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Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.


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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. ;Color key


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. ;Color key


Alumni


Academics


Presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges

* Gene D. Block (A.B. 1970), 8th chancellor of
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
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Derek Bok Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Life and career Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and siste ...
(A.B. 1951), 25th president of
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
* José Antonio Bowen (A.B., M.S., Ph.D. 1994), 11th president of
Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
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Avishay Braverman Avishay Braverman ( he, אבישי ברוורמן, born 15 January 1948) is an economics professor, politician, and Israeli public figure. Having held senior positions as economist at the World Bank, he was later elected as fifth president of the ...
(Ph.D. 1976), 5th president of the
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
* John C. Bravman (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), 17th president of
Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...
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William R. Brody William Ralph Brody (born January 4, 1944) is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute ...
(M.D. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), 13th president of
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
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Frederic Lister Burk Frederic Lister Burk (1862–1924) was a Canadian-born American educator, educational theorist, superintendent, educational reformer, university president, and journalist. He served as the founding President of San Francisco State University (for ...
(A.M. 1892), 1st president of
San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...
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Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from ...
(LL.M. 1967), 37th chancellor of the
University of St Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...
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Nancy Cantor Nancy Ellen Cantor (born April 2, 1952) is an American academic administrator and the chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark, in Newark, New Jersey. A social psychologist, Cantor is recognized for her scholarly contributions to the understanding ...
(Ph.D. 1978), 11th chancellor and president of
Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
* Brian Casey (J.D. 1988), 19th president of
DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...
* Joseph I. Castro (Ph.D. 1998), 8th chancellor of the
California State University System The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest four-year public universi ...
, 9th president of the
California State University, Fresno California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California. It is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers bachelo ...
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Jean-Lou Chameau Jean-Lou Chameau (born 1953) is a French civil engineer who served as the president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2013 to 2017, and California Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2013. In addition, he previou ...
(Ph.D. 1981), 8th president of
California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...
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France A. Córdova France Anne-Dominic Córdova (born August 5, 1947) is an American astrophysicist and administrator who was the fourteenth director of the National Science Foundation. Previously, she was the eleventh President of Purdue University from 2007 to ...
(A.B. 1969), 11th president of
Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...
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Paul Davenport Paul Theodore Davenport, (born December 24, 1946) was the tenth president of the University of Alberta and ninth president of the University of Western Ontario. Born and raised in Summit, New Jersey,Mayne, Paul"Davenport honoured by Jewish Natio ...
(A.B. 1969), 9th president of the
University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...
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Sean M. Decatur Sean M. Decatur (born September 4, 1968) is a chemist, college administrator and president, and has been appointed president of the American Museum of Natural History in December 2022. Decatur will be the first African-American to serve as the mu ...
(Ph.D. 1995), 19th president of
Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is se ...
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Rolando Ramos Dizon Rolando Ramos Dizon (October 31, 1944 – April 25, 2012) is a Filipino De La Salle Brother who was the President of De La Salle University and the De La Salle University System from 1998 to 2003, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education f ...
(Ph.D. 1978), 20th president of
De La Salle University De La Salle University ( fil, Pamantasang De La Salle or Unibersidad ng De La Salle), also referred to as DLSU, De La Salle or La Salle, is a private university, private, Catholic Church, Catholic coeducational research university run by the I ...
* Michael V. Drake (A.B. 1974), 21st president of the University of California System, 15th president of the
Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
, and 5th chancellor of
University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
* Vartan Gregorian (A.B. 1958; Ph.D. 1964), 16th president of
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world. Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establis ...
, president of the
New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
, provost of the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
,
Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, along with the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by the president of the United States to recognize people who have made "an especially merito ...
recipient *
Claudine Gay Claudine Gay is a political scientist and university administrator. On July 1, 2023 she will become the 30th and first Black President of Harvard University. She serves as Harvard's Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and Af ...
, president-designate of
Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, second woman and first African-American to serve as president of Harvard *
William Westley Guth William Westley Guth (October 15, 1871 – April 19, 1929) was an American attorney, Methodist minister, and academic who served as the fourth president of Goucher College. Early life, family, and education Guth was born on October 15, 1871, ...
(A.B. 1892), attorney, president of University of the Pacific and 3rd president of
Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
* Jonathan Holloway (A.B. 1989), historian, 21st president of
Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
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Kristina Johnson Kristina M. Johnson (born May 7, 1957) is an American business executive, engineer, academic, and former government official who served as the 13th chancellor of the State University of New York from September 2017 until June 2020. In June 202 ...
(B.S. 1981, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984), 16th president of
Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
, US Undersecretary of Energy, former provost of
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
, holder of 100+ patents *
Clark Kerr Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California. B ...
(A.M. 1933), 12th president of the University of California System and first chancellor of
UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...
* Heather Knight (Ph.D. 1991), 21st
president of Pacific Union College This is a list of people who have served as the president of Pacific Union College (PUC), a Private university, private liberal arts college in California's Napa Valley. Twenty-four individuals have done so since the college's its founding in 188 ...
* William P. Leahy (Ph.D. 1986), 25th president of
Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
* Lee Si-Chen (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1981), 10th president of
National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...
* Rick Levin (A.B. 1968), 22nd president of
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
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Edna Ahgeak MacLean Edna Ahgeak MacLean or Paniattaaq (born November 5, 1944) is an Iñupiaq academic administrator, linguist, anthropologist and educator from Alaska, who has specialized in the preservation and revitalization of the Iñupiaq language. Early life a ...
(Ph.D. 1995), 2nd president of
Iḷisaġvik College Iḷisaġvik College () is a public tribal land-grant community college in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Operated by the North Slope Borough, a home rule government of the Iñupiat, it is the only tribally controlled college in Alaska, ...
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Thomas L. Magnanti Thomas Lee Magnanti (born 1945) is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magnanti served as the founding president of the Singapore University of T ...
(M.S. 1969, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1972), founding president of Singapore University of Technology and Design *
Lynn Mahoney Lynn Mahoney (born 1964) is an American university president, author, and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019, and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focuse ...
(A.B. 1986), 14th president of
San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...
* Alan G. Merten (M.S. 1964), 5th president of
George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
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Bienvenido Nebres Bienvenido F. Nebres (born March 15, 1940) is a Filipino scientist, mathematician, and a Jesuit priest who was the longest-serving university president of the Ateneo de Manila University. He succeeded Joaquin G. Bernas in 1993, and served as Uni ...
(M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), 29th president of
Ateneo de Manila University , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_aff ...
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Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, art historian, art collector and gourmet cook. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Wal ...
(A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1987), 10th president of
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
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Edward John Ray Edward John Ray (born September 10, 1944) is an American economist who became the 14th president of Oregon State University on July 31, 2003. Prior to joining Oregon State, Ray was executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University fo ...
(A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1971), 13th president of
Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...
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L. Rafael Reif Leo Rafael Reif (born August 21, 1950) is a Venezuelan-American electrical engineer, writer and academic administrator. He became the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, succeeding Susan Hockfield on July 2, 2012. On Feb ...
(Ph.D. 1979), 17th president of
MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
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Peter Salovey Peter Salovey (; born February 21, 1958) is an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey i ...
(A.B. 1980, A.M. 1980), 23rd president of
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
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Robert N. Shelton Robert N. Shelton (born 1948) is the president oGiant Magellan Telescope(GMTO), an organization behind the development of the 24.5 meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) which is poised to be the world's largest astronomical telescope when it comes ...
(B.S. 1970), 19th president of the
University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...
* Su Guaning (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1984), 2nd president of
Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...
* Steven C. Wheelwright (M.B.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1970), 9th president of
Brigham Young University–Hawaii Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU–Hawaii) is a private university in Laie, Hawaii. It is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). BYU-Hawaii was founded in 1955, and became a satellite campus of ...
* Jason Wingard (A.B. 1995), 12th president of
Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...
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(Ph.D. 1962), Israeli economist, S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, President of the
Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CH ...


Academia

* Cara Drinan (J.D. 2002), author and professor of law at Catholic University *
Michelle Alexander Michelle Alexander (born October 7, 1967) is an American writer and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book '' The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness''. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist ...
(J.D. 1992), civil rights activist and professor of law at
Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
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Lawrence J. Baack Lawrence J. Baack (born May 13, 1943) is an American historian of modern Europe, with a particular interest in Germany and Scandinavia, and a sub-specialty in Antarctica. He is the author of ''Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Denmark'', ''Chri ...
(Ph.D. 1973), historian specializing in modern European history; former vice chairperson of the History Department at
University of Nebraska, Lincoln A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
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visiting scholar In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...
at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
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Jeremy M. Berg Jeremy Mark Berg was founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Personalized Medicine. He holds positions as Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning and Professor of Computational and Systems Biology ...
(B.S. 1980), director of the
National Institute of General Medical Sciences The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) supports basic research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. NIGMS-funded scientists ...
(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 Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
* Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez (Ph.D. 1981), professor and chair of American ethnic studies,
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
* Albert Edward Caswell (A.B. 1908, Ph.D. 1911), physicist and chair of
University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...
Department of Physics 1914–1949, Fellow of
American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
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Marjorie Cohn Marjorie Cohn (born November 1, 1948) is a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild.Thomas Jefferson School of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) is a private law school in San Diego, California. It offers a Juris Doctor and three Master of Laws programs, including one that is exclusively online,"How to enroll in America's first LLM Program". http: ...
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 Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
* Steven D'Hondt (B.S. 1984), professor of oceanography at the
University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state 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 Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is a public community college in Santa Barbara, California. It opened in 1909 and is located on a campus. History Santa Barbara City College was established by the Santa Barbara High School District in 1909, ma ...
* H. Bruce Franklin (Ph.D. 1961), professor of English and American studies at
Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
in Newark, New Jersey *
James Paul Gee James Gee (; born April 15, 1948) is a retired American researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee most recently held the position as the Mary Lou Fulton Presidenti ...
(A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975), linguist, literacy researcher, and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at
Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...
* Larry Gladney (Ph.D. 1985), professor of physics at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
* William Gorham (A.B. 1952), economist, president of the
Urban Institute The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that carries out economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions". The institute receives funding from government contracts, foundations and pr ...
1968–2000 * Daniel Harrison (A.B. 1981), chairman of the Department of Music at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
* 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 Russell Mark Jeung () is an Asian American sociologist at San Francisco State University. He is known for his social activism on racism towards Asian Americans and is a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. Biography Jeung obtained both his Bachelor ...
(B.A., M.A), professor of Asian American studies at
San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...
, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate * Amos Lapidot, Israeli fighter pilot, 10th Commander of the
Israeli Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; he, זְרוֹעַ הָאֲוִיר וְהֶחָלָל, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense ...
, and President of
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...
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Mark Lemley Mark A. Lemley (born c. 1966) is currently the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology, as well as a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tan ...
(A.B. 1988), professor at
Stanford Law School Stanford Law School (Stanford Law or SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. Stanford La ...
, expert in patent law * David Lang, professor of Composition at the
Yale School of Music The Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joi ...
(B.A.) *
Lisa Lowe Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of French and comp ...
(A.B. 1977), Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
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Thomas L. Magnanti Thomas Lee Magnanti (born 1945) is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magnanti served as the founding president of the Singapore University of T ...
(M.S. 1969, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1972), former dean of the
MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
School of Engineering * Virginia Matzek (Ph.D.), Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and Sciences at
Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...
*
H. Brett Melendy Howard Brett MelendyMelendy, H. Brett (Howard Brett)
Guide to the ...
(A.B. 1946, A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1952), American historian and administrator at
San Jose State University San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) sys ...
and the
University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...
*
Sherman Mellinkoff Sherman Mussoff Mellinkoff (March 23, 1920 – July 17, 2016) was an American physician and gastroenterologist. He was the second dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, ...
(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 Charles James Ogletree Jr. (born December 31, 1952) is an American attorney, law professor and the Jesse Climenko Professor at Harvard Law School, the founder of the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. He is also t ...
(A.B. 1975, A.M. 1975), professor at
Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...
, founder of the school's
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating la ...
, author of numerous books on legal topics * Charles V. Park (A.B. 1909), director of the
Central Michigan University Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Established in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, the private normal school became a state institution and renamed Cen ...
Libraries *
Joachim Remak Joachim Remak (1920 Berlin – Santa Barbara, Cal., 2001) was a historian of Modern Europe, especially of Germany and World War I. Born in Berlin, Germany, he fled Nazi Germany in 1938 for the United States. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in history ...
(Ph.D. 1955), professor of history at the
University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...
* John C. Rule (A.B., M.A., 1952), historian of 17th- and 18th-century France at the
Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
*
Mavis Sanders Mavis G. Sanders is an American research scientist studying education and Black families. She is senior research scholar of Black Children and Families with Child Trends. Education Sanders received a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs with a concentrat ...
(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 Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According to ...
* Dale Schunk (Ph.D.), former dean of the School of Education,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-al ...
* Michael Smith (Ph.D. 1993), dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
*
Victoria Stodden Victoria Stodden is a statistician, associate professor oinformation sciences and affiliate professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Ottawa, an MS in econ ...
(Ph.D., J.D.), associate professor of information sciences at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univers ...
* Robert E. Swain (B.S. 1899), head of Stanford's Department of Chemistry and a founder of the
Stanford Research Institute SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic d ...
* 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 Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...
*
Richard D. Wolff Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor ...
(A.M. 1964), Marxist economist and professor of economics emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
*David Alvra Wood (M.D. 1930), president of the
American Cancer Society The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer. Established in 1913, the society is organized into six geographical regions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than ...
, first director of the
University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...
Cancer Research Institute *
Ben Zinn Ben T. Zinn (born April 21, 1937) is an American academic in engineering and former international association football, soccer player. He is currently the David S. Lewis, Jr., Chair and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ...
(M.S. 1962), international soccer player and academic at
Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
* KJ Cerankowski (Ph.D. 2014), assistant professor at
Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
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 INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...
*
Gita Sen Gita Sen is an Indian feminist scholar. She is a Distinguished Professor & Director at the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health, at the Public Health Foundation of India. She is also an adjunct professor at Harvard U ...
(Ph.D.), feminist economist and scholar on international population policy who has consulted for the
United Nations System The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal organs (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the UN Secretariat), ...
, adjunct professor at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore *
Natalie Roe Natalie Ann Roe is an experimental particle physicist and observational cosmologist, and the Associate Laboratory Director for thPhysical Sciences Areaat Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) since 2020. Previously, she was the Physics Div ...
(Ph.D. 1989), Director of the Physics Division at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...
* 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 Joel Westheimer is an American-born academic, and is a full professor at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is known for his work in citizenship education (subject), citizenship education. Biography Joel Westheimer was born ...
, professor of citizenship education at the
University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...


Computer science and electrical engineering

*
Norman Abramson Norman Manuel Abramson (April 1, 1932biography
from
Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache cohere ...
(Ph.D. in EE), president of EdX at
MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
* 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 A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term ''workstat ...
* Anant Bhardwaj (M.S. in CS), founder of Instabase *
Lawrence M. Breed Lawrence Moser "Larry" Breed (July 17, 1940 - May 16, 2021) was a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the programming language APL. Career As an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961, he creat ...
(M.S.), created the first computer animation language, MACS; Grace Murray Hopper Award winner *
Sergey Brin Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (russian: link=no, Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin was th ...
(M.S.), developer of Google search engine,
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
winner *
David Boggs David Reeves Boggs (June 17, 1950 – February 19, 2022) was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards and, along with Robert Metcalfe and ot ...
(Ph.D.), co-inventor of
Ethernet Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 198 ...
*
Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Profes ...
(Ph.D. 1981), director of
MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
computer science and
artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
lab, winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Vint Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include ...
(B.S. 1965, former professor), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol,
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
and
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
-winning computer scientist, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Donald D. Chamberlin Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. Chamberlin was e ...
(M.S., Ph.D. in EE), coinventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner *
Morris Chang Morris Chang (; born 10 July 1931), is a Taiwanese-American businessman who built his career in the United States and subsequently in Taiwan. He is the founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (T ...
(Ph.D. in EE), founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world' ...
, 2010 winner of
IEEE Medal of Honor The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contributio ...
* Surajit Chaudhuri, Ph.D. in CS, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner *
Mung Chiang Mung Chiang (born 1977) is a Chinese-American engineering researcher, educator, technology entrepreneur, foreign policy official, and 13th President of Purdue University. Starting January 1, 2023, Chiang is President of Purdue University. He i ...
(B.S. 1999, M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2003), Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
; 2013
Alan T. Waterman Award The Alan T. Waterman Award, named after Alan Tower Waterman, is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40, or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Scien ...
recipient * John M. Cioffi (Ph.D. in EE), pioneer in
Digital subscriber line Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric di ...
(DSL), winner of
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
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 IP multicast is a method of sending Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams to a group of interested receivers in a single transmission. It is the IP-specific form of multicast and is used for streaming media and other network applications. It uses spec ...
, a technique for one-to-many and many-to-many real-time communication over an IP infrastructure in a network *
Whitfield Diffie Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944), ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper ''New Dire ...
(Ph.D., dropout), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
,
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
winner *
Les Earnest Lester Donald Earnest (born December 17, 1930) is an American computer scientist. Education and career After receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1953, he began his career as a comp ...
, research scientist, created the first spell check and first cursive-writing recognizer *
David Eppstein David Arthur Eppstein (born 1963) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine. He is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorit ...
(B.S. 1984), computer scientist *
Paul Flaherty Paul Andrew Flaherty (March 14, 1964 – March 16, 2006) was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist in Internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine. Biography Flaherty was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ...
(MS, Ph.D.), inventor of
AltaVista AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own sear ...
search engine *
Scott Forstall Scott James Forstall (born 1969) is an American software engineer, known for leading the original software development team for the iPhone and iPad, and Broadway producer, known for co-producing the Tony award-winning '' Fun Home'' and '' Eclips ...
(B.S., M.S.), former senior vice president of iPhone software at
Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...
*
Richard P. Gabriel Richard P. Gabriel (born 1949) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computing related to the programming language Lisp, and especially Common Lisp. His best known work was a 1990 essay "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Bi ...
(Ph.D.), computer scientist *
Héctor García-Molina Héctor García-Molina (15 November 1954-25 November 2019) was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was advisor to Sergey Brin, the founde ...
(Ph.D. and professor in CS), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award winner *
Craig Gentry Craig Alan Gentry (born November 29, 1983) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles. Baseball career ...
(Ph.D.), computer scientist; 2010 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner; noted for solving "fully homomorphic encryption", a breakthrough in public-key encryption *
Edward Ginzton Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a Ukrainian-American engineer. Education Ginzton completed his B.S. (1936) and M.S. (1937) in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph. ...
(Ph.D. and professor), pioneer of microwave electronics, winner of
IEEE Medal of Honor The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It has been awarded since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. It is given for an exceptional contributio ...
*
Ian Goodfellow Ian J. Goodfellow (born ) is a computer scientist, engineer, and executive, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He was previously employed as a research scientist at Google Brain and director of machine lea ...
(B.S., M.S.), developer of
generative adversarial network A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks designed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in June 2014. Two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is a ...
s * 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 Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his involvement with public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to th ...
(M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1969 in EE and professor), pioneer in
public-key cryptography Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a public key and a corresponding private key. Key pairs are generated with cryptographic alg ...
, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange,
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
winner, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Charles Herrold Charles David "Doc" Herrold (November 16, 1875 – July 1, 1948) was an American inventor and pioneer radio broadcaster, who began experimenting with audio radio transmissions in 1909. Beginning in 1912 he apparently became the first person to mak ...
(graduate), creator of the first radio station in the world * William Hewlett (B.E., M.E. in EE), founder of
Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
,
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
winner *
Ted Hoff Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York) is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. Education and work history Hoff received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst ...
(Ph.D. 1962), inventor of
microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...
, winner of
Kyoto Prize The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...
, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
, winner of
National Medal of Technology and Innovation The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...
*
John Hopcroft John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM P ...
(Ph.D. 1964 in EE and professor),
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist *
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. (born 1944) is a pioneer of Object-oriented programming, object-oriented computer programming and the principal Systems architect, architect, designer and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments. ...
(M.S. in CS), Grace Murray Hopper Award winner * Leslie Kaelbling (Ph.D. in CS), winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books ...
professor in EE, 2007 winner of IEEE medal of honor *
Lydia Kavraki Lydia E. Kavraki ( el, Λύδια Καβράκη) is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice Unive ...
(Ph.D. in CS), 2000 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner *
Alan Kay Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) d ...
(Postdoc),
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist *
Dan Klein Daniel Klein (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He was educated at Mt. Leba ...
(Ph.D. in CS), 2006 Grace Murray Hopper Award winner *
Daphne Koller Daphne Koller ( he, דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one o ...
(Ph.D.), Stanford CS professor, winner of ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Douglas Lenat Douglas Bruce Lenat (born 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence; he was awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1976 for creating the machine learning p ...
(Ph.D. in CS and former professor), winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the development of the Liskov ...
(Ph.D.), first female Ph.D. in computer science in US, MIT Ford professor,
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
winner * John N. Little (M.E. 1980), co-creator of
MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation ...
* Albert Macovski (Ph.D. and Prof), authority on computerized imaging systems with 150 patents *
Theodore Maiman Theodore Harold Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser.Johnson, John Jr. (May 11, 2008). "Theodore H. Maiman, at age 32; scientist created the first LA ...
(M.E. in EE, Ph.D. in physics), inventor of ruby laser, the first working laser in the world;
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Jitendra Malik Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in computer vision. Academic biography ...
(Ph.D. 1985), CS professor at UC Berkeley *
Scott A. McGregor Scott A. McGregor (born 1956) is an American technology executive and philanthropist. He was the lead developer of Windows 1.0 (the first release of Microsoft Windows), he was the CEO of Philips Semiconductors from 2001to2004, and was the CEO ...
(B.A., M.S. 1978), lead developer of
Windows 1.0 Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the Euro ...
and former CEO of
Philips Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2 ...
and
Broadcom Corporation Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company that makes products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged ...
*
James Meindl James Donald Meindl (April 20, 1933 – June 7, 2020) was director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of ...
, former professor, 2006 winner of IEEE medal of honor *
Ralph Merkle Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is a computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics. Contribution ...
(Ph.D. 1979, EE), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Tom M. Mitchell Tom Michael Mitchell (born August 9, 1951) is an American computer scientist and the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is a founder and former Chair of the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Mitchell is known ...
(Ph.D. in computer science), professor and head of the machine learning department at CMU, winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Cleve Moler Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATL ...
(Ph.D., M.E. 1980), co-creator of MATLAB *
Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 19 ...
, Grace Murray Hopper Award winner *
Hans Moravec Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings ...
(Ph.D. 1980), co-designer of Stanford CART, the first computer-controlled robot car *
Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department ...
(B.S.), pioneer of artificial intelligence,
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist *
Ren Ng Yi-Ren Ng (born September 21, 1979) is a Malaysian American scientist who is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder, executive chairman a ...
(Ph.D. in CS), founder and chief executive officer of
Lytro Lytro, Inc. was an American company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng which developed some of the first commercially available light-field cameras. Lytro began shipping its first generation pocket-sized camera, capable of refocusing images after being ta ...
, 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 (Ph.D. 1958, CS), led the effort in developing
Shakey the robot Shakey the Robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze commands and break them down ...
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 David Packard ( ; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–6 ...
(BA, MA EE), cofounder of HP Inc., 1988 winner of national medal of technology, and of presidential medal of freedom *
Larry Page Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin. Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 unti ...
(M.S.), developer of Google search engine,
Marconi Prize The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society ...
winner *
Kumar Patel Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel (born 2 July 1938) is an electrical engineer. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and engraving a wide range of materials like plastic and wood. Because th ...
(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 The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist *
Raj Reddy Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mello ...
(Ph.D. 1966, former professor),
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist, founder of robotics institute at
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
* Rafael Reif (Ph.D. in EE, 1979), current president of MIT *
Ronald Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT. He is a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Int ...
(Ph.D. 1974, former professor),
cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...
, Turing Award-winning computer scientist * Stuart Russell (Ph.D. 1986, CS), chair of CS at UC-Berkeley, winner of
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
*
Mike Schroepfer Mike Schroepfer is an entrepreneur, technical architect and manager who was the chief technology officer (CTO) at Meta Platforms between March 2013 and March 2022. Education Schroepfer attended Spanish River Community High School in Palm Bea ...
(B.S. 1997 and M.S. 1999), led development of the
Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...
browser at Mozilla; now vice president of engineering at
Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...
* Edward Shortliffe (Ph.D.), Grace Murray Hopper Award winner, inventor of the rule-based pharmacological
expert system In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if ...
: Mycin *
Charles Simonyi Charles Simonyi (; hu, Simonyi Károly, ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect. He started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office. He co-founded and led In ...
(M.S., Ph.D. 1977, CS), inventor of
Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name ''Multi-Tool Word'' for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms includin ...
, former chief architect at
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
*
Daniel Sleator Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator (born 10 December 1953) is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 1999, he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (jointly with Robert Tarjan) for the splay tree d ...
(Ph.D.), computer scientist * Michael D. Smith (Ph.D. in EE 1993), dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University *
Alfred Spector Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. He is a visiting scholar in the MIT EECS Department and was previously CTO of Two Sigma Investments. Before that, he was Vice President of Research and Special Initiati ...
(Ph.D.), computer scientist *
Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees a ...
(Ph.D. 1972, former professor),
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist *
Frederick Terman Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is wid ...
(B.S. in chemistry, M.E. in EE), "father of Silicon Valley",
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
winner *
Russell Varian Russell may refer to: People * Russell (given name) * Russell (surname) * Lady Russell (disambiguation) * Lord Russell (disambiguation) Places Australia *Russell, Australian Capital Territory *Russell Island, Queensland (disambiguation) **Ru ...
(Ph.D.), co-inventor of
Klystron A klystron is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube, invented in 1937 by American electrical engineers Russell and Sigurd Varian,Pond, Norman H. "The Tube Guys". Russ Cochran, 2008 p.31-40 which is used as an amplifier for high radio frequen ...
, the foundation of RADAR *
Sigurd Varian Sigurd ( non, Sigurðr ) or Siegfried (Middle High German: ''Sîvrit'') is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon and was later murdered. It is possible he was inspired by one or more figures from the Frankish Meroving ...
(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 (Ph.D.), IT for business, data analytics, e-commerce, software, digital transformation


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* Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe (B.S. in chemistry, 1966),
Nigerian Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...
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 James Benjamin Martel is a physician, surgeon and scientist. He is former Chair of Surgery, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, former Chief of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology (ENT), and Plastic Surgery, Sutter Roseville Medical Center. He is the form ...
(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 Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informat ...
entrepreneur, specialist in
medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...
, monitoring and analysis, co-inventor of "glowing mice" imaging technique *
Edward Boyden Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In 2018 he was named a Howard Hu ...
(Ph.D.), co-inventor of optogenetics *
Ronald N. Bracewell Ronald Newbold Bracewell Order of Australia, AO (22 July 1921 – 12 August 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University. Education B ...
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 Janet Zaph Briggs (February 7, 1912 – January 25, 1974) was an American metallurgist, the first woman to earn a mining engineering degree from Stanford University, and an expert on molybdenum. She was inducted into the National Mining Hall of F ...
(A.B. 1931, M.S. 1933), metallurgist; first woman to earn a mining engineering degree at Stanford *
Emmanuel Candès Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. 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 John M. Chowning (; born August 22, 1934 in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acou ...
(Ph.D.), father of digital music synthesizer, inventor of frequency modulation (FM) algorithm *
Eric Allin Cornell Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel ...
(B.S. 1985), Nobel Prize winner in physics * Merton Davies (B.S. 1937), space scientist *
Kenneth L. Davis Kenneth L. Davis is chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, an American author and medical researcher who developed the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale, the most widely used tool to test the efficacy of tre ...
, president and
chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of
Mount Sinai Medical Center Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly at times known as Mount Sinai Medical Center, is a 319-bed major urban hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglass Park at 15th Street and California Avenue on the city's West Sid ...
in New York City *
Karl Deisseroth Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technolo ...
(Ph.D. 1998, M.D. 2000), neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and bioengineer; known for creating, developing, and applying the technologies of
optogenetics Optogenetics is a biological technique to control the activity of neurons or other cell types with light. This is achieved by expression of light-sensitive ion channels, pumps or enzymes specifically in the target cells. On the level of individ ...
and
CLARITY Clarity may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Clarity, a magic spell in the online game ''EverQuest'' * Clarity, a fictional drug from the film ''Minority Report'' Music Albums * ''Clarity'' (Jimmy Eat World album) * ...
, and for coining the names of these fields * Delzie Demaree (Ph.D 1932), botanist. *
Thomas Dibblee Thomas Wilson Dibblee, Jr. (11 October 1911, in Santa Barbara, California – 17 November 2004, in Santa Barbara, California) was an American geologist best known for his geological mapping. He is also known, together with co-author Mason H ...
, geologist *
Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Lab ...
(B.S. 1933), inventor of noise reduction system, winner of national medal of technology, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentat ...
(A.B. 1922), engineer and inventor, often called "the father of
inertial navigation An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors ( accelerometers), rotation sensors ( gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity ...
", inducted to the National Inventor Hall of Fame in 1981 *
Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lead ...
(Ph.D. 1960), a leading statistician, inventor of bootstrap sampling, 2005
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
winner * Miquel Faig (Ph.D. 1986), economist *
J. Doyne Farmer J. Doyne Farmer (born 22 June 1952) is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics. He is Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, where he is also Dir ...
(B.S. physics 1973), Professor of Mathematics,
Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, co-founder of the
Prediction Company Prediction Company was founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in March 1991 by J. Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard, and James McGill. The company used forecasting techniques to build black-box trading systems for financial markets, mainly employing st ...
* Katherine A. Flores (Human Biology, 1975) Professor at
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, Fresno, and founder of multiple programs to recruit, train, and retain LatinX doctors. * Jerome Friedman (postdoc), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990) *
Edray H. Goins Edray Herber Goins (born June 29, 1972, Los Angeles) is an American mathematician. He specializes in number theory and algebraic geometry. His interests include Selmer groups for elliptic curves using class groups of number fields, Belyi functi ...
(Ph.D. math 1999), president of the
National Association of Mathematicians The National Association of Mathematicians is a professional association for mathematicians in the US, especially African Americans and other minorities. It was founded in 1969.
(NAM) *
Ulysses S. Grant IV Ulysses Simpson Grant IV (May 23, 1893 – March 11, 1977) was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. He was the youngest son of Ulysses S. Grant Jr., and a grandson o ...
(Ph.D. 1929), geologist and paleontologist; grandson of President
Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...
*
Robert H. Grubbs Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient ...
(Postdoc), winner of the 2005
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*
Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...
(Postdoc and longtime faculty member), winner of the 2005
Nobel Prize in physics ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then " ...
*
John Harsanyi John Charles Harsanyi ( hu, Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist and the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. He is best known for his contributions to the ...
(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 Bengt may refer to: People In arts, entertainment and media Actors * Bengt Djurberg (1898–1941), Swedish actor and singer * Bengt Ekerot (1920–1971), Swedish actor and director * Bengt Eklund (1925–1998), Swedish actor * Bengt Logardt (1914 ...
(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 In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
Award of
AIAA The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of t ...
,
Fluid In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms (''flows'') under an applied shear stress, or external force. They have zero shear modulus, or, in simpler terms, are substances which cannot resist any shear ...
engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...
Award of
ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...
and
Fluid Dynamics In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
Prize winner; member of US
National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy ...
and US
National Research Council National Research Council may refer to: * National Research Council (Canada), sponsoring research and development * National Research Council (Italy), scientific and technological research, Rome * National Research Council (United States), part of ...
* Paul G. Kaminski (Ph.D. in AA, 1971),
National Medal of Technology The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...
winner * David A. Karnofsky (A.M. 1936, M.D. 1940), medical oncologist known for the
Karnofsky score In medicine (oncology and other fields), performance status is an attempt to quantify cancer patients' general well-being and activities of daily life. This measure is used to determine whether they can receive chemotherapy, whether dose adjustment ...
* Henry Kendall (postdoc), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990) * Paul W. Klipsch (M.S. 1934), high-fidelity
audio Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound * Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum * Digital audio, representation of sou ...
pioneer *
Roger D. Kornberg Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which ...
(Ph.D. 1972), winner of the 2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...
*
Helena Chmura Kraemer Helena Chmura Kraemer is an American professor emerita of biostatistics at Stanford University. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Education Helena Chmura Kraemer completed a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with Phi Beta ...
(Ph.D. 1963), biostatistician * David Kreps (Ph.D.), winner of John Bates Clark Medal (2007) in economics *
Stephen LaBerge Stephen LaBerge (born 1947) is an American psychophysiologist specializing in the Oneirology, scientific study of lucid dreaming. In 1967 he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics. He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in psych ...
(Ph.D. 1980), psychophysiologist specializing in the scientific study of
lucid dreaming A lucid dream is a type of dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming while dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment; however, this is n ...
*
Esther Lederberg Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (December 18, 1922 – November 11, 2006) was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. She discovered the bacterial virus λ and the bacterial fertility factor F, devised the first impl ...
(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 Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011, Lieber was named the leading chemist in the world for the decade 2000–2010 by Thomson Reuters, based on the impact of his scientific p ...
(Ph.D. 1985 Chem.), nanoscientist *
Phil Ligrani Phillip Meredith Ligrani is an American mechanical engineer. As of 2022, he is eminent scholar in propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Career Ligrani was born in Cheyenne, ...
(Ph.D. 1980), eminent scholar in propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and comprises nine colleges: arts, humanities & social scienc ...
*
Mariangela Lisanti Mariangela Lisanti (born September 2, 1983) is an American theoretical physicist and an Associate Professor of physics at Princeton University. Her work focuses on understanding dark matter and dark energy using tools developed through artificial ...
(Ph.D.), theoretical physicist * A. Louis London, professor of mechanical engineering, expert on heat exchange *
Theodore Harold Maiman Theodore Harold Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser.Johnson, John Jr. (May 11, 2008). "Theodore H. Maiman, at age 32; scientist created the first LA ...
(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 The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Paul Milgrom Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held ...
(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 Bradford Parkinson (February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contribu ...
(Ph.D. 1966), inventor of
Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...
(GPS), inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
*
Kumar Patel Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel (born 2 July 1938) is an electrical engineer. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and engraving a wide range of materials like plastic and wood. Because th ...
(M.S., Ph.D., EE), inventor of carbon dioxide laser (the most widely used laser), IEEE medal of honor winner,
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
winner *
Stephen Quake Stephen Ronald Quake (born 1969) is an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He earned his B.S. in physics and M.S. in mathematics from Stanford in 1991 and his D.Phil. in physics from Oxford University in 1994 as a Marshall Scholar. H ...
(M.S. 1991), professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford,
Lemelson–MIT Prize The Lemelson-MIT Program awards several prizes yearly to inventors in the United States. The largest is the Lemelson–MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, funded by the Lemelson Foundation, and is administered through the Sc ...
recipient, cofounder of Helicos Biosciences *
Calvin Quate Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Education He earned his bachelo ...
(Ph.D. 1950), inventor of the
atomic force microscope Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the op ...
, IEEE medal of honor winner * Bruce Reznick (Ph.D. 1976), mathematician noted for his contributions to
number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 ...
* Christina Riesselman, paleoceanographer researching
Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. With a size of , it is regarded as the second-small ...
response to changing climate. *
Alvin E. Roth Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University.
(Ph.D. in operations research), 2012 Nobel prize winner in economics *
Victor Scheinman Victor David Scheinman (December 28, 1942 – September 20, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of robotics. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Leonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war the family mov ...
(Ph.D.), inventor of programmable robot arm *
Randy Schekman Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' and former editor of ''Annual Review of Cell and ...
(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 New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university based primarily in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest public institution of higher education in New Mexico and one of the state's tw ...
, recipient of Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring *
Oscar Elton Sette Oscar Elton Sette (March 29, 1900 - July 25, 1972), who preferred to be called Elton Sette, was an influential 20th-century American fisheries scientist. During a five-decade career with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, United States Fish ...
(B.S. Zoology 1922, Ph.D. Biology 1957), fisheries scientist, pioneer of fisheries
oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...
and modern
fisheries science Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, ...
* K. Barry Sharpless (Ph.D. 1965), two-time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (2001 and 2022) *
James Spudich James A. Spudich () is an American scientist and professor. He is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Biochemistry and of Cardiovascular Disease at Stanford University and works on the molecular basis of muscle contraction. He was awar ...
(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 The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prestigious international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Since 2001, the G ...
2007,
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture cap ...
(2015) *
Richard E. Taylor Richard Edward Taylor, (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations ...
(Ph.D. 1962), Nobel Prize winner in physics (1990) *
Frederick Terman Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is wid ...
(M.S. 1922), father of Silicon Valley, former professor in
electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
, 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 Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...
* Michael S. Turner (Ph.D. 1978), cosmologist, professor of physics,
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
,
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...
*
Ronald Vale Ronald David Vale (born 1959) is a biochemist and cell biologist. He is a professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. His research is focused on motor proteins, particularly kinesi ...
(Ph.D. in neural science), 2012
Lasker Award The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, which was ...
for 1980s discoveries related to biological motors * Mac Van Valkenburg (Ph.D. 1952 EE), former dean of engineering college,
UIUC The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...
* Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (Ph.D., EE and longtime faculty), father of "over the horizon" radar *
Grace Wahba Grace Goldsmith Wahba (born August 3, 1934) is an American statistician and now-retired I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data. Best known f ...
(Ph.D. 1966), statistician, developed generalized cross-validation and formulated
Wahba's problem In applied mathematics, Wahba's problem, first posed by Grace Wahba in 1965, seeks to find a rotation matrix ( special orthogonal matrix) between two coordinate systems from a set of (weighted) vector observations. Solutions to Wahba's problem are ...
*
Brian Wansink Brian Wansink is a former American professor and researcher who worked in consumer behavior and marketing research. He is the former executive director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) (2007–2009) and held the Joh ...
(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 Williamson Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostro ...
(MBA, 1960), Nobel Prize winner in economics (2009) *
Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. In April 2022, Yau announced retirement from Harvard to become Chair Professor of mathem ...
, former faculty member,
Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...
recipient


Arts and literature


Artists

* Marguerite Blasingame, painter and sculptor * Barbara Bloemink, art historian, writer and expert on works on modernist painter
Florine Stettheimer Florine Stettheimer (August 19, 1871 – May 11, 1944) was an American modernist painter, feminist, theatrical designer, poet, and salonnière. Stettheimer developed a feminine, theatrical painting style depicting her friends, family, and experi ...
*
Howell Chambers Brown Howell Chambers Brown (1880–1954) American artist and printmaker, known for engraving and etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in ...
(A.B. 1904), printmaker *
Catherine Chalmers Catherine Chalmers (born 1957), is an American artist and photographer. She lives and works in New York City. Biography Catherine Chalmers was born in 1957 in San Mateo, California. Chalmers graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. deg ...
(B.S. 1979), artist and photographer *
Robbie Conal Robert "Robbie" Conal (born 1944) is an American guerrilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for distributing his poster art throughout a city overnight us ...
( M.F.A.), artist * Margo Davis, photographer *
Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...
, painter *
Paulette Frankl Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist and author. Biography Frankl was born in California, and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages. Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles at age 7 in a j ...
, Arts and Languages, artist, courtroom artist and biographer *
Dana Gioia Michael Dana Gioia (; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist. Since the early 1980s, Gioia has been considered part of the literary movements within American poetry known as New Forma ...
(1973,
MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
1977), vice president at
General Foods General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate ...
, poet, NEA chairman * Serena Ho, painter * Brad Howe, sculptor * Brenda Louie (M.F.A 1993) *
Sanaz Mazinani Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978) is an Iranian–born Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist, curator and educator, known for her photography and installation art. She is currently based in San Francisco and Toronto. Biography Early life Mazinani ...
(M.F.A. 2011), multidisciplinary artist *
Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American Abstract Expressionism, abstract expressionist Painting, painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of th ...
, painter *
Chris Onstad ''Achewood'' is a webcomic created by Chris Onstad in 2001. It portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets. Many of the characters live together in the home of their owner, Chris, at the fictional address of ...
, author and illustrator of popular webcomic '' Achewood'' *
Kamau Amu Patton Kamau Amu Patton (born in 1972) is a multidisciplinary American artist and educator. He makes works independently and as part of the performance collective founded by Terry Adkins, Lone Wolf Recital Corps. Patton is also an Assistant Professor in ...
(M.F.A. 2007), multidisciplinary artist * Kameelah Janan Rasheed, artist, educator, and writer * Shirley Russell, painter and educator


Film/television

*
Maudy Ayunda Ayunda Faza Maudya (born 19 December 1994), known as Maudy Ayunda, is an Indonesian pop singer and actress. Personal life and education Ayunda was born to parents Didit Jasmedi R. Irawan and Mauren Jasmedi (born 1968). She has a younger siste ...
, actress and singer-songwriter *
Laura Bialis Laura Bialis is an American-Israeli filmmaker best known for directing and producing the documentary films Rock in the Red Zone (2015) and Refusenik (2008). Biography Laura R. Bialis was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Los Angeles ...
, movie director *
Richard Boone Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns, including his starring role in the television series ''Have Gun – Will Travel''. Early lif ...
, actor *
Andre Braugher Andre Keith Braugher (; born July 1, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the police drama series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999), used car salesman Owen Thoreau Jr. in the com ...
, actor * David Brown, movie producer * Phil Brown, actor * Sterling K. Brown, actor *
Frank Cady Frank Randolph Cady (September 8, 1915 – June 8, 2012) was an American actor best known for his role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in three American television series during the 1960s – ''Petticoat Junction'', '' Green Acres'', and ...
, actor * Britton Caillouette, filmmaker * Melanie Chandra (B.S. Mechanical Engineering 2006), actress, '' Code Black'' *
Barney Cheng Barney Cheng (born February 1, 1971) is a Taiwanese-American actor, director, writer and producer. Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 12 years old and he grew up in Brea, California. He spe ...
, actor, director, writer, producer *
Jennifer Connelly Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film ''Once Upon a Time in America''. After having worked as a model for several year ...
, actress (dropped out) *
Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...
, producer and director *
Ted Danson Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor. He achieved stardom playing the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'', for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He ...
, actor (transferred to
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
) *
Allison Fonte Allison Fonte (born June 6, 1964) is an American actress and pianist who was a 12- to 13-year-old mousketeer of seasons 5-6 of the television show The ''Mickey Mouse Club'', a 1977 revival of the List of assets owned by Disney#Studio Entertainmen ...
, former Mouseketeer from ''The New'' ''
Mickey Mouse Club ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised fo ...
'' from the 1970s *
Dana Fox Dana Fox (born September 18, 1976) is an American screenwriter. She is best known as the writer of '' The Wedding Date'' (2005), ''What Happens in Vegas'' (2008), and the television comedy series ''Ben and Kate'' (2012–13). Career Fox graduate ...
, screenwriter *
Jordan Gelber Jordan Gelber (born 1975) is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway in the musical '' Avenue Q'', in '' All My Sons'' and in '' Elf the Musical'', among other shows. He has also performed in many off-Broadway productions. He h ...
, actor *
Nicholas Gonzalez Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Alex Santiago on the Showtime television series '' Resurrection Blvd'' and Dr. Neil Melendez on the ABC television series ''The Good Doctor''. Early li ...
, actor * Rebecca Hanover (B.A. English/creative writing 2001), television writer, winner of
Daytime Emmy Award The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ...
for her work on ''
Guiding Light ''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the third longest-running drama in television in American history. ''Guiding Light'' a ...
'' *
Al Harrington Albert Harrington (born February 17, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Cape Town Tigers. Selected with the 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the ...
(B.A. History 1958), actor, ''
Hawaii Five-O Hawaii Five-O or Hawaii Five-0 may refer to: * ''Hawaii Five-0'' (2010 TV series), an American action police procedural television series * ''Hawaii Five-O'' (1968 TV series), an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productio ...
'' *
Ron Hayes Ronald G. Hayes (February 26, 1929 – October 1, 2004) was an American television actor who, as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970. He was a member of t ...
, actor *
Edith Head Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history. Head is cons ...
(A.M. Romance Languages, 1920), costume designer *
Colin Higgins Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film ''Harold and Maude'', and for directing the films '' Foul Play' ...
, film screenwriter, director, actor, and producer *
Ollie Johnston Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Wal ...
, pioneering Disney animator *
Jordan Kerner Jordan Kerner is an American film producer. Career Kerner started his career at CBS-TV KPIX-SF in San Francisco in 1971. In 1976, he became an attorney at the law firm of Ball, Hunt, Hart and Baerwitz. In 1977, he left to join CBS Entertainm ...
, film and television producer, former network and studio executive *
Don King Donald King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxing promoter, known for his involvement in several historic boxing matchups. He has been a controversial figure, partly due to a manslaughter conviction and civil cases against him, as well a ...
(1978),
surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ...
photographer and cinematographer *
Yul Kwon Yul Julius Kwon (born February 14, 1975) is an American television host and former government official, lawyer, and management consultant based in California. He first gained national recognition and popularity as the winner of the reality TV ...
, winner, '' Survivor: Cook Islands'' *
Heather Langenkamp Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American actress. She is considered an influential figure in horror films and in popular culture, noted for her acting in several works of the genre and her behind-the-scenes work coordinat ...
, actress * Robert Lehrer, actor * Blake Masters, screenwriter, director, and producer *
Alex Michel Alexander Mattheus Michel (born August 10, 1970) is an American businessman, producer, and television personality. He was '' The Bachelor'' during its premiere season on ABC in 2002. Personal life Michel was born in Charlottesville, Virgin ...
, businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for his role in '' The Bachelor'' *
Avi Nash Avi Nash is an American actor. He played Siddiq in the AMC television series '' The Walking Dead'' (2017–2020). Early life Nash was born in the United States, his father is Indo-Guyanese and his mother is from Mumbai. Nash started acting ...
, actor *
Lloyd Nolan Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies. B ...
(dropped out), actor *
Safiya Nygaard Safiya Nygaard (born July 16, 1992) is an American YouTuber. She gained prominence through her work with BuzzFeed, creating the series ''LadyLike''. Her video explaining why she left the network went viral. She is now known for her solo YouTube c ...
, American YouTuber *
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ( ur, ; born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and activist known for her work in films that highlight the inequality with women. She is the recipient of two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awa ...
, film director, director of two Academy Award-winning documentaries *
Jack Palance Jack Palance ( ; born Volodymyr Palahniuk ( uk, Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor known for playing tough guys and villains. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all fo ...
, actor * Alexander Payne, film director *
Danny Pintauro Danny Pintauro (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom '' Who's the Boss?'' and the 1983 horror film ''Cujo''. Early life Pintauro was born in Milltown, New Jersey, the son of John J. Pintauro, a m ...
, actor *
Rick Porras Rick Porras is an American producer, notably co-producing ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Stanford University, graduating in 1988 with a degree in history. He had a cameo appearan ...
, movie producer *
Megyn Price Megyn Samantha Price (born March 24, 1971) is an American actress, best known for her roles on television as Claudia Finnerty in the Fox/ WB sitcom ''Grounded for Life'' (2001–05), Audrey Bingham on the CBS sitcom ''Rules of Engagement'' (2007 ...
, actress * Issa Rae, actress, writer, director, producer *
Alex Rich Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. ('' magna cum lau ...
, actor * Edward L. Rissien, film producer *
Jay Roach Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the ''Austin Powers'' film series, '' Meet the Parents'', ''Dinner for Schmucks'', '' The Campaign'', '' Trumbo'', and '' Bombshell''. Roach also ea ...
, film director *
Skyler Samuels Skyler Rose Samuels (born April 14, 1994) is an American actress and model, known for her roles in the television series ''Wizards of Waverly Place'', ''The Gates'', ''The Nine Lives of Chloe King'', '' Scream Queens'' and '' The Gifted''. Early ...
, actress *
Ben Savage Bennett Joseph Savage (born September 13, 1980) is an American actor. He played the lead role of Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom ''Boy Meets World'' (1993–2000) and its Disney Channel sequel '' Girl Meets World'' (2014–2017). Early life S ...
, actor *
Fred Savage Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series ''The Wonder Years'' (1988 to 1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as ...
, actor * Susan Shadburne, film director, screenwriter *
Sam Simon Samuel Michael Simon (June 6, 1955 – March 8, 2015) was an American director, producer, writer, animal rights activist and philanthropist, who co-developed the television series ''The Simpsons''. While at Stanford University, Simon w ...
, television writer/producer *
Eliel Swinton Eliel Swinton (born March 27, 1975) played running back Wendell Brown in the 1999 film '' Varsity Blues'' and is a former professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs. He was nationally ranked as a high school football player at Mont ...
, actor *
Cynthia Wade Cynthia Wade is an American television, commercial and film director, producer and cinematographer based in New York City. She has directed documentaries on social issues including '' Shelter Dogs'' in 2003 about animal welfare and ''Freeheld'' i ...
, documentary filmmaker * Kathryn Wallace, documentary filmmaker *
Sigourney Weaver Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (; born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. A figure in science fiction and popular culture, she has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Gram ...
, actress * Adam West (dropped out), actor *
Reese Witherspoon Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, she ...
(dropped out), actress *
Hank Worden Hank Worden (born Norton Earl Worden; July 23, 1901 – December 6, 1992) was an American cowboy-turned-character actor who appeared in many Westerns, including many John Ford films such as '' The Searchers'' and the TV series '' The Lone ...
, actor *
Alice Wu Alice Wu (; born April 21, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films '' Saving Face'' (2004) and ''The Half of It'' (2020). Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intel ...
, writer and director of '' Saving Face'' *
Richard Zanuck Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film '' Driving Miss Daisy'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zanuck was also instrumental in launching the career of director Steven Spi ...
, movie producer


Journalism

* Andy Adler, television personality, journalist * Gary Allen, journalist, author *
Aimee Allison Aimee Allison (born 1969) is the Founder of She the People, a national network elevating the political power of women of color. She the People In March 2018, Allison founded She the People to activate and mobilize women of color across the country ...
, 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 Kevin Bleyer is an American television writer and producer. He has won multiple Emmy, Peabody, and Writers Guild Awards He was a former writer for ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'', a contributor to President Barack Obama's speeches, the author ...
, writer for ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' *
Ryan Blitstein Ryan Blitstein (born July 1979 in San Francisco, California) is Vice President of Sales Strategy & Operations at the Industrial AI software company Uptake. He was the first Executive Director of the education innovation grantmaking foundation SCE ...
, journalist *
Gretchen Carlson Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. Carlson appeared as the host of numerous television programs, most notably on the Saturday edition of ''The Early Show'' on ...
, ''
Fox & Friends ''Fox & Friends'' is an American daily morning news and talk program that airs on Fox News. It premiered on February 1, 1998, and is currently hosted by Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade on weekdays. Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Du ...
'' *
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at ''The Washington Post'', where he has worked since 1994. Life He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, w ...
, ''
Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' editor and author * Bob Cohn, journalist *
Richard Engel Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and ...
(1996), NBC reporter, author *
Elizabeth Farnsworth Elizabeth Farnsworth (born 1943) is an American journalist and author of the memoir, A Train Through Time – A Life, Real and Imagined' (February, 2017). Early life and education Farnsworth was born Elizabeth Fink in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an ...
(A.M.), broadcast journalist *
Donna Hanover Donna Hanover (born Donna Ann Kofnovec; February 15, 1950) is an American journalist, radio and television personality, television producer, and actress, who appears on CUNY TV in New York City. From 1994 through 2001 she was First Lady of New Yo ...
, radio and television news anchor and personality *
Aljean Harmetz Aljean Meltsir Harmetz (born December 30, 1929) is an American journalist and film historian. She was the Hollywood correspondent for '' The New York Times'' from 1978 to 1990. Her film books include '' The Making of The Wizard of Oz'' (1977), ...
, journalist and film historian * Sally Jenkins (born 1960), author and sports journalist *
Daryn Kagan Daryn A. Kagan (born January 26, 1963) is an American broadcast journalist, formerly a news anchor for CNN. From 1994 to 2006, Kagan served as an anchor and correspondent for CNN, in CNN's corporate headquarters of Atlanta, Georgia. She anc ...
,
CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
ex-anchor *
Ted Koppel Edward James Martin Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is a British-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for ''Nightline'', from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005. Before ''Nightline'', he spent 20 years as a broadc ...
(A.M.), journalist * Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay, journalist * Rachel Maddow,
MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...
, television host *
Ty McCormick Ty McCormick is an American author, foreign correspondent, and magazine editor. He is currently a senior editor of '' Foreign Affairs'', the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Africa editor at '' ...
, award-winning American foreign correspondent * Doyle McManus, ''
Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' bureau chief in Washington, D.C., author, broadcast commentator *
Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal.'' He was kidnapped and later decapitated by terrorists in Pakistan.' Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and rais ...
, journalist * Nicholas Thompson, journalist *
Jim Toomey James Patrick Toomey (born December 26, 1960) is an American cartoonist famous for his comic ''Sherman's Lagoon''. Toomey received his B.S.E. from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1983, an M.L.A. from Stanford University in 1 ...
, syndicated cartoonist * Pete Williams (A.B. 1974), NBC reporter, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1989–1993)


Music

*
Samuel Adams Samuel Adams ( – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and ...
, composer * Ronald Barnes (
M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...
1961), carillonist and
musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
* Allette Brooks, musician *
Torry Castellano Torrance Heather Castellano (born January 8, 1979) is an American percussionist and the former drummer of The Donnas. She announced her retirement from drumming in July 2010. About Castellano was born in San Francisco, California. She met fu ...
, former drummer of
The Donnas The Donnas were an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. The band consisted of Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Torry Castellano (drum ...
*
Jack Conte Jack Conte (; born July 12, 1984) is an American musician and co-founder and CEO of Patreon. He is one half of the band Pomplamoose, along with his wife Nataly Dawn, co-leader of the band Scary Pockets, and leader of the band Magaziine. Career C ...
musician, popularized on YouTube, best known as member of
Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is an American musical duo composed of husband-and-wife multi-instrumentalist Jack Conte and singer-songwriter and bassist Nataly Dawn. The duo formed in 2008 and sold approximately 100,000 songs online in 2009. They are known for ...
* Kristine Meredith Flaherty, rapper best known by her stage name
K.Flay Kristine Meredith Flaherty (born June 30, 1985), better known as K.Flay, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and rapper. Her debut album '' Life as a Dog'' was released in 2014, peaking on ''Billboard''s Heatseekers Albums chart at No. ...
* Sameer Gadhia, lead singer of
Young the Giant Young the Giant is an American rock band that formed in Irvine, California, in 2004. The band's line-up consists of Sameer Gadhia (lead vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar), Payam Doostzadeh (bass guitar), and Francois Comtois ...
*
Larry Grenadier Larry Grenadier (born February 6, 1966 in San Francisco) is an American jazz double bassist. Early life Grenadier's father, Albert, was a trumpet player, and his two brothers, Phil and Steve, play trumpet and guitar, respectively. Grenadier be ...
, jazz bassist *
Dave Guard Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio. Guard was born in ...
, folk singer and songwriter *
Tom Harrell Tom Harrell (born June 16, 1946) is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 by ''Jazz Journalists Association'', Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including mul ...
, jazz trumpeter and composer *
Jidenna Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (born May 4, 1985), known mononymously as Jidenna, is an American rapper and singer. In 2015, Jidenna released two singles, "Classic Man" (featuring Roman GianArthur and Kendrick Lamar) and " Yoga" (with Janelle Monáe ...
, hip hop/R&B artist *
Mikel Jollett Mikel Frans Jollett (born May 21, 1974) is an American musician and author. He is best known as the frontman for American indie rock band the Airborne Toxic Event as well as the author of the ''New York Times'' bestselling memoir ''Hollywood Park ...
, lead singer of
The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2006. It consists of Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steven Chen (guitar, keyboards), Adrian Rodriguez (electric bass, backing vocals), Daren Ta ...
*
Kylee Kylee Saunders (born 25 May 1994), sometimes known mononymously as Kylee, is an American singer who is signed with Sony Music Japan's DefStar Records label. Early life and career Kylee Saunders was born in Chandler, Arizona, to a Japanese mot ...
, singer * Natalie Knutsen musician, popularized on YouTube, best known as member of Pomplamoose under the stage name Nataly Dawn *
MC Lars Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American record producer, rapper, cartoonist, podcaster and educator. Lars is one of the self-proclaimed originators of "lit-hop", and is the founder and CEO of ...
, post-punk laptop rapper *
Jon Nakamatsu Jon Yasuhiro Nakamatsu (born 1968, San Jose, California) is an American classical pianist who resides in San Jose. About He is the son of David Y. Nakamatsu, a San Jose electrical engineer, and Karen F. Maeda Nakamatsu, a city employee. He w ...
, pianist * James Nash, musician *
Bruce Robinson Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed the cult classic ''Withnail and I'' (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on hi ...
, singer/songwriter * Sandor Salgo, Carmel Bach Festival leader for 30 years * Anton Schwartz, jazz saxophonist * Daniel Seon Woong Lee, stage name
Tablo Daniel Armand Lee (Korean: Lee Seon-woong; Hangul: 이선웅; born July 22, 1980), better known by his stage name Tablo (Hangul: 타블로), is a Korean-Canadian hip hop recording artist, lyricist, composer and record producer. Tablo is best k ...
(A.B. 2001, M.A. 2002) *
Vienna Teng Cynthia Yih Shih (born October 3, 1978, Saratoga, California), better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is an American pianist and singer-songwriter who was based in Detroit, Michigan and now lives in Washington, DC. Teng has released five s ...
, musician *
Christopher Tin Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer of art music, often composed for film and video game soundtracks. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He has won two Grammy Aw ...
, composer * Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora Media *
Fei Xiang Fei Xiang (born Bart Hsiao Luan Phillips, known as Kris Phillips; ) is a Taiwanese American pop icon and musical singer who was one of the biggest popular music acts in China during the 1980s. Early life Born to an American father and a Chines ...
, singer


Writers

* Ann Bannon (Ph.D. Linguistics), pulp fiction author *
Elif Batuman Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, ''The Possessed'', and the novels ''The Idiot,'' which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and '' Either/Or'' ...
(Ph.D. Comparative Literature), author of ''
The Idiot ''The Idiot'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Идиот, Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–69. The title is an ...
'' and ''The Possessed'' *
Brit Bennett Brit Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel ''The Mothers (novel), The Mothers'' (2016) was a ''The New York Times, New York Times'' best-seller. Her second novel, ''The Vanishing Half'' (2020), was also a ''New York ...
(A.B. 2012), author * Stewart Brand, writer and editor *
H. W. Brands Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. histor ...
(A.B. 1975), author and historian *
Oscar Brockett Oscar Gross Brockett (March 18, 1923 – November 7, 2010) was president of the American Theatre Association. An American Theater historian, he was Dean of the College of Fine Art at the University of Texas in Austin . Background and education H ...
, Theatre historian and scholar *
Ethan Canin Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while his parents were vacatio ...
(A.B. 1982), author *
Thad Carhart Thaddeus Edward Carhart (born February 16, 1950) is an American writer. He is the author of bestseller ''The Piano Shop on the Left Bank'', a memoir of his experiences with pianos and his time spent in a Parisian piano atelier. His book ''Across t ...
, author *
Jorge Cham Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: xorxe (born 1976) is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip ''Piled Higher and Deeper'' (''PhD Comics''). Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he ...
(Ph.D. 2003), author of the
webcomic Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be co ...
'' Piled Higher and Deeper'' * Victor Cheng (A.B, A.M.), author, blogger * Erskine Childers, author and United Nations official *
Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lectur ...
, author *
Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...
(Ph.D., Stegner Fellow), Persian novelist and storywriter *
Ram Dass Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and author. His best-selling 1971 book '' Be Here Now'', which has been ...
(born Richard Alpert) (Ph.D. 1957), author, spiritual teacher *
Allen Drury Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert ...
(A.B. 1939),
Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
-winning author * Selden Edwards (A.M. Education), best-selling novelist, headmaster, teacher *
Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. Biography Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Hawaii. The daughter ...
(Ph.D. English literature), novelist *
Robin Lee Graham Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor. He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. '' National Geographic'' magazine carried the story in installments (October 1968, April 1969, October 19 ...
, Author, sailed the world alone as a teenager * Alexander Greendale (M.A.), playwright and civic leader. *
Yaa Gyasi Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel ''Homegoing'', published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a fir ...
(A.B. English), Ghanaian-American novelist * David Harris (no degree), journalist, author, protester and anti-war activist *
Sam Harris Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics ...
(A.B. 2000), author *
Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...
(A.M., Ph.D.), U.S.
Poet Laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...
*
George V. Higgins George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored more than thirty books, including ''Bomber's Law,'' ''Trust,'' and ''Kennedy for the De ...
(A.M.), attorney and author * Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winner and author *
bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...
(A.B. 1973), writer on race, class, and gender * Mary-Louise Hooper (A.B. 1955), civil rights activist and journalist *
David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yell ...
(1979), playwright * Arturo Islas (A.B. 1960, A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1971), fiction writer *
Fenton Johnson John Fenton Johnson is an American writer and professor of English and LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. Life He was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition. In February ...
(A.B., 1975, Stegner Fellow, 1985–86), author, fiction, nonfiction *
Ken Kesey Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey was born in ...
(A.M.), author * Iris Krasnow (A.B. 1976), author specializing in relationships and personal growth *
Alan Lelchuk Alan Lelchuk (born 1938) is an American novelist, professor, and editor from Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. in World Literature from Brooklyn College in 1960 and received his M.A. in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1965, both in English and from Stan ...
(Ph.D. 1965) *
Paul Rogat Loeb Paul Rogat Loeb (born July 4, 1952)''Who's Who in the West 1996-1997'' (Marquis Who's Who, 1995: ), p. 516. is an American social and political activism, activist. Loeb was born in 1952 in Berkeley, California. He attended Stanford University and ...
(expelled for campus disruption), social and political activist and author *
William Harjo LoneFight William Harjo LoneFight (born 1966), is president and CEO of American Native Services, a consulting firm in Bismarck, North Dakota. An alumnus of Dartmouth College, Oklahoma City University, and Stanford University, LoneFight has served on the b ...
, Native American author and expert in the revitalization of Native American languages and cultural traditions *
Dhan Gopal Mukerji Dhan Gopal Mukerji ( bn, ধন গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায়; ''Dhan Gōpāl Mukhōpādhyāy'') (6 July 1890 – 14 July 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Med ...
, socio-cultural critic and author *
Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pu ...
(B.S. 1993), author, scientist and Pulitzer Prize winner *
Michael Murphy Michael, Mick, or Mike Murphy may refer to: Artists and entertainers * Michael Murphy (actor) (born 1938), American actor * Mike Murphy (musician) (1946–2006), American drummer for the Bee Gees and Chicago * Michael Bryan Murphy, lead singer ...
, author and co-founder of
Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute played a key role in the Human Potential ...
*
Ted Nace Ted Nace (born 1956) is an American writer, publisher, and environmentalist, known for his criticisms of corporate personhood and his support of a fossil fuel phase out. In 2009, he was described as "one of the amazing brains and strategists be ...
(A.B. 1978), author noted for critique of corporate personhood *
Scott O'Dell Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 – October 15, 1989) was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels ...
, author *
Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most o ...
(Ph.D.), U.S.
Poet Laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...
*
Dick Price Richard Price (October 12, 1930 – November 25, 1985) was co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962 and a veteran of the Beat Generation. He ran Esalen in Big Sur for many years, sometimes virtually single-handed."Dick's life in the late 1960s ...
, co-founder of
Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute played a key role in the Human Potential ...
*
Chip Rawlins Chip Rawlins (born 1949) is an American writer and the co-author of '' The Complete Walker IV'' with Colin Fletcher. He also publishes under the name C. L. Rawlins . Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide, and instructor. Previous job ...
, non-fiction author, Stegner Fellow *
Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez (born July 31, 1944) is an American writer who became famous as the author of '' Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez'' (1982), a narrative about his intellectual development. Early life He was born on July 3 ...
(A.B.), author; Hunger of Memory *
Allen Rucker Allen Rucker (born September 26, 1945) is an American writer and author. Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis (1967), an M.A. in American Culture from the Un ...
, writer and television producer *
Edward Rutherfurd Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born in 1948). He is best known as a writer of epic historical novels that span long periods of history but are set in particular places. His debut novel, '' Sarum'', set the pattern f ...
, novelist *
Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...
(dropped out of Ph.D. program), poet and author *
Curtis Sittenfeld Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep sch ...
, author * Anthony Veasna So (B.A. 2014), Cambodian-American short story writer *
Joel Stein Joel Stein (born July 23, 1971) is an American journalist who wrote for the ''Los Angeles Times''. He wrote a column and occasional articles for ''Time'' for 19 years until 2017. Early life Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey, the son of a sale ...
, humorist and columnist for the ''
Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' *
John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social ...
(dropped out), Nobel prize winner in literature *
Gene Stone Gene Stone (born October 6, 1951) is an American writer and editor known for his books on animal rights and plant-based food. Early life and editorial career Gene Stone grew up in the Westchester County suburb of Pelham, New York, the son of l ...
(A.B. 1973), author *
Hans Otto Storm Hans Otto Storm (1895–1941) was a German-American novelist and radio engineer.Hans Otto Storm
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Mark Sundeen, novelist and magazine writer * Bette Talvacchia (Ph.D. 1981), art historian * Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief of ''
Wired ''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Fra ...
'' and historian *
Scott Turow Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novel ...
(A.M.), author * Alok Vaid-Menon, poet *
Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel ...
(B.A., M.A.), author * Albert Wilson (M.S.), author, botanist, talk show personality * Tanaya Winder, poet *
Tobias Wolff Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha of the Bible, To ...
(A.M.), professor 1997–present, author * John Zerzan (A.B., 1965), anarchist and primitivist, author *
Richard Zimler Richard Zimler (born 1 January 1956 in Roslyn Heights, New York) is a best-selling author. His books, which have earned him a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1998 Herodotus Award, have been published in many c ...
(A.M. 1982), author


Astronauts

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Eileen Collins Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. A former flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a ...
(M.S. 1986) *
Mike Fincke Edward Michael "Mike"/"Spanky" Fincke (born March 14, 1967) is an American astronaut who formerly held the American record for the most time in space (381.6 days). His record was broken by Scott Kelly on October 16, 2015. Mike Fincke was bor ...
(M.S.) * William Fisher *
Owen Garriott Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a S ...
(M.S., Ph.D.) * Susan Helms (M.S.) * Michael S. Hopkins (M.S.) * Mae Jemison (B.S., A.B.) *
Tamara Jernigan Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan (born May 7, 1959) is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. During her career she completed five Space Shuttle program missions (three on ''Columbia'' and one each on '' Endeavour'' and ''Discov ...
(B.S., M.S.) * Gregory Linteris (M.S.) * Edward Lu (Ph.D.) *
Bruce McCandless II Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, h ...
(M.S.) * Barbara Radding Morgan *
Kathleen Rubins Kathleen Hallisey Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. ...
(Ph.D.) *
Ellen Ochoa Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shut ...
(M.S., Ph.D.) *
Scott Parazynski Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007 – ...
(B.S.,
M.D. Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a professional degree. ...
) *
Sally Ride Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts ...
(B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) *
Stephen Robinson Stephen Kern Robinson (born October 26, 1955) is an American former NASA astronaut. Education He was active in the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. Robinson graduated from Campolindo High Schoo ...
(M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1990) *
Steve Smith Stephen, Steve, Stevie, or Steven Smith may refer to: Academics * Steve Smith (political scientist) (born 1952), British international relations theorist and senior university manager * Stephen Smith (journalist) (born 1956), American journalist, ...
(B.S. 1981, M.S. 1982,
MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
1987) * Jeff Wisoff (M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986)


Business


Company founders

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Brian Acton Brian Acton (born 1972/1973) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. Acton is the executive chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. , Acton also serves as interim C ...
(B.S. 1994), co-founder of
WhatsApp WhatsApp (also called WhatsApp Messenger) is an internationally available freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by American company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). It allows us ...
*
Kurt Akeley Kurt Akeley (born June 8, 1958) is an American computer graphics engineer. Akeley was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to the architecture of 3-D graphics systems and the definition of Open GL, now the in ...
(M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 2004), co-founder of
Silicon Graphics Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and soft ...
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Michael Arrington J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970) is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as ...
(J.D., 1995), founder of
TechCrunch TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately ...
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Diosdado Banatao Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 23, 1946) is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the firs ...
(M.S.), venture capitalist;
S3 Graphics S3 Graphics, Ltd (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage 3D, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvid ...
,
Chips and Technologies Chips and Technologies (C&T), founded in Milpitas, California in December 1984 by Gordon A. Campbell and Dado Banatao, was an early fabless semiconductor company. Its first product, announced September 1985, was a four chip EGA chipset that ...
, Mostron co-founder. *
David Baszucki David Baszucki (; born January 20, 1963), also known by his ''Roblox'' username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder (along with Erik Cassel) and CEO of Roblox ...
(G.M., 1985), co-founder and CEO of
Roblox ''Roblox'' () is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released i ...
* Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D. CS/EE 1977–1982 – dropped out), co-founder of Sun Microsystems *
Aneel Bhusri Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Workday. He is also a partner at Greylock Partners and was a member of Intel's board of directors between 2014 and 2019. Bhusri h ...
, cofounder of Workday *
Len Bosack Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 mi ...
(M.S. 1981), co-founder of
Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...
with his girlfriend (later wife),
Sandy Lerner Sandy Lerner, (born 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She co-founded Cisco Systems, and used the money from its sale to pursue interests in animal welfare and women's writing. One of her main projects, Chawton House, is in ...
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Dean Bosacki Dean Bosacki is a Canadian businessman. Biography Early life He graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, Californ ...
(MBA), co-founder of Manhattan Partners, board member of
Academi Blackwater was an American private military company founded on December 26, 1996 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. It was renamed Xe Services in 2009 and known as Academi since 2011 after it was acquired by a group of private investors. ...
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Sergey Brin Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (russian: link=no, Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin was th ...
(M.S.),
Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
co-founder *
Orkut Büyükkökten Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten is a former product manager at Google. Career Originally from Konya, Tu ...
, founder of social networking service
Orkut Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkök ...
* Rachel Romer Carlson, founder and CEO of Guild Education * Tim Chen, co-founder and CEO of
NerdWallet NerdWallet is an American personal finance company, founded in 2009 by Tim Chen and Jacob Gibson. It has a website and app that earns money by promoting financial products to its users. History NerdWallet was founded in August 2009 by Tim Chen ...
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Joe Coulombe Joseph Hardin Coulombe (June 3, 1930 – February 28, 2020) was an American entrepreneur. He founded the grocery store chain Trader Joe's in 1967 and ran it until his retirement in 1988.
, founder of
Trader Joe's Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. The chain has over 569 stores across the United States. The first Trader Joe's store was opened in 1967 by founder Joe Coulombe in Pasadena, Californi ...
* James Coulter, cofounder of
TPG Capital TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital, is an American investment company based in Fort Worth, Texas. The private equity firm is focused on leveraged buyouts and growth capital. TPG manages investment funds in growth c ...
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Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Lab ...
, audio engineer, founder of
Dolby Labs Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging. Dolby licenses its technologies to ...
*
Tim Draper Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ),
, 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 Richard Dana Fairbank (born September 18, 1950) is an American billionaire businessman who founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988. He previously served on the board of directors of MasterCard International from 2004 through 2006. He is ...
(A.B., MBA), co-founder, chairman, and CEO of
Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States. It is on the list o ...
* David Filo (MS),
Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...
co-founder * Doris F. Fisher, co-founder of The Gap, Incorporated *
Tully Friedman Tully Friedman (born January 1942) is an American businessman.Friedman Fleischer & Lowe bi ...
, founder of
Friedman Fleischer & Lowe FFL Partners, LLC, previously known as Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, is an American private equity firm, founded in 1997 by Tully Friedman, Spencer Fleischer, David Lowe, and Christopher Masto. The firm makes investments primarily through leveraged ...
, chairman of the board of trustees of the
American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.–based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare. ...
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Victor Grinich Victor Henry Grinich (November 26, 1924 – November 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley. Early life and education Born to Croatian immigrant parents, his ori ...
(Ph.D. 1953), one of the " traitorous eight" who founded
Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of int ...
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Andrew Grove Andrew Stephen Grove (born András István Gróf; 2 September 193621 March 2016) was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 ...
(Lecturer), founder and former CEO and chairman of
Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
* Prerna Gupta (B.A. 2004), founder of Khu.sh *
Ole Andreas Halvorsen Ole Andreas Halvorsen (born 1961) is a Norwegian billionaire Hedge fund, hedge fund manager. He is the CEO and a co-founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund, Viking Global Investors.
(MBA 1990), co-founder of
Viking Global Investors Viking Global Investors is an American-based hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, which specialises in early stage and late stage ventures. History It was established in October 1999 by its CEO and risk manager, Ole Andreas Halvorsen, B ...
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Kevin Hartz Kevin Hartz is an American businessman in the technology industry. He is the co-founder of Xoom, of which he was the CEO from 2001 to 2005. Biography Hartz was born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Orinda, California. His high school was ...
, co-founder and CEO of
Eventbrite Eventbrite is an American event management and ticketing website. The service allows users to browse, create, and promote local events. The service charges a fee to event organizers in exchange for online ticketing services, unless the event is f ...
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Reed Hastings Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer (CEO) of Netflix, and sits on a number of boards and non-profit organizations. A former member ...
(M.S. 1988),
Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...
founder *
Trip Hawkins William Murray "Trip" Hawkins III (born December 28, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate. Career A fan of the Strat-O-Matic Football pen and paper games, Hawkins started his f ...
(MBA), founder of
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the d ...
, 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 The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
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 (
MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
), 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 Sandy Lerner, (born 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She co-founded Cisco Systems, and used the money from its sale to pursue interests in animal welfare and women's writing. One of her main projects, Chawton House, is in ...
(M.S. Stat & CS 1981), co-founder of
Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...
with her boyfriend (later husband),
Len Bosack Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 mi ...
*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 David Packard ( ; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–6 ...
(1934),
Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
co-founder *Lawrence E. Page, Larry Page (M.S.),
Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
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,
MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
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! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...
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 Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
*Mukesh Ambani (
MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
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 Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
*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 Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
, 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 The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
1999–2005 *
Paul Flaherty Paul Andrew Flaherty (March 14, 1964 – March 16, 2006) was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist in Internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine. Biography Flaherty was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ...
(M.S., Ph.D.), co-inventor of the
AltaVista AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own sear ...
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 Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
*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! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...
*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 Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...
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 Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...
, 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 Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
* 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 Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from ...
, 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
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(2020–present) and Provost (education), provost of
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
(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 (A.B. 1974), NBC reporter, 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 *
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, 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
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, 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
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* 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
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; 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 The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...
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 Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which ...
, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006
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* 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
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,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 Oscar Elton Sette (March 29, 1900 - July 25, 1972), who preferred to be called Elton Sette, was an influential 20th-century American fisheries scientist. During a five-decade career with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, United States Fish ...
, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries
oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...
and modern
fisheries science Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, ...
* 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
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* 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 The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
* 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 The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
-winning computer scientist * Douglas Engelbart, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into
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* 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 *
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, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist *
Alan Kay Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) d ...
, 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 *
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, professor in CS * John Koza, pioneer in genetic programming *
Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the development of the 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 Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 198 ...
, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...
* Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist *
Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department ...
Turing award-winning computer scientist * Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
* John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award * Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award-winning computer scientist *
Raj Reddy Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mello ...
, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist *
Ronald Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT. He is a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Int ...
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 Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees a ...
, 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 The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...
* 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 Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held ...
, 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 Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University.
, 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
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* 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 Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Education He earned his bachelo ...
, 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 The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
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 The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
-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
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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 *
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, professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award * Paul Cohen (mathematician), Paul Cohen, former professor in mathematics,
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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 *
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, 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,
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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 *
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, 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 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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 *
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, international soccer player and academic at
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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
/ref> * 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
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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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