- Bernie Dodge
Bernie Dodge (born Bernard Joseph Dodge September 5, 1948) is the creator of the "WebQuest", an information technology education tool, and QuestGarden, an online authoring tool and community of practice for WebQuest development. He is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University.
- Tony Gwynn
So analyzing one season of the San Diego Padre is foolish. Gwynn's one of the few athletes to never have an off year. Never. Nothing even close. His string of dominance is almost unparalleled in baseball or any sport. That's why Gwynn's largely considered one of the greatest hitters of all-time, perhaps even the greatest living one.
- Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher (born March 24, 1945 in Herrin, Illinois, USA) is a basketball coach currently at San Diego State University. Fisher attended Illinois State University, where he helped lead the Redbirds to the 1969 Division II Final Four. After school, he became a high school coach in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1979, he accepted an assistant coaching position at Western Michigan University.
- Chuck Long
Chuck Long (born February 18, 1963 in Wheaton, Illinois) is the head football coach at San Diego State University. He played quarterback in college at the University of Iowa and professionally with the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams. He is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
- Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA) is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels "A Fire Upon the Deep" (1992) and "A Deepness in the Sky" (1999), as well as for his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", …
- Khaleel Mohammed
Dr. Khaleel Mohammed is a professor of Religion at San Diego State University, and a core faculty member of the university s Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies. Dr. Mohammed was born in Guyana, South America, and is now a citizen of Canada. He has studied in Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Syria and Yemen, at both traditional Islamic institutions and Western universities.
- Tom Craft
Tom Craft (Born November 12, 1953) was the head football coach at San Diego State University from 2001-2005. He was originally a quarterback at SDSU. San Diego State developed a reputation of playing the tough teams well. In 2004, SDSU lost to Michigan 24-21, and in 2005, where it pushed Ohio State at home, and lost 24-21 to Texas Christian University. He was fired in 2006, and replaced by Chuck Long.
- Marshall Faulk
Marshall William Faulk (born February 26, 1973 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former football player in the National Football League. He played football in college for San Diego State University, before being drafted second overall by the Indianapolis Colts in the 1994 NFL Draft. Following the 1998 season Faulk was traded to the St. Louis Rams. Marshall is one of the few players to reach at least 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards in his career.
- Lalo Alcaraz
Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip "La Cucaracha". Alcaraz was born in the San Diego, California area and grew up in the neighboring city of Lemon Grove. Alcaraz began drawing editorial cartoons for his college paper, San Diego State University's "Daily Aztec", in the late 1980s.
- Don Coryell
Don Coryell (born October 17, 1924) is a former American football coach, who coached in the NFL first with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1973-1977 and then the San Diego Chargers from 1978-1986. He is well-known for his innovations to football's passing offense. Coryell's offense today is commonly known as "Air Coryell". However, the Charger offense lacked the ability to control the clock, resulting in their defense spending too much time on the field.
- Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, a writer and lecturer with a PhD in theoretical physics. He puts his many facets into not only teaching all around the world but also into publishing books, 12 successful books to date including one National Book Award.
- Larry McCaffery
Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. McCaffery's work focuses on post-modern literature, science fiction, contemporary fiction. He is best known for editing "Storming the Reality Studio", a post-modern anthology featuring the fictional work of authors such as William Gibson, Samuel Delany, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, and Harold Jaffe.
- David Christian
Dr. David Gilbert Christian (born 1946) is an Anglo-American historian. Christian was born in Brooklyn, New York, of British and American parents. He grew up in Africa and in England, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Oxford University. Subsequently he taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia for thirty years before moving to San Diego State University in 2002. Originally an historian of Russia who wrote several books on that subject, …
- Kirk Morrison
Kirk Morrison (born February 19, 1982) is an American football player at the middle linebacker position. He grew up in the Oakland area and attended Bishop O'Dowd High School and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He attended college at San Diego State University (SDSU), and anchored an Aztec defense with current Green Bay Packers safety Marviel Underwood and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Matt McCoy.
- Mike Smith
Mike Smith (born June 13, 1959 in Chicago) is the current defensive coordinator for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, having served in that capacity since the 2003 season. A native of Daytona Beach, Florida, Smith played linebacker at Father Lopez High School, earning All-State honors. Collegiately, he played for East Tennessee State University between 1977 and 1981, being named defensive MVP twice.
- Shirley Horton
Shirley Horton (c. 1953-) is a U.S. politician, currently serving as a Republican Member of the California State Assembly. Horton was born in Japan, while her father was in the Navy, but grew up in south San Diego County, California. She received her Bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1976. She ran her own property management business until elected to the California State Assembly. After serving two terms as mayor of Chula Vista, 1994-2000, …
- Anwar Al-Awlaki
Imam Anwar al-Awlaki is a Muslim scholar who was born in New Mexico. His parents are from Yemen, where he lived for eleven years and received the early part of his Islamic education. Imam Anwar al-Awlaki has served as an Imam in Colorado, California, and most recently in the Washington, D.C. area where he headed the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Centre and was also the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University.
- Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author and more recently an author of mainstream novels. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict ("Forge of God" books), artificial universes ("Eon" series), consciousness and cultural practices ("Queen of Angels"), and accelerated evolution ("Blood Music", "Darwin's Radio", and "Darwin's Children").
- Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is a U.S. writer and the editor of Fiction International, a yearly journal devoted to innovative and/or committed writings, which has published the works of Alberto Moravia, Clarice Lispector, Pierre Guyotat, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Robert Coover, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Joseph Beuys and many others. Jaffe is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.
- David Ward-Steinman
David Ward-Steinman (born November 6, 1936) is an American composer and music professor. Ward-Steinman studied at Florida State University and the University of Illinois, where he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship for foreign study. After receiving his doctorate, he was a fellow at Princeton University from 1970. His teachers included John Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (at Aspen, Colorado), Milton Babbitt (at Tanglewood) and Nadia Boulanger.
- Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter has been in show business for more than 60 years and has co-produced and acted in numerous dramatic shows and motion pictures. His best-known shows established records for longevity.
- John Fox
John Fox is the third and current head coach of the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. Fox was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and raised in San Diego, California after moving there at age 15. Fox played football at Castle Park High School and Southwestern College (California) in Chula Vista from 1974-1975 before going to San Diego State, where he played defensive back with future NFL player & head coach Herman Edwards.
- Dave Smith
David Smith (born January 21 1955 in Richmond, California) was a Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Smith attended San Diego State University. Most of his major league career was spent with the Houston Astros from 1980-1990. He only started one game in his career, and was the team's primary closer from 1985 on. Smith was selected for the National League All-Star team for both the 1986 and 1990 seasons. He holds the Astros record for games pitched (586) and saves (199).
- Bill Lowery
William David "Bill" Lowery (May 2, 1947-) was a U.S. Republican politician from California. Lowery was born 1947 in southeastern San Diego, California, where he attended grew up. He attended San Diego State University. Lowery was married and divorced twice, first to Kathleen E. Brown on September 9, 1968 and second to Melinda Morrin. Lowery started is political career as a San Diego city councilman from 1977-1980.
- Cheryl Cox
Cheryl Cox (born 1949) is the mayor of Chula Vista, California. Cox is the daughter of retired United States Navy Officer, John Willett. Cox, and her husband of 30 years, San Diego County Supervisor and former Chula Vista Mayor Greg Cox, have two daughters, Elizabeth and Emmie. Cox received Master's degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Southern California. She worked for 30 years as a teacher, …
- Lori Saldaña
Lori R. Saldaña is a Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 76th Assembly District, representing central San Diego. Lori Saldaña was born 1958 in San Diego, the third of four daughters born to Virginia and Frank Saldaña. Frank Saldaña served in the Marine Corps and was a reporter for the San Diego "Evening Tribune." She grew up in the Clairemont area of San Diego, …
- Brian Sipe
Brian Winfield Sipe (born August 8, 1949, in San Diego, California) is a former professional American Football quarterback who played in the NFL between 1974-83 and the USFL in 1984-85. He was a collegiate football star for San Diego State University (SDSU), where he also studied architecture. He also competed in the 1961 Little League World Series for El Cajon, California. Drafted in the 13th round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns, …
- Sol Price
Sol Price (born around 1916) He has been known as a pioneer of the "Warehouse store" retail model. He is a 1934 graduate of San Diego State University, and in 1938 earned a law degree from the University of Southern California Law School. Sol Price was admitted to the California Bar in November 1938, his California bar number is 16491. Price launched the first FedMart in 1954 and founded the Price Club in 1976.
- Tally Hall
Tally Hall (born Talmon Henry Hall on May 12, 1985 in SeaTac, Washington) is an American soccer goalkeeper, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft. However, Hall opted to sign with Danish club Esbjerg fB. Formerly of Gig Harbor, Washington and Gig Harbor High School, Tally was a star for the San Diego State University (SDSU) Aztecs and a two (2) time NSCAA and College Soccer News All-American, …
- Jim Bates
Jim Bates (July 21 1941-) is a former American Democratic politician. After graduating high school in the Denver area, Bates joined the United States Marine Corps in 1959, and served in the Corps until 1963. Relocating to San Diego, Bates became a banker and later a businessman in the aerospace industry. Bates was elected to the San Diego city council in 1971. While serving he obtained his masters degree from San Diego State University.
- Randy Holcomb
Randy Holcomb (born August 8 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2nd round (57th pick) of the 2002 NBA Draft. His draft rights were traded to the Philadelphia 76ers with Mark Bryant and John Salmons in exchange for Speedy Claxton on June 26 2002. He signed a 10-day contract with the Chicago Bulls on January 5 2006 and appeared in four games during the 2005-06 season.
- Will Demps
William Henry Demps, Jr. (born November 7, 1979 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American football player for the New York Giants of the NFL and plays the free safety position as number 47.
- John Todd
Dr. John Todd (b. 1939) is an important biologist working in the field of ecological design. His ideas often involve applications that make use of alternative technologies. His principle interests include solving the problems of food production and waste-water processing. As an author, he has presented the outcome of the work that he and colleagues have undertaken in a series of books, as well as in the requisite scientific papers.
- Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel is an American installation artist. In the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel began making art in response to her own surroundings and daily routines, creating functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing. She produced her first “Living Unit”--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, …
- Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction conlangs. Elgin also publishes non-fiction, of which the best-known is the "Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" series Born in 1936 in Missouri, Elgin attended the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the 1960s, and began writing science fiction in order to pay tuition.
- Royce Ring
Roger Royce Ring (born December 21, 1980) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Ring was born in La Mesa, California and attended San Diego State University where he was a star closer. He was selected by the Chicago White Sox as the 18th overall pick in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft. In 2003, Ring was the key player acquired by the Mets in the trade that sent Roberto Alomar and sour cream to the White Sox.
- Ken Calvert
Kenneth Stanton (Ken) Calvert (born June 8 1953), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 44th congressional district. The district is part of the Inland Empire and south Orange County areas of Southern California.
- Armen Keteyian
Armen Keteyian (b. March 6, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an investigative reporter for CBS News and correspondent for the HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel". He graduated from Bloomfield Hills' Lahser High School and later obtained a journalism degree in 1976 from San Diego State University. He started his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for the San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980-1982).
- Scott Tinley
Scott Tinley (born October 25, 1956) was a professional triathlete and two-time winner of the Hawaii Ironman endurance race. He was inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame in 1996. Now retired, Scott is a writer and teacher.
- J.R. Tolver
Gregory D. Tolver, Jr. (born January 13, 1980 in Long Beach, California) is an American football wide receiver. He played for the Miami Dolphins (2002-2005) and the Dallas Cowboys (2005-06) of the NFL, but is currently a free agent. He attended Mira Mesa Senior High School and San Diego State University. He also has a brother playing college football in Cal Poly.