Jonathan M. Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and for his show "The Critic".

Van Thai Tran is a U.S. politician, currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo are the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history; Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature.

Roy T. Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on computer network architecture. Fielding was born in Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Fielding's doctoral dissertation, …

Behrouz A. Forouzan (born 1944) is a Professor at the Computer Information Systems department of DeAnza College. He has written many textbooks about computer science, networking, programming and databases. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine.

Janet Nguyen (born 1976) is the county supervisor from the first district in Orange County, California. She won her seat following an unprecedented special election where two Vietnamese-American candidates received half of the votes cast in a field of 10, separated from each other by only 7 votes. She was sworn in on March 27, 2007, after a lengthy court battle. She is the youngest person to be elected to the board of supervisors, …

Gregory "Greg" Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960 in El Cajon, California) is an American diver. Athlete best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events. He received the James E. Sullivan Award in 1984 as the top amateur athlete in the United States.

Erin Gruwell (b. 15 August 1969) is an American teacher. The 2007 film "Freedom Writers" was based on her story.

Brady Kevin Anderson (born January 18 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a former center and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians. Anderson attended Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. After graduating, he studied economics at the University of California, Irvine. He played outfield and first base for the Anteaters, …

Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters. A close friend of Alice Sebold (both graduated from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at UC Irvine), she also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California. A native of Los Angeles, Bender is influenced by the French Surrealists and the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Alice Sebold (b. September 6, 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a bestselling American writer. She has published two books, "Lucky" and "The Lovely Bones". A third book, "The Almost Moon," is due to be published in late 2007.

Byron Paul Velvick (b. June 14, 1964 in Boulder City, Nevada) was the bachelor in Season 6 of the United States television show "The Bachelor". He has been a professional bass fisherman for the past 13 years. He graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in English. He was previously married to Irene Gallegos on June 5, 1999. He is currently engaged to Mary Delgado, the bachelorette he chose in the 6th season of "The Bachelor".

Armand Leroi was born in Wellington, New Zealand on the 16 July 1964. A Dutch citizen, his youth was spent in New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. He was awarded a BSc. by Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada in 1989, and a Ph.D. by the University of California, Irvine in 1993. This was followed by postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York using the nematode "Caenorhabditis elegans" as an experimental organism.

Philip Mathews is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was previously the head coach at the University of San Francisco.

Colet Abedi is an Iranian-American writer and producer. She was born in Virginia and grew up in Orange County, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to working on many television programs for NBC, ABC, Fox, and most of the cable networks she is most known for her work as head writer on Fox's MyNetwork TV's telenovela drama series, Fashion House, …

Professor Lawrence L. Larmore is a theoretical computer scientist, and a professor at University of Las Vegas, Nevada. He is best known for his work with competitive analysis of online algorithms, particularly for the k-server problem. His contributions, with his co-author Marek Chrobak, led to the application of T-theory to the server problem. In addition, he developed the package-merge algorithm for the length-limited Huffman coding problem, …

Scott William Brooks (born July 31 1965 in French Camp, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 5' 11" point guard, Brooks played collegiately at San Joaquin Delta College and Texas Christian University (TCU), before finishing his final two years at the University of California, Irvine. He was inducted into UCI's Hall of Fame in 2001. Brooks played 11 seasons (1988-1998) in the NBA, appearing as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers, …

Karl P. Warkomski (born October 5 1967) is a former city council member for Aliso Viejo, California and a member of the Green Party. In 1990 he graduated from UCI with a BS. He finished his graduate work at USC in 1995. He co-founded the company Green Culture Inc., in Laguna Hills, California, in 1994, which he owned and operated until 2003, and where he is still employed as Director of Conservation. Elected to the city council upon Aliso Viejo's incorporation in 2001, …

Jeffrey Mumford (born 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is a U.S. composer. He holds degrees from the University of California, Irvine (B.A., 1977) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A., 1981). He was a student of Elliott Carter. Mumford's compositions, though thoroughly modern, are evocative and impressionistic, exploring the sensuous and tactile nature of sound in subtle and sophisticated ways. Like many other 20th and 21st century classical works, …

C. David Baker is the 4th commissioner of the Arena Football League. David Baker started in the league as the owner of the Anaheim Piranhas. He relinquished his ownership stake of the team when he was named Commissioner. One of his more imposing features is his size - 6 feet 9 inches tall and around 350 pounds, making him, literally, the biggest commissioner in American sports.

Gary Lee Figueroa (born September 28, 1956) is a former water polo player from the United States, who won the silver medal with "Team USA" at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He currently coaches women's water polo at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Steve Scott (born May 5, 1956) is an American athlete who is one of the greatest milers in American history. The silver medalist in the 1,500 meters at the inaugural IAAF World Outdoor Championships at Helsinki in 1983, Scott owns the U.S. Outdoor mile record of 3:47.69 (1982) and U.S. Indoor records in the mile (3:51.8-1981) and 2000 meters (4:58.6-1981). Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on 10 occasions, …

Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement.

Amber Neben (born: February 18, 1975) is an American cycle racer who won the U.S. national road race championship in 2003 and is the only active American female cyclist to win multiple UCI category 1 stage races, having won the Gracia Tour in 2002, theTour du Montreal in 2003 and the Tour de l'Aude in 2005 and again in 2006.

Michael Ferejohn is a professor of philosophy at Duke University, and the author of the book "The Origins of Aristotelian Science". He received his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to teaching at Duke, he held a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University. Ferejohn specializes in ancient philosophy, epistemology, and logic.

Prince Ahmed bin Salman (November 17, 1958 - July 22, 2002) was a member of the royal family of Saudi Arabia and a media executive who also was a major figure in international Thoroughbred horse racing. Born in Riyadh, Prince Ahmed was the third son of the Governor of Riyadh Province, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz. He was highly Westernized as a result of his American education at the University of California, …

Shahab Zargari (born November 21, 1978 in Los Angeles) is a musician and co-owner of Geykido Comet Records. Most recently he and a friend edited and published The Industry Standard Anthology. He has a bachelor's degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the University of California at Irvine which he acquired in 2000. Shahab lives in California, with his wife Heela and daughter Mahtab.

Tod James Murphy (born December 24 1963 in Long Beach, California) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 3rd round (53rd overall) of the 1986 NBA Draft. A 6'9" center-forward from the University of California, Irvine, Murphy played in 5 NBA seasons for 4 different teams. He played for the Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors.

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