- Bill Walsh
William Ernest Walsh (born November 30, 1931) is a former American football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University. The inventor of the West Coast Offense, he is widely considered one of the most brilliant and innovative football minds to ever coach. He has a home in Pacific Grove, California.
- Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers."
- Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
- Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author and critic. She was politically active for many years.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the third Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
- Bradley Nowell
Bradley James Nowell was an American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the punk-reggae fusion band Sublime. At the age of 28, shortly before the release of Sublime's major label debut album, "Sublime", Nowell died as result of a heroin overdose.
- Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
- Andy Stanley
Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization.
- Sheila Kuehl
Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American politician, and a former child actress. She is currently a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the highly urbanized 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County.
- Mario Savio
Mario Savio was an American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially his "place your bodies upon the gears" address.
- Roderick J. McDavis
President Roderick J. McDavis held an open forum April 4 in Bromley Hall with students to discuss various topics of students' concerns. More than thirty students gathered to ask the president questions, to make requests of him, and to listen to what other students--and McDavis himself--had to say. McDavis began by briefly reflecting on his own days as a student at OU, where he completed his undergraduate studies in 1970, and then explained exactly what he does as president.
- Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, …
- Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990. "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus.
- Greg Laurie
Greg Laurie was born in 10 December 1952. He serves as the chief pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship a Calvary Chapel in Riverside in California. He became a Christian beneath the admiral of Pentecostal advocate Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Harbor Aerial School. Then, at the age of 19, he had the befalling to advance [... ] read more>>
- Jim Walton
Jim Walton (b. 1958) is the president of CNN Worldwide. He joined CNN in 1981, one year after the network was founded. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981.
- William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer. He wrote the novel "The Exorcist" (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award
- Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, …
- Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow (October 1630 - May 4, 1677) was an English divine, scholar and mathematician who is generally given minor credit for his role in the development of modern calculus; in particular, for his work regarding the tangent; for example, Barrow is given credit for being the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Isaac Newton was a student of Barrow's. Lunar crater Barrow is named after him.
- William J. McDonough
William J. McDonough served as the eighth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for ten years--from July 19, 1993 to June 10, 2003. On June 11, 2003, he became the Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Paul Pasqualoni
Paul Pasqualoni (born August 16, 1949) was the head coach of the Syracuse University (SU) football team from 1991 to 2004. Pasqualoni was an assistant at SU until 1991, when he was promoted to head coach after the position was vacated by Dick MacPherson, who left Syracuse for the NFL to coach the New England Patriots. The Orange (then known as the Orangemen) enjoyed a number of fairly successful years with Pasqualoni at the helm.
- Jimmy Sturr
Jimmy Sturr is a polka musician and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 16 out of 22 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. His orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards, and has acquired more Grammy nominations than anyone in the history of musical polka awards. His band is arguably the most popular polka band. Jimmy Sturr's band has been voted the #1 polka band in America, …
- Tsung-Dao Lee
During the years 1950-53, Lee worked as a research associate and lecturer at Yerkes Astronomical Observatory, Wisconsin; at the University of California at Berkeley, and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Lee was then fast becoming a widely known scientist, especially for his work in elementary particles, statistical mechanics, field theory, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and turbulence, having solved several problems of long standing and great complexity.
- Angela Baraquio
Angela Baraquio Grey is the eighth-born of ten children. Her parents are two immigrant teachers from the Philippines. Several years ago, Angela became Miss Hawaii 2000 and Miss America 2001. As the first Asian and first teacher to hold the title of Miss America in over 85 years of the pageant's existence, Angela embarked on a 20,000 mile a month national speaking tour entitled, "Character in the Classroom, Teaching Values, Valuing Teachers."
- Rudi Bakhtiar
Rudi Bakhtiar Rudi Bakhtiar is an Iranian-American journalist, working for the Fox News Channel. Although born in California, Bakhtiar was raised in Iran until the Iranian Revolution when her family moved to the United States. She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a B.S. in biology, planning to be a dentist. Prior to Fox News, Bakhtiar had worked for CNN.
- Vai Sikahema
Vai Sikahema (born August 29, 1962 in Nuku'Alofa, Tonga) was an NFL running back-kick returner who played for 8 seasons from 1986 to 1993. Sikahema is considered the best American football player ever to emerge from Tonga. Sikahema was a special teams standout for several teams, including the St. Louis/ Phoenix Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, and Philadelphia Eagles. He was named to the Pro Bowl twice (in 1986 and 1987).
- Chris Kanyon
Christopher Klucsarits (born January 4, 1970) is a former American professional wrestler, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as Chris Kanyon.
- Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent holds back tears as he announces he's leaving politics for family reasons, May 4, 2005. (CP Photo/Fred Chartrand) Ed Broadbent was, for a brief while in the 1980s, the most popular politician in Canada, scoring higher in public opinion polls than then prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He stepped down as leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 1989 after what he called a disappointing election result.
- Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 - April 30, 1974) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. Although she appeared in more than 70 films and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than 30 years, Moorehead is probably most-widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the television series "Bewitched".
- Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger was a social psychologist from New York City who became famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Festinger, 1957). Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended the University of Iowa where he received his Ph.D. in 1942. Festinger studied under Kurt Lewin, who is often considered the father of social psychology.
- Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including digital signatures. Born in California, Adleman grew up in San Francisco, and attended the University of California, …
- Beverly Kidd
Beverly Kidd (born April 4,1969 in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is a television reporter in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Curtis Amy
Curtis Amy (October 11, 1929 - June 5, 2002) was an American West Coast jazz musician known for his work on tenor saxophone. He also explored other mediums, including soul jazz and hard bop. Amy was born in Houston, Texas. He learned how to play clarinet before joining the Army, and during his time in service, picked up the tenor saxophone. After his discharge, he attended and graduated from Kentucky State College.
- Wintley Phipps
Wintley Augustus Phipps (b. 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the "US Dream Academy" founder of Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. Mr. Phipps has been the featured speaker and performer at many notable occasions around the world. He has performed for American President Jimmy Carter, …
- David W. Oxtoby
David W. Oxtoby became the ninth president of Pomona College on July 1, 2003. An internationally noted chemist, he previously served as dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago. At Pomona, he holds a coterminous appointment as professor of chemistry.
- John W. Hicks
John W. Hicks (1921-2002) served as acting president of Purdue University from 1982 to 1983. An agricultural economist, he was executive assistant to the university's presidents Frederick L. Hovde and Arthur G. Hansen from 1955 to 1982. Purdue's Undergraduate Library was renamed in his honor on April 21, 1990.
- Vinod K. Dham
Vinod K Dham has been on the Board of the Company since January, 2003. Dham is famous as the "Father of the Pentium" and held the positions of vice president of Intel's Microprocessor Products Group and GM of the Pentium Processor Division. After 16 years at Intel, he joined Nexgen as the chief operating officer and executive vice president. In May, 2000, President Clinton appointed Dham to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
- Mark Lombardi
Mark Lombardi was an American Neo-Conceptualist and an abstract artist.
- Robi Ludwig
Robi Ludwig is a psychotherapist and host of the reality television program, "One Week to Save Your Marriage" on TLC. Dr. Ludwig holds a doctorate in psychology (Psy.D) from the Southern California University for Professional Studies, …