- Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. - Rudi Bakhtiar
Rudi Bakhtiar Rudi Bakhtiar is an Iranian-American journalist, working for the Fox News Channel. Although born in California, Bakhtiar was raised in Iran until the Iranian Revolution when her family moved to the United States. She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a B.S. in biology, planning to be a dentist. Prior to Fox News, Bakhtiar had worked for CNN. - Paul Pimsleur
Paul Pimsleur (1928 - 1972) was an authority in the field of applied linguistics. He taught French phonetics and phonemics at the University of California, Los Angeles after obtaining his Ph.D. in French and a master's degree in psychological statistics from Columbia University. After leaving UCLA, Pimsleur went on to faculty positions at Ohio State University, where he taught French and foreign language education. - Gary Okihiro
Gary Y. Okihiro is director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. He is author of several books in U.S. and African history, most recently of THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY (2001), and COMMON GROUND: REIMAGINING AMERICAN HISTORY (2001). - Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin M. Murphy is George Pratt Shultz Professor of Business Economics and Industrial Relations. A faculty member since 1983, he received a Ph.D. in economics from Chicago in 1986. His most recent research focuses on returns to education and skill, unemployment, human capital and growth, and income inequality. - Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "berorgan" a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe, was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting. - Gary Beban
Gary Joseph Beban (born August 5, 1946 in Redwood City, California) is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, and the Maxwell Award, while playing quarterback for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins. Beban, known as "The Great One", excelled in both academics and athletics, … - Jonathan Ogden
Jonathan Phillip "Big Boy" Ogden (born July 31, 1974 in Washington, DC) is an American football offensive tackle who currently plays for the Baltimore Ravens. He received his education at St. Albans School, excelling not only in football but also in track and field. An All-American in both sports, he decided on the UCLA instead of the University of Florida because UCLA let him do track and field. A legitimate Olympic level shot-putter, he decided to focus on football. - Trevor Ariza
Trevor Anthony Ariza (born June 30 1985 in Miami, Florida) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA for the Orlando Magic. After a college career at UCLA, Ariza was a second round draft choice (43rd overall) of the New York Knicks in the 2004 NBA Draft. Ariza attended Westchester High School in Los Angeles, where as a junior he along with teammate and fellow NBA player Hassan Adams led the Comets to California State Champions. - Tim Leary
Timothy James Leary (born December 23, 1958, in Santa Monica, California) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Drafted by the New York Mets in the 1st round of the 1979 MLB amateur draft, Leary would make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Mets on April 12, 1981. He would appear in his final game on August 9, 1994. - Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris (born 1944) is an American social psychologist and author. She received a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and has taught psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the New School for Social Research. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Center for Inquiry and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, … - Jens Lindemann
Jens Lindemann is a Canadian professional trumpet soloist and instructor now based in Los Angeles. He has played at every major concert venue in the world, including the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne and Berlin. Even before graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, Jens appeared as a soloist with several orchestras and won awards at numerous jazz festivals while still in his teens. - Robert von Dassanowsky
Robert von Dassanowsky (aka Robert Dassanowsky) born January 28, 1960 in New York, is an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer. A student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dassanowsky is a widely published academican, award-winning playwright and has written for television. - Ulysses S. Grant IV
Ulysses Simpson Grant IV, the son of Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant), was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. He was born at his father's farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to San Diego, California. - Mel Shapiro
Mel Shapiro is an award-winning American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author. For Broadway, Shapiro wrote the book and directed the 1971 musical adaptation of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", and directed the 1978 revival of "Stop the World - I Want to Get Off" with Sammy Davis, Jr. and John Guare's 1979 play "Bosoms and Neglect". He directed the original off-Broadway production of "The House of Blue Leaves", … - Kiki Vandeweghe
Ernest Maurice "Kiki" Vandeweghe III (born August 1, 1958 in Wiesbaden, Germany), is a former National Basketball Association player and the former General Manager of the Denver Nuggets. Vandeweghe is the son of former NBA player Ernie Vandeweghe and Colleen Kay Hutchins, the winner of the 1952 Miss America pageant. Vandeweghe is also the nephew of another NBA player, four-time All-Star Mel Hutchins. - Aswath Damodaran
Aswath Damodaran , NYU Stern Professor of Finance, was named "Professor of the Year" by the 2008 graduating MBA class - his eighth time during his career at NYU Stern. He was recognized at the Graduate Convocation Ceremony on May 15, 2008. - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy (or Steve Hazy) (born 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is the Chairman and CEO of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), which is one of the two largest aircraft lessors in the world (the other being GECAS.) As of 2006 he is the 83rd richest American with a net worth of US$3.1 billion. The Udvar-Hazy family came to the United States in 1958, fleeing the Soviet occupation of Hungary. Hazy attended the University of California, Los Angeles. - Army Archerd
Armand "Army" Archerd (b. January 13, 1922 in Bronx, NY) was a gossip columnist for "Variety" for over fifty years before retiring his "Just for Variety" column in September 2005. In November 2005 Archerd began blogging for "Variety" and he is currently at work on his memoirs. In 1984, he was given a star on the Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of Mann's Chinese Theater, where he has emceed dozens of movie premieres. - Jesse Dukeminier
Jesse Dukeminier (born in West Point, Mississippi, August 12, 1925 - April 20, 2003) was a professor of law for 40 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and authored or co-authored a significant number of articles and textbooks in the areas of property law, wills, trusts, and estates. Dukeminier received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1948, … - Peter Tomarken
Peter David Tomarken was an American television personality known primarily as host of "Press Your Luck". Born in Olean, New York, Tomarken was the middle son of Barnet and Pearl Tomarken. Barnet and Pearl owned Dee’s Jewelry store in Olean. When Barnet died in 1957, Pearl moved the family to Odessa, Texas and then in 1959 to California. Peter was 15 at the time and later graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1960. - Mayme Agnew Clayton
Mayme Agnew Clayton (August 4, 1923 - October 13, 2006) was a librarian, and the Founder, President & Spiritual Leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world. The collection represents the core holdings of the Mayme A. Clayton Library Museum and Cultural Center (MCL) located in Culver City, California. - Willie Naulls
William Dean "Willie" Naulls (born October 7, 1934 in Dallas, Texas) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" power forward/center, he played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1966. After playing at UCLA, Naulls was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks in 1956. He spent just 19 games with the Hawks, however, before being traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he would spend the prime of his career. - Torey Lovullo
Salvatore Anthony Lovullo (born July 25, 1965, in Santa Monica, California) was a Major League Baseball infielder and current manager of the AAA Buffalo Bisons. He is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles. His father, Sam Lovullo, was a producer on the television show Hee Haw. Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 5th round of the 1987 MLB amateur draft, Lovullo would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Detroit Tiger's on September 10, 1988, … - Abraham Kaplan
Abraham Kaplan (June 11 1918 - June 19 1993) was an American philosopher. Kaplan's parents were Joseph J. and Chava (Lerner) Kaplan. Abraham's father was a Rabbi. He was raised in Odessa, Ukraine. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1930, after immigrating to the country in 1923. In 1937, he graduated from the College of St. Thomas. He received a Ph.D. in 1942 from the University of California, Los Angeles. - Jack Hirschman
Jack Hirschman greets the artists, poets, and speakers who came out in support of the 2004 San Francisco rally: "The Arts in Defense of Dissent".Jack Hirschman (b. December 13, 1933, in New York, NY) is a poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry and essays. Hirschman received a Bachelor of Arts from City College of New York in 1955, and an A.M. and Ph. - Tammy Leitner
Tammy Leitner (born July 3, 1972 in San Diego, California) is a journalist and former reality television contestant. Leitner graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in English, before eventually completing her master's degree in journalism from Boston University in Massachusetts. She established her reputation as a hard-nosed journalist, writing for newspapers in New York and Arizona, which includes the New York Post. - Levance Fields
Levance E. Fields (born June 14 1987) is a college basketball player for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. He hails from Brooklyn, NY and attended the prestigious basketball school Xaverian High School. Fields was named New York Player of the Year by the New York Daily News and Newsday. He currently finished his sophomore season as the starting point guard for Pitt. He averaged 9.2 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game for the Panthers in 2006-07. - Irving Bernstein
Irving Bernstein (1916 - September 25, 2001) was a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a noted labor historian. - Stuart Gray
Stuart Allan Gray (born May 27 1963, in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama) is an American/Panamanian former professional basketball player. Gray attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and was selected with the 29th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers. He played with them for five seasons before moving on to the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks. A 7'0" center, he holds career averages of 2.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. - Mike Gallego
Michael Anthony Gallego (born October 31, 1960 in Whittier, California) is a former Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals from 1985 to 1997. Gallego was the A's starting second baseman during their three year run of A.L. Championships from 1988 through 1990, winning the World Series in 1989 versus their Bay Area rivals, the San Francisco Giants. - Roy I. Sano
Roy Isao Sano (born 1931) is a retired Japanese-American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984. Sano was born on 18 June 1931 in Brawley, California, of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. Upon the death of their third child, Roy's parents were converted to Christianity. When Roy was eleven, his family was sent to Poston Concentration Camp, and then to Pennsylvania under the sponsorship of a Quaker family, where they worked as farm workers. - Kenyon Coleman
Kenyon Octavia Coleman (born April 10, 1979 in Fontana, California) is an American football defensive end for the New York Jets of the NFL. He was selected with the 12th pick of the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft out of the University of California, Los Angeles by the Oakland Raiders. On March 6, 2007, the Jets signed Coleman to a contract, reportedly worth $20M over 5 years. - Alfred Horn
Alfred Horn (February 17, 1918 - April 16, 2001) was an American mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming. Horn was born on Lower East Side, Manhattan. His parents were both deaf, and his father died when Horn was three years old. - Gerald Madkins
Gerald Madkins (born April 18 1969, in Merced, California) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA. Madkins attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers and played with them from 1993 to 1994, and was signed by the Miami Heat on January 21, 1998, but was waived six days later without playing a game. Madkins played briefly with the Golden State Warriors in 1998. - Laurel Kenner
Laurel Kenner (born in California in 1954) is a financial writer and commentator in New York City whose columns have appeared on CNBC Money, worldlyinvestor.com, and TheStreet.com. She holds a degree in piano from the University of California at Los Angeles. During the period 1989-1994, she was an award-winning aerospace reporter for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and subsequently, from 1995 to 2000, she was chief US stocks editor at Bloomberg News. - Thomas E. Crow
Thomas E. Crow (born 1948) is an American art historian and art critic who is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. Crow was born in Chicago in 1948, and moved to San Diego, California in 1961. He received a B.A. from Pomona College in 1969, and his M.A. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1978, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. In his early career, Crow focused on eighteenth-century French art. - Alpin Hong
Alpin Seung-Ki Hong (born 1976) is an American classical pianist. Hong was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and made his orchestral debut with the Kalamazoo Symphony at age 10. At age 12, Hong lost both parents in a car accident, and moved with his younger brother to live with an aunt in Los Angeles, California. He attended high school at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. After briefly studying pre-med at UCLA, Hong matriculated at the Juilliard School in New York, … - Carol Neblett
Carol Neblett (1946-) is an American operatic soprano. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and in 1969, made her stage debut with the New York City Opera, playing the part of Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme. With that company, she sang many leading roles, including La Traviata, Manon, Ariadne auf Naxos, Faust and Boito's Mefistofele. In 1976, she performed Tosca with Luciano Pavarotti at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. - Mayar Zokaei
Mayar Zokaei is an American journalist currently serving as a media beat and sports writer. Zokaei periodically contributes to the "Los Angeles Times", "NYLA Magazine", and the "Los Angeles Daily News". Zokaei is the son of publishing magnate and American journalist Mehdi Zokaei, publisher and editor in chief of "JAVANAN Magazine", the largest bilingual Persian magazine in the world.
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