- Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. - Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp Jr. (born July 13, 1935), is an American politician and former professional American football player. He was the Republican candidate for the vice presidency in the 1996 presidential election. Kemp was born, raised and educated in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Occidental College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. - Olin Browne
Olin Browne (born May 22 1959) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Browne was born in Washington, DC. He graduated from The Holderness School in 1977. He then went on to Occidental College in 1981. He turned professional in 1984. He lives in Hobe Sound, Florida. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. - Susan Westerberg Prager
Susan Westerberg Prager (1942-) is the current president of Occidental College. Prager was dean of the UCLA School of Law from 1982 to 1998, being one of the first female deans of a law school in the United States. During her term at the UCLA School of Law, she became the second woman to serve as the president of the Association of American Law Schools. Prager was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in Sloughhouse, California, a small town outside of Sacramento. - Payton Jordan
Payton missed his Olympic Games opportunity as an athlete due to WWII. Yet, he continued to let the competitive juices flow as a master's athlete. He was still active as an athlete as little as two years ago, when he established a World Record in the 80-84 age category in the 100 meters. - Steve Coll
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, DC) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently a staff writer for "The New Yorker". Coll served as managing editor to the "Washington Post" from 1998 to 2004 and as associate editor from late 2004 to August 2005. Coll graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1976. He moved to the west coast, attending Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, … - Warren Montag
Warren Montag is a professor and academic, currently teaching at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School. Later moved to Britain where he wrote a dissertation about Latin American Marxist Policy in 18th Century British Literature. While in Britain, Montag became a sort of cultural/literary icon, but was expelled after insulting the queen. - Jay Mathews
Jay Mathews (born April 5, 1945, in Long Beach, California) is an author, education reporter and online columnist with the "Washington Post". Mathews attended Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California, Occidental and Harvard Colleges and is a Vietnam veteran. He started at the Post in 1971, writing news reports and books about China, disability rights, the stock market, and several educational topics. - Diana Akiyama
The Rev.Dr. Diana Akiyama is director of the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is a noted Lecturer in feminist studies and anthropology. Formerly, he was an associate dean of Stanford Memorial Church. - Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in "Astrophysical Journal " from 1950 to 1955) in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition (later called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis). The basic features of this hypothesis were later confirmed, however the exact amount (and thus the importance) of ices in a comet is an active field of research, … - Jackson Browne
Over the course of more than three decades, Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music. With classic albums including Late For The Sky, The Pretender, Running On Empty, and For Everyman, and songs like "Doctor My Eyes," "Rock Me On The Water," and "Lives In The Balance," he has defined a genre of songwriting that is charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. - Richard Grayson
Richard Grayson is an American composer and pianist. Grayson studied music at the UCLA where he received a B.A. in 1962, going on to earn an M.A. in composition at the University of Chicago in 1963. He attended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood on a composition scholarship in 1964. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled him to study with Henri Pousseur in 1965–66, in Brussels and at the Cologne Courses for New Music. - Bill Redell
Bill Redell (born April 17, 1941 in Red Bluff, California) is an American football coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Redell serves as head coach at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, California, since 2000, and has formed them into one of California's best high school football programs. The Oaks Christian Lions finished 6th on the final "USA Today" prep football Super25 ranking of 2006. - Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", … - Frank Lambert
Frank L. Lambert, is a Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles (CV). He is known for his energy dispersal conception of entropy which he discusses in his collection of "entropy.com" websites. - Roger Guenveur Smith
Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1959) is an American writer, director, and actor. - Jim Tunney
Dr. Jim Tunney was an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1991. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Jim Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten Championship games and Super Bowls VI, XI, and XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so. Nicknamed the "Dean of NFL Referees", … - Ming Cho Lee
Ming Cho Lee (born 1930, Shanghai) is a prolific American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama. Lee, born to parents who were both Yale University graduates, moved to the United States in 1949 and attended Occidental College. He first worked on Broadway as a second assistant set designer to Jo Mielziner on The Most Happy Fella in 1956. - 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. - Hector de la Torre
Hector De La Torre is a California State Assemblymember, of the 50th Assembly District. He is a Democrat. His district serves the cities of Bell, Bellflower, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Cudahy, Downey, Lynwood, South Gate, and the unincorporated communities of Florence-Graham and Walnut Park. He was first elected in 2004, to represent the largely Latino 50th Assembly District. De La Torre grew up in South Gate and taught at Edison Junior High in South Los Angeles. - Terry Kitchen
Terry Kitchen (born Max Pokrivchak in Phillipsburg, New Jersey) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bethlehem and Easton, Pennsylvania and Findlay, Ohio and attended college at Occidental College and the Guitar Institute of Technology. After college, he moved to Boston and fronted the 1980s pop/rock band Loose Ties before moving on to a solo career in acoustic music. - U. Alexis Johnson
Ural Alexis Johnson (b. October 17 1908 - d. March 24 1997) was a United States diplomat, born in Falun, Kansas. He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and he entered the Foreign Service in 1935. He played a role in the ceasefire in the Korean War. He was ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1958, Thailand from 1958 to 1961, and to Japan from 1966 to 1969. He was also Deputy Undersecretary for Political Affairs, and a member of ExComm, from 1969 to 1973. - Mesh Flinders
Ramesh Flinders (born 1980) is an American screenwriter who, along with Miles Beckett, created the lonelygirl15 video series. According to journalist Joshua Davis, who knew Flinders as a child, he grew up on a commune outside of San Francisco, and had a difficult transition to a Catholic high school. While studying Film and Visual Arts at Occidental College, from where he later graduated, Flinders invented an alter-ego, … - Ron Botchan
Ronald Leslie "Ron" Botchan (born February 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American football linebacker in the American Football League from 1960 to 1962 and later as American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1980 to 2002. As an official, Botchan worked as an umpire for nearly his entire NFL career and wore the number 110. Regarded as the "NFL's best umpire" by the media, … - Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman (born 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland) was a Scottish-American clergyman. After engaging in mission work in Pennsylvania and New York for four years, he was ordained in the Baptist ministry in 1900; thereafter he held various pastorates until 1910. He was moderator of the Synod of California in 1920-21. During the War he directed the first expeditionary division of the Y.M.C.A. and in 1917-18 was director of religious work in France. - Dean Cromwell
Dean Bartlett Cromwell (September 20 1879 - August 3 1962), nicknamed "Maker of Champions", was an American athletic coach in multiple sports, principally at the University of Southern California. He was the head coach of the USC track team from 1909 to 1948, excepting 1914 and 1915, and guided the team to 12 NCAA team national championships (1926, 1930-31, 1935-43) and 34 individual NCAA titles. - Will Friedle
William Alan "Will" Friedle (born August 11, 1976, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for his comedic roles, most notably the underachieving older brother Eric Matthews on the long-running TV sitcom "Boy Meets World" from 1993 to 2000. More recently, he has voiced a number of animated characters such as Terry McGinnis, … - Loren Lester
Loren Lester is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Robin (Dick Grayson) and Nightwing in the numerous "Batman" animated series and features in the DC Animated Universe. He began his career as a teenager (of which one of his early recurring roles was "Roy" in the fifth season "The Facts of Life". - John Browning
John Browning (born 23 May 1933; died 26 January 2003), was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber. Browning was born to musical parents in Denver in 1933. Having studied piano from age 5, he appeared as a soloist with the Denver Symphony at 10. In 1945 his family moved to Los Angeles. He spent two years at Occidental College there. - Tui St. George Tucker
Tui St. George Tucker (b. Fullerton, California, November 25, 1924; d. Boone, North Carolina, April 21, 2004) was an American composer and recorder player. She was born in Fullerton, Orange County, California and attended Eagle Rock High School in northeast Los Angeles, California, graduating in 1941. She then attended Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1941 to 1944. She moved to New York in 1946, working as a composer, conductor, and recorder player, … - David Craighead
David Craighead (b. Strasburg, Pennsylvania, United States, January 24, 1924) is a noted American organist. He studied with Alexander McCurdy at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in 1946. From 1955 until his retirement in the summer of 1992 he was both Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Division of the Keyboard Department at the Eastman School of Music. At this same time he was appointed organist of St. - Dale Wood
Dale Wood (February 13, 1934 - April 13, 2003) was a musician and composer best known for his church music compositions. - David L. Aaron
David Laurence Aaron (b. 21 August 1938, Chicago) is an American politician, administrator, and international relations officer who served in the Jimmy Carter administration. He graduated from Occidental College with a BA, and from Princeton University with an MA. He later received an honorary Ph.D from Occidental College. He is currently director of the RAND Corporation's Center for Middle East Public Policy. - Jp Mallory
James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast. Mallory received his B.A. in History from Occidental College in California, then served three years in the US Army as an military police sergeant. He received his Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies from UCLA in 1975. He has held several posts at Queen's beginning in 1978, becoming Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in 1998. - Ming Wai Chan
Ming Chan is an Emmy® Award-winning technical consultant specializing in providing creative technology solutions in the field of Interactive Advertising; Since 2000, he has developed a number of web sites for Hollywood giants including 20th Century Fox Entertainment, Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures; produced several online games for ABC Online and Disney Online; as well as architected a handful of cutting-edge web applications for Fortune 50 companies including AMD, Cisco . . . - Jim E. Mora
James "Jim" Earnst Mora (born May 24, 1935 in Glendale, California) is the former head coach of the USFL's Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars and the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. He played football at Occidental College where he was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. His son Jim L. Mora is the former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. - Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler (born September 10,1947) is an American / Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher at newspapers and magazines, and occasionally as a commentator on Canadian television. In the 1970s, Weyler served as a director of the original "Greenpeace Foundation", and as campaign photographer and publisher of the "Greenpeace Chronicles". He was a cofounder of Greenpeace International in 1979. - Sharon Delmendo
Sharon Delmendo is a distinguished Filipino American who was born on November 4, 1964 in Los Angeles, California. An alumnus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Professor Delmendo received her PhD in English in 1993 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, finishing her dissertation, "Engendering the American Domestic," in Amherst, MA, on a Five College Minority Fellowship at Hampshire College. She is currently a Professor of English at St. - Carol Plantamura
Carol Plantamura (b. February 8, 1941, Los Angeles, California) is an American soprano specializing in 17th and 20th century music. She graduated from Occidental College and was an original member of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo, under the direction of Lukas Foss. She has collaborated with such composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Vinko Globokar, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Foss, Betsy Jolas, Will Ogdon, Bernard Rands, …
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