Hasan Karim Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools, c. 1971) is an African American and Muslim convert from Los Angeles, California. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, or "frag", of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, while he was a U.S. Army soldier with the 101st Airborne, 326th Engineer Battalion.

Mari Elka Pangestu is the Minister of Trade of Indonesia. She is the first female Indonesian Chinese to hold a cabinet position in Indonesia. She was born in Jakarta on October 23, 1956. Pangestu obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Australian National University, and her Doctorate in economics from the University of California at Davis, United States, in 1986.

Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.

Dr. Indira V. Samarasekera, OC, (born 1952) is currently President of the University of Alberta. She succeeded Roderick Fraser in this position. She was previously Vice-President Research at the University of British Columbia. She is the first female president of any university in Alberta. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of Tamil descent, she received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ceylon in 1974, …

Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is an Indian agronomist. Along with his mentor, Dr. Henry Beachell, he received the 1996 World Food Prize for their unparalleled achievements in enlarging and improving the supply of rice, one of the world’s largest food crops, during a time of exponential population increases. For this work, Dr. Khush has been called "a hero of the Green Revolution."

Dr. Kirsten Sanford is a research scientist in neurophysiology at the University of California, Davis and is a specialist in learning and memory. She holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from UC Davis. Kirsten is also the founder and host of the popular This Week in Science radio show/podcast, a weekly program broadcast from University of California, …

Robert Michael Bellotti (b. December 21, 1950 in Sacramento, California) has been the head coach of the University of Oregon football team since 1995. He has led the Ducks to nine winning seasons in ten years, missing a bowl game for the second time in 2004. His accomplishments at Oregon include an 11-1 season and #2 national ranking in 2001. He was previously the head coach at Chico State University in California and Woodland High School in Woodland, CA.

Chris Crawford is a noted computer game designer and writer, responsible for a number of important games in the 1980s, for founding "The Journal of Computer Game Design" and for organizing the Computer Game Developers' Conference. After receiving a B.S. in physics from UC Davis in 1972 and an M.S. in the same from University of Missouri - Columbia in 1975, Crawford taught at a community college and the University of California, …

Kate Tsui is pageant winner and a TVB actress.

Sue Ellen Wooldridge (b. February 15, 1961), is an American attorney and a former politically appointed U.S. government employee. She was formerly the United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of environment and natural resources, a division of the United States Department of Justice. As such, she was the U.S.'s top environmental prosecutor. She resigned from this post in January 2007.

Alvin Swauger White (December 9, 1918 - April 29, 2006) was an American test pilot, engineer, and a USAF astronaut. Born to Harold H. White, Sr. and Ruth A. Winkleman, in Berkeley, California, he was a pilot for over 60 years. In 1936, he enrolled in the University of California at Davis to study electrical engineering, and transferred to the campus at Berkeley two years later. He began his flying career in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, receiving his license in 1940.

Mohsen Nourbakhsh was an Iranian economist, most famous as Governor of the Central Bank of Iran. Born in Isfahan, Nourbakhsh got his bachelor degree from University of Tehran in economics, and he received his Master of Art and PHD from University of California at Davis, in econometrics. He got his first government position in 1980, and later served as Member of Parliament from 1987-89, and Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance from 1989-93.

Deborah Kay Butterfield (b. May 7 1949) is an American artist currently living in Bozeman, Montana. She is best known for her sculptures of horses made from found objects, especially pieces of wood.

Tiffany Lam or Tiffany Lam Man Li (born 25th October, 1980) is a former beauty queen hailing from Hong Kong. She owns the title of Miss Hong Kong 2002 and Miss Chinese International 2003 runner up.

Dr Mahmoud Solh (born Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese agricultural economist and genetic scientist who as of May 8 2006 is Director General of International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, ICARDA based in Aleppo, Syria. He has been associated with international agricultural research and development in the dry areas since 1972 when he became a staff member of the Arid Land Agricultural Development (ALAD) Program in the Near East, the predecessor of ICARDA.

Tani Barlow is a scholar of feminism, postcoloniality, and history in Asia and most specifically in China. She is a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington. She edits the journal "positions: East Asia Culture Critique", for which she received the 1995 Best New Journal Award by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals of the Modern Language Association.

Howard Alvin Stone (born January 19, 1960) is a Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. His field of research is in Fluid mechanics, Chemical engineering and Complex fluids. He did his undergraduate studies at University of California at Davis and earned his Ph.D. at Caltech.