Craig Heller (physiologist)

This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

Stanford office

Presidents

Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.

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Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

Chancellors

This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.

School Deans

Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.

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Alumni

Academics

Presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges

*Gene D. Block (A.B. 1970), 8th chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles
*Derek Bok (A.B. 1951), 25th president of Harvard University
*José Antonio Bowen (A.B., M.S., Ph.D. 1994), 11th president of Goucher College
*Avishay Braverman (Ph.D. 1976), 5th president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
* John C. Bravman (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), 17th president of Bucknell University
*William R. Brody (M.D. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), 13th president of Johns Hopkins University
*Frederic Lister Burk (A.M. 1892), 1st president of San Francisco State University
*Menzies Campbell (LL.M. 1967), 37th chancellor of the University of St Andrews
* Nancy Cantor (Ph.D. 1978), 11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University
* Brian Casey (J.D. 1988), 19th president of DePauw University
*Joseph I. Castro (Ph.D. 1998), 8th chancellor of the California State University System, 9th president of the California State University, Fresno
*Jean-Lou Chameau (Ph.D. 1981), 8th president of California Institute of Technology
*France A. Córdova (A.B. 1969), 11th president of Purdue University
*Paul Davenport (A.B. 1969), 9th president of the University of Western Ontario
* Sean M. Decatur (Ph.D. 1995), 19th president of Kenyon College
*Rolando Ramos Dizon (Ph.D. 1978), 20th president of De La Salle University
*Michael V. Drake (A.B. 1974), 21st president of the University of California System, 15th president of the Ohio State University, and 5th chancellor of University of California, Irvine
*Vartan Gregorian (A.B. 1958; Ph.D. 1964), 16th president of Brown University, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, president of the New York Public Library, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
*Claudine Gay, president-designate of Harvard, second woman and first African-American to serve as president of Harvard
* William Westley Guth (A.B. 1892), attorney, president of University of the Pacific and 3rd president of Goucher College
* Jonathan Holloway (A.B. 1989), historian, 21st president of Rutgers University
*Kristina Johnson (B.S. 1981, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984), 16th president of Ohio State University, US Undersecretary of Energy, former provost of Johns Hopkins University, holder of 100+ patents
*Clark Kerr (A.M. 1933), 12th president of the University of California System and first chancellor of UC Berkeley
* Heather Knight (Ph.D. 1991), 21st president of Pacific Union College
*William P. Leahy (Ph.D. 1986), 25th president of Boston College
*Lee Si-Chen (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1981), 10th president of National Taiwan University
*Rick Levin (A.B. 1968), 22nd president of Yale University
*Edna Ahgeak MacLean (Ph.D. 1995), 2nd president of Iḷisaġvik College
*Thomas L. Magnanti (M.S. 1969, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1972), founding president of Singapore University of Technology and Design
*Lynn Mahoney (A.B. 1986), 14th president of San Francisco State University
* Alan G. Merten (M.S. 1964), 5th president of George Mason University
* Bienvenido Nebres (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), 29th president of Ateneo de Manila University
*Vincent Price (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1987), 10th president of Duke University
*Edward John Ray (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1971), 13th president of Oregon State University
* L. Rafael Reif (Ph.D. 1979), 17th president of MIT
* Peter Salovey (A.B. 1980, A.M. 1980), 23rd president of Yale University
*Robert N. Shelton (B.S. 1970), 19th president of the University of Arizona
*Su Guaning (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1984), 2nd president of Nanyang Technological University
*Steven C. Wheelwright (M.B.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1970), 9th president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii
*Jason Wingard (A.B. 1995), 12th president of Temple University
* Menahem Yaari (Ph.D. 1962), Israeli economist, S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, President of the Open University of Israel

Academia

* Cara Drinan (J.D. 2002), author and professor of law at Catholic University
* Michelle Alexander (J.D. 1992), civil rights activist and professor of law at Ohio State University
* Lawrence J. Baack (Ph.D. 1973), historian specializing in modern European history; former vice chairperson of the History Department at University of Nebraska, Lincoln; visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley
* Jeremy M. Berg (B.S. 1980), director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
* Roger Boesche (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of the history of ideas at Occidental College
* Hal Brands (B.A. 2005), professor of global affairs at Johns Hopkins University
* Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez (Ph.D. 1981), professor and chair of American ethnic studies, Kansas State University
* Albert Edward Caswell (A.B. 1908, Ph.D. 1911), physicist and chair of University of Oregon Department of Physics 1914–1949, Fellow of American Physical Society
* Marjorie Cohn (A.B. 1970), professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild
*Steven R. David (A.M. 1975), professor of international relations, associate dean of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University
* Steven D'Hondt (B.S. 1984), professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island
* Edward McNeil Farmer (A.B. 1923, A.M. 1926), professor in the Graphic Arts Department at Stanford University from 1923 until 1964
* George E. Frakes (A.B. 1954), professor emeritus of history and geography at Santa Barbara City College
* H. Bruce Franklin (Ph.D. 1961), professor of English and American studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey
*James Paul Gee (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975), linguist, literacy researcher, and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University
*Larry Gladney (Ph.D. 1985), professor of physics at Yale University
*William Gorham (A.B. 1952), economist, president of the Urban Institute 1968–2000
* Daniel Harrison (A.B. 1981), chairman of the Department of Music at Yale University
*Leslie P. Hume (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1979), historian and philanthropist, former president of the Stanford University Board of trustees (2008–2012)
*Russell Jeung (B.A., M.A), professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate
* Amos Lapidot, Israeli fighter pilot, 10th Commander of the Israeli Air Force, and President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
* Mark Lemley (A.B. 1988), professor at Stanford Law School, expert in patent law
* David Lang, professor of Composition at the Yale School of Music (B.A.)
*Lisa Lowe (A.B. 1977), Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University
*Thomas L. Magnanti (M.S. 1969, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1972), former dean of the MIT School of Engineering
* Virginia Matzek (Ph.D.), Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University
*H. Brett Melendy (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1952), American historian and administrator at San Jose State University and the University of Hawaii
*Sherman Mellinkoff (B.S. 1941, M.D. 1944), second dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles
* Ricardo Felipe Munoz (B.A. 1972), Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University
* Charles Ogletree (A.B. 1975, A.M. 1975), professor at Harvard Law School, founder of the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, author of numerous books on legal topics
* Charles V. Park (A.B. 1909), director of the Central Michigan University Libraries
* Joachim Remak (Ph.D. 1955), professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara
* John C. Rule (A.B., M.A., 1952), historian of 17th- and 18th-century France at the Ohio State University
*Mavis Sanders (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1995), research scholar
*David Schaberg (B.A.), Dean of Humanities at UCLA, winner of the 2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize
*Dale Schunk (Ph.D.), former dean of the School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
* Michael Smith (Ph.D. 1993), dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University
*Victoria Stodden (Ph.D., J.D.), associate professor of information sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
*Robert E. Swain (B.S. 1899), head of Stanford's Department of Chemistry and a founder of the Stanford Research Institute
*Tony Tether (M.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1969), former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
*Mark von Hagen (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), director of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University
*Richard D. Wolff (A.M. 1964), Marxist economist and professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
*David Alvra Wood (M.D. 1930), president of the American Cancer Society, first director of the University of California, San Francisco Cancer Research Institute
*Ben Zinn (M.S. 1962), international soccer player and academic at Georgia Tech
* KJ Cerankowski (Ph.D. 2014), assistant professor at Oberlin College and co-founder of the field of asexuality studies
* Peter Zemsky (Ph.D. 1995), dean of executive education and Eli Lilly chaired professor of strategy and innovation at INSEAD
*Gita Sen (Ph.D.), feminist economist and scholar on international population policy who has consulted for the United Nations System, adjunct professor at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
* Natalie Roe (Ph.D. 1989), Director of the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* John Kenneth Salisbury, Jr. (Ph.D.), Roboticist and Research Professor Emeritus at Stanford's Computer Science Department and Stanford School of Medicine's Department of Surgery.
* Frank Shuffelton (d. 2010), literary scholar
*Joel Westheimer, professor of citizenship education at the University of Ottawa

Computer science and electrical engineering

* Norman Abramson (Ph.D. in EE), 2007 Alexander Graham Bell prize winner, developed the world's first wireless computer communication network, ALOHAnet
* Anant Agarwal (Ph.D. in EE), president of EdX at MIT
* Ružena Bajcsy (Ph.D. in CS), winner of 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
*Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D. dropout), designer of the first networked SUN workstation
* Anant Bhardwaj (M.S. in CS), founder of Instabase
*Lawrence M. Breed (M.S.), created the first computer animation language, MACS; Grace Murray Hopper Award winner
* Sergey Brin (M.S.), developer of Google search engine, Marconi Prize winner
* David Boggs (Ph.D.), co-inventor of Ethernet
* Rodney Brooks (Ph.D. 1981), director of MIT computer science and artificial intelligence lab, winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
* Vint Cerf (B.S. 1965, former professor), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol, Turing Award and Marconi Prize-winning computer scientist, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
*Donald D. Chamberlin (M.S., Ph.D. in EE), coinventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner
* Morris Chang (Ph.D. in EE), founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, 2010 winner of IEEE Medal of Honor
* Surajit Chaudhuri, Ph.D. in CS, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner
*Mung Chiang (B.S. 1999, M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2003), Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; 2013 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient
* John M. Cioffi (Ph.D. in EE), pioneer in Digital subscriber line (DSL), winner of Marconi Prize and IEEE Alexander Bell prize
*Thomas M. Cover (Ph.D. in EE 1964), information theorist; winner of Shannon prize and Hamming medal
* Donald Cox (Ph.D. in EE), winner of IEEE Alexander Bell prize
*Steve Deering (Ph.D. in EE), inventor of IP multicast, a technique for one-to-many and many-to-many real-time communication over an IP infrastructure in a network
* Whitfield Diffie (Ph.D., dropout), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, Marconi Prize winner
* Les Earnest, research scientist, created the first spell check and first cursive-writing recognizer
* David Eppstein (B.S. 1984), computer scientist
* Paul Flaherty (MS, Ph.D.), inventor of AltaVista search engine
*Scott Forstall (B.S., M.S.), former senior vice president of iPhone software at Apple Inc.
*Richard P. Gabriel (Ph.D.), computer scientist
*Héctor García-Molina (Ph.D. and professor in CS), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner
* Craig Gentry (Ph.D.), computer scientist; 2010 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner; noted for solving "fully homomorphic encryption", a breakthrough in public-key encryption
* Edward Ginzton (Ph.D. and professor), pioneer of microwave electronics, winner of IEEE Medal of Honor
*Ian Goodfellow (B.S., M.S.), developer of generative adversarial networks
* Susan L. Graham (Ph.D. in CS), IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
*William Webster Hansen (Ph.D. and professor), pioneer of microwave electronics
* Stephen E. Harris (M.S., Ph.D. in EE), noted for "slow" light research
* Martin Hellman (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1969 in EE and professor), pioneer in public-key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, Marconi Prize winner, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Charles Herrold (graduate), creator of the first radio station in the world
* William Hewlett (B.E., M.E. in EE), founder of Hewlett-Packard, National Medal of Science winner
*Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, winner of National Medal of Technology and Innovation
* John Hopcroft (Ph.D. 1964 in EE and professor), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
*Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. (M.S. in CS), Grace Murray Hopper Award winner
*Leslie Kaelbling (Ph.D. in CS), winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
*Thomas Kailath professor in EE, 2007 winner of IEEE medal of honor
* Lydia Kavraki (Ph.D. in CS), 2000 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner
* Alan Kay (Postdoc), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
* Dan Klein (Ph.D. in CS), 2006 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner
*Daphne Koller (Ph.D.), Stanford CS professor, winner of ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
*Douglas Lenat (Ph.D. in CS and former professor), winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
*Barbara Liskov (Ph.D.), first female Ph.D. in computer science in US, MIT Ford professor, Turing Award winner
*John N. Little (M.E. 1980), co-creator of MATLAB
*Albert Macovski (Ph.D. and Prof), authority on computerized imaging systems with 150 patents
*Theodore Maiman (M.E. in EE, Ph.D. in physics), inventor of ruby laser, the first working laser in the world; National Inventors Hall of Fame
*Jitendra Malik (Ph.D. 1985), CS professor at UC Berkeley
*Scott A. McGregor (B.A., M.S. 1978), lead developer of Windows 1.0 and former CEO of Philips Semiconductors and Broadcom Corporation
*James Meindl, former professor, 2006 winner of IEEE medal of honor
*Ralph Merkle (Ph.D. 1979, EE), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
*Tom M. Mitchell (Ph.D. in computer science), professor and head of the machine learning department at CMU, winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
*Cleve Moler (Ph.D., M.E. 1980), co-creator of MATLAB
*Roger Moore (computer scientist), Roger Moore, Grace Murray Hopper Award winner
*Hans Moravec (Ph.D. 1980), co-designer of Stanford CART, the first computer-controlled robot car
*Allen Newell (B.S.), pioneer of artificial intelligence, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
*Ren Ng (Ph.D. in CS), founder and chief executive officer of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company, which is developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University
*Nils Nilsson (researcher), Nils Nilsson (Ph.D. 1958, CS), led the effort in developing Shakey the robot at SRI, the first mobile robot that could think independently and interact with its surroundings; Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus in Computer Science at Stanford University
*Jim K. Omura (Ph.D. in EE), Alexander Graham Bell prize winner
*David Packard (BA, MA EE), cofounder of HP Inc., 1988 winner of national medal of technology, and of presidential medal of freedom
*Larry Page (M.S.), developer of Google search engine, Marconi Prize winner
*Kumar Patel (Ph.D. in EE), inventor of carbon Dioxidelaser, National Medal of Science winner
*Arogyaswami Paulraj, professor in EE, 2011 Alexander Graham Bell prize winner
*Donald Pederson (Ph.D. in EE), pioneer in SPICE, winner of IEEE medal of honor
*Amir Pnueli (Postdoc), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
*Raj Reddy (Ph.D. 1966, former professor), Turing Award-winning computer scientist, founder of robotics institute at Carnegie Mellon University
*Rafael Reif (Ph.D. in EE, 1979), current president of MIT
*Ronald Rivest (Ph.D. 1974, former professor), cryptographer, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
*Stuart J. Russell, Stuart Russell (Ph.D. 1986, CS), chair of CS at UC-Berkeley, winner of IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
*Mike Schroepfer (B.S. 1997 and M.S. 1999), led development of the Firefox browser at Mozilla; now vice president of engineering at Facebook
*Edward Shortliffe (Ph.D.), Grace Murray Hopper Award winner, inventor of the rule-based pharmacological expert system: Mycin
*Charles Simonyi (M.S., Ph.D. 1977, CS), inventor of Microsoft Word, former chief architect at Microsoft
*Daniel Sleator (Ph.D.), computer scientist
*Michael D. Smith (computer scientist), Michael D. Smith (Ph.D. in EE 1993), dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University
*Alfred Spector (Ph.D.), computer scientist
*Robert Tarjan (Ph.D. 1972, former professor), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
*Frederick Terman (B.S. in chemistry, M.E. in EE), "father of Silicon Valley", National Medal of Science winner
*Russell Varian (Ph.D.), co-inventor of Klystron, the foundation of RADAR
*Sigurd Varian (M.S.), co-inventor of Klystron, the foundation of RADAR
*Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Ph.D. in CS 1980), provost at the University of Kansas
*John Robert Woodyard (Ph.D. 1940), pioneer in microwave electronics, inventor of "doping" in semiconductors
*Kevin Zhu (academic), Kevin Zhu (Ph.D.), IT for business, data analytics, e-commerce, software, digital transformation

Other science

*Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe, Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe (B.S. in chemistry, 1966), Nigerian monarch and banker
*Ramesh K. Agarwal (Ph.D. in AA, 1975), William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University, computational fluid dynamicist
*James B. Aguayo-Martel (M.D. 1981, M.P.H. 1981), chairman, Department of Surgery, inventor of NMR microscopy and Deuterium NMR spectroscopy
*Susan Athey (Ph.D. in business school), winner of John Bates Clark Medal (2007) in economics
*David Benaron (postdoc), former professor in pediatrics and neonatology, digital health entrepreneur, specialist in medical imaging, monitoring and analysis, co-inventor of "glowing mice" imaging technique
*Edward Boyden (Ph.D.), co-inventor of optogenetics
*Ronald N. Bracewell AO (Ph.D. 1949), Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, pioneer of radio astronomy, designed and operated the spectroheliograph used to map the temperature of the sun for one cycle which was used during the NASA moon landing
*Janet Zaph Briggs (A.B. 1931, M.S. 1933), metallurgist; first woman to earn a mining engineering degree at Stanford
*Emmanuel Candès (Ph.D. 1998), professor in statistics at Stanford, the Alan T. Waterman Award winner
*Cai Mingjie (Ph.D. 1990), molecular biologist; now driving a taxi in Singapore
*John Chowning (Ph.D.), father of digital music synthesizer, inventor of frequency modulation (FM) algorithm
*Eric Allin Cornell (B.S. 1985), Nobel Prize winner in physics
*Merton Davies (B.S. 1937), space scientist
*Kenneth L. Davis, president and chief executive officer of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
*Karl Deisseroth (Ph.D. 1998, M.D. 2000), neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and bioengineer; known for creating, developing, and applying the technologies of optogenetics and CLARITY, and for coining the names of these fields
*Delzie Demaree (Ph.D 1932), botanist.
*Thomas Dibblee, geologist
*Ray Dolby (B.S. 1933), inventor of noise reduction system, winner of national medal of technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
*Charles Stark Draper (A.B. 1922), engineer and inventor, often called "the father of inertial navigation system, inertial navigation", inducted to the National Inventor Hall of Fame in 1981
*Bradley Efron (Ph.D. 1960), a leading statistician, inventor of Bootstrapping (statistics), bootstrap sampling, 2005 National Medal of Science winner
*Miquel Faig (Ph.D. 1986), economist
*J. Doyne Farmer (B.S. physics 1973), Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University, co-founder of the Prediction Company
*Katherine A. Flores (Human Biology, 1975) Professor at UCSF School of Medicine, Fresno, and founder of multiple programs to recruit, train, and retain LatinX doctors.
*Jerome Isaac Friedman, Jerome Friedman (postdoc), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990)
*Edray H. Goins (Ph.D. math 1999), president of the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM)
*Ulysses S. Grant IV (Ph.D. 1929), geologist and paleontologist; grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant
*Robert H. Grubbs (Postdoc), winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Theodor W. Hänsch (Postdoc and longtime faculty member), winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics
*John Harsanyi (Ph.D. 1959), 1972 Nobel Prize winner in economics
*Dudley R. Herschbach (B.S. math, M.S. chem 1955), Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1986)
*Bengt R. Holmström (M.S. in operations research, Ph.D. in business), economist at MIT and Nobel Prize winner in economics (2016)
*Taylor Howard (B.S. EE, former professor), father of home satellite TV dish, inventor of home satellite dish
*Fazle Hussain (M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969), physicist; Cullen Distinguished Professor; Fluid Dynamics Award of AIAA, Fluid engineering Award of ASME and Fluid Dynamics Prize winner; member of US National Academy of Engineering and US United States National Research Council, National Research Council
*Paul G. Kaminski (Ph.D. in AA, 1971), National Medal of Technology and Innovation, National Medal of Technology winner
*David A. Karnofsky (A.M. 1936, M.D. 1940), medical oncologist known for the Karnofsky score
*Henry Way Kendall, Henry Kendall (postdoc), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990)
*Paul W. Klipsch (M.S. 1934), high-fidelity Sound, audio pioneer
*Roger D. Kornberg (Ph.D. 1972), winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Helena Chmura Kraemer (Ph.D. 1963), biostatistician
*David Kreps (Ph.D.), winner of John Bates Clark Medal (2007) in economics
*Stephen LaBerge (Ph.D. 1980), psychophysiologist specializing in the scientific study of lucid dreaming
*Esther Lederberg (A.M. 1946), pioneer of bacterial genetics; contributions include discovery of lambda phage, the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction, the development of replica plating, and the discovery of bacterial fertility factor F
*Charles Lieber (Ph.D. 1985 Chem.), nanoscientist
*Phil Ligrani (Ph.D. 1980), eminent scholar in propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
*Mariangela Lisanti (Ph.D.), theoretical physicist
*A. Louis London, professor of mechanical engineering, expert on heat exchange
*Theodore Harold Maiman (MS in EE, Ph.D. in physics), inventor who built the first working laser, Japan Prize winner, Wolf Prize winner, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
*Paul Milgrom (M.S. in statistics, Ph.D. in business), professor in economics at Stanford, Nobel Prize winner in economics (2020)
*Paul L. Modrich (Ph.D. 1973), Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (2015)
*Reed M. Nesbit (A.B. 1921, M.D. 1924), urologist, pioneer of transurethral resection of the prostate
*Bradford Parkinson (Ph.D. 1966), inventor of Global Positioning System (GPS), inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
*C. Kumar N. Patel, Kumar Patel (M.S., Ph.D., EE), inventor of carbon dioxide laser (the most widely used laser), IEEE medal of honor winner, National Medal of Science winner
*Stephen Quake (M.S. 1991), professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford, Lemelson–MIT Prize recipient, cofounder of Helicos Biosciences
*Calvin Quate (Ph.D. 1950), inventor of the atomic force microscope, IEEE medal of honor winner
*Bruce Reznick (Ph.D. 1976), mathematician noted for his contributions to number theory
*Christina Riesselman, Paleoceanography, paleoceanographer researching Southern Ocean response to Climate change (general concept), changing climate.
*Alvin E. Roth (Ph.D. in operations research), 2012 Nobel prize winner in economics
*Victor Scheinman (Ph.D.), inventor of programmable robot arm
*Randy Schekman (Ph.D. in biochemistry), winner of 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, 2013 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
*Elba Serrano (Ph.D. 1982), neuroscientist and Regents professor of biology at New Mexico State University, recipient of Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
*Oscar Elton Sette (B.S. Zoology 1922, Ph.D. Biology 1957), fisheries scientist, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science
*K. Barry Sharpless (Ph.D. 1965), two-time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (2001 and 2022)
*James Spudich (Ph.D. in chemistry), 2012 Lasker Award for 1980s discoveries related to biological motors
*Max Steineke (AB 1921), chief geologist of CASOC responsible for the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia
*Nicholas B. Suntzeff (B.S. Mathematics 1974), cosmologist, Gruber Prize in Cosmology 2007, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015)
*Richard E. Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990)
*Frederick Terman (M.S. 1922), father of Silicon Valley, former professor in electrical engineering, National Medal of Science winner, IEEE medal of honor winner
*Fred W. Turek, director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology; Charles and Emma Morrison Professor of Biology in the Department of Neurobiology; both at Northwestern University
*Michael Turner (cosmologist), Michael S. Turner (Ph.D. 1978), cosmologist, professor of physics, University of Chicago, National Academy of Sciences
*Ronald Vale (Ph.D. in neural science), 2012 Lasker Award for 1980s discoveries related to biological motors
*Mac Van Valkenburg (Ph.D. 1952 EE), former dean of engineering college, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UIUC
*Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (Ph.D., EE and longtime faculty), father of "over the horizon" radar
*Grace Wahba (Ph.D. 1966), statistician, developed generalized cross-validation (statistics), cross-validation and formulated Wahba's problem
*Brian Wansink (Ph.D. 1990), author of ''Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think''
*Michael Webber (M.S. 1996, Ph.D. 2001), mechanical engineer and public speaker on energy policy
*Carl Wieman (Ph.D. 1977), Nobel Prize winner in physics (2001)
*Oliver E. Williamson, Oliver Williamson (MBA, 1960), Nobel Prize winner in economics (2009)
*Shing-Tung Yau, former faculty member, Fields Medal recipient

Arts and literature

Artists

*Marguerite Blasingame, painter and sculptor
*Barbara Bloemink, art historian, writer and expert on works on modernist painter Florine Stettheimer
*Howell Chambers Brown (A.B. 1904), printmaker
*Catherine Chalmers (B.S. 1979), artist and photographer
*Robbie Conal (Master of Fine Arts, M.F.A.), artist
*Margo Davis, photographer
*Richard Diebenkorn, painter
*Paulette Frankl, Arts and Languages, artist, courtroom artist and biographer
*Dana Gioia (1973, Master of Business Administration, MBA 1977), vice president at General Foods, poet, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA chairman
*Serena Ho, painter
*Brad Howe, sculptor
*Brenda Louie (M.F.A 1993)
*Sanaz Mazinani (M.F.A. 2011), multidisciplinary artist
*Robert Motherwell, painter
*Chris Onstad, author and illustrator of popular webcomic ''Achewood''
*Kamau Amu Patton (M.F.A. 2007), multidisciplinary artist
*Kameelah Janan Rasheed, artist, educator, and writer
*Shirley Russell (artist), Shirley Russell, painter and educator

Film/television

*Maudy Ayunda, actress and singer-songwriter
*Laura Bialis, movie director
*Richard Boone, actor
*Andre Braugher, actor
*David Brown (producer), David Brown, movie producer
*Phil Brown (actor), Phil Brown, actor
*Sterling K. Brown, actor
*Frank Cady, actor
*Britton Caillouette, filmmaker
*Melanie Chandra (B.S. Mechanical Engineering 2006), actress, ''Code Black (TV series), Code Black''
*Barney Cheng, actor, director, writer, producer
*Jennifer Connelly, actress (dropped out)
*Roger Corman, producer and director
*Ted Danson, actor (transferred to Carnegie Mellon University)
*Allison Fonte, former Mouseketeer from ''The New'' ''The Mickey Mouse Club, Mickey Mouse Club'' from the 1970s
*Dana Fox, screenwriter
*Jordan Gelber, actor
*Nicholas Gonzalez, actor
*Rebecca Hanover (B.A. English/creative writing 2001), television writer, winner of Daytime Emmy Award for her work on ''Guiding Light''
*Al Harrington (actor), Al Harrington (B.A. History 1958), actor, ''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-O''
*Ron Hayes, actor
*Edith Head (A.M. Romance Languages, 1920), costume designer
*Colin Higgins, film screenwriter, director, actor, and producer
*Ollie Johnston, pioneering Disney animator
*Jordan Kerner, film and television producer, former network and studio executive
*Don King (photographer), Don King (1978), surfing photographer and cinematographer
*Yul Kwon, winner, ''Survivor: Cook Islands''
*Heather Langenkamp, actress
*Robert Lehrer, actor
*Blake Masters (screenwriter), Blake Masters, screenwriter, director, and producer
*Alex Michel, businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for his role in ''The Bachelor (American TV series), The Bachelor''
*Avi Nash, actor
*Lloyd Nolan (dropped out), actor
*Safiya Nygaard, American YouTuber
*Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, film director, director of two Academy Award-winning documentaries
*Jack Palance, actor
*Alexander Payne, film director
*Danny Pintauro, actor
*Rick Porras, movie producer
*Megyn Price, actress
*Issa Rae, actress, writer, director, producer
*Alex Rich, actor
*Edward L. Rissien, film producer
*Jay Roach, film director
*Skyler Samuels, actress
*Ben Savage, actor
*Fred Savage, actor
*Susan Shadburne, film director, screenwriter
*Sam Simon, television writer/producer
*Eliel Swinton, actor
*Cynthia Wade, documentary filmmaker
*Kathryn Wallace, documentary filmmaker
*Sigourney Weaver, actress
*Adam West (dropped out), actor
*Reese Witherspoon (dropped out), actress
*Hank Worden, actor
*Alice Wu, writer and director of ''Saving Face (2004 film), Saving Face''
*Richard Zanuck, movie producer

Journalism

*Andy Adler, television personality, journalist
*Gary Allen, journalist, author
*Aimee Allison, author, public affairs television and radio host, political activist, and a leader of the counter-recruitment movement
*Kris Atteberry, Twins Radio Network studio host
*Kevin Bleyer, writer for ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''
*Ryan Blitstein, journalist
*Gretchen Carlson, ''Fox & Friends''
*Rajiv Chandrasekaran, ''Washington Post'' editor and author
*Bob Cohn, journalist
*Richard Engel (1996), NBC reporter, author
*Elizabeth Farnsworth (A.M.), broadcast journalist
*Donna Hanover, radio and television news anchor and personality
*Aljean Harmetz, journalist and film historian
*Sally Jenkins (born 1960), author and sports journalist
*Daryn Kagan, CNN ex-anchor
*Ted Koppel (A.M.), journalist
*Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay, journalist
*Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, television host
*Ty McCormick, award-winning American foreign correspondent
*Doyle McManus, ''Los Angeles Times'' bureau chief in Washington, D.C., author, broadcast commentator
*Daniel Pearl, journalist
*Nicholas Thompson (editor), Nicholas Thompson, journalist
*Jim Toomey, syndicated cartoonist
*Pete Williams (journalist), Pete Williams (A.B. 1974), NBC reporter, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1989–1993)

Music

*Samuel Adams (composer), Samuel Adams, composer
*Ronald Barnes (carillonist), Ronald Barnes (M.A. 1961), carillonist and musicologist
*Allette Brooks, musician
*Torry Castellano, former drummer of The Donnas
*Jack Conte musician, popularized on YouTube, best known as member of Pomplamoose
*Kristine Meredith Flaherty, rapper best known by her stage name K.Flay
*Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of Young the Giant
*Larry Grenadier, jazz bassist
*Dave Guard, folk singer and songwriter
*Tom Harrell, jazz trumpeter and composer
*Jidenna, hip hop/R&B artist
*Mikel Jollett, lead singer of The Airborne Toxic Event
*Kylee, singer
*Nataly Dawn, Natalie Knutsen musician, popularized on YouTube, best known as member of Pomplamoose under the stage name Nataly Dawn
*MC Lars, post-punk laptop rapper
*Jon Nakamatsu, pianist
*James Nash (musician), James Nash, musician
*Bruce Robinson, singer/songwriter
*Sandor Salgo, Carmel Bach Festival leader for 30 years
*Anton Schwartz, jazz saxophonist
*Daniel Seon Woong Lee, stage name Tablo (A.B. 2001, M.A. 2002)
*Vienna Teng, musician
*Christopher Tin, composer
*Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora Media
*Fei Xiang, singer

Writers

*Ann Bannon (Ph.D. Linguistics), pulp fiction author
*Elif Batuman (Ph.D. Comparative Literature), author of ''The Idiot (Batuman novel), The Idiot'' and ''The Possessed''
*Brit Bennett (A.B. 2012), author
*Stewart Brand, writer and editor
*H. W. Brands (A.B. 1975), author and historian
*Oscar Brockett, Theatre historian and scholar
*Ethan Canin (A.B. 1982), author
*Thad Carhart, author
*Jorge Cham (Ph.D. 2003), author of the webcomic ''Piled Higher and Deeper''
*Victor Cheng (A.B, A.M.), author, blogger
*Erskine Childers (UN), Erskine Childers, author and United Nations official
*Michael Cunningham, author
*Simin Daneshvar (Ph.D., Stegner Fellow), Persian novelist and storywriter
*Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) (Ph.D. 1957), author, spiritual teacher
*Allen Drury (A.B. 1939), Pulitzer Prize-winning author
*Selden Edwards (A.M. Education), best-selling novelist, headmaster, teacher
*Allegra Goodman (Ph.D. English literature), novelist
*Robin Lee Graham, Author, sailed the world alone as a teenager
*Alexander Greendale (M.A.), playwright and civic leader.
*Yaa Gyasi (A.B. English), Ghanaian-American novelist
*David Harris (protester), David Harris (no degree), journalist, author, protester and anti-war activist
*Sam Harris (author), Sam Harris (A.B. 2000), author
*Robert Hass (A.M., Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
*George V. Higgins (A.M.), attorney and author
*Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winner and author
*bell hooks (A.B. 1973), writer on race, class, and gender
*Mary-Louise Hooper (A.B. 1955), civil rights activist and journalist
*David Henry Hwang (1979), playwright
*Arturo Islas (A.B. 1960, A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1971), fiction writer
*Fenton Johnson (A.B., 1975, Stegner Fellow, 1985–86), author, fiction, nonfiction
*Ken Kesey (A.M.), author
*Iris Krasnow (A.B. 1976), author specializing in relationships and personal growth
*Alan Lelchuk (Ph.D. 1965)
*Paul Rogat Loeb (expelled for campus disruption), social and political activist and author
*William Harjo LoneFight, Native American author and expert in the revitalization of Native American languages and cultural traditions
*Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and author
*Siddhartha Mukherjee (B.S. 1993), author, scientist and Pulitzer Prize winner
*Michael Murphy (author), Michael Murphy, author and co-founder of Esalen Institute
*Ted Nace (A.B. 1978), author noted for critique of corporate personhood
*Scott O'Dell, author
*Robert Pinsky (Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
*Dick Price, co-founder of Esalen Institute
*Chip Rawlins, non-fiction author, Stegner Fellow
*Richard Rodriguez (A.B.), author; Hunger of Memory
*Allen Rucker, writer and television producer
*Edward Rutherfurd, novelist
*Vikram Seth (dropped out of Ph.D. program), poet and author
*Curtis Sittenfeld, author
*Anthony Veasna So (B.A. 2014), Cambodian-American short story writer
*Joel Stein, humorist and columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times''
*John Steinbeck (dropped out), Nobel prize winner in literature
*Gene Stone (A.B. 1973), author
*Hans Otto Storm, novelist, radio engineer
*Mark Sundeen, novelist and magazine writer
*Bette Talvacchia (Ph.D. 1981), art historian
*Nicholas Thompson (editor), Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief of ''Wired (magazine), Wired'' and historian
*Scott Turow (A.M.), author
*Alok Vaid-Menon, poet
*Jesmyn Ward (B.A., M.A.), author
*Albert Wilson (botanist), Albert Wilson (M.S.), author, botanist, talk show personality
*Tanaya Winder, poet
*Tobias Wolff (A.M.), professor 1997–present, author
*John Zerzan (A.B., 1965), anarchist and primitivist, author
*Richard Zimler (A.M. 1982), author

Astronauts

*Eileen Collins (M.S. 1986)
*Mike Fincke (M.S.)
*William Frederick Fisher, William Fisher
*Owen Garriott (M.S., Ph.D.)
*Susan Helms (M.S.)
*Michael S. Hopkins (M.S.)
*Mae Jemison (B.S., A.B.)
*Tamara Jernigan (B.S., M.S.)
*Gregory Linteris (M.S.)
*Edward Lu (Ph.D.)
*Bruce McCandless II (M.S.)
*Barbara Morgan, Barbara Radding Morgan
*Kathleen Rubins (Ph.D.)
*Ellen Ochoa (M.S., Ph.D.)
*Scott Parazynski (B.S., Doctor of Medicine, M.D.)
*Sally Ride (B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
*Stephen Robinson (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1990)
*Steven Smith (astronaut), Steve Smith (B.S. 1981, M.S. 1982, MBA 1987)
*Jeff Wisoff (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986)

Business

Company founders

*Brian Acton (B.S. 1994), co-founder of WhatsApp
*Kurt Akeley (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 2004), co-founder of Silicon Graphics
*Michael Arrington (J.D., 1995), founder of TechCrunch
*Diosdado Banatao (M.S.), venture capitalist; S3 Graphics, Chips and Technologies, Mostron co-founder.
*David Baszucki (G.M., 1985), co-founder and CEO of Roblox
*Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D. CS/EE 1977–1982 – dropped out), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
*Aneel Bhusri, cofounder of Workday, Inc., Workday
*Len Bosack (M.S. 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with his girlfriend (later wife), Sandy Lerner
*Dean Bosacki (MBA), co-founder of Manhattan Partners, board member of Academi
* Sergey Brin (M.S.), Google co-founder
*Orkut Büyükkökten, founder of social networking service Orkut
*Rachel Romer Carlson, founder and CEO of Guild Education
*Tim Chen (entrepreneur), Tim Chen, co-founder and CEO of NerdWallet
*Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's
*James Coulter (financier), James Coulter, cofounder of TPG Capital
*Ray Dolby, audio engineer, founder of Dolby Laboratories, Dolby Labs
*Tim Draper, venture capital investor
*Helmy Eltoukhy (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), co-founder and CEO of Avantome; co-founder and CEO of Guardant Health
*Jessica Ewing co-founder, and CEO of Literati (book club)
*Richard Fairbank (A.B., MBA), co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Capital One
*David Filo (MS), Yahoo! co-founder
*Doris F. Fisher, co-founder of The Gap, Incorporated
*Tully Friedman, founder of Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute
*Victor Grinich (Ph.D. 1953), one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor
*Andrew Grove (Lecturer), founder and former CEO and chairman of Intel
*Prerna Gupta (B.A. 2004), founder of Khu.sh
*Ole Andreas Halvorsen (MBA 1990), co-founder of Viking Global Investors
*Kevin Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite
*Reed Hastings (M.S. 1988), Netflix founder
*Trip Hawkins (MBA), founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, 3DO and Digital Chocolate
*Gladys Heldman (MBA), founder of World Tennis and Virginia Slims Women's Tour
*William Reddington Hewlett, William Hewlett (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
*Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn
*Elizabeth Holmes (dropped out), founder of Theranos
*Jen Hsun Huang, co-founder of Nvidia
*Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
*Stanley Kennedy Sr. (1912), Founder and Chairman of Hawaiian Airlines
*Vinod Khosla (Master of Business Administration, MBA), Sun Microsystems co-founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner
*Phil Knight (MBA 1961), founder and former Chief executive officer, CEO, Nike, Inc., Nike
*Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram
*Sandy Lerner (M.S. Stat & CS 1981), co-founder of Cisco Systems with her boyfriend (later husband), Len Bosack
*Richard Li (dropped out), founder of STAR TV (Asia) and chairman of the largest Hong Kong telecommunication carrier PCCW
*Craig McCaw (A.B.), founder and CEO of McCaw Cellular, founder of Clearwire
*Scott McNealy (MBA), co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Sun Microsystems
*Mark Oldman, Vault.com co-founder
*John Overdeck (B.S., M.S.), co-founder and co-chairman of Two Sigma
*David Packard (1934), Hewlett-Packard co-founder
*Lawrence E. Page, Larry Page (M.S.), Google co-founder
*Azim Premji, founder and CEO of Wipro Technologies
*T.J. Rodgers (Ph.D.), founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor
*Blake Ross, Mozilla Firefox co-founder
*Harry M. Rubin, co-founder of Samuel Adams and GT Interactive
*James Sachs (Master of Arts, A.M. 1979), IDEO co-founder
*Charles R. Schwab (1959, Master of Business Administration, MBA 1961), founder, chairman, and Chief executive officer, CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation
*David E. Shaw (Ph.D. 1980), founder of D.E. Shaw & Co.; Chief Scientist of D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
*Jeffrey Skoll (MBA 1995), first president of eBay, founder of Participant Media
*Evan Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat
*Tom Steyer, Farallon Capital founder
*Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram
*Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, Clarium Capital founder
*Alan Tripp (A.B. 1985, MBA 1989), founder of SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
*Jerry Yang (entrepreneur), Jerry Yang (b. 1968), Yahoo! co-founder
*Min Zhu (entrepreneur), Min Zhu (b. 1948), founder and former CTO of WebEx

Other entrepreneurs and business leaders

*Jim Allchin (M.S.), co-president of Microsoft
*Mukesh Ambani (Master of Business Administration, MBA candidate, dropped out), Reliance Industries Limited Chairman
*Chuck Armstrong (J.D. 1967), president of the Seattle Mariners
*John Arrillaga (A.B., MBA), Silicon Valley real estate developer
*Steven A. Ballmer (MBA candidate, dropped out in 1979), CEO of Microsoft
*Mary Barra (MBA 1990), chair and CEO of General Motors (2014–present), first female CEO of a major automaker
*Craig Barrett (Intel Chairman), Craig Barrett (B.S., Ph.D. 1964), past chairman of Intel, former CEO of Intel (1998–2005), former Stanford professor of materials science (1964–1974)
*Jeffrey Bewkes (MBA 1977), Time Warner president and COO
*R. Martin Chavez (Ph.D.), CFO of Goldman Sachs
*Burton A. Dole, Jr. (BSME, MBA), president, CEO, and chairman of Puritan Bennett
*Pat Dudley (B.A.), president and marketing director of Bethel Heights Vineyard
*Carly Fiorina (1976), Chief executive officer, CEO of Hewlett-Packard 1999–2005
* Paul Flaherty (M.S., Ph.D.), co-inventor of the AltaVista search engine
*Steve Fossett (B.S.), businessman, aviator, sailor and adventurer; first person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon
*Bill Franke (B.A., 1959), chairman of Wizz Air and Frontier Airlines
*Sarah Friar (MBA 2000), CEO of Nextdoor and former CFO of Block, Inc. (formerly Square)
*Peter E. Haas Jr. (B.A., 1969), Levi Strauss executive
*Christopher Hedrick (A.B. 1984), president and CEO of Intrepid Learning Solutions
*George H. Hume, president and CEO of Basic American Foods
*Mamoru Imura, CEO of Vita Craft Corporation and Vita Craft Japan, inventor of RFIQin
*Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist
*Kathryn Kennedy, winemaker, one of the first owners of a winery to bear a woman's name in California
*Omid Kordestani (MBA), senior vice president of Google
*Stephen D. Lebovitz (B.A. Political Science), CEO of CBL & Associates Properties
*Victor Li (B.S., M.S. 1985), Hong Kong businessman
*Mao Daolin (MS in EESOR), former CEO of Sina.com
*Marissa Mayer (B.S. symbolic systems and M.S. computer science), CEO of Yahoo!
*Stephen McLin (M.S. mechanical engineering, MBA), former Bank of America executive
*Henry McKinnell (MBA, Ph.D.), chairman and former CEO of Pfizer
*Robert Mondavi (A.B. 1937), vintner
*John Morgridge (MBA 1957), Cisco Systems chairman
*Hiroaki Nakanishi (M.S. 1979), president of Hitachi
*Rodney O'Neal, president and chief executive officer of Delphi Automotive
*Huw Pill (PhD, 1995), chief economist of the Bank of England
*Stan Polovets (MBA, 1989), energy executive and philanthropist
*Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet, Inc./Google, Inc.; former CFO of Morgan Stanley
*Kirthiga Reddy, former managing director at Facebook, Facebook India
*John Turner Sargent, Jr., business associate of Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday (whose father was CEO) and CEO of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
*Fred Swaniker (MBA 2004), African entrepreneur and educator
*Aaron Swartz (dropped out), computer-programmer-turned-political-activist, co-founder of reddit
*Alan J. Viergutz, chairman of Grupo Centec and former president of the Venezuelan Oil Chamber
*David Wehner, CFO of Facebook, 2014–present
*Darryl Willis (M.S. 2007), BP vice president of claims featured in commercials in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
*David B. Yoffie, business author

Religion

* Robert W. McElroy, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1989, American Roman Catholic Cardinal designate, sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
* Katharine Jefferts Schori, B.S. 1974, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church in the United States (2006–2015)
* Gene Scott, Ph.D. 1957, pastor, religious broadcaster
* Bill Thompson (bishop), Bill Thompson, B.A., 1968, bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans

Miscellaneous

*David A. Aaker, consultant and author on Marketing
*Scott D. Anderson, Air National Guard General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-16 pilot and general aviation test pilot, successfully flight tested first deployment of a whole-plane Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, parachute recovery system
*Alexandra Botez (B.A. 2017), chess player and commentator
*Antonio Buehler (M.B.A. 2006), West Point graduate and veteran of Kosovo and Iraq turned civil-rights leader battling police corruption
*T. Brian Callister, M.D. (A.B. 1983), physician, health care policy expert
*Auburn Calloway, attempted hijacker
*William George Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association 1952–1967
*Chelsea Clinton (A.B. 2001), First Daughter of the United States
*Jeff Cooper, a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean War, considered the creator of the "Modern technique (shooting), modern technique" of handgun shooting
*Diego Cordovez (A.B., M.S.), World Series of Poker Champion
*Ben Yu, poker player, World Series of Poker bracelet winner
*Jan Crull Jr. (enrollee and dropout, summer quarter 1967), former Native American Rights activist, iconoclastic filmmaker and multiple Marquis Who's Who biographee; first proposed the need for an Indian college fund as an aide to U.S. Congressman Paul Simon
* Peter Dalglish, international children's rights advocate; founded Toronto-based Street Kids International (SKI)
* Clifford B. Drake (A.M. 1951), Marine Corps Major general
* Paul Draper (wine), Paul Draper, winemaker at Ridge Vineyards
*Ann B. Friedman, founder, Planet Word, a museum of language arts in Washington, D.C.
* Patri Friedman, software engineer at Google
* John D. Goldman (M.B.A. 1975), CEO, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services; president, San Francisco Symphony
* Ari Greenberg, world junior bridge champion
* Harry Hay (1934, dropped out), founder of the gay liberation movement
* Denis Hayes (A.B. 1969, J.D. 1985), environmental activist and coordinator of the first Earth Day
* Carol F. Henry, philanthropist; co-founder and president of the Los Angeles Opera
* Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States
* Soren Johnson (A.B., M.S.), video-game designer
* William G. Joslyn (B.A. 1943), Major general in the Marine Corps
* Crystal Lee, Miss California 2013, First Runner-Up Miss America 2014
* Harold Levitt, architect
* John A. Macready (1912), aviator, member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame and the only three-time winner of the Mackay Trophy
* Ximena McGlashan (1916), entomologist, butterfly farmer
* Maura McNiel, supporter of feminism and women's rights
* Gregory Minor (M.S. 1966), one of three middle-management engineers who resigned from the General Electric nuclear reactor division in 1976 to protest against the use of nuclear power in the United States, an event which galvanized anti-nuclear groups across the country
* Ann O'Leary (A.M. 1997), senior policy advisor, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016; chief of staff to Governor of California, California Governor Gavin Newsom
* Charles A. Ott, Jr. (1941), United States Army Major General (United States), major general and director of the Army National Guard
* James Rucker (B.S., 1991), co-founder of Color of Change
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (1944)
* William Shurtleff, researcher, writer, historian, bibliographer, and popularizer of soyfoods
* Paul Sohl, United States Navy Rear admiral (United States), Rear Admiral
* Piya Sorcar, founder and CEO, TeachAids
* Vanessa Southern, Unitarian minister and progressive advocate
* Walter A. Starr, Jr., mountaineer (1924)
* Theodore Streleski, murderer of Stanford professor Karel deLeeuw in 1978
* Gayle Wilson (A.B. 1964), First Lady of California
* John C. Young (B.S., 1936, Engineer Degree, 1937), San Francisco Chinatown business and community leader.
* John Zerzan, green anarchist philosopher

Sports

*Viraat Badhwar, Indian Australian golfer

Politics

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Prime Ministers

Royalty

Cabinet Secretaries/Ministers

U.S. Senators

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Governors

U.S. ambassadors

Other U.S. diplomats

Lieutenant Governors

U.S. Statewide officials other than Governors/Lieutenant Governors

California State Legislators

*Juan Arambula (A.M. 1978), former California State Assemblyman
*Josh Becker (politician), Josh Becker (J.D. 1998, M.B.A. 1998), California State Senate, California State Senator
*Wilma Chan (A.M. 1994), former California State Assembly Majority Leader
*Richard J. Dolwig (LL.M. 1938), former California State Senator
*Nolan Frizzelle, former California State Assemblyman
*Lorena Gonzalez (California politician), Lorena Gonzalez (A.B. 1993), California State Assemblywoman
*Gary K. Hart (A.B. 1965), former California State Senator
*Barry Keene (A.B. 1962, Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1964), former California State Senator
*Sally J. Lieber (A.B. 2000), former California State Assemblywoman
*Michael Machado (A.B. 1970), former California State Senator
*Milton Marks (A.B. 1941), former California State Senator
*George W. Milias (A.M. 1950), former California State Assemblyman
*Becky Morgan (politician), Becky Morgan (M.B.A. 1978), former California State Senator
*Robert W. Naylor (A.B. 1966), former California State Assembly Minority Leader
*Nicholas C. Petris (Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1949), former California State Senator
*Curren Price (A.B. 1972), Los Angeles City Councilman and former California State Senator
*Albert S. Rodda (A.B. 1933, Ph.D. 1951), former California State Senator
*Ira Ruskin (A.M. 1983), former California State Assemblyman
*Alan Sieroty (A.B. 1952), former California State Senator
*Joe Simitian (A.M. 2000), former California State Senator
*Robert S. Stevens (judge), Robert S. Stevens (A.B. 1939, Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1942), former California State Senator
*William A. Sutherland (California politician), William A. Sutherland (A.B. 1895, Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1898), former California State Assemblyman

U.S. State Legislators outside California

*Tom Adelson (A.B. 1988), former Oklahoma Senate, Oklahoma State Senator
*Mary Kay Becker (A.B. 1966), former Washington House of Representatives, Washington State Representative
*Andy Berke (A.B. 1990), Mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and former Tennessee Senate, Tennessee State Senator
*Julie Bunn (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1993), former Minnesota House of Representatives, Minnesota State Representative
*Brian Bushweller (A.M. 1970), Delaware Senate, Delaware State Senator
*Capri Cafaro (A.B. 1996), former Ohio Senate, Ohio State Senate Minority Leader
*Charles Coiner (A.B. 1965), former Idaho Senate, Idaho State Senator
*William A. Collins (M.B.A. 1959), former Connecticut House of Representatives, Connecticut State Representative and Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
*Eric Croft (B.S. 1986), former Alaska House of Representatives, Alaska State Representative
*Andy Fleischmann (A.M. 1989), Connecticut House of Representatives, Connecticut State Representative
*Mary Alice Ford (A.B. 1956), former Oregon House of Representatives, Oregon State Representative
*Jon Hecht (A.B. 1981), Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts State Representative
*Beth Kerttula (A.B. 1978), former Alaska House of Representatives, Alaska House Minority Leader
*Patricia Lantz (A.B. 1960), former Washington House of Representatives, Washington State Representative
*Stephen R. Leopold (A.B. 1966), former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
*Brandon Shaffer (A.B. 1993), former president of the Colorado Senate, Colorado State Senate
*Cynthia Thielen, Hawaii House of Representatives, Hawaii State Representative
*Peter Wirth (politician), Peter Wirth (A.B. 1984), New Mexico Senate, New Mexico State Senate Majority Leader

Other non-U.S. political officials

*Diana Buttu (J.S.M. 2000, Doctor of Juridical Science, J.S.D. 2008), Palestinian political advisor
*Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrats (UK), British Liberal Democrat Leader (2006–2007)
*Lena Kolarska-Bobińska (post-doctoral fellow in 1974–1976), a Polish Member of the European Parliament (2009–present)
*John Lipsky (M.A., Ph.D.), acting managing director (CEO), International Monetary Fund, 2011; first deputy managing director (second-in-command, IMF, 2006–11
*Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan (2016–present)
*Michael Stephen (J.S.M. 1971), member of Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997)
*:fi:Martti Tiuri, Martti Tiuri (M.S. 1956), member of Parliament of Finland (1983–2003)
*Daria Zarivna - is a Ukrainian presidential adviser, social activist, spokeswoman and entrepreneur

Other U.S. political officials

*Christine Abizaid (M.A. 2010), 7th Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (2021–present)
*Jaime Areizaga-Soto (A.M. 1994, J.D. 1994), 11th U.S. Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (2022–present)
*Kurt DelBene (M.S. 1983), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer
*Lawrence Clayton (A.B. 1914), member of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1947–1949)
*Gabe Camarillo (J.D. 2002), 35th United States Under Secretary of the Army (2022–present)
*Stacey Dixon (B.S. 1993), 6th U.S. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2021–present)
*Richard W. Fisher (M.B.A. 1975), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
*Glen Fukushima (A.B. 1972), deputy assistant United States Trade Representative (1988–1990)
*Matt Gonzalez (J.D. 1990), president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2003–2005)
*Casey Gwinn, San Diego City Attorney (1996–2004)
*Wilder W. Hartley, Los Angeles City Councilman (1939–1941)
*John C. Holland, Los Angeles City Councilman (1943–1967)
*Keith Hennessey (B.A.S. 1990), 7th director of the United States National Economic Council, U.S. National Economic Council (2007–2009)
*Valerie Jarrett (A.B. 1978), Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama (2009–2017)
*Kristina M. Johnson (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984), United States Department of Energy, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy (2009–2010), 16th president of Ohio State University (2020–present) and Provost (education), provost of Johns Hopkins University (2007–2009)
*Kalpana Kotagal (A.B. 1999, B.S. 1999), employment attorney and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner-designate
*Caroline D. Krass (A.B. 1989), General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2021–present)
*Kathleen Matthews (A.B. 1975), Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party (2017–2018)
*Steven W. Mosher (A.M. 1977, A.M. 1978), Commissioner, Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China (1991–1992)
*Gautam Raghavan (B.A. 2004), director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office (2022–present)
*Bob Ronka, Los Angeles City Councilman (1977–1981)
*Catherine Sandoval (J.D. 1990), California Public Utilities Commissioner (2011–2017)
*Admiral, Vice Admiral James Stockdale (A.M. 1962), independent Vice President of the United States, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in the 1992 United States presidential election, 1992 presidential election with Ross Perot and the highest-ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam
*Michael Tubbs (B.A. 2012, M.A. 2012), 79th Mayor of Stockton, California (2017–2021)
*Carmen Vali-Cave (A.B. 1987), Ph.D. 1994), first mayor of Aliso Viejo, California
*Kevin Warsh (A.B. 1992), member of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (2006–2011)
*Jared Weinstein (M.B.A. 2011), special assistant and personal aide to U.S. President George W. Bush (2006–2009)
*Richard Sloan Wilbur (B.S. 1945, M.D. 1949), 9th Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
*Pete Williams (journalist), Pete Williams (A.B. 1974), NBC reporter, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1989–1993)
*Girmay Zahilay (B.A. 2009), King County Councilman (2020–present)

Law

National supreme court justices

U.S. federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges

U.S. federal court of appeals judges outside the Ninth Circuit

U.S. federal district court judges for the Northern District of California

U.S. federal district court judges in California outside the Northern District

U.S. federal district court judges outside California

U.S. state supreme court chief justices

California supreme court associate justices

U.S. state supreme court associate justices outside California

California Second District Court of Appeal justices

California court of appeal justices outside the second district

*Cynthia Aaron (A.B. 1979), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One (2003–present)
*George A. Brown (LL.B. 1948), Presiding Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fifth District Court of Appeal (1972–1987); Associate Justice (1971–1972)
*Dennis A. Cornell (A.B. 1969), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fifth District Court of Appeal (2000–2015)
*Christopher Cottle (A.B. 1962), Presiding Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Sixth District Court of Appeal (1993–2001); Associate Justice (1988–1993)
*Thomas F. Crosby, Jr. (A.B. 1962), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three (1982–2001)

*Elena J. Duarte (J.D. 1992), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Third District Court of Appeal (2010–present)
*Daniel J. Kremer (A.B. 1960, Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1963), Presiding Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One (1985–2003)
*James A. McIntyre (Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. 1963), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One (1996–2016)
*Fred R. Pierce (A.B. 1921), Presiding Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California Third District Court of Appeal (1962–1971); Associate Justice (1961–1962)
*Stuart R. Pollak (A.B. 1959), Presiding Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California First District Court of Appeal, Division Four (2018–present); Associate Justice of the First District, Division Three (2002–2018)
*Richard M. Sims, Jr. (A.B. 1931), Associate Justice of the California Courts of Appeal, California First District Court of Appeal, Division One (1964–1978)

U.S. state appellate court judges outside California

*Mary Kay Becker (A.B. 1966), Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals, Washington Court of Appeals, Division I (1994–2019)
*C. C. Bridgewater (A.B. 1966), Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals, Washington Court of Appeals, Division II (1994–2010)
*Peter Eckerstrom (J.D. 1986), Chief Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two (2014–2019); Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two (2003–2014; 2019–present)
*Rick Haselton (A.B. 1976), Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals (2012–2015); Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals (1994–2012)
*Diane Johnsen (J.D. 1982), Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One (2006–2020)
*David Schuman (A.B. 1966), Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals (2001–2014)
*William A. Thorne Jr. (J.D. 1977), Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals (2000–2013)
*Robert Y. Thornton (A.B. 1932), Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals (1971–1983)

U.S. Department of Justice

*David L. Anderson (attorney), David L. Anderson (J.D. 1990), United States Attorney for the Northern District of California (2019–2021)
*Donald B. Ayer (A.B. 1971), 24th United States Deputy Attorney General (1989–1990)
*Nathan Hochman (J.D. 1988), United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Tax Division, Tax Division (2008–2009)
*Carol Lam (J.D. 1985), United States Attorney for the Southern District of California (2002–2007)
*Ronald Machen (A.B. 1991), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia (2010–2015)
*Jeffrey A. Taylor (A.B. 1987), interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia (2006–2009)

Other

*Luke Cole (A.B. 1984), environmental lawyer, co-founder of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
*William Kaplan (J.S.D. 1988), lawyer, arbitrator, law professor, author
*Larry Krasner (J.D. 1987), 26th District Attorney of Philadelphia (2018–present)
*Michael Nava (J.D. 1981), lawyer; frequent speaker and writer on the need to open the legal profession to traditionally underrepresented groups including people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, women and people with disabilities
*Neil Papiano (A.B. 1956, Master of Arts, A.M. 1957), attorney for President Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Matthau
*Robert Philibosian (A.B. 1962), 38th Los Angeles County District Attorney, District Attorney of Los Angeles County, California
*Anthony Romero (J.D. 1990), first openly gay man and first Latino director of the American Civil Liberties Union
*Marc Rotenberg (J.D. 1987), president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
*Tony Serra, J. Tony Serra (A.B. 1957), radical civil rights attorney

Stanford faculty and affiliates

Aeronautics and astronautics

*Sigrid Close, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
* William F. Durand, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958)
* Charbel Farhat, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering
* G. Scott Hubbard, Adjunct Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Antony Jameson, Emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Sanjay Lall, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
* Bradford Parkinson, Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Stephen Rock, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Debbie Senesky, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
* George Springer, Emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology/biochemistry/medicine

* George W. Beadle, professor of biology, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Caltech at time of award)
* Paul Berg, emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, pioneer in recombinant DNA technology
* David Botstein, former professor of genetics, pioneer in Human Genome Project
* Patrick O. Brown, professor of biochemistry, inventor of DNA microarray technology
* Eugene C. Butcher, professor of pathology, 2004 Crafoord Prize winner
* Stanley Norman Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Carl Neumann Degler, Carl Degler, professor of history, Pulitzer Prize for History (1972)
* William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
* Christian Guilleminault, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
* Paul R. Ehrlich, professor of biology, 1990 Crafoord Prize winner
* James Ferrell, systems biologist and the first chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its establishment until 2011
* Andrew Z. Fire, professor of genetics and pathology, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Thomas J. Fogarty, clinical professor of surgery; member of National Inventors Hall of Fame; owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter
* Toby Freedman Space Medicine
* Jessica Hellmann, professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, director of the Institute on the Environment
* Daniel Herschlag, senior associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of biochemistry and, by courtesy, of chemistry
* Leonard Herzenberg, professor of genetics, winner of Kyoto Prize for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting
* Andrew D. Huberman, professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, known for discoveries of brain function, plasticity and regeneration
*David Katzenstein, Virology, virologist and HIV/AIDS, AIDS researcher and associate medical director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit at Stanford
* Robert Kerlan Sports Medicine pioneer
* Peter S. Kim, professor of biochemistry, former president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), 2003–2013
* Brian Kobilka, professor in medical school, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
* Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry, winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Roger D. Kornberg, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* William Langston, neurologist; founder, CEO, and scientific director of the Parkinson's Institute
* Joshua Lederberg, founder of the Stanford Department of Genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Michael Levitt, professor in medical school, 2013 Nobel prize winner in chemistry
* Kate Lorig, chronic disease self-management, patient education, director of the Stanford Patient Education Center
* Nicole Martinez-Martin, assistant professor of biomedical ethics,ethics of AI and digital health,STS
* José Gilberto Montoya, professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service
* Peter Raven, professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work ''Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution''; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; ''Time Magazine'' "Hero for the Planet" 1999
* Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including MacArthur Fellowship genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience
* Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes
* Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science
* Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique
* Lubert Stryer, professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip
* Thomas Sudhof, professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Edward L. Tatum, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at time of award)
*Jared Tinklenberg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

Chemistry

* Carolyn R. Bertozzi, professor of chemistry, winner of 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Carl Djerassi, professor emeritus in chemistry; father of combined oral contraceptive pill, birth control pill; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, and Wolf Prize; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Paul Flory, former professor of chemistry, winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* William Summer Johnson, William Johnson, former professor in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
* Harden M. McConnell, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
* Vijay Pande, Vijay S. Pande, associate professor in the Chemistry Department, founder of Folding@home distributed computing project
* Linus Pauling, former professor in chemistry, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry (1954) and in Peace (1962)
* John Ross (chemist), John Ross, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
* Henry Taube, former professor in chemistry, winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Richard Zare, professor in chemistry, winner of National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize

Graduate School of Business

* Edward Lazear, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (2006–2009); professor, Graduate School of Business; Hoover Fellow

Communication

* Clifford Nass, co-creator of The Media Equation theory of human-computer interaction
* Darwin Teilhet, mystery novelist, taught journalism at Stanford

Computer science

* Vinton Cerf, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
* Douglas Engelbart, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Edward Feigenbaum, Turing award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of Dendral
* Robert W. Floyd, Robert Floyd, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Alexandra Illmer Forsythe, wrote the first series of introductory computer science textbooks
* George Forsythe, founder of the Department of Computer Science and president of the Association for Computing Machinery
* Gene Golub, former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
* David Gries, former faculty. First text on compilers, winner of four national education awards
* Leonidas J. Guibas, Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
* John L. Hennessy, pioneer in RISC, president of Stanford
* Sir Antony Hoare, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* John Hopcroft, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Alan Kay, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Donald Knuth, professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of TeX, author of ''The Art of Computer Programming'', Turing award winner
* Daphne Koller, professor in CS
* John Koza, pioneer in genetic programming
* Barbara Liskov, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* John McCarthy (computer scientist), John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language and time sharing, Turing award winner
* Edward McCluskey, professor in EE, IEEE John Von Neumann Prize winner
* Robert Metcalfe, former faculty, co-inventor of Ethernet, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Allen Newell Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
* John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
* Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Raj Reddy, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Ronald Rivest former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Tim Roughgarden, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
* Arthur Samuel, former faculty; pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence; his checkers-playing program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and an early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI)
* Dana Scott, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Robert Tarjan, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Sebastian Thrun, director of Stanford AI LAB; team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley (vehicle), Stanley won the 2005 DARPA grand challenge
* Jeff Ullman, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
* Terry Winograd, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
* Niklaus Wirth former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of Pascal (programming language), PASCAL
* Andrew Yao, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* William Yeager, inventor of multi-protocol internet router

Economics

* Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
* Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
* Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
* Gérard Debreu, Nobel Prize winner in economics, former staff
* Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
* Francisco Gil Díaz, economist, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico
* Avner Greif, economist
* Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics
* Ro Khanna, visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce (2009–2011), United States House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman (2017–present)
* Jonathan Levin (economist), Jonathan Levin, professor of economics, won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal
* Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover fellow
* Douglass North, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
* Paul Romer, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
* Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize-winning economics professor
* Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
* William F. Sharpe, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner
* Thomas Sowell, economist and popular author, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
* Michael Spence, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
* Joseph Stiglitz, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
* John B. Taylor, economist, Hoover Fellow, developed the Taylor rule, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International affairs
* Robert B. Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor

Education

* Margaret Lee Chadwick, headmistress and founder of the Chadwick School and author
* William Damon, pioneer in peer collaboration and project-based learning
* Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama's presidential campaign
* Nathaniel Gage, pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching
* Richard Wall Lyman, former Provost (education), provost of Stanford University
* Fred Swaniker, co-founder of African Leadership Academy, CEO and co-founder of African Leadership University
* Lewis Terman, creator of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Stanford Binet IQ test
* John Willinsky, Open Access educator, activist and author

Engineering

* Andreas Acrivos, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Stephen Barley, organizational theorist and developer of adaptive structuration, co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization
* Sally Benson (professor), Sally Benson, professor of engineering
* Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., professor emeritus in Aeronautics and Astronautics, father of modern optimal control theory
* Roland Doré (administrator), Roland Doré, former president of the Canadian Space Agency
* William F. Durand, professor and head of Mechanical Engineering (1904–24), aerodynamics pioneer and chair of NASA forerunner NACA
* Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, pioneer of discontinuous automatic control theory
* William Webster Hansen, former professor, contributed to the development of microwave technology
* Siegfried Hecker, professor, former director of Los Alamos National Lab
* Ronald A. Howard, professor, father of decision analysis, founding director and former chairman of Strategic Decision Group
* Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of engineering
* Elizabeth Jens, NASA engineer
* Rudolf E. Kálmán, Rudolf Kálmán, former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner
* Rudolf Kompfner, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Bruce Lusignan, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, made contributions to communication satellites and reusable launch vehicles
* Bridgette Meinhold, artist and author with a focus on sustainability
* Dwight Nishimura, Addie and Al Macovski professor in the School of Engineering, who leads the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory
* William J. Perry, William Perry (A.M. 1950), engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
* Calvin Quate, professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Paul V. Roberts, pioneer of environmental engineering
* Stephen Timoshenko, pioneer of modern engineering mechanics
* Powtawche Valerino, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL space navigation engineer
* Giovanni De Micheli, former professor of Electrical Engineering
* Teresa Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical engineering, Electrical Engineering

History

* Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook ''The American Pageant''* Edward L. Beach, Sr., Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history
* Bipan Chandra, emeritus professor of history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
* Don E. Fehrenbacher, Pulitzer Prize winner author (1979, ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law & Politics''); William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies from 1953
* Paula Findlen, professor of history of science
* David M. Kennedy (historian), David M. Kennedy, professor of history and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
* Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture
* Sabine G. MacCormack, award-winning professor of late antique history
* Aron Rodrigue, historian
* Londa Schiebinger, professor of history of science
* James J. Sheehan, professor of history and former American Historical Association president
* Payson J. Treat (Ph.D. 1910), professor of Far Eastern history
* Gordon Wright (historian), Gordon Wright, professor of history, former American Historical Association president

International relations

* Stephen D. Krasner, former director of policy planning (2005–2007) for the United States Department of State

Law

* Benjamin Harrison, constitutional law, constitutional and international law professor and 23rd President of the United States
* William Lerach, guest lecturer on securities and corporate law
* Lawrence Lessig, Intellectual property, IP and constitutional law professor
* Richard Posner, associate professor and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Linguistics

* Jared Bernstein, Adjunct Professor
* Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Emerita
* Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
* Miyako Inoue (linguistic anthropologist), Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
* Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
* Ronald M. Kaplan, Adjunct Professor
* Lauri Karttunen, Adjunct Professor
* Martin Kay, professor of linguistics
* Paul Kay, Adjunct Professor
* Paul Kiparsky, Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
* Beth Levin (linguist), Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
* Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
* John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
* Elizabeth Traugott, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
* Tom Wasow, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
* Annie Zaenen, Adjunct Professor
* Arnold M. Zwicky, Adjunct Professor

Literature and arts

* Gerald M. Ackerman, Assistant Professor of Art History (1965–1971)
* Judith Bettina, soprano
* Bahram Beyzai, Persian playwright and filmmaker
* Eavan Boland, Irish poet, professor
* George Hardin Brown, medieval literature
* Scott Bukatman, film and media professor
* Albert Elsen, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities (1968–1995)
* Lowell Gallagher, literary theorist and associate professor, earned Ph.D. in 1989
* Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, literary theorist
* D. R. MacDonald, creative writing
* Alexander Nemerov, professor of art and art history
* Juan Bautista Rael, linguist and folklorist
* Jack Rakove, professor in history, 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner
* Wallace Stegner, 1972 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
* Yvor Winters, poet and critic

Mathematics and statistics

* Theodore W. Anderson, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr
* Emmanuel Candès, professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award
* Paul Cohen (mathematician), Paul Cohen, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient, National Medal of Science winner
* Brian Conrad, professor in mathematics
* George Dantzig, former professor in operations research, inventor of the simplex algorithm, father of linear programming, National Medal of Science (1975) winner
* Keith Devlin, executive director Center for the Study of Language and Information
* Persi Diaconis, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* David Donoho, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* Bradley Efron, professor in statistics, inventor of bootstrap, National Medal of Science winner, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* Solomon Feferman, professor in mathematics and philosophy, Schock Prize recipient
* Jerome H. Friedman, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Samuel Karlin, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
* Joseph Keller, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
* Maryam Mirzakhani, professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
* Amnon Pazy, Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* George Pólya, former professor in mathematics, author of How to solve it
* Richard Schoen, professor in mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* David O. Siegmund, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Charles Stein (statistician), Charles Stein, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Gábor Szegő, former professor in mathematics, founder of Stanford Math department
* Robert Tibshirani, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Ravi Vakil, professor in mathematics, one of seven four-time William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Putnam Fellows
* Akshay Venkatesh, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
* Shing-Tung Yau, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
*Grant Sanderson, YouTuber, podcaster and owner of mathematics channel 3Blue1Brown, 3blue1brown, contributor to Khan Academy.

Political science

* Coit D. Blacker, political science professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President
* Larry Diamond, professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute
* Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author
* Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010
* Terry Karl, professor of Latin American studies
* Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow
* Condoleezza Rice, political science professor, Secretary of State
* Douglas Rivers, political science professor, chief scientist of YouGov

Philosophy

* Joshua Cohen (philosopher), Joshua Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy
* Lala Hardayal, lecturer, Indian freedom fighter
* Patrick Suppes, National Medal of Science recipient, professor

Physics

* Felix Bloch, 1952 Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureate, physics professor
* Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor; professor at Stanford 1987–2004
* Eric Cornell (B.S. 1985), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Jerome Isaac Friedman, Jerome Friedman, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC as research associate (1957–1960)
* Sheldon Glashow, 1979 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor (1961–1962)
* Theodor Hänsch, 2005 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at Stanford 1972–1986
* Conyers Herring, physics professor and the winner of Wolf Prize in Physics in 1984/85
* Robert Hofstadter, 1961 Nobel prize winner in physics, former professor
* Henry Way Kendall, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor at Stanford (1958–1961)
* Willis Eugene Lamb, former professor, 1955 Nobel prize winner in physics
* Robert Laughlin, 1998 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, professor at Stanford 1989–2004
* Ann Nelson, 2018 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipient
* Douglas Osheroff, 1996 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* Martin L. Perl, 1995 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* Burton Richter, 1976 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* Arthur Schawlow, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of laser, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Leonard Schiff, physics professor
* Melvin Schwartz, 1988 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* William Shockley, 1956 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of transistor, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Leonard Susskind, physics professor, originator of string theory
* Richard Taylor (physicist), Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), 1990 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* Carl Wieman (Ph.D. 1977), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Kenneth G. Wilson, 1982 Nobel Prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC (1969–1970)

Psychology

* Richard C. Atkinson, Richard Atkinson, professor of psychology 1956–1980, former president, University of California
* Albert Bandura, professor of psychology since 1964, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology since 1973, known for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, on social cognitive theory and self efficacy
* Gordon H. Bower, professor of psychology, 2005 National Medal of Science winner
* Carol Dweck, professor of psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait
* Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of psychology, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
*Kalanit Grill-Spector, professor of psychology
* Roger Shepard, professor of psychology, National Medal of Science winner
* Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. (1884–1963), professor of psychology at Stanford University 1923–1963
* Lewis Terman, former professor, pioneer in Intelligence quotient, I.Q. testing
* Leanne M. Williams, professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2013
* Philip Zimbardo, former professor of psychology, former president of the APA, Stanford prison experiment, researcher
* Amado M. Padilla, professor of psychology

Hoover Fellows

*Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)
*Abbas Milani, political scientist and historian
*George Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
*Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert

Coaches

* Dick Gould, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All American players
* Payton Jordan, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
* Bill Walsh (American football coach), Bill Walsh, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers; inventor of the West Coast Offense
* Glenn Scobey Warner, College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral Punt (gridiron football), punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Other

* St. Clair Drake, sociology and anthropology, founding head of African American studies program
* James M. Hyde, metallurgist
* Scotty McLennan, Dean (education), Dean for Religious Life, Minister (religion), Minister of Stanford Memorial Church, and inspiration for the Reverend Scot Sloan character in the comic strip ''Doonesbury''

Stanford athletes

Baseball

* Rubén Amaro, Jr., Major League Baseball outfielder, former Phillies General Manager, and coach
* Bob Boone, retired Major League Baseball catcher and manager (baseball), manager; played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the California Angels
* Eric Bruntlett, retired Major League Baseball infielder; played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and the New York Yankees
* Jason Castro (baseball), Jason Castro, Major League Baseball catcher for the Houston Astros
* Sam Fuld, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics and General Manager for the Philadelphia Phillies
* John Gall (baseball), John Gall, retired Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman
* Ryan Garko, Major League Baseball outfielder, first baseman and designated hitter; played for the Cleveland Indians, the San Francisco Giants, and the Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers
* Jody Gerut, retired Major League Baseball outfielder; played for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs
* Shawn Green (attended), retired Major League Baseball right fielder and outfielder; played for the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks
* Jeremy Guthrie, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
* Jeffrey Hammonds, retired Major League Baseball outfielder; played for the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds and the Colorado Rockies
* Rick Helling, retired Major League Baseball pitcher
* Brian Johnson (catcher), Brian Johnson, retired Major League Baseball catcher; played for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco Giants
* Bob Kammeyer, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the New York Yankees
* Jim Lonborg, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies
* Andrew Lorraine, Major League Baseball pitcher; player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and Milwaukee Brewers
* Jed Lowrie, Major League Baseball infielder with the Oakland Athletics
* John Mayberry, Jr., Major League Baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
* David McCarty, retired Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder; played for the Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox
* Jack McDowell, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians
* Mike Mussina, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees
* Carlos Quentin, Major League Baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres
* Greg Reynolds, Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Colorado Rockies
* Bruce Robinson (baseball), Bruce Robinson, retired Major League Baseball catcher; played for Oakland A's and the New York Yankees
* Ed Sprague (third baseman), Ed Sprague, retired Major League Baseball third baseman and current head baseball coach at the University of the Pacific; played for the Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics and the Pittsburgh Pirates
* Michael Taylor (baseball, born 1985), Michael Taylor, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics
* Justin Wayne, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Florida Marlins

Basketball

* Jennifer Azzi, American Basketball League (1996–98), ABL and Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Curtis Borchardt and his wife Susan King Borchardt
* Mike Bratz, former NBA player
*Mariah ("Maggie") Burton Nelson
*Anthony Brown (basketball), Anthony Brown (B.A. 2014), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Greg Butler
* Josh Childress
* Jarron Collins
* Jason Collins, first coming out, openly gay active male athlete in a Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, major North American professional team sport
* Landry Fields
* Kristin Folkl
* Dan Grunfeld
* Sonja Henning, American Basketball League (1996–98), ABL and Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Casey Jacobsen
* Teyo Johnson, basketball and football
* Adam Keefe (basketball), Adam Keefe
* Brevin Knight
* Brook Lopez
* Robin Lopez
* Todd Lichti
* Hank Luisetti
* Mark Madsen (basketball), Mark Madsen
* Carolyn Moos
* Vanessa Nygaard
* Chiney Ogwumike, current WNBA player; top WNBA draft pick and Rookie of the Year in 2014
* Nneka Ogwumike, current WNBA player; top WNBA draft pick and Rookie of the Year in 2012, and WNBA MVP in 2016
* Josh Owens (B.A. 2012), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Angie Paccione
* Kate Paye
* Nicole Powell, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Olympia Scott, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Kate Starbird
* Andrew Vlahov, four-time Olympian for Australia
* Jamila Wideman
* Candice Wiggins, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Lindsey Yamasaki (2002), volleyball and basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* George Yardley, Basketball Hall of Fame member

Football

* Frankie Albert (1942), former quarterback in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers
* Jon Alston (2006), linebacker in the National Football League; played for the St. Louis Rams
* Lester Archambeau (1990), retired defensive end in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons and the Denver Broncos
* Oshiomogho Atogwe (2005), free safety in the National Football League; played for the St. Louis Rams and the Washington Redskins
* Brad Badger (1997), Guard (American football), guard and Offensive tackle, tackle in the National Football League; played for the Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings and the Oakland Raiders
* David Bergeron (2005), linebacker in the National Football League; plays for the Carolina Panthers
* Colin Branch (2003?), Safety (football position), free safety of the National Football League; played for the Carolina Panthers
* John Brodie (1956), retired quarterback in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers, had a second career as a Champions Tour, Senior PGA Tour professional golfer
* Greg Camarillo (2006), wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins
* Kirk Chambers (2004), offensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the Cleveland Browns
* Trent Edwards (2007), quarterback in the National Football League; plays for the Philadelphia Eagles
* John Elway (A.B. 1982), retired Pro Football Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame National Football League quarterback and current executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos
* Toby Gerhart (2010), running back in the National Football League; plays for the Minnesota Vikings
* Darrien Gordon (1993), retired defensive back in the National Football League; played for the San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders
* Jerry Gustafson (1956), BC Lions
* Coby Fleener (2012), tight end in the National Football League; plays for the Indianapolis Colts
* Kwame Harris (2003), offensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders
* Emile Harry, retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams
* Eric Heitmann (2002), Center (American football), center in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers
* Tony Hill (wide receiver), Tony Hill (1977?), three-time Pro Bowl National Football League wide receiver; played for the Dallas Cowboys
* James Lofton (1978), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Raiders, was the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA champion in the long jump in 1978 while attending Stanford University
* Erik Lorig (2009), fullback in the National Football League; plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
* Bryce Love (2019), running back in the National Football League; plays for the Washington Redskins; 2017 winner of the Doak Walker Award
* Andrew Luck (2012), quarterback in the National Football League; plays for the Indianapolis Colts
* John Lynch (American football), John Lynch (1993), retired strong safety in the National Football League and current NFL on Fox color commentator; played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
* John Macaulay (American football), John Macaulay, San Francisco 49ers Center (American football), center
* Ken Margerum (1981), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers
* Christian McCaffrey (2016), running back for the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers; NCAA record holder for all-purpose yards in a single season (2015); 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist
* Ed McCaffrey (1991), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos
* Jim Merlo (1973), retired linebacker in the National Football League; played for the New Orleans Saints
* Trent Murphy (2013), outside linebacker in the National Football League; played for the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills
* Brad Muster (1989), retired fullback in the National Football League; played for the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints
* Darrin Nelson (1982), retired running back and Kick Returner in the National Football League; played for the Minnesota Vikings
* Ernie Nevers (1925), former fullback for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League; former pitcher for the St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball
* Hank Norberg (1942), End (American football), end for the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears
* Babatunde Oshinowo (2006), defensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the Cleveland Browns
* Jim Plunkett (1970), retired quarterback in the National Football League, 1970 Heisman Trophy winner; played for the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
* Jon Ritchie (1997), retired fullback in the National Football League; played for the Oakland Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles
* T.J. Rushing (2006), cornerback and Kickoff returner, return specialist; played for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League
* Richard Sherman (American football), Richard Sherman (2011), cornerback in the National Football League; plays for the San Francisco 49ers
* Alex Smith (tight end), Alex Smith (2005), tight end in the National Football League; plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League
* Donnie Spragan (1999), linebacker in the National Football League; played for the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers
* Will Svitek (2005), offensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League
* Leigh Torrence (2005), cornerback in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers and the Atlanta Falcons
* Chris Walsh (American football), Chris Walsh (1992), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings
* Bob Whitfield (1992), retired Offensive tackle, tackle in the National Football League; played for the Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Giants
* Tank Williams (2002), Safety (American football position), safety in the National Football League; played for the Tennessee Titans and the Minnesota Vikings
* Coy Wire (2002), linebacker and Safety (American and Canadian football position), safety in the National Football League; played for the Buffalo Bills
* Kailee Wong (1998), retired linebacker in the National Football League; played for the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans
* Zach Ertz Tight End for the Arizona Cardinals. He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and won SuperBowl LII with them.

Golf

* Notah Begay III
* Hilary Lunke
* Casey Martin
* Tom Watson (golfer), Tom Watson
* Michelle Wie
* Tiger Woods (dropped out)
* Patrick Rodgers

Gymnastics

* Amy Chow, Olympic gold medalist
* Nancy Goldsmith, Israeli Olympic gymnast
* Ivana Hong, U.S. Olympic team alternate and 2007 World Champion
* Carly Janiga, NCAA champion in uneven bars, 2010
* Heather Purnell, captain of 2004 Canadian Olympic Team
* Jennifer Sey, former U.S. National Gymnastics Champion
* Samantha Shapiro, five-time member of the USA Gymnastics National Team, 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion, 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars and balance beam champion
* Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist

Rowing

* Adam Kreek, rowing, Canadian National Team
* Elle Logan, two-time gold medal-winning rower in 2008 Beijing Olympics and in 2012 London Olympics
* Kent Mitchell, two-time Olympic champion, two-time national champion, member of Stanford Hall of Fame
* Jamie Schroeder, rowing, U.S. National Team

Soccer

* Nicole Barnhart, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Utah Royals FC
* Rachel Buehler, former National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; formerly played for Portland Thorns FC (retired)
* Tierna Davidson, National women's soccer league and United States women's national team; currently plays with Chicago Red Stars
* Todd Dunivant, Major League Soccer; currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy
* Simon Elliott, New Zealand national soccer team player; Chivas USA
* Julie Foudy, former United States women's national soccer team, US national team association football, soccer player
* Adam Jahn, currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes
* Roger Levesque, former Major League Soccer association football, soccer player
* Camille Levin, soccer player
* Chad Marshall, Major League Soccer; currently plays for Columbus Crew
* Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand national soccer team, New Zealand international association football, soccer player; formerly with D.C. United in Major League Soccer, MLS, now with Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers in FA Premier League, English Premiership
* Mariah Nogueira, former National Women's Soccer League; formerly played for Seattle Reign FC (retired)
* Teresa Noyola, Nadeshiko League Japan women's league and Mexico women's national football team, Mexico national team; currently plays for FC Kibi International University Charme
* Kelley O'Hara, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Washington Spirit
* Christen Press, Damallsvenskan, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Angel City FC
* Tierna Davidson, National Women's Soccer League, United States women's national soccer team; currently plays for Chicago Red Stars
* Ali Riley, Damallsvenskan and New Zealand women's national football team, New Zealand national team; currently plays for Angel City FC, ACFC
* Lindsay Taylor (soccer), Lindsay Taylor, former National Women's Soccer League; played for Washington Spirit
* Ben Zinn, international soccer player and academic at Georgia Tech

Swimming

* Randall Bal
* Elaine Breeden, member of 2008 U.S. Olympic team
* Elin Austevoll, member of 1996 Norwegian Olympic team
* Maya DiRado, double gold medal winner in the 2016 Summer Olympics
* Jason Dunford, member of 2008 Kenyan Olympic team
* Janet Evans, four time Olympic gold-medalist
* Catherine Fox, double gold medal winner in the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Olympics in Atlanta
* John Hencken
* Misty Hyman, gold medalist in the 2000 Olympic Games
* Jenna Johnson, three-time medalist in the 1984 Olympic Games
* Janel Jorgensen, member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic team in Seoul, South Korea
* Tara Kirk
* Katie Ledecky (Class of 2020), seven-time Olympic gold medalist
* Peter Marshall (swimmer), Peter Marshall
* Lea Maurer, Lea Loveless Maurer, formerly head coach of Stanford Cardinal women's swimming and diving team
* John Moffet (swimmer), John Moffet, member of the 1980 and 1984 United States Olympic teams
* Pablo Morales, two-time gold medalist 1992 Olympics, medalist in 1984 Olympics
* Anthony Mosse (OBE BA (Hons) & MBA), Olympic medalist, 1988
* Andrea Murez, Israeli-American Olympic swimmer for Israel
* Lia Neal, swimmer, two-time Olympic medalist
* Susan von der Lippe, Susan Rapp, medalist 1984 Olympics, member 1980 Olympic team
* Brian Retterer
* Markus Rogan
* Jeff Rouse
* Gabrielle Rose (swimmer), Gabrielle Rose
* Summer Sanders
* Julia Smit, member of 2008 Olympic team
* Jenny Thompson
* Ben Wildman-Tobriner, double gold medal winner in the 2007 World Aquatics Championships, 2008 Gold Medal Olympic swimmer, former world record holder

Tennis

* Geoff Abrams
*Kristie Ahn
* Bob Bryan (dropped out)
* Mike Bryan (dropped out)
* Elise Burgin
* Pat DuPré
*Nicole Gibbs
* Paul Goldstein (tennis), Paul Goldstein
* Dick Gould
* Jim Grabb
*Laura Granville
* Jim Gurfein
* Julie Heldman
* John Letts (tennis), John Letts
* Scott Lipsky
* Sandy Mayer
* John McEnroe (dropped out)
* Patrick McEnroe
* Matt Mitchell (tennis), Matt Mitchell
* Peter Rennert
* Donna Rubin (born 1959)
*Jeff Salzenstein, Jeff "Salzy" Salzenstein
* Jonathan Stark (tennis), Jonathan Stark
* Roscoe Tanner

Track and field

* Mike Boit (M.S. 78), bronze medal at 1972 Munich Olympics in 800m track
* Russell Wolf Brown, professional miler
* Jillian Camarena-Williams, shot put, 2008 Beijing Olympics
* Ian Dobson (athlete), Ian Dobson, track and field, 2008 Olympics
* Ryan Hall (runner), Ryan Hall, cross country, track and field
* Regina Jacobs, cross country, track and field
* Bob Mathias (1953), Decathlon, gold medal at 1948 and 1952 Olympics; U.S. Congressman
* Steven Solomon, track and field, 2012 Olympics
* Toby Stevenson, pole vault

Volleyball

* Scott Fortune (1988), gold medal at 1988 Seoul Olympics, team captain of bronze medal team at 1992 Barcelona Olympics
* Alix Klineman (2011), bronze medal at the 2011 Pan American Games
* Ogonna Nnamani (Bachelor's degree#Other, B.A.S. 2005), 2004 Olympian, winner of 2005 Honda-Broderick Cup
* Beverly Oden (1993), 1996 Olympian, 1990 AVCA Player of the Year, 1985 Honda-Broderick Award
* Kim Oden (1986), 1988, 1992 Olympic team captain, Player of the Decade for 1980s AVCA's All-Decade Team
* Jon Root (1986), gold medal at 1988 Seoul Olympics
* Erik Shoji (2009), bronze medal at 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics
* Kawika Shoji (2007), bronze medal at 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics
* Logan Tom (2003), professional beach volleyball, 2000 Olympian
* Kerri Walsh Jennings (1999), 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in beach volleyball

Water polo

* Tony Azevedo
* Ellen Estes, Olympic water polo player
* Ashley Grossman, water polo player
* Brenda Villa, Olympic water polo player

Other sports

* Nick Bravin, Olympic fencer
* John Coyle (speed skater), John Coyle (B.S. 1990 Engineering), Olympic speed skater, silver medalist at the 1994 Winter Olympics as a member of the men's 5,000 meter relay team
* Rachael Flatt (B.S. 2015), ice skater in 2010 Winter Olympics
* Matt Gentry (B.A. 2004), wrestler, 2008 Canadian Olympic team member, 2004 NCAA Div. I National Champion
* Eric Heiden (B.S. 1984, M.D. 1991), speed skater, 5 gold medals at 1980 Lake Placid Olympics; cycling, competed in 1985 Giro D'Italia, 1986 Tour de France
* Alexander Massialas (B.S. 2016 Mechanical Engineering), Olympic fencer, 2016 silver medalist in individual Men's Foil, 2020 bronze medalist in Team Foil
*Dorian Paskowitz, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, surfer and physician
* Ramona Shelburne, softball player and sportswriter
* Sami Jo Small (B.S. Engineering 1998), Olympic and professional women's ice hockey goalie, Stanford University Men's Hockey, Pacific 8 Intercollegiate Hockey Conference, Pac-8 Conference (American Collegiate Hockey Association, ACHA) MVP, silver medalist, 1998 Winter Olympics; gold medalist, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics
* Debi Thomas (B.S. Engineering 1989), figure skater, bronze medalist at the 1988 Winter Olympics
* Josh Thomson (attended), wrestler, current mixed martial artist in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Lightweight Division

Notable current students

*Sophia Kianni, climate activist, UN advisor
*Rachel Grant, climate activist
* Ethan Josh Lee, Korean-American actor
* Simone Manuel, swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist and two-time Olympic gold medalist
* David Mazouz, American actor
* Elizabeth Price (gymnast), Elizabeth Price, gymnast
* Maggie Steffens, water polo, gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics
*Tan Sze En, Singaporean gymnast

Fictional Stanford alumni

In film

* In ''Avatar (2009 film), Avatar'', Grace Augustine wears a Stanford T-shirt.
* In ''The American President'', President Andrew Shepherd mentions that he went to Stanford.Stanford Magazine – Article
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* Takagi in ''Die Hard'' graduated from Stanford Law School in 1962.
* The 1944 film ''Double Indemnity'' is about a wife who conspires with her lover to kill her husband in Palo Alto on his way to a Stanford reunion.
* The main character of ''Antitrust (film), Antitrust'' is depicted as a Stanford graduate.
*In ''Bourne (novel series), Bourne'', Aaron Kalloor and Heather Lee attended Stanford.

In literature

* Chloe Steele in the ''Left Behind'' series (1995–2007) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins attended Stanford.
*Aron Trask (aka Aaron Trask) in ''East of Eden (novel), East of Eden'' (1952) by John Steinbeck is enrolled at Stanford University when he runs away to join the U.S. Army during World War I.

In television

* ''Star Trek'' character Jonathan Archer studied at Stanford.
* Dana Scully in ''The X-Files'' earned her medical degree from Stanford University.
*''Chuck (TV series), Chuck''s main character, Chuck Bartowski, is presented as a Stanford dropout.
* In ''Grey's Anatomy'', Cristina Yang holds a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford,The Stanford brand , Stanford Daily
/ref> where her former boyfriend Colin Marlowe was a professor.
* Captain B. J. Hunnicutt in ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'' graduated from Stanford.
* Kate Warner and Wayne Palmer in ''24 (TV series), 24'' have Stanford degrees.
* Stella (Ted's almost bride) in ''How I Met Your Mother'' attended Stanford as both an undergrad and medical school graduate.
* Detective Kate Beckett in ''Castle (TV series), Castle'' attended Stanford as a pre-law undergrad.
* Julia in ''Parenthood (2010 TV series), Parenthood'' attended Stanford for law school.
* Lloyd in ''Entourage (U.S. TV series), Entourage'' received his MBA from Stanford.
* ''The West Wing'' character Joey Lucas, portrayed by Marlee Matlin, graduated from Stanford.
* ''The West Wing'' character Surgeon General Millicent Griffith, portrayed by Mary Kay Place, graduated from Stanford.
* ''Supernatural (2005 TV series), Supernatural'' character Sam Winchester, portrayed by Jared Padalecki, was studying law at Stanford.
* Maya Gallo in ''Just Shoot Me!'' attended Stanford.

See also

* List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni

References

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