Here follows a list of notable people associated with Occidental College in Los Angeles, California . This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university.
Notable graduates and attendees
Business and industry
Entertainment and the arts Terry Gilliam Ben Affleck Ben Affleck (actor, director, screenwriter)Stephen Beal (visual artist)Ashly Burch (actress)John Callas (writer, director, producer)Sadie Calvano (actress)[1] August Coppola (academic, author, film executive and advocate for the arts)Glenn Corbett (television actor)Gabriela Cowperthwaite (documentary filmmaker, Blackfish Will Friedle (actor)Terry Gilliam (animator and comedian in Monty Python comedy troupe; filmmaker: Brazil 12 Monkeys Joanna Gleason (actor)Mike Hoover (cameraman, journalist, documentarian, winner of Academy and Emmy Awards)Terry Kitchen (musician)Loren Lester (actor)Thomas Murray (organist)George Nader (actor)Marcel Ophüls (filmmaker)Emily Osment (actress; Class of 2015)Cooper Raiff (actor, director)Joe Rohde (Imagineer )Sam Rubin (journalist; class of 1982)Peter Scolari (actor)Jake Shears (lead singer of Scissor Sisters)Anna Slotky (actress)Dan Slott (comic book writer)Kirsten Smith (screenwriter, Ten Things I Hate About You Legally Blonde The Ugly Truth Roger Guenveur Smith (actor)Rider Strong (actor)Taku Takahashi (musician)Maurissa Tancharoen (actress, singer, dancer, television writer and lyricist)Jesús Salvador Treviño (television director)Tui St. George Tucker (composer)Luke Wilson (actor)Michael Whaley (actor, director, writer)Daniel Goldstein (musician, producer)
Government, diplomacy, and law Jack Kemp Barack Obama
Higher education and academia
Journalism Patt Morrison
Literature and writing
Medicine
Science
Social action, philanthropy, and community service Howard Ahmanson, Jr (philanthropist, financier, and writer)Cameron Townsend (founder, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics)Rex Weyler (author, journalist, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace International; did not graduate)
Sports and athletics Keith Beebe , football playerRon Botchan , five-time Super Bowl official for NFL from 1980 to 2002Olin Browne , PGA Tour winnerDean Cromwell , USC and Olympic track-and-field coachLuke Collis , arena football playerJoe Faust , Olympic high jumperJustin Goltz , NFL/CFL quarterbackBob Gutowski , pole vaulter, 1956 Olympic silver medalistJack Kemp , AFL and NFL star quarterback of Buffalo BillsSammy Lee , two-time Olympic gold medalist in divingJim Mora, Sr. , coached NFL's New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis ColtsVance Mueller , NFL running backBill Redell , college and pro quarterback, high school coachJohnny Sanders , NFL general manager[2] Danny Southwick , arena football playerJim Tunney , NFL official from 1960 to 1991; three Super Bowls
Notable faculty Martha Ronk , Price Professor of English Literature, is a 2005 PEN American Center Literary Award winner in poetry.Peter Dreier , Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department, was the Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for nine years.[3] Eric Garcetti
Presidents Herrick Interfaith Center, built 1964, with Water Forms II in the foreground. Samuel H. Weller (1887–1891) J. Melville McPherron (1892–1894) Elbert Nevius Condit (1894–1896)James W. Parkhill (1896–1897) Guy W. Wadsworth (1897–1905) William Stewart Young (1905–1906, acting) John Willis Baer (1906–1916)Thomas Gregory Burt (1916–1917) Silas Evans (1917–1920) Thomas Gregory Burt (1920–1921, acting) Remsen Bird (1921–1927, 1928–1945) Robert G. Cleland (1927–1928, acting) Arthur G. Coons (1945–1965) Richard C. Gilman (1965–1988) John Brooks Slaughter (1988–1999)Theodore R. Mitchell (1999–2005) Kenyon S. Chan (2005–2006, acting) Susan Westerberg Prager (2006–2007)Robert Skotheim (2008–2009)Jonathan Veitch (2009–2020)Harry J. Elam Jr. (2020–present)
References ^ Simon, Samantha (March 26, 2015). "'Mom' Star Sadie Calvano on Going to College". InStyle Time Inc . Retrieved December 29, 2015 . ^ "Chargers Promote Sanders". The New York Times . UPI. February 17, 1976. Retrieved February 7, 2022 . ^ Occidental College. "Peter Dreier". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012 . ^ "Julia Holter". Occidental College . Retrieved 21 May 2022 . ^ "Derek Shearer" (Archive). Occidental College . Retrieved on August 5, 2014. 
