List of San Francisco State University people
This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of San Francisco State University.
Alumni
Entertainment
- Jack Angel - voice actor
- Kari Byron - artist, cast member on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters[1]
- Vernon Chatman - Member of art collective/rock band PFFR, Creator of Wonder Showzen & Xavier.[2]
- Tory Belleci - special effects engineer and cast member on MythBusters[3]
- Annette Bening - Academy Award-nominated actress, American Beauty, The American President[4]
- Dana Carvey - comedian[5]
- Peter Casey - Emmy Award winning producer and writer, Frasier, Cheers, The Jeffersons, Wings[6]
- Glen Charles - writer-producer[7]
- Peter Coyote - actor and author[8]
- Keir Dullea - actor[9]
- Walt Dohrn - actor, voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After
- Danny Glover - actor[10]
- Daren Kagasoff - actor[11]
- John Lee - Member of art collective/rock band PFFR, Co-creator of Wonder Showzen & Xavier.[12]
- Delroy Lindo - actor[13]
- Rex Navarette - comedian[14]
- Harry Shum, Jr. - actor/dancer, Glee
- Jeffrey Tambor - actor[15]
- B.D. Wong - actor[16]
- Steven Zaillian - Academy Award winning screenwriter. Wrote screenplay of Schindler's List.[17]
- Greg Proops - award winning, world renowned comedian and improviser best known for the hit improvisational show Whose Line is it Anyway?.
- Jonas RIvera - producer of "Up"
- Alex Borstein - actress
Music
- Vince Guaraldi - jazz musician and composer of the Peanuts cartoon music[18]
- Kirk Hammett - Metallica lead guitarist.[19]
- Johnny Mathis - musician[20]
- Janet Weiss- the drummer of Sleater-Kinney
- Noah Georgeson- musician and producer
Business
- Barnaby Dorfman - founder and CEO of Foodista.com
- Manny Mashouf - founder of bebe stores inc. clothing retail shops[21]
Journalism
- Ken Bastida - news anchor for KPIX[22]
- Ben Fong-Torres - writer, broadcaster, editor at Rolling Stone[23]
- Stan Bunger - morning co-anchor at KCBS All News 740/FM 106.9
- Mark Arnold - self-published author
- Cyrus Saatsaz - KNBR Creative Director, host of The Extreme Scene, action sports writer
- Alexandra Haslam Russell - Editor
- Josh Wolf - independent journalist who videotaped an anti-G8 anarchist protest in San Francisco in 2005
Politics
- Willie Brown - member and 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, California[24]
- John L. Burton - former president pro tempore of the California State Senate[25]
- Ron Dellums - mayor of Oakland and former U.S. Representative from 1971-1998[26]
- Keith Kerr - military general and gay rights activist [27]
- Saeb Erekat - Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee.[28][29]
- Kathleen Martinez - Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy
Science
- Geoff Marcy - discoverer of more than 150 extra-solar planets
- Dan Werthimer - co-founder and chief scientist of SETI@home
Other
- Richard Melo - Author of Jokerman 8, a novel set at San Francisco State University
- Yvonne Cagle - NASA astronaut[30]
- Russell Leong - author and philosopher
- Stephen Gaskin - author, teacher, public speaker, political activist, and philanthropic organizer.[31]
- Gerald Haslam - novelist, essayist, writer, public speaker
- Kate Small, writer
Faculty
- John Keith Irwin, (1929–2010) - Professor of sociology[32]
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Salon.com "Showzen People" article
- ^ Tory Belleci - bio
- ^ SFSU Alumni Association - Hall of Fame, 1996 Inductees
- ^ http://danacarvey.net - Biography
- ^ [http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy00/100.htm SFSU Public Affairs Press Release - Frasier producer, Oakland schools superintendent selected to SFSU Alumni Hall of Fame]
- ^ www.sfsu.edu - bebe founder & chairman Manny Mashouf named SFSU Alumnus of the Year
- ^ Biography - Peter Coyote
- ^ Keir Dullea Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ SFSU Public Affairs Press Release - Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University
- ^ Daren Kagasoff on TV.com
- ^ Salon.com "Showzen People" article
- ^ [2]
- ^ Golden Gate XPress - Saving lives - one laugh at a time
- ^ Jeffrey Tambor Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ B. D. Wong - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
- ^ "Steven Zaillian to Receive Distinguished Screenwriter Award at 2009 Austin Film Festival". Austin Film Festival.
- ^ [3]
- ^ "Metallica". Behind the Music. Season 2. Episode 9.
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- ^ [5]
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- ^ [10]
- ^ SLDN Military Advisory Council - sldn.org - Retrieved November 30, 2007
- ^ [11]
- ^ 'Politics in Palestine', Palestinian National Authority: The PA Ministerial Cabinet List, Emergency Cabinet, October 2003 - November 2003, Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre.
- ^ [12]
- ^ Miller, Timothy (1995). America's alternative religions. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press. p. 373. ISBN 0-7914-2398-0.
- ^ The Sentencing Project. "John Irwin: Scholar, Activist, Convict Criminologist." January 5, 2010.