Richard Wayne Bandler (born February 24, 1950) is an American author on personal development. He is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). He also developed follow-up systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR). In 1988, a jury unamimously acquitted Bandler of the murder of Corine Christensen.

Jim Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a major contributor to genome database projects. While a graduate student in biology there, he wrote the program that allowed the publicly funded Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the human genome database before the commercial effort by the company Celera Genomics.

Brannon Braga (born August 14 1965, in Bozeman, Montana) is an American television producer and screenwriter who is mostly known for his work on the Star Trek series since 1990. He is credited as one of the co-creators and executive producers of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and was a producer of the short-lived alien invasion drama "Threshold". Braga received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kent State University Stark in 2005.

Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972, in Gainesville, Florida) is an American actress and comedian, currently best known as a cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live."

Gregory Bateson was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" (1972), "Mind and Nature" (1980), and "Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred" (1988), the last published posthumously and co-authored with his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.

John Grinder, Ph.D. (born 1940) is an American author and linguist. Grinder (pronounced grin-der,) is credited (with Richard Bandler) with the creation of the field of Neuro-linguistic programming.

David Andrew J. Samberg (born August 18, 1978 in Berkeley, California), better known as Andy Samberg or Andy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. Samberg attended Berkeley High School, New York University (NYU) film school, and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and "Arrested Development", …

Ronald R. Gonzales (born 1951) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63^rd Mayor of San Jose, California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850. Gonzales grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, …

Gustav Hansen (born February 13, 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional poker player who lives in Monaco.

Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. Hooks focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures.

Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953 in Fowler, California) is a conservative military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, best known as a scholar of ancient warfare as well as a commentator on modern warfare. He is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is sometimes referred to as "VDH".

Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics.

Dana Priest is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Priest has worked almost twenty years for "The Washington Post". As one of the "Washington Post's" specialists on National Security she has written many articles on the United States' "War on terror". In February 2006, Ms. Priest was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting for her November 2005 article on secret CIA detention facilities in foreign countries.

Thomas Bass is an American writer, professor

Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R. Paul Butler and Debra Fischer. He also confirmed Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz's discovery of the first extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi b. Other achievements have included discovering the first multiple planet system around a star similar to our own (Upsilon Andromedae), …

Steven Alan Hawley (born December 12, 1951) is a NASA mission-specialist astronaut, who has made 5 spaceflights so far

J. Doyne Farmer, born 1952, in Houston, Texas is an American physicist and one of the founding fathers of chaos theory. He was also a member of Eudaemonic Enterprises.

Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 - 2002) a staff writer at "The New Yorker", where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.

Norman Packard (born 1954 in Silver City, New Mexico) is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata. He also coined the phrase "the edge of chaos".

Marti Noxon (born 25 August 1964) is a television and film writer perhaps best known for her work as a writer and executive producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She is a graduate of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Besides her work on "Buffy", she co-wrote the 1999 movie "Just A Little Harmless Sex". When the WB television network accepted the "Buffy" spin-off series "Angel", Joss Whedon, …

John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30 1950), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing. In the 109th Congress, he held a leadership role as the Deputy Whip for the Republican party in the House.

Jayne Ann Castle Krentz was born in March 28, 1948 and is an American writer of romance novels. Ms Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers, her different pen names are used for each of her three "worlds". As JAYNE ANN KRENTZ (her married name) she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses AMANDA QUICK for her novels of historical romantic-suspense.

Gillian Welch (born October 2 1967 in New York City) is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old time string band music and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive". All of her recordings feature the close-harmonies and unconventional guitar work of her musical partner, David Rawlings. Her music is often described as haunting or soothing.

Marc Okrand is the creator of the Klingon language. He was hired by Paramount Pictures to develop the language and coach the actors on "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". His first work was dubbing in Vulcan language dialogue for "The Wrath of Khan", …

Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character in a short story by a high-school friend. She was born in Barre, Vermont, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger.

Aaron Lanes (born November 17, 1982 in Mill Valley, California is an American soccer defensive midfielder, who last played for Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Lanes captained UC-Santa Cruz to a 22-2 record and a second-place finish in the NCAA Division III tournament as a senior in 2004, also earning first-team all-Independent Division III and NSCAA second-team all-West Region honors along the way.

Robert John Russell is Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) and the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union. He is a leading researcher and spokesperson for the growing international body of theologians and scientists committed to a positive dialogue and creative mutual interaction between these fields.

Brandon Bird is an artist. He was born in 1980 in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento. He attended University of California, Santa Cruz and was an artist-in-residence from 2004-2006 at Risley Residential College at Cornell University. His most common medium is oil paints on canvas, but he has shown the ability to work with a multiplicity of artistic genres.

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, Ph.D. (born October 3, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey) became the first American woman to walk in space when she performed an EVA during Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G on 1984 October 11. She flew on three space shuttle missions and logged 532 hours in space. Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from Dalhousie University. In addition to a 13-year career as an astronaut with NASA, …

Tyler MacNiven is an American filmmaker and reality television contestant.

Lore Christian Fitzgerald Sjöberg is a noted internet humorist, co-founder of the Brunching Shuttlecocks humor website and author of "The Book of Ratings".

Stephanie Kaza , Ph.D., is associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont, where she teaches religion and ecology, ecofeminism, radical environmentalism, and unlearning consumerism. Stephanie holds a Ph.D. in Biology from University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry.

Robert "Wingnut" Weaver (born 1965) is an American surfer who has appeared in several of Bruce Brown's surf films. In 1991, Weaver graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in economics and marketing. He was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.