99 Notable alumni of University of California – Irvine
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of California – Irvine is ranked #59 in the world and #43 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 99 notable alumni from University of California – Irvine sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of California – Irvine won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. David Goodsell
1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher
biologist
scientific illustrator
molecular biologist
biochemist
David S. Goodsell is an American scientific illustrator and biologist who is an associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute and research professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is especially known for his watercolor paintings of cell interiors.
+ show more
2. Steve Scott
1956-. (aged 70)
middle-distance runner
Steve Scott is an American former track athlete who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on ten occasions, and eleven times during his career he was ranked in the top ten in the world by T&FN. Scott is also regarded as the founder of speed...
+ show more
3. Charles M. Falco
1948-. (aged 78)
engineer
physicist
university teacher
photographer
Charles M. Falco is an American experimental physicist and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materials.
4. Amber Neben
1975-. (aged 51)
sport cyclist
Amber Leone Neben is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Cogeas–Mettler–Look. Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race championship in 2003 and 2017.
+ show more
5. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
1953-. (aged 73)
biographer
Wikimedian
event producer
health administrator
co-founder
Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight is an American Wikipedia editor, known on the site under the pseudonym Rosiestep, who is noted for her actions addressing gender bias in the encyclopedia by running a project to increase the quantity and quality of women's biographies. She has contributed thousands of new articles.
+ show more
6. James Luna
1950-2018 (aged 68)
photographer
visual artist
James Luna was a Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans. With recurring themes of multiculturalism, alcoholism, and colonialism, his work was often comedic and theatrical in nature. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
+ show more
7. Marshall Rose
1965-. (aged 61)
software engineer
Marshall Toufic Rose is an American network protocol and software engineer, author, and speaker who has contributed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet, and Internet and network applications. More specifically, he has specialized in network management, distributed systems management, applications management, email, the ISO Development Environment (ISODE), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
+ show more
8. Do Hoang Diem
1963-. (aged 63)
Do Hoang Diem is the former chairman of the pro-democracy party Việt Tân. He is a prominent leader in the Vietnamese democracy movement.
9. Luke Nelson
1995-. (aged 31)
basketball player
Luke Isaiah Nelson is a British basketball player for the Anwil Włocławek of the Polish Basketball League (PLK). He also represents the Great Britain national team in international competitions. He played American college basketball for UC Irvine, where he was named the 2017 Big West Conference Player of the Year. Nelson is a point guard.
+ show more
10. Diane Harkey
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
banker
Diane Lynn Harkey is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization, representing its fourth district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously elected to the Dana Point City Council (2004–2008), including a stint as Mayor of Dana Point (2007–2008), as well as the California State Assembly...
+ show more
11. Ai
1947-2010 (aged 63)
university teacher
poet
writer
Florence Ai Ogawa was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems. Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. About writing in the dramatic monologue form, she's said: "I...
+ show more
12. T. Jefferson Parker
1953-. (aged 73)
novelist
screenwriter
writer
T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.
13. Savitree Suttichanond
1985-. (aged 41)
singer
actor
Savitree Suttichanond is a Thai singer best known for competing in the 5th season of reality talent show True Visions's Academy Fantasia. She is now completing her role as a contestant on the show, which includes performing in a nationwide concert tour in late August to September 2008.
+ show more
14. William K. Black
1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer
economist
William Kurt Black is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.
+ show more
15. Joslyn Davis
1982-. (aged 44)
YouTuber
television producer
Joslyn Davis is an American former on-air host and producer for ClevverTV, a brand formerly owned and operated by Defy Media. She now appears in YouTube videos produced by Shared Media alongside her friend Lily Marston.
+ show more
16. Kiana Palacios
1996-. (aged 30)
association football player
Kiana Angélica Palacios Hernández is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil side Club América. Born and raised in the United States to Mexican parents, she caps for the Mexico women's national team.
+ show more
17. Joshua Ferris
1974-. (aged 52)
novelist
short story writer
writer
Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency facing challenges at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
+ show more
18. Tim Donnelly
1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Timothy Michael Donnelly is an American Republican politician who was a member of the California State Assembly, representing the 59th and 33rd districts. Before his election to the Assembly in November 2010, Donnelly was a small businessman. He resides in Twin Peaks, California. On January 22, 2013, Donnelly announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of California...
+ show more
19. Paul Mockapetris
1948-. (aged 78)
computer scientist
scientist
programmer
patent inventor
Paul V. Mockapetris is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
20. Kem Nunn
1948-. (aged 78)
novelist
screenwriter
writer
Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian novelist, surfer, and magazine and television writer who lives in southern California. He has been described as "the inventor of surf-noir" for his novels' dark themes, political overtones, and surf settings. He is the author of six novels, including his 1984 seminal debut surf novel Tapping the Source, which was a finalist for the...
+ show more
21. Reza Jahangiri
1978-. (aged 48)
business executive
Reza Jahangiri is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO of American Advisors Group (AAG) and past co-chair of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). He was also senior publisher for The Reverse Review until it was sold to HousingWire in 2018.
+ show more
22. Jawad A. Salehi
1956-. (aged 70)
engineer
scientist
Jawad A. Salehi, IEEE Fellow & Optica Fellow, born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956, is an Iranian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access (CDMA) and named Highly Cited Researcher. He is also a board member of Academy of Sciences of Iran and a fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He was...
+ show more
23. Étienne Wenger
1952-. (aged 74)
sociologist
Étienne Charles Wenger is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice.
+ show more
24. Kevin Magee
1959-2003 (aged 44)
basketball player
Kevin Dornell Magee, was an American basketball player who played most of his professional career for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He played at the power forward and center positions. Magee played college basketball for the UCI Irvine Anteaters, earning All-American honors in both seasons. In 1993–94, he led the Israel Basketball Premier League in rebounds.
+ show more
25. Kiki Wong
1989-. (aged 37)
guitarist
Kiki Wong is an American musician known for being the touring guitarist of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. In the 2010s she performed with artists such as Taylor Swift and Usher, and was a member of girl band Nylon Pink. She also played in She Demons, put together by Jerry Only of Misfits, and Vigil of War, a band...
+ show more
26. Pedro Domingos
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
university teacher
Pedro Domingos is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.
+ show more
27. Miguel Ibarra
1990-. (aged 36)
association football player
Miguel Ángel Ibarra Andrade is an American professional soccer player who plays for AV Alta FC in USL League One.
28. Irwin Rose
1926-2015 (aged 89)
biologist
biochemist
chemist
university teacher
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
+ show more
29. Polly Matzinger
1947-. (aged 79)
biologist
immunologist
Polly Celine Eveline Matzinger is a French-born immunologist who proposed the danger model theory of how the immune system works.
30. Glen David Gold
1964-. (aged 62)
novelist
screenwriter
Glen David Gold is an American novelist, memoirist and screenwriter. Known for his bestselling novels exploring the roles of entertainment and popular culture in historical America, he has also published a critically acclaimed memoir and worked extensively in a broad range of media, including comics, television and podcasting. Gold is also a collector of and authority on comics and graphic...
+ show more
31. Ferial Govashiri
secretary
Ferial Govashiri is an Iranian-American political aide who served as the Personal Secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House from May 2014 through January 20, 2017. Govashiri is currently Chief of Staff to the Chief Content Officer at Netflix.
+ show more
32. Chelsea Cain
1972-. (aged 54)
novelist
writer
journalist
Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist. Her debut novel, "Heartsick", won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She is best known for her Archie Sheridan-Gretchen Lowell series of thrillers, which feature a Portland homicide detective with a troubled past.
+ show more
33. Tom Tolbert
1965-. (aged 61)
basketball player
sports commentator
Thomas Byron Tolbert Jr. is an American sports broadcaster and former professional basketball player. He played a total of seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After retiring from basketball, Tolbert became a radio show co-host on KNBR in San Francisco and NBA commentator for the television networks NBC, ABC and NBA on ESPN.
+ show more
34. Ben Brode
1982-. (aged 44)
video game designer
Ben Brode is an American video game designer. He was the game director and public face of Hearthstone until 2018 when he left to found his own game studio, Second Dinner, where he is now Chief Development Officer.
+ show more
35. Joseph Vincent
1989-. (aged 37)
singer-songwriter
Joseph Vincent is a Filipino-American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Joseph has been twice featured on NBC's The Ellen DeGeneres Show and has performed at well-known Los Angeles venues, such as The House of Blues, The Knitting Factory, Roxy Theatre, El Rey Theatre, The Troubadour, among international venues in Australia, Singapore, and Canada.
+ show more
36. Janet Nguyen
1976-. (aged 50)
politician
Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, representing the First District, since December 4, 2024. She previously held the same office from 2007 to 2014. A Republican, she served in the California State Senate from 2014 to 2018 and 2022 to 2024 and the California State Assembly from 2020 to 2022.
+ show more
37. Nevada Barr
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
novelist
Nevada Barr is an American author of mystery fiction. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States.
+ show more
38. Tonantzin Carmelo
1976-. (aged 50)
actor
Tonantzin Carmelo is an American actress. She is known for her acting roles in film, TV and stage productions including in the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Into the West, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Television Movie or Miniseries.
+ show more
39. Geoffrey R. Pyatt
1963-. (aged 63)
diplomat
Geoffrey Ross Pyatt is a United States diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources from 2022 to 2025. He was previously United States Ambassador to Greece and Ukraine. Pyatt's career in the U.S. State Department has led to posts in Asia, Europe, and Central America.
+ show more
40. Minae Noji
1973-. (aged 53)
voice actor
actor
Minae Noji is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Karai in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Dr. Kelly Lee on General Hospital and has also been the voice behind Azami in the popular video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
+ show more
41. Rob Pardo
1970-. (aged 56)
entrepreneur
game designer
Rob Pardo is an American video game designer who is the founder of Bonfire Studios. He previously served as Chief Creative Officer of Blizzard Entertainment until resigning in 2014 after nearly 17 years with the company.
+ show more
42. Darren Fells
1986-. (aged 40)
basketball player
American football player
Darren Andre Fells is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He did not play college football, instead playing college basketball for the UC Irvine Anteaters. Prior to his NFL career, Fells played professional basketball in several countries and was then signed by the Seattle Seahawks in 2013. He has...
+ show more
43. Kelly Fremon Craig
1980-. (aged 46)
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Kelly Fremon Craig is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for writing and directing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy The Edge of Seventeen and the 2023 adaptation of Judy Blume's classic middle-grade novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
+ show more
44. Danzy Senna
1970-. (aged 56)
university teacher
novelist
writer
Danzy Senna is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of six books and numerous essays about race, gender and American identity, including Caucasia (1998), Symptomatic (2003), New People (2017), and most recently Colored Television (2024). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vogue, and The New York Times. She is a professor of English...
+ show more
45. Kévin Tillie
1990-. (aged 36)
beach volleyball player
volleyball player
Kévin Peter Patrice Tillie is a French professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Projekt Warsaw and the France national team. Tillie won a gold medal in the men's tournament at both the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and the European Champion title in 2015.
+ show more
46. Natalie Pack
1989-. (aged 37)
model
beauty pageant contestant
Natalie Ann Pack is an American fashion model and real estate agent who held the title of Miss California USA 2012. She is also known for competing on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12.
+ show more
47. Danny Sullivan
1950-. (aged 76)
racing automobile driver
Formula One driver
Daniel John Sullivan III, better known as Danny Sullivan, is an American former racing driver. He earned 17 wins in the CART Indy Car World Series, including the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan won the 1988 CART Championship, and placed third in points in 1986. Sullivan also scored a victory in IROC. He competed in the 1983 Formula One season with...
+ show more
48. Jackie Lacey
1957-. (aged 69)
lawyer
Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2020. Lacey was the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as LA District Attorney since the office was created in 1850.
+ show more
49. Roy Fielding
1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
engineer
Roy Thomas Fielding is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.
+ show more
50. Keston Hiura
1996-. (aged 30)
baseball player
Keston Wee Hing Natsuo Hiura is an American professional baseball first baseman and second baseman in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, and Colorado Rockies.
+ show more
51. Fuslie
1992-. (aged 34)
chess player
online streamer
YouTuber
Leslie Ann Fu, better known as fuslie, is an American live streamer, YouTuber and musician. She is a content creator for the gaming organization and lifestyle brand 100 Thieves.
+ show more
52. Tokimonsta
record producer
disc jockey
composer
Jennifer Lee, known professionally as Tokimonsta (stylized as TOKiMONSTA), is an American record producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. She has collaborated with artists such as Anderson.Paak, EarthGang, Isaiah Rashad, Selah Sue, and ZHU. Additionally, she has published a number of official remixes, a few being Beck, Duran Duran, Olafur Arnalds, Disclosure, Sia, the Squid Game theme, and Odesza.
+ show more
53. Xanthe Huynh
1987-. (aged 39)
voice actor
actor
Xanthe Huynh is an American voice actress known for her voice work in English dubs of anime series. Her most well known roles include Haru Okumura in Persona 5, Ui Hirasawa in K-On!, Altina Orion in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Alluka Zoldyck in Hunter × Hunter, Yuna in Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Hanayo Koizumi...
+ show more
54. Neal Shusterman
1962-. (aged 64)
screenwriter
novelist
writer
science fiction writer
children's writer
Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book.
+ show more
55. Ami Bera
1965-. (aged 61)
university teacher
physician
politician
Amerish Babulal "Ami" Bera is an American physician and politician who has been serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party and represents California's 6th congressional district, which is in Sacramento County.
+ show more
56. Lilan Bowden
1985-. (aged 41)
film actor
actor
television actor
Alice Lilan Bowden is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Rebecca "Bex" Mack in Andi Mack and Amber Kang in the Netflix series Murderville.
+ show more
57. Karen Lorre
1961-. (aged 65)
television actor
model
writer
Playboy Playmate
actor
Karen R. Lorre is an American actress, model, and author.
58. Lee Yen-hsiu
1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Lee Yen-hsiu is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), she was elected to represent Taipei City Constituency IV in the Legislative Yuan in 2016 and 2024.
+ show more
59. Phil Tippett
1951-. (aged 75)
film producer
animator
film director
Phil Tippett is an American animator, visual effects supervisor and producer, and filmmaker. Over his career, he has assisted Industrial Light & Magic and DreamWorks, and in 1984 formed his own company, Tippett Studio.
+ show more
60. Arye Gross
1960-. (aged 66)
television actor
film director
actor
film actor
Arye Gross is an American actor who has appeared on a variety of television shows in numerous roles, most notably Adam Greene in the ABC sitcom Ellen.
61. Mamadou N'Diaye
1993-. (aged 33)
basketball player
Mamadou N'Diaye is a Senegalese former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for UC Irvine, where he was the tallest basketball player at the NCAA Division I level, standing at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m).
+ show more
62. Cecily Adams
1958-2004 (aged 46)
film director
casting director
television actor
actor
film actor
Cecily April Adams was an American actress.
63. James LeGros
1962-. (aged 64)
actor
James Le Gros is an American actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his role in Living in Oblivion.
64. Kelly Lin
1975-. (aged 51)
film director
model
television actor
actor
film actor
Kelly Lin or Lin Hsi-Lei is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.
65. Mike Powell
1963-. (aged 63)
athletics competitor
Michael Anthony Powell is an American former track and field athlete, the holder of the long jump world record, and a two-time world champion as well as two-time Olympic silver medalist in the event. His world record of 8.95 m ( 29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) was set on August 30, 1991.
+ show more
66. Joe Lacob
1956-. (aged 70)
businessperson
Joseph Steven Lacob is an American business executive who was a partner at Kleiner Perkins and is the principal owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
+ show more
67. Bob Gunton
1945-. (aged 81)
actor
television actor
film actor
military personnel
voice actor
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo....
+ show more
68. McG
1968-. (aged 58)
executive producer
composer
director
film producer
television producer
Joseph McGinty Nichol, known professionally as McG, is an American film director, film producer, and former record producer.
69. Coco Lee
1975-2023 (aged 48)
dancer
record producer
composer
actor
film actor
CoCo Lee was a Chinese-American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was one of the best-selling artists in Asia and is widely regarded as a significant figure and a diva. Her career began in 1993 in Hong Kong, and she gained early fame in Taiwan through a series of successful albums, establishing herself as an icon. She released 18 studio albums,...
+ show more
70. Jon Lovitz
1957-. (aged 69)
film actor
comedian
stage actor
television actor
actor
Jonathan Michael Lovitz is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990 for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
+ show more
71. Nazanin Boniadi
1980-. (aged 46)
film actor
actor
television actor
Nazanin Boniadi is a British-American actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she attended university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the soap opera General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met...
+ show more
72. Robin Hanson
1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher
economist
social scientist
Robin Dale Hanson is an American economist and author. He is associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Hanson is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP...
+ show more
73. Héctor Tobar
1963-. (aged 63)
novelist
writer
journalist
Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles author, novelist, and journalist, whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America, Latino immigrants, and the United States. In 2023, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
+ show more
74. Lisa Lutz
1970-. (aged 56)
novelist
screenwriter
writer
Lisa Lutz is an American author. She began her career writing screenplays for Hollywood. One of her rejected screenplays became the basis for a popular series of novels about a family of private investigators, the Spellmans. She is a 2020 recipient of an Alex Award.
+ show more
75. Arnnon Geshuri
1969-. (aged 57)
psychologist
business executive
Arnnon Geshuri is an American corporate executive. He was vice president of human resources at Tesla, Inc. from 2009 until 2017, senior director of human resources and staffing at Google from 2004 to 2009, and vice president of people operations and director of global staffing at E-Trade Financial Corporation circa 2002. 2023-24 he was the Chief People Officer at Teladoc...
+ show more
76. Erin Gruwell
1969-. (aged 57)
pedagogue
teacher
writer
Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers and the 2019 PBS documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart are based on her story.
+ show more
77. Laura Yeager
1964-. (aged 62)
military personnel
Major General Laura L. Yeager is an active officer in the United States Army National Guard. She became the commander of the National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019 and served in that role until May 15, 2022. She is the first woman to command a United States Army infantry division.
+ show more
78. Steve Franks
1965-. (aged 61)
television director
musician
film producer
showrunner
film director
Steve Franks is an American screenwriter, director and musician based in Orange County, California. He is best known as the creator of the USA Network original series Psych.
+ show more
79. Beth Malone
1969-. (aged 57)
actor
singer
stage actor
Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Malone is an American actress and singer known for her work in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatre. She originated the role of Alison Bechdel in the musical Fun Home, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
+ show more
80. Greg Louganis
1960-. (aged 66)
platform diver
competitive diver
coach
autobiographer
Gregory Efthimios Louganis is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games. He has been called both "the greatest American diver" and "probably the greatest diver in...
+ show more
81. Grace Byers
1984-. (aged 42)
stage actor
film actor
Grace Byers is a Caymanian-American actress. She starred as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry drama series, Empire from 2015 to 2018. In 2021, she began starring as Quinn Joseph in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series, Harlem. In 2022, Byers played a leading role in the comedy horror film, The Blackening.
+ show more
82. Byeong Sam Jeon
1977-. (aged 49)
artist
Byeong Sam Jeon is an internationally recognized South Korean artist who lives in Seoul and New York. One of his large-scale art installations is CD PROJECT that turned an abandoned old tobacco factory into a shiny dream factory through decorating the 180 meter-long and 32 meter-high outer wall of the factory building with the total 489,440 flattering compact discs collected...
+ show more
83. Peter M. Rhee
1961-. (aged 65)
surgeon
Peter Meong Rhee is an American surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran. During his 24 years in the United States Navy, Rhee served as a battlefield casualty physician in Afghanistan and Iraq.
+ show more
84. Satya Rhodes-Conway
1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Satya Rhodes-Conway is an American politician and the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. She was first elected in 2019 and was re-elected in 2023. She previously served on the Madison Common Council between 2007 and 2013. She is the first out lesbian elected as a mayor in Wisconsin, and only the second woman to become mayor of Madison.
+ show more
85. Van Tran
1964-. (aged 62)
lawyer
politician
Van Thai Tran is a Vietnamese American attorney and politician in California, formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official in U.S. history along with Hubert Vo until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House...
+ show more
86. Richard Ford
1944-. (aged 82)
screenwriter
novelist
short story writer
writer
author
Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story author and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.
87. Brian Keefe
1976-. (aged 50)
basketball coach
basketball player
Brian J. Keefe is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach of the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
+ show more
88. David Benioff
1970-. (aged 56)
film producer
manufacturer
showrunner
television producer
film screenwriter
David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff, is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books, A Song of Ice and Fire. He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004), The Kite Runner (2007),...
+ show more
89. Frederick Reines
1918-1998 (aged 80)
physicist
university teacher
Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties."
+ show more
90. Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
1937-2006 (aged 69)
poet
Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami, also known as Dr. Thoudam Damodara Singh and by the honorific Sripada (Śrīpāda), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual leader, chemist, writer about religion and science, and poet. In 1971 he received spiritual initiation from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. A few years later he became one of the religious leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness...
+ show more
91. F. Sherwood Rowland
1927-2012 (aged 85)
author
chemist
environmental chemist
university teacher
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
+ show more
92. Kyra Zagorsky
1976-. (aged 50)
television actor
film director
actor
film actor
Kyra Zagorsky is an American film and television actress. She has acted in the TV series Helix, the film The Pastor's Wife and season eight of the TV series Supernatural.
+ show more
93. Michael Chabon
1963-. (aged 63)
children's writer
columnist
writer
television producer
essayist
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
+ show more
94. Jenn Colella
1974-. (aged 52)
television actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre.
95. Alice Sebold
1963-. (aged 63)
writer
novelist
Alice Sebold is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2009.
+ show more
96. Patrick Sabongui
1975-. (aged 51)
stunt performer
television actor
actor
film actor
Patrick Sabongui is a Canadian actor, stunt performer, and drama teacher. He is known for playing David Singh in The Flash.
97. Puma Shen
1982-. (aged 44)
writer
social activist
university teacher
politician
Shen Pao-yang, also known by his English name Puma Shen, is a Taiwanese criminologist, lawyer, and politician. As a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he was elected to the Legislative Yuan and became a member on 1 February 2024. His areas of focus include human rights, criminal policy, youth issues, and information warfare.
+ show more
98. David MacMillan
1968-. (aged 58)
university teacher
chemist
Sir David William Cross MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". MacMillan used his share of the...
+ show more
99. David Smith
1985-. (aged 41)
beach volleyball player
volleyball player
David Smith MBE is a British adaptive rower who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.