Mark Sundeen, novelist and magazine writer
*
Bette Talvacchia
Bette Lou Talvacchia (born 1951) is an American art historian and educator. Talvacchia is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut.
Career
Talvacchia earned a Master of Arts in Art H ...
(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 ...
'' 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
Alok Vaid-Menon (born July 1, 1991) is an American writer, performance artist, and media personality who performs under the moniker ALOK. Alok is gender non-conforming and transfeminine, and uses the singular ''they'' third person pronouns.
...
, 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, T ...
(A.M.), professor 1997–present, author
*
John Zerzan
John Edward Zerzan ( ; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gath ...
(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 cou ...
(A.M. 1982), author
Astronauts
*
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 (M.S., Ph.D.)
*
Susan Helms
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut. She was the commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space at ...
(M.S.)
*
Michael S. Hopkins (M.S.)
*
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. Je ...
(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
Gregory Thomas Linteris (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.
Education
Linteris grew up in Demarest, New Jersey, where he attended ...
(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, he ...
(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 (B.S.,
M.D.)
*
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 cosmonau ...
(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 (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
Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff (born August 16, 1958) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000.
Career
Wi ...
(M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986)
Business
Company founders
*
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 ...
(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 use ...
*
Kurt Akeley (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 ...
*
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
An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical.
Goi ...
*
Diosdado Banatao (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
Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. His net worth ...
(Ph.D. CS/EE 1977–1982 – dropped out), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
*
Aneel Bhusri, cofounder of
Workday
*
Len Bosack (M.S. 1981), co-founder of
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
with his girlfriend (later wife),
Sandy Lerner
*
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, Californi ...
(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 ...
*
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 corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
co-founder
*
Orkut Büyükkökten, 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
Guild (formerly Guild Education) is a private company headquartered in Denver, Colorado that is employed by Fortune 1000 companies to manage their education assistance benefits. Guild works for corporate employer clients to facilitate direct pay ...
*
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 ...
*
Joe Coulombe, 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 ...
*
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 Labo ...
, 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 li ...
*
David Filo
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve v ...
(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 Mana ...
co-founder
*
Doris F. Fisher, co-founder of The Gap, Incorporated
*
Tully Friedman, 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 leverage ...
, 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. A ...
*Victor Grinich (Ph.D. 1953), one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor
*Andrew Grove (Lecturer), founder and former CEO and chairman of Intel
*Prerna Gupta (B.A. 2004), founder of Khu.sh
*Ole Andreas Halvorsen (MBA 1990), co-founder of Viking Global Investors
*Kevin Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite
*Reed Hastings (M.S. 1988), Netflix founder
*Trip Hawkins (MBA), founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, 3DO and Digital Chocolate
*Gladys Heldman (MBA), founder of World Tennis and Virginia Slims Women's Tour
*William Reddington Hewlett, William Hewlett (1934),
Hewlett-Packard
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 (M.S. Stat & CS 1981), co-founder of
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
with her boyfriend (later husband),
Len Bosack
*Richard Li (dropped out), founder of STAR TV (Asia) and chairman of the largest Hong Kong telecommunication carrier PCCW
*Craig McCaw (A.B.), founder and CEO of McCaw Cellular, founder of Clearwire
*Scott McNealy (MBA), co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Sun Microsystems
*Mark Oldman, Vault.com co-founder
*John Overdeck (B.S., M.S.), co-founder and co-chairman of Two Sigma
*
David Packard
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 (1964–68 ...
(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 corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
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 Mana ...
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, Washi ...
*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, Washi ...
*Mary Barra (MBA 1990), chair and CEO of General Motors (2014–present), first female CEO of a major automaker
*Craig Barrett (Intel Chairman), Craig Barrett (B.S., Ph.D. 1964), past chairman of Intel, former CEO of Intel (1998–2005), former Stanford professor of materials science (1964–1974)
*Jeffrey Bewkes (MBA 1977), Time Warner president and COO
*R. Martin Chavez (Ph.D.), CFO of Goldman Sachs
*Burton A. Dole, Jr. (BSME, MBA), president, CEO, and chairman of Puritan Bennett
*Pat Dudley (B.A.), president and marketing director of Bethel Heights Vineyard
*Carly Fiorina (1976), Chief executive officer, CEO of
Hewlett-Packard
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 corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
*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 Mana ...
*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 digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
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, Dust ...
, 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 corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...
* 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
John Edward Zerzan ( ; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gath ...
, 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 fro ...
, Liberal Democrats (UK), British Liberal Democrat Leader (2006–2007)
*Lena Kolarska-Bobińska (post-doctoral fellow in 1974–1976), a Polish Member of the European Parliament (2009–present)
*John Lipsky (M.A., Ph.D.), acting managing director (CEO), International Monetary Fund, 2011; first deputy managing director (second-in-command, IMF, 2006–11
*Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan (2016–present)
*Michael Stephen (J.S.M. 1971), member of Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997)
*:fi:Martti Tiuri, Martti Tiuri (M.S. 1956), member of Parliament of Finland (1983–2003)
*Daria Zarivna - is a Ukrainian presidential adviser, social activist, spokeswoman and entrepreneur
Other U.S. political officials
*Christine Abizaid (M.A. 2010), 7th Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (2021–present)
*Jaime Areizaga-Soto (A.M. 1994, J.D. 1994), 11th U.S. Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (2022–present)
*Kurt DelBene (M.S. 1983), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer
*Lawrence Clayton (A.B. 1914), member of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1947–1949)
*Gabe Camarillo (J.D. 2002), 35th United States Under Secretary of the Army (2022–present)
*Stacey Dixon (B.S. 1993), 6th U.S. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2021–present)
*Richard W. Fisher (M.B.A. 1975), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
*Glen Fukushima (A.B. 1972), deputy assistant United States Trade Representative (1988–1990)
*Matt Gonzalez (J.D. 1990), president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2003–2005)
*Casey Gwinn, San Diego City Attorney (1996–2004)
*Wilder W. Hartley, Los Angeles City Councilman (1939–1941)
*John C. Holland, Los Angeles City Councilman (1943–1967)
*Keith Hennessey (B.A.S. 1990), 7th director of the United States National Economic Council, U.S. National Economic Council (2007–2009)
*Valerie Jarrett (A.B. 1978), Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama (2009–2017)
*Kristina M. Johnson (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984), United States Department of Energy, U.S. Undersecretary of Energy (2009–2010), 16th president of
Ohio State University
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 pub ...
(2020–present) and Provost (education), provost of
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...
(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
*
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 ...
, Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Stephen Rock, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Debbie Senesky, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
* George Springer, Emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Biology/biochemistry/medicine
* George W. Beadle, professor of biology, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Caltech at time of award)
* Paul Berg, emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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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
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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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
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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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, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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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
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 ...
,STS
* José Gilberto Montoya, professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service
* Peter Raven, professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work ''Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution''; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; ''Time Magazine'' "Hero for the Planet" 1999
* Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including MacArthur Fellowship genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience
* Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes
*
Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries
oceanography
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 dynami ...
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
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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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
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* 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
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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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
*
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 ...
, 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
*
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 o ...
, 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 su ...
, 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 1 ...
, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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* 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 Depart ...
Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
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* John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of
Grace Murray Hopper Award
The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or ser ...
*
Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli ( he, אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
Biography
Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and re ...
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 former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
* Tim Roughgarden, faculty in CS, winner of
Grace Murray Hopper Award
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* 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 ...
, 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
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, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover fellow
* Douglass North, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
* Paul Romer, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
*
Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize-winning economics professor
* Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
* William F. Sharpe, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner
* Thomas Sowell, economist and popular author, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
* Michael Spence, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
* Joseph Stiglitz, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
* John B. Taylor, economist, Hoover Fellow, developed the Taylor rule, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International affairs
* Robert B. Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
Education
* Margaret Lee Chadwick, headmistress and founder of the Chadwick School and author
* William Damon, pioneer in peer collaboration and project-based learning
* Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama's presidential campaign
* Nathaniel Gage, pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching
* Richard Wall Lyman, former Provost (education), provost of
Stanford University
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 conside ...
* Fred Swaniker, co-founder of African Leadership Academy, CEO and co-founder of African Leadership University
* Lewis Terman, creator of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Stanford Binet IQ test
* John Willinsky, Open Access educator, activist and author
Engineering
* Andreas Acrivos, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Stephen Barley, organizational theorist and developer of adaptive structuration, co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization
* Sally Benson (professor), Sally Benson, professor of engineering
* Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., professor emeritus in Aeronautics and Astronautics, father of modern optimal control theory
* Roland Doré (administrator), Roland Doré, former president of the Canadian Space Agency
* William F. Durand, professor and head of Mechanical Engineering (1904–24), aerodynamics pioneer and chair of NASA forerunner NACA
* Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, pioneer of discontinuous automatic control theory
* William Webster Hansen, former professor, contributed to the development of microwave technology
* Siegfried Hecker, professor, former director of Los Alamos National Lab
* Ronald A. Howard, professor, father of decision analysis, founding director and former chairman of Strategic Decision Group
* Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of engineering
* Elizabeth Jens, NASA engineer
* Rudolf E. Kálmán, Rudolf Kálmán, former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner
* Rudolf Kompfner, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Bruce Lusignan, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, made contributions to communication satellites and reusable launch vehicles
* Bridgette Meinhold, artist and author with a focus on sustainability
* Dwight Nishimura, Addie and Al Macovski professor in the School of Engineering, who leads the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory
* William J. Perry, William Perry (A.M. 1950), engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
*
Calvin Quate, professor, National Medal of Science winner
* Paul V. Roberts, pioneer of environmental engineering
* Stephen Timoshenko, pioneer of modern engineering mechanics
* Powtawche Valerino, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL space navigation engineer
* Giovanni De Micheli, former professor of Electrical Engineering
* Teresa Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical engineering, Electrical Engineering
History
* Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook ''The American Pageant''* Edward L. Beach, Sr., Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history
* Bipan Chandra, emeritus professor of history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
* Don E. Fehrenbacher,
Pulitzer Prize
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 ...
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 ...
-winning author
* Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture
* Sabine G. MacCormack, award-winning professor of late antique history
* Aron Rodrigue, historian
* Londa Schiebinger, professor of history of science
* James J. Sheehan, professor of history and former American Historical Association president
* Payson J. Treat (Ph.D. 1910), professor of Far Eastern history
* Gordon Wright (historian), Gordon Wright, professor of history, former American Historical Association president
International relations
* Stephen D. Krasner, former director of policy planning (2005–2007) for the United States Department of State
Law
* Benjamin Harrison, constitutional law, constitutional and international law professor and 23rd President of the United States
* William Lerach, guest lecturer on securities and corporate law
* Lawrence Lessig, Intellectual property, IP and constitutional law professor
* Richard Posner, associate professor and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Linguistics
* Jared Bernstein, Adjunct Professor
* Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Emerita
* Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
* Miyako Inoue (linguistic anthropologist), Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
* Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
* Ronald M. Kaplan, Adjunct Professor
* Lauri Karttunen, Adjunct Professor
* Martin Kay, professor of linguistics
* Paul Kay, Adjunct Professor
* Paul Kiparsky, Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
* Beth Levin (linguist), Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
* Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
* John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
* Elizabeth Traugott, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
* Tom Wasow, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
* Annie Zaenen, Adjunct Professor
* Arnold M. Zwicky, Adjunct Professor
Literature and arts
* Gerald M. Ackerman, Assistant Professor of Art History (1965–1971)
* Judith Bettina, soprano
* Bahram Beyzai, Persian playwright and filmmaker
* Eavan Boland, Irish poet, professor
* George Hardin Brown, medieval literature
* Scott Bukatman, film and media professor
* Albert Elsen, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities (1968–1995)
* Lowell Gallagher, literary theorist and associate professor, earned Ph.D. in 1989
* Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, literary theorist
* D. R. MacDonald, creative writing
* Alexander Nemerov, professor of art and art history
* Juan Bautista Rael, linguist and folklorist
* Jack Rakove, professor in history, 1997
Pulitzer Prize
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 ...
winner
* Wallace Stegner, 1972 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
* Yvor Winters, poet and critic
Mathematics and statistics
* Theodore W. Anderson, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr
*
Emmanuel Candès, professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award
* Paul Cohen (mathematician), Paul Cohen, former professor in mathematics,
Fields Medal
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 h ...
recipient, National Medal of Science winner
* Brian Conrad, professor in mathematics
* George Dantzig, former professor in operations research, inventor of the simplex algorithm, father of linear programming, National Medal of Science (1975) winner
* Keith Devlin, executive director Center for the Study of Language and Information
* Persi Diaconis, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* David Donoho, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
*
Bradley Efron
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 ...
, professor in statistics, inventor of bootstrap, National Medal of Science winner, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* Solomon Feferman, professor in mathematics and philosophy, Schock Prize recipient
* Jerome H. Friedman, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Samuel Karlin, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
* Joseph Keller, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
* Maryam Mirzakhani, professor in mathematics,
Fields Medal
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 h ...
recipient
* Amnon Pazy, Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* George Pólya, former professor in mathematics, author of How to solve it
* Richard Schoen, professor in mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
* David O. Siegmund, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Charles Stein (statistician), Charles Stein, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Gábor Szegő, former professor in mathematics, founder of Stanford Math department
* Robert Tibshirani, professor in statistics, NAS member
* Ravi Vakil, professor in mathematics, one of seven four-time William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Putnam Fellows
* Akshay Venkatesh, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
*
Shing-Tung Yau
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 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
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 oper ...
* Leonard Schiff, physics professor
* Melvin Schwartz, 1988 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
* William Shockley, 1956 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of transistor, inducted into
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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 oper ...
* Leonard Susskind, physics professor, originator of string theory
* Richard Taylor (physicist), Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), 1990 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
*
Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A.D White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric All ...
(Ph.D. 1977), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Kenneth G. Wilson, 1982 Nobel Prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC (1969–1970)
Psychology
* Richard C. Atkinson, Richard Atkinson, professor of psychology 1956–1980, former president, University of California
* Albert Bandura, professor of psychology since 1964, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology since 1973, known for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, on social cognitive theory and self efficacy
* Gordon H. Bower, professor of psychology, 2005 National Medal of Science winner
* Carol Dweck, professor of psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait
* Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of psychology, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
*Kalanit Grill-Spector, professor of psychology
* Roger Shepard, professor of psychology, National Medal of Science winner
* Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. (1884–1963), professor of psychology at Stanford University 1923–1963
* Lewis Terman, former professor, pioneer in Intelligence quotient, I.Q. testing
* Leanne M. Williams, professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2013
* Philip Zimbardo, former professor of psychology, former president of the APA, Stanford prison experiment, researcher
* Amado M. Padilla, professor of psychology
Hoover Fellows
*Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)
*Abbas Milani, political scientist and historian
*George Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
*Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert
Coaches
* Dick Gould, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All American players
* Payton Jordan, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
* Bill Walsh (American football coach), Bill Walsh, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers; inventor of the West Coast Offense
* Glenn Scobey Warner, College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral Punt (gridiron football), punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends
Other
* St. Clair Drake, sociology and anthropology, founding head of African American studies program
* James M. Hyde, metallurgist
* Scotty McLennan, Dean (education), Dean for Religious Life, Minister (religion), Minister of Stanford Memorial Church, and inspiration for the Reverend Scot Sloan character in the comic strip ''Doonesbury''
Stanford athletes
Baseball
* Rubén Amaro, Jr., Major League Baseball outfielder, former Phillies General Manager, and coach
* Bob Boone, retired Major League Baseball catcher and manager (baseball), manager; played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the California Angels
* Eric Bruntlett, retired Major League Baseball infielder; played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and the New York Yankees
* Jason Castro (baseball), Jason Castro, Major League Baseball catcher for the Houston Astros
* Sam Fuld, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics and General Manager for the Philadelphia Phillies
* John Gall (baseball), John Gall, retired Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman
* Ryan Garko, Major League Baseball outfielder, first baseman and designated hitter; played for the Cleveland Indians, the San Francisco Giants, and the Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers
* Jody Gerut, retired Major League Baseball outfielder; played for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs
* Shawn Green (attended), retired Major League Baseball right fielder and outfielder; played for the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks
* Jeremy Guthrie, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
* Jeffrey Hammonds, retired Major League Baseball outfielder; played for the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds and the Colorado Rockies
* Rick Helling, retired Major League Baseball pitcher
* Brian Johnson (catcher), Brian Johnson, retired Major League Baseball catcher; played for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco Giants
* Bob Kammeyer, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the New York Yankees
* Jim Lonborg, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies
* Andrew Lorraine, Major League Baseball pitcher; player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and Milwaukee Brewers
* Jed Lowrie, Major League Baseball infielder with the Oakland Athletics
* John Mayberry, Jr., Major League Baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
* David McCarty, retired Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder; played for the Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox
* Jack McDowell, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians
* Mike Mussina, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees
* Carlos Quentin, Major League Baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres
* Greg Reynolds, Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Colorado Rockies
* Bruce Robinson (baseball), Bruce Robinson, retired Major League Baseball catcher; played for Oakland A's and the New York Yankees
* Ed Sprague (third baseman), Ed Sprague, retired Major League Baseball third baseman and current head baseball coach at the
University of the Pacific; played for the Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics and the Pittsburgh Pirates
* Michael Taylor (baseball, born 1985), Michael Taylor, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics
* Justin Wayne, retired Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Florida Marlins
Basketball
* Jennifer Azzi, American Basketball League (1996–98), ABL and Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Curtis Borchardt and his wife Susan King Borchardt
* Mike Bratz, former NBA player
*Mariah ("Maggie") Burton Nelson
*Anthony Brown (basketball), Anthony Brown (B.A. 2014), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Greg Butler
* Josh Childress
* Jarron Collins
* Jason Collins, first coming out, openly gay active male athlete in a Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, major North American professional team sport
* Landry Fields
* Kristin Folkl
* Dan Grunfeld
* Sonja Henning, American Basketball League (1996–98), ABL and Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Casey Jacobsen
* Teyo Johnson, basketball and football
* Adam Keefe (basketball), Adam Keefe
* Brevin Knight
* Brook Lopez
* Robin Lopez
* Todd Lichti
* Hank Luisetti
* Mark Madsen (basketball), Mark Madsen
* Carolyn Moos
* Vanessa Nygaard
* Chiney Ogwumike, current WNBA player; top WNBA draft pick and Rookie of the Year in 2014
* Nneka Ogwumike, current WNBA player; top WNBA draft pick and Rookie of the Year in 2012, and WNBA MVP in 2016
* Josh Owens (B.A. 2012), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Angie Paccione
* Kate Paye
* Nicole Powell, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Olympia Scott, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Kate Starbird
* Andrew Vlahov, four-time Olympian for Australia
* Jamila Wideman
* Candice Wiggins, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Lindsey Yamasaki (2002), volleyball and basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* George Yardley, Basketball Hall of Fame member
Football
* Frankie Albert (1942), former quarterback in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers
* Jon Alston (2006), linebacker in the National Football League; played for the St. Louis Rams
* Lester Archambeau (1990), retired defensive end in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons and the Denver Broncos
* Oshiomogho Atogwe (2005), free safety in the National Football League; played for the St. Louis Rams and the Washington Redskins
* Brad Badger (1997), Guard (American football), guard and Offensive tackle, tackle in the National Football League; played for the Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings and the Oakland Raiders
* David Bergeron (2005), linebacker in the National Football League; plays for the Carolina Panthers
* Colin Branch (2003?), Safety (football position), free safety of the National Football League; played for the Carolina Panthers
* John Brodie (1956), retired quarterback in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers, had a second career as a Champions Tour, Senior PGA Tour professional golfer
* Greg Camarillo (2006), wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins
* Kirk Chambers (2004), offensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the Cleveland Browns
* Trent Edwards (2007), quarterback in the National Football League; plays for the Philadelphia Eagles
* John Elway (A.B. 1982), retired Pro Football Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame National Football League quarterback and current executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos
* Toby Gerhart (2010), running back in the National Football League; plays for the Minnesota Vikings
* Darrien Gordon (1993), retired defensive back in the National Football League; played for the San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders
* Jerry Gustafson (1956), BC Lions
* Coby Fleener (2012), tight end in the National Football League; plays for the Indianapolis Colts
* Kwame Harris (2003), offensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders
* Emile Harry, retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams
* Eric Heitmann (2002), Center (American football), center in the National Football League; played for the San Francisco 49ers
* Tony Hill (wide receiver), Tony Hill (1977?), three-time Pro Bowl National Football League wide receiver; played for the Dallas Cowboys
* James Lofton (1978), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Raiders, was the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA champion in the long jump in 1978 while attending
Stanford University
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 conside ...
* Erik Lorig (2009), fullback in the National Football League; plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
* Bryce Love (2019), running back in the National Football League; plays for the Washington Redskins; 2017 winner of the Doak Walker Award
* Andrew Luck (2012), quarterback in the National Football League; plays for the Indianapolis Colts
* John Lynch (American football), John Lynch (1993), retired strong safety in the National Football League and current NFL on Fox color commentator; played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
* John Macaulay (American football), John Macaulay, San Francisco 49ers Center (American football), center
* Ken Margerum (1981), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers
* Christian McCaffrey (2016), running back for the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers; NCAA record holder for all-purpose yards in a single season (2015); 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist
* Ed McCaffrey (1991), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos
* Jim Merlo (1973), retired linebacker in the National Football League; played for the New Orleans Saints
* Trent Murphy (2013), outside linebacker in the National Football League; played for the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills
* Brad Muster (1989), retired fullback in the National Football League; played for the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints
* Darrin Nelson (1982), retired running back and Kick Returner in the National Football League; played for the Minnesota Vikings
* Ernie Nevers (1925), former fullback for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League; former pitcher for the St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball
* Hank Norberg (1942), End (American football), end for the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears
* Babatunde Oshinowo (2006), defensive tackle in the National Football League; played for the Cleveland Browns
* Jim Plunkett (1970), retired quarterback in the National Football League, 1970 Heisman Trophy winner; played for the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
* Jon Ritchie (1997), retired fullback in the National Football League; played for the Oakland Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles
* T.J. Rushing (2006), cornerback and Kickoff returner, return specialist; played for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League
* Richard Sherman (American football), Richard Sherman (2011), cornerback in the National Football League; plays for the San Francisco 49ers
* Alex Smith (tight end), Alex Smith (2005), tight end in the National Football League; plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League
* Donnie Spragan (1999), linebacker in the National Football League; played for the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers
* Will Svitek (2005), offensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League
* Leigh Torrence (2005), cornerback in the National Football League; played for the Green Bay Packers and the Atlanta Falcons
* Chris Walsh (American football), Chris Walsh (1992), retired wide receiver in the National Football League; played for the Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings
* Bob Whitfield (1992), retired Offensive tackle, tackle in the National Football League; played for the Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Giants
* Tank Williams (2002), Safety (American football position), safety in the National Football League; played for the Tennessee Titans and the Minnesota Vikings
* Coy Wire (2002), linebacker and Safety (American and Canadian football position), safety in the National Football League; played for the Buffalo Bills
* Kailee Wong (1998), retired linebacker in the National Football League; played for the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans
* Zach Ertz Tight End for the Arizona Cardinals. He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and won SuperBowl LII with them.
Golf
* Notah Begay III
* Hilary Lunke
* Casey Martin
* Tom Watson (golfer), Tom Watson
* Michelle Wie
* Tiger Woods (dropped out)
* Patrick Rodgers
Gymnastics
* Amy Chow, Olympic gold medalist
* Nancy Goldsmith, Israeli Olympic gymnast
* Ivana Hong, U.S. Olympic team alternate and 2007 World Champion
* Carly Janiga, NCAA champion in uneven bars, 2010
* Heather Purnell, captain of 2004 Canadian Olympic Team
* Jennifer Sey, former U.S. National Gymnastics Champion
* Samantha Shapiro, five-time member of the USA Gymnastics National Team, 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion, 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars and balance beam champion
* Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist
Rowing
* Adam Kreek, rowing, Canadian National Team
* Elle Logan, two-time gold medal-winning rower in 2008 Beijing Olympics and in 2012 London Olympics
* Kent Mitchell, two-time Olympic champion, two-time national champion, member of Stanford Hall of Fame
* Jamie Schroeder, rowing, U.S. National Team
Soccer
* Nicole Barnhart, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Utah Royals FC
* Rachel Buehler, former National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; formerly played for Portland Thorns FC (retired)
* Tierna Davidson, National women's soccer league and United States women's national team; currently plays with Chicago Red Stars
* Todd Dunivant, Major League Soccer; currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy
* Simon Elliott, New Zealand national soccer team player; Chivas USA
* Julie Foudy, former United States women's national soccer team, US national team association football, soccer player
* Adam Jahn, currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes
* Roger Levesque, former Major League Soccer association football, soccer player
* Camille Levin, soccer player
* Chad Marshall, Major League Soccer; currently plays for Columbus Crew
* Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand national soccer team, New Zealand international association football, soccer player; formerly with D.C. United in Major League Soccer, MLS, now with Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers in FA Premier League, English Premiership
* Mariah Nogueira, former National Women's Soccer League; formerly played for Seattle Reign FC (retired)
* Teresa Noyola, Nadeshiko League Japan women's league and Mexico women's national football team, Mexico national team; currently plays for FC Kibi International University Charme
* Kelley O'Hara, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Washington Spirit
* Christen Press, Damallsvenskan, National Women's Soccer League and United States women's national soccer team, US national team; currently plays for Angel City FC
* Tierna Davidson, National Women's Soccer League, United States women's national soccer team; currently plays for Chicago Red Stars
* Ali Riley, Damallsvenskan and New Zealand women's national football team, New Zealand national team; currently plays for Angel City FC, ACFC
* Lindsay Taylor (soccer), Lindsay Taylor, former National Women's Soccer League; played for Washington Spirit
*
Ben Zinn
Ben T. Zinn (born April 21, 1937) is an American academic in engineering and former international soccer player. He is currently the David S. Lewis, Jr., Chair and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Biography
Ben T. Zi ...
, 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 ...
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.
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* Takagi in ''Die Hard'' graduated from Stanford Law School in 1962.
* The 1944 film ''Double Indemnity'' is about a wife who conspires with her lover to kill her husband in Palo Alto on his way to a Stanford reunion.
* The main character of ''Antitrust (film), Antitrust'' is depicted as a Stanford graduate.
*In ''Bourne (novel series), Bourne'', Aaron Kalloor and Heather Lee attended Stanford.
In literature
* Chloe Steele in the ''Left Behind'' series (1995–2007) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins attended Stanford.
*Aron Trask (aka Aaron Trask) in ''East of Eden (novel), East of Eden'' (1952) by John Steinbeck
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 ...
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]
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* 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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Stanford University-related lists, People
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