# List of Los Angeles City College people

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

### 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
#### 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
* Grand L. Bush, actor
* Diana Canova, actor
* Ralph Carter, actor
* James Coburn, actor, Academy Award recipient
* Angela Dorian, actress and model
* Clint Eastwood, actor; producer, Academy Award recipient; director
* Christine Elise, actress, author, writer, producer
* Mike Evans, actor
* Laurence Fishburne, actor
* Al Freeman Jr., actor, Emmy recipient
* Morgan Freeman, actor, Academy Award recipient
* Don Grady, actor on TV's My Three Sons
* 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
* Sally Kellerman, actor, Academy Award nominee
* Margaret Kerry, actor
* Wallace Langham, actor
* Ruta Lee, actor
* Elliott Lewis, actor, director and producer in old-time radio
* 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
* Rosie Perez, actor and choreographer
* Donna Reed, actor, Academy Award recipient
* Maggie Roswell, actor
* Reiko Sato, dancer and actress
* 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
* 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
* Ed Williams, actor
* 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
* Zev Buffman, Broadway producer
* Charles Burnett, director and writer
* Charles Campbell, sound engineer, Academy Award recipient
* Tamra Davis, filmmaker
* Robert Elswit, cinematographer, Academy Award recipient
* F. Gary Gray, director and producer
* Maggie Greenwald, director and writer
* 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
* José Quintero, director
* Gene Roddenberry, producer and screenwriter
* Robert J. Sexton, producer, director, writer, and former musician
* Tarsem Singh, director
* Kevin Tent, editor, Academy Award nominee

### Fine arts
#### Art

* Don Bachardy, artist
* Billy Al Bengston, painter and sculptor
* Roberto Esteban Chavez, artist, known for his personally symbolic portraits, public murals
* Melvin Edwards, sculptor
* Cristian Gheorghiu, contemporary artist/painter
* Gerhardt Knodel (born 1940), textile artist, educator
* Doyle Lane, ceramist
* John Lees, artist and painter
* Kerry James Marshall, artist
* Evangeline Montgomery, print-maker, metal smith and weaver
* Ruth Orkin, photographer and filmmaker
* Hisako Terasaki, artist and etcher
* H.C. Westermann, printmaker and sculptor
* Robert Williams, painter and cartoonist

#### Dance

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

#### Design

* Lester Oliver Bankhead, architect
* Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient
* Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer

#### Music

* Roy Ayers, jazz musician
* Chet Baker, trumpeter and vocalist
* Robert Bradley, blues musician
* Pamela Courson, singer
* Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
* Jean Fenn, opera singer
* Bob Florence, composer, band leader and educator
* Don Friedman, jazz pianist
* Herb Geller, jazz musician
* Jerry Goldsmith, composer, Academy Award recipient
* M.C. Hammer, aka Stanley K. Burrell, R&B musician
* DJ Irene, aka Irene M. Gutiérrez, electronic music DJ
* 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
* Arthur Nakane, one-man band act
* 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

#### 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
* Gerald Silver, author, educator, and community activist
* 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
* Herbert R. Temple Jr. (Ret.), chief of the National Guard Bureau

#### Elected officials

* Hal Bernson, Los Angeles City Council member
* 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.)
* 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

* Lawrence H. Johnston, physicist
* Rosella Kanarik, mathematics professor
* Robert B. Leighton, astrophysicist, Rumsford Prize and James Craig Watson Medal recipient
* Seymour Liebergot, former NASA Flight Controller during the Apollo program

### 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
* Don Bishop, professional football player
* Ron Botchan, football coach
* Homer Butler, professional football player
* 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
* Harry Thompson, football player

#### Track

* Jeff Williams, sprinter

#### Wrestling

* José "Pepper" Gomez, professional wrestler and bodybuilder