There are a large number of famous USC alumni in all sorts of areas. Since you specifically asked about athletes, actors and directors, I have included a listing of some of the most famous in each of these below: Athletes: Football OJ Simpson, Troy Polamalu, Ronnie Lott, Junior Seau, Keyshawn Johnson, Mike Holmgren, Lynn Swan, Reggie Bush Baseball Randy Johnson, Mark McGuire, Tom Seaver Golf Craig Stadler Olympians Janet Evans Actors: Will Ferrell, Anthony Edwards, America Ferrera, Michael Landon, Kelly Preston, John Ritter, Tom Selleck, Cybill Shepherd, John Wayne, Forest Whitaker Directors: Judd Apatow, George Lucas, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, John Singleton.
There are tons of professional people who have attended USC and have gone on to become famous in one aspect or another. There are a lot of sports figures, actors, actresses and others who have attended this great school. Sports figures include wrestlers, track stars, professional basketball players, professional baseball, football, golf, tennis players, and tons of Olympic athletes.
You will find that in this category alone there are hundreds of notable and famous people who went on after graduating from USC who have excelled in some sport. Famous people in the entertainment field are another large group among the alumni of USC, there are editors, directors, inventors of video games such asXBox, Producers, screenwriters, film makers, musicians, composers, singers, and tons of actors and actresses. I have included a long list that includes Basketball stars such as DeMar DeRozan and Brian Scalabrine of the NBA, and WNBA stars Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson.
Baseball greats Mark McGuire, Eric Munson and Tom Seaver. It includes Actors from John Wayne (attended but did not graduate) to John Ritter and Tom Selleck. There are great inventors of Xbox and Adobe Photoshop.
There are so many famous people that it is hard to place into one list but this list by Wikipedia will give you a great overview of all the many people you are looking for.
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