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Traditions


 
UCLA's Fabulous Alumni

Name                       Significant Accomplishment(s)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar        NBA's all-time scoring leader; Six-time MVP
Troy Aikman                Quarterback of three-time Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys
Linda Alvarez              TV journalist and anchorwoman
Army Archerd               Veteran entertainment columnist and broadcaster
John A. Arguelles          Former Assoc. Justice, California Supreme Court
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. (d.)   First African American to win Wimbledon tennis title; 
                           Human rights activist
Donald Barksdale (d.)      First African American Olympic basketball gold medalist 
Gary Beban                 Heisman Trophy winner; President of CB Commercial
Harve Bennett              Writer/Producer/Director, notably of "Star Trek" films
Corbin Bernsen             Actor, most notably "L.A. Law", "Major League" and "Major League Part II"
Tom Bradley                Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Lloyd Bridges              Film and television actor
Ralph J. Bunche (d.)       1950 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; 
                           Former Under-Secretary General to the United Nations
Yvonne B. Burke            L.A. County Board of Supervisors
Carol Burnett              Actress, Emmy Award Winner
Mark Canton                Former Chair, Columbia and TriStar Pictures
Benjamin Cayetano          Governor of Hawaii
Sylvia Chase               Emmy Award-winning TV journalist
Francis Ford Coppola       Six-time Academy Award winner (The Godfather I, II, III)
Walter Cunningham          NASA Astronaut; Apollo VII crew member
Marilyn McCoo Davis        Seven-time Grammy Award winner (Fifth Dimension)
James Dean (d.)            Film actor, most notably "Rebel Without A Cause"
Agnes G. de Mille (d.)     Tony Award-winning choreographer
Terry Donahue              Winningest football coach in Pac-10 and UCLA history
Thomas Everhart            President of Caltech
Anna Lee Fisher            NASA astronaut-Discovery shuttle
Mark Harmon                Television and film actor; 
                           Former UCLA football quarterback
Sam Iacobellis, Sr.        Chief executive officer, Rockwell International
Rafer L. Johnson           1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist, 
                           President, California Special Olympics;
                           1984 Olympic torchbearer
Jackie Joyner-Kersee       Three-time Olympic track & field gold medalist; 
                           Businesswoman
Robert Glenn Ketcham       Noted wildlife photographer
Jill Kinmont               U.S. ski champion; 
                           subject of film The Other Side of the Mountain
James E. Lu Valle (d.)     Inventor, chemist, 1936 Olympic medalist
Waldo K. Lyon              Director of the first sub-Arctic North Pole voyage of the Polaris submarine
R. Bruce Merrifield        1984 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Ann Meyers                 Member of Basketball Hall of Fame; Sports broadcaster
James F. Montgomery        CEO, Great Western Financial Corp.
Rev. Donn Moomaw           Football All-American, Former pastor,Bel Air Presbyterian Church
Steven Muller              President emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University; Rhodes Scholar
Dorothy Wright Nelson      Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
David Neuman               President, Walt Disney Television
Randy Newman               Composer/Singer
Michael Ovitz              Former Executive, The Walt Disney Company; Head of UCLA Medical Center fund-raising campaign
Corey Pavin                Professional golfer, 1995 U.S. Open champion
Rob Reiner                 Actor/Director/Producer, actor in "All in the Family", 
                           producer of "American President", director of "A Few Good Men"
Gene Reynolds              Six-time Emmy-winning Producer/Director (M*A*S*H)
Tim Robbins                Actor/Producer/Director, produced "Dead Man Walking"
Jackie Robinson (d.)       UCLA's only four-sport letterman; 
                           First African American to play Major League Baseball; 
                           Former Dodgers great; Hall of Famer
John Rubinstein            1980 Tony Award-winning actor and composer
Nobutada Saji              President, Suntory, Ltd.
William Sharpe             Co-recipient of 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics
David Silverman            Animator, supervising director of "The Simpsons"
George Takei               Actor, most notably as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek"
Tritia Toyota              TV journalist and anchorwoman
Bill Walton                NCAA and NBA champion; College Player of the Year; Television commentator;
                           Member, Basketball Hall of Fame
Michael Warren             Actor, most notably "Hill Stree Blues;" Basketball All-American
Kenny Washington (d.)      Football All-American; First African American to play in NFL
Fred L. Whipple            Astronomer; Dir. NASA Optical Satellite Tracking Project
Natalie Williams           Pac-10 Female Athlete of the Decade in basketball and volleyball
John Williams              27-time Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award-winning composer ("Star Wars")
Zev Yaroslavsky            Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 3
d.-deceased.