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Science

  • Allan Bakke, physician and plaintiff in landmark Supreme Court affirmative action case, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled unconstitutional the admission process of the Medical School at the University of California at Davis, which set aside 16 of the 100 seats for African American...

    , 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
  • Bonnie Bassler
    Bonnie Bassler
    Bonnie Lynn Bassler is an American molecular biologist. She has been a professor at Princeton University since 1994.Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California, Bassler received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins...

    , Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, MacArthur Fellowship
  • Tracy Caldwell, Astronaut
  • Lewis J. Feldman
    Lewis J. Feldman
    Lewis Jeffrey Feldman is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Resources. He is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He received Berkeley's...

    , Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Gurdev Khush
    Gurdev Khush
    Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is an agronomist and geneticist who, along with mentor Dr. Henry Beachell, received the 1996 World Food Prize for unparalleled achievements in enlarging and improving the global supply of rice during a time of exponential population growth.In pursuit of ever-improved rice...

    , Indian agronomist and winner of the World Food Prize
  • Lynn Kimsey
    Lynn Kimsey
    Lynn Kimsey is an entomologist, taxonomist, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis since 1989...

    , Professor of Entomology
  • David Mas Masumoto
    David Mas Masumoto
    David "Mas" Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach , which offers a glimpse of life on a family farm in Central California, Letters to the Valley, A Harvest of Memories , Four Seasons in Five Senses, Things Worth Savoring , and Harvest Son, Planting Roots in...

    , author and organic farmer
  • Donald McQuarrie, author of several classical physical chemistry texts
  • Frederick Murphy
    F. A. Murphy
    Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD, is internationally known for his work on rabies, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fevers, with more than 250 articles published on the subject...

    , co-discoverer of the Ebola virus
  • Jan Nolta, scientific director of UC Davis regenerative medicine (stem cell director)
  • Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello
    Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello
    Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello was elected as a Nigerian Senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial District of Ogun State in April 2007....

    , Nigerian epidemiologist
  • Herman Phaff
    Herman Phaff
    Herman Jan Phaff was a scientist who specialised in yeast ecology. He was born in The Netherlands before moving to California at age of 26. He was active in Californian universities until his death...

    , yeast ecologist
  • Stephen K. Robinson, astronaut
  • Eric W. Sanderson
    Eric W. Sanderson
    Eric W. Sanderson is a landscape ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Mannahatta Project and the author of...

    , landscape ecologist
  • H. Michael Shepard
    H. Michael Shepard
    H. Michael Shepard is an American cancer researcher.He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis. He received a Ph.D. from the Indiana University. Dr. Shepard was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellow at Indiana University...

    , cancer biologist and discoverer of Herceptin
  • David Hurst Thomas
    David Hurst Thomas
    David Hurst Thomas is the Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and the City University of New York....

    , archaeologist and anthropologist

Arts and entertainment

  • Deborah Butterfield
    Deborah Butterfield
    Deborah Kay Butterfield is an American sculptor. She divides her time between a ranch in Bozeman, Montana and studio space in Hawaii...

    , sculptor
  • Carter (artist)
    Carter (Artist)
    John Carter is an American artist and film director based in New York City, using the professional name Carter for his artworks. He was born in 1970 in Norwich, Connecticut...

  • Costa Dillon
    Costa Dillon
    Constantine Dillon , usually known as Costa, is an American writer and actor of Greek ancestry. He is most famous as the creator of the cult classic film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! and its sequels:Return of the Killer Tomatoes!,...

    , writer
  • Gus Lee
    Gus Lee
    Gus Lee is a best-selling American author and ethicist. He was born in San Francisco, a place he recounts in his childhood memoir/novel China Boy . He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, did graduate study in East Asian History and obtained a J.D. degree from the University of...

    , author, China Boy and Tiger's Tale
  • Christopher Markus
    Christopher Markus
    Christopher Markus is an American screenwriter who frequently collaborates with Stephen McFeely.-Filmography:*The Life and Death of Peter Sellers *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe *You Kill Me...

    , Emmy winner
  • Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....

    , artist
  • Hans Ostrom
    Hans Ostrom
    Hans Ansgar Ostrom is an American professor, writer, editor, and scholar.-Life:Ostrom was born in 1954 in Grass Valley, California. He grew up in the High Sierra town of Sierra City, population 225. His father was a carpenter and stonemason, and his mother was a home-maker and a substitute teacher...

    , poet, novelist, and scholar, author of The Coast Starlight
  • Ralph Petty
    Ralph Petty
    Ralph Petty is an American figurative and landscape painter, musician, saxophonist, and singer living in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Biography :...

    , Founder of the Combes Gallery in Paris, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the American University of Paris
  • Tom Shimura
    Lyrics Born
    Lyrics Born , is a Japanese American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and voice over announcer. He is also one half of the group Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.-History:...

    , also known as Lyrics Born, rapper
  • Anthony Swofford
    Anthony Swofford
    Anthony Swofford is a writer and former United States Marine known for being the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003, which is primarily based on his accounts of various situations encountered in the first Gulf War. This memoir was the basis of the 2005 movie of the same name, directed...

    , author ("Jarhead")
  • Donnette Thayer
    Donnette Thayer
    Donnette Thayer is a vocalist and guitarist most active in the 1980s and early 1990s underground rock scenes. Thayer has been described as "the enchantress" , "a suave successor to California flower-pop" , and "Gaea personified"...

    , musician
  • Tim Wright
    Tim Wright
    Tim Wright , alias CoLD SToRAGE, is a Welsh video game music composer most known for his work in video game soundtracks such as Shadow of the Beast II & III, Agony, Lemmings, Wipeout and Colony Wars....

    , playwright and screenwriter, author of And Learn to Fly
  • Martin Yan
    Martin Yan
    Martin Yan is a Chinese-born American chef and the host of the award-winning cooking show Yan Can Cook.- Early years and education :With ancestral roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, Yan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, to a restaurateur father and a grocer mother, Yan began to cook at 12...

    , chef host of television show Yan Can Cook
  • Robert Clark Young
    Robert Clark Young
    Robert Clark Young is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics...

    , novelist, author of One of the Guys
    One of the Guys
    One of the Guys is an earnestly satirical and picaresque novel by Robert Clark Young, published in 1999, concerning the fantastical adventures of a man posing as a chaplain on a U.S...

  • Katie Di Filippo, author

Athletics

  • Mike Bellotti
    Mike Bellotti
    Robert Michael "Mike" Bellotti is a college football analyst for ESPN and ABC. A native of California, he was hired as football offensive coordinator by the University of Oregon in 1989. From 1995 to 2009, he was the head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team...

    , head football coach for the University of Oregon
  • Rolf Benirschke
    Rolf Benirschke
    Rolf Joachim Benirschke is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers from 1978 to 1987, and was the host of the NBC daytime Wheel Of Fortune in 1989.-Early career:...

    , placekicker for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL
  • Bob Biggs, head football coach for UC Davis
  • Steve Brown
    Steve Brown (baseball)
    Steven Elbert Brown is a retired professional baseball player who played 2 seasons for the California Angels of Major League Baseball.Brown is a graduate of the University of California, Davis....

    , MLB pitcher
  • Jonathan Compas
    Jonathan Compas
    Jonathan Compas is an American football center who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent in 2009...

     NFL offensive lineman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...

  • Daniel Descalso
    Daniel Descalso
    Daniel William Descalso is an American professional baseball infielder with the St. Louis Cardinals.-Early and personal life:...

     Infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

  • Bo Eason
    Bo Eason
    Bo Eason is a former professional American football player who played safety for four seasons for the Houston Oilers. He is currently an actor and playwright. His show "Runt of the Litter" is now being performed in multiple cities. His brother is former NFL quarterback, Tony Eason.-External links:*...

    , safety for the Houston Oilers of the NFL
  • Urijah Faber
    Urijah Faber
    Urijah Christopher Faber is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting as a bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization. Faber won the WEC featherweight championship at WEC 19 on March 17, 2006 and held the title for over two years until his loss to Mike Brown at WEC...

     - professional mixed martial arts fighter in the WEC
    World Extreme Cagefighting
    World Extreme Cagefighting was an American mixed martial arts promotion. It was purchased by Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship , in 2006. In its final incarnation, it was made up of 3 weight classes: 135, 145 and 155 lbs. To accommodate the smaller...

     and former WEC
    World Extreme Cagefighting
    World Extreme Cagefighting was an American mixed martial arts promotion. It was purchased by Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship , in 2006. In its final incarnation, it was made up of 3 weight classes: 135, 145 and 155 lbs. To accommodate the smaller...

     featherweight
    Featherweight (MMA)
    The featherweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*UFC's & Pancrase's featherweight division, which groups competitors within 136 to 145 lb...

     champion.
  • Daniel Fells
    Daniel Fells
    Daniel Fells is an American football tight end for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at UC Davis.Fells has also been a member of the Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and St...

     - tight end
    Tight end
    The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...

     for the St. Louis Rams
    St. Louis Rams
    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

  • Mark Grieb
    Mark Grieb
    Mark Grieb is an Arena football quarterback for the San Jose SaberCats . He was originally signed by the Anaheim Piranhas...

    , quarterback for the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League
  • Daryl Gross
    Daryl Gross
    Daryl Gross is the athletic director for Syracuse University.Formerly, Gross coached and worked at the University of Southern California in intercollegiate athletics after being a graduate coaching assistant . While serving as senior associate athletic director, Gross was credited for bringing in...

    , Athletic Director, Syracuse University
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

  • Amy Gutierrez, San Francisco Giants
    San Francisco Giants
    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

     in-game reporter
  • Nathaniel Hackett - offensive quality control coach for the Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills
    The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

  • Dan Hawkins (American football), head football coach for the University of Colorado at Boulder
  • John Hennigan, professional wrestler for WWE, now known as John Morrison
  • Khari Jones
    Khari Jones
    Khari Okang Jones [ke-HAR-ee] is a retired professional Canadian football player and former television sports reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Jones played quarterback in the Canadian Football League, where he enjoyed his most success with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers...

    , Arena Football League and Canadian Football League quarterback and sports reporter
  • Brad Lekkerkerker
    Brad Lekkerkerker
    Brad Lekkerkerker is a offensive tackle who formerly played for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. He was originally acquired as a free agent in 2004 by the Houston Texans then was on and off the Oakland Raiders roster. Lekkerkerker was allocated to NFL Europe in 2006 then placed on the...

    , offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL
  • Cory Lekkerkerker
    Cory Lekkerkerker
    Cory Lekkerkerker is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2005...

    , offensive lineman for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL
  • Chris Mandeville
    Chris Mandeville
    Chris Scott Mandeville is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League, he played one year for the Washington Redskins and two years for the Green Bay Packers...

    , defensive back
  • Casey Merrill
    Casey Merrill
    Richard Casey Merrill is a former professional American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers , New York Giants and the New Orleans Saints in the 1987 season...

    , NFL defensive end
  • Mike Moroski, NFL quarterback
  • Ken O'Brien
    Ken O'Brien
    Kenneth John O'Brien is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles. When he retired he was the only Jets quarterback to have ever been the top ranked passer in a season. He held the team record for most...

     - 11-year quarterback
    Quarterback
    Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...

     for the New York Jets
    New York Jets
    The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     and Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles
    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

  • J.T. O'Sullivan
    J.T. O'Sullivan
    John Thomas "J. T." O'Sullivan is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at UC Davis....

     - quarterback
    Quarterback
    Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...

     for the Cincinnati Bengals
    Cincinnati Bengals
    The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...

  • Chris Petersen
    Chris Petersen
    Chris Petersen is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He is currently the head football coach at Boise State University, a position he has held since the 2006 season. Peterson has guided the Broncos to two BCS bowl wins, in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and the 2010 Fiesta...

    , head football coach for Boise State
  • Kermit Schmidt
    Kermit Schmidt
    Kermit Roosevelt Schmidt was an American football end and halfback in the National Football League for the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds between 1932 and 1933. He was born in Okeene, Oklahoma.-Early life:...

    , NFL running back
  • Luis Scott-Vargas
    Luis Scott-Vargas
    Luis Scott-Vargas is a professional Magic: the Gathering player from Oakland, CA, USA. His accomplishments include 7 Grand Prix top 8's , and 5 Pro Tour top 8's . As well as being a prominent player of the game, Luis is also known for writing about the game...

    , professional Magic: The Gathering
    Magic: The Gathering
    Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...

     player.
  • Harpreet Singh
    Harpreet Singh (footballer)
    Harpreet Singh is an Indian football player. He is currently playing for Air India FC in the I-League as a Defender.-External links:* http://www.indianfootball.com/en/statistic/player/detail/playerId/10...

    , defensive midfielder for Chivas USA
  • Viliami Tuivai, Director of Football Operations at Boise State
  • Rich Waltz, Play-by-Play Announcer, Florida Marlins TV, ESPN, Fox Sports Net.
  • Tom Williams
    Tom Williams
    Tom Williams may refer to:*Tom Williams , head football coach at Yale University*Tom Williams *Tom Williams , English-Cypriot football player...

    , defensive lineman for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL
  • Mike Wise
    Mike Wise (American football)
    Michael Allen "Mike" Wise was a professional American football defensive end in the National Football League. He played five seasons for the Los Angeles Raiders and the Cleveland Browns . He was drafted in 1986 by the Raiders and appeared on the cover of a 1990 issue of Sports Illustrated...

    , NFL defensive end
  • Catherine Carr
    Catherine Carr (swimmer)
    Catherine Carr is an American swimmer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where she received a gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. She now works teaching the fourth grade GATE class at Pioneer Elementary, a...

    , Gold Medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Business

  • Koichiro Aramaki, CEO of Kirin Brewery Company
  • Allison Arieff
    Allison Arieff
    Allison Arieff is Food & Shelter Ambassador for GOOD and writes an "opinionator" column on design for The New York Times. Previously she was Editor at Large for Sunset magazine, and Senior Content Lead for IDEO....

    , Senior Content Lead at IDEO, co-founder and former editor of Dwell magazine
  • Riley P. Bechtel
    Riley P. Bechtel
    Riley P. Bechtel is the chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Corporation. He is the great-grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, the founder of the company. His parents are Elizabeth Hogan and Stephen Bechtel, Jr., the former chairman and CEO of the company.-Biography:He received a bachelor's degree in...

    , CEO of Bechtel
  • Alfred Chuang
    Alfred Chuang
    Alfred S. Chuang was the founder, chairman, CEO and president of BEA Systems until it was purchased by Oracle in April 2008. Prior to founding BEA, Chuang worked at Sun Microsystems.Chuang received a B.S...

    , Co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems
  • Carol Flint
    Carol Flint
    Carol Flint is a American television producer and writer best known for her work on ER and The West Wing. Flint started her writing career with television series China Beach . After that series ended she started working on the television series L.A...

    , TV Producer (ER)
  • Robert "Bob" Foster, past President, Southern California Edison; current Mayor of Long Beach, California
  • Kimberly Guilfoyle
    Kimberly Guilfoyle
    Kimberly Guilfoyle is an American cable news personality and is currently one of the rotating co-hosts on The Five on Fox News Channel at 5 pm EST , as well as the host of an Internet-only crime-related program for Fox News...

    , Court TV and FOX News Channel anchor, ABC, CNN, and FOX News legal analyst/commentator
  • David Phillips (entrepreneur), "The Pudding Guy"
  • Jason Lucash
    Jason Lucash
    Jason Lucash is an American inventor and entrepreneur most notably known for founding Origaudio.Lucash is a native of Danville, California and graduated from San Ramon Valley High School before receiving his bachelor's degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.Lucash...

    , Inventor and Founder
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

     of Origaudio
    Origaudio
    OrigAudio was launched in 2009 by Jason Lucash and Mike Szymczak. Both traveled constantly in their early careers and wanted to create an easy way to listen to their music on the road...

    , Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions of 2009, and winner on ABC's show Shark Tank (TV series)
    Shark Tank (TV series)
    Shark Tank is a reality television series based on the Sony TV/BBC TV Dragons' Den. It premiered on ABC television in August 2009 and features a panel of five wealthy entrepreneurs who are called "sharks"...

  • Victoria Pynchon (Pike)
    Victoria Pynchon
    Victoria "Vickie" Pynchon is an American lawyer, attorney mediator, author and writer based in Los Angeles.-Early years:Victoria Pynchon grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County, graduating from La Mesa Junior High School, where she was valedictorian, then graduating in 1970 from Helix High...

    , attorney mediator, writer, literary editor-in-chief, author and adjunct professor
  • Keith Robinson (environmentalist), co-owner of the Hawaiian island of Niihau
  • Tanya Seaman
    Tanya Seaman
    Tanya Seaman is an American environmentalist and the co-founder and past executive director of PhillyCarShare. Seaman was born on in Menlo Park, California to Lynn & Elisabeth Seaman.-Environmentalism:...

    , founder of PhillyCarShare
    PhillyCarShare
    PhillyCarShare is a non-profit car-sharing organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The service was launched in 2002. PhillyCarShare has cars available for use 24 hours per day throughout the city of Philadelphia and the region...

  • William P. Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Agilent Technologies
  • Diane M. Bryant, VP and Chief Information Officer, Intel
  • Jeffrey Katz, CEO, nextag; ex-CEO, Leapfrog; ex-CEO and founder, Orbitz
  • Gina Gallo, head winemaker, E.J. Gallo
  • Tim Mondavi, managing director and winegrower, Robert Mondavi Vineyards
  • Maurice J. Gallagher, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Allegiant Travel Company
  • David Russ, CIO, Dartmouth College
  • Larry Long
    Larry Long
    Larry Long is a judge and the former Attorney General of the state of South Dakota, United States. He was first elected in 2002 and left office in 2009 to accept an appointment by Gov...

    , Owner and Winemaker, Amador Cellars
  • Gordon Hunt
    Gordon Hunt
    Gordon Hunt is a British oboist.-Academic history:Gordon Hunt studied under Terence MacDonagh, and is now a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.-Musical career:...

    , Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer, Sutter Health
  • Zelma Long, Founder, Vilafonté Wines
  • Francis Lee
    Francis Lee
    Francis Henry Lee is a former professional footballer, who played in the 1960s and 1970s, including 27 appearances for the England national team. Lee played for Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City, and Derby County...

    , CEO, Synaptics
  • John Watson
    John Watson
    John Watson may refer to:In politics:* John Christian Watson , known as Chris Watson, Australia's third Prime Minister* John Bertrand Watson , British Member of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees, 1917–1923* John S...

    , CEO, Chevron

Government

  • Ward Campbell, Supervising DAG at California Dept of Justice
  • Hassan Akbar, Disgraced U.S. Army sergeant, convicted for murders of fellow soldiers
  • Luis Alejo
    Luis Alejo
    Luis Alejo represents the 28th District of the California State Assembly. He was first elected in 2010 with 62% of the vote....

    , California State Assemblymember, 28th District and former Mayor of Watsonville, California
  • Ruth Asmundson, former Mayor of Davis, Davis
  • Charley Bak, State Legislator
  • Jason Baker
    Jason Baker
    Jason Michael Baker is an American football punter for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League.-High school years:...

    , Mayor of Campbell, California
  • Brad Bates, Turlock mayor from 1982-1990
  • Bob Black
    Bob Black
    Bob Black is an American anarchist. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and numerous political essays.-Writing:Some of his work from the early 1980s includes...

    , former Mayor of Davis
  • Anna Escobedo Cabral
    Anna Escobedo Cabral
    Anna Escobedo Cabral , currently serves as the Unit Chief for Stakeholder Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank . Prior to joining the bank, Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from January 19, 2005 to January 20, 2009...

    , Treasurer of the United States
  • Anthony Cannella
    Anthony Cannella
    Anthony Cannella is an American politician currently serving in the California State Senate. He is a Republican representing the 12th district, encompassing Merced and San Benito counties, as well as parts of Madera, Monterey, and Stanislaus counties...

    , California State Senator, District 12 and fmr. Mayor of Ceres, California
  • Tani Cantil-Sakauye
    Tani Cantil-Sakauye
    Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , a Filipina-American jurist, is the 28th Chief Justice of California. Nominated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for California's highest judicial office on July 22, 2010, and retained in office by California voters on November 2, 2010, she was sworn in on January 3, 2011...

    , Chief Justice of California
  • Ellen Corbett
    Ellen Corbett
    Ellen Marie Corbett is a Democratic politician from San Leandro, California. She is currently serving her second term in the California State Senate. Corbett represents the 10th District, which includes San Leandro, Hayward, Pleasanton, Union City, Fremont, Newark, Milpitas and part of San Jose...

    , California State Senator
  • Dave Cortese, Santa Clara County Supervisor, former San Jose Vice Mayor/City Councilmember
  • Marlin Davies, Vice-Mayor of Woodland, California
  • Cal Dooley
    Cal Dooley
    Calvin M. "Cal" Dooley , American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2005, representing the 17th and 20th districts of California....

    , United States Congressman, also President and CEO of National Food Processors Association
  • Martie Dote, Councilmember of Woodland, California
  • Heather Fargo
    Heather Fargo
    Heather Fargo is a former Mayor and former City Council Member of Sacramento, California. She was sworn in as Mayor in November 2000, replacing Jimmie Yee, and served until December 2008, when she was replaced by Kevin Johnson.-Early life and education:Heather Fargo grew up in Davis, Santa Maria,...

    , former Mayor of Sacramento, California
  • Robert King Fong, Sacramento City Councilmember, District 4
  • Robert "Bob" Foster, Mayor of Long Beach, California
  • Dario Frommer
    Dario Frommer
    Dario J. Frommer is a former member of the California State Assembly who served from 2000 until 2006. He served as Majority Leader from 2004 until 2006. Frommer also served as Chair of the Health Committee. He is now a partner with Mayer Brown in Los Angeles.- References :#...

    , California Assemblyman, 43rd District, Los Angeles
  • Jeff Gorell
    Jeff Gorell
    Jeff Gorell is a Republican politician from California. In 2010, Gorell was elected to the State Legislature to serve as Assembly Member for the 37th Assembly District in California.-Local business owner:...

    , California State Assemblymember, 37th District
  • David J. Kappos, Director of the Patent and Trademark Office
    Patent and Trademark Office
    The Patent and Trademark Office may refer to:* the United States Patent and Trademark Office * the German Patent and Trademark Office...

  • Joe Krovoza, Mayor of Davis, California
  • Lamar Heystek
    Lamar Heystek
    Lamar Heystek , American politician, has been a member of the Davis City Council since 2006.He was born in San Leandro, California, was educated at University of California, Davis, is currently a councilmember for the Davis City Council, and the coordinator of Youth Programs at the .-Personal Life...

    , former Davis City Councilmember
  • Mike Machado, California State Senator
  • Eric Mar
    Eric Mar
    Eric Lee Mar is a California politician, previously serving on the San Francisco Board of Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 1.- Biography :...

    , San Francisco District 1 Supervisor
  • Kerry Mazzoni
    Kerry Mazzoni
    Kerry Mazzoni is a former California State Assemblywoman who represented the 6th District, consisting of Marin County and part of Sonoma County, from 1994 to 2000....

    , California Secretary of Education
  • George Miller (politician)
    George Miller (politician)
    George Miller III is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1975. He is a member of the Democratic Party. From 2007 through 2010, Miller served as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, formerly known as the Education and the Workforce Committee.-Early life, education, and early...

    , United States Congressman, California, 7th District
  • Jim Provenza, Yolo County Supervisor
  • David Sandino, Chief Counsel, California Department of Water Resources
  • Roy Saigo, ex-president of St. Cloud State University
  • Dr. Indira Samarasekera, President of the University of Alberta, Canada
  • Kevin Shelley, former California Secretary of State
  • Cameron Smyth
    Cameron Smyth
    Cameron Smyth is a Republican who has represented California's 38th Assembly district since December 2006. He succeeded Keith Richman who was term-limited...

    , California Assemblyman, 38th District
  • Jackie Speier
    Jackie Speier
    Karen Lorraine Jacqueline "Jackie" Speier is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco.She is also a former member of the California State...

    , Congresswoman
  • Craig F. Stowers
    Craig F. Stowers
    Craig F. Stowers is an Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who was appointed by Republican Governor Sean Parnell in 2009 to replace retiring Justice Robert Eastaugh...

    , Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
  • Darrell Steinberg
    Darrell Steinberg
    Darrell Steven Steinberg is a Democratic politician from Sacramento, California. He is currently serving his second term in the California State Senate, representing the 6th District. He has been the Senate President Pro Tem since 2008...

    , California State Senator, 6th District
  • Rochelle Swanson, Mayor Pro Temp of Davis, California
  • Ann Veneman
    Ann Veneman
    Ann Margaret Veneman is the former Executive Director of UNICEF, a position she held from 2005 to 2010. Her appointment was announced on January 18, 2005 by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Previously, Veneman was the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the first and only woman to hold that...

    , Former Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, 2001-2005, now Executive Director of UNICEF
  • Julie MacDonald
    Julie MacDonald
    Julie A. MacDonald is a former deputy assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the United States Department of the Interior...

    , Former deputy assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the United States Department of the Interior
  • Mohsen Nourbakhsh
    Mohsen Nourbakhsh
    Seyed Mohsen Nourbakhsh was an Iranian economist, most famous as Governor of the Central Bank of Iran and the former Minister of Economic and Finance of Iran.-Personal Life and Education:...

    , Former Governor of the Central Bank of Iran

Winemaking

  • David Lake
    David Lake
    David John Lake is an Indian-born Australian science fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. He moved to Australia in 1967.-Biography:...

    , Washington wine pioneer and Master of Wine
  • Gina Gallo, bright young star of the Sonoma style wine-craft, grand daughter of Julio Gallo
    Julio Gallo
    Julio Gallo was one of the founders of the E & J Gallo Winery.-Biography:He was born on March 21, 1910 in Oakland, California to Joseph Gallo, Sr. He had two brothers: his partner in the wine business, Ernest Gallo; and his youngest brother, Joseph Edward Gallo. Joseph Gallo, Sr. died in a...

  • Tim Mondavi, managing director and winegrower, Robert Mondavi Vineyards
  • Steven Spadarotto, Senior VP, Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines
  • Zelma Long, Winner, James Beard Award for Wine Professional of the Year
  • Alberto Antonini
    Alberto Antonini
    Alberto Antonini is an Italian oenologist and winery consultant involved in multiple wineries in several countries including Italy, the U.S., Argentina, South Africa, Romania, Canada and Chile.- Career :...

    , senior wine maker for the wineries of the Antinori and the Frescobaldi
  • Heidi Barrett
    Heidi Barrett
    Heidi Peterson Barrett is a winemaker who has been responsible for some of California's most notable cult wines, including Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle Vineyards, Paradigm Winery, Grace Family Vineyards, Amuse Bouche, Lamborn Family Vineyards, Showket Vineyards and Fantesca, is a consultant for...

    , the first lady of wine
  • Kathryn Kennedy, one of the first women winemakers in California to own a winery
  • Aaron Pott
    Aaron Pott
    Aaron Pott is a winemaker. Upon graduation from the University of California, Davis, he took a position at Newton Vineyard in Napa Valley. He left Newton for a position as head winemaker at Château Troplong-Mondot, a Premier Grand Cru Classé in Saint-Émilion, France...

    , Napa Valley consultant winemaker

See also

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