List of University of California, Los Angeles people

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

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

Ralph Bunche in 1963

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

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

Sean Astin was a 2011 Commencement speaker at UCLA

• 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

Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Jimmy Connors

Jordan Farmar

Justin Gimelstob

Karch Kiraly

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 ]} – Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and noted scholar
• Jeanine Mason – Winner of So you think you can dance season 5

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