Art and architecture

• Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas is a transgender performance and new media artist. Her work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.- Education :...
  
  , MFA 2009. (Visual Arts) Contemporary artist.
• Hung Liu
  Hung Liu
  Hung Liu in Changchun, China is a Chinese-American contemporary artist.Hung Liu was born in the People's Republic, China and emigrated to the United States in 1984. She attended Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and studied mural painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in...
  
  , MFA 1986. (Visual Arts) Contemporary artist. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/ucsdandyou/40out.htm
• Elle Mehrmand
  Elle Mehrmand
  Elle Mehrmand is a new media performance artist and musician. Mehrmand's work combines the body and electronics. Her performance art work has been presented at museums, galleries and art festivals throughout the Americas...
  
  , MFA 2011. (Visual Arts) Contemporary artist.
• Dan Santat
  Dan Santat
  Dan Santat is an American author and illustrator, perhaps best known for his children's book The Guild of Geniuses and for creating the Disney Channel animated series The Replacements.-Biography:...
  
  , BS 1998 (Microbiology) - Author and illustrator, creator of Disney's The Replacements

Athletics

• Mark Allen
  Mark Allen (triathlete)
  Mark Allen is the six-time Ironman Triathon World Champion. He graduated from UC San Diego,where he was an All-American swimmer, with a degree in biology....
  
  , 1980 (Biology)- Six-time Ironman Triathlon
  Ironman Triathlon
  An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation consisting of a swim, a bike and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break...
  
   World Chapter, inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame; named the world’s fittest man by Outside magazine
  Outside (magazine)
  Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...
  
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• Billy Beane
  Billy Beane
  William Lamar "Billy" Beane III is a former Major League Baseball player and the current general manager and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics...
  
  . General manager of the Oakland Athletics
  Oakland Athletics
  The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
  
  . Lead character in Moneyball
• Randy Bennett
  Randy Bennett
  Randy Bennett is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Saint Mary's College of California. Bennett has led the Gaels to a 183–103 record in his nine years as head coach...
  
  , 1986 (Biology) - Saint Mary's College of California
  Saint Mary's College of California
  Saint Mary's College of California is a private, coeducational college located in Moraga, California, United States, a small suburban community about east of Oakland and 20 miles east of San Francisco. It has a 420-acre campus in the Moraga hills. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   men's basketball head coach
• Jie Li
  Jie Li
  Jie Li is a strong amateur Go player. He is one of the strongest go players in the United States, playing at an equal level with many American professionals.- Biography :...
  
  , BA 2006, (Political Science), Winner of the US ING Cup, Open, Costen, Texas Open and many other championships
• Julie Swail
  Julie Swail
  Julie Ertel is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
  
  , 1995 (Economics) - Olympian
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   (women’s water polo); UC Irvine head coach
• Vern Valdez
  Vern Valdez
  Vernon Valdez, Jr. was a professional American football defensive back in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills and the Oakland Raiders . He also played in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams. Valdez played college football at the University of Missouri.-See...
  
  . Defensive back for the American Football League
  American Football League
  The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
  
   Oakland Raiders
  Oakland Raiders
  The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  , 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...
  
  , and Los Angeles Rams
• Bob Natal
  Bob Natal
  Robert Marcel Natal is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He is an alumnus of the University of California, San Diego....
  
  . MLB Catcher, Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins National League
  National League
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...
  
  
• Randy Bennett
  Randy Bennett
  Randy Bennett is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Saint Mary's College of California. Bennett has led the Gaels to a 183–103 record in his nine years as head coach...
  
  . Coach, Basketball St. Mary's College Moraga

Business

• Garrett Gruener
  Garrett Gruener
  Garrett Gruener is founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners, a venture capital firm. He was also a candidate for the 2003 California recall special election from the Democratic Party, finishing 28th in a field of 135 candidates with 2,562 votes....
  
  , BA, MA 1976. Co-founder of Ask-Jeeves.
• Adam Moyer, MFA, 2008. Founder of Knockaround
  Knockaround
  Knockaround, LLC is a sunglasses and style accessories company based in San Diego, California.-History:Knockaround was founded in 2005 by Adam Moyer, during his enrollment as a graduate art student at University of California, San Diego...
  
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• Greg Papadopoulos
  Greg Papadopoulos
  Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sun Microsystems from September 1994 until February 2010. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law.Papadopoulos achieved a...
  
  , BA 1979. Executive VP and CTA of Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
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• Michael Robertson, BS. Founder of MP3.com
  MP3.com
  MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting...
  
  , Lindows.com, and SIPphone.
• Philip Rosedale
  Philip Rosedale
  Philip Rosedale is an American entrepreneur, best known as the creator of the virtual world Second Life. Within the Second Life metaverse, his avatar is known as Philip Linden....
  
  , BS. Founder and CEO of Linden Lab
  Linden Lab
  Linden Research, Inc., d/b/a Linden Lab, is a privately held American Internet company that is best known as the creator of Second Life....
  
  . Creator of virtual 3D world Second Life
  Second Life
  Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars...
  
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• Jason Snell
  Jason Snell
  Jason Snell is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies. He was also one of the early users of the Internet as a publishing medium, with several magazines and web sites to his credit...
  
  , BA 1992 (Communications). Editorial director of Mac Publishing
  Mac Publishing
  Mac Publishing is a publishing company based in San Francisco, California, and is wholly owned by the International Data Group. It is the publisher of Macworld magazine and numerous web sites, including and .- History :...
  
  and editor of Macworld
  Macworld
  Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...
  
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Computer science

• Guy “Bud” Tribble
  Bud Tribble
  Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team where he helped to design the Mac OS and user interface. He was among the founders of NeXT, Inc., serving as NeXT's vice...
  
  , 1975 (Physics)- Principal architect of the original Macintosh computer and co-founder of NeXt, Inc.
• Bill Atkinson
  Bill Atkinson
  Bill Atkinson is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors...
  
  , 1974 (Chemistry) - Co-developer of the Macintosh
  Macintosh
  The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
  
   computer
• Michael Robertson, 1990 (Cognitive Science) - Founder of Mp3.com
  MP3.com
  MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting...
  
   and Lindows.com
• Greg Papadopoulos
  Greg Papadopoulos
  Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sun Microsystems from September 1994 until February 2010. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law.Papadopoulos achieved a...
  
  , 1979 (AMES) - Vice president and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  ; founder of three technology companies while at MIT
• Steve Hart
  Steve Hart
  Steve Hart was an Australian bushranger renowned for his membership in the Kelly Gang.-History:Hart was born in Wangaratta to Irish immigrant parents Richard and Bridget Hart...
  
  , MA 1980 (Mathematics) - Co-founder and vice president of engineering for ViaSat
  ViaSat
  ViaSat is a communication company based in Carlsbad, California, that provides equipment and services for military and commercial communications, primarily in satellite related technologies...
  
  ; recognized for excellence and growth by Forbes Inc. and BusinessWeek
  BusinessWeek
  Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
  
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• David E. Shaw, 1972 (Mathematics) - Founder of D. E. Shaw & Co.
• Brian Kantor, - Network News Transfer Protocol
  Network News Transfer Protocol
  The Network News Transfer Protocol is an Internet application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications...
  
   (1986)
• Kenneth Bowles
  Kenneth Bowles
  Dr. Kenneth L "Ken" Bowles is best known for his work in initiating and directing the UCSD Pascal project, when he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego .- Education :Bowles received his PhD under Prof...
  
   - UCSD Pascal
  UCSD Pascal
  UCSD Pascal was a Pascal programming language system that ran on the UCSD p-System, a portable, highly machine-independent operating system. UCSD Pascal was first released in 1978...
  
   (1978)

Film, theatre, and television

• Yareli Arizmendi
  Yareli Arizmendi
  Yareli Arizmendi is a Cuban-Mexican-American actress, writer, and director.-Biography:“The function of art is to renew our perceptions. The role of the...
  
  , MFA Acting (1992). Actor in Like Water For Chocolate
  Like Water for Chocolate
  Like Water for Chocolate is a popular novel published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life to marry her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition...
  
  
• James Avery
  James L. Avery, Sr.
  James L. Avery, Sr. is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the patriarch and attorney Philip Banks in the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, whom Will Smith's character affectionately called "Uncle Phil." This character was ranked #34 in TV Guides "50 Greatest TV Dads of All...
  
  , BA Theatre (1976). Stage, screen and television actor who co-starred with Will Smith
  Will Smith
  Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
  
   on the TV show Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
• Hart Bochner
  Hart Bochner
  Hart Matthew Bochner is a Canadian film actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.-Life and career:Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Ruth , a concert pianist, and actor Lloyd Bochner...
  
  , BA Theatre (1979). Film actor notably of Breaking Away
  Breaking Away
  Breaking Away is a 1979 American film. A coming of age story, it follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern , Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley...
  
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• Ricardo Chavira, MFA Acting (2000). Actor notably of Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
  
  
• Steve Cosson
  Steve Cosson
  Steve Cosson is a writer and director specializing in the creation of new theatre work inspired by real life, as well as a free-lance director of new plays, musicals, and classics. He is the founding Artistic Director of the New York-based investigative theater company The Civilians...
  
  , MFA Directing (2001). Obie Award
  Obie Award
  The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
  
   winning artistic director of The Civilians
  The Civilians
  The Civilians is an investigative theatre company in New York City founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Steve Cosson. The Civilians artists pursue their inquiries using interviews, community residencies, research, and other methods...
  
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• Benicio del Toro
  Benicio del Toro
  Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican and Spanish actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic . He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual...
  
  , Did not graduate. Actor, notably of Traffic. http://www.nndb.com/people/087/000026009/
• Maria Dizzia
  Maria Dizzia
  Maria Teresa Dizzia is an American stage and screen actress. She was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in In the Next Room ...
  
  , MFA Acting (2001). Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   nominee In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
  In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
  In the Next Room is a play by Sarah Ruhl. It concerns the early history of the vibrator, when doctors used it as a clinical device to bring women to orgasm as treatment for "hysteria." Other themes include Victorian ignorance of female sexual desire, motherhood and breastfeeding, and jealousy...
  
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• Michael Greif
  Michael Greif
  Michael Greif is a stage director and producer, born in Brooklyn, New York. He has received three Tony Award nominations and won the Obie Award....
  
  , MFA Directing (1985). Director of Rent
  Rent (musical)
  Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
  
  and former artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse
  La Jolla Playhouse
  La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. -Background:...
  
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• Naomi Iizuka
  Naomi Iizuka
  Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background.Iizuka's mother is an American Latina and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C., United...
  
  , MFA Playwright (1992).
• Mike Judge
  Mike Judge
  Michael Craig Judge is an American animator, film director, writer and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head , King of the Hill , and The Goode Family .He also wrote, directed and in some instances produced the films Beavis and...
  
  , BS Physics (1985). Cartoonist/Director best known for Beavis and Butt-head
  Beavis and Butt-Head
  Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...
  
  , Office Space
  Office Space
  Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film satirizing work life in a typical 1990s software company. Written and directed by Mike Judge, it focuses on a handful of individuals fed up with their jobs portrayed by Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich...
  
  , King of the Hill
  King of the Hill
  King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
  
  , and Idiocracy
  Idiocracy
  Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews....
  
  . He was the graduation speaker for the class of 2009.
• Melanie Marnich
  Melanie Marnich
  Melanie Marnich is an American television writer. She has worked on the HBO drama Big Love and has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.-Biography:...
  
   MFA Playwright (1998). Writer for Big Love
  Big Love
  Big Love is an American television drama that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy...
  
  , Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center
  The Playwrights' Center
  The Playwrights' Center is a theater organization established in 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota with the aim of furthering the careers of both new and established individuals in the field. Five playwrights formed the organization in the hopes of providing/obtaining support for new play development...
  
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• Jefferson Mays
  Jefferson Mays
  Jefferson Mays is an American theatre and film actor.A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned an Master of Fine Arts...
  
  , MFA Acting (1991). Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winner, I Am My Own Wife
  I Am My Own Wife
  I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-man play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The play was developed with Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic...
  
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• Joy Osmanski
  Joy Osmanski
  Joy Kathleen Osmanski is an American actress. Her best known role to date is that of the role of Darcy on The Loop.-Career:Osmanski voices "Julie" on the FOX animated show Allen Gregory...
  
  , MFA Acting (2003). Most notable credits include The Loop
  The Loop
  - Neighborhoods :* Chicago Loop, a district of downtown Chicago* Delmar Loop, a district in St. Louis and University City, Missouri- Transportation :* The Loop , an elevated railroad circuit in downtown Chicago...
  
  and Allen Gregory
  Allen Gregory
  Allen Gregory is an American animated television series created by Jonah Hill, Andrew Mogel, and Jarrad Paul that airs on FOX. The series premiered on October 30, 2011.-Synopsis:...
  
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• Dileep Rao
  Dileep Rao
  Dileep A. Rao is an American actor who has appeared in feature films and television series. He starred in Sam Raimi's horror film Drag Me to Hell , James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar , and Christopher Nolan's thriller Inception .-Life and career:Rao was born in Los Angeles, California to...
  
   BA Theatre (1995). Film actor in Avatar, Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
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• Kellie Waymire
  Kellie Waymire
  Suzanne Kellie Waymire was an American actress.Waymire was born in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Southern Methodist University , graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and later earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1993.Waymire died on...
  
  , MFA Acting (1993). Best known for Star Trek: Enterprise
  Star Trek: Enterprise
  Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.Enterprise premiered on September 26, 2001...
  
  and roles on Six Feet Under
  Six Feet Under
  Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001 and ended on August 21, 2005, spanning five seasons and 63 episodes. The show was produced by Actual Size Films and The...
  
  , and One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  . Also a prolific regional theatre
  Regional theatre
  Regional theatre may refer to:* Community theatre* Regional theater in the United States...
  
   actress.
• Wesley Chan, Ted Fu and Philip Wang
  Wong Fu Productions
  Wong Fu ProductionsShort films by Wong Fu Productions prior to the group's graduation from the University of California, San Diego, included a logo with the Chinese characters for "Wong Fu" . The last film to feature this logo was License Plate, released on August 18, 2006. Films produced after the...
  
  , BA 2006 (Cinematography). Filmmaking trio known best collectively as Wong Fu Productions
  Wong Fu Productions
  Wong Fu ProductionsShort films by Wong Fu Productions prior to the group's graduation from the University of California, San Diego, included a logo with the Chinese characters for "Wong Fu" . The last film to feature this logo was License Plate, released on August 18, 2006. Films produced after the...
  
  

Law and politics

• Steve Peace, 1976 (Political Science) - California State Senator, 40th Senate District, chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, California Journal of Legislator of the Year 2000; and producer of the 1970s cult film, “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B movies. Made on a budget of less than US$100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity. Writing credits were...
  
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• Victoria (Pike) Pynchon
  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...
  
   - Writer, lecturer, mediator, adjunct law professor at Pepperdine University School of Law
  Pepperdine University School of Law
  The Pepperdine University School of Law is a law school located on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.The school placed 54th among the nation's "Top 100" law schools according to the 2011 U.S. News and World Report rankings and is the third highest ranked law school in...
  
  
• Timothy J. Roemer
  Timothy J. Roemer
  Timothy John "Tim" Roemer is an American political figure, who previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India...
  
  , BA 1979. Former Indiana Congressman and current president of the Center for National Policy
  Center for National Policy
  thumb|The Center for National PolicyThe Center for National Policy  is a non-profit, "non-partisan" public policy think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C...
  
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• John Shoven
  John Shoven
  John B. Shoven is the Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University, the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a research associate of the National Bureau of...
  
  , BA 1969. Hoover Institute senior fellow

Literature

• Debito Arudou, 1990 (IR/PS)- Author and Activist
• Rex Pickett
  Rex Pickett
  Rex Pickett is an American writer best known for his popular novel Sideways. Before publishing the book, he worked as a screenwriter and director in film.-Career:...
  
  , 1976 (Literature & Visual 2Arts) - Author of Sideways
  Sideways
  Sideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to...
  
  
• Greg Benford, 1967 Ph.D (Astrophysics)- Nebula Award
  Nebula Award
  The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
  
   Winner
• David Brin
  David Brin
  Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...
  
  , MS 1978 / Ph.D 1981(School of Engineering/AMES) Nebula and Hugo Award Winner. Science fiction
  Science fiction
  Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
  
   author notably of Uplift
  Uplift Universe
  The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. A central feature in this universe is the process of biological uplift.His books which take place in this universe:* Sundiver...
  
  , physicist. http://www.nndb.com/people/732/000023663/
• Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
  , BA 1977(Communications). Author. http://www.nndb.com/people/434/000044302/
• Angela Davis
  Angela Davis
  Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...
  
  , MA. Radical activist and philosopher. http://www.nndb.com/people/185/000024113/
• Mike Judge
  Mike Judge
  Michael Craig Judge is an American animator, film director, writer and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head , King of the Hill , and The Goode Family .He also wrote, directed and in some instances produced the films Beavis and...
  
  , BS 1985. Writer/producer notably of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill
  King of the Hill
  King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
  
  , and' Office Space
  Office Space
  Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film satirizing work life in a typical 1990s software company. Written and directed by Mike Judge, it focuses on a handful of individuals fed up with their jobs portrayed by Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich...
  
  
• Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
  
  , 1976 (Communications)-Bram Stoker Award
  Bram Stoker Award
  The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
  
   winner
• Aaron Krach
  Aaron Krach
  Aaron Krach is an American film critic, journalist, writer and artist currently living in New York City.-Background:Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated from Alhambra High School. He attended the University of California San...
  
  , BA 1994 (Visual Arts)- Writer
• Virgil Nemoianu
  Virgil Nemoianu
  Virgil Nemoianu is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments...
  
  , Ph.D 1971 (Literature)- Essayist, literary critic, philosopher of culture
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research...
  
  , 1974 (Literature); Ph.D. 1982 (Literature) - Two-time Nebula and Hugo Award
  Hugo Award
  The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
  
   winner
• Vernor Vinge
  Vernor Vinge
  Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep , A Deepness in the Sky , Rainbows End , Fast Times at Fairmont High ...
  
  , 1971, Ph.D (Mathematics) - Hugo Award
  Hugo Award
  The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
  
   winner Science fiction
  Science fiction
  Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
  
   author, computer scientist, and mathematician.
• Colin Flaherty
  Colin Flaherty
  Colin Flaherty is a writer, talk show host and the owner of an on-line ad agency and public relations company.His by-line has appeared in dozens of languages around the world, and he has been a guest on numerous local and national TV and radio programs on the NPR, ABC, CBS, Fox and other...
  
   -- Writer and Journalist.

Music and entertainment

• Milo Aukerman
  Milo Aukerman
  Milo Aukerman is an American singer, songwriter and research biochemist. Aukerman is perhaps most widely known for being the lead singer of the early Los Angeles area punk rock band the Descendents, a group widely considered to be pioneers of modern "pop punk"...
  
  , Ph.D. Lead singer of punk rock band Descendents
  Descendents (band)
  The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California. As of 2011, they have released six studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums and three EPs. The Descendents broke up and reformed several times over the years, sometimes with different musicians...
  
  .
• Chad Butler
  Chad Butler
  Chad Matthew Butler is the drummer for the band Switchfoot which he co-founded along with Jon and Tim Foreman in 1996...
  
  . Drummer of the rock band, Switchfoot
  Switchfoot
  Switchfoot is an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream...
  
  .
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  , 1978 (Music) - Considered one of the world’s leading bass guitarists. A long time member of the Eric Clapton Band and recorded, performed or written songs with artists such as Anita Baker
  Anita Baker
  Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....
  
  , Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  , Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  , Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...
  
  , Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
  , Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  , Babyface, Al Jarreau
  Al Jarreau
  Alwin "Al" Lopez Jarreau is a seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer.- Background :Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, the fifth of six children. His web site refers to Reservoir, Inc., the name of the street where he lived. His father was a Seventh-Day Adventist Church minister and singer, and...
  
  , David Benoit, and Sting.
• Trevor Grahl
  Trevor Grahl
  Trevor Grahl is a Canadian composer and organist.Trevor Grahl is winner of the McGill-CBC composition competition and of the in Apeldoorn 2010. Grahl's works include Le violon extraordinaire de Fifi Labranche , Urquitaqtuq , Symphony No. 1 and The Village Blacksmith on a text by Henry Wadsworth...
  
  , Composer
• Jon Foreman
  Jon Foreman
  Jonathan Mark Foreman is the lead singer, lead guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bassist Tim Foreman ....
  
  , Thurgood Marshall College
  Thurgood Marshall College
  Thurgood Marshall College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. The college, named after Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and lawyer for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v...
  
  . Guitarist of rock band Switchfoot
  Switchfoot
  Switchfoot is an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream...
  
  . He wrote a song called "Chem 6A," referring to his freshman chemistry course.
• Tim Foreman
  Tim Foreman
  Timothy David Foreman is the bassist for the band Switchfoot. He was born in Lake Arrowhead, California but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and Virginia Beach, Virginia...
  
  . Bassist of rock band Switchfoot
  Switchfoot
  Switchfoot is an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream...
  
  .
• Paul Phillips
  Paul Phillips (poker player)
  Paul Phillips is an American entrepreneur and poker player.-Programming:Phillips wrote the Boa web server while attending the University of California, San Diego, but no longer maintains it...
  
  . Professional poker player
• Kelly Kim
  Kelly Kim
  Kelly Kim is a poker player from Whittier, California, primarily known for his 8th place finish at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, earning $1,288,217....
  
  . Professional poker player
• Maria Ho
  Maria Ho
  Maria Ho is a professional poker player, born in Taipei, Taiwan. She is currently ranked 12th in the world among female poker pros in overall earnings....
  
  . Professional poker player
• Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney...
  
  . Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and professor of music at UC San Diego, appointed University Professor by the University of California Board of Regents on August 4, 2009. Reynolds is only the 36th UC faculty member since 1960 to be honored with the title - and the first artist.
• John Warthen Struble
  John Warthen Struble
  John Warthen Struble is an American composer-pianist and writer. Born in 1953 in Washington, D.C, he began piano studies at the age of eight and performed his first work, a children’s musical theatre piece, when he was 15. That same year, he made his concert debut playing Mozart’s C major Concerto, K...
  
  . Composer, pianist, and author of The History of American Classical Music.

Public service

• George Blumenthal
  George Blumenthal
  George R. Blumenthal is an American astrophysicist, astronomer, professor, and academic administrator. He is the tenth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.-Biography:...
  
  , Ph.D (Physics) - Chancellor of University of California- Santa Cruz.

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

• Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine...
  
  , MS 1965. Science fiction
  Science fiction
  Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
  
   author and physicist. He was also on the faculty of University of California- Irvine.
• Craig Venter
  Craig Venter
  John Craig Venter is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J...
  
  , 1972, 1975 (Biology, School of Medicine) - President of Celera Genomics
  Celera Genomics
  Celera Corporation was a business unit of the Applera Corporation, but was spun off in July 2008 to become an independent publicly traded company. In May 2011 Quest Diagnostics Incorporated completed the acquisition of Celera, which thus became a wholly owned subsidiary...
  
  , the first private firm to decode the human genome
  Human genome
  The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is stored on 23 chromosome pairs plus the small mitochondrial DNA. 22 of the 23 chromosomes are autosomal chromosome pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining...
  
  .
• David Goeddel
  David Goeddel
  David Goeddel is a pioneer of the biotechnology industry who, employed at the time by Genentech, successfully used genetic engineering to coax bacteria into creating synthetic human insulin, human growth hormone, and human TPA for use in therapeutic medicine...
  
  , 1972 (Chemistry) - The first full-time scientist and director of Genentech
  Genentech
  Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...
  
  ’s molecular biology department, responsible for cloning five major drugs that helped propel the firm into prominence as the nation’s premier biotech company. He was co-founder, president and CEO of Tularik, Inc., a biotech company that focuses on transcription factors (the non-protein switches that turn genes on and off) to regulate genes involved in specific human diseases; Tularik was acquired by Amgen
  Amgen
  Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 17,000 staff members. Its products include Epogen, Aranesp, Enbrel, Kineret,...
  
   for $1.3 billion in 2004 He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
  
   (the first UCSD undergraduate alumnus to be so honored); a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a recipient of the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and the Scheele Medal from the Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Walter Munk
  Walter Munk
  Walter Heinrich Munk is an American physical oceanographer. He is professor of geophysics emeritus and holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.-Early life:Born in 1917 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary,...
  
  , Ph.D., 1947 (SIO, Doc. of Philosophy) - A renowned oceanographer who has made fundamental contributions to understanding various ocean waves and tides and the mechanism of ocean circulation. He was also the first to shed light on the influence of the atmospheric and oceanic motions on the rotation of the earth.
• Zachary Fisk, Ph.D. 1969 (Physics) - Leading condensed matter physicist in the country. Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
  
   and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
  
  .
• RDML Eleanor “Connie” Mariano
  Eleanor Mariano
  Eleanor Concepcion "Connie" Mariano is a Filipino-American physician and former flag officer in the United States Navy. She is the first Filipino-American and graduate of the Uniformed Services University of Medicine to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S...
  
  , M.D., 1977 (Biology) - Physician to the President of the United States; Director/White House Medical Unit (2000–2001); first military woman to be named White House physician and first woman director of the White House Medical Unit.
• Brian Druker
  Brian Druker
  Brian J. Druker is a physician-scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine...
  
  , 1977 (Chemistry), 1981 (SOM) - Oncologist/chief investigator who developed a new drug for leukemia treatment
• George Perry (neuroscientist)
  George Perry (neuroscientist)
  George Perry is a neuroscientist and Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio...
  
  , Ph.D. 1979 (SIO) - Leading researcher in Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  , specifically recognized for his work with oxidative stress mechanisms.
• Gerald Joyce
  Gerald Joyce
  Gerald Francis Joyce is a professor and researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, best known for his work on in vitro evolution of catalytic RNA molecules and the origins of life....
  
  , Ph.D. 1984 (Biology)- Researcher, Scripps Institute
• Robert Todd Carroll
  Robert Todd Carroll
  Robert Todd Carroll , Ph.D., is an American writer and academic. Carroll has written several books and skeptical essays but achieved notability by publishing the Skeptic's Dictionary online in 1994.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Ph.D. 1974 (Philosophy) - Professor of philosophy at Sacramento City College
  Sacramento City College
  Sacramento City College is a two-year community college located in Sacramento, California. SCC is part of the Los Rios Community College District and had an enrollment of 25,307 in 2009. Sacramento City College is officially accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges , offering...
  
   and author of the Skeptic's Dictionary
  Skeptic's Dictionary
  The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic.com and in a printed book. The skepdic.com site was launched in 1994 and the book was published in 2003 with nearly 400 entries. As of January 2011 the website has...
  
  .
• Khaled Hosseini
  Khaled Hosseini
  Khaled Hosseini , is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician of ethnic Tajik origin. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide....
  
  , M.D., 1993 (Biology) - Afghan-American novelist and physician. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
• Casey L. Winn, 2002 (Computer Science) - Credited with the creation of EverQuest, pioneer to current games such as EverQuest II and World of Warcraft.
• Antony Garrett Lisi
  Antony Garrett Lisi
  Antony Garrett Lisi , who uses the name Garrett by preference, is an American theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position...
  
  , Ph.D. 1999 (Physics).
• Maurizio Seracini
  Maurizio Seracini
  Maurizio Seracini is a diagnostician of Italian art. A '73 UCSD Alumnus, graduated in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego , he founded, in 1977, the first company in Italy for diagnostic and non-destructive analyses on art and architecture, the Editech srl, Diagnostic Center...
  
  , 1973. Bioengineering.
• Dan Thomassen
  Dan Thomassen
  Dan Vesterby Thomassen is a Danish footballer who is currently playing for the Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione A side U.S. Triestina Calcio. Before that he played for Danish Superliga side AGF Aarhus, Norwegian side Vålerenga and Danish champions F.C. Copenhagen.Thomassen came to FCK from Calcio...
  
  , BS. Chemist and adviser to the distinguished advisory group of 2007.
• Susumu Tonegawa
  Susumu Tonegawa
  Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training...
  
  , Ph.D. Nobel Prize recipient for medicine for his work on antibody diversity.
• Chu Ching-wu
  Chu Ching-wu
  Paul Chu is an Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a Professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston...
  
  , Ph.D 1990 (Physics). US News World Reports Researcher of the Year.
• Bruce Beutler, 1976 (Biology). 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Distinguished faculty

• David Antin
  David Antin
  David Antin is a United States poet and critic. In the late 1960s, Antin began performing extemporaneously, improvising "talk poems" at readings and exhibitions...
  
   - Visual Arts
• Eleanor Antin
  Eleanor Antin
  Eleanor Antin is an American photographer, author, and artist working with video, film, performance, and drawing. Originally from New York, USA, she is currently based in Southern California where she is a professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego...
  
   - Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts
• Percival Bazeley
  Percival Bazeley
  Percival Landon Bazeley was a scientist of Australian biotechnology and public health.-Biography:Born in Orbost, Victoria, Australia on 2 March 1909, Bazeley attended the school of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1938. During his course of study, he undertook...
  
   - Member of the Salk Polio vaccine team.
• Kenneth Bowles
  Kenneth Bowles
  Dr. Kenneth L "Ken" Bowles is best known for his work in initiating and directing the UCSD Pascal project, when he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego .- Education :Bowles received his PhD under Prof...
  
   - UCSD Pascal
  UCSD Pascal
  UCSD Pascal was a Pascal programming language system that ran on the UCSD p-System, a portable, highly machine-independent operating system. UCSD Pascal was first released in 1978...
  
  
• Sydney Brenner
  Sydney Brenner
  Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Medicine (2002)
• Sheldon Brown (artist)
  Sheldon Brown (artist)
  Sheldon Brown is an American artist and Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD, a founder of the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, where he is...
  
   - Director of Experimental Game Lab, Co-Director of Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
  Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
  The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts is an interdisciplinary organized research unit of UCSD in San Diego, Califorina. CRCA provides support for numerous projects which intersect with the fields of New Media Art, Software Studies, Game studies, Art/Science collaborations, Mixed...
  
  , and Professor of Visual Arts
• Keith Brueckner
  Keith Brueckner
  Keith Allen Brueckner is a theoretical physicist who has given important contributions in several areas of physics, including many-body theory in condensed matter physics, and laser fusion. He was born in Minneapolis on March 19, 1924. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University...
  
   - theoretical physicist, National Academy of Sciences (Physics) member, and a founder the UCSD Department of Physics.
• Geoffrey R. Burbidge - Professor known mostly for his alternative cosmology theory, which contradicts the Big Bang theory.
• Margaret Burbidge
  Margaret Burbidge
  Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, née Peachey, FRS is a British-born American astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory....
  
   - First to study and identify quasars. Carnegie fellowship winner (1947)
• Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas is a transgender performance and new media artist. Her work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.- Education :...
  
   - Artist/Theorist, Lecturer of Visual Arts and Critical Gender Studies, Collective Member of Lui Velazquez
• Harold Cohen
  Harold Cohen (artist)
  Harold Cohen is a British-born artist who is noted as the creator of AARON-External links:*...
  
  , English-born artist, creator of AARON
  AARON
  AARON is a software program written by artist Harold Cohen that creates original artistic images.Proceeding from Cohen's initial question "What are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?", AARON has been in continual development since 1973...
  
  
• Lin Chao
  Lin Chao
  Professor Lin Chao is a Chinese Brazilian American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Professor Chao gained his PhD in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as a student of Bruce R. Levin , and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the laboratory of Edward C. Cox...
  
   - Professor of Biology
• Patricia Churchland
  Patricia Churchland
  Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She has been a Professor at the University of California, San Diego since 1984...
  
   - neurophilosopher
• Paul Churchland
  Paul Churchland
  Paul Churchland is a philosopher noted for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds the Valtz Chair of Philosophy. Churchland holds a joint appointment with the Cognitive Science Faculty and...
  
   - philosopher of mind and philosopher of science
• Gary W. Cox - Professor of political science
• Francis Crick
  Francis Crick
  Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine (1962)
• Paul Crutzen - Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1995)
• Chaya Czernowin
  Chaya Czernowin
  Chaya Czernowin is an Israeli composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University....
  
   - Celebrated Israeli composer and former professor of composition
• Diana Deutsch
  Diana Deutsch
  Diana Deutsch is a British-American perceptual and cognitive psychologist, born in London, England. She is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is one of the most prominent researchers on the psychology of music...
  
   - Professor of Psychology, known for her research on the psychology of music
• Bram Dijkstra
  Bram Dijkstra
  Bram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in 1966, and taught there until he retired and became an emeritus in 2000. He is married to the literary agent Sandra Dijkstra.He is the author of seven books on literary and...
  
   - Professor of English Literature (1966–2000)
• Russell Doolittle
  Russell Doolittle
  Russell F. Doolittle is an American biochemist at the University of California, San Diego with focus in structure and evolution of proteins. Born in Connecticut, he earned a B.A. in Biology from Wesleyan University in 1952, and an M.A. in Education from Trinity College in 1957. He earned his Ph.D...
  
   - Professor of Chemistry, known for research on molecular evolution
• Renato Dulbecco
  Renato Dulbecco
  Renato Dulbecco is an Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase. In 1973 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle. Dulbecco was the recipient of the Selman A...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine (1975)
• Jeffrey Elman
  Jeffrey Elman
  Jeffrey L. Elman is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a well-known psycholinguist and pioneer in the field of neural networks.-Biography:...
  
   - Psycholinguist and pioneer in the field of neural networks
  Neural Networks
  Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...
  
  
• Robert F. Engle
  Robert F. Engle
  Robert Fry Engle III is an American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility ".-Biography:Engle was born in Syracuse, New York and went on to...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Economics (2003)
• Robert Erickson
  Robert Erickson
  Robert Erickson was an American composer.He studied with Ernst Krenek from 1936-1947: "I had already studied—and abandoned—the twelve tone system before most other Americans had taken it up." He influenced notable students Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Paul Dresher...
  
   - Composer
• Ronald M. Evans
  Ronald M. Evans
  Ronald M. Evans is an American professor and biologist who works at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He received his BS and PhD degrees from UCLA, followed by a postdoctoral training in Rockefeller University...
  
   - Discovered steroid & nuclear receptors. Lasker Award
  Lasker Award
  The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary...
  
   winner
• Manny Farber
  Manny Farber
  Emanuel "Manny" Farber was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic" , Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics; Susan Sontag considered him to be "the...
  
   - Film critic and painter
• Gilles Fauconnier
  Gilles Fauconnier
  Gilles Fauconnier is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the U.S.. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Cognitive Science....
  
  - Inventor of the modern day theory of conceptual blending.
• George Feher
  George Feher
  George Feher is an American biophysicist working at the University of California, San Diego.- Birth and education :George Feher was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924. When the Nazis came in, he made his way overland to Israel He worked for the Jewish underground for Israel Independence...
  
   - Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.-Laureates:...
  
   (2006/7), National Academy of Sciences member, biophysicist
• David Noel Freedman
  David Noel Freedman
  David Noel Freedman , son of the writer David Freedman, was a biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist, and ordained Presbyterian minister ....
  
   - General editor of the Anchor Bible
• Y.C. Fung - Considered the father of bioengineering
  Biological engineering
  Biological engineering, biotechnological engineering or bioengineering is the application of concepts and methods of biology to solve problems in life sciences, using engineering's own analytical and synthetic methodologies and also its traditional...
  
  
• Fred Gage
  Fred Gage
  -Scientific Background:Fred "Rusty" Gage is a professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute, and has concentrated on the adult central nervous system and the unexpected plasticity and adaptability that remains throughout the life of all mammals...
  
   - Prominent neuroscientist and stem cell
  Stem cell
  This article is about the cell type. For the medical therapy, see Stem Cell TreatmentsStem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells...
  
   biologist. Discovered human adult neural stem cells.
• Adele Goldberg
  Adele Goldberg (linguist)
  Adele Eva Goldberg is a researcher in the field of linguistics. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in Linguistics, and an associated faculty in Psychology at Princeton University. From 1997-2004, she was an Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Beckman Institute at the University of...
  
   - Associate Professor of Linguistics (1997–1998)
• Marvin Leonard Goldberger
  Marvin Leonard Goldberger
  Marvin Leonard Goldberger is a theoretical physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.-Biography:...
  
  ? - theoretical physicist, National Academy of Sciences (Physics) member, former Dean of Natural Sciences, and former president of Caltech
• Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
  Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
  Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at University of California, San Diego and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for...
  
   - First to characterize kinesin
  Kinesin
  A kinesin is a protein belonging to a class of motor proteins found in eukaryotic cells. Kinesins move along microtubule filaments, and are powered by the hydrolysis of ATP . The active movement of kinesins supports several cellular functions including mitosis, meiosis and transport of cellular...
  
   molecular motors. Head of UCSD stem cell research program
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Nobel laureate in Physics
• Joseph Goguen
  Joseph Goguen
  Joseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages. He was author of A Categorical Manifesto and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...
  
   - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
• David M. Goodblatt - Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies
• Jean-Pierre Gorin
  Jean-Pierre Gorin
  Jean-Pierre Gorin is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period....
  
   - film director, Visual Arts (since 1975)
• Fan Chung Graham - mathematician, Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics
• Ronald Graham
  Ronald Graham
  Ronald Lewis Graham is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"...
  
   - mathematician, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
• Clive W.J. Granger
  Clive Granger
  Sir Clive William John Granger was a British economist, who taught in Britain at the University of Nottingham and in the U.S.A. at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in recognition that he and his co-winner, Robert F...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Economics (2003)
• Mikkal Herberg - Senior consultant with PFC Energy, an international energy consulting firm in Washington, D.C. and as research director on energy issues at The National Bureau of Asian Research. Professor of International Studies/Pacific Relations. http://www.irps.ucsd.edu
• Deborah Hertz
  Deborah Hertz
  Deborah Hertz, , is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego....
  
   - Herman Wouk
  Herman Wouk
  Herman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of novels including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.-Biography:...
  
   Chair in Modern Jewish Studies.
• Robert Hooper - Southeast Asia Program Director in Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Award Winning Producer for PBS, Professor of IR/PS. http://irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/robert-hooper.htm
• Gretchen Hofmann
  Gretchen Hofmann
  Gretchen Hofmann is professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a B.S. from the University of Wyoming, and an M.S. and Ph.D...
  
   professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms
• Edwin Hutchins
  Edwin Hutchins
  Edwin Hutchins is a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition....
  
   - Developed distributed cognition
  Distributed cognition
  Distributed cognition is a psychological theory developed in the mid 1980s by Edwin Hutchins. Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky it emphasizes the social aspects of cognition. It is a framework that involves the coordination between individuals,...
  
   and cognitive ethnography. Mac Arthur Foundation Award Winner (1985)
• Harvey Itano
  Harvey Itano
  Harvey Akio Itano was an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases...
  
   (1920–2010), biochemist known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases
• Irwin M. Jacobs
  Irwin M. Jacobs
  Irwin Mark Jacobs , is an electrical engineer and the co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute. In 2010, Jacobs was listed as number 828 on Forbes's annual list of the World's Top Billionaires.-Education:Jacobs earned his B.S...
  
   - Former professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chairman of Qualcomm
  Qualcomm
  Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
  
  
• Gabriel Jackson
  Gabriel Jackson
  Gabriel Jackson is an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in New York. He is a leading authority on the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona, Spain....
  
  , Fulbright
  Fulbright Program
  The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the...
  
   historian, author, and former department chairman
• Fredric Jameson
  Fredric Jameson
  Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...
  
  , American literary critic and Marxist political theorist
• Chalmers Johnson
  Chalmers Johnson
  Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967–1973, and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of History
• David K Jordan- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Provost of Warren College, Interim Provost of Sixth College, Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award 2008 recipient http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/04-08TopAwardRecipients.asp http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/index2cv.html
• William Loomis, Distinguished Professor of Biology http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/loomis.html
• Allan Kaprow
  Allan Kaprow
  Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...
  
   - Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts
• Charles David Keeling
  Charles David Keeling
  Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming...
  
   - First alerted the world to the anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. Discoverer of the Keeling Curve
  Keeling curve
  The Keeling Curve is a graph which plots the ongoing change in concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since 1958. It is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii under the supervision of Charles David Keeling. Keeling's measurements showed the...
  
  
• Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn
  Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...
  
   - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1998) & Chair of the UCSD Physics Department (1960s), Kohn-Sham equations
• Igor Koutsenok - Director of Center for Criminality, Addiction Research, Training and Application, Professor of Psychiatry (School of Medicine) http://www.attc.ucsd.edu/trainers.html
• Barbara Kruger
  Barbara Kruger
  Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
  
   - Renowned artist and Professor of Visual Arts
• Ronald Langacker
  Ronald Langacker
  Ronald Wayne Langacker is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known as one of the founders of the cognitive linguistics movement and the creator of Cognitive Grammar....
  
   - creator of cognitive grammar
  Cognitive grammar
  Cognitive grammar is a cognitive approach to language developed by Ronald Langacker, which considers the basic units of language to be symbols or conventional pairings of a semantic structure with a phonological label. Grammar consists of constraints on how these units can be combined to generate...
  
  , Professor of Linguistics (1966–2003), Professor Emeritus and Research Professor (2003– )
• William Lerach
  William Lerach
  William Shannon Lerach was an American lawyer who specialized in class action lawsuits before pleading guilty to obstruction of justice charges in 2007. He was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in 1998...
  
  - guest lecturer on securities and corporate law. A leading securities lawyer in the United States.
• George Lewis
  George Lewis (trombonist)
  George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
  
   - Professor of Music, noted jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
   trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
   player, MacArthur Fellowship winner (2002)
• Arend Lijphart
  Arend Lijphart
  Arend d'Angremond Lijphart is a world renowned political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He received his PhD in Political Science at Yale University in 1963, after studying at the University of...
  
   - Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science, elected to the American Academcy of Arts and Sciences in 1989, President of the American Political Science Association from 1995 to 1996, and recipient of the prestigious Johann Skytte Prize in Political Science in 1997.
• Mathew D. McCubbins - Professor of political science
• Richard Madsen - Director of Council on East Asian Studies, Professor/Chair of Sociology http://sociology.ucsd.edu/faculty/Madsen.htm
• George Mandler
  George Mandler
  George Mandler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.Mandler was born in Vienna on 11 June 1924. He received his B.S. from New York University and his Ph. D. degree from Yale University in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence...
  
   - Experimental psychology - founder of UCSD Department of Psychology
• Jean M. Mandler - Cognitive development
• Babette Mangolte
  Babette Mangolte
  -Biography:Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She was the first woman accepted to L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966...
  
   - French cinematographer and Professor of Visual Arts
• Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities...
  
   - New Media theorist, Director of Software Studies Initiative and Professor of Visual Arts
• M. Brian Maple - National Academy of Sciences member, physicist
• Herbert Marcuse
  Herbert Marcuse
  Herbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
  
   - philosopher, and mentor to Angela Davis
  Angela Davis
  Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...
  
  
• Harry Markowitz
  Harry Markowitz
  Harry Max Markowitz is an American economist and a recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
  
   - Nobel laureate in Economics (1990)
• Andrew Mattison
  Andrew Mattison
  Andrew Michael Mattison was a medical psychologist and researcher. He performed influential research in both clinical and social aspects of sexology, as well as drug use. He spent the majority of his career as a professor, practicing psychotherapist, and research scientist at the University of...
  
   - late co-founder of the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research
• Mario Molina - Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Eileen Myles
  Eileen Myles
  Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Poet and Professor of Literature
• Donald Norman
  Donald Norman
  Donald Arthur Norman is an academic in the field of cognitive science, design and usability engineering and a co-founder and consultant with the Nielsen Norman Group. He is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things....
  
   - Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Psychology (1966- ), Co-inventor of the iMac, and founder of Contextual design.
• Pauline Oliveros
  Pauline Oliveros
  Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
  
   - Composer
• George Emil Palade
  George Emil Palade
  George Emil Palade was a Romanian cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine (1974), Professor of Medicine in Residence and Dean for Scientific Affairs (Emeritus)
• Ramon Pinon- Author, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology http://www.uscibooks.com/pinon.htm
• Richard Popkin
  Richard Popkin
  Richard H. Popkin was an academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century,...
  
   - Professor of Philosophy
• Samuel Popkin - Professor of Political Science
• Miller Puckette
  Miller Puckette
  Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994....
  
   - Creator of Puredata Programming Language, Co-Director of Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
  Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
  The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts is an interdisciplinary organized research unit of UCSD in San Diego, Califorina. CRCA provides support for numerous projects which intersect with the fields of New Media Art, Software Studies, Game studies, Art/Science collaborations, Mixed...
  
  
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  Vilayanur Subramanian "Rama" Ramachandran, born 1951, is a neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics...
  
   - neuroscience and psychology
• Jef Raskin
  Jef Raskin
  Jef Raskin was an American human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.-Early years and education:...
  
   - Assistant Professor in Computer Science, and founder of the Apple Macintosh project
• Roger Revelle
  Roger Revelle
  Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates...
  
   (1909–1991) - Oceanographer, scholar, namesake of Roger Revelle College
  Roger Revelle College
  Revelle College was the first college founded at the University of California, San Diego, and named after oceanographer Roger Revelle in 1964...
  
  
• Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds
  Roger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney...
  
   - Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   in Music (1989)
• Sally Ride
  Sally Ride
  Sally Kristen Ride is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman—and then-youngest American, at 32—to enter space...
  
   - Professor of Physics, former astronaut
• Marshall Rosenbluth
  Marshall Rosenbluth
  Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics and work in computational statistical mechanics. ...
  
   - Professor of Physics, member of the National Academy of Sciences, developer of the Metropolis algorithm, "Pope of Plasma Physics"
• Michael G. Rosenfeld - Professor of Medicine, HHMI, discovered the PIT-1 gene and defined transcriptional control of pituitary development. Winner of McKnight, Oppenheimer, and Koch awards
• Herbert Schiller
  Herbert Schiller
  Herbert Irving Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University....
  
   - Professor Emeritus of Communication (1970–2000)
• Terry Sejnowski
  Terry Sejnowski
  Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory...
  
   - Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering
• Martin Sereno- Interdiscplinarian, Professor of Cognitive Science, First to propose the theories linking evolution between cell biology and language, first to link the visual system with language production.
• Kartik Seshadri
  Kartik Seshadri
  Kartik Seshadri is a leading sitarist, composer and teacher. He was noted as a child prodigy in India. He began studying under Ravi Shankar in 1974...
  
   - Professor of Indian Classical Music
• Larry Squire
  Larry Squire
  Larry Squire is a Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. He is a leading expert on the neurological bases of memory, which he investigates using animal models and human patients with amnesia. Squire received a B.A. from Oberlin College...
  
   - Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology
• John G. Stoessinger
  John G. Stoessinger
  John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. , a prize winning author of ten leading books on world politics, has been the recipient of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History for The Might of Nations, and has served as Acting Director for the Political Affairs Division at the United Nations. On the eve of...
  
  - internationally recognized political analyst and a prize-winning author of ten leading books on world politics; guest lecturer in international relations - political science.
• Lu Jeu Sham - National Academy of Sciences member, Kohn-Sham equations, physicist
• Avrum Stroll
  Avrum Stroll
  Avrum Stroll is a research professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a distinguished philosopher and a noted scholar in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, and twentieth-century analytic philosophy.-Books:...
  
   - Professor of Philosophy
• Harry Suhl - National Academy of Sciences (Physics) member
• Leó Szilárd
  Leó Szilárd
  Leó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
  
   (1898–1964) - Hungarian physicist, Professor at the Salk Institute
• Roger Tsien Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2008), Wolf Prize in Medicine
• Ming Tsuang - Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Genomics Chair and Director of Center for Behavioral Genomics
• Chinary Ung
  Chinary Ung
  Chinary Ung is a composer now living in the United States. After arriving in the United States in 1964 to study the clarinet, Ung studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. Ung is noted for combining traditional Cambodian musical elements with western instrumentation...
  
   - Grawemeyer Award-winning composer
• Harold Urey
  Harold Urey
  Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934...
  
   - Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Benjamin Elazari Volcani
  Benjamin Elazari Volcani
  Benjamin Elazari Volcani discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.-Biography:...
  
  , Microbiologist and discovered life in the Dead Sea
  Dead Sea
  The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
  
   and pioneered biological silicon research.
• Kenneth Watson
  Kenneth Watson
  Kenneth Watson was a British television actor. He is best known for playing Brian Blair in Take the High Road in the 1980s but he also played Ralph Lancaster in Coronation Street from 14 May 1975-13 February 1980. He was booked to play a farmer in Doctor Who: The Time Monster but was replaced by...
  
  - National Academy of Sciences (Physics) member
• Donald Wesling- Inventor of grammetrics
• Herbert F. York (1921–2009) - Enrico Fermi Award
  Enrico Fermi Award
  The Enrico Fermi Award is an award honoring scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. It is administered by the U.S. government's Department of Energy...
  
   (2000)
• Efim Zelmanov
  Efim Zelmanov
  Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov is a Russian mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. He was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich in...
  
   - Fields Medal
  Fields Medal
  The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
  
   recipient, Professor of Mathematics
• Bruno H. Zimm
  Bruno H. Zimm
  Bruno Hasbrouck Zimm was an American chemist. He was a professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry from University of California, San Diego, and a leading polymer chemist and DNA researcher.-Early life:...
  
   - National Academy of Sciences member, biophysicist