List of Stanford University people

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

Stanford office

Presidents

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

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Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

Chancellors

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

School Deans

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

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Alumni

Academics

Presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges

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

Academia

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

Computer science and electrical engineering

*Norman Abramson