Master Po in the television series Kung Fu. Mark Morris - Modern American dancer, choreographer and director, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group; Director of Dance at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house; co-founder of the White Oak Dance Project. A Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (1991), 2010 recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society, recipient of eleven honorary doctorates. Others Lewis Albanese - Medal of Honor recipient during the Vietnam War. Lynda Barry - Cartoonist and author. Royal Brougham - Journalist, news editor, and philanthropist. As an editor for the student paper in 1920, he suggested the school's teams be named "Quakers". Horace R. Cayton, Jr. (1903-1970) - Sociologist. Ron Chew - Community organizer and historian. Larry Gossett - Politician. He was arrested for unlawful assembly during a March 29, 1968 sit-in at Franklin High School. George H. Hitchings - American chemist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering important principles in drug treatment leading to new drugs to treat diseases which include leukemia, malaria, herpes virus infections, and gout. Ed Lee - Mayor of San Francisco. Gary Locke - Chinese-American politician. 10th U.S. Ambassador to China (2011–2014), U.S. Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011), Governor of Washington (1997–2005), King County Executive (1994–1997), Washington House of Representatives (1983–1994). Alfred M. Moen - founder of Moen Incorporated and inventor of the single-handed mixing faucet. Everett Nordstrom - chairman and CEO of Nordstrom. Scott Oki - Former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft, founder of the non-profit Oki Foundation. Noah Purcell, attorney and as Solicitor General of Washington since 2013 Franklin Raines - Associate director for economics and government in the Office of Management and Budget and assistant director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff from 1977 to 1979, a partner at Lazard Freres and Co., former Vice Chairman and former CEO of Fannie Mae, Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton Administration. Ralph Julian Rivers - the first congressman from Alaska. James Sakamoto (1903–1955), journalist and community organizer. Roy Schwitters (1944-2023), physicist, Professor at Harvard, Physics department chair at University of Texas, Fellow of American Physical Society, director of the Superconducting Super Collider, Panofsky Prize winner. Bell M. Shimada (1922-1958, class of 1939), fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of the tuna fishery in the tropical Pacific