- List of University of California, Los Angeles people
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Lists of notable alumni, faculty, and current students of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Contents
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- 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
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
- 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[3]
- 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 [4]
- 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
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
Film, television, and theatre
- Moustapha Akkad – film producer
- Sean Astin – actor
- Carroll Ballard – film director
- Sunkrish Bala – actor
- Carol Barbee – television producer
- Elizabeth Berkley – actress
- Alexander Brown - model and actor
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
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[5]
- 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
Athletics
Baseball
- Garrett Atkins – Major League Baseball player, Colorado Rockies
- Eric Byrnes – Major League Baseball player
- Jeff Conine – Former Major League Baseball player; two-time World Series champion
- Troy Glaus – Major League Baseball player; 2002 World Series MVP
- Eric Karros – former Major League Baseball player; 1992 National League Rookie of the Year; ESPN sports commentator; CBS2 News Los Angeles Sports Reporter
- Tim Leary – Former Major League Baseball player
- Torey Lovullo – Former Major League Baseball player and present Minor League manager
- Adam Melhuse – Major League Baseball player
- Jim Vo Parque – Major League Baseball player
- Chris Pritchett – former Major League Baseball player
- Dave Roberts – Major League Baseball player; World Series winner; San Diego Padres
- Jackie Robinson – Major League Baseball player and civil rights pioneer, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Chase Utley – Major League Baseball player; World Series champion, Philadelphia Phillies[6]
- Matt Young – Former Major League Baseball player
- Todd Zeile – Former Major League Baseball player
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, Los Angeles Clippers
- 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, 2-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, NFL football 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 – 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
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[7]
- 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
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.[8]
- 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.
- 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[9]
- 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 – 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
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[10]
- 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[11]
- J. Curtis Counts (1915–1999), Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.[12]
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
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.[13]
- 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)
- Princess Ubol Ratana – of Thailand
- Francis B. Wai – Medal of Honor recipient[14]
- Stephen Worth – director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project
- Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol – of Thailand
Notable UCLA faculty
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)
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 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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Current students
- Errol Barnett – Entertainment reporter
- Kara Lang – Bruins and Canadian international soccer player
- Daniel Greene [disambiguation needed
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- Jeanine Mason – Winner of So you think you can dance season 5
References
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