• Source: List of Occidental College people

Here follows a list of notable people associated with Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university.




Notable graduates and attendees






= Business and industry

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John Branca, entertainment industry lawyer
Norton Clapp, an original owner of Space Needle
Stephen Cooper, CEO of Warner Music Group
W. Don Cornwell, CEO of Granite Broadcasting
Marsha J. Evans, CEO of American Red Cross, Navy admiral
Frank Hershey, automotive designer
Arthur Peck, CEO of Gap Inc.
Linda Bradford Raschke, commodities and futures trader




= Entertainment and the arts

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Ben Affleck, actor, director, screenwriter
Stephen Beal, visual artist
Ashly Burch, actress
John Callas, writer, director, producer
Sadie Calvano, actress
August Coppola, academic, author, film executive and advocate for the arts
Glenn Corbett, television actor
Gabriela Cowperthwaite, documentary filmmaker, Blackfish
Will Friedle, actor
Terry Gilliam, animator and comedian in Monty Python comedy troupe; filmmaker: Brazil, 12 Monkeys
Joanna Gleason, actor
Mike Hoover, cameraman, journalist, documentarian, winner of Academy and Emmy Awards
Terry Kitchen, musician
Lane 8, musician, producer
Loren Lester, actor
Thomas Murray, organist
George Nader, actor
Marcel Ophüls, filmmaker
Emily Osment, actress; Class of 2015
Cooper Raiff, actor, director
Joe Rohde, Imagineer
Peter Scolari, actor
Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters
Anna Slotky, actress
Dan Slott, comic book writer
Kirsten Smith, screenwriter, Ten Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde, The Ugly Truth
Roger Guenveur Smith, actor
Rider Strong, actor
Taku Takahashi, musician
Maurissa Tancharoen, actress, singer, dancer, television writer and lyricist
Jesús Salvador Treviño, television director
Tui St. George Tucker, composer
Michael Whaley, actor, director, writer
Luke Wilson, actor




= Government, diplomacy, and law

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Kathy Augustine, politician from Nevada
Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr., U.S. Congressman
David S. Cunningham, Jr., Los Angeles City Council member, 1973–87
Gloria Duffy, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Club, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction
Richard Falkenrath, former deputy homeland security advisor
Robert Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare 1969–1970, Lieutenant Governor of California 1967–1969
U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. diplomat

Jack Kemp, AFL and NFL player 1958–1970, U.S. Representative from New York 1971–1989, U.S. Secretary Department of Housing and Urban Development 1989–1993, Republican vice presidential nominee in 1996; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2009
Kristina A Kvien, United States Ambassador, U.S. Embassy of Armeni
David M. Louie, Attorney General of Hawaii
Pete McCloskey, U.S. Representative 1967–83
Jacqueline Nguyen, federal judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Chris Norby, California State Assemblyman

Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States
Dennis R. Patrick, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1987–1989
Thomas M. Rees, U.S. Congressman
Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation
Janis Lynn Sammartino, federal judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Mark S. Scarberry, professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law
Grant Woods, Arizona Attorney General




= Higher education and academia

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Coit D. Blacker, political science professor at Stanford University
Glenn S. Dumke, history professor and chancellor of the California State University
Sharon Gaber, president of the University of Toledo
Karen L. Gould, president of Brooklyn College
Lewis Sargentich, legal scholar at Harvard Law School




= Journalism

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Bessie Beatty (1886–1947), reported on Russian Revolution
Steve Coll, former Washington Post managing editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
Andrea Elliott, reporter for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
Chris Gulker, photographer
Margot Mifflin, professor of journalism, feminist cultural critic
James Andrew Miller, reporter for Washington Post, author of oral histories on ESPN, CAA
Patt Morrison, NPR radio personality and columnist for the Los Angeles Times
Sam Rubin, KTLA entertainment anchor, journalist; class of 1982




= Literature and writing

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Mark Dery, author and cultural critic
M. F. K. Fisher, writer
Robinson Jeffers, poet
Scott O'Dell, author, Newbery Award winner
Carrie Vaughn, writer
Gladys Waddingham, teacher and local historian
Rosalind Wiseman, writer




= Medicine

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David G. Armstrong, physician/medical researcher
Howard Judd, medical researcher




= Science

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Brent Dalrymple, geologist and National Medal of Science winner
William Goddard, engineer
Edmund C. Jaeger, naturalist, author, teacher
J. P. Mallory, archaeologist
John E. McCosker, ichthyologist
Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer




= Social action, philanthropy, and community service

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Howard Ahmanson, Jr, philanthropist, financier, and writer
Cameron Townsend, founder, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics
Rex Weyler, author, journalist, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace International; did not graduate




= Sports and athletics

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Keith Beebe, football player
Ron Botchan, five-time Super Bowl official for NFL from 1980 to 2002
Olin Browne, PGA Tour winner
Dean Cromwell, USC and Olympic track and field coach
Luke Collis, arena football player
Joe Faust, Olympic high jumper
Justin Goltz, NFL/CFL quarterback
Bob Gutowski, pole vaulter, 1956 Olympic silver medalist
Jack Kemp, AFL and NFL star quarterback of Buffalo Bills
Sammy Lee, two-time Olympic gold medalist in diving
Jim Mora, Sr., coached NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts
Vance Mueller, NFL running back
Bill Redell, college and pro quarterback, high school coach
Johnny Sanders, NFL general manager
Danny Southwick, arena football player
Jim Tunney, NFL official from 1960 to 1991; three Super Bowls




Notable faculty


Peter Dreier, Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department; was the Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for nine years

Eric Garcetti, former assistant professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs; currently mayor of Los Angeles
George R. Goldner, art historian, Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Paints of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julia Holter, singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist; appointed Professor of the Practice of Songwriting in 2021
Martha Ronk, Price Professor of English Literature, is a 2005 PEN American Center Literary Award winner in poetry
Derek Shearer, director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, former United States Ambassador to Finland




Presidents



Samuel H. Weller (1887–1891)
J. Melville McPherron (1892–1894)
Elbert Nevius Condit (1894–1896)
James W. Parkhill (1896–1897)
Guy W. Wadsworth (1897–1905)
William Stewart Young (1905–1906, acting)
John Willis Baer (1906–1916)
Thomas Gregory Burt (1916–1917)
Silas Evans (1917–1920)
Thomas Gregory Burt (1920–1921, acting)
Remsen Bird (1921–1927, 1928–1945)
Robert G. Cleland (1927–1928, acting)
Arthur G. Coons (1945–1965)
Richard C. Gilman (1965–1988)
John Brooks Slaughter (1988–1999)
Theodore R. Mitchell (1999–2005)
Kenyon S. Chan (2005–2006, acting)
Susan Westerberg Prager (2006–2007)
Robert Skotheim (2008–2009)
Jonathan Veitch (2009–2020)
Harry J. Elam Jr. (2020–2024)
Tom Stritikus (2024–present)




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