- J. D. Power
J.D. Power III (born as James David Power on May 30, 1931 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is the founder of the marketing firm J.D. Power and Associates. Mr. Power began conducting customer satisfaction research in 1968 as founder of the marketing information firm J.D. Power and Associates. The firm numbers among its clients virtually every automotive manufacturer and importer serving the U.S. market, … - Julian Nava
Julian Nava (born June 19, 1927) is an American educator and diplomat. Nava was born to Mexican immigrants in 1927 in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in the barrio of East L.A. In 1945, he volunteered the Air Corps of the United States Navy. Upon his return to Los Angeles, Nava studied at East Los Angeles College before transferring to Pomona College, one of the prestigious Claremont Colleges. - Rodolfo Acuña
Rodolfo Francisco Acuña, Ph.D., (born May 18 1932) in Boyle Heights was raised in Los Angeles. He is an historian, professor, and perhaps the foremost scholar of Chicano Studies, which he teaches at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of the seminal work of Chicano history, "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos", which approaches the history of the Southwestern United States from the point of view of Mexican Americans. - Stephen Bollenbach
Stephen F. Bollenbach has been the Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation since February 1996. Bollenbach graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. - Cindy Margolis
Cynthia D. "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress. - Adam Kennedy
Adam Thomas Kennedy (born January 10, 1976 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player. He currently plays second base for the St. Louis Cardinals. Kennedy attended J.W. North High School in Riverside, California, playing baseball and basketball. He attended Cal State Northridge, where he played shortstop for the Matador baseball squad. He set school records in career hits, RBIs and batting average and was a three-time All American. - Lesley Boone
Lesley Boone (born February 25, 1968) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, she later attended California State University, Northridge at Northridge. Following graduation, she earned her S.A.G. card after appearing on an episode of "Hooperman". Since then, Boone has acted in television and film, as well as being a voice actor, singer and dancer. Her first lead role in a television series as regular was in 1990 on the sitcom "Babes". - Bobby Braswell
Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. - Lyman Bostock
Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr. (November 22, 1950 - September 23, 1978) was an American professional baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for four seasons, as an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins (1975-77) and California Angels (1978). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. - Alex Iles
Alex Iles is an American musician who serves as a trombone and jazz instructor at the California Institute of the Arts and California State University, Northridge and has recorded and performed with many of the musical profession's most celebrated artists. Alex Iles appears frequently as a recitalist, guest soloist and clinician with schools and organizations, including Indiana University, Oklahoma State University, the Disney Magic Music Days Program and his "alma mater", … - Ellis Godard
Ellis Godard is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a founding member of the CSUN Center for Survey Research who teaches courses primarily in statistics and methods, law and crime, and Internet Studies. He also serves as a statistical and methodological consultant, providing data collection, management, and analysis services to a half dozen firms nationwide. - Kameron Loe
Kameron David Loe (born September 10, 1981 in Simi Valley, California) is a Major League Baseball player for the Texas Rangers. At 6'7" tall, Loe is one of the tallest players in the game and also has a 7 foot boa constrictor named Angel which he keeps in the Rangers clubhouse. In 2005, Loe made 48 appearances, 8 of them starts compiling a won-loss record of 9-6, with a 3.42 ERA. Loe missed much of the 2006 due to a bone bruise in his right elbow. - Kentaro Sato
is a Los Angeles-based composer/conductor/clinician of media music (Film/TV/Game) and concert music (Symphonic and Choral). His works have been broadcasted, performed, and recorded in North and South America, Asia, and Europe by well known groups, including the Philharmonia Orchestra. In 2005, he was appointed a resident composer and assistant conductor of the Torrance Symphony. Sato was born in Hamamatsu, Japan, known as the city of music and instruments. - Sue Herera
Sue Herera is a television reporter for the CNBC financial television network. She is a graduate of California State University, Northridge. - Willie Sims
Willie Sims (born January 18, 1984 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan-born soccer player, who currently plays forward for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. He was drafted in the 2nd round (23rd overall) of the 2006 MLS SuperDraft. Sims played college soccer at California State University, Northridge from 2003 to 2005 after redshirting in 2002. Sims was named the Big West Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year in the 2003 and 2004 seasons, … - D. J. Hackett
DeAndre James Hackett (born July 31, 1981 in Fontana, California) is an American football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. He was selected with the 25th pick of the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of the University of Colorado. Hackett transferred to Colorado from California State University, Northridge, after Northridge dropped football in 2001. - John Densmore
John Densmore (born John Paul Densmore, December 1, 1944, in Los Angeles, California) was the drummer of the rock group The Doors from 1965 to 1973. He is a drummer and songwriter and attended Santa Monica City College and Cal. State-Northridge. :"I've been playing for six years. I took piano lessons when I was ten. They tried to get me to play Bach. They tried for two years. When I was in junior high I got my first set of drums. - Sherdrick Bonner
Sherdrick Bonner (born October 19, 1968) is a quarterback for the Arizona Rattlers. He went to California State University, Northridge. Throughout his incredible AFL career, he has completed 3,142 passes for 39,549 yards, and 801 touchdowns. He is also the winningest quarterback in AFL history, with 134 regular season victories and 21 playoff wins (as of April 2nd, 2007). He is widely considered one of the greatest players in AFL history. - Jennifer Lyon
Jennifer "Jenn" Lyon (born on February 27,1972) is a nanny currently attending California State University, Northridge, who was a contestant on the CBS reality television series Survivor: Palau. Jenn grew up in Washington and Oregon and has also lived in Spain and London, England. On Survivor: Palau, Jenn's friendship/romance with fellow castaway Gregg Carey was largely responsible for her success in the game. For a time, Jenn, Gregg, Ian Rosenberger, Katie Gallagher, … - James Fortune
James Fortune is a gospel music singer. He is a graduate of Kempner High School in Sugar Land, Texas, and attended Cal State Northridge. He released his critically acclaimed debut cd "You Survived" in January 2005. He was honored at the 19th annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards for his hit single "You Survived" off the same album. - Judy Baca
Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of fine arts. She is the founder and executive director of the Venice, California-based Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a community arts center, and is best known as the director of the mural project that created one of the largest murals in the world, the "Great Wall of Los Angeles". - Daniel Ramos
Daniel Ramos (born august 27 1972) who went by the moniker "Chaka" was one of the most prolific graffiti vandals of the late 20th century. Chaka IFK was so popular that his tag was used to decorate the bass drum of Dave Grohl, when his band Nirvana did the video for the song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The bass drum is the location where a band's name usually appears. - Eric Reed
Eric Reed, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American jazz pianist and composer. Eric began playing piano at age two, was playing piano in his minister father’s church by age five, and at age seven began formal study at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School. At age 11 his family moved to Los Angeles, and he studied at the R. D. Colburn School of Arts. In May 1986 at Colburn School Eric met Wynton Marsalis, an encounter that would greatly aid his career. - Leemon McHenry
Leemon McHenry, PhD (b. 1956), is a bioethicist and a lecturer in philosophy at California State University, Northridge, in the United States. He has taught philosophy at Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, Wittenberg University and Loyola Marymount University and has held visiting research positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests center on medical ethics, metaphysics, … - Tim Toyama
Tim Toyama (born in 1952 in Chicago, IL) is a playwright and producer. He is "Sansei" (third-generation Japanese American) presently living in Los Angeles, CA. He is Co-Artistic Director of the Cedar Grove<b> OnStage</b> theatre company in Los Angeles. He attended C.S.U.N. as an English major. - Steve Hoffman
Steve Hoffman is an audio engineer from Los Angeles, California, who specializes in remastering sound recordings on compact disc and vinyl record for record companies. In the 1980s, he worked at MCA for nine years. He has since done remastering work for companies such as DCC Compact Classics (in the 1990s) and Audio Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Rural Rhythm, and S&P (in the present day). - Donald N. Wood
Donald N. Wood (born September 20, 1934) is an American environmentalist, educator, critical thinker, media theorist, and writer best known for his works in media production, communication, and postmodernism. A graduate of Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) with a B.A. in Speech and Music, he went on to the University of Michigan, earning both a M.A. and Ph.D. (emphasizing Radio-TV). - Scott J. Horowitz
Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitz (born March 24 1957) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions. After earning his undergraduate degree in engineering from California State University, Northridge in 1974-1978, Horowitz earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1982) and worked as a scientist for Lockheed Company. - David Koch
David Koch (b. August 18, 1961) is an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 2008 election. A resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, this is Koch's first run for political office. His running mate in this election is Ken Goldstein. Koch graduated from Arroyo Grande High School, graduating in 1979. He attended Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo in 1980, and California State University, Northridge in 1982. After ten years as a photo-journalist at KCOY, … - Loren Grey
Loren Grey was an educational psychologist and author of several books in that field. He also managed the legacy of his father, western author Zane Grey. Loren Grey was born in Middletown, New York. His family moved to California a few years after his birth. Loren frequently accompanied his father on fishing trips to Oregon and the South Pacific. But he sometimes resented public fawning over his father. "He was rich and famous and had beautiful women, … - Angelle Tymon
Angelle Tymon (born in Lutcher, Louisiana) is an American broadcast journalist and game show host. She currently serves as one of the hosts on GSN's interactive game show "quiznation" in the PlayMania Block. Tymon began her career as a communications student with a minor in dance at Louisiana State University. She performed as a member of the dance team for NFL New Orleans Saints for one year and the NBA New Orleans Hornets for two years. - Russ Parr
Russ Parr is an African American radio and television personality. Parr began as a Production Services Director at ABC TV. In the mid 1980s, he owned and ran his own recording label, Rapsur Records. In 1989, he left Hollywood where he was a morning host on 1580 KDAY, the first all hip-hop radio station. Parr went to Dallas where he worked at KJMZ 100.3 JAMZ. He also started FLAVA TV, which enabled him to direct, write, and act. - David J. McCloud
Lieutenant General David J. McCloud was born 15 February 1945 in California. He died 26 July 1998 in Anchorage, Alaska, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His final assignment was as commander of Alaskan Command, 11th Air Force, and the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, headquartered at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. He grew up in Sun Valley, California and was a graduate of John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. - Edmund Carpenter
Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (born 1922 in Rochester, New York) is a noted visual anthropologist best known for his work on indigenous peoples and media. - James Hurtak
Dr. Prof. J.J. (James) Hurtak, is a social scientist, comparative religionist, scholar, author, and founder and President of The Academy for Future Science. He is the author of the spiritual-scientific text The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch and has written and translated over 15 books, including commentaries on ancient mystical and gnostic texts including the Pistis Sophia. Former professor at California State University, Northridge and California State University, … - Mahmood Sariolghalam
Dr. Mahmood Sariolghalam is the Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and Political Science in Shahid Beheshti University (formerly Iran National University) since 1987. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1959. He received his B.A. degree in Political Science/Management from California State University, Northridge in 1980 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1982 and 87, … - Linda O. Johnston
Linda O. Johnston is an American author of mystery and romance novels. Johnston’s first published fiction appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year. Since then, she has had several more short stories published as well as numerous romance novels. Johnston is a practicing attorney who splits her time between legal work and writing fiction. - Bob Goss
Rev Dr Robert E. Goss, Bob Goss, was brought up in a devout Roman Catholic family and felt called to the priesthood, being ordained as a Jesuit in 1976. He left the Jesuits in 1978 going on to receive a Th.D. in Comparative Religion from Harvard University. Goss taught in the Religious Studies Department of Webster University (1994-2004), and served as chair of the Department. - Michael Jantze
Michael Jantze is an American comic strip writer, best known as the author of "The Norm", a comic strip syndicated internationally to newspapers. Born in 1962 in Middletown, New York, he grew up in Normal, Illinois. He attended Goshen College and California State University, Northridge, then worked as an art director, first in newsrooms and then at ILM, while working on his strip. He now lives in San Anselmo, California. - Jean-Claude Flabel
Jean-Claude Flabel is the author of the aerospace engineering textbook Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers; a handbook on practical stress analysis which is widely used within the aerospace industry. Jean-Claude Flabel graduated from the California State University, Northridge in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He has worked with a number of prominent aerospace companies including Rockwell International, Gulfstream American, …
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