100 Notable alumni of University of San Francisco

Dan Kalb is an American politician who represented District 1 on the Oakland City Council from January 7, 2013 to January 6, 2025.

Alan Anthony Wiggins Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons.

Paul J. Fong is an American politician. He is a former Democratic California State Assembly member from the 28th district.

Alfred S. Chuang is an American business technology executive and venture capitalist. He is the former CEO of BEA Systems. In 2020, he founded Race Capital, a venture fund.

Deborah King is an American author, speaker and attorney. She is the founder and CEO of the Deborah King Center and the author of four books including New York Times best-selling Be Your Own Shaman.

Richard Henry Morefield was an American diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service. He was one of the 66 staff members at the American embassy in Tehran who were taken captive by a militant Islamist student group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line on November 4, 1979, in what became known as the Iran hostage...

Hsiao Uan-u is a Taiwanese politician.

Geneviéve LaChelle Jones-Wright is an American attorney and activist who served as a San Diego County public defender from 2006 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she was an unsuccessful candidate for San Diego County District Attorney in 2018 and mayor of San Diego in 2024. She gained attention for being falsely handcuffed and held at gunpoint by...

Emily Rose Epstein is an American drummer. She is best known for her collaborations with the garage rock musicians Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin. She was a former member of Segall's live band, and a former member of Cronin's. She met Segall at the University of San Francisco.

Arthur David "Art" or "Tappy" Larsen was a U.S. tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.

Eric Matthew Ueland is an American political advisor and government official who has served in various positions in both Trump administrations. In the second Trump administration, he currently serves as deputy director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) since 2025, after serving as acting chief of staff for the agency from January to May 2025. Ueland...

Ming William Chin is an American attorney and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, serving from March 1, 1996 to August 31, 2020.

Charles Edward Brown was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and punter in the National Football League (NFL).

Clint Catalyst is the nom de plume of Clinton Green, an American author, actor, spoken word performer, and stylist. He has covered music, fashion, LGBT issues, and popular culture for magazines including LA Weekly, Frontiers, Out, Surface and Swindle.

Rob Valentino is an American soccer coach and former soccer player, who was most recently the interim head coach at Major League Soccer side Atlanta United FC.

William Wheeler Monning is an American politician who was elected to the California State Senate in 2012. A Democrat, he served in the 17th Senate District which encompasses the Central Coast. Monning was reelected to the Senate in 2016 for a second and final term ending in November, 2020. Education, the environment and public health are areas of particular interest...

Sverre Krogh Sundbø is a Norwegian television presenter and sports commentator. He is also a former poker player who won the European Poker Championship title in London in 2005. Krogh Sundbø is currently presenting several sports broadcasts both in Norway and abroad, and was recently the studio anchor for the Olympic Games on Eurosport Norway. He has previously presented shows...

Warren James Hinckle III was an American political journalist based in San Francisco. Hinckle is remembered for his tenure as editor of Ramparts magazine, turning a sleepy publication aimed at a liberal Roman Catholic audience into a major galvanizing force of American radicalism during the Vietnam War era. He also helped create Gonzo journalism (Bill Cardoso) by first pairing Hunter...

Ann Todd was an American child actress. She was credited in four films as Ann E. Todd. As an adult, she became a music reference librarian at University of California, Berkeley.

Suzanne Theresa Loftus is an American attorney who served as interim San Francisco district attorney, nominated by Mayor London Breed after the resignation of George Gascón. Loftus ran in the 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election, losing narrowly to criminal justice reform advocate Chesa Boudin.

Carlos Menchaca is an American politician who served as a member of the New York City Council for the 38th district. He is a Democrat. His district included the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights, and portions of Borough Park, Dyker Heights, and Windsor Terrace. In October 2020, Menchaca declared his candidacy in the 2021 New York...

Ricardo Jerome "Ricky" Bordallo was an American politician and businessman, who served two terms as the second and fourth governor of Guam with Lieutenant Governor Rudy Sablan from 1975 to 1979, and with Lieutenant Governor Edward Diego Reyes from 1983 to 1987. A member of the Democratic Party of Guam, Bordallo previously served as a Senator in the Guam Legislature...

Philip Arnold Smith was an American professional basketball player who played for nine seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for various teams, including the Golden State Warriors, San Diego Clippers and Seattle SuperSonics. Smith played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons.

Jean-Charles Boisset is a French vintner and the proprietor of the Boisset Collection, which operates 28 wineries in California, France, and Canada.

Frankie Ferrari is an American coach for the San Francisco Dons and former player. He played college basketball for San Francisco and professionally in Europe and the NBA G League.

Heather Jeanne Fong is an American security official and the former chief of police for San Francisco, California, United States from 2004 to 2009. She is the first woman to lead the San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan city police force. She is also the second Asian American police chief in...

Leo Tarcissus McCarthy was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 43rd lieutenant governor of California from 1983 to 1995.

Ruth Monicka Parasol is an American businesswoman and lawyer who founded PartyGaming in 1997. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 for US$8.46 billion. It was then a record valuation and the largest online poker room.

Richard Anthony Stanfel was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a guard, and his college and professional career spanned more than 50 years from 1948 to 1998. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2016. He was also named to the NFL 1950s...

Lynn Carol Woolsey is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from California from 1993 to 2013. She was a member of the Democratic Party and represented California's 6th congressional district.

Angela Mia Alioto Veronese is an American attorney and politician. She is the daughter of Joseph L. Alioto, the 36th mayor of San Francisco. A member of the Democratic Party, she served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 1997.

Jason Scott "Jay" Leiderman was an American criminal defense lawyer based in Ventura, California. The Atlantic Magazine called Leiderman the "Hacktivist's Advocate" for his work defending hacker-activists accused of computer crimes, or so-called "Hacktivism" especially people associated with Anonymous. BuzzFeed called Leiderman "The Maserati-Driving Deadhead Lawyer Who Stands Between Hackers And Prison" and stated he was "A medical marijuana and...

Dame Marjorie Scardino is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson.

Jamaree Ray-Shaun Bouyea is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Valley Suns of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons.

John Lowell Burton was an American politician who served as chair of the California Democratic Party. He had also served in both houses of the California State Legislature and the United States House of Representatives, representing San Francisco-based districts.

Dorothy "Dossie" Easton, who has also written under the name Scarlet Woman, is an American author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California.

Kevin Owen Starr was an American historian and California's state librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream."

James Duval Phelan was an American politician, civic leader, and banker who served as the mayor of San Francisco from 1897 to 1902 and as a U.S. senator from California from 1915 to 1921. As mayor he advocated municipally run utilities and tried to protect his constituents from the monopolistic practices of the trusts. In the Senate, Phelan was a...

Marie Issa Alvarado-Gil is an American educator and politician who represents California's 4th State Senate district in the California State Senate, following her election in 2022. Elected as a member of the Democratic Party, she joined the Republican Party in August 2024.

Kyle Joseph Zimmer is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals from 2019 to 2021. The Royals selected Zimmer in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft.

Gilbert James McDougald was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1960.

Ronald David Turner is an American former football coach and player. He most recently served an offensive consultant with the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) in 2017. He was the head coach at FIU from 2013 to 2016. Turner served as the head football coach at San Jose State University in 1992, and the University of Illinois...

Angelo Dominik Caloiaro is an American-Italian professional basketball player for Osaka Evessa of the B.League. He played college basketball for the University San Francisco before playing professionally in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he plays at the power forward and small forward positions.

David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books...

Barbara Jean Hammer was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She is known for being one of the pioneers of the lesbian film genre, and her career spanned over 50 years. Hammer is known for having created experimental films dealing with women's issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships, coping with aging, and family life. She resided...

Francis Michael Jordan is an American politician and former police chief who served as the mayor of San Francisco from 1992 to 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Kevin Mullin is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 15th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 22nd district, which encompasses most of the San Francisco Peninsula region, from 2012 to 2022.

Ollie Genoa Matson II was an American Olympic medal winning sprinter and professional football player. He played as a halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) from 1952 to 1966 primarily for the Chicago Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football for the San Francisco Dons and was selected by the Cardinals in the...

Weijian Shan is a Chinese economist, businessman, and author based in Hong Kong. He is the executive chairman of PAG, a leading alternative investment firm focused on the Asia Pacific region. He currently serves as a trustee of the British Museum and as an independent director of Alibaba Group.

Aaron Anderman Poreda is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

Sala Burton was a Polish-born American politician who served as a United States representative from California from 1983 until her death from colon cancer in Washington, D.C., in 1987.

Martin Joseph Jenkins is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was previously a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the First District, located in San Francisco, and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Vicky Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born American investigative journalist working with NBC News in New York City. Nguyen joined NBC News in April 2019 as the Investigative and Consumer correspondent. Her reporting has been seen on The Today Show, 3rd Hour Today, Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News Now and MSNBC.

Bradley Clarke Zimmer is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He attended the University of San Francisco, and played college baseball for the San Francisco Dons baseball team. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft and made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with them in 2017. He also played...

Paul Stevens Otellini was an American businessman who served as president and CEO of Intel. He was also on the board of directors of Google.

Alexander Karageorgevitch, also known as Prince Alexander of Serbia and Yugoslavia or Prince Aleksandar III Karađorđević, is a member of the House of Karađorđević, the former ruling family of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He is the third and youngest grandchild of the last Yugoslav king, Peter II.

Theodora Beckmann, better known by her pen name Thea Beckman, was a Dutch author of children's books.

Gino John Marchetti was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and from 1953 to 1966 for the Baltimore Colts.

John Thomas Grinder Jr. is an American linguist, writer, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating the pseudoscience known as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with Richard Bandler. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner Carmen Bostic St. Clair in 1987 (Grinder joined in 1989). Grinder and Bostic St. Clair also...

Pacita Barsana Abad was a Filipino-American Ivatan visual artist. She worked in mixed media, integrating fiber art with painting; in particular she created mixed-media canvases using trapunto quilting as well as painting. Her work is characterized by vibrant color. Over more than 30 years, she exhibited her work in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues around the world, including...

K.C. Jones Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known for his association with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with whom he won 11 of his 12 NBA championships (eight as a player, two as an assistant coach, and two as a head coach). As a player, he is tied for...

Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia.

Pierre Emil George Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth press secretary for United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign.

John Arthur Cox IV is a Venezuelan-American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) shooting guard and point guard, Cox played in several top-tier European leagues, including France’s LNB Pro A, Germany’s Basketball Bundesliga, and competed in the EuroLeague. Internationally, he represented Venezuela, winning gold at the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship and playing at the 2016...

Gerald Baldwin is an American businessman. He and two other entrepreneurs, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl, founded Starbucks in Seattle, in 1971. He is a Sonoma Valley vintner, and co-founder of J. Baldwin Wines.

Vernon Chatman is an American screenwriter, producer, director, voice actor, stand-up comedian, musician, and a member of PFFR, an art collective based in Brooklyn, New York City. He created the television series Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart, She Holler and The Shivering Truth. He also produces, voices characters, and writes for South Park.

Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected attorney general of California in 1950, before becoming the state's governor after the 1958 election.

Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was an American professional football executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at the age of just 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most...

Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000. On 21 October 2024 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking $35 million in bribes to award the...

James William Cartwright is an American former professional basketball player and a former coach. A 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) center, he played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics, helping the Bulls capture consecutive championships in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons. He attended Elk Grove High School in Elk...

Michael Franti is an American singer, songwriter, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and rapper — widely known for his numerous musical projects with political and social emphasis, including the Beatnigs and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Franti founded and is lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band blending hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae,...

Ty Garrett Segall is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his solo career, during which he has released seventeen studio albums alongside various EPs, singles, and collaborative albums. Segall is also a member of the bands Fuzz, Broken Bat, the CIA, GØGGS, Wasted Shirt and Freckle. He is a former member of the Traditional...

Richard Egan was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films The Glory Brigade (1953) and The Kid from Left Field (1953). He went on to star in many films such as Underwater! (1955), Seven Cities of Gold (1955), The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), Love...

Gordon Peter Getty is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust. His net worth was $2.1 billion in September 2020, making him number 391 on the Forbes...

Sinqua Walls is an American actor known for appearing in Friday Night Lights, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, American Soul, and White Men Can't Jump.

Ime Sunday Udoka Listen is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in the United States, he represented the Nigeria national team during his playing career. After retiring as a player, Udoka served as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia...

Sir John Paul Getty, known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British-American businessman, philanthropist, and book collector. He was the third son of the American-born British oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), who was once the richest man in the world. His mother was J. Paul Getty's fourth wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result...

London Nicole Breed is an American politician who served as the 45th mayor of San Francisco from 2018 to 2025. She served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 5 from 2013 to 2018 and was the board's president from 2015 to 2018.

Suzanne Marie Somers was an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She played the television roles of Chrissy Snow on Three's Company (1977–1981) and Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step (1991–1998).

Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle is an American diplomat, media personality, and former prosecutor who has served as the United States ambassador to Greece since 2025. She served as an advisor and led the fundraising division of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign.

Lawrence Stuart Milk is an American LGBT human rights activist and political speaker. The nephew of civil rights leader Harvey Milk, he is the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation. He has engaged in domestic and international activism, including work with LGBT movements in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Danielle Outlaw is an American former law enforcement officer. She served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department in Philadelphia from 2020 to 2023, chief of police of the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon from 2017 to 2019, and deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department in California from 2013 to 2017.

Alyssa Michelle Nakken is an American professional baseball coach for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). She is the first female full-time coach in MLB history, and the first to coach on the field during a major league game. In 2014 she was an analytical intern for the San Francisco Giants during the postseason, winning a World Series...

Saundra Brown Armstrong is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Mary Hayashi is a Korean-American healthcare advocate and California Democratic politician, who represented 18th Assembly District in the California State Legislature. Hayashi was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2006 and served six years.

Lateefah Aaliyah Simon is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first member of Congress known to be born legally blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern United States.

Charles Joseph Chaput, OFMCap is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Philadelphia from 2011 to 2020. He previously served as Archbishop of Denver (1997–2011) and Bishop of Rapid City (1988–1997). He was the first Archbishop of Philadelphia in 100 years who was not named a cardinal. Chaput is a professed Capuchin Franciscan, a member of the Prairie...

Sylvia Eun Jung Luke is an American politician who is serving as the 16th lieutenant governor of Hawaii. She served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for 24 years, from 1998 until her election as lieutenant governor in 2022. She is the first South Korean-born politician ever elected to a statewide office in the United States.

Mary Jane Theis is a former justice of the Illinois Supreme Court for the First Judicial District in Cook County. In 2022, she became chief justice after the retirement of then-chief justice Anne M. Burke. Theis announced on January 12th, 2026, that she would resign from the Illinois Supreme Court effective January 29, 2026.

William Ellis Russell is an American former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. Russell played his entire 18-year, 2,181-game career with the Los Angeles Dodgers as the starting shortstop for four National League pennant winners and one World Series championship team. He also served as the team's manager from 1996 to 1998.

Rostam Mirkarimi is an American politician and the former sheriff of San Francisco. Prior to being sheriff, he served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where he represented District 5.

Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. As of 2021, Fisher is the CEO and a co-founder of software company ViciNFT. As a co-founding CEO, Fisher built multiple companies including Bharosa—which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager and sold to Oracle Corporation for a reported $50 million in 2007, NetClerk—now part of Roper Technologies, AutoReach—now part of AutoNation, and CrowdOptic.

R.O Kwon, also known as Reese Okyong Kwon, is a South Korean and American author. In 2018, she published her debut novel The Incendiaries with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her second novel, Exhibit, was published in 2024.

Terrence Mitchell Riley is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape delay systems, and improvisation. His best known works are the 1964 composition In C and the 1969 album A Rainbow in...

Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian and American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003, 2008), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2021), and as George "Pornstache" Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017), for which...

Chung Eui-sun, also spelled Euisun Chung, is a South Korean billionaire business magnate. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Hyundai Motor Group and the only son and "heir apparent" of Hyundai Motor Group honorary chairman Chung Mong-koo.

William Duncan Schuette is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd attorney general of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in Michigan’s 1990 U.S. Senate race and for Governor of Michigan in 2018.

Chad Alec Ripperger is an American Catholic priest, theologian, and exorcist. He also founded the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother, a traditionalist Catholic association in the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, United States, known as the Doloran Fathers. Ripperger is noted for his public commentary on metaphysics, the Mass, spiritual warfare, mental health, and prayer, particularly in relation to his...

Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today...