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

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

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

  1. Simon, Samantha (March 26, 2015). "'Mom' Star Sadie Calvano on Going to College". InStyle. Time Inc. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  2. "Chargers Promote Sanders". The New York Times. UPI. February 17, 1976. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
  3. Occidental College. "Peter Dreier". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  4. "Julia Holter". Occidental College. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  5. "Derek Shearer" (Archive). Occidental College. Retrieved on August 5, 2014.
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