List of San Francisco State University people
This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of San Francisco State University.
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Alumni
Art
Business
- Dean Biersch - Co-founder of the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company.
- Cecil O. De Loach, Jr., Winemaker, Viticulturalist, Founder of De Loach Vineyards, Sonoma County, CA
- Barnaby Dorfman - Founder and CEO of Foodista.com
- Charles Hall - Inventor of the waterbed
- Jeffrey Mallett - President and COO of Yahoo! before its IPO, principal owner and executive committee member of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants
- Manny Mashouf - Founder of bebe stores inc. clothing retail shops[2]
- Cyrus Saatsaz - Owner of San Francisco Surf Company
- Jack Harper - Co-Founder of Jack & Jason's Pancake & Waffle Mixes, COO of Harvis Foods Company San Francisco, California
- Jason Jervis - Co-Founder of Jack & Jason's Pancake & Waffle Mixes, CEO of Harvis Foods Company San Francisco, California
Film and Television
- Jack Angel - voice actor
- Gary Austin - founder of the Groundlings theatre.[3]
- Margaret Avery - actress nominated for an Academy Award for The Color Purple (film). Earned her B.A. in education.
- Alex Borstein - actress
- Kari Byron - artist, cast member on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters[4]
- Vernon Chatman - Member of art collective/rock band PFFR, Creator of Wonder Showzen & Xavier.[5]
- Tory Belleci - special effects engineer and cast member on MythBusters[6]
- Annette Bening - Academy Award-nominated actress, American Beauty, The American President, The Kids Are All Right[7]
- Dana Carvey - comedian[8]
- David Carradine - Actor
- Peter Casey - Emmy Award winning producer and writer, Frasier, Cheers, The Jeffersons, Wings[9]
- Glen Charles - writer-producer[10]
- Roger Chang - computer enthusiast and american tv personality
- Peter Coyote - actor and author[11]
- Keir Dullea - actor[12]
- Walt Dohrn - actor, voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After
- George Fenneman - radio and television announcer, is most remembered as the announcer and good-natured sidekick on the Groucho Marx comedy/quiz show vehicle, You Bet Your Life, which began in 1947 on radio and moved to television in 1950, where it remained, on NBC, for 11 years. Fenneman's mellifluous voice, clean-cut good looks, and gentlemanly manner provided the ideal foil for Marx's zany antics and bawdy ad-libs.[13] The student union building was originally named after George Fenneman before being renamed for César Chávez, who never finished the eighth grade, let alone never graduated from SFSU.
- Parviz Gharib-Afshar - Iranian performer, director, producer and television personality
- Danny Glover - actor[14]
- Daren Kagasoff - actor[15]
- John Lee - Member of art collective/rock band PFFR, Co-creator of Wonder Showzen & Xavier.[5]
- Delroy Lindo - actor[16]
- Rosie Malek-Yonan - actor and author of The Crimson Field.
- Rex Navarette - comedian[17]
- David Polock - Writer, producer
- Greg Proops - award winning, world renowned comedian and improviser best known for the hit improvisational show Whose Line is it Anyway?.
- Tim Z Burton - Avant Garde film artist.
- Jonas Rivera - producer of Up.
- Ben Shedd - Filmmaker
- Jacqueline Phillips Shedd - Producer
- Harry Shum, Jr. - actor/dancer, Glee[18]
- Jeffrey Tambor - actor[19]
- B.D. Wong - actor[20]
- Steven Zaillian - Academy Award winning screenwriter. Wrote screenplay of Schindler's List.[21]
Samantha Kane Kraft - Amanda in Bad News Bears
Journalism
Literature
- James Brown (author) - American novelist
- Adam Cornford - Poet, librettist, and essayist
- Jane Cutler - Writer
- Gerald Haslam - Novelist, essayist, writer, public speaker
- Jonathan Holden - Poet
- Frances Mayes - Poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist
- Richard Melo - Writer, author of Jokerman 8, a novel set at San Francisco State University
- Alyce Miller - Writer
- Susan Rados, American attorney and playwright
- Anne Rice - Writer
- Ron Silliman - Poet
- Kate Small - Writer
- Stephen Rodefer - Poet
Music
Paul Britenfeld (aka Paul Desmond) - jazz musician, member of the Brubeck Quartet and composer of "Take Five."
Politics and Public Service
Science and Technology
Other
Faculty
- Roland De Wolk - Journalist
- Bas van Fraassen, (1941-) - Philosopher of Science, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SFSU
- Gloria Frym - poet, fiction writer, and essayist
- Sally Miller Gearhart - feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist
- Milton Halberstadt, (1919–2000) - Photographer, artist
- Paul Hoover - poet
- John Keith Irwin, (1929–2010) - Professor of sociology[37]
- Dean H. Kenyon - Professor Emeritus of Biology, author of Of Pandas and People, one of the main proponents of intelligent design
- Michael Krasny - Professor of English
- Geoff Marcy - Astronomer, discoverer of more than 150 extra-solar planets
- Dave McElhatton - Journalist, evening news anchor
- David Matsumoto - Psychologist
- Wright Morris - Novelist and photographer, professor of English (1962-1975)
- Roger Nixon, (1921 – 2009) - composer, musician
- Peter Orner - Writer
- Wayne Peterson - Composer, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Moses Rischin - Historian
- Christiane Robbins - Trans-disciplinary artist, director, curator/programmer, designer and scholar
- James Schevill, (1920 – 2009) - poet, critic, and playwright
- Alberto Villoldo - Psychologist and anthropologist
- Anita Silvers - Philosopher of Science
References
- ^ Hardboiled. University of California, Berkeley. Issue 10.1. October 2006. 12 hb. Retrieved on June 23, 2011. "I am a graduate student at SFSU."
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- ^ [3]
- ^ a b Salon.com "Showzen People" article
- ^ Tory Belleci - bio
- ^ SFSU Alumni Association - Hall of Fame, 1996 Inductees
- ^ http://danacarvey.net - Biography
- ^ SFSU Public Affairs Press Release - Frasier producer, Oakland schools superintendent selected to SFSU Alumni Hall of Fame
- ^ www.sfsu.edu - bebe founder & chairman Manny Mashouf named SFSU Alumnus of the Year
- ^ Biography - Peter Coyote
- ^ Keir Dullea Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ George Fenneman
- ^ SFSU Public Affairs Press Release - Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University
- ^ Daren Kagasoff on TV.com
- ^ [4]
- ^ Golden Gate XPress - Saving lives - one laugh at a time
- ^ Glee’s Harry Shum, Jr. is Much More Than Just “The Other Asian”, Mochi Magazine
- ^ Jeffrey Tambor Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ B. D. Wong - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com
- ^ "Steven Zaillian to Receive Distinguished Screenwriter Award at 2009 Austin Film Festival". Austin Film Festival. http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/new/steven_zaillian_press_release.
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- ^ "Metallica". Behind the Music. No. 9, season 2.
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- ^ 'Politics in Palestine', Palestinian National Authority: The PA Ministerial Cabinet List, Emergency Cabinet, October 2003 - November 2003, Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre.
- ^ SLDN Military Advisory Council - sldn.org - Retrieved November 30, 2007
- ^ "The Honorable David Schuman". Court of Appeals – Oregon Judicial Department. http://courts.oregon.gov/COA/judgebios/schumanbio.page. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
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- ^ Miller, Timothy (1995). America's alternative religions. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press. pp. 373. ISBN 0-7914-2398-0.
- ^ The Sentencing Project. "John Irwin: Scholar, Activist, Convict Criminologist." January 5, 2010.