List of University of California, Riverside people

Lists of notable alumni, faculty, and current students of the University of California, Riverside.

Contents 1 Notable alumni 1.1 Nobel laureates 1.2 Academia, science, and technology 1.3 Arts, film, and literature 1.4 Athletics 1.5 Business, politics, and law 1.6 Other 2 Notable faculty 3 References

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Dr. Richard R. Schrock – Chemistry, 2005, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academia, science, and technology

• Leonard Beeghley – Professor of sociology at University of Florida
• Neil Campbell – American scientist known best for his best-selling Biology textbook
• Mason Gaffney – Professor of Economics and prominent Georgist
• Matthew Haughey – blogger and founder of MetaFilter
• Marigold Linton – Director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas
• Arthur Riggs – Director of the Beckman Research Institute and former geneticist with Genentech and father of modern Biotechnology
• Peter Steinberger – Dean of the Faculty Reed College and Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities
• Tim White – Professor, integrative biology and research, paleoanthropologist
• Jennifer Wilby – Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
• Charles E. Young – First UCR student body president and former chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles

Arts, film, and literature

• Steve Breen – 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
• Jamie Chung – Actress, TV series The Real World: San Diego and films, such as I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sorority Row, Grown Ups, The Hangover II. Chung also appeared on MTV's The Real World & Real World/Road Rules Challenge
• Billy Collins – The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
• Katherine Fugate – Screenwriter Valentine's Day and creator of Army Wives TV series
• Elizabeth George – Best selling mystery writer
• Barbara Hambly – American novelist and screenwriter
• Lisa Kekaula – Lead singer for The Bellrays
• Patricia Ja Lee – Actress known for role as Cassie Chan as the Pink Ranger in the television series Power Rangers: Turbo and Power Rangers in Space
• Lindsay Ridgeway – Actress, Boy Meets World
• Charlyne Yi – Actress, comedian, and performance artist (Knocked Up)

Athletics

• Michael Basinger – Former professional football player for the Green Bay Packers
• Pat Hill – Head football coach of Fresno State
• Butch Johnson – Former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos
• John Lowenstein – Former Major League Baseball player
• Gary McCord – Professional golfer, CBS announcer and analyst and won the DII individual golf championship in 1970
• Troy Percival – All time saves leader for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
• Dan Runzler – Major League pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
• Eric Show – Former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics
• Erasmo Solorzano – Professional MLS football player for the Chivas USA acquired in the 2007 draft.
• Charles Smith – Major League pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
• Brendan Steele – Professional golfer on the PGA Tour
• Marc Rzepczynski – Major League pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

Business, politics, and law

• Ruben Barrales – Deputy assistant to President Bush and director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House and former San Mateo County supervisor
• David S. Cunningham, Jr., Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1973–87, a graduate
• Jesse G. James – CEO of West Coast Choppers, a manufacturer of custom-made motorcycles, and the host of Motorcycle Mania and the former series Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel
• Lloyd Levine – California State Assemblyman for the 40th District
• Ronald Neumann – Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
• Rod Pacheco – former Riverside County, California, District Attorney, and California Assembly member
• Gloria Romero – State Senate Majority Whip, former California Assembly member, 49th District
• Stefani Schaeffer: Defense attorney, recently won Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice.^[1]

Other

• Jeff Cooper father of the "Modern Technique of the Pistol" and firearms guru whom defined the modern scout rifle.

Notable faculty

• Chris Abani – Professor of creative writing and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
• Reza Aslan – Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
• John Baez – Professor of mathematics, mathematical physicist
• Sean Cutler – Plant scientist noted for discovery of pyrabactin
• Mike Davis – Urban theorist and author
• Theodore Garland, Jr. – A founder of the field of evolutionary physiology
• Donna Hoffman – Chancellor's Chair and professor of marketing, co-director, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing and eLab 2.0, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
• Ronald O. Loveridge – Mayor of Riverside, California
• Robert Nisbet – Conservative sociologist and early Dean of Letters and Science at UCR.
• Tom Novak – Albert O. Steffey professor of marketing and co-director, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing and eLab 2.0, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
• Robert Rosenthal – Professor of psychology, former chair of Harvard's psychology department
• Don Siegel – Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Gary Anderson School of Management
• George Edgar Slusser – Professor of comparative literature, science fiction expert
• Susan Straight – Writer and professor of creative writing and National Book Award finalist
• Karl Taube – Professor of Anthropology, specializing in research into pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
• Bob Toledo – Former UCR football coach; 13th head coach of UCLA
• John V. Tunney – Professor of business law, former United States Senator and member of Congress
• Jonathan H. Turner – Sociologist. One of the last remaining grand theorists in the discipline, and the author of the influential "Structure of Sociological Theory" and "Emergence of Sociological Theory"

References