List of California State University, Northridge people

• Dick Dull – athletic director
• Dick Enberg – sportscaster and college administrator
• S. K. Ramesh – electrical engineer and university administrator
• Ruth Simmons – former president of Prairie View A&M University, Brown University, and Smith College
• Thor Steingraber – opera and theater director, and arts administrator

• Mike Batesole
• Stan Charnofsky
• Eddie Cornejo
• Matt Curtis
• Bob Hiegert
• Bill Kernen
• Greg Moore
• Dave Serrano

• Bobby Braswell
• Pete Cassidy
• Mark Gottfried
• Jim Harrick
• Trent Johnson
• Andy Newman
• Reggie Theus

• Dave Baldwin
• Jack Elway
• Rod Humenuik
• Tom Keele
• Leon McLaughlin
• Sam Winningham

• Tairia Flowers
• Charlotte Morgan

• Beatriz Cortez – artist and professor of Central American Studies
• Harry Gamboa Jr. – photographer and performance artist
• Bob McChesney – jazz trombonist and professor of music
• Aglaia Mortcheva – animator, voice actress, and professor of art
• Martin Pousson – novelist, poet, and professor of English
• Donna Sheng – professor of physics
• Steven Thachuk – classical guitarist and professor of music
• Jeremy Yoder – professor of biology
• Maria Elena Zavala – professor of biology

Retired and former faculty

Mohamed Morsi

Lucille Ball

Lorraine Foster

• Kim Victoria Abeles – Guggenheim Fellow and professor in drawing, public art, and sculpturing
• Rodolfo Acuna – Chicano studies scholar
• Anthony Arthur – author and educator
• Lucille Ball – actress and comedian known for I Love Lucy, assistant professor in 1979^[9][10]
• Irving Block – artist
• Vern Bullough – historian and sexologist
• Hans Burkhardt – Swiss-American artist
• Edmund Snow Carpenter – associate professor of Anthropology
• Yreina Cervantez – professor of Chicano studies
• Annette Charles – actress and speech professor
• Stan Charnofsky – professor of educational psychology and counseling
• Barbara J. Collins – ecologist
• Lorence G. Collins – geologist
• Todd Compton – historian
• John Daversa – Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and professor
• Aurelio de la Vega – composer-in-residence, educator, distinguished professor emeritus, poet
• James Dickey – visiting lecturer, poet and novelist appointed as the 18th United States Poet Laureate and awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Award for Poetry
• Robert Docter – professor of education and LAUSD board member
• Fritz Faiss – German-American artist
• Lorraine Foster – mathematician, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology
• Adele Eskeles Gottfried – professor of educational psychology and director of Research Enhancement of the Michael D. Eisner College of Education
• John Curtis Gowan – professor of psychology
• Beverly Grigsby – musicologist and composer
• Sheldon H. Harris – historian
• Bess Lomax Hawes – associate professor of anthropology and head of the Anthropology Department
• Harold Hellenbrand – administrator and scholar
• George Heussenstamm – composer
• Amir Hussain – associate professor of religious studies
• William Karush – mathematician
• Fred Katz – jazz cellist and composer, and anthropology professor
• William M. Kramer – rabbi and professor of religious studies
• Alexis Krasilovsky – filmmaker and professor of cinema
• Art Kunkin – journalist and founder of the Los Angeles Free Press
• James Lawson – visiting scholar in civil discourse and social change
• Dorothy D. Lee – professor of anthropology
• Joe Lewis – chair of the Department of Art
• Magnhild Lien – mathematician
• Prakash Chandra Lohani – professor of finance and Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Agricultural and Livestock Development, and Minister of Labour & Transportation in Nepal
• Robert Oscar Lopez – professor of humanities
• Gloria Ricci Lothrop – historian
• Sabina Magliocco – Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, professor of anthropology and religion
• Elena Marchisotto – mathematician
• Khaled Mattawa – poet
• Leemon McHenry – bioethicist
• Beatrice Medicine – anthropologist
• Mohammed Morsi – engineer and 5th President of Egypt
• Raoul Naroll – professor of anthropology
• Julian Nava – diplomat and educator
• Roy Peel – director of the U.S. Census Bureau
• Peter Plagens – artist and art critic
• Ron Purcell – professor of music
• Mohammad Qayoumi – professor of Engineering Management, Minister of Finance, chief adviser on Infrastructure and Technology to the president of Afghanistan
• Daniel Raymer – aerospace design engineer
• Carol Rosenberger – classical pianist
• Velva E. Rudd – research fellow in the department of biology
• Raul Ruiz – journalist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies
• Benjamin Saltman – poet and professor of Literature
• Barry Sautman – adjunct assistant professor
• Saba Soomekh – professor of religious studies
• Ann Stanford – poet and professor of creative writing
• Harry Stone – professor of English and Charles Dickens scholar
• Nayereh Tohidi – professor and former chair of the Department of Gender & Women Studies
• Ann E. Watkins – professor of mathematics
• Gerald Wilson – jazz composer and educator
• Lewis Yablonsky – sociologist, criminologist, and psychotherapist

The following persons served as president of California State University, Northridge:^[11]

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No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Refs.
1		Ralph Prator	1958	1968
2		James W. Cleary	1969	1992
3		Blenda Wilson	September 1, 1992	June 30, 1999
Interim		Louanne Kennedy	July 1, 1999	June 30, 2000
4		Jolene Koester	July 1, 2000	December 31, 2011
Interim		Harry Hellenbrand	January 1, 2012	June 2012	[12]
5		Dianne F. Harrison	June 2012	January 10, 2021	[13]
6		Erika D. Beck	January 11, 2021	present	[14][15]

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