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This is a list of notable alumni, faculty and current students of the American University of California, Los Angeles, located in Los Angeles, California.
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Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- Ralph Bunche – recipient of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
- Richard F. Heck – recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Robert Bruce Merrifield – recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Elinor Ostrom – recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Glenn T. Seaborg – recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- William Forsyth Sharpe – recipient of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Academia, science and technology
- A–M
- Allen Adham, B.S. Engineering, 1990 – co-founder, Blizzard Entertainment[1][2]
- Sara Alpern, M.A. History, 1968 – professor of feminist history, Texas A&M University
- William Arveson – mathematician; professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- Guido Tabellini, PhD 1984 – rector, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
- Molefi Kete Asante, PhD 1968 – professor of African-American studies, 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, PhD 1964 – computer scientist; designed the constructive-cost model in software engineering
- Vinton Cerf, M.S. 1970, PhD 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, School of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong
- Juan Cole – professor of history, University of Michigan
- Steve Crocker, B.A. 1968, PhD 1977 – Internet pioneer
- Walter Cunningham, B.A. 1960, M.A. 1961 – American astronaut; Apollo lunar-module pilot, Apollo 7
- Robert von Dassanowsky – professor of German culture and film studies, University of Colorado at Boulder; film and cultural historian; film producer
- Mike Davis – writer and urban theorist; creative-writing professor, University of California, Riverside
- Edward Diller, B.A. 1953 – professor of Germanic languages and literature, University of Oregon
- Glenn S. Dumke, PhD 1942 – historian; chancellor, California State University
- Eliza T. Dresang, M.A. in library and information science
- Charles Elachi, M.S. 1983 – director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Larry J. Estrada, PhD 1990 – professor; president, National Association for Ethnic Studies (2002–2010)
- Thomas Everhart, M.S. 1955 – physicist; former president, California Institute of Technology
- Anna Lee Fisher, B.S. 1971, M.D. 1976 – astronaut
- Claude S. Fischer, B.A. 1968 – sociologist; professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Biruté Galdikas, B.S. 1966, M.A. 1969, PhD 1978 – primatologist; considered the world's foremost expert in primatology[citation needed]
- Louis M. Goldstein, PhD 1977 – professor of linguistics and psychology, Yale University
- Marc L. Greenberg (sl:Marc L. Greenberg), B.A. 1983, PhD 1990 – professor of Slavic languages, University of Kansas
- Francis Gunther, M.A. 1941, PhD 1947 – professor of chemistry and entomology, University of California, Riverside, father of pesticide residue chemistry, Advisory to: FDA, NSF, The National Research Foundation, and the Ford Foundation
- David Ho – physician and AIDS researcher; 1996 Time Person of the Year
- John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), B.A. – author; professor of sociology, San Francisco State University[4]
- Charlie Jackson, B.A. 1972 – co-founder, FutureWave Software which created Adobe Flash
- Kay Redfield Jamison – writer; psychiatry professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Maulana Karenga – former chairperson of the black-studies department, California State University, Long Beach; founder of Kwanzaa[citation needed]
- Ed Krupp, PhD 1972 – astronomer; author; director, Griffith Observatory
- Jim Lanzone – president, CBS Interactive[5]
- Ralph Larkin, PhD 1969 – sociologist
- Steven Lehrer – medical researcher and writer
- Antony Garrett Lisi – theoretical physicist
- Elizabeth Loftus – psychologist; professor, University of California, Irvine; influential for her studies on human memory
- Geoffrey Marcy – astronomer; professor of physics and astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
- Nathan Myhrvold, B.A. and M.S. 1979 – former chief technology officer, Microsoft; board of trustees member, Institute for Advanced Study
- Michael Morhaime, B.S. 1990 – co-founder, Blizzard Entertainment[1][2]
- Steven Muller – former president, Johns Hopkins University
- Story Musgrave, M.B.A. 1959 – astronaut
- N–Z
- David Nagel, PhD – former president and chief executive officer, PalmSource
- Hugh Nibley, B.A., history – writer and scholar; professor of ancient studies, Brigham Young University
- David A. Patterson, A.B. (1960), M.S. (1970), PhD (1976) – professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley; one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID
- Frank Pearce, B.S. 1990 – co-founder, Blizzard Entertainment[1][2]
- John L. Phillips – astronaut
- George C. Pimentel, B.S. 1943 – former professor of chemistry, 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 Pimental Hall, University of California, Berkeley
- James D. Plummer, B.S. 1966 – dean, Stanford University School of Engineering[citation needed]
- Jon Postel, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1968, PhD 1974 – Internet pioneer
- Alvin F. Poussaint – professor of psychiatry, Harvard University
- Hilary Putnam – philosopher of mind, language and mathematics; philosophy professor, Harvard University
- Henry Samueli, B.S. 1975, M.S. 1976, PhD 1980 – professor of electrical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles; co-founder of Broadcom; namesake of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA; namesake of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- Elliott See, M.S. 1962 – astronaut
- Richard A. Tapia – mathematician; advocate for under-represented minorities in science education; professor of computational and applied mathematics, Rice University
- Paul Terasaki – organ-transplant medicine and tissue typing
- Marc Tremblay, M.S. 1985, PhD 1991 – chief architect, Sun Microsystems; co-designer of several of its microprocessors
- Taylor Wang, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, PhD 1971 – astronaut; professor of mechanical engineering, 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, PhD 1960 – former chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
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 – visual artist; known for creating the cover art punk-rock band Black Flag's albums
- Kay Ryan, B.A. 1967, M.A. 1968 – poet and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate (2008–2010); MacArthur Fellow (2011)[6]
- Harry Turtledove – Hugo Award- and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction novelist
- Barbara Brooks Wallace – award-winning children's author, including two Edgar Awards[7] and a William Allen White Children's Book Award
Film, television and theatre
- A–M
- Moustapha Akkad – film producer
- Sean Astin – actor
- Carroll Ballard – film director
- Sunkrish Bala – actor
- Carol Barbee – television producer
- Xander Bennett – author and screenwriter
- Elizabeth Berkley – actress
- Sarah Uriarte Berry – actress and singer
- Mayim Bialik – actress, including sitcom television series Blossom (1990–1995)
- Dustin Lance Black – Academy Award-winning screenwriter for biographical film Milk (2008)
- Jack Black – actor, comedian and musician
- Shane Black – screenwriter; wrote buddy cop action film Lethal Weapon (1987) and crime black-comedy film Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang (2005)
- Lo Bosworth – actress, including Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills
- Beau Bridges – actor
- Lloyd Bridges – actor
- Alexander Brown – actor and model
- Carol Burnett – actress and comedian
- Charles Burnett – film director
- Todd Burns – film producer, including The Stoning of Soraya M
- Michael Burns – actor and historian; child star of Wagon Train (1960–1965); 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, including Better With You
- Eleanor Coppola – Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
- Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter; co-wrote and directed the Godfather Trilogy and 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, including Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
- Josh Evans – actor, director and producer
- Hal Fishman – longest-running news anchor in American television;[citation needed] 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 – actor, comedian and television personality; host of popular-science documentary television series Wired Science (2007)
- Catherine Hardwicke – film director and screenwriter
- Mariska Hargitay – Emmy Award-winning actress, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Mark Harmon, B.A. communication, 1974 – actor; played quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team (1971–1973)
- Kayo Hatta – film director, including Picture Bride
- Felicia D. Henderson – television producer, writer, and director, and co-creator of Soul Food
- Michael Hitchcock – actor, including 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, including Star Trek
- David Koepp – screenwriter
- Mila Kunis – actress, including That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan
- Carlos Lacámara – actor
- Lloyd LaCuesta – KTVU television news reporter, bureau chief, San Francisco Bay Area
- Christine Lakin – actress, including Step by Step
- Carol Lin – CNN news anchor
- Justin Lin – film director; co-wrote and directed Better Luck Tomorrow
- Heather Locklear – actress
- Allan Loeb – screenwriter and film producer
- Josie Lopez – actress, including Make It or Break It
- Masiela Lusha – actress and writer
- Meredith MacRae – actress
- Jayne Mansfield – actress and model
- Frank Marshall – film producer
- Doug McClure – actor
- Elizabeth McGovern – actress
- Danica McKellar – actress, including The Wonder Years
- Scott Mechlowicz – actor
- Darius Mehrjui – film director
- Victor Millan – actor and professor
- Emud Mokhberi – Academy Award-nominated film director; photographer
- Niels Mueller – film director and screenwriter
- N–Z
- Matt Nix – writer and producer, including Burn Notice
- Lisa Onodera – film producer, including Picture Bride, The Debut, Day of Independence and Americanese
- John Orloff – screenwriter
- Danielle Panabaker – actress
- Kay Panabaker – actress
- Alexander Payne – Academy Award-winning filmmaker; film 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 and screenwriter
- Gina Prince-Bythewood – film director and screenwriter; wrote and directed Love & Basketball
- Autumn Reeser – actress
- Rob Reiner – actor and film director; directed The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally...
- Tim Robbins – Academy Award-winning actor, film director 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 – Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning director and producer
- Harry Shearer – actor and comedian, including The Simpsons
- Dax Shepard – actor
- Sanjeeda Sheikh – Indian television actress
- Armin Shimerman – actor
- Joel Siegel – film critic and television journalist
- Brad Silberling – film director and screenwriter
- David Silverman – animator, director, producer of 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, including Star Trek; announcer for The Howard Stern Show
- Chris Tashima – Academy Award-winning film director and actor
- Tritia Toyota – news anchor, CBS 2 Los Angeles
- Ham Tran – film director, including Journey from the Fall
- Gabrielle Union – actress
- Milo Ventimiglia – actor, including Heroes, Gilmore Girls
- Gore Verbinski – film director; directed the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
- Michael Warren – actor, including Hill Street Blues
- Jaleel White – actor, including Family Matters
- Amy Winfrey – artist and animator
- Eric Winter – actor
- Hoyt Yeatman – Academy Award-winning visual-effects supervisor
- Caveh Zahedi – filmmaker
- Daphne Zuniga – actress, including Melrose Place, One Tree Hill
Music
- Sara Bareilles – Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and pianist
- Jan Berry – singer-songwriter; member of the rock-and-roll duo Jan & Dean
- Jeff Blue – music producer; various labels, including vice president, Warner California's artists-and-repertoire division
- Alison Brown – Grammy Award-winning banjo player
- Don Davis – film-score composer; including the science-fiction action film franchise The Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003 and 2003)
- Brad Delson – guitarist; lead guitarist and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park
- Dido – Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter
- Ryan Dusick – drummer; member of the Grammy Award-winning pop-rock band Maroon 5
- John Fahey – experimental guitarist
- Jill Gibson – singer-songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor
- Greg Ginn – guitarist and singer-songwriter; guitarist of the punk-rock band Black Flag
- Kim Gordon – musician; member of the alternative-rock band Sonic Youth
- Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter; lead singer of the punk-rock band Bad Religion
- James Horner – Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer
- Anthony Kiedis – singer-songwriter; lead vocalist of the alternative-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Mickey Madden – musician; bass guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning pop-rock band Maroon 5
- Ron Mael – musician and songwriter; co-founder (with brother Russell Mael) and keyboardist of the pop-rock band Sparks
- Russell Mael – singer-songwriter; co-founder (with brother Ron Mael) and lead vocalist of the pop-rock band Sparks
- Ray Manzarek – musician; co-founder and keyboardist of the rock band The Doors
- Maile Misajon – singer-songwriter; former member of the pop girl group Eden's Crush
- Jim Morrison – poet and singer-songwriter; co-founder and lead vocalist of rock band The Doors
- Randy Newman – composer, pianist and singer-songwriter; Academy Award-, Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer
- John Ondrasik – singer-songwriter; performs pop rock under the stage name Five for Fighting
- Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (known mononymously as Shakira) – Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist[8]
- 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-winning dialogue editor for her work on the biographical television miniseries John Adams (2008) episode "Don't Tread On Me"
- James Roh – rapper; member of electro-hop quartet Far East Movement
- Laura Roppé – singer-songwriter and writer; cancer survivor who wrote memoir Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer (2012, Berkeley, California: Seal Press; ISBN 978-1-58005-417-1)[9]
- 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 Award-, Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning composer; conductor and pianist; compositions include scores for the space-opera Star Wars film series
- La Monte Young — composer, leading figure in musical minimalism
Athletics
Baseball
- Garrett Atkins – Major League Baseball first baseman; Colorado Rockies (2003–2009), Baltimore Orioles (2010)
- Eric Byrnes – former Major League Baseball outfielder
- Jeff Conine – former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder; two-time World Series champion
- Troy Glaus – former Major League Baseball first baseman and third baseman; recipient, Most Valuable Player Award for the 2002 World Series
- Eric Karros – former Major League Baseball first baseman; 1992 National League Rookie of the Year; sports commentator and reporter, including ESPN and KCAL-TV (Los Angeles)
- Tim Leary – former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Torey Lovullo – former Major League Baseball infielder; minor-league manager
- Adam Melhuse – former Major League Baseball catcher
- Jim Parque – former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Chris Pritchett – international scout; former Major League Baseball first baseman
- Dave Roberts – former Major League Baseball outfielder; 2004 World Series champion with Boston Red Sox; San Francisco Giants (2007–2008)
- Jackie Robinson (1919–1972) – Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman; first African-American MLB player (with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947); 1962 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee[10]
- Chase Utley – Major League Baseball second baseman; 2008 World Series champion with the Philadelphia Phillies[11]
- Matt Young – former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Brandon Crawford – Major League Baseball shortstop for the San Francisco Giants
- Todd Zeile – former Major League Baseball catcher, third baseman and first baseman
Basketball
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (played as Lew Alcindor at UCLA) – six-time National Basketball Association champion; NBA's all-time leading scorer; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Arron Afflalo – National Basketball Association player, Denver Nuggets
- Trevor Ariza – National Basketball Association player, New Orleans Hornets
- Sam Balter, Olympic gold medalist (basketball)
- Donald Barksdale – The first African-American named to an Olympic basketball team and gold medalist
- Matt Barnes – National Basketball Association player, Los Angeles Lakers
- Darren Collison – NBA player, Indiana Pacers
- Denny Crum – former men's basketball coach at the University of Louisville; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Baron Davis – National Basketball Association player
- Tyus Edney – former National Basketball Association player
- Jordan Farmar – National Basketball Association player, New Jersey Nets
- Dan Gadzuric – National Basketball Association player, Golden State Warriors
- Gail Goodrich – National Basketball Association Hall of Fame player; won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers
- Stuart Gray – Former National Basketball Association player
- Walt Hazzard – former National Basketball Association player and Olympic gold medalist; former head coach of the UCLA basketball team
- Jrue Holiday – National Basketball Association player, Philadelphia 76ers
- Jason Kapono – National Basketball Association player and NBA champion, Philadelphia 76ers
- Cliff Livingston – National Football League linebacker
- Kevin Love – National Basketball Association player, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Luc Mbah a Moute – National Basketball Association player, Milwaukee Bucks
- Ann Meyers – Hall of Fame basketball player and Olympic silver medalist
- Reggie Miller – National Basketball Association player, Olympic gold medalist, and All-Time NBA leader in 3-pointers.
- Dave Minor – former National Basketball Association player
- Jerome Moiso – American Professional Basketball player in Europe, former NBA player
- Ed O'Bannon – basketball player, led Bruins to the 1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
- Pooh Richardson – former National Basketball Association player
- Bill Walton – National Basketball Association player, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame; now a broadcaster
- Earl Watson – National Basketball Association player, Utah Jazz
- Russell Westbrook – National Basketball Association player, Oklahoma City Thunder
- Jamaal Wilkes – former National Basketball Association player; four-time NBA champion
- Trevor Wilson – former National Basketball Association player
Football
- Troy Aikman – former National Football League player, three-time Super Bowl champion and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Flipper Anderson – former National Football League player; holds NFL record for receiving yards in a game.
- Gary Beban – 1967 Heisman Trophy winner; former National Football League player
- Drew Bennett – National Football League player
- Steve Bono – former National Football League player
- Ryan Boschetti – National Football League player
- Brandon Chillar – National Football League player
- Karl Dorrell – former head coach of the UCLA football team
- Kenny Easley – National Football League player; 1984 NFL Defensive Player of the Year
- Donnie Edwards – National Football League player
- Danny Everett – 1988 Olympic gold medalist, 4x400m men's relay
- Mike Flanagan – National Football League player
- Bryan Fletcher – National Football League player and Super Bowl champion
- DeShaun Foster – National Football League player; San Francisco 49ers running back
- Norm Johnson – former National Football League player
- Jimmy Johnson – former NFL player and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Maurice Jones-Drew – National Football League player
- Carnell Lake – former National Football League player
- John Lee – NCAA-record breaking, two-time All-American placekicker
- Del Lyman – former National Football League player
- Tommy Maddox – National Football League player
- Ricky Manning – National Football League player
- Cade McNown – former National Football League player
- Freddie Mitchell – National Football League player
- Rahim Moore – National Football League player for the Denver Broncos
- Ryan Nece – National Football League player; Super Bowl champion
- Ken Norton Jr. – former National Football League player; three-time Super Bowl champion
- Jonathan Ogden – National Football League player; Super Bowl champion
- Carl Peterson – general manager, Kansas City Chiefs
- Roman Phifer – National Football League player; three-time Super Bowl champion
- Jerry Robinson – former National Football League player
- Jim Salsbury – former National Football League player
- Mike Seidman, National Football League player
- Kevin Smith – former National Football League player
- Ken Snelling – former National Football League player
- Woody Strode – football player; one of the first African-American players to integrate the National Football League and film actor
- Kenny Washington – football player; one of the first African-American players to integrate the National Football League
- Bob Waterfield – former National Football League player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Kevin Williams – National Football League player
- Alterraun Verner – National Football League player
- Lance Zeno – National Football League player
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
Soccer
- Chad Barrett – Major League Soccer forward; Los Angeles Galaxy
- Carlos Bocanegra – Scottish Premier League centre back; vice captain, Rangers F.C.; captain, U.S. men's national soccer team
- Jonathan Bornstein – soccer player
- Lauren Cheney – WPSL Elite League forward; Boston Breakers; member, U.S. women's national soccer team
- 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
- Sydney Leroux – U.S. women's national soccer team
- 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
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
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[12] - 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 (also known as C.K. Yang) – former world-record holder in the decathlon, silver medalist in the decathlon in the 1960 Summer Olympics 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 9,000 points (using the tables at the time)
- Rafer Johnson – several-time world-record holder in the decathlon, and gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics securing the gold medal in the final event over his fellow UCLA Bruin teammate Yang Chuan-kwang, a future world-record holder in the decathlon
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.[13]
- Peter Vidmar – gymnast; 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Elaine Youngs – beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist
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[14]
- 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
- William R. Johnson – chief executive officer, 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 – chief executive officer, Suntory
- Robert Sanchez – chief executive officer and chairman of the board, 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 – chief executive officer and managing director, Tata Consultancy Services
- Ronald Sugar – chief executive officer, 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
Politics
- 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[15]
- 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 – Los Angeles City Council member; member of the U.S. House of Representatives[16]
- J. Curtis Counts (1915–1999) – director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service[17]
- Edmund D. Edelman (born 1930) – Los Angeles City Council member (1965–1974); Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member (1975–1994)
- 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; Los Angeles City Council member (1974–1991)
- Dean Florez – member of the California State Senate, student body president at UCLA
- Kirsten Gillibrand – U.S. Senator from New York
- 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; Los Angeles City Council member
- Sheila Kuehl – member of the California State Senate
- 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, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's 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 (1975–1985)
- Antonio Villaraigosa – Mayor of Los Angeles; former Speaker of the California Assembly
- Joel Wachs (born 1939) – Los Angeles City Council member (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 member; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member
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.[18]
- 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., PhD) – 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 and 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[19]
- Stephen Worth – director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project
- Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol – of Thailand
UCLA faculty
Nobel laureates
- Paul D. Boyer – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Donald Cram (1919–2001) – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Louis J. Ignarro – professor of molecular and medical pharmacology; recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Willard Libby (1908–1980) – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) – mathematician and philosopher; recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) – professor of physics; recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics
Social science, arts and humanities
- Joyce Appleby – U.S. historian; specialist in intellectual history and the legacy of liberalism
- William Bodiford – professor of Japanese and Buddhist studies
- Kenny Burrell – professor of jazz studies; jazz guitarist and composer
- Rudolf Carnap – professor of the philosophy of language
- Alonzo Church – pioneer in the 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 (1997)
- Saul Friedländer – European historian; 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 – literary critic
- Thomas Hines – architectural historian; professor emeritus
- James N. Hill (1934–1997) – processualist archaeologist
- David Kaplan – professor of the philosophy of language
- Edmond Keller – professor of political science; 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 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; prominent in the new-musicology movement, recipient of a MacArthur Grant; works have been translated into over twelve languages; wrote Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
- Vasa Mihich – professor of design and media arts; artist and sculptor
- Richard Thacker Morris (1917–1981) – chairman of the sociology department; author
- Donald Neuen – professor of choral studies; conductor; 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; 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; 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; 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
Science and technology
- A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist; member, Nobel Committee for Physics
- Asad Ali Abidi – professor of electrical engineering; pioneer of CMOS RF circuits; member of the National Academy of Engineering
- George O. Abell – professor of astronomy; astronomer
- M. C. Frank Chang – professor of electrical engineering; member of the 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 the National Academy of Engineering
- Leonard Kleinrock – professor of computer science; Internet pioneer; recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science
- Alan Kay – professor of computer science; 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; influential researcher with an h-index of 73
- Ernst G. Straus – professor of mathematics
- Terence Tao – professor of mathematics; Fields Medalist in 2006
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 – 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.
Politics
- Warren Christopher – professor of foreign policy, former U.S. 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
Medicine
- Michael S. Gottlieb – 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
Business and law
- See also notable faculty at the School of 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
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
See also
References
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