26 Notable alumni of Pitzer College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Pitzer College is ranked #2,485 in the world and #644 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from Pitzer College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Pitzer College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Matthew Berkowitz
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Matthew Berkowitz is an American film director, writer, and producer. He has written and directed three feature films.
2. Rob Magnuson Smith
writer
Rob Magnuson Smith is a novelist, short story writer, journalist, and university lecturer. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, Smith currently resides in Cornwall.
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3. Dee Mosbacher
1949-. (aged 77)
film producer
psychiatrist
film director
Diane "Dee" Mosbacher is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing psychiatrist. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit organization.
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4. Jonathan W. Stokes
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Jonathan Witte Stokes is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is also an entrepreneur who created ValueWiki which was acquired by Wikia in 2010.
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5. Seth Leibsohn
1967-. (aged 59)
radio personality
Seth Leibsohn is a conservative talk show host and author. He is also a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and was the producer for Bill Bennett's Morning in America, a syndicated talk show in the 2000s. Most recently he was the co-host, along with Chris Buskirk, of the Phoenix-based talk show, The Seth and Chris Show. He resigned from...
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6. Hunter Lovins
1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher
jurist
environmentalist
L. Hunter Lovins is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natural Capitalism Solutions.
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7. Tom Freund
1968-. (aged 58)
guitarist
composer
singer-songwriter
Thomas Hagström Freund is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Freund's music consists of elements of folk rock, americana and alternative rock. Freund met Ben Harper when he was attending Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1992 the duo released an album, Pleasure and Pain. Not long after, he joined the alternative country group The Silos as their bassist, and moved...
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8. Zach Weinersmith
1982-. (aged 44)
draftsperson
illustrator
writer
Zachary Alexander Weinersmith is an American cartoonist and writer, best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). Outside of SMBC, he has worked on a sketch comedy series, a podcast, and multiple other webcomics. With his wife Kelly Weinersmith, he has co-authored the 2017 book Soonish and the 2023 book A City on Mars. He illustrated the 2019...
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9. Debra Wong Yang
1959-. (aged 67)
lawyer
Debra Wong Yang is the former United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney. In 2009, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated Yang to a vacancy on the Los Angeles Police Commission. In...
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10. Fabian Núñez
1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Fabian Núñez is an American politician and labor union adviser. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three two-year terms as a member of the California State Assembly, leaving office in late 2008. During his last two terms, Núñez served as the 66th Speaker of the California State Assembly.
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11. Susan Feniger
restaurateur
chef
Susan Feniger is an American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and radio and TV personality. She is known for starring in the cooking show Too Hot Tamales on the Food Network and opening several influential restaurants in Los Angeles. She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the California Restaurant Association.
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12. Eli Erlick
1995-. (aged 31)
writer
LGBTQ rights activist
Eli Erlick is an American activist, writer, and academic. She is the author of Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950 and founder of the organization Trans Student Educational Resources.
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13. Jonah Matranga
1969-. (aged 57)
singer-songwriter
rapper
singer
musician
Jonah Rzadzinski Matranga is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who has released a variety of solo material under his own name and onelinedrawing, and has previously been part of the bands Far and New End Original (an anagram of "onelinedrawing") and Gratitude. He now continues to work and tour under onelinedrawing'.
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14. Dennis Cooper
1953-. (aged 73)
performance artist
critic
publisher
writer
blogger
Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, film director, editor and performance artist. He is best known for the George Miles Cycle, a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by Tony O'Neill "as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted." Cooper is the founder and editor...
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15. John Landgraf
1962-. (aged 64)
television producer
John Phillip Landgraf is the Chairman of FX Networks. He is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Previously he was President and General Manager of FX Network, a position he held since 2005. TV critic Alan Sepinwall jokingly refers...
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16. Matt Nathanson
1973-. (aged 53)
singer-songwriter
recording artist
guitarist
musician
Matt Nathanson is an American singer-songwriter whose work is a blend of folk and rock and roll music. In addition to singing, he plays acoustic (sometimes a 12-string) and electric guitar, and has played both solo and with a full band. His work includes the platinum-selling song "Come On Get Higher". One of his hit songs, "Giants", was the opening...
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17. Mablean Ephriam
1949-. (aged 77)
lawyer
judge
journalist
Mablean Deloris Ephriam is an American television personality and former Los Angeles prosecuting attorney. She is best known as the adjudicator of the courtroom series Divorce Court for seven seasons from 1999 to 2006. She was replaced by Judge Lynn Toler in the show's 2006–07 season. Ephriam is also known for her judge roles in Tyler Perry's Madea films.
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18. Travis Fine
1968-. (aged 58)
film director
television actor
writer
actor
film actor
Travis Lane Fine is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his film Any Day Now, and for his roles in Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.
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19. John Darnielle
1967-. (aged 59)
writer
composer
singer-songwriter
John Darnielle is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. He has written three novels: Wolf in White Van (2014), Universal Harvester (2017), and Devil House (2022).
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20. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
1971-. (aged 55)
academic administrator
politician
Deborah Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and academic administrator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented a district in the southern Miami-Dade County, including Homestead and the Florida Keys.
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21. Nick Simmons
1989-. (aged 37)
actor
television actor
comics artist
Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons is an American comic book writer and reality television personality. The son of musician Gene Simmons, he is best known for starring in the A&E reality television series Gene Simmons Family Jewels from 2006 to 2012. He wrote and created the limited comic book series Incarnate, which was published by Radical Comics in 2009. In 2017, Simmons...
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22. Sophie Simmons
1992-. (aged 34)
actor
singer
Sophie Alexandra Tweed-Simmons is an American singer, television personality, and model who promotes body positivity.
23. Kevin de León
1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Kevin Alexander Leon, known professionally as Kevin de León and colloquially as KDL, is an American politician who served as the Los Angeles City Council member for District 14 from 2020 until 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, he ran and was defeated in the 2018 United States Senate election in California against incumbent Senator Dianne Feinstein and came...
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24. Anne Archer
1947-. (aged 79)
film actor
television actor
stage actor
Anne Archer is an American actress. Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature-film debut The Honkers (1972). She had supporting roles in Cancel My Reservation (1972), The All-American Boy (1973), and Trackdown (1976), and appeared in Good Guys Wear Black (1978), Paradise Alley (1978), and Hero at Large (1980).
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25. Eric Douglas
1958-2004 (aged 46)
stage actor
stand-up comedian
television actor
comedian
actor
Eric Anthony Douglas was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He was the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife Anne Buydens. His half-brother is actor and producer Michael Douglas. Douglas pursued a career in show business but did not attain the same level of success as his father and siblings. His career was overshadowed by his...
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26. Max Brooks
1972-. (aged 54)
actor
screenwriter
writer
Maximilian Michael Brooks is an American writer and actor. He is the son of filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.
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