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Famous UC San Diego Alumni:
Walter Munk (Class of ’47) – Oceanographer
Greg Benford (Class of ’67) – Author
Wolfgang Berger (Class of ’68) – Top paleoceanographer
Susumu Tonegawa (Class of ’68) – Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
Zachary Fisk (Class of ’69) – Condensed matter physicist, award winner
John Shoven (Class of ’69) – Dean of Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences
Laurel Wilkening (Class of ’70) – Chancellor of UC Irvine
John Slaughter (Class of ’71) – President Emeritus, Occidental College
Vernor Vinge (Class of ’71) – Author
David Goeddel (Class of ’72) – Pharmaceutical Scientist
David Shaw (Class of ’72) – Founder of Juno Online Services
Craig Venter (Class of ’72) – President of Celera Genomics, first firm to decode the human genome
Bill Atkinson (Class of ’74) – Co-developer, for Macintosh
Kim Stanley Robinson (Class of ’74) – Author
Guy “Bud” Tribble (Class of ’75) – Principal architect of original Macintosh computer
James Avery (Class of ’76) – Actor, Uncle Phil on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Nancy Holder (Class of ’76) – Author
Steve Peace (Class of ’76) – California state senator in the 40th Senate District and producer of the cult film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Al Zollar (Class of ’76) – President and CEO, Lotus Technologies
Sandra Dijkstra (Class of ’77) – Literary agent for Amy Tan, Susan Faludi, and Le Ly Hayslip
Brian Druker (Class of ’77) – Oncologist, developed new drug for leukemia
Captain Eleanor “Connie” Mariano (Class of ’77) – First woman to be Physician to the U.S. President
Raymon Feist (Class of ’77) – Author
Nathan East (Class of ’78) – Bassist in the Eric Clapton Band, performed/wrote songs
Abby Leibman (Class of ’78) – Co-founder and CEO, California Women’s Law Center
Greg Papadopoulos (Class of ’79) – Vice President, Sun Microsystems
Tim Roemer (Class of ’79) – Five-term democratic congressman, 3rd Congressional District, Indiana
Mark Allen (Class of ’80) – Six-time Ironman, Triathlon World Champion
Bencio Del Toro (Class of ’80) – Actor
David Brin (Class of ’81) – Author
George DeVries (Class of ’84) – President and CEO, American Specialty Health Plans
Carol Becker (Class of ’85) – Dean of Faculty, School of Art Institute of Chicago
Michael Greif (Class of ’85) – Director of Rent
Mike Judge (Class of ’85) – Writer/director/producer of TV and motion pictures including Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill
Paul Bender (Class of ’88) – Vice President, Qualcomm; inventor who helped reduce the cost of cell phones
Michael Robertson (Class of ’90) – Founder of MP3.com
John Dobak (Class of ’92) – Inventor, holds 12 patents for medical devices
Dylan Voeller (Class of ’03) – Musician

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