Jack French Kemp Jr. (born July 13, 1935), is an American politician and former professional American football player. He was the Republican candidate for the vice presidency in the 1996 presidential election. Kemp was born, raised and educated in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Occidental College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr (born 1950) is an heir of the Home Savings bank fortune built by his father, Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr. Ahmanson Jr. is a multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations. He has been highly influential and generous with conservative Republicans and Evangelicals. Ahmanson has recently joined a PCA Presbyterian church.

Joanna Gleason (born June 2 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known as a Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress and has had a number of notable film and TV roles.

Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in "Astrophysical Journal " from 1950 to 1955) in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition (later called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis). The basic features of this hypothesis were later confirmed, however the exact amount (and thus the importance) of ices in a comet is an active field of research, …

Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. (born September 29 1927) is a Democratic politician from California, USA. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983 as a Republican, before switching parties in April of 2007. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972, but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon. Also in 1972, his book "Truth and Untruth: Political Deceit in America" was published.

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all British by birth.

Ronald Leslie "Ron" Botchan (born February 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American football linebacker in the American Football League from 1960 to 1962 and later as American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1980 to 2002. As an official, Botchan worked as an umpire for nearly his entire NFL career and wore the number 110. Regarded as the "NFL's best umpire" by the media, …

Dr. Jim Tunney was an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1991. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Jim Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten Championship games and Super Bowls VI, XI, and XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so. Nicknamed the "Dean of NFL Referees", …

Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1959) is an American writer, director, and actor.

William Alan "Will" Friedle (born August 11, 1976, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the underachieving older brother Eric Matthews on the long-running TV sitcom "Boy Meets World" from 1993 to 2000. More recently, he has voiced a number of animated characters such as Terry McGinnis, …

Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, DC) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently a staff writer for "The New Yorker". Coll served as managing editor to the "Washington Post" from 1998 to 2004 and as associate editor from late 2004 to August 2005. Coll graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1976. He moved to the west coast, attending Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, …

Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" and teaches media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Wired, Salon.com, Cabinet, and others.

Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American film actor.

Loren Lester is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Robin (Dick Grayson) and Nightwing in the numerous "Batman" animated series and features in the DC Animated Universe. He began his career as a teenager (of which one of his early recurring roles was "Roy" in the fifth season "The Facts of Life".

Eddie Galan (born February 4, 1979) is a Los Angeles born singer/musician, 4 time #1 Hit Billboard songwriter and record producer, with 13x Platinum status. He is the oldest of four children to Edward and Teresa Galan. Eddie G. (along with partner Drew Lane), of Trilogy Productions, won a 2006 Billboard Award for his work on Disney's "High School Musical", which took home the Billboard Soundtrack Album of The Year award.

Jake Shears (born Jason Sellards on October 3, 1978 in Arizona) is the male lead vocalist for the American music group Scissor Sisters.

Ural Alexis Johnson (b. October 17 1908 - d. March 24 1997) was a United States diplomat, born in Falun, Kansas. He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and he entered the Foreign Service in 1935. He played a role in the ceasefire in the Korean War. He was ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1958, Thailand from 1958 to 1961, and to Japan from 1966 to 1969. He was also Deputy Undersecretary for Political Affairs, and a member of ExComm, from 1969 to 1973.

W. Don Cornwell is CEO, Chairman, and co-founder of Granite Broadcasting. He also sits on the board of directors of Avon Products, Pfizer, and CVS. Prior to founding Granite, Mr. Cornwell served as a vice president Goldman Sachs. (1976 to 1988). Cornwell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College in 1969 and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard in 1971.

Patt Morrison is a columnist for the "Los Angeles Times", host of the daily talk program "Patt Morrison" on 89.3 KPCC, and frequent commentator on National Public Radio. She co-hosted the "Life & Times" program on KCET-TV from 1993 to 2001. Her fashion trademark is wearing a variety of hats that match with the rest of her outfit, and she is never seen in public without wearing one. She identifies herself as a lacto vegetarian.

Terry Kitchen (born Max Pokrivchak in Phillipsburg, New Jersey) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bethlehem and Easton, Pennsylvania and Findlay, Ohio and attended college at Occidental College and the Guitar Institute of Technology. After college, he moved to Boston and fronted the 1980s pop/rock band Loose Ties before moving on to a solo career in acoustic music.

Kathy Augustine was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Nevada. She served in the Nevada Assembly (1993-1995) and in the Nevada Senate (1995-1999). She was Nevada's first female State Controller, serving from 1999 until she was murdered in 2006. On June 29, 2007, her husband, a critical care nurse, was convicted of murdering her by lethal injection.

Ramesh Flinders (born 1980) is an American screenwriter who, along with Miles Beckett, created the lonelygirl15 video series. According to journalist Joshua Davis, who knew Flinders as a child, he grew up on a commune outside of San Francisco, and had a difficult transition to a Catholic high school. While studying Film and Visual Arts at Occidental College, from where he later graduated, Flinders invented an alter-ego, …

Alphonzo Bell, Jr. (September 19, 1914-April 25, 2004) was an eight-term United States Representative from California, who represented Los Angeles, California's influential Westside.

Olin Browne (born May 22 1959) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Browne was born in Washington, DC. He graduated from The Holderness School in 1977. He then went on to Occidental College in 1981. He turned professional in 1984. He lives in Hobe Sound, Florida. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

James "Jim" Earnst Mora (born May 24, 1935 in Glendale, California) is the former head coach of the USFL's Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars and the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. He played football at Occidental College where he was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. His son Jim L. Mora is the former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.

G. Brent Dalrymple is an American geologist, author of "The Age of the Earth" and "Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies", and National Medal of Science winner. He taught at Oregon State University until 2001, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sharon Delmendo is a distinguished Filipino American who was born on November 4, 1964 in Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Professor Delmendo received her PhD in English in 1993 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, finishing her dissertation, "Engendering the American Domestic," in Amherst, MA, on a Five College Minority Fellowship at Hampshire College. She is currently a Professor of English at St.

Tui St. George Tucker (b. Fullerton, California, November 25, 1924; d. Boone, North Carolina, April 21, 2004) was an American composer and recorder player. She was born in Fullerton, Orange County, California and attended Eagle Rock High School in northeast Los Angeles, California, graduating in 1941. She then attended Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1941 to 1944. She moved to New York in 1946, working as a composer, conductor, and recorder player, …

David Laurence Aaron (b. 21 August 1938, Chicago) is an American politician, administrator, and international relations officer who served in the Jimmy Carter administration. He graduated from Occidental College with a BA, and from Princeton University with an MA. He later received an honorary Ph.D from Occidental College. He is currently director of the RAND Corporation's Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Linda Ann Malcor Ph.D (born February 3, 1962) is an American scholar of Arthurian legend. She is one of the proponents of the theory (or related theories) that states that the historical basis for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were a second-century Roman officer named Lucius Artorius Castus and Sarmatian auxiliary horsemen, which Artorius supposedly commanded in Britain.

John J. Clague PhD FRSC is an award-winning Canadian authority in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences. He is a Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University and an Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada. Clague was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, President of the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group and Vice President of International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).

Glenn Corbett (born Glenn Rothenburg on August 17, 1930 in El Monte, California; died on January 16, 1993 in San Antonio, Texas) was an actor.