California, United States
University of California, San Diego Alumni
Here’s a fun lineup of UCSD alumni making waves in activism, entertainment, science, business, and more:
Alumni Name |
Notable Achievement / Famous For |
Degree |
Graduating Year |
---|---|---|---|
Angela Davis |
Political activist, scholar, author |
MA (Philosophy) |
1968 |
Mike Judge |
Creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley |
BS (Physics) |
N/A |
Billy Beane |
Baseball executive, subject of Moneyball |
BA (Economics) |
N/A |
Craig Venter |
Genomic researcher, led sequencing of human genome |
N/A |
N/A |
Nick Woodman |
Founder of GoPro |
BA (Visual Arts) |
1997 |
Benicio del Toro |
Academy Award-winning actor |
Attended |
N/A |
Khaled Hosseini |
Author (The Kite Runner, etc.) |
MD? / Medical training (studied) |
N/A |
Robert Pera |
Founder & CEO of Ubiquiti |
N/A |
N/A |
Evelyn Lin |
Model / entertainer |
Attended |
N/A |
Aria Giovanni |
Model and media personality |
Attended |
N/A |
Aimee Bender |
Author, known for speculative fiction |
BA |
1991 |
Alejandra Sotelo-Solis |
First Latina mayor of National City, California |
BA |
2001 |
Alicia Garza |
Co-founder of Black Lives Matter movement |
BA |
2002 |
Carol Padden |
Scholar of sign language; MacArthur Fellow |
MA, PhD |
1980, 1983 |
Kelly Lytle Hernandez |
Historian; expert on race, immigration, mass incarceration |
BA |
1996 |
Lauren Yee |
Playwright; award-winner and widely produced works |
MFA |
2012 |
Manuelita Brown |
Artist / sculptor |
MS (Fine Arts or related) |
1976 |
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |
Marine biologist, policy expert, activist |
BS |
1991 |
Keri Yen Ng |
Business leader in women’s health products |
BA (Economics or related) |
2002 |
Carol Greider |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (telomeres) |
BA (Biology) |
1983 |
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