List of Los Angeles City College people

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This page lists the members of Los Angeles City College, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

Alumni[]

Economics[]

• Lawrence Klein, economist, Nobel Prize recipient in Economics (deceased)

Communications[]

• Pete Arbogast, radio announcer
• Murray Fromson, broadcast journalist
• Paul Olden, radio announcer
• Ted Sobel, sports journalist
• Don Sainte-Johnn (Wilber Johnson)

Education[]

• Maulana Karenga, professor of Black Studies, activist and founder of Kwanzaa
• Margaret Martin, Harmony Project Founder and Recipient of President's Citizens Medal

Entertainment[]

Clint Eastwood

Performance[]

• Rene Michelle Aranda, actress
• Bob Arbogast, radio broadcaster and voice actor
• Alan Arkin, actor, Academy Award ® recipient
• Billy Barty, actor and founder, Little People of America
• Brenda Benet, actress
• Barbara Billingsley, actor
• Tommy Bond, actor
• Sufe Bradshaw, actress
• Albert Brooks, actor, comedian and director
• Charles D. Brooks III, actor, director and playwright
• Diana Canova, actor
• Ralph Carter, actor
• Dean Chekvala, actor
• James Coburn, actor, Academy Award ® recipient
• Angela Dorian, actress and model
• Clint Eastwood, actor; producer, Academy Award ® recipient; director
• Mike Evans, actor
• Laurence Fishburne, actor
• Al Freeman, Jr., actor, Emmy ®
• Morgan Freeman, actor, Academy Award® recipient;
• Don Grady, actor on TV's My Three Sons^[1]
• Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, actor, Tony Award ® recipient
• Deidre Hall, actor
• Mark Hamill, actor
• Earl Hammond, actor, voice actor
• Linda Hart, actor
• Alex Henteloff, actor
• Allen Hoskins, actor
• Jackie Joseph, actor
• Aron Kader, comedian
• Celia Kaye, actress
• Margaret Kerry, actor
• Sally Kellerman, actor, Academy Award® nominee
• Shin Koyamada, actor, producer, Founder of Koyamada International Foundation
• Wallace Langham, actor
• Ruta Lee, actor
• Elliott Lewis, actor, director and producer in old-time radio^[2]
• Whitman Mayo, actor
• Angela McEwan, actor
• James Mitchell, actor and dancer
• Dickie Moore, actor
• Wayne Morris, actor, WWII ace
• Shelley Morrison, actor
• Stephen Nichols, actor
• Jeanette Nolan, actor
• Hugh O'Brian, actor, Golden Globe Award ® recipient
• Edward Padilla, actor
• Rosie Perez, actor and choreographer
• Donna Reed, actor, Academy Award ® recipient
• Maggie Roswell, actor
• Wendy Schaal, actress
• Alexis Smith, actor, Tony Award ® recipient
• Mila del Sol, Philippine actress, entrepreneur, civic-leader, philanthropist
• Louise Sorel, actor
• Joseph Stern, actor
• Roy Thinnes, actor
• Irene Tsu, actress^[3]
• Robert Vaughn, actor, Emmy ® Award recipient
• David White, actor; played Larry Tate on the Bewitched TV series
• Stuart Whitman, actor
• Cindy Williams, actor and producer
• Esther Williams, actor, Golden Globe Award ® recipient
• Mykelti Williamson, actor
• Paul Winfield, actor, Emmy ® Award recipient
• Jo Anne Worley, actor
• Tony Young, actor

Production[]

• Ray Aghayan, costume designer, Emmy ® Award recipient
• Rudy Behlmer, director and author
• True Boardman, screenwriter and actor
• , film editor, Emmy ® Award recipient
• , producer
• Zev Buffman, Broadway producer
• Charles Burnett, director and writer
• Charles Campbell, sound engineer, Academy Award ® recipient
• Tamra Davis, filmmaker
• , editor, Emmy ® Award nominee
• Ron Ellis, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
• Robert Elswit, cinematographer, Academy Award ® recipient
• F. Gary Gray, director and producer
• Maggie Greenwald, director and writer
• , caterer and author
• Ray Harryhausen, producer, director and special effects artist; special Academy Award ® recipient
• Albert Hughes, director, producer, screenwriter
• Bruce Kimmel, director, producer, writer, actor and composer
• Mimi Leder, director, Emmy ® Award recipient
• Michael Lembeck, director, Emmy ® Award recipient; actor
• William McCloud, camera operator, Emmy ® Award recipient
• John Milius, screenwriter, producer and director
• Karen Moncrieff, director
• Sharon Oreck, producer and author
• Gene Roddenberry, producer and screenwriter
• Robert J. Sexton, producer, director, writer, and former musician
• Tarsem Singh, director
• , composer for television shows
• Kevin Tent, editor, Academy Award ® nominee
• José Quintero, director

Fine arts[]

Art[]

• Roberto Esteban Chavez artist, known for his personally symbolic portraits, public murals
• Don Bachardy, artist
• Billy Al Bengston, painter and sculptor
• , illustrator
• Melvin Edwards, sculptor
• Cristian Gheorghiu, contemporary artist/painter^[4]
• Doyle Lane, ceramist
• , photographer and author
• John Lees, artist and painter
• , LACC Visual & Media Arts Vice Chair
• Kerry James Marshall, artist
• Evangeline Montgomery, print-maker, metal smith and weaver
• Ruth Orkin, photographer and filmmaker
• , commercial artist, sculptor and painter
• Hisako Terasaki, artist and etcher
• H.C. Westermann, printmaker and sculptor
• Robert Williams, painter and cartoonist

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Dance[]

• Alvin Ailey, dancer and choreographer
• Janet Collins, ballerina

Design[]

• Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient
• Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer

Music[]

• , musician
• Roy Ayers, jazz musician
• Chet Baker, trumpeter and vocalist
• Robert Bradley, blues musician
• Pamela Courson, singer, Jim Morrison's girlfriend
• Herb Geller, jazz musician
• M.C. Hammer, aka Stanley K. Burrell, R&B musician
• , accordionist and requinto, Grammy ® recipient
• Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
• Jean Fenn, opera singer
• Bob Florence, composer, band leader and educator
• Don Friedman, jazz pianist
• Jerry Goldsmith, composer, Academy Award ® recipient
• DJ Irene, aka Irene M. Gutiérrez, electronic music DJ
• , singer, Grammy ® recipient
• Earl Kim, composer
• Leon Kirchner, composer
• Florence LaRue, lead singer of The 5th Dimension
• Howard Leese, rock musician and producer
• Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, songwriters and Hall of Fame producers, Grammy ® recipients
• David Liebe Hart, outsider musician, street performer, artist, actor, puppeteer
• George London, opera singer and administrator
• Lebo M, composer
• Les McCann, jazz pianist and singer
• Charles Mingus, jazz musician
• Lennie Niehaus, composer
• Marni Nixon, vocalist
• Odetta, folk singer
• Dianne Reeves, jazz singer, Grammy ® recipient
• Howard Rumsey, jazz musician
• Robin Russell, drummer
• Jack Sheldon, jazz musician
• Leonard Slatkin, conductor, National Medal of Arts recipient
• Ed Thigpen, jazz drummer
• Russ Titelman, music producer, Grammy ® recipient; songwriter
• John Williams, composer, Academy Award ® recipient
• La Monte Young, composer
• Michele Zukovsky, principal and solo clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
• Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Fuji singer

Writing[]

• Byron Barton, author and illustrator
• Kurt Boone, author and poet
• Charles Bukowski, poet and author
• Ed Bullins, playwright, Obie Award recipient
• Leonard Buschel, writer, founder of film festival and addiction and recovery organization
• Carlos Castaneda, author
• Charles Eastman, playwright and screenwriter
• Charles Gordone, playwright, Pulitzer Prize recipient; actor, Obie Award recipient; director
• Jim Harmon, author and producer
• Michael S. Harper, poet, former Poet Laureate of Rhode Island
• Bryan Malessa, author
• Terry McMillan, author
• David Meltzer, poet, musician and educator
• Alejandro Murguía, poet, current Poet Laureate of San Francisco
• Pat Parker, poet and activist
• Judith Reisman, conservative writer
• Carolyn See, author and educator
• Justin Tanner, playwright
• Quincy Troupe, poet; former Poet Laureate of California

Law[]

• John Branca, music attorney, Co-Executor of the Michael Jackson Estate
• Albert L. Gordon, lawyer and gay rights advocate

Public service[]

Military[]

• Susan Ahn Cuddy, U.S. Navy, First Asian-American Female Navy Officer, First Female gunnery officer, WWII
• , U.S. Navy Veteran and Aviation Executive
• , (Ret.), U. S. Air Force
• Herbert R. Temple, Jr. (Ret.), Chief of the National Guard Bureau

Elected officials[]

• , Santa Clarita Mayor and City Council member (deceased)
• Hal Bernson, Los Angeles City Council member
• , City manager of Compton, CA, retired
• Tom LaBonge, Los Angeles City Council member
• Louis R. Nowell, Los Angeles City Council member (former)
• Bernard C. Parks, Los Angeles City Council member and former Chief of Police
• Arthur K. Snyder, Los Angeles City Council member, lawyer
• Diane Watson, Member of Congress

Judiciary[]

• Lourdes Baird, U. S. District Court (Ret.)
• , Cook County (IL) Circuit Court (Ret.)
• Vaino Spencer, Los Angeles County Superior Court, co-founded the Black Women Lawyers Association and the National Association of Women Judges, deceased

Religion[]

• Robert Sirico, Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Acton Institute

Science[]

• Robert B. Leighton, Astrophysicist, Rumsford Prize and James Craig Watson Medal Recipient
• Seymour Liebergot, former NASA Flight Controller during the Apollo program
• Lawrence H. Johnston, physicist

Sports[]

Baseball[]

• Emmett Ashford, baseball umpire
• Dennis Gilbert, LACC Hall of Fame baseball inductee, sports agent and entrepreneur

Basketball[]

• Larry Friend, professional basketball player

Football[]

• Kermit Alexander, professional football player
• Homer Butler, professional football player
• Don Bishop, professional football player
• Ron Botchan, football coach
• Milt Davis, professional football player
• Mike Douglass, former NFL player
• Vince Evans, professional football player
• Reggie Haynes, professional football player
• Woodley Lewis, professional football player
• Rod Martin, former All-Pro player Oakland Raiders
• Jaelan Phillips, professional football player^[5]
• Harry Thompson, football player

Track[]

• Jeff Williams, sprinter

Wrestling[]

• José "Pepper" Gomez, professional wrestler and bodybuilder

References[]