List of San Francisco State University People (307 items)report

• Opal Palmer Adisa – artist, writer
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Debra Bloomfield – artist, photographer
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Lenore Chinn – painter
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Roy De Forest (1930-2007) – painter and sculptor
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Phoebe Gloeckner – visual artist and cartoonist
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Elliott Linwood – conceptual artist
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Fred Rinne – visual and performance artist
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Hannah Stouffer – artist
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Alex Cervantes - graphic designer for LAFC
  
  (Art) (Notable alumni)

• Solomon Darwin – Professor of Business at Haas School of Business and known for his development of "smart village" frameworks for Indian villages
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Barnaby Dorfman – founder and CEO of Foodista.com
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Greg Fischbach – founder, Acclaim Entertainment
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Chris Larsen – billionaire founder of E-Loan and Ripple Labs
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Pierre Le Compte — Bond God
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• George M. Marcus – billionaire real estate broker, founder of Marcus & Millichap
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Manny Mashouf – billionaire founder of bebe stores clothing retail shops
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Jayshree Ullal – president and CEO of Arista Networks
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Stephen Wolf – chairman of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• David Woodard – businessman
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Mardigu Wowiek Prasantyo - businessman and founder of PT. Santara Daya Inspiratama
  
  (Business) (Notable alumni)

• Amy L. Alexander – author; journalist for The Washington Post, NPR, The Root, and The Nation, as well as many newspapers
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Mark Arnold – self-published author
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Ken Bastida – news anchor for KPIX
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Melba Pattillo Beals – journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Po Bronson – journalist and author
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Howard Bryant – senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine'
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Stan Bunger – morning co-anchor at KCBS All News 740/FM 106.9
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• David Farley – Author of "An Irreverent Curiosity", food and travel writer
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Ben Fong-Torres – writer, broadcaster, editor at Rolling Stone
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Mike Galanos – news anchor for HLN
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Kimberly Hunt – chief anchor and managing editor for KGTV, San Diego
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Al Martinez (1929-2015) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Michael Moss – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Cyrus Saatsaz – KNBR Creative Director, host of The Extreme Scene, action sports writer
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Frank Somerville – news anchor for KTVU Fox 2 in Oakland, California
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Jose Antonio Vargas – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Annie Wells – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Josh Wolf – independent journalist who videotaped an anti-G8 anarchist protest in San Francisco in 2005
  
  (Journalism) (Notable alumni)

• Rae Armantrout – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• James Brown – novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Patrick Califia – writer and poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Laban Coblentz – writer, educator, science policy adviser, international civil servant, entrepreneur
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Kelly Corrigan – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Adam Cornford – poet, librettist, and essayist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Jane Cutler – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Carol Muske-Dukes – former California Poet Laureate
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Ernest J. Gaines – novelist, National Humanities Medal winner, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Leonard Gardner – novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Jack Gilbert (1925-2012) – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Eugene Gloria – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Linda Gregg – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Gerald Haslam – novelist, essayist, writer, public speaker
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Jonathan Holden – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Bill Lee – author
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Devorah Major – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Frances Mayes – poet, memoirist, essayist, novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Michael McClure – poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Richard Melo – writer, author of Jokerman 8, a novel set at San Francisco State University
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Alyce Miller – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Janice Mirikitani – poet and activist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Cherríe Moraga – writer and activist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Anne Rice – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Kathy Lou Schultz – poet, scholar
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• John Saul horror novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Ron Silliman – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Daniel Silva – journalist and novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Rebecca Solnit – writer, contributing editor at Harper's Magazine
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Kate Small – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Philip Schultz – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Chad Sweeney – poet
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Gail Tsukiyama – novelist
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Rickey Vincent – author and Ethnic Studies professor
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Vivian Walsh – writer, Olive, the Other Reindeer and other children's books
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Shawn Wong – author and English professor
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Kirby Wright – writer
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Oscar Zeta Acosta (1935-1974) – writer, lawyer and activist associated with the Chicano Movement. Author of Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
  
  (Literature) (Notable alumni)

• Jack Angel – voice actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Gary Austin (1941-2017) – founder of the Groundlings theatre
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Margaret Avery – actress nominated for an Academy Award for The Color Purple; earned her B.A. in education.
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Tory Belleci – special effects engineer and cast member on MythBusters
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Annette Bening – Academy Award-nominated actress, American Beauty, The American President, The Kids Are All Right
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Alex Borstein – actress on MadTV, voice of Lois on Family Guy
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Christopher Boyes – Academy Award-winning sound editor and mixer
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Bernard Bragg – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Kari Byron – artist, cast member on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• David Carradine (1936-2009) – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Dana Carvey – comedian
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Peter Casey – Emmy Award-winning producer and writer, Frasier, Cheers, The Jeffersons, Wings
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Roger Chang – computer enthusiast, TV personality
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Glen Charles – writer-producer
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Vernon Chatman – member of art collective/rock band PFFR, co-creator of Wonder Showzen and Xavier
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Margaret Cho – comedian and actress
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Lisa Cholodenko – screenwriter and director
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Stephen Colletti – actor, One Tree Hill, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Peter Coyote – actor and author
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Robert Culp (1930-2010) – actor, I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Michael Curtis – Emmy Award-nominated producer and writer, Friends, JONAS
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Hari Dhillon – actor, Holby City, a British drama series
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Deepti Divakar – Indian model, actress, writer and Miss India World 1981
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Roger Dobkowitz – producer, The Price Is Right
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Walt Dohrn – actor, voice of Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Arthur Dong – documentary filmmaker
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Keir Dullea – actor, best known for starring in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Dina Eastwood – former television news anchor, star of Mrs. Eastwood & Company on E!; married to Clint Eastwood
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• George Fenneman (1919-1997) – radio and television announcer
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Anthony C. Ferrante – director, producer and writer
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Keith Fowler – actor, director, educator
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Danny Glover – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Nina Hartley – adult actress, author, feminist, activist
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Ellen Idelson (1961-2003) – television producer, writer and actress
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Daren Kagasoff – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Sammi Kane Kraft (1992-2012) – actress
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• John Lee – member of art collective/rock band PFFR, co-creator of Wonder Showzen and Xavier
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Lynn Hershman Leeson – artist and filmmaker
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Madeleine Lim – award-winning filmmaker, LGBTQ activist, and founder of QWOCMAP
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Delroy Lindo – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Rosie Malek-Yonan – actor and author of The Crimson Field
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Mary Mara – actress
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Joseph E. Marshall, Jr. – radio talk show host
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Irene McGee – talk show host, former cast member of The Real World: Seattle
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Mike McShane – actor, improvisational comedian
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Michael Medved – film critic and radio talk show host
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Shawn Murphy – Academy Award-winning sound editor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Rex Navarette – comedian
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Kenn Navarro – animator
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Melissa Ng – Hong Kong actress, first runner-up at Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Steven Okazaki – documentary filmmaker
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Greg Proops – comedian and improviser best known for Whose Line is it Anyway?
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Jonas Rivera – Academy Award-winning producer of Inside Out
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Ronnie Schell – comedian and actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Rob Schneider – comedic actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Adivi Sesh – Indian film actor, director, and screenwriter
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Ben Shedd – Academy Award-winning filmmaker
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Harry Shum, Jr. – actor, dancer, Glee
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Frank Silva (1950-1995) – actor, Twin Peaks
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Daniel J. Sullivan – theatre director and playwright
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Rita Taggart – actress, Night Court
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Jeffrey Tambor – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Ethan Van der Ryn – Academy Award-winning sound editor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Janet Varney – actress, comedian
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Adrian Voo – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• David Wallechinsky – populist historian and television commentator
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Carl Weathers – actor, best known for starring in the Rocky films, Predator, and Happy Gilmore
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• B.D. Wong – actor
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Steven Zaillian – Academy Award-winning screenwriter; wrote screenplay for Schindler's List
  
  (Media) (Notable alumni)

• Annette A. Aguilar – percussionist, bandleader, and music educator
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Vernon Alley (1915-2004) – jazz bassist
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Mike Burkett – lead singer of NOFX
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Paul Desmond (1924-1977) – jazz musician, member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet and composer of "Take Five"
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• George Duke (1946-2013) – musician and producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Jennifer Finch – bass player for the rock band L7
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Don Falcone – musician and producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Paul Gemignani – Broadway musical director
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Noah Georgeson – musician and producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976) – jazz musician and composer of the Peanuts cartoon music
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Kirk Hammett – Metallica's lead guitarist
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Dan Hicks (1941-2016) – musician, member of The Charlatans, leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Ella Jenkins – folk singer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Johnny Mathis – singer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Dean Menta – composer / guitarist for Faith No More and Sparks
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Steven Miller – producer, arranger, and record company executive
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Kent Nagano – conductor
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Daniel M. Nakamura – a.k.a. Dan the Automator, hip hop producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) – composer, accordionist and electronic art musician
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• John Patitucci – jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Terry Riley – composer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Pete Rugolo (1915-2011) – jazz composer, arranger and record producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Cal Tjader (1925-1982) – jazz musician
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Joe Louis Walker – electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Janet Weiss – drummer for Sleater-Kinney
  
  (Music) (Notable alumni)

• Tom Ammiano – member of the California State Assembly (13th district)
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Barbara Brannon – Major General, United States Air Force
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Willie Brown – member and 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, California
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• John L. Burton – former president pro tempore of the California State Senate
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Robert Campbell – member of the California State Assembly (1980-1996)
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Ron Dellums (1935-2018) – former mayor of Oakland and U.S. Representative from 1971–1998
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Saeb Erekat – Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Heather Fong – former chief of police, San Francisco Police Department
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Larry Galizio – member of the Oregon House of Representatives
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Darlene Iskra – first woman to command a U.S. Navy ship
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Ed Jew – politician
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Cleve Jones – AIDS and LGBT rights activist
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Keith Kerr – military general and gay rights activist
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Fred H. Lau – former chief of police, San Francisco Police Department
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Nicole LeFavour – Idaho State Senator
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010) – first woman elected to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• John Márquez – politician
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• George Miller – U.S. Congressman, 1975-2015
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Richard Oakes – Native American activist
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• William Wayne Paul (1939-1989) – political activist, photographer and martial artist
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Nemesio Prudente (1927-2008) – political activist and president of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Pierre Salinger (1925-2004) – White House Press Secretary for JFK and LBJ
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Harpreet Sandhu – Richmond, California politician and Sikh community leader
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Mario Savio (1942-1996) – political activist, key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• David Schuman – Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Mu Sochua – Cambodian Member of Parliament and women's rights activist
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Bill Thomas – former Congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Leland Yee – California State Senator
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• Mohammad Javad Zarif – Iranian Foreign Minister
  
  (Politics and government) (Notable alumni)

• R. Paul Butler – astronomer
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Yvonne Cagle – NASA astronaut
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Douglas Crockford – programmer, specifier of JSON, JavaScript language developer
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Hillman Curtis (1961-2012) – pioneering web designer
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Debra Fischer – astronomy professor, Yale University
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Gerta Keller – paleontologist, professor of Geosciences at Princeton University
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Gilman Louie – technologist, venture capitalist, game designer; former CEO of Spectrum HoloByte, Inc., In-Q-Tel; Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Stanley Mazor – co-inventor of the microprocessor
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Amalia Mesa-Bains – psychologist and artist
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Alison Murray – biochemist and Antarctic researcher
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Dan Werthimer – co-founder and chief scientist of SETI@home
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Joseph White (1932-2017) – psychologist, godfather of Black Psychology
  
  (Science and technology) (Notable alumni)

• Kevin Anderson – athletic director for the University of Maryland, College Park
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Billy Baird – New York Jets player (1963-1969) and coach (1981-1984)
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Bebe Bryans – United States and Olympic head coach in women's rowing
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Ken Carter – education activist and former high school basketball coach
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Paul Cayard – professional sailor
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Elmer Collett – NFL player, 1967-1977
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Ali Dia – professional soccer player
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Maury Duncan – NFL and CFL player, 1954-1958
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Tommy Harper – MLB player, 1962-1976
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Bud Harrelson – MLB player, 1965-1980
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Mike Holmgren – SFSU football coach; later NFL coach and executive, 1986-2012
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Joe Jackson – American football player
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Carl Kammerer – NFL player, 1961-1969
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Gilbert Melendez – professional mixed martial artist, former World Extreme Cagefighting and Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, UFC lightweight contender
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Floyd Peters (1936-2008) – NFL player (1958-1970) and coach (1974-1996)
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Jim Sochor (1938-2015) – football player and coach
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Jake Shields – professional mixed martial artist, former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion, and formerly competing for the UFC
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Jesse Taylor (attended) – wrestler, mixed martial arts fighter
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Bob Toledo – football player and coach
  
  (Sports) (Notable alumni)

• Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) – dance choreographer and activist
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Herman Bottcher (1909-1944) – decorated U.S. Army soldier, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and World War II
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Vester Lee Flanagan II (1973-2015) – gunman in the deaths of two U.S. journalists
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Lee Francis (1945-2003) – poet, educator, and founder of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Eva Galperin – director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Stephen Gaskin (1935-2014) – author, teacher, public speaker, political activist, and philanthropic organizer
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Aidan Kelly – academic, poet and influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Russell Leong – author and philosopher
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Chandra Levy (1977-2001) – intern; murdered 2001 in Washington, D.C.
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Jaime Levy – interface designer and user experience strategist
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Ruth B. Love – former superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz – Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• James Van Praagh – self-proclaimed medium, recipient of the 2012 Pigasus Award in the category "Refusal to face reality"
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Alice Fong Yu (1905-2000) – first Chinese American public school teacher in California
  
  (Other) (Notable alumni)

• Craig Abaya – artist (Faculty)

• Kim Addonizio – poet, novelist (Faculty)

• Dale Allender – educator (Faculty)

• Herbert Blau (1926-2013) – theater director, co-director of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, 1953–1965 (Faculty)

• Zita Cabello-Barrueto – professor, activist (Faculty)

• Jeffery Paul Chan – professor of Asian American studies and English (Faculty)

• Philip Choy (1926-2017) – historian (Faculty)

• Larry Clark – member of L.A. Rebellion School of Black Filmmakers (Faculty)

• Walter Van Tilburg Clark – founder of the Creative Writing program; author of The Ox-Bow Incident (Faculty)

• John Collier Jr. (1913-1992) – anthropologist (Faculty)

• August Coppola (1936-2009) – Dean of Creative Arts (Faculty)

• Angela Davis (born 1944) — Professor of Ethnic Studies (Faculty)

• Roland De Wolk – journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (Faculty)

• Richard Festinger – composer (Faculty)

• Bennett Friedman – musician, saxophonist (Faculty)

• Gloria Frym – poet, fiction writer, and essayist (Faculty)

• Sally Miller Gearhart – feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist (Faculty)

• Vartan Gregorian – former professor, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York (Faculty)

• John Gutmann (1905-1998) – photographer (Faculty)

• Milton Halberstadt (1919-2000) – photographer, artist (Faculty)

• John Handy – jazz musician (Faculty)

• Nathan Hare – first coordinator of black studies, founding publisher of The Black Scholar, sociologist, psychologist (Faculty)

• S. I. Hayakawa (1906-1992) – SFSU president, U.S. Senator (Faculty)

• Paul Hoover – poet (Faculty)

• Ralf Hotchkiss – Distinguished Research Scientist in the Department of Engineering (Faculty)

• Jules Irving (1925-1979) – actor, director, co-director of the San Francisco Actors' Workshop, 1953–1965, and artistic director of the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, NYC (Faculty)

• John Keith Irwin (1929-2010) – professor of sociology (Faculty)

• Luis Kemnitzer (1928-2006) – anthropologist, political activist (Faculty)

• Dean H. Kenyon – Professor Emeritus of Biology, author of Of Pandas and People, one of the main proponents of intelligent design (Faculty)

• Michael Krasny – professor of English (Faculty)

• Catherine Kudlick – professor of history, director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability (Faculty)

• David Kuraoka – ceramic artist (Faculty)

• Bruce A. Manning – professor of chemistry and biochemistry (Faculty)

• Eric Mar – lecturer on Asian American Studies, politician, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (Faculty)

• Geoff Marcy – astronomer, discoverer of more than 150 extrasolar planets (Faculty)

• David Matsumoto – psychologist (Faculty)

• Joseph McBride – author and film historian (Faculty)

• Dave McElhatton (1928-2010) – journalist, evening news anchor (Faculty)

• Sandra Lee McKay – linguist (Faculty)

• Jan Millsapps – writer, filmmaker (Faculty)

• Wright Morris (1910-1998) – novelist and photographer, professor of English (1962-1975) (Faculty)

• Alejandro Murguía – San Francisco Poet Laureate (2012) (Faculty)

• Pete Najarian – writer (Faculty)

• Jacob Needleman – philosopher of religion (Faculty)

• Bill Nichols – Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department (Faculty)

• Roger Nixon (1921-2009) – composer, musician (Faculty)

• Peter Orner – writer (Faculty)

• Wayne Peterson – composer, Pulitzer Prize winner (Faculty)

• Stan Rice (1942-2002) – professor of English and Creative Writing (Faculty)

• Moses Rischin – historian (Faculty)

• Stephen Rodefer (1940-2015) – poet (Faculty)

• Theodore Roszak (1933-2011) – historian, author of The Making of a Counter Culture (Faculty)

• Vic Rowen (1919-2013) – football player and coach (Faculty)

• Carol Lee Sanchez – poet, visual artist, essayist (Faculty)

• Irving Saraf (1932-2012) – Academy Award-winning film director and producer, former professor of film production (Faculty)

• James Schevill (1920-2009) – poet, critic, and playwright (Faculty)

• Anita Silvers – (1940-2019) - philosopher of science, disability rights activist (Faculty)

• Nick Sousanis – cartoonist (Faculty)

• Askia M. Touré – poet, professor, and activist associated with the Black Arts Movement (Faculty)

• Bas van Fraassen – Philosopher of Science, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SFSU, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Faculty)

• Alberto Villoldo – psychologist and anthropologist (Faculty)

• Carleton Washburne (1889-1968) – author and educational reformer (Faculty)

• Roger Woodward – pianist (Faculty)

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