| Name | Significant Accomplishment(s) |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | NBA's all-time scoring leader; Six-time MVP |
| Val Ackerman | President, WNBA |
| Troy Aikman | Quarterback of three-time Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys; TV analyst |
| Linda Alvarez | TV journalist and anchorwoman |
| Army Archerd | Veteran entertainment columnist and broadcaster |
| Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. (d.) | First African American to win Wimbledon tennis title; Human rights activist |
| Sean Astin | Actor, "Rudy" and "Lord of the Rings" |
| Donald Barksdale (d.) | First African American Olympic basketball gold medalist |
| Gary Beban | Heisman Trophy winner; President of CB Commercial |
| Catherine Bell | Actress, Movies and Television show "Jag" |
| Harve Bennett | Writer/Producer/Director, notably of "Star Trek" films |
| Corbin Bernsen | Actor, most notably "L.A. Law", "Major League" and "Major League Part II" |
| Tom Bradley (d.) | Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles |
| Lloyd Bridges (d.) | Film and television actor |
| Ralph J. Bunche (d.) | 1950 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Former Under-Secretary General to the United Nations |
| Yvonne B. Burke | L.A. County Board of Supervisors |
| Carol Burnett | Actress, Emmy Award Winner |
| Mark Canton | Former Chair, Columbia and TriStar Pictures; President of Canton Company |
| Benjamin Cayetano | Former Governor of Hawaii |
| Sylvia Chase | Emmy Award-winning TV journalist |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Six-time Academy Award-winning movie producer (The Godfather I, II, III) |
| Walter Cunningham | NASA Astronaut; Apollo VII crew member |
| Marilyn McCoo Davis | Seven-time Grammy Award winner (Fifth Dimension) |
| Donna de Varona | Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (swimming), Sports Broadcaster |
| Terry Donahue | Winningest football coach in Pac-10 and UCLA history; S.F. 49er General Manager |
| Thomas Everhart | President of Caltech |
| Anna Lee Fisher | NASA astronaut-Discovery shuttle |
| Mark Harmon | Television and movie actor; Former UCLA football quarterback |
| Rafer L. Johnson | 1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist, President, California Special Olympics; 1984 Olympic torchbearer |
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee | Three-time Olympic track & field gold medalist; Businesswoman |
| Lester Korn | Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Heather Locklear | Television actress (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Spin City) |
| James E. Lu Valle (d.) | Inventor, chemist, 1936 Olympic medalist |
| Waldo K. Lyon | Director of the first sub-Arctic North Pole voyage of the Polaris submarine |
| Frank Marshall | Movie producer (Sixth Sense, Back to the Future, Snow Falling on Cedars) |
| R. Bruce Merrifield | 1984 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry |
| Ann Meyers | Member of Basketball Hall of Fame; Sports broadcaster |
| Rev. Donn Moomaw | Football All-American, Former pastor, Bel Air Presbyterian Church |
| Steven Muller | President emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University; Rhodes Scholar |
| Hisham Nazer | Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources |
| Dorothy Wright Nelson | Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit |
| David Neuman | President, Walt Disney Television |
| Randy Newman | Composer/Singer, "I Love L.A." |
| Michael Ovitz | Former Executive, The Walt Disney Company; Head of UCLA Medical Center fund-raising campaign |
| Rob Reiner | Actor/Director/Producer, actor in "All in the Family," producer of "American President," director of "A Few Good Men" |
| Gene Reynolds | Six-time Emmy-winning Producer/Director "M*A*S*H" |
| Tim Robbins | Actor/Producer/Director, produced "Dead Man Walking" |
| Jackie Robinson (d.) | UCLA's only four-sport letterman; First African American to play Major League Baseball; Former Dodgers great; Hall of Famer |
| Nobutada Saji | President, Suntory, Ltd. |
| William Sharpe | Co-recipient of 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Darren Star | Producer of television shows "Sex In The City" and "Melrose Place" |
| Ted Stevens | U.S. Senator from Alaska |
| Robert R. Takasugi | Judge, U.S. District Court; First Japanese-American Federal Court Judge |
| George Takei | Actor, most notably as Mr. Sulu in "Star Trek" |
| Bill Walton | NCAA and NBA champion; College Player of the Year; Television commentator; Member, Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Michael Warren | Actor, notably "Hill Street Blues" and "City of Angels;" Basketball All-American |
| Kenny Washington (d.) | Football All-American; First African American to play in NFL |
| Casey Wasserman | Owner, Los Angeles Avengers of Arena Football League |
| Diane Watson | U.S. Congresswoman |
| Fred L. Whipple | Astronomer; Director, NASA Optical Satellite Tracking Project |
| Natalie Williams | Pac-10 Female Athlete of the Decade in basketball and volleyball; Olympian |
| John Williams | 27-time Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award-winning composer ("Star Wars") |
| Jane Yamamoto | Television newscaster, Fox 11 Los Angeles |
| Zev Yaroslavsky | Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 3 |
(d).–deceased.
