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List of University of Southern California people
This page lists noted alumni and students, as well as notable faculty members, of the University of Southern California.
Alumni and students
Academia
- Leo Buscaglia - Educator, best-selling author
- Howard P. House - Ear specialist and founder of the House Ear Institute
- Bart Kosko - Intelligent systems expert and science fiction writer
- Vijay Kumar - Pioneer of quaternary error-correction codes
- Max More - Philosopher and futurist, founder of Extropy Institute
- Surya Prakash - Superacid specialist and one of the inventors of the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC)
- Rangaswamy Srinivasan - Discoverer of Ablative Photodecomposition (APD) and inventor of the LASIK procedure
- Andrew Viterbi - Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, co-founder of Qualcomm and benefactor of the Viterbi School of Engineering
Arts and Media
- Herb Alpert - Musician, co-founder of A&M Records
- Hugh Beaumont - Actor, television director, and Methodist minister
- Richard Biggs - Actor
- Harry Blackstone Jr. - Actor and magician
- Art Buchwald - Author and columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Harold Budd - Ambient/avant-garde composer
- LeVar Burton - Actor
- John Carpenter - Film director
- Nadine Connor - Opera star
- Samantha Cowles-Eagan - Actress
- Sam Donaldson - Journalist
- Anthony Edwards - Film and television actor
- Dorothy Fay - Actress
- Will Ferrell - Actor and comedian
- Frank Gehry - Architect, Pritzker Prize winner
- Jerry Goldsmith - Film score composer
- Brian Grazer - Film and television producer
- Conrad Hall - Cinematographer
- Lionel Hampton - Jazz musican
- Dexter Holland - Singer and guitarist for The Offspring
- Marilyn Horne - Opera singer
- James Horner - Composer
- Ron Howard - Film director
- James Ivory - Film director
- Jon Jerde - Architect
- Cliff Johnson - Author of award-winning computer puzzle games
- Howard G. Kazanjian - Film producer
- Irvin Kershner - Film director
- Gary Kurtz - Film producer
- Michael Landon - Actor
- Morten Lauridsen - Composer
- George Lucas - Film director
- Albert C. Martin - Architect
- Thom Mayne - Architect, principal of Morphosis, and Pritzker Prize laureate
- Mark McGrath - Musican, the lead singer of Sugar Ray
- John Milius - Film director and screenwriter
- Miles Millar - Screenwriter and producer
- Walter Murch - Film editor
- Joan Lowery Nixon - Journalist and author
- Christopher Parkening - Classical guitarist, best known for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Fess Parker - Screen and television actor
- Sam Peckinpah - Film director
- Ke Huy Quan - Actor and stuntman
- John Ritter - Actor
- Robert Rodat - Screenwriter
- Jay Roach - Film director and producer
- Tom Selleck - Actor
- Ally Sheedy - Actress
- Cybill Shepherd - Actress
- Bryan Singer - Film director
- John Singleton - Film director
- Stephen Sommers - Film director
- Robert Stack - Actor
- Eric Stolz - Actor
- Irving Stone - Writer, known for biographical novels of famous historical personalities
- Kathleen Sullivan - Broadcast journalist
- Salli Terri - Singer and songwriter
- Marlo Thomas - Actor and writer
- Michael Tilson Thomas - Symphony conductor
- Jack Warner - Movie maker and founder of Warner Brothers Studios
- John Wayne - Actor
- Forest Whitaker - Actor, director, and producer
- Paul R. Williams - Architect, first African American member of the American Institute of Architects
- David Wolper - Film and television producer
- Robert Zemeckis - Film director
Astronauts
Business
Athletics
- Marcus Allen - Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Curtis Conway - Profesional football player
- Cynthia Cooper - Professional basketball player
- Buster Crabbe - Olympic champion, swimming, and actor
- Charles Dumas - Olympic champion, high jump
- Mike Garrett - Heisman Trophy winner and former professional football player
- Frank Gifford - Pro Football Hall of Famer and TV analyst
- Pat Haden - All-American QB, Rhodes Scholar, NFL Pro-Bowler, TV analyst
- Randy Johnson - Professional baseball player, the "Big Unit"
- Kareem Kelly - NFL wide receiver
- Lenny Krayzelburg - Olympic champion, swimming
- Matt Leinart - Heisman Trophy winner
- Lisa Leslie - Professional basketball player
- Lisa Moretti - Professional wrestler, actress, stuntwoman
- Ronnie Lott - Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Fred Lynn - Professional baseball player
- Mark McGwire - Professional baseball player
- Cheryl Miller - Basketball Hall of Famer
- Anthony Munoz - Pro Football Hall of Famer
- John Naber - Olympic champion, swimming
- Charlie Paddock - Olympic champion, track & field
- Carson Palmer - Heisman Trophy winner and professional football player
- Mel Patton - Olympic champion, track & field
- Troy Polamalu - National Football League strong safety, All-American
- Mark Prior - Professional baseball player
- Murray Rose - Olympic champion, swimming
- Kaitlin Sandeno - Olympic champion, swimming
- Bob Seagren - Olympic champion, pole vaulter
- Junior Seau - NFL linebacker
- Tom Seaver - Professional baseball player
- Bill Sharman - Basketball Hall of Famer
- O.J. Simpson - Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Famer and actor
- Craig Stadler - Pro golfer
- Lynn Swann - Pro Football Hall of Famer and TV analyst
- Steve Timmons - Olympic champion, volleyball
- Quincy Watts - Olympic champion, track & field
- Paul Westphal - Professional basketball player
- Charles White - Heisman Trophy winner and former professional football player
- Barry Zito - Professional baseball player
Politics and Government
Other
Faculty
- Leonard M. Adleman - Co-Inventor of RSA, Turing Award laureate
- William French Anderson - Genetics professor, dubbed "father of gene therapy"
- Lois W. Banner - Former president of the American Studies Association , feminist author
- Warren Bennis - University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration; named the "dean of leadership gurus" by Forbes magazine
- Shelley Berman - Comedian/actor/author - Teaches Writing Humor, Literary and Dramatic
- Terence Blanchard - Jazz trumpeter
- Barry Boehm - Software economics expert, inventor of COCOMO
- T.C. Boyle - Novelist
- Manuel Castells - Sociologist, played a key role in the development of a Marxist urban sociology
- Scott Fisher - Pioneering virtual reality researcher
- David Griffith - Film director, contributed Mise en Scene and various film editing techniques to film grammar
- Midori Goto - Violinist and the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Music
- Jascha Heifetz - Violinist, one of the most famous of the 20th century
- Tomlinson Holman - Inventor of Lucasfilm's THX sound system
- John Hospers - Philosopher, first presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party
- Mizuko Ito - noted cybercultural theorist
- Mark Kac - Eminent mathematician, pioneered the modern development of probability
- Jerome Lawrence - Playwright
- Raymond Loewy - Noted industrial designer
- Richard Neutra - Modernism architect
- George Olah - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Gregor Piatigorsky - Cellist
- Jon Postel - Internet pioneer, former director of ISI's Computer Networks Division
- Arnold Schoenberg - Composer
- Irving S. Reed - Inventor of Reed-Solomon codes
- Michael S. Waterman - Founding editor of Journal of Computational Biology
- Paul Wehrle - Physician who helped in the development of methods for the prevention and treatment of polio and smallpox
- Darryl F. Zanuck - One of the major figures in the Hollywood studio system
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