- Notable people at University of California, Riverside
Lists of notable alumni, faculty, and current students of the
University of California, Riverside .Notable alumni
Academia, science, and technology
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Robert Patch - Professor of history at the University of California, Riverside and Chair of the UCR Department of History
*Leonard Beeghley - Professor of sociology at University of Florida
*Neil Campbell — American scientist known best for his best-selling "Biology" textbook
*Matthew Haughey , blogger and founder ofMetaFilter
*Marigold Linton — Director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas
*Dr. Richard R. Schrock —Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 and professor atMassachusetts Institute of Technology
*Tim White — Professor, integrative biology and research, paleoanthropologist
*Charles E. Young — First UCR student body president and former chancellor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles
*Carole Nagengast - Chairwoman of the Anthropology Department at theUniversity of New Mexico
*Arthur Riggs - Director of theBeckman Research Institute and formergeneticist withGenentech and father of modernBiotechnology Arts, film, and literature
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Patricia Ja Lee — Actress known for role asCassie Chan as the Pink Ranger in thetelevision series andPower Rangers in Space .
*Steve Breen — 1998Pulitzer Prize -winning editorial cartoonist
*Billy Collins — The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
*Nona Colorado — Actress inSave The Last Dance andBlue Crush films
*Elizabeth George - Best selling mystery writer
*Charles N. Gerencser - Executive Publisher LA CityBeat Weekly Newspaper and New Angeles Monthly Magazine [http://aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewPerson?oid=oid%3A118028] [http://www.lacitybeat.com] [http://www.newangelesmonthly.com]
*Keenyah Hill - Model, best known for being the second runner-up on cycle four ofAmerica's Next Top Model ; was a biology major, prior to being on ANTM
*Lisa Kekaula — Lead singer forThe Bellrays
*Charlyne Yi - Actress, comedian, and performance artist ("Knocked Up ")
*Jamie Chung - Real World San Diego
*Barbara Hambly - Americannovelist andscreenwriter
*Lindsay Ridgeway - Actress,Boy Meets World
*Shelly Frasier - Audiobook Narrator, Theater/Film Actress, starred in the independent film,Never Been Thawed (2005)
*David Sides - PianistAthletics
*Butch Johnson — Former professional football player for the
Dallas Cowboys and theDenver Broncos
*Pat Hill — Head football coach of Fresno State
*Gary McCord — Professionalgolf er, CBSannouncer and analyst and won the DII induvidual golf championship in 1970
*Troy Percival — All time saves leader for theLos Angeles Angels of Anaheim
*Eric Show — Former professional baseball player for theSan Diego Padres andOakland Athletics
*Erasmo Solorzano - Professional MLS football player for theChivas USA acquired in the 2007 draft.
*Chris Smith (pitcher) -- Major League pitcher
*John Lowenstein -- Major League Baseball player
*Brendan Steele - Professional Golfer on theNationwide Tour
*Charles Alamo - ProfessionalMajor League Soccer footballer forLos Angeles Galaxy acquired in the 2008MLS Draft Business, politics, and law
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Ruben Barrales — Deputy assistant to President Bush and director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House and formerSan Mateo County supervisor
*Ronald Neumann — Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
*Gloria Romero — State Senate Majority Whip, former California Assembly member, 49th District.
*Lloyd Levine - California State Assemblyman for the 40th District since 2002
*Stefani Schaeffer - Defense Attorney and winner of Donald Trump's The Apprentice 6: L.A. [http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_6/candidates/bio_stefani.shtml]
*Jesse G. James - CEO of West Coast Choppers, a manufacturer of custom-made motorcycles, and the host of Motorcycle Mania and the former seriesMonster Garage on the Discovery Channel.
*Rod Pacheco - California District AttorneyNobel laureates
*Dr. Richard R. Schrock - Chemistry,
2005 Notable faculty
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John Baez — Professor ofmathematics , mathematical physicist
*Donna Hoffman — Chancellor's Chair and professor of marketing, co-director,Sloan Center for Internet Retailing andeLab 2.0 ,A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management .
*Ronald O. Loveridge Honorable Mayor ofRiverside, California .
*Robert Nisbet — Conservative sociologist and early Dean of Letters and Science at UCR.
*Tom Novak — Albert O. Steffey professor of marketing and co-director,Sloan Center for Internet Retailing andeLab 2.0 ,A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management .
*Robert Rosenthal - Professor ofpsychology , former chair of Harvard's psychology department.
*George Edgar Slusser — Professor ofcomparative literature ,science fiction expert
*Susan Straight — Writer and professor ofcreative writing andNational Book Award finalist
*Karl Taube — Professor ofAnthropology , specializing in research intopre-Columbian Mesoamerica n cultures
*Bob Toledo — Former UCR football coach; 13th head coach of UCLA
*John V. Tunney — Professor of business law, former United States Senator and member of Congress
* Richard Arnott - Distinguished Professor of Urban Economics
* David Reznick - Evolutionary Biologist. Along with colleages was the first to demonstrate natural selection in wild populations.Current students
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