The following is a list of notable alumni of University Senior High School. The list includes all notable former pupils who attended the school anytime since opening its doors in 1924, including for the four years it was named "Warren G. Harding High School".
Desi Arnaz Jr. (actor, son of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball) Mackenzie Astin 1991 (actor) Eric Avery (rock bassist, Jane's Addiction) Sondra E. Berchin 1970 (entertainment attorney and executive, MCA Universal) Jan Berry 1959 (singer and songwriter, Jan and Dean) Noel Blanc 1956 David Bonderman (billionaire) Karla Bonoff (singer/songwriter, "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me", "Lose Again", "Tell Me Why") Jeff Bridges 1967 (Oscar-winning actor) Susie Bright (author and activist) James Brolin (actor, Marcus Welby, M.D., Westworld) Calmatic 2005 (filmmaker, director) David Cassidy (actor, The Partridge Family) David Charvet 1991 (actor, Baywatch) Alex Cline 1974 (drummer, Homogenized Goo) Nels Cline 1974 (guitarist, Wilco and The Nels Cline Singers) Glenn Cowan (table tennis player) Darby Crash, born Jan Paul Beahm (punk rock pioneer, the Germs) Faye Dancer 1941 (baseball player) Richard Dean, born Richard Cowen (athlete, model, photographer) Sandra Dee, born Alexandra Zuck, 1958 (actress, Gidget) John Densmore (rock drummer, The Doors) Larry Diamond (American Sociologist, 1970?) Pat Doyle (baseball coach) Bobby Driscoll (Academy Award-winning child star) Elonka Dunin 1976 (cryptographer and game developer) John Ecker 1966 (basketball player and coach) Danny Elfman 1971 (musician, Oingo Boingo, film composer) Richard Elliot 1978 (Musician) Raymond C. Fisher (jurist) Vince Flaherty (film producer, actor, songwriter, musician and recording artist) Megan Follows 1986 (actress) Kim Fowley 1958 (rock musician, music producer) Gil Fronsdal (Buddhist teacher and author) Annette Funicello 1960 (actress, Mickey Mouse Club) Judy Garland (singer, actress, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) Peggy Ann Garner (actress, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Jill Gibson 1960 (singer and artist) Omar Gooding (actor) Barry Gordon 1966 (actor, A Thousand Clowns; longest-running president of Screen Actors Guild) Kim Gordon (rock bassist, Sonic Youth) Gregory Phillip Grunberg 1984 (actor in Felicity, Heroes, Alias) Jane Harman 1962 (Congresswoman for California's 36th Congressional District 1993–99, 2001–11) Jason Hervey 1990 (actor, Wayne Arnold on The Wonder Years) Andy Hill 1968, 3x college national champion basketball player, President of CBS Productions and Channel One News, author, and motivational speaker Leonard Hill, television producer and real estate developer Daryl Hobbs 1987 (professional football player for Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks) Tony Horton professional baseball player for Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians Wanda Jackson, film and television actress Bruce Johnston (Beach Boys singer-songwriter, Grammy Award winner 1976 for Song of the Year "I Write The Songs") Jack Jones 1956 (singer) Noted in yearbook as Allan Jones and Allan Jones Jr.