field – pole vault); world record holder (first man over 18 feet) John Powell — 1976 and 1984 Olympian (track and field – discus); two-time bronze medalist Raju Rai — 2008 Olympian (men's singles badminton) Ronnie Ray Smith — 1968 Olympian (track and field athlete – 4 × 100 meters); gold medalist and world record holder Tommie Smith — 1968 Olympian (track and field athlete – 200 meters); gold medalist; best known for giving raised fist salute from the medalist's podium during the 1968 Summer Olympic Games Willie Steele —1948 Olympian (track and field – long jump); gold medalist Robyn Stevens — 2020 Olympian (20k race walking) Jill Sudduth — 1996 Olympian (synchronized swimming): gold medalist Mike Swain — 1988 Olympian (judo); bronze medalist; first American male to win the World Judo Championships Lynn Vidali — 1968 and 1972 Olympian (swimming); silver and bronze medalist Jim Zylker — 1972 Olympian (soccer) Other Isai Alvarado — professional Super Smash Bros. player Joey Chestnut — competitive eater; world record holder Shane Golobic — dirt track racing driver Krazy George Henderson — professional cheerleader and self-proclaimed inventor of the audience wave Ryan Suarez — former MLS soccer player (Los Angeles Galaxy and Dallas Burn) Yoshihiro Uchida — head coach, SJSU judo team; team coach, 1964 U.S. Olympic judo team; instrumental in developing organized intercollegiate judo competition in the U.S. Peter Ueberroth — Major League Baseball Commissioner (1984 –1989); U.S. Olympic Committee chair; Time magazine's "Man of the Year" Robert Wall — actor and martial artist Justin Willis — professional Mixed Martial Artist, current UFC Heavyweight Faculty and staff James J. Asher — Professor Emeritus of psychology; inventor of Total Physical Response (TPR) Dwight Bentel — driving force behind the development of the SJSU School of Journalism and Mass Communications Elbert Botts — former chemistry professor; California Department of Transportation employee; inventor of Botts dots Celia Correas de Zapata — former Spanish professor; world expert on Latin American women's fiction; widely published author Paul Douglass — English professor; renowned literary scholar; winner of the 2007 Elma Dangerfield award for his publication of new and original work related to the life and times of the poet Lord Byron; Daniel Goldston — mathematics professor; developed breakthrough methods for proving there are arbitrarily large primes that are unusually close together Lou Harrison — former composer-in-residence; world-renowned composer Fred Iltis — Holocaust emigre and entomologist Persis Karim —