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List of University of California, Riverside people

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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Riverside.

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Nobel laureates

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

    • 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)

    • Athletics

  • 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.

    • Other

  • 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

    • 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
  • 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

    • References

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