- Michael Jackson
Michael A. Jackson is a satellite project manager who ran as a Republican in the 2003 California recall, primarily getting votes due to sharing his name with that of pop singer Michael Jackson. Jackson garnered 746 votes, placing him 91st out of 135 candidates. - Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,, February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is commonly cited in the American media. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren (b. August 2, 1948) is internationally recognized as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy worldwide. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. McLaren is currently Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. - Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. A child prodigy, Tao is currently a professor of mathematics at UCLA. He was promoted to a full professor at age 24. In August 2006, he was awarded the Fields Medal. Just one month later, in September 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Norman Abrams
Norman Abrams (born 1933) is acting chancellor and Professor Emeritus in the School of Law at UCLA. It was announced on June 15, 2006 that UC President Robert C. Dynes appointed Abrams to serve as interim chancellor of UCLA starting June 30, 2006, succeeding Albert Carnesale. Gene D. Block has been appointed the next chancellor of UCLA. He will take his position on or before August 1, 2007. - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - David Eisenberg
David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist noted for his seminal contributions to structural and computational molecular biology. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics since the early 1990s, Eisenberg's current experimental work focuses on the structural biology of amyloidogenic proteins, … - Kevin Love
Kevin Wesley Love (b. September 7, 1988 in Santa Monica, California), is a college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins. - Ben Howland
Ben Howland (born May 28, 1957 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American college head coach of men's basketball. He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and recently signed a contract extension through 2013. Aggressive man-to-man defense is the trademark of Ben Howland-coached teams. - Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator born in San Jose, California in 1945. She grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. She received both bachelor's and master's degrees from University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1971, she has lived in Marin County in California and has taught English at the College of Marin, Kentfield, California. Commencing with her first collection in 1983, by 2006 she had published 6 collections of poetry. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 's outstanding play on the court thrust him into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1995. After 20 seasons, Kareem is the only player in NBA History to win the MVP award six times and is the NBA's all-time regular season scoring leader. As president of Kareem Productions, he now spends time on his second passion, film making. - Albert Carnesale
Albert Carnesale is UCLA Chancellor Emeritus and holds professorial appointments in UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research currently focuses on issues in international affairs and security and in higher education. Carnesale served as Chancellor of UCLA from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 2006. - Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is also director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations. - Deepak Lal
Deepak Lal (born 1940 in Lahore) is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many scholarly articles on development economics and of numerous books, including "Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance", "The Poverty of "Development Economics", … - Karl Dorrell
Karl Dorrell (b. December 18, 1963 in Alameda, California) is the first black head coach in the history of the UCLA Bruins college football team, a position he took on December 18, 2002. He attended Helix High School in La Mesa, California, where he was a two-time all-league selection and a honorable mention All-America as a senior. He led Helix to the CIF San Diego Section title in 1980 and to second place in 1981. He is married and has two children. - John Moore
A man named John Moore underwent treatment for cancer of the spleen at the University of California, Los Angeles hospital when he was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia after he was told that local hospitals were unable to treat him. His physician, Dr. Golde, quickly realized the medical and commercial potential of Mr. Moore's cells. Repeated withdraw of "blood, blood serum, skin, bone marrow aspirate, and sperm" was performed on Mr. Moore. - N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics" which won the "Rene Wellek Prize" for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). - Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13 1979, in Compton, California) is an American basketball player currently starting at point guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He began playing basketball at the age of five. Later, Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the number three pick in the 1999 NBA Draft. - Darren Collison
Darren Michael Collison is an American basketball player. The right-hander is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, California, and is currently playing his sophomore season for the University of California, Los Angeles. Collison is widely considered to be one of the top guards in the NCAA. He was awarded the MVP of the Maui Invitational Tournament in December, 2006 and was named the Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week on December 4, 2006, and again on February 18, 2007. - Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson (born October 13, 1975) is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He founded the site along with CEO Chris DeWolfe. Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of Nov 17, 2008, Tom has 250,216,689 "friends". Anderson attended UC Berkeley from 1994 to 1998, UCLA 1999-2001 - Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), … - Steve Crocker
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles. Steve Crocker has worked in the Internet community since its inception. As a UCLA graduate student in the 1960's, Steve Crocker helped create the Arpanet protocols which were the foundation for today's Internet. - Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy (born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on the study at the San Francisco Art Institute getting his B.F.A. in painting. Then in 1972 he studied film, video, and art at the University of Southern California getting his M.F.A. From 1982 until the present he has taught performance, video, installation, … - Peter Jones
Peter Wilcox Jones is a mathematician at Yale University, known for his work in harmonic analysis and fractal geometry. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978, under the supervision of John Garnett. He received the Salem Prize in 1981. He is not related to the Fields medalist Vaughan Jones. - Jordan Farmar
Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player and starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was previously the starting point guard for the UCLA men's basketball team. - Howard Berman
Howard Lawrence "Howie" Berman (born April 15 1941) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983, representing the 28th District of California (map). He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a lawyer and a member of the California State Assembly from 1972 to 1982 before entering the House. - Shelley Taylor
Shelley Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and was formerly on the faculty at Harvard University. A prolific author of books and scholarly journal articles, Taylor has long been a leading figure in two subfields related to her primary discipline of social psychology. These subfields are social cognition and health psychology. - Nikki Keddie
Nikki R. Keddie is an American professor of Eastern, Iranian, and women's history. She retired from the University of California, Los Angeles after 35 years of teaching. Keddie was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930. - Alexander Astin
Alexander W. Astin is the Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Founding Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He is also the Founding Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, … - Luc Richard Mbah A Moute
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (born 9 September 1986 in Yaounde, Cameroon) is a 6' 8" Cameroonian basketball player who plays for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins in the Pacific Ten Conference of the NCAA. - Marcia J. Bates
Marcia J. Bates is Professor VI Emerita of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and was tenured at the University of Washington in 1981 before joining the faculty at UCLA. Bates has published widely on information seeking behavior, search strategy, subject access in manual and automated systems, … - 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. - Brad Sherman
Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing. He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard Law School, and was a lawyer and accountant before entering the House. He also served two terms on the California State Board of Equalization. - Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller," which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina. - Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. His interests include self-fulfilling prophecies, which he explored in a well-known study of the Pygmalion Effect: the effect of teachers' expectations on students. Rosenthal was born in Giessen, Germany on March 2, 1933, and left with his parents at the age of six. In 1956 he was awarded a PhD by the University of California, Los Angeles. - James Bridges
James Bridges was an American screenwriter and film director. Bridges was born in Paris, Arkansas. He got his start as a writer for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", and one of his episodes, "An Unlocked Window", earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series. He went on to write and direct a number of notable films, including "The Baby Maker" (1970), "The Paper Chase" (1973), … - Mary Kelly
Mary Kelly, American conceptual artist, teacher and writer. Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, she studied fine art and music at the College of Saint Teresa, and fine art and aesthetics at the Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy (MA 1965). She later received a postgraduate certificate in painting at St. Martin’s School of Art, London. From 1968 Kelly worked in London as artist, teacher, curator, editor and writer. - Robert A. Bjork
Robert A. Bjork (Ph.D., Stanford University; B.A., Minnesota) is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on human learning and memory and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training. He's a father to directed forgetting paradigm. - Stephen Coles
Dr. L. Stephen Coles (born January 19, 1941) is a professor at the UCLA, and the co-founder and moving force behind the development of the Gerontology Research Group. As a VP for Medical Education, "The Kronos Group", he is a co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group. He is also assistant researcher in the department of surgery at the UCLA Medical School. Dr. Coles is the author of over 70 scientific papers, and holds two patents.
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