field for UCR and later represented the United States in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics for the 1500 meter track event
Anil Raj – former Amnesty International board member and UNDP aid worker; killed in a terror attack in Kabul in November 2019
Richard R. Schrock – physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry – long-distance runner
Tim D. White – paleoanthropologist, one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2010" for his work with Lucy, one of the oldest known Hominin
Charles E. Young – UCR's first student body president, later chancellor of UCLA
=== Faculty ===
Chris Abani – author, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
James Amrhein - Executive director of the Masonry Institute of America
Reza Aslan – author, researcher, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
John C. Baez – physicist, researcher focused on loop quantum gravity
Barry Barish – physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
Steven G. Brint - Sociologist
Casey Charles – author
Mike Davis – …
