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Business and Finance

Economics
Lawrence Klein, Ph.D., economist, Nobel Prize recipient in Economics

Entrepreneurs
Gene Bramson, real estate investor
John Hope Bryant
(AKA John Bryant Smith), founder of Bryant Group Companies
John Crean, founder of Fleetwood Enterprises
Brian Edwards, founder of ETI
Harry D. Schultz, investment advisor

Communications

Journalism
Murray Fromson, broadcast journalist
Tony Valdez, broadcast journalist
Herbert G. Klein, newspaper executive
Leonard Probst, drama critic

Education

Administration
James Williams, Ph.D., Community College District Chancellor; Community College President

Teaching
Joseph A. Bagnall, educator, author, writer, producer, and documentarian Lowell Bean, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and author
Edward Diller, educator and author
Jack Ericson Eblen, Ph.D., Professor of History and author
Maulana (Ron) Karenga, Ph.D., Professor of Black Studies, activist and founder of Kwanzaa
Simon Karlinsky, Ph.D., Professor of Slavic languages and literature, author
Michael Schreiber, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Communications, author and fitness expert

Entertainment Industry

Performance
Bob Arbogast, radio broadcaster and voice acto
Pete Arbogast, radio announcer
Alan Arkin, actor, Academy Award
® recipient
Billy Barty, actor and founder, Little People of America
Brenda Benet, actor
Tommy "Butch" Bond, actor Albert Brooks, actor, comedian and director
Diana Canova, actor
James Coburn, actor, Academy Award
® recipient
Clint Eastwood, actor; producer, Academy Award
® recipient; director, Acad

emy Award® recipient

Mike Evans, actor
Al Freeman, Jr., actor, Emmy
® Award recipient; educator

Morgan Freeman, actor, Academy Award® recipient; producer

Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, actor, Tony Award® recipient

Deidre Hall, actor
Mark Hamill, actor
Michael Harris, actor
Allen “Farina” Hoskins, actor
Jackie Joseph, actor
Margaret Kerry, actor

Wallace Langham, actor

Ruta Lee, actor

Tony Maggio, actor

Whitman Mayo, actor

James Mitchell, actor and dancer

Dickie Moore, actor

Wayne Morris, actor, WWII ace

Shelley Morrison, actor

Stephen Nichols, actor

Jeannette Nolan, actor

Hugh O’Brian, actor, Golden Globe Award® recipient

Rosie Perez, actor and choreographer

Donna Reed, actor, Academy Award® recipient

Maggie Roswell, actor

Alexis Smith, actor, Tony Award® recipient

Louise Sorel, actor

Robert Vaughn, actor, Emmy® Award recipient

Stuart Whitman, actor

Cindy Williams, actor and producer

Esther Williams, actor, Golden Globe Award® recipient

Paul Winfield, actor, Emmy® Award recipient

Jo Anne Worley, actor

Aron Kader, comedian

Production
Nick Grippo, caterer and author
Gary Stockdale, composer for televi
sion shows
Ray Aghayan, costume designer, Emmy
® Award recipient

Rudy Behlmer, director and author
Charles Burnett, director and writer

F. Gary Gray, director and producer

Michael Lembeck, director, Emmy® Award recipient; actor
Karen Moncrieff, director
Albert and Allen Hughes, directors
José Quintero, director
Ray Harryhausen, producer, director and special effects artist; special Academy Award
® recipient

Bruce Kimmel, director, producer, writer, actor and composer
Mimi Leder, director, Emmy
® Award recipient

Gene Roddenberry, producer and screenwriter

True Boardman, screenwriter and actor

John Milius, screenwriter, producer and director

Fine Arts

Art
John Riddle, commercial artist, sculptor and painter
Dianne Dillon, illustrator
Billy Al Bengston, painter and sculptor
Jason Laure, photographer and author
Ruth Orking, photographer and filmmaker

H.C. Westermann, printmaker and sculptor
Evangeline Juliet Montgomery, print-maker, metal smith and weaver
Melvin Edwards, sculptor

Dance
Alvin Ailey, dancer and choreographer
Maria Bermudez, Flamenco dancer
Janet Collins, ballerina

Design
Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize recipien
Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer

Music
Bob Florence, composer, band leader and educator
Jerry Goldsmith, composer, Academy Award
® recipient
Lebo M, composer Leonard Slatkin, conductor, National Medal of Arts recipient John Williams, composer, Academy Award
® recipient
La Monte Young, composer
Robert Bradley, blues musician Odetta, folk singer
Roy Ayers, jazz musician
Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
Charles Mingus, jazz musician
Don Friedman, jazz pianist
Les McCann, jazz pianist and singer
Dianne Reeves, jazz singer, Grammy
® recipient
Russ Titelman, music producer, Grammy
® recipient; songwriter

David Alpert, musician
George London, opera singer and administrator

M.C. Hammer, R&B musician, Grammy® recipient

Howard Leese, rock musician and producer

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, songwriters and Hall of Fame producers, Grammy® recipients

Photography
Kenneth E. Washington

Writing
Byron Barton, author and illustrator
Carlos Casteñeda, author
Charles Eastman, playwright and screenwriter
Jim Harmon, author and producer
Bryan Malessa, author
Diane Redfield Massie, author and illustrator
Terry McMillan, author
Carolyn See, Ph.D., author and educator
Joseph Wambaugh, author
Ed Bullins, playwright, Obie Award recipient
Charles Gordone, playwright, Pulitzer Prize recipient; actor, Obie Award recipient; director
Justin Tanner, playwright
Charles Bukowski, poet and author
Alvaro Cardone-Hine, poet, composer and author
Joanne de Longchamps, poet and artist
Michael S. Harper, poet
David Meltzer, poet, musician and educator
Pat Parker, poet and activist
Quincy Troupe, poet; former Poet Laureate of California

Law

John Branca, entertainment attorney

Howard Weitzman, entertainment attorney

Public Service

Armed Forces
Major General Eugene L. Hudson (Ret.), U. S. Air Force

Elected Official
The Honorable Jo Anne Darcy, Santa Clarita Mayor and City Council member (Ret.)
Hal Bernson, Los Angeles City Council member
Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles City Council member
Louis R. Nowell, Los Angeles City Council member (former)
Bernard C. Parks, Los Angeles City Council member and former Chief of Police The Honorable Diane E. Watson, Member of Congress

Judiciary
The Honorable Lourdes Baird, U. S. District Court (Ret.)
The Honorable Leo Holt, Cook County (IL) Circuit Court (Ret.)

Nonprofit
Ruben Hernandez, founder, Unification of Disabled Latin Americans

Religion

Sheik Qazi Asad, LAPD chaplain

Science

Aerospace
Dean Chapman, Ph.D., NASA, Director of Astronautics
Jovita Jenkins, software designer for missile, communications and space systems

Chemistry
Thomas Bruice, Ph.D., research bioorganic chemist, professor and author Starling Trimble, B.S., industrial chemist and patent holder
Fred Wudl, Ph.D., research chemist, professor and author

Environmental
Eugene Coan, Ph.D., environmental scientist and author

Hematology and radiobiology
Eugene Cronkite, M.D., research hematologist, professor and author

Horticulture
Barbara Joe Hoshizaki, M.S., horticulturist, educator and author

Sports

Baseball
Don Buford, major league baseball player
Dennis Gilbert, LACC Hall of Fame baseball inductee, sports agent and entrepreneur

Football
Reggie Haynes, professional football player
Raymond May, professional football player

Willie Williams, football player

Track
Jeff Williams, sprinter

 


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