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Occidental College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Los Angeles, CA

Founding Date:
1887

Team:
Tigers

Enrollment:
1808

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

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ben Affleck
Actor
15-Aug-1972   Good Will Hunting
Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
Philanthropist
3-Feb-1950   Reclusive fundamentalist-Christian philanthropist
Robert E. Badham
Politician
9-Jun-1929 21-Oct-2005 Congressman from California, 1977-89
Alphonzo Bell
Politician
19-Sep-1914 25-Apr-2004 Congressman from California, 1961-77
William M. Bellamy
Diplomat
21-Aug-1950   US Ambassador to Kenya, 2003-06
Coit D. Blacker
Government
c. 1950   Institute for International Studies, Stanford
Steve Coll
Journalist
8-Oct-1958   Ghost Wars
Glenn Corbett
Actor
17-Aug-1930 16-Jan-1993 Lincoln Case on Route 66
W. Don Cornwell
Business
1948   CEO of Granite Broadcasting
Mark Dery
Author
1959   Culture Jamming
David B. Dunn
Diplomat
1949   US Ambassador to Togo, 2005-08
Marsha Johnson Evans
Military
c. 1947   CEO of American Red Cross, 2002-05
Robert H. Finch
Government
9-Oct-1925 10-Oct-1995 HEW Secretary, 1969-70
Craig L. Fuller
Government
c. 1951   Washington lobbyist
Terry Gilliam
Film Director
22-Nov-1940   Monty Python alumnus, Brazil
Robinson Jeffers
Poet
10-Jan-1887 20-Jan-1962 Tamar and Other Poems
U. Alexis Johnson
Diplomat
17-Oct-1908 24-Mar-1997 Career US Ambassador
Jack Kemp
Politician
13-Jul-1935 2-May-2009 American politican, football player
Joanne C. Kozberg
Administrator
?   California Strategies
Sammy Lee
Diver
1-Aug-1920   Olympic diver
Pete McCloskey
Politician
29-Sep-1927   Congressman from California, 1967-83
Barack Obama
Head of State
4-Aug-1961   44th President of the United States
Marcel Ophüls
Film Director
1-Nov-1927   The Sorrow and the Pity
Kathryn L. Shaw
Economist
c. 1954   Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001
Jake Shears
Singer
3-Oct-1978   Lead singer, Scissor Sisters
Roger Guenveur Smith
Actor
27-Jul-1959   A Huey P. Newton Story
Robert G. Sproul
Educator
22-May-1891 10-Sep-1975 President, University of California, 1930-58
Frederick O. Terrell
Business
c. 1954   Provender Capital Group
Marshall Thompson
Actor
27-Nov-1925 18-May-1992 To Hell and Back
Henry Nelson Wieman
Philosopher
19-Aug-1884 19-Jun-1975 The Source of Human Good
Luke Wilson
Actor
21-Sep-1971   Owen Wilson's handsome brother

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eric Garcetti
Politician
4-Feb-1971   Mayor of Los Angeles
Tom Hayden
Activist
11-Dec-1939   Jane Fonda's ex
Henry Nelson Wieman
Philosopher
19-Aug-1884 19-Jun-1975 The Source of Human Good

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John T. Cardis
Business
c. 1941   Former Partner, Deloitte and Touche
W. Don Cornwell
Business
1948   CEO of Granite Broadcasting
Theodore R. Mitchell
Administrator
c. 1956   President of Occidental College, 1999-2005
Peter W. Mullin
Business
c. 1940   Mullin Consulting, Inc.
Susan Westerberg Prager
Educator
1942   Dean of UCLA Law School, 1982-98


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