- Thom Mayne
Born in 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in '68. After founding Morphosis, he received his Master's degree in Architecture at Harvard in '78. Mayne has made his mark professionally, starting with the design of his first large projects such as the Kate Mantilini restaurant in Beverly Hills and 72 Market Street restaurant in Venice. - Ken Norton
Kenneth Howard Norton, Jr. (born September 29, 1966 in Lincoln, Illinois) is a former American football linebacker who spent 13 years playing in the NFL. Ken Norton Jr. was the #51 49er that ended Napoleon McCallum's career, bending Napoleon's leg a way the human body never should bend. Norton Jr., a graduate of Westchester High School in California, went on to obtain his bachelor's degree in sociology at UCLA, … - Mike Bibby
Michael (Mike) Bibby (born May 13, 1978 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball point guard for the NBA's Sacramento Kings, and the son of former NBA and UCLA player and former USC basketball coach and current Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Henry Bibby. He is also the nephew of former Major League Baseball player Jim Bibby. Bibby is a native of Phoenix, Arizona (or Cherry Hill, New Jersey) and attended Shadow Mountain High School. - Patrick Cowan
Patrick Edmund Cowan (born March 23, 1986 in Surrey, British Columbia) was the starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team after starter Ben Olson was injured in the middle of the 2006. Cowan is a redshirt sophomore. After taking over, and going 3-5, Cowan played just well enough for UCLA's embattled Offensive Coordinator, who was later fired, to keep starting him. - Ralph Sampson
Ralph Lee Sampson (born July 7 1960 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a retired American college and professional basketball player. He was arguably the most heavily recruited (for both college and the NBA) basketball prospect of his generation. Playing for the University of Virginia, he was one of only two male players in the history of college basketball to receive the Naismith Award as the National Player of the Year three times (Bill Walton of UCLA was the other male, … - Lee Hamilton
Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton (born Paul G. Mahan) is a play-by-play announcer and a well-known Southern Californian sports talk radio host. He has worked as a talk radio host for KLAC in Los Angeles since February 2005, when the station became all-sports in a three-way radio format swap with XTRA, KLAC, and KTLK. Before that, he served 17 years at XTRA. From 1986 to 2005, he hosted a daily four-hour talk show on those stations. - Sigi Schmid
Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid is a soccer coach who currently heads the Columbus Crew. Schmid moved from Germany to Torrance, California in 1962. He received a B.S. in economics from UCLA in 1976, and an M.A in Business Administration from USC. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He played (and started) in midfield at UCLA between 1972 and 1975. He was an assistant coach at UCLA in 1977 and 1979, before becoming head of the program in 1980. - Andrew Viterbi
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (born March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman. Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents changed it to "Andrew", since "Andrea" is a female name in many English-speaking countries. - Jeremy Elson
Jeremy Elson (1974 -) is a computer researcher specializing in wireless Sensor Networks. He is also the creator of the popular CircleMUD. Elson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. External link: Jeremy Elson's home page - Robin D.G. Kelley
Author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley is one of the most distinguished experts on African American studies and a celebrated professor who has lectured at some of America's highest learning institutions. He is currently Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. - H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins Haldeman (publicly known as H. R. Haldeman, and informally as Bob Haldeman) (October 27, 1926 - November 12, 1993) was a U.S. political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and for his role in events leading to the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate scandal - for which he was convicted of criminal activity. He was imprisoned for 18 months for his crimes. - Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American clinical psychologist and prolific writer. His writings on psychology (and specifically psychopathology) include "Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children." He has also written articles, short stories, essays, and children's books, as well as his popular and numerous novels of mystery and suspense, many of which take place in a clinical setting. - Charles Elachi
Charles Elachi is the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in Pasadena, California. He has held this position since May 1, 2001 and also holds professorships in electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech. Elachi was born in Lebanon on April 18, 1947. He graduated from the Grenoble Polytechnic Institute in 1968 and received his M.S. and Ph.D in electrical sciences from the Caltech. - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Born in 1947, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard grew up in Cebu City, on the island of Cebu in the Central Philippines. In an interview with Dana Huebler , she describes her childhood as "paradise" (98). She lived with her family in a Spanish-style villa, tended by servants and surrounded by gardens containing orchids, star apple trees, jasmine, and frangipani. This city appears in her short stories and novel as Ubec (Cebu spelled backwards). - Bob Boyd
William Robert "Bob" Boyd is a former collegiate man's basketball coach who was head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Mississippi State University. Boyd had a long association with the University of Southern California's men's basketball, first as a player and then as its head coach. The 3-year letterman (1950-52) was USC's most valuable player as a senior in 1952. - Alan Casden
Alan I. Casden is a self-made real estate billionaire who lives in Beverly Hills, California. He is an accounting graduate of what is now the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California. Mr. Casden enrolled at USC as a sophomore after an academically disappointing freshman year at UCLA. In 2000, he gave $10.6 million to USC to benefit the Institute for Study of Jewish Role in American Life, … - Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928, Chicago, Illinois - July 9, 2005) was an American actor. Born to professional ballroom dancers, Hagen was raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. He worked for the US State Department in Germany, and had spent a year in law school at UCLA after attending Oregon State University and the University of Southern California before he decided to try acting at the age of 27. - James P. Gray
James "Jim" P. Gray is currently the presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California. He is a former Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate. He is also the author of the 2001 book "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It." Raised in the Los Angeles area, Gray earned his undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1966, after which he taught in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. - Gene Youngblood
Gene Youngblood (b. May 30, 1942) is a theorist of media arts and politics, and a scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His "Expanded Cinema" (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts. He is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the media democracy movement, and has been teaching, writing and lecturing on media democracy and alternative cinemas for thirty-seven years. - Newton Lee
Newton Lee is the founder and editor-in-chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment - a nonprofit educational publication to promote research and development in all aspects of entertainment technology. Published by the Association for Computing Machinery, the online magazine has garnered the support of more than 100 leading professionals and scholars representing major universities, Hollywood studios, and Fortune 500 companies. Many of whom have won the Academy Awards, Emmys, … - Gustave Reese
Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher. Reese is mainly known for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his two publications "Music in the Middle Ages" (1940) and "Music in the Renaissance" (1954); these two books remain the standard reference works for these two eras, with complete and precise bibliographical material, allowing for almost every piece of music mentioned to be traced back to a primary source. - John B. T. Campbell III
John Bayard Taylor Campbell III (born July 19, 1955, in Los Angeles, California) is a Republican U.S. politician, who is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 48th Congressional District. - Donald Michael Kraig
Donald Michael Kraig (born 1951) is an occult author and ceremonial magician. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy and studied public speaking and music at other colleges and universities. After a decade of personal study and practice, he taught courses in Southern California on topics including Qabalah, Tarot, Magick, and Tantra. He is the author of the classic book "Modern Magick". Kraig has given lectures and workshops all over the US, … - Beth Herr
Beth Herr (born 1964) is an American tennis player. She became the number 1 junior tennis player in the world at age 16. She was the #1 college recruit in 1985 and went on to play for the University of Southern California where she won the NCAA singles title and team title in her freshman year. She beat Clemson's Gigi Fernandez 7-6 in the 3rd set after being down a match point to win the NCAA singles final. - Salli Terri
Salli C. Terri was a singer and songwriter. Terri studied at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where she obtained her BA degree in music and then went on to earn a Master's degree in music from the University of Southern California. At the beginning of the 1950’s, she taught music and drama at the American School in Tokyo, Japan, then returned to America, where she ultimately taught music theory at Fullerton Junior College in Fullerton, … - Brian Asawa
In 1991, Brian Asawa 's career was launched when he became the first countertenor to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He was the first countertenor Adler Fellow for San Francisco Opera, became the first countertenor to win the Placido Domingo "Operalia" International Opera Competition. He was also awarded Seattle Opera's Artist of the Year Award for his portrayal of Arsamene in Handel's Xerxes. - Gail Goodrich
Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. (born April 23 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is a former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best-known for his part in the Los Angeles Lakers' 1971-72 season. During that season the team won a still-record 33 games consecutively, posted what was at the time the best regular season record in NBA history, and also won Los Angeles' first NBA championship. Goodrich was the leading scorer on that team. - John van Houten
John Van Houten holds a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree in tuba performance from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Tommy Johnson. He has performed with a wide variety of music ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, the Long Beach Opera, the New West Symphony, the American Winds Concert Band, the California Wind Orchestra, the Long Beach Municipal Band, and the Joffery Ballet. - Joseph Bogen
Joseph E. Bogen, M.D. (July 13, 1926 - April 22, 2005) was a neurophysiologist who specialized in split brain research and focused on theories of consciousness. He was a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of Southern California, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and a visiting professor at Caltech. - Steve Preece
Steven Packer Preece (born February 15, 1947 in Boise, Idaho) is a former NFL cornerback who played for 9 seasons, from 1969-1977. Steve Preece grew up in Boise, and played football at Borah High School for legendary coach Ed Troxel. After graduating in 1965, Preece accepted an athletic scholarship to Oregon State. He was recruited by linebackers coach Ed Knecht, who had previously been the head coach at Boise High, Borah's rival, and had connections in southwestern Idaho. - Matthew Klein
Matthew Klein was the speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives during the 2005 legislative session. He was succeeded as speaker by Rep. Jeff Delzer. Klein is an engineering consultant by trade. He graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and did graduate studies at USC and UCLA. He is a member of the American Legion. - Betye Ireen Saar
Betye Saar (1926 - ) was born and raised in Los Angeles. During visits to her grandmother, she saw Simon Rodia's Watts Towers being built, which had a profound impact on her use of discarded items in her art work. Saar received her B.A. from UCLA, and did graduate work at the University of Southern California and the California State Universities at Long Beach and Northridge. - Randal Haworth
Dr. Haworth graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1988. He then completed a five year surgical residency at New York Hospital/ Cornell University Medical Center in 1993. Dr. Haworth served as Chief Resident during his plastic surgery residency at UCLA, where he gained extensive experience in the sub-specialties of aesthetic, micro-, pediatric, and hand surgery. - Kevin Bjorke
Kevin Allen Bjorke is an artist, photographer, writer, and media evangelist for NVIDIA Corporation, based in the Silicon Valley. His work has ranged from print advertising to video games, major motion pictures to computer books and fiction. He has been a regular art lecturer at events such as Siggraph since the mid-1980s. Bjorke graduated from California Institute of the Arts, … - Soon-Tek Oh
Soon-Tek Oh (born 29 June, 1943 in Japan) is a Korean-American actor. He has starred in many films, and also acted in television shows, including "M*A*S*H," "Magnum, P. I." and "Kung-Fu." Oh was born in Japan, but raised in Korea. He emigrated with his family to America when he was a teenager. Oh attended the University of Southern California, and later received a MFA from UCLA. He was one of the earliest members of East West Players, … - Mamo Clark
Mamo Clark, sometimes billed only as Mamo, (December 6, 1914 - December 18, 1986) was an American actress. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Clark was educated at the University of Southern California, and made her film debut in a featured role in "Mutiny on the Bounty". The following year appeared in a serial "Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island" playing a Polynesian princess. In 1937, she appeared with her "Mutiny on the Bounty" co-star, … - Francesca Leardini
Francesca Leardini is a Ph.D. graduate of UCLA's Italian Department. A native speaker born in Rome, Italy, Francesca recently translated into Italian the best-selling nonfiction book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond for Einaudi. She is also a lyricist whose ballad "Forza Dentro Me" can be heard on Holly Stell's debut CD of the same title. Currently Francesca is a much sought after lyricist, … - Jacqueline Piatigorsky
Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild is an American chess and tennis champion, author, sculptor and a member of the Rothschild banking family of France. The daughter of the enormously wealthy and influential banker, Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild, and Germaine Alice Halphen, she is the sister of Guy de Rothschild and Bethsabée de Rothschild. - Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890-1967) is known for his poetry and translations of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Goethe and Rilke. He graduated from USC, and received his doctorate in Marburg, Germany. He taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He lived his later years in Paris, France. - Brian Tochi
Brian Keith Tochi (born May 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, screenwriter, movie director and producer. He attended USC, UCLA, and UCI. Tochi is his stage name; Brian graduated Cypress High School in 1977 as Brian Tochihara. Of Asian ancestry, Tochi frequently plays characters who are Japanese, Chinese, or of other Asiatic origin, adopting the appropriate accent as needed.
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