Professions

ARCHITECTS

Architect's projects included the Cinerama Dome

Architect whose designs included the Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim and other Disney theme park hotels.

Canadian architect who designed the California Plaza towers in downtown Los Angeles.

Norwegian architect whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Architect dubbed "the last American in Vietnam" when stranded in the country for 15 months after the U.S. military withdrew.

Architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients

Landscape architect whose projects included the FDR memorial and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.

Wward-winning Czech architect.

Architect who teamed with his father to design and build Case Study House No. 10.

L.A. architect was expert in field of architectural forensics.

Restoration architect helped found the L.A. Conservancy.

Los Angeles architect helped found school of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.

DOCTORS AND MEDICAL RESEARCHERS

Stanford pathologist who developed a standardized scale for interpreting biopsy results in heart transplants.

Former personal physician to Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko and father of actress Glenn Close played a key role in halting 1976 outbreak of Ebola virus.

Physician who is credited with saving millions of lives by pioneering the use of cocktails of antibiotics to treat tuberculosis.

A renowned neurotologist at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles who performed cochlear implant surgery on conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

French Nobel laureate who discovered the human leukocyte antigen or HLA system on human tissue that made tissue typing for transplants possible.

Activist for HIV-infected people battled FDA to expedite drug testing.

Doctor diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer in remote South Pole camp before being rescued in daring airlift.

USC professor of dentistry developed program to help patients overcome fear of dental work.

Cardiologist who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter for monitoring heart conditions and one of the first physicians to use clot-busting enzymes to open blocked arteries that cause heart attacks.

Russian mathematician laid the foundation for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners.

Physician who spent more than two stormy years in the late 1960s as head of the Food and Drug Administration.

President and chief executive of Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys.

Physician and HMO pioneer who built the managed-care giant FHP then used his fortune to found the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.

Experienced alpinist devoted himself to the medical dangers faced by climbers after death of a fellow mountaineer.

Lived 31 years after heart transplant

Dentist and dental historian

First surgeon to treat President Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas.

Philanthropist who helped establish a UCLA Medical Center program to provide reconstructive plastic surgery to soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Built the first kidney dialysis machine and the first successful artificial heart.

Patient who with his wife, Sandra, were believed to be the first married couple to have had heart transplants.

Expert of alcoholism and drug addiction whose lectures and films aided in addiction recovery.

Gay-rights activist who set up the first AIDS hotline in 1981, before the disease even had a name, and later ran influential AIDS service groups, committed suicide.

Only child of Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who carried on his medical missionary work in Africa.

UC Irvine neurologist and medical school dean who championed the early treatment of multiple sclerosis patients.

Physician created a nonsurgical way to treat clubfoot in infants.

Inventor of an implanted electrical pump for heart-failure patients.

Pioneer in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, which looks at the roots of abnormal behavior.

Noted kidney disease specialist, expert on health policy and longtime USC professor.

Scientist led development of long-lasting contraceptives

San Francisco surgeon who was a pioneer in the use of laparoscopic surgery and later wrote three best-selling books combining anthropology, science and art.

Pioneer in field of suicide prevention.

Radiation oncologist who popularized the mind-body connection in fighting cancer.

Doctor fought the causes of infertility.

South African health minister whose AIDS denial and failure to provide treatment is blamed for more than 300,000 unnecessary deaths.

Russian emigre who was the first researcher in the United States to perform chorionic villus sampling to detect birth defects.

California psychiatrist whose struggle with remarriage issues led him to co-found a national organization to advocate for stepfamilies.

One of the first physicians to detect the AIDS epidemic and who became a national advocate for AIDS research, treatment and prevention.

UC San Diego researcher was pioneer in artificial-blood field.

LAWYERS AND JUDGES

Chief judge of Coast Guard Court for Criminal Appeals for more than 20 years.

Activist lawyer known for battling government injustice.

Federal appelate judge who upheld death penalty for Robert Alton Harris, first California execution in 25 years.

Environmental lawyer who battled toxic waste facilities, mega-dairies, mining companies and other pollution threats in poor and minority communities.

Workers' Compensation Appeals Board judge disarmed gunman in his court.

Appelate justice made significant ruling on right to die issue.

Hollywood lawyer to celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Simon Cowell who became a celebrity himself for his discoveries of the fabled ancient city of Ubar and the frankincense trade route in Yemen.

Federal judge who ruled in a San Diego case that the Boy Scouts were a religious group and couldn't lease city land.

Attorney represented Sara Jane Olsen, medical marijuana growers, dies in plane crash in Utah.

U.S. District Judge whose rulings shattered old Texas.

Media attorney and professor

Judge who sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison in a 1980s insider trading scandal and helped eliminate horrid conditions in New York City jails.

Veteran civil-rights lawyer who for 40 years fought for victims of police misconduct.

Attorney and corporate ethics consultant who relied on the comic strip "Dilbert" to teach ethics awareness.

Alameda County Superior Court judge who ruled in favor of UC Berkeley in a dispute over a proposed athletic facility that was the focus of a tree-sitting protest.

Lawyer brokered pardon for former president Nixon.

Onetime CIA lawyer handled high-profile prisoner negotiations.

Southern lawyer won numerous civil rights cases before Supreme Court.

British lawyer and writer who created the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey.

Flamboyant lawyer who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products.

Superior Court judge pioneered civil referee program in his Glendale courthouse to reduce case load.

L.A. attorney who specialized in bankruptcy law.

Civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul.

Federal judge had been sent to World War II relocation camp as a youth.

Associate justice of the California Court of Appeal who taught law at USC for 11 years.

Litigation specialist for O'Melveny & Myers who defended Dan Rather in "60 Minutes" case.

Radical lawyer helped defend Angela Davis.

SCHOLARS

Northwestern University English professor who was a leading expert on Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov and a scholar of modern art and jazz.

Novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars.

Leading expert on Soviet economy and Rand Corp. analyst.

Theater designer and director was emeritus professor at USC School of Theatre and founder of Festival Theatre USC-USA.

Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner whose father, Niels, also won a Nobel Prize

Archivist and editor became expert on President Lincoln.

Curator carried on his mother's work through African American library-museum.

Historian of the African slave trade and a leading postwar figure in African history.

Former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war.

Lincoln scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

UC Riverside professor and leading scholar of American literature who was a pivotal figure in the university's intellectual community.

Human rights activist and expert on 1994 Rwanda genocide, died in plane crash near Buffalo, N.Y.

Influential scholar blended black experience into U.S. history.

USC professor who broadened the study of cinema by emphasizing its relationship to other visually oriented fields.

UCLA professor was expert in field of child abuse.

UC San Diego economist was Nobel Prize winner.

Folklorist studied the lives of working people.

Scholar played leading role in the founding of the philosophy of biology.

USC football recruit paralyzed in car accident became scholar, coach.

UCLA economist

USC professor of safety science and one of the world's foremost authorities on motorcycle crashes and their causes.

Dentist and dental historian

Founding chairman and professor emeritus of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology.

Benedictine priest who was a leading thinker in the philosophy of science and theology.

Drew University professor was spiritual mentor to Hillary Rodham.

First chairman of the English department at what is now Cal State Northridge.

Professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature at UC Berkeley who wrote authoritative volumes on Gogol, Nabokov and Chekhov and was an expert on homosexuality in pre-Soviet culture.

An exiled Polish philosopher who turned against his Marxist beliefs and became an intellectual leader of Poland's democracy movement.

Scholar was called dean of Chinese American studies.

Musicologist noted for his pioneering research on Franz Joseph Haydn.

Norwegian philosopher developed concept of "deep ecology" which suggests that the living environment as a whole has the same rights as humans do to flourish.

UCLA sociologist who studied women in the workplace.

American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music.

Ceramics artist and educator who revealed the lives of leading Native Americans potters.

Archaeologist who unearthed a 16th century gold signet ring while exploring ties between native people and the doomed English colonists who first tried to settle the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Argentine filmmaker and former UCLA professor respected for his ethnographic cinema works.

Feminist author and scholar was a founding member of NOW.

Author and aviation historian who served as president of the Aero Club of Southern California when the group owned the Spruce Goose.

Noted kidney disease specialist, expert on health policy and longtime USC professor.

Philosophy professor at Pomona College made headlines for forgiving mentally ill student who had stabbed him in the neck.

Internationally known expert on citrus breeding and a longtime professor of botany and plant sciences at UC Riverside.

UC Berkeley historian who studied slavery in America.

Professor at USC Marshall School of Business.

Economics professor and banjo-playing folk singer who documented hobo music and culture.

UC Berkeley scholar who helped pioneer the field of ethnic studies.

Native American historian who pressed for repatriation of ancestral remains to tribes.

Research scholar at the Huntington Library in San Marino and a professor at Cal State L.A. who wrote biographies of early American presidents and leaders.