- Pete Carroll
Peter C. Carroll (born September 15, 1951, in San Francisco, California) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California football team, having held that position since 2001. In his time at USC, the Trojans have made it to multiple national championship games (winning the National Championship in 2004 and splitting the National Championship in 2003) and have consistently emerged as Pac-10 conference champions.
- Reggie Bush
Reginald Alfred “Reggie” Bush II, nicknamed 'The President', alluding to President Bush, is an American football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He has played Running Back/Tailback, Wide Receiver, Kick Returner and Punt Returner. On December 8, 2005, Bush was awarded the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award. On December 10, Bush won the Heisman Trophy, beating finalists Vince Young and former Heisman winner and teammate Matt Leinart.
- Matt Leinart
Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983 in Santa Ana, California) is an American football quarterback (QB) for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Southern California Trojans, leading them to an AP national championship in 2003, a BCS national championship in 2004, and an appearance in the 2005 BCS national championship game. Leinart earlier played QB at Mater Dei High School, Santa Ana.
- Mark Sanchez
Mark Sanchez (born on November 11 1986) is a Latino college football quarterback attending the University of Southern California (USC). He is of Mexican ethnicity.
- O.J. Mayo
Ovinton J'Anthony "O.J." Mayo, (born November 5, 1987 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States) was a student at Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia. He was considered by several media outlets to be among the best high school basketball players in the United States. He graduated in June 2007 and has signed a letter of intent to enroll at the University of Southern California.
- Vince Young
Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983 in Houston, Texas), commonly Vince Young, or "VY", is an American football player. He is a dual-threat quarterback, and the current starting quarterback for the National Football League Tennessee Titans. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans as the #3 overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft on April 29, 2006.
- Harry Smith
Harry "Blackjack" Smith (born August 26, 1918 in Russellville, MO) anchored the offensive line on the University of Southern California's Rose Bowl football teams in 1938 and 1939 seasons, and earned All-America honors each year.
- Carson Palmer
Carson Palmer (born December 27, 1979 in Fresno, California) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Cincinnati Bengals franchise. He attended the University of Southern California, where he won the Heisman Trophy Award in 2002 in his senior season. He was drafted by the Bengals with the first overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft and signed a 9-year, $118.75 million contract extension on December 29, 2005.
- Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world.
- Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, …
- Joe McKnight
Joe McKnight (born April 16, 1988 in River Ridge, Louisiana) is an American football tailback for the USC Trojans.
- Steven B. Sample
Steven B. Sample (born 1940) is the 10th and current (1991-) President of the University of Southern California.
- 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.
- Mike Williams
Michael "Mike" Williams (born January 4, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Oakland Raiders. As a star in college he set USC freshman records for touchdowns and yards as a wide receiver. Williams declared for the 2004 NFL Draft, but he was declined by a federal judge. He could not return to college afterwards because he had already hired an agent.
- Lawrence Jackson
Lawrence Jackson (born August 30, 1985 in Inglewood, California) is an American football defensive lineman for the University of Southern California.
- Dwayne Jarrett
Dwayne Jarrett (born September 11 1986 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He is often referred to as "DJ" or "D-Wayne".
- Carl Kesselman
Carl Kesselman, Dir. Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Chief Scientist, Univa Corporation
- Geoffrey Cowan
Geoffrey Cowan is former director of the Voice of America and current Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
- Tim Floyd
Tim Floyd (born February 25, 1954) is the current head coach of the University of Southern California men's college basketball team. Floyd is also a former head coach of several teams in both the NCAA and the NBA. Floyd is best known as the coach of the Bulls after Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman left the team.
- Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
- Mitch Mustain
Mitchell Mustain (born February 27, 1988 in Springdale, Arkansas, USA) is an American college football quarterback at the University of Southern California (USC). Mustain played his freshman year of college at the University of Arkansas in 2006 before transferring to USC in 2007. Under NCAA transfer rules, he will sit out the 2007 season and will be eligible to begin playing in the 2008 season.
- Mike Garrett
Michael Lockett Garrett (born April 12, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football player who won the 1965 Heisman Trophy as a tailback for the University of Southern California Trojans. Garrett played professional football for eight seasons, and is currently the athletic director at USC.
- Chauncey Washington
Chauncey Washington (born April 29, 1985) is a college football running back attending the University of Southern California (USC).
- Nick Young
Nick Young (born) is an American professional basketball player who plays both shooting guard and small forward positions.
- Stephen Krashen
Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, is a highly acclaimed linguist, educational researcher and activist. Krashen is best known for his contributions to the fields of second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, and reading. Krashen was born in Chicago in 1941. After spending two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia where he taught eighth grade English and science, …
- Norm Chow
Norman Chow (born May 3, 1946) is the offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans of the NFL. He has also been an offensive coordinator at the University of Southern California, North Carolina State University, and Brigham Young University. Chow won the 2002 Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus (1884-1967) was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California, but is better known as the founder of AARP in 1958. Andrus founded a separate organization, the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947. She realized that retired teachers were living on incredibly small pensions, often without any health insurance. She approached more than 30 companies to offer health insurance to retired teachers, …
- Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr (born 3 September 1940 in San Francisco) is an American historian, best-known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "America and the California Dream". Starr is currently University Professor and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, but has been a professor or visiting lecturer at numerous California universities, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Santa Clara University, …
- Barry Glassner
Barry Glassner Executive Vice Provost Barry Glassner is the executive vice provost, serving as the provost's chief deputy and as chief of staff of the Provost's Office. He has responsibility for advancing several of the University's strategic initiatives, in particular building networks and partnerships regionally, nationally, and internationally.
- Ming Hsieh
Ming Hsieh is a billionaire Chinese American entrepreneur and philanthropist and the founder of AMAZ technology in 1987 and Cogent Systems in 1990. According to "Forbes" magazine, his estimated net worth exceeds $1.6 billion, ranking him the 198th richest person in America and 562nd among The World's Richest People In 2006. Born to Baoyan and Sun Hsieh, Ming Hsieh's family originated in Guangzhou (Canton), he was raised in Shenyang, …
- Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher is Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and a Fellow of the the Annenberg Center for Communication there. He is an artist and technologist who has worked extensively on virtual reality, including stints at NASA, Atari Research Labs, MIT's Architecture Machine Group and Keio University.
- Paul Williams
Paul Revere Williams (February 18, 1894 - January 23, 1980) was an African American architect who based his practice largely in Los Angeles, California and the Southern California area. Orphaned at the age of four, he was the only African American student in his elementary school. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect.
- Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine is a British psychologist. He currently holds the chair of Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California. He is noted for his research on the neurobiological and biosocial causes of antisocial and violent behavior in children and adults.
- Howard Jones
Howard Harding Jones (August 23 1885 - July 27 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916-23), Duke (1924), and Southern California (1925-40).
- Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work in high dynamic range imaging and image-based modelling and rendering. Debevec received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1996; his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles.
- Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, (born 1936) is an American journalist who writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from a left perspective. He teaches communications as a professor at the University of Southern California and edits the online magazine Truthdig.
- Adam Clayton Powell III
Adam Clayton Powell III (born July 17, 1946 to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Hazel Scott) is Vice Provost for Globalization at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for multimedia research, at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
- Jenova Chen
Xinghan Chen, also known as "Jenova", is the designer of the award-winning puzzle games "Cloud" and "flOw". His name is a reference to a character from Final Fantasy VII. Chen has a master's degree from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division. Chen was temporarily employed at Maxis, under Will Wright, but according to a post on thatgamecompany's forum, he is no longer employed as of March 03, 2007.
- Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan is Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment. He is on the faculty advisory council of USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He hosted the radio show "So What Else is News?" on Air America Radio until September 4, 2005. He has worked as speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Vice President Walter Mondale, …
- Andrew Bernstein
Andrew Bernstein (born 29 June 1949) is an Objectivist philosopher and professor of philosophy at Marist College. He has written the CliffsNotes for Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Anthem. Dr. Bernstein is the author of "Heart of a Pagan", a novel, and of "The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire". He has lectured at Harvard University, Duke University, Yale University, Stanford University, …