diff --git a/backend/src/routes/api/status/adminAllowedUsers.ts b/backend/src/routes/api/status/adminAllowedUsers.ts
index 89663678f7..da1553fcec 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/api/status/adminAllowedUsers.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/api/status/adminAllowedUsers.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { getUserInfo } from '../../../utils/userUtils';
 import {
   getAdminUserList,
   getAllowedUserList,
+  getClusterAdminUserList,
   isUserAdmin,
   KUBE_SAFE_PREFIX,
 } from '../../../utils/adminUtils';
@@ -77,22 +78,34 @@ export const getAllowedUsers = async (
     return [];
   }
 
+  const activityMap = await getUserActivityFromNotebook(fastify, namespace);
+
+  const withNotebookUsers = Object.keys(activityMap);
   const adminUsers = await getAdminUserList(fastify);
   const allowedUsers = await getAllowedUserList(fastify);
-  const activityMap = await getUserActivityFromNotebook(fastify, namespace);
+  // get cluster admins that have a notebook
+  const clusterAdminUsers = (await getClusterAdminUserList(fastify)).filter((user) =>
+    withNotebookUsers.includes(user),
+  );
 
   const usersWithNotebooksMap: AllowedUserMap = convertUserListToMap(
-    Object.keys(activityMap),
+    withNotebookUsers,
     'User',
     activityMap,
   );
   const allowedUsersMap: AllowedUserMap = convertUserListToMap(allowedUsers, 'User', activityMap);
   const adminUsersMap: AllowedUserMap = convertUserListToMap(adminUsers, 'Admin', activityMap);
+  const clusterAdminUsersMap: AllowedUserMap = convertUserListToMap(
+    clusterAdminUsers,
+    'Admin',
+    activityMap,
+  );
 
   const returnUsers: AllowedUserMap = {
     ...usersWithNotebooksMap,
     ...allowedUsersMap,
     ...adminUsersMap,
+    ...clusterAdminUsersMap,
   };
   return Object.values(returnUsers);
 };
diff --git a/backend/src/types.ts b/backend/src/types.ts
index c29a17d571..4024b82a55 100644
--- a/backend/src/types.ts
+++ b/backend/src/types.ts
@@ -1255,3 +1255,8 @@ export type NIMAccountKind = K8sResourceCommon & {
     conditions?: K8sCondition[];
   };
 };
+
+export type ResourceAccessReviewResponse = {
+  groups?: string[];
+  users?: string[];
+};
diff --git a/backend/src/utils/adminUtils.ts b/backend/src/utils/adminUtils.ts
index 517ce0ddaf..e42a0c7848 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils/adminUtils.ts
+++ b/backend/src/utils/adminUtils.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ import {
   V1ClusterRoleBinding,
   V1ClusterRoleBindingList,
 } from '@kubernetes/client-node';
-import { KubeFastifyInstance } from '../types';
+import { KubeFastifyInstance, ResourceAccessReviewResponse } from '../types';
 import { getAdminGroups, getAllGroupsByUser, getAllowedGroups, getGroup } from './groupsUtils';
 import { flatten, uniq } from 'lodash';
+import { getNamespaces } from '../utils/notebookUtils';
 
 const SYSTEM_AUTHENTICATED = 'system:authenticated';
 /** Usernames with invalid characters can start with `b64:` to keep their unwanted characters */
@@ -14,10 +15,11 @@ export const KUBE_SAFE_PREFIX = 'b64:';
 const getGroupUserList = async (
   fastify: KubeFastifyInstance,
   groupListNames: string[],
+  additionalUsers: string[] = [],
 ): Promise<string[]> => {
   const customObjectApi = fastify.kube.customObjectsApi;
   return Promise.all(groupListNames.map((group) => getGroup(customObjectApi, group))).then(
-    (usersPerGroup: string[][]) => uniq(flatten(usersPerGroup)),
+    (usersPerGroup: string[][]) => uniq([...flatten(usersPerGroup), ...additionalUsers]),
   );
 };
 
@@ -26,10 +28,38 @@ export const getAdminUserList = async (fastify: KubeFastifyInstance): Promise<st
   const adminGroupsList = adminGroups
     .split(',')
     .filter((groupName) => groupName && !groupName.startsWith('system:')); // Handle edge-cases and ignore k8s defaults
-  adminGroupsList.push('cluster-admins');
+
   return getGroupUserList(fastify, adminGroupsList);
 };
 
+export const getClusterAdminUserList = async (fastify: KubeFastifyInstance): Promise<string[]> => {
+  // fetch all the users and groups who have cluster-admin role and put them into the admin user list
+  const { notebookNamespace } = getNamespaces(fastify);
+  const clusterAdminUsersAndGroups = await fastify.kube.customObjectsApi
+    // This is not actually fetching all the groups who have admin access to the notebook resources
+    // But only the cluster admins
+    // The "*" in the verb field is more like a placeholder
+    .createClusterCustomObject('authorization.openshift.io', 'v1', 'resourceaccessreviews', {
+      resource: 'notebooks',
+      resourceAPIGroup: 'kubeflow.org',
+      resourceAPIVersion: 'v1',
+      verb: '*',
+      namespace: notebookNamespace,
+    })
+    .then((rar) => rar.body as ResourceAccessReviewResponse)
+    .catch((e) => {
+      fastify.log.error(`Failure to fetch cluster admin users and groups: ${e.response.body}`);
+      return { users: [], groups: [] };
+    });
+  const clusterAdminUsers = clusterAdminUsersAndGroups.users || [];
+  const clusterAdminGroups = clusterAdminUsersAndGroups.groups || [];
+  const filteredClusterAdminGroups = clusterAdminGroups.filter(
+    (group) => !group.startsWith('system:'),
+  );
+  const filteredClusterAdminUsers = clusterAdminUsers.filter((user) => !user.startsWith('system:'));
+  return getGroupUserList(fastify, filteredClusterAdminGroups, filteredClusterAdminUsers);
+};
+
 export const getAllowedUserList = async (fastify: KubeFastifyInstance): Promise<string[]> => {
   const allowedGroups = getAllowedGroups();
   const allowedGroupList = allowedGroups