EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
La Jolla, CA

Founding Date:
1960

Motto:
Fiat Lux

Team:
Tritons

Enrollment:
22,000

Official Website:
http://www.ucsd.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kathy Acker	Author	18-Apr-1947	1-Dec-1997	Blood and Guts in High School
Bill Atkinson	Computer Programmer	1951		Creator of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint
James Avery	Actor	27-Nov-1948	31-Dec-2013	Philip Banks on Fresh Prince
Gregory Benford	Novelist	30-Jan-1941		Physicist and author of Timescape
Lowell Bergman	Film/TV Producer	24-Jul-1945		Former 60 Minutes producer
Bruce A. Beutler	Biologist	29-Dec-1957		Lipopolysaccharide receptors
Hart Bochner	Actor	3-Oct-1956		Breaking Away
David Brin	Novelist	6-Oct-1950		The Uplift War
Robert Buckley	Actor	2-May-1981		Clay Evans on One Tree Hill
Kurt M. Campbell	Government	1957		Asst. Secy. of State for East Asian Affairs
Ricardo Chavira	Actor	1-Sep-1971		Desperate Housewives
Angela Davis	Activist	26-Jan-1944		Black Panther, teacher, professor
Benicio Del Toro	Actor	19-Feb-1967		Traffic
Myron Ebell	Activist	1953		Global Warming cynic
Raymond E. Feist	Novelist	23-Dec-1945		Riftwar Saga
Lisa Gerritsen	Actor	21-Dec-1957		Bess Lindstrom on Mary Tyler Moore
Aria Giovanni	Pornstar	3-Nov-1977		Softcore vixen, fetish & bondage model
Khaled Hosseini	Novelist	4-Mar-1965		The Kite Runner
Mike Judge	Cartoonist	17-Oct-1962		Beavis and Butthead
Gary Kreep	Activist	c. 1950		United States Justice Foundation
Len J. Lauer	Business	c. 1957		EVP at Qualcomm
Jill Lepore	Historian	27-Aug-1966		The Name of War
Aloysius Martinich	Philosopher	28-Jun-1946		The Two Gods of Leviathan
Steve Peace	Film/TV Producer	30-Mar-1953		Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Pimp C	Rapper	29-Dec-1973	4-Dec-2007	Half of UGK
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Scientist	1952		Ribosomes
Kim Stanley Robinson	Novelist	23-Mar-1952		Mars Trilogy
Timothy J. Roemer	Politician	30-Oct-1956		9-11 Commission member
Philip Rosedale	Business	29-Sep-1968		Founder and CEO, Linden Lab
Robert N. Shelton	Educator	1948		President, University of Arizona
Tsutomu Shimomura	Physicist	23-Oct-1964		Helped catch Kevin Mitnick
John B. Shoven	Economist	24-May-1947		Stanford economist
Susumu Tonegawa	Scientist	6-Sep-1939		Antibody production and diversity
Bud Tribble	Business	c. 1953		Apple, NeXT
Craig Venter	Biologist	14-Oct-1946		Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell
Vernor Vinge	Author	10-Feb-1944		A Fire Upon The Deep
Alfred W. Zollar	Business	c. 1955		IBM executive, Tivoli Software

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hannes Alfvén	Physicist	30-May-1908	2-Apr-1995	Renegade Swedish astrophysicist
David Antin	Artist	1-Feb-1932		Improv artist, talk poet
John Baldessari	Artist	17-Jun-1931		American conceptual artist
Edward Bullard	Physicist	21-Sep-1907	3-Apr-1980	Continental drift, magnetic fields
E. Margaret Burbidge	Astronomer	12-Aug-1919		Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge	Astronomer	24-Sep-1925	26-Jan-2010	Quasi-steady state cosmology
John W. Dower	Historian	21-Jun-1938		Embracing Defeat
Robert C. Dynes	Educator	8-Nov-1942		President, University of California, 2003-08
Robert F. Engle III	Economist	10-Nov-1942		Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Peter B. Evans	Sociologist	2-Jun-1944		Embedded Autonomy
Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Physicist	28-Jun-1906	20-Feb-1972	Shell nuclear model
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Clive W.J. Granger	Economist	4-Sep-1934	27-May-2009	Granger causality
Steven Hahn	Historian	18-Jul-1951		A Nation Under Our Feet
Robert W. Holley	Scientist	28-Jan-1922	11-Feb-1993	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Peter H. Irons	Activist	11-Aug-1940		A People's History of the Supreme Court
Irwin M. Jacobs	Business	18-Oct-1933		Co-Founder of Qualcomm
J. Hans D. Jensen	Physicist	25-Jun-1907	11-Feb-1973	Shell nuclear model
Chalmers Johnson	Author	6-Aug-1931	20-Nov-2010	Blowback
Walter Kohn	Chemist	9-Mar-1923	19-Apr-2016	Density-functional theory
Herbert Marcuse	Philosopher	19-Jul-1898	29-Jul-1979	One-Dimensional Man
Harry M. Markowitz	Economist	24-Aug-1927		Portfolio theory
Quinn Martin	Business	22-May-1922	6-Sep-1987	Quinn Martin Productions
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Stanley Miller	Chemist	7-Mar-1930	20-May-2007	Miller-Urey Experiment
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Pauline Oliveros	Composer	2-Jun-1932		Composer, Deep Listener
George E. Palade	Scientist	19-Nov-1912	7-Oct-2008	Microstructure of the cell
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Scientist and peacenik
Richard H. Popkin	Philosopher	27-Dec-1923	14-Apr-2005	The History of Scepticism
Jef Raskin	Computer Programmer	9-Mar-1943	26-Feb-2005	Designed Macintosh human interface
Eric Reissner	Mathematician	5-Jan-1913	1-Nov-1996	Reissner shear-deformation plate theory
Sally Ride	Astronaut	26-May-1951	23-Jul-2012	First American woman in space
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Herbert I. Schiller	Author	5-Nov-1919	29-Jan-2000	Mass Communications and American Empire
Richard L. Schmalensee	Economist	1944		Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91
Michael Schudson	Sociologist	3-Nov-1946		Discovering the News
Avrum Stroll	Philosopher	15-Feb-1921	12-Sep-2013	Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
Roger Y. Tsien	Scientist	1-Feb-1952	24-Aug-2016	Green Fluorescent Protein
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
Alvin M. Weinberg	Physicist	20-Apr-1915	18-Oct-2006	Nuclear scientist

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert C. Dynes	Educator	8-Nov-1942		President, University of California, 2003-08
Marye Anne Fox	Educator	9-Dec-1947		Chancellor, UC San Diego
Edward A. Frieman	Physicist	19-Jan-1926	11-Apr-2013	Director of Scripps, 1986-96
Jerry Hirshberg	Designer	1939		Nissan's design chief, 1980-2000
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
George E. Palade	Scientist	19-Nov-1912	7-Oct-2008	Microstructure of the cell

Copyright ©2025