List of notable UCLA faculty members - Definition and Overview

Nobel Laureates

• Paul Boyer, professor of chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1997)
• Donald Cram (1919-2001), professor of chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1987)
• Louis Ignarro, professor of molecular and medical pharmacology, Nobel Laureate (Medicine, 1998)
• Willard Libby (1908-1980), professor of chemistry, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1960)
• Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher and Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1950)
• Julian Schwinger, professor of physics, Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1965)

Social Science, Arts and Humanities

• Joyce Appleby - U.S. historian; specialist in intellectual history and the legacy of liberalism
• Robert Brenner - historian; specialist in social history and Marxism
• Rudolf Carnap - philosopher of math and science; member of the Vienna Circle
• Angela Davis - lecturer of philosophy
• Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
• Carlo Ginzburg - European historian; pioneer of microhistory
• Juan Gomez-Quinones - U.S. historian; specialist in Chicano history
• Arnold Schoenberg, professor of music, composer
• Eugene Victor Wolfenstein - professor of political science, author of Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork
• Eugen Weber - historian, author of Peasants Into Frenchmen

Science and Technology

• George Ogden Abell, professor of astronomy, astronomer
• Alonzo Church, known for the lambda calculus used in computing
• Alan Kay professor of computer science; Turing Award recipient
• Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science and Internet pioneer

Athletics

• Larry Brown, men's basketball coach; currently NBA coach
• Valorie Kondos Field - female gymnastics coach; won five NCAA championships
• John Wooden, men's basketball coach; won ten NCAA championships

Politics

• Michael Dukakis - professor of policy studies, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 presidential candidate.
• Al Gore - professor of policy studies, former vice-president of the United States of America

Medicine

• Michael Gottlieb - The first physician to diagnose AIDS

Business and Law

• William Ouchi, management professor and best-selling author
• Eugene Volokh - professor of law, prominent expert on the First Amendment