Ashford – Olympic track and field athlete and multiple gold medalist
Ato Boldon – Olympic track and field athlete 1997 200 meter World Champion and 4 time Olympic Sprint Medalist
Gail Devers – track and field runner; multiple Olympic gold medalist
Dawn Harper – 2008 Olympics 100m Hurdles gold medalist
Joanna Hayes – Olympic gold medalist track and field 100 m hurdles record holder
Monique Henderson – track and field runner; Olympic gold medalist in 4x400 m relay
Florence Griffith Joyner – Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in 100 meters race.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee – track and field athlete, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the heptathlon
Meb Keflezighi – NCAA championships ^{[disambiguation needed ]}; New York City Marathon winner^[8]
Steve Lewis – Olympic gold medalist in track and field
Mike Powell – former Track and Field athlete, current coach and holder of the long jump world record
Yang Chuan-kwang - aka C K Yang - Former world record holder in the decathlon, silver medalist in the decathlon in Rome 1960 falling in the final event to fellow UCLA Bruin Rafer Johnson the world record holder at the time. Yang would go on to be the first man to score over 9000 points (using the tables at the time).
Rafer Johnson - several time world record holder in the decathlon, and Gold Medalist at the Olympic Games in Rome securing the gold medal in the final event over his fellow UCLA Bruin teammate C K Yang, a future world record holder in the decathlon.

[edit] Other

Alyssa Beckerman – gymnast
Mohini Bhardwaj – Olympic silver medalist in gymnastics
Tim Daggett – gymnast and 1984 Olympic gold medalist
James Ferguson – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
Lisa Fernandez – Olympic softball gold medalist
Mitch Gaylord – gymnast; 1984 Olympic gold medalist
Natalie Golda – water polo player; Olympian
Rafer Johnson – Olympic decathlon gold medalist
Tommy Kendall – race car driver and television analyst
Karch Kiraly – volleyball player; only person to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor and beach volleyball
Adam Krikorian – water polo player and coach; won 14 national titles
Michelle Kwan – world champion figure skater; record nine-time U.S. National Champion
Kristen Maloney – Olympian gymnast
Holly McPeak – beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist
Monte Nitzkowski – Olympic Water Polo coach and swimmer
Dot Richardson – softball player, Olympic gold medalist
Monte Scheinblum, 1992 U.S. National and World Long Driving Champion.^[9]
Peter Vidmar – gymnast; 1984 Olympic gold medalist
Elaine Youngs – beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist

[edit] Business and law

Val Ackerman – president of USA Basketball
Eugene Anderson – attorney
Fred D. Anderson – former CFO of Apple Computer (MBA)
John Edward Anderson – president of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
Tom Anderson – founder of MySpace
Nancy Austin – management consultant and author of The Assertive Woman.
Nathan Ballard - political strategist, attorney, and media relations expert
Stephen F. Bollenbach – CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation
Janice Rogers Brown – judge for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
Vincent Bugliosi – attorney and writer
Phil Carter – attorney, writer, and U.S. Army adviser in Iraq
Morgan Chu – attorney, intellectual property expert
Marcia Clark – attorney, lead prosecutor in O.J. Simpson murder case
Johnnie Cochran – attorney
Lynn Compton – former judge for the California Court of Appeals
Laurence D. Fink – CEO & Chairman of BlackRock
Keith Fink – attorney
Dolly Gee – U.S. District Court judge
Vinita Gupta – first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public^[10]
Sam Hamadeh – Co-Founder, Vault.com
Nita Ing – Chairman of Continental Engineering Corporation and Taiwan High Speed Rail
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – founder, chairman and CEO of ILFC
John W. Henry – money manager and principal owner of the Boston Red Sox
Ryan Lee - hedgefund manager and radio commentator
William R. Johnson – CEO, H.J. Heinz Company
Alex Kozinski – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Mitch Kupchak – general manager for the Los Angeles Lakers
Billy G. Mills (born 1929), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–74, Superior Court judge thereafter
Marvin Mitchelson – attorney
Irwin Molasky – real estate entrepreneur and early developer of Las Vegas
Dorothy W. Nelson – senior judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Michael Newdow – plaintiff in Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
Michael Ovitz – Hollywood power broker and former president of the Walt Disney Company
Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box restaurant chain
Daniel Petrocelli – attorney
Harry Pregerson – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Nobutada Saji – CEO of Suntory
Robert Sanchez – CEO and Chairman of the Board for Hexadyne Corporation
Mark S. Scarberry – professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law
Robert Shapiro – attorney
Stacey Snider – president of Dreamworks
Reid Smith – Los Angeles Area businessman and former actor
Subramaniam Ramadorai – CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services
Ronald Sugar – CEO of Northrop Grumman
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (1930–2009) – United States federal judge
A. Wallace Tashima – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Lloyd Irvin Taylor – attorney and certified public accountant
Kim McLane Wardlaw – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Horace Hahn – assisted Justice Robert H. Jackson as an interrogator in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials

[edit] Politics

[edit] A–K

Farid Abboud – ambassador of Lebanon to United States
Glenn M. Anderson – United States Representative from California (1969–1993)
Patrick Argüello – Nicaraguan-American revolutionary^[11]
Howard Berman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Tom Bradley – mayor of Los Angeles, 1973–1993
Yvonne Braithwaite Burke – Los Angeles County Supervisor
Benjamin Cayetano – Governor of Hawaii, 1994–2002
John Campbell – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Judy Chu – first Chinese-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress
James C. Corman, City of Los Angeles Councilman, member of the U.S. House of Representatives^[12]
J. Curtis Counts (1915–1999), Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.^[13]
Edmund D. Edelman, (born 1930) member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994
John Ehrlichman – assistant and counsel to the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration
Larry J. Estrada - former mayor of Fort Collins, Colorado
Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91
Dean Florez – member of the California State Senate, student body president at UCLA
Kirsten Gillibrand – Senator of New York, in the 111th Congress (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's successor)
H.R. Haldeman – Chief of Staff for the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration; a key figure in the Watergate scandal
Paul Koretz – former member of the California State Assembly, member of the Los Angeles City Council
Sheila Kuehl – member of the California State Senate

[edit] L–Z

Jerry Lewis – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
Calum MacDonald – former Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Roberto Madrazo – candidate for president of Mexico in the 2006 presidential elections
Jim Matheson – member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Utah
Tom McClintock – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
David McReynolds – activist and socialist political candidate
Lloyd Monserratt – California political and community leader
Bill Morrow – member of the California State Senate
Gordon L. Park (Class of 1961) – former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Dennis Ross – U.S. diplomat to the Middle East
Edward R. Roybal – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Brad Sherman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
William French Smith – former United States Attorney General
Todd Spitzer – member of the California State Assembly
William R. Steiger – Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Global Health Affairs in the George W. Bush administration
Ted Stevens – former senator of Alaska and alumnus to Delta Kappa Epsilon
Peggy Stevenson, Los Angeles City Council member, 1975–85
Antonio Villaraigosa – mayor of Los Angeles and former California Speaker of the Assembly
Joel Wachs (born 1939)—Los Angeles City Council member for thirty years (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City
Mimi Walters – member of the California State Assembly
Diane Watson – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Henry Waxman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Zev Yaroslavsky (born 1948), Los Angeles City Council and the county Board of Supervisors

[edit] Miscellaneous

Rodney Alcala – convicted rapist and serial killer active from 1968 to 1979 AKA the "Dating Game Killer" for his successful appearance on the The Dating Game.^[14]
Gustavo Arellano – OC Weekly writer and author of the "¡Ask a Mexican!" column.
Jules Asner – model and television personality
Rudi Bakhtiar – national news anchor
Tony Blankley – commentator on The McLaughlin Group
Joseph Blatchford – third Director of the United States Peace Corps
Judge Joe Brown – television judge
Carlos Castaneda – anthropologist and writer
Paul Colichman — founder of Here! cable TV network
Allen Cunningham – professional poker payer
Giada De Laurentiis – Food Network Chef (Every Day Italian)
Iva Toguri D'Aquino – World War II radio propagandist, "Tokyo Rose"
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (B.S., Ph.D.) – World Series of Poker main event winner and poker professional
Hal Fishman – veteran news anchor
Jonathan Gold – Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic
Josh E. Gross – publisher of Beverly Hills Weekly
Todd Harris – Republican strategist on Hardball with Chris Matthews
Frank B. James – U.S. Air Force general
Arthur Janov – psychologist, inventor of Primal Therapy
Jill Kinmont – educator, quadraplegic, alpine ski racer in 1950s
Ezra Klein – blogger, journalist (The Washington Post)
Christian Koi – Physician & Surgeon strategist on NBC Los Angeles and NBC Miami
Carol Lin – national news anchor
Laura Ling – journalist with Current TV, notable for her detainment in North Korea
Bridget Marquardt – Co-star of The Girls Next Door
Kelly Perdew – winner of The Apprentice
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
Steve Sailer (M.B.A.) – paleoconservative blogger and journalist (VDARE, Taki's Magazine)
Alan S. Thompson - Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral
Princess Ubol Ratana – of Thailand
Francis B. Wai – Medal of Honor recipient^[15]
Stephen Worth – director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project
Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol – of Thailand

[edit] Notable UCLA faculty

[edit] Nobel laureates

Paul D. Boyer – professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1997)
Donald Cram (1919–2001) – professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1987)
Louis Ignarro – professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Nobel Laureate (Medicine, 1998)
Willard Libby (1908–1980) – professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1960)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) – mathematician, philosopher and Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1950)
Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) – professor of Physics, Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1965)

[edit] Social science, arts and humanities

Joyce Appleby – U.S. historian; specialist in intellectual history and the legacy of liberalism
Kenny Burrell – professor of Jazz Studies and world renowned jazz guitarist and composer
Rudolf Carnap – professor of philosophy of language
Alonzo Church – Pioneer in philosophy of language and computer science
James Smoot Coleman – africanist, founded the UCLA African Studies Center
Neil Denari – professor of architecture
Jared Diamond – professor of geography and physiology, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Saul Friedländer – European historian; renown specialist in Holocaust studies
James Gimzewski – physicist and nanotechnology pioneer
Carlo Ginzburg – European historian; pioneer of microhistory
Juan Gomez-Quinones – U.S. historian; specialist in Chicano history
N. Katherine Hayles – noted literary critic
Thomas Hines – architectural historian; professor emeritus
James N. Hill (1934–1997) – processualist archaeologist
David Kaplan – professor of philosophy of language
Edmond Keller - professor of political science and prominent Africanist
Harold Kelley (1921–2003) – professor of psychology, prominent social psychologist
Mark Kleiman – professor of public policy; expert on crime and drug policy
Peter Kollock (1959-2009) - assoc. professor of sociology; specialist in collaboration and online participation in virtual communities
Peter Ladefoged – professor of linguistics, specialist in phonetics
Ole Ivar Lovaas – professor of psychology, specialist in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for autism
Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma – Zambian musicologist
Julián Marías – Philosopher; opponent of Francisco Franco, author of History of Philosophy
Michael Mann – professor of sociology; author of The Sources of Social Power volumes I and II
Susan McClary – American Musicologist; leading figure in the "New Musicology" movement, recipient of MacArthur Grant whose works have been translated into over 12 languages; best known for her book Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
Vasa Mihich – professor of Design | Media Arts; renowned artist and sculptor
Richard Thacker Morris (1917–1981) – professor of sociology, chairman of the sociology department, and author
Donald Neuen -conductor, professor of Choral Studies, apprentice of Robert Shaw
Karen Orren -professor of political science, noted for her work in American Political Development
Hans Reichenbach – professor of philosophy
Teofilo Ruiz – European historian; renowned specialist in Medieval history
Bertrand Russell – professor of philosophy; taught as a guest lecturer for one year
Arnold Schoenberg – professor of music, composer
Shelley Taylor – professor of psychology, prominent social psychologist
Luc E. Weber – Rector Emeritus of the University of Geneva
Louis Jolyon West – professor of psychiatry, specialist in brainwashing
Gerald Wilson – professor of Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies; prominent jazz composer, arranger, and musician
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein – professor of political science, author of Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork
Eugen Weber – historian, author of Peasants Into Frenchmen
Roy Bin Wong – professor of history, pioneer in modern Chinese economic history
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

[edit] Science and technology

A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid, Eminent Physicist, Member, Nobel Committee for Physics
Asad Ali Abidi – professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles; Pioneer of CMOS RF circuits, member of National Academy of Engineering
George O. Abell – professor of astronomy, astronomer
M. C. Frank Chang – professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles; Member of National Academy of Engineering
Alonzo Church – known for the lambda calculus used in computing
Steven Clarke – professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Pioneer in protein repair in aging (L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase)
François Diederich – professor of chemistry
Vijay K. Dhir – Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
Sergio Ferrara – professor of physics, co-discovered supergravity in 1976
Sheila Greibach – professor of computer science, known for the Greibach normal form
Kendall Houk – professor of chemistry
Tatsuo Itoh – professor of electrical engineering; Member of National Academy of Engineering
Leonard Kleinrock – professor of computer science and Internet pioneer, 2007 National Medal of Science
Alan Kay – professor of computer science and Turing Award laureate
Tung Hua Lin – professor of civil and environmental engineering, designer of China's first twin engine aircraft
Seymour Lubetzky – professor of library and information science
Henry John Orchard – professor of electrical engineering; Pioneer of the field of filter design
Judea Pearl – Professor of Computer Science; Pioneer of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence
Theodore M. Porter – professor of history of science
Lloyd Shapley – professor of mathematics, known for the Shapley value in game theory
Elizabeth Stern – professor of epidemiology
James Fraser Stoddart – professor of chemistry and biochemistry, an influential researcher with an h-index of 73
Ernst G. Straus – professor of mathematics
Terence Tao – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist in 2006

[edit] Athletics

Larry Brown – men's basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Ben Howland – current men's basketball coach; 2006 Pac-10 Coach of the year
Adam Krikorian – current men's and women's water polo coach, won 9 NCAA championships; assistant coach, won 1 NCAA Championship; former UCLA water polo player that helped lead the Bruins to the 1995 NCAA title
Al Scates – current men's volleyball coach, won 19 NCAA championships
John Wooden – men's basketball coach, won 10 NCAA championships, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame both as player and coach
John Smith – Track and Field coach, inventor of the drive phase and world record holder at 440 yards (400 m) event.

[edit] Politics

Warren Christopher – professor of foreign policy, former Secretary of State
Michael Dukakis – professor of policy studies, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 presidential candidate.
Larry Pressler – teacher and visiting fellow, former Senator from South Dakota.

[edit] Medicine

Michael S. Gottlieb – The first physician to diagnose AIDS
David Ho – AIDS researcher
Howard Judd – Menopause expert and medical researcher
Patrick Soon-Shiong – executive director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute

[edit] Business and law

Mark A.R. Kleiman – professor of public policy, noted expert on crime and drug policy
Frances Olsen – professor of law, expert on Feminist Legal Theory
William Ouchi – management professor and best-selling author
Eugene Volokh – professor of law, prominent commentator on the First Amendment
See also notable faculty at the School of Law

[edit] Current students

Errol Barnett – Entertainment reporter
Kara Lang – Bruins and Canadian international soccer player
Jeanine Mason – Winner of So you think you can dance season 5

[edit] References

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[UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06-0] M. Abraham (November 6, 2006). "UCLA Engineering Celebrates Accomplishments at Annual Awards Dinner". UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071222072355/http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2006/Awards+Dinner+2006.htm. Retrieved September 22, 2007.

[Blizzard10thAnnivesary-1] "Blizzard Entertainment 10th Anniversary Celebration". Blizzard Entertainment. http://www.blizzard.com/register/blizzard/. Retrieved September 22, 2007.

[2] "June Bacon-Bercey". Gale Contemporary Black Biography. Answers.com. http://www.answers.com/topic/june-bacon-bercey. Retrieved 11 January 2012.

[sentencingproject.org-3] "The Sentencing Project. "John Irwin: Scholar, Activist, Convict Criminologist." January 5, 2010". Sentencingproject.org. http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=838&id=167. Retrieved January 30, 2011.

[4] "Jim Lanzone Named President of CBS Interactive CBS Interactive to Acquire Clicker.com". CNBC. 2011-03-04. http://classic.cnbc.com/id/41907369.

[5] "Shakira rests hips to study at UCLA". Today.msnbc.msn.com. September 14, 2007. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20768788. Retrieved January 30, 2011.

[6] Kevin Baxter, Chase Utley buys more time for the Phillies, Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2009

[7] UCLA's Meb Keflezighi Wins New York City Marathon, Associated Press, via UCLABruins.com, November 1, 2009

[newsbank1-8] "Monte Scheinblum Shines When He's Hitting Off the Tee", Bucky Albers, Dayton Daily News, May 19, 1993. Retrieved December 23, 2010.

[Distinguished_Asian_American_business_leaders-9] Hirahara, Naomi (2003). Distinguished Asian American business leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 67–69. ISBN 1573563447, 9781573563444. http://books.google.com/books?id=fN7_zps2kQUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false.

[american-10] Public Broadcasting Service website for Hijacked, "The American Hijacker". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hijacked/sfeature/sf_american_04.html. Retrieved 2006-05-01.

[11] "CORMAN, James Charles – Biographical Information". Bioguide.congress.gov. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000780. Retrieved January 30, 2011.

[12] Thurber, Jon. "J. Curtis Counts; Labor Negotiator Headed Federal Mediation Service", Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1999. Retrieved July 2, 2009.

[13] "Convicted serial killer won on 'Dating Game'". CNN.com. March 10, 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/08/dating.game.killer/index.html?hpt=T2. Retrieved March 19, 2010.

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