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List of University of California, Davis alumni

This page lists notable alumni of the University of California, Davis.

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University presidents

  • Carol Folt, the 11th chancellor, and the 29th chief executive, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Richard Miller, founding president of Olin College
  • Éric Maurincomme, director of INSA Lyon
  • F. Chris Garcia, former president of the University of New Mexico
  • Mondo Kagonyera, chancellor of Makerere University in Uganda
  • Michael Kotlikoff PhD - provost and acting president of Cornell University
  • Dr. Indira Samarasekera, president of the University of Alberta
  • Michael R. Gottfredson, former president of the University of Oregon
  • Greg Hess, president of Wabash College
  • Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford
  • Professors

  • Anil Kashyap, professor of economics and finance at University of Chicago
  • Xu Xiaonian, professor of economics and finance at China Europe International Business School
  • Robert Boyd, professor of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University
  • Howard A. Stone, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University
  • M. Brent Donnellan, professor of psychology at Texas A&M University
  • Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Tani E. Barlow, professor of history at Rice University
  • Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Bonnie Bassler, professor of molecular biology, Princeton University, MacArthur Fellowship
  • Hugo J. Bellen, professor of molecular and human genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
  • Daniel T. Blumstein, professor and chair for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA
  • James F. Brooks, professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Janet Broughton, professor of philosophy and vice provost of UC Berkeley
  • Lori Cox Han, professor of political science at Chapman University
  • Bonnie S. Dunbar, former professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at Baylor University
  • Philippe Desan, professor of French and history of culture at the University of Chicago
  • Mustafa Emirbayer, professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Max Essex, professor of health sciences at Harvard University
  • Lewis J. Feldman, professor of plant biology at UC Berkeley
  • Bruce Frohnen, professor of law at Ohio Northern University
  • Stephen Glosecki, scholar of Old English
  • James A. Herrick, Guy Vanderjagt Professor of Communication and former communication chair at Hope College
  • Godfrey Hewitt, professor and evolutionary geneticist at University of East Anglia
  • Burton Hatlen, literary scholar and professor at University of Maine
  • Donna Hoffman, professor of marketing at George Washington University
  • Amishi Jha, professor of psychology at University of Miami
  • Robert Lieber, professor of the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
  • Theraphan Luangthongkum, linguistics professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Bruce A. Manning, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at San Francisco State University
  • Elvira de Mejia, professor of food sciences and human nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • H. Allen Orr, professor of biology at University of Rochester
  • Hans Ostrom, professor of African American studies at University of Puget Sound
  • Pearl T. Robinson, professor of political science at Tufts University
  • Peter Richerson, professor emeritus at UC Davis
  • Jean Beagle Ristaino, professor of plant pathology at North Carolina State University
  • Shawna Yang Ryan, professor at University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • William S. Penn, English professor at Michigan State University
  • Meredith Small, professor of anthropology at Cornell University
  • Justin E. H. Smith, professor at Paris Diderot University
  • Gary D. Solis, adjunct professor of law who teaches the laws of war at the Georgetown University Law Center
  • Nancy Butler Songer, dean of the School of Education at Drexel University
  • Henning Stahlberg, professor at University of Basel
  • Scott Talan, professor of communication at American University
  • Martin Tolich, professor of sociology at University of Otago
  • David Hurst Thomas, professor at Columbia University
  • Steven D. Tanksley, professor of plant breeding and biometry at Cornell University
  • Athula Wikramanayake, professor at the University of Miami
  • Astronauts

  • Tracy Caldwell Dyson
  • Stephen K. Robinson
  • Computer science

  • Sam Lantinga, lead software engineer at Blizzard Entertainment
  • John Black, cryptologist who has been involved in the invention of several cryptographic algorithms including UMAC, PMAC, OCB, and CMAC
  • Chris Crawford, game designer
  • Timothy Jurka, developer of RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language
  • Eric Lengyel, computer game engine developer with expertise in 3D graphics, animation, physics, audio, and networking
  • Carl Sassenrath, developer of REBOL language, CTO of REBOL
  • Peter J. Salzman, hacker, former senior member of hacker group Legion of Doom
  • Perry Gregg, computer scientist
  • Engineering

  • Chow Chung-kong, chemical engineer, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
  • Adam Steltzner, NASA JPL lead engineer
  • Erkin Sidick, NASA JPL engineer
  • Sig Mejdal, sabermetrics analyst, former NASA engineer
  • Bernard Soriano, aeronautical engineer, deputy director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles
  • Kaveh Madani, Iranian civil and environmental engineer
  • Nelson Pass, audio engineer
  • David Phillips, civil engineer
  • Jeffrey Steefel, video game producer
  • Alvin S. White, test pilot, mechanical engineer
  • Economics

  • Ahmad Faruqui, defense analyst and economist
  • Mahmoud Solh, Lebanese agricultural economist and genetic scientist who is currently Director General of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
  • Masami Imai, Japanese economist
  • Timothy Francis McCarthy, financial services chief executive
  • Biology

  • Alice Alldredge, oceanographer, marine biologist
  • Anurag Agrawal, ecologist, evolutionary biologist
  • Jon Andrus, American physician, epidemiologist and immunization specialist, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization
  • Dean Burk, co-discoverer of biotin
  • Gordon Conway, former president of the Royal Geographical Society
  • Edward DeLong, marine microbiologist
  • Katherine Esau, German-American botanist who received the National Medal of Science for her work on plant anatomy
  • Brian Fisher, field biologist who works on the systematics of arthropods
  • Niklaus Grunwald, plant pathologist and professor
  • Catherine T. Hunt, chemist
  • Jae U. Jung, South Korean biologist
  • Gurdev Khush, Indian agronomist and winner of the World Food Prize
  • Lynn Kimsey, professor of Entomology
  • Laurence Madin, marine biologist, executive vice president and director of research of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • David Mas Masumoto, author and organic farmer
  • Frederick Murphy, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus
  • Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Nigerian epidemiologist
  • Robert E. Page, Jr., honey bee geneticist
  • Herman Phaff, yeast ecologist
  • Eric W. Sanderson, landscape ecologist
  • H. Michael Shepard, cancer biologist and discoverer of Herceptin
  • Gary Strobel, microbiologist
  • David Hurst Thomas, archaeologist and anthropologist
  • Thomas W. Whitaker, 1927, botanist and horticulturist
  • Other

  • Patricia S. Cowings, NASA psychologist, first African American woman trained to be an astronaut
  • Frederica Darema, Greek physicist who proposed the SPMD programming model
  • Diane Fordney, sex therapist
  • Christopher G. Newhall, volcanologist
  • William Hirstein, philosopher primarily interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, cognitive science, and analytic philosophy
  • Zdenka Samish, Czech-Israeli food technology researcher
  • Jeff Werber, veterinarian
  • Nadine Burke Harris, pediatrician, advisory council member for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Clinton Foundation's Too Small to Fail campaign
  • Fine art

  • Kathy Butterly, sculptor
  • Shirley Burman, railroad photographer
  • Deborah Butterfield, sculptor
  • Vonn Cummings Sumner, painter
  • Carter, artist
  • Victor Cicansky, Canadian sculptor
  • Sarah DeRemer, artist
  • Kurt Edward Fishback, photographer
  • Camille Rose Garcia, lowbrow artist
  • Carll Goodpasture, photographer
  • Steve Lambert, artist
  • Kenney Mencher, painter
  • Nickolas Mohanna, artist and composer
  • Bruce Nauman, artist
  • Richard T. Notkin, ceramic artist
  • Nancy Rubins, sculptor
  • Ethan Russell, the only rock photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who
  • Elizabeth Stephens, artist, sculptor, film maker, photographer
  • Ed Darack, author, photographer
  • Music

  • Yul Anderson, pianist, guitarist, singer
  • Cam, country music artist known for the hit "Burning House"
  • Luciano Chessa, Italian musicologist
  • DJ Shadow (real name Joshua Davis), music producer, DJ, and songwriter
  • Rita Hosking, award-winning songwriter, singer
  • Ruby Ibarra, rapper
  • Tom Jans, singer/songwriter
  • Steven Mackey, guitarist and composer
  • Scott Miller, guitarist and singer/songwriter, founder of Game Theory and The Loud Family
  • Lateef the Truthspeaker (real name Lateef Daumont), rapper
  • Lyrics Born (real name Tom Shimura), rapper
  • Dave Nachmanoff, award-winning American folk singer-songwriter
  • Cadence Spalding, American educator, vocalist, instrumentalist and composer
  • Donnette Thayer, musician
  • Lindsey Pavao, contestant on the second season of The Voice
  • Paris, rapper
  • Literature

  • Wendy Barker, poet
  • Howard Beck, sports journalist
  • Clare Bell, British author in the United States best known for her Ratha series
  • Kevin Clark, American poet and critic
  • Kira Cochrane, feminist journalist and writer
  • Costa Dillon, writer
  • Theodore Hamm, author
  • Brian Halweil, sustainable food writer and researcher
  • Deborah Harkness, The New York Times best-selling author
  • Amy Gutierrez, sports journalist
  • Lauren Kate, novelist
  • Matthew Kennedy, writer and film historian
  • Gus Lee, author
  • Robert Clark Young, novelist
  • Marilyn Nelson, American poet, translator and children's book author
  • Hans Ostrom, poet, novelist, and scholar, author of The Coast Starlight
  • Chris Ransick, writer of literary fiction and poetry
  • Grant Rosenberg, screenwriter/producer
  • Maris Soule, American author of romance and romantic suspense novels, mysteries, and short stories
  • Shawna Yang Ryan, novelist, author of Water Ghosts (2009) and Green Island (2016)
  • Max Schott, author of short stories
  • April Halprin Wayland, author, poet, and teacher
  • Anthony Swofford, author
  • James Van Pelt, science fiction author
  • Mark Wisniewski, Pushcart Prize winner and Best American Short Stories author
  • Film and television

  • Craig Baldwin, experimental filmmaker
  • Michele Boyd, actress
  • Debbie Lee Carrington, actress
  • Sonya Eddy, actress
  • Michael Gaston, actor
  • Terisa Greenan, film producer, director, and actress
  • Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress
  • Carol Flint, TV producer, ER
  • Natasha Halevi, actress
  • Fereshta Kazemi, Afghan-American film actress
  • Ilan Mitchell-Smith, actor
  • Kelly Masterson, screenwriter
  • Matthew Moy, actor
  • Sal Viscuso, actor
  • John Vickery, stage and film actor known for his work in Babylon 5 and Star Trek
  • Martin Yan, chef host of television show Yan Can Cook
  • Tareq Salahi, winery owner at television personality
  • Christopher Markus, Emmy winner
  • Conan Nolan, political reporter
  • Kate Tsui, actress and singer
  • Bergen Williams, actress
  • Eric Womack, American actor and producer
  • Pamela Wu, reporter
  • Comedy

  • Hasan Minhaj, comedian
  • Tim Lee, comedian
  • Bruce Baum, comedian
  • Other

  • Meghan Kalkstein, broadcast journalist
  • Kim Iverson, radio personality
  • Jenny Cho, broadcaster
  • Tiffany Lam, beauty queen, Miss Hong Kong 2002
  • Henry Wofford, SportsNet Central anchor/reporter for Comcast SportsNet in San Francisco
  • Mike Pondsmith, game designer
  • Olympians

  • Alphonse Burnand, gold medalist in sailing
  • Peter Snell, three time gold medalist in running
  • Cathy Carr, gold medalist swimmer at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  • Emily Azevedo, bobsledder in 2010 Winter Olympics
  • Linda Somers, marathon runner in 1996 Olympics
  • Scott Weltz, swimmer at 2012 Summer Olympics
  • Kim Conley, long distance runner in 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Colby Slater, two time gold medalist in rugby
  • Carrie Johnson, sprint canoer at 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics
  • Terry Kubicka, figure skater, 1976 US National Champion, competitor at 1976 Winter Olympics, first and only skater to perform legal backflip
  • Cyndy Poor, runner at 1976 Summer Olympics
  • Seth Weil, rower at 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Basketball

  • Corey Hawkins
  • Mark Payne
  • Jason Rabedeaux
  • Josh Ritchart
  • Dedrique Taylor
  • Soccer

  • Quincy Amarikwa, MLS player for the San Jose Earthquakes
  • Nicolas Platter, goalkeeper for Carolina RailHawks
  • Ahmad Hatifi, current international soccer player for Afghanistan and a professional with Mumbai F.C. in India's I-League
  • Jacob Barron, midfielder for Orange County Blues FC
  • Jerome Watson, American former U.S. soccer forward
  • Matthew Sheldon, player for Orange County Blues
  • Dirk Denkers
  • Elliott Hord
  • Football

  • Nick Aliotti, defensive coordinator for University of Oregon
  • Mike Bellotti, former head football coach for the University of Oregon
  • Rolf Benirschke, placekicker for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL
  • Bob Biggs, former head coach for UC Davis
  • Chris Carter, former wide receiver for Seattle Seahawks
  • Jonathan Compas, former NFL offensive lineman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Kevin Daft, offensive coordinator for UC Davis
  • Bo Eason, safety for the Houston Oilers of the NFL
  • Daniel Fells, tight end for the Denver Broncos
  • Bakari Grant, wide receiver for Calgary Stampeders
  • Mark Grieb, quarterback for the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League
  • Daryl Gross, Athletic Director, Syracuse University
  • Nathaniel Hackett, offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills
  • Paul Hackett, former head coach for University of Pittsburgh and University of Southern California
  • Dan Hawkins, former head football coach for the University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Khari Jones, Arena Football League and Canadian Football League quarterback and sports reporter
  • Bryan Lee-Lauduski, former quarterback for Iowa Barnstormers
  • Brad Lekkerkerker, offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL
  • Cory Lekkerkerker, offensive lineman for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL
  • Chris Mandeville, defensive back
  • Rich Martini, former wide receiver for Oakland Raiders
  • Casey Merrill, NFL defensive end
  • Mike Moroski, NFL quarterback
  • Ken O'Brien, 11-year quarterback for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles
  • J.T. O'Sullivan, quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals
  • Chris Petersen, head football coach for the University of Washington
  • Frank Scalercio, former head coach for Sonoma State Cossacks
  • Colton Schmidt, punter for the Buffalo Bills
  • Kermit Schmidt, NFL running back
  • Elliot Vallejo, former player for Oakland Raiders
  • Demario Warren, head coach for Southern Utah Thunderbirds
  • Mike Wise, NFL defensive end
  • Wrestling

  • Urijah Faber, wrestler; professional mixed martial artist, former WEC featherweight Champion, and current UFC Bantamweight Contender
  • John Hennigan, professional wrestler known for his time in WWE as Johnny Nitro and John Morrison
  • Tim Lajcik, mixed martial artist, stuntman, and actor
  • Baseball

  • Joe Biagini, pitcher for Toronto Blue Jays
  • Steve Brown, MLB pitcher
  • Daniel Descalso, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals
  • Eddie Gamboa, pitcher for Tampa Bay Rays
  • Marco Grifantini, pitcher for Toronto Blue Jays
  • Ty Kelly, utility player for the New York Mets
  • Ryan Scoma, player for the San Francisco Giants
  • Matt Vaughn, head coach for the UC Davis Aggies baseball team
  • Rich Waltz, TV announcer, Miami Marlins, MLB Network, & CBS Sports
  • Golf

  • Matt Marshall
  • Brad Bell
  • Scott Gordon
  • Other

  • Alycia Moulton, tennis player
  • Dave Scott, 6-time champion at Ironman World Championship
  • Shiva Vashishat, cricket player
  • Business

  • Allison Arieff, Senior Content Lead at IDEO, co-founder and former editor of Dwell magazine
  • Refaat El-Sayed, billionaire
  • Riley P. Bechtel, billionaire, CEO of Bechtel
  • Ben Behrouzi, entrepreneur, Founder, president and CEO of DotNext Inc. and Reply.com
  • Brian Bolke, president and Co-Founder of Forty Five Ten
  • Paul Privateer, CEO of Data Insight Solutions
  • Alfred Chuang, co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems
  • Rael Dornfest, former engineer at Twitter, founder and CEO of Values of N
  • Lauren Elliott, internet entrepreneur, video game designer, co-designer of Carmen Sandiego game series
  • Sean Ellis, founder of Qualaroo, coined growth hacking
  • Ron Erickson, co-founder of Microrim, GlobalVision, Inc., and Egghead Software
  • Robert "Bob" Foster, past president of Southern California Edison; former Mayor of Long Beach, California
  • Adriana Gascoigne, CEO of Girls in Tech
  • Steve Gatena, founder of REP Interactive and VideoFort, CEO of Helinet
  • Kimberly Guilfoyle, Court TV and FOX News Channel anchor; ABC, CNN, and FOX News legal analyst/commentator
  • Daniel Ha, co-founder and CEO of Disqus
  • Oran B. Hesterman, president and chief executive officer of Fair Food Network
  • Jeff Katz, CEO, NexTag; ex-CEO, Leapfrog; ex-CEO and founder, Orbitz
  • Peter Lavelle, American journalist, host of CrossTalk on the English-language TV channel of RT
  • Francis Lee, CEO, Synaptics
  • Jason Lucash, inventor and founder of Origaudio, Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions of 2009, winner on ABC's show Shark Tank, and Entrepreneur's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for 2012
  • Jani Macari Pallis, CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics, professor at University of Bridgeport
  • Dhar Mann, entrepreneur, founder of WeGrow Store
  • Ken Mercurio, author and former nutrition labeling director at Nestle USA
  • David Phillips, "The Pudding Guy"
  • Richard Pitcairn, veterinarian, founder of the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy
  • Mark Publicover, CEO and founder of JumpSport, inventor of the first affordable trampoline safety net enclosure
  • Keith Robinson, co-owner of the Hawaiian island of Niihau
  • Zohra Sarwari, Muslim author, business coach, entrepreneur, and international speaker
  • Stratton Sclavos, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of VeriSign
  • Tanya Seaman, founder of PhillyCarShare
  • Krishna Subramanian, entrepreneur, angel investor, and co-founder of BlueLithium
  • Jeffrey Tarrant, founder of Candescent Films
  • Thomas J. Tierney, chairman of eBay
  • Robert B. Tucker, president and founder of The Innovation Resource Consulting Group
  • John Watson, CEO of Chevron
  • William L. Ballhaus, CEO of Blackboard, Inc.
  • Payam Zamani, founder and chairman of One Planet Ops Inc.
  • Diane Bryant, EVP of Intel's Data Center Group. former CIO of Intel.
  • Foreign officials

  • Mohsen Nourbakhsh, former Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
  • Mari Pangestu, Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy
  • Kuan Chung-ming, former minister of the Taiwanese National Development Council, current chair of the Department of Finance of the National Taiwan University
  • Rosanna Wong, former convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
  • James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay, Scottish nobleman
  • Roberto Sebastian, former Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (Philippines)
  • Mary Ikoku, Nigerian Special Adviser to the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications
  • Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Nigerian senator, daughter of former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Kamal Stino, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt
  • Isabel García Tejerina, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Spain).
  • Federal government

  • Anna Escobedo Cabral, Treasurer of the United States
  • Janice Eberly, former chief economist of the United States Department of the Treasury
  • Ann Veneman, former Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, 2001–2005, later executive director of UNICEF
  • David J. Kappos, former Director of the Patent and Trademark Office
  • Lynn Okagaki, Commissioner of Education Research in the Institute of Education Sciences
  • Paul M. Igasaki, Chair and Chief Judge of the Administrative Review Board at the U.S. Department of Labor
  • Jane A. Restani, Judge on the United States Court of International Trade
  • Sue Ellen Wooldridge, former United States Assistant Attorney General
  • Julie MacDonald, Former deputy assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the United States Department of the Interior
  • Ambassadors

  • Scot Marciel, United States Ambassador to Myanmar
  • Leslie A. Bassett, United States Ambassador to Paraguay
  • Sheila Gwaltney, United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
  • Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

  • Jackie Speier, Congresswoman
  • Cal Dooley, United States Congressman, also president and CEO of National Food Processors Association
  • Dave Loebsack, Congressman, Iowa, 2nd District
  • George Miller, United States Congressman, California, 7th District
  • Jimmy Panetta, assistant district attorney in Monterey County, California
  • State government

  • Harold J. Powers, 36th Lieutenant Governor of California
  • Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California
  • Arthur Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
  • Luis Alejo, California State Assemblymember, 28th District and former Mayor of Watsonville, California
  • Anthony Cannella, California State Senator, District 12 and fmr. Mayor of Ceres, California
  • Charles Calderon, politician who served in both chambers of the California State Legislature
  • Rebecca Cohn, California State Assembly member for the 24th District
  • Jill Derby, elected Regent for the Nevada System of Higher Education
  • Delaine Eastin, 25th State Superintendent of Public Instruction of California
  • Robert Fong, former member of the Sacramento City Council
  • Dario Frommer, California Assemblyman, 43rd District, Los Angeles
  • Jeff Gorell, California State Assemblymember, 37th District
  • David C. Long, member of the Indiana State Senate representing the 16th district
  • Michael Machado, California State Assemblymember
  • Kerry Mazzoni, California Secretary of Education
  • Tony Miller, former California Secretary of State
  • Mike Machado, California State Senator
  • Ron Raikes, state senator from Lincoln, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature
  • Darrell Steinberg, California State Senator, 6th District
  • Kevin Shelley, former California Secretary of State
  • Cameron Smyth, California Assemblyman, 38th District
  • Ellen Corbett, California State Senator
  • Terry Morrow, former member of Minnesota House of Representatives
  • Jani Iwamoto, member of the Utah Senate
  • Phil Wyman, California Assembymember
  • Mayors

  • Ruthlane Uy Asmundson, former Mayor of Davis, first female Filipino mayor
  • Jason Baker, Mayor of Campbell, California
  • Bob Black, former Mayor of Davis
  • Heather Fargo, former Mayor of Sacramento, California
  • Robert "Bob" Foster, Mayor of Long Beach, California
  • Elihu Harris, Mayor of Oakland, California
  • Judges

  • Tony Agbayani, Judge of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County, California
  • Miranda Du, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
  • Sharon L. Gleason, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
  • Paul W. Grimm, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
  • Kristina Pickering, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
  • Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • Delbert Gee, Judge of the Superior Court of California in Alameda County
  • Craig F. Stowers, Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
  • Paula A. Nakayama, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
  • Jon Sands, Chief Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona
  • Steve White, Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court
  • Military

  • Howard B. Bromberg, lieutenant general, United States Army Deputy Chief of Staff
  • Hassan Akbar, U.S. Army sergeant, convicted for murders of fellow soldiers
  • Other

  • London Breed, president of the board of supervisors, San Francisco
  • Dave Cortese, Santa Clara County Supervisor, former San Jose Vice Mayor/City Councilmember
  • John Quoc Duong, Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)
  • Joseph Gutheinz, retired NASA employee who investigated stolen and missing moon rocks
  • Lamar Heystek, former Davis City councilmember
  • Eric Mar, San Francisco District 1 Supervisor
  • Katy Tang, San Francisco District 4 Supervisor
  • Mindell Penn, Richmond, California city councilwoman and PG&E executive
  • Timothy Walton, Californian attorney
  • Jim Rogers, city councilmember for Richmond, California
  • Angela E. Oh, attorney, teacher, and public lecturer best known for her role as spokesperson for the Korean American community
  • Monika Kalra Varma, Director of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
  • Hoang Tu Duy, Vietnamese-born American democracy activist
  • Winemaking

  • Amy Aiken
  • Alberto Antonini, senior winemaker for the wineries of the Antinori and the Frescobaldi
  • Kristen Barnhisel, winemaker
  • Heidi Barrett, California winemaker and consultant
  • Daniel Baron
  • Cathy Corison, winemaker
  • Sarah Gott, winemaker
  • Kathryn Kennedy
  • Mia Klein, winemaker
  • David Lake, Washington wine pioneer and Master of Wine
  • Aaron Pott, Napa Valley consultant winemaker
  • Carol Shelton, winemaker
  • Kay Simon, class of 1976, Washington winemaker
  • Miscellaneous

  • Dennis Banks, Native American leader
  • John Lawrence Goheen, missionary and educator
  • Peter A. Griffin, blackjack expert, one of the original seven members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame
  • Maria Kang, fitness advocate and founder of the No Excuse Mom movement
  • Laura Liswood, Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders
  • Luis Scott-Vargas, "Magic: The Gathering" player
  • John Dragon Young, Hong Kong scholar of Chinese history
  • Deborah King, wellness teacher
  • Jan Hamrin, founded the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions
  • Randy Lew, professional poker player
  • References

    List of University of California, Davis alumni Wikipedia