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FAMOUS TROJANS – pictures 16, 17, 18

Film and Television

  • Josh Schwartz - Producer and creator of The O.C.
  • Bryan Singer - Film director, X-Men, House, Superman Returns
  • Robert Zemeckis - Film director, Forrest Gump
  • Brian Grazer - Film and television producer
  • Ron Howard - Film director and former child actor
  • George Lucas - Film director
  • Shonda Rhimes – Creator, Grey’s Anatomy

Business

  • Larry Flax - Co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen
  • Chris DeWolfe - Co-founder of MySpace and current CEO
  • Jerry Buss - Owner of Los Angeles Lakers
  • Dan Bane - CEO of Trader Joe's
  • James Jannard - Founder of Oakley Sunglasses
  • Frank McCourt Jr - Owner of Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Paul Orfalea - Founder of Kinko's
  • Sol Price - Founder of Price Club (now Costco)
  • Charles Prince - Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
  • Rangaswamy Srinivasan - co-inventor of the LASIK procedure
  • Andrew Viterbi - Inventor of the Viterbi algorithm, CDMA, co-founder of Qualcomm
  • Frank Gehry - Pritzker Prize winner, Chief Architect of the Disney Music Hall in Los Angeles and the  Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
  • Warren Christopher - Former United States Secretary of State
  • Neil Armstrong - First human on the Moon
  • Bob McKnight - Founder and Chairman/CEO of Quiksilver
  • LeVar Burton - Actor
  • Sophia Bush – Actress
  • Will Ferrell - Actor and comedian
  • John Wayne – Actor
  • Tom Morey - Creator of the Boogie Board
  • Mark McGrath - Musican, the lead singer of Sugar Ray
  • Dexter Holland - Singer and guitarist for The Offspring


 

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