Famous Cal AlumsARTS AND ENTERTAINMENTBill Bixby (d.) - Actor, "The Incredible Hulk" Peter Chernin - Chairman, 20th Century Fox Joan Didion - Author, essayist, screenwriter Mark Goodson - TV producer, "Family Feud", "The Price is Right" Susanna Hoffs - Former lead singer of "The Bangles" Maxine Hong Kingston - Author, 1997 National Humanities Medal Jack London (d.) - Author, "The Call of the Wild" Jerry Mathers - Actor, "Leave it to Beaver" Terry McMillan - Author, "Waiting To Exhale" Julia Morgan (d.) - World-famous Architect Gregory Peck - Actor, Academy Award winner George Takei - Actor, Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek" Abigail Van Buren - "Dear Abby" columnist BUSINESS Stephen Bechtel (d.) - Founder of world's largest constructional engineering firm Choon Kun Cho - President, Korean Airlines Don Fisher - Chief Executive Officer, The Gap Andrew Grove - President and CEO of Intel Corporation Walter Haas Jr. (d.) - President of Levi Strauss, former owner of Oakland Athletics Gordon Moore - Co-founder of Intel Corporation Alice Waters - Chef, restrateaur, "Chez Panisse" Dean Witter (d.) - Founder of Dean Witter Financial Services Steve Wozniak - Co-founder, Apple Computer Systems LAW AND POLITICS Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (d.) - President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Rose Bird - Former Chief Justice of California Supreme Court Jerry Brown - Former Governor of California Shirley Dean - Mayor of Berkeley Walter A. Gordon (d.) - Governor of Virgin Islands, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson - Chief judge, U.S. District Court of Northern California Lance Ito - Superior Court Judge, presided over O.J. Simpson trial Ida Jackson (d.) - United Nations observer, founder local chapter of National Council of Negro Women John A. McCone (d.) - Director of the CIA Wiley Manuel (d.) - First African-American California State Supreme Court Justice William G. Simon - Former Director, FBI Earl Warren (d.) - Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court Lionel Wilson - First African-American mayor of Oakland Pete Wilson - Former Governor of California COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA William R. Hearst Jr. (d.) - Newspaper publisher Marguerite Higgins (d.) - Journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Jann Wenner - Founder of Rolling Stone magazine SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Thomas Cech - Chemist, Nobel Prize winner Leroy Chiao - First Chinese-American astronaut Yuan T. Lee - Nobel Prize winner, professor of chemistry Willard Libby (d.) - Scientist, discovered Carbon 14 Margaret Rhea Seddon - Astronaut Glenn Seaborg - Nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner, co-founder of Element 106 ATHLETICS Shareef Abdur-Rahim - NBA basketball player, first round draft pick Laura Baker - WNBA basketball player Steve Bartkowski - No. 1 overall NFL draft pick in 1975 Matt Biondi - Three-time Olympic swimmer, winner of eight gold medals Joy (Biefeld) Fawcett - 1999 U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team member Michele Granger - Olympic gold medalist, softball pitcher Jackie Jensen - Former Major League Baseball American League MVP, All-American football player Kevin Johnson - NBA basketball player, member of Dream Team II Jason Kidd - NBA basketball player, first round draft pick Mary T. Meagher - Two-time Olympic swimmer, winner of three gold medals Lamond Murray - NBA basketball player, first round draft pick Hardy Nickerson - NFL All-Pro linebacker Les Richter - All-American football player, NFL linebacker Helen Wills Moody Roark - Winner of eight Wimbledon and seven U.S. tennis championships Leigh Steinberg - Lawyer, sports agent Milica Vukadinovic - WNBA basketball player |
