Editing Occidental College (section)

== Notable people ==
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File:President Barack Obama.jpg|[[Barack Obama]], 44th [[President of the United States|U.S. President]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate (''transferred'')
File:Eric Garcetti LA 2024 (25282198229).jpg|[[Eric Garcetti]], 42nd [[Mayor of Los Angeles]] (''Professor'')
File:Jack Kemp official portrait.jpg|[[Jack Kemp]], 9th [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] and NFL player
File:RobertHFinch.jpg|[[Robert Finch (American politician)|Robert Finch]], 38th [[Lieutenant Governor of California]]
File:Terry Gilliam (32703418337) CROPPED.jpg|[[Terry Gilliam]], [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]]-winning filmmaker and former member of [[Monty Python]]
File:Ben Affleck by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|[[Ben Affleck]], actor and [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning filmmaker (''did not graduate'')
File:Luke Wilson (2016).jpg|[[Luke Wilson]], actor (''did not graduate'')
</gallery>Notable graduates of Occidental College include filmmaker [[Terry Gilliam]], football player and politician [[Jack Kemp]], pioneering African-American physicist and inventor [[George Edward Alcorn Jr.]], former [[New Orleans Saints]] and [[Indianapolis Colts]] head coach [[Jim E. Mora]], co-inventor of the hard disk drive [[William Goddard (engineer)|William Goddard]], psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine [[Roland Griffiths]], federal judge [[Jacqueline Nguyen]], academic, film executive and novelist [[August Coppola]], historian and chancellor of the California State University system [[Glenn S. Dumke|Glenn Dumke]], former Lieutenant Governor of California [[Robert Finch (American politician)|Robert Finch]], adventurer and writer [[Homer Lea]], poet [[Robinson Jeffers]], librarian and writer [[Lawrence Clark Powell]], entertainment journalist [[Sam Rubin]], [[Tony Awards|Tony Award]]-winning actress [[Joanna Gleason]], civil rights activist [[Ernesto Galarza]], television director [[Jesús Salvador Treviño|Jesus Salvador Trevino]], voice actress and internet personality [[Ashly Burch]], entertainment executive [[John Branca]], political scientist [[Eqbal Ahmad]], journalist and current dean of [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] [[Steve Coll]], actor and writer [[George Nader]], veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering [[Joe Rohde]], former CEO of Warner Music Group [[Stephen Cooper (businessman)|Stephen Cooper]], President of Catholic University of America [[Peter Kilpatrick]], Ambassador to Armenia and former [[chargé d'affaires]] to Ukraine during the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] [[Kristina Kvien]], Dartmouth Professor [[Steve Swayne]], and civil rights activist and initiator of "[[We Shall Overcome]]" [[Guy Carawan]].

Notable alumni who did not graduate from Occidental include the [[List of presidents of the United States|44th U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]], former First Lady of Colorado [[Dottie Lamm]], [[Academy Award]]–winning actor and filmmaker [[Ben Affleck]], actor [[Luke Wilson]], actor [[Nicholas Braun]], filmmaker and actor [[Cooper Raiff]], producer [[Todd Garner]], and actress [[Emily Osment]].

Notable faculty members include the American urban policy analyst [[Peter Dreier]], former [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Finland|U.S. Ambassador to Finland]] [[Derek Shearer]], former [[CNN]] and [[Fox News]] contributor Caroline Heldman, chemist [[Frank L. Lambert]], art historian and author [[Amy Lyford]], and the 2005 PEN American Center Literary Award winner in poetry [[Martha Ronk]].