This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Riverside.
Academia, science, and technology
Peter Adriaens – professor of engineering and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan
Leonard Beeghley – professor of sociology at University of Florida
Neil Campbell – scientist known best for his best-selling Biology textbook
Mason Gaffney – professor of economics and prominent Georgist
Harmohinder Singh Gill – plant pathologist who pioneered fungus classification by disc electrophoresis
Matthew Haughey – blogger and founder of MetaFilter
Marigold Linton – director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas
Gary North – economist and author
Arthur Riggs – director of the Beckman Research Institute and former geneticist with Genentech and father of modern biotechnology
Pedram Salimpour – physician-scientist, author, and professor
Peter Steinberger – Dean of the Faculty at Reed College, Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities
Tim White – professor of 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
Earl W. Bascom – inventor, actor, rodeo cowboy, Hall of Fame inductee, international artist and sculptor
Amine Bouhafa – Tunisian composer and engineer, winner of the 2015 César Award for Best Music for the movie Timbuktu
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 and Real World/Road Rules Challenge
Billy Collins – eleventh US Poet Laureate
Katherine Fugate – screenwriter Valentine's Day and creator of Army Wives TV series
Elizabeth George – mystery writer
Barbara Hambly – novelist and screenwriter
Ryan Holiday – author of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator; director of marketing for American Apparel
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
Nakul Dev Mahajan, choreographer
Ruben Quesada – poet
Lindsay Ridgeway – actress, Boy Meets World
Charlyne Yi – actress, comedian, and performance artist (Knocked Up)
Michael Basinger – former professional football player for the Green Bay Packers
Jennifer Bermingham - golfer
Pat Hill – head football coach of Fresno State
Butch Johnson – former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos
Joe Kelly – Major League pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
John Lowenstein – former Major League Baseball player
Steve Lubratich – former Major League Baseball player and current Cleveland Indians Special Assistant to the GM
AnnMaria De Mars, 1984 Judo World Champion, mother of Ronda Rousey
Brenda Martinez – track and field athlete
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
Marc Rzepczynski – Major League pitcher for the San Diego Padres
Eric Show – former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics
Charles Smith – Major League pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
Erasmo Solorzano – professional MLS football player for the Chivas USA acquired in the 2007 draft.
Brendan Steele – professional golfer on the PGA Tour
Business, politics, and law
Ruben Barrales – deputy assistant to President Bush and director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House, former San Mateo County supervisor
David S. Cunningham, Jr. – Los AngelesCity Council member, 1973–87, a graduate
Lloyd Levine – former California State Assemblyman for the 40th District
Ken Mettler - past president of the California Republican Assembly
Holly J. Mitchell – California State Senator for the 26th District, former California State Assemblymember to the 54th and 47th Districts
Ronald Neumann – former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
Rod Pacheco – former Riverside County District Attorney, California Assembly member
Gloria Romero – former State Senate Majority Whip, former California Assembly member, 49th District
Stefanie Schaeffer – defense attorney, 2006 winner of Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice.
Jeff Cooper – creator of the modern technique of shooting; firearms expert who defined the modern scout rifle
James Holmes – gunman in the 2012 Aurora shooting; currently serving a life sentence for murder
Shruti Kapoor - Economist, women's right's activist, and social entrepreneur
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
Alexander A. Balandin – professor of electrical engineering
Bir Bhanu – Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems
Alfred M. Boyce – first dean of the College of Agriculture
Christopher Chase-Dunn – sociologist, contributor to world-systems theory
Sean Cutler – plant scientist noted for discovery of pyrabactin
Mike Davis – urban theorist and author
James H. Dieterich – Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Josh Emmons – American novelist
Steve Erickson – American author, essayist, critic
John Martin Fischer – professor of philosophy, Vice-President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, primary proponent of semi-compatibilism
Katie Ford – American Poet
Theodore Garland, Jr. – a founder of the field of evolutionary physiology
Gail Hanson – Distinguished Professor of Physics
Juan Felipe Herrera – poet, United States Poet Laureate
Ivan Hinderaker – former chancellor
Nalo Hopkinson – science fiction and fantasy writer
Theodore L. Hullar – former chancellor
Laila Lalami – professor, Pulitzer Prize finalist
Perry Link – Chancellorial Chair, professor of China Studies
Ronald O. Loveridge – Mayor of Riverside, California
Tom Lutz – author, literary critic, founder and editor of the Los Angeles review of books
Robert Nisbet – conservative sociologist and early Dean of Letters and Science at UCR
John W. Olmsted – first chairman of the Humanities division
Alexander Raikhel – professor of entomology, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Robert Rosenthal – professor of psychology, former chair of Harvard's psychology department
Irwin Sherman – professor of biology, specializing in malariology
George Edgar Slusser – professor of comparative literature, science fiction expert
Andrea Smith – Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Jane Smiley – Pulitzer Prize winning author
Harry Scott Smith – entomologist
Susan Straight – writer, professor of creative writing, 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, author of Structure of Sociological Theory and Emergence of Sociological Theory
Seymour Van Gundy – former dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Georgia Warnke – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for Ideas and Society
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