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Stanford's most famous alumni include U.S. President Herbert Hoover;
Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, and William Rehnquist;
actress Jennifer Connelly; entrepreneur Charles Schwab; Hewlett-Packard cofounders Bill Hewlett and
David Packard; author John Steinbeck; and athletes Tiger Woods, John Elway, and John McEnroe. Academic leaders
- Derek Bok (1951), President Emeritus
Harvard University
- Vinton Cerf, Internet pioneer
- Vartan Gregorian (1958),
President Emeritus Brown University; President Carnegie
Corporation
- Victor Davis Hanson (Ph.D. 1980), classicist, historian, National Review contributor
- Clark Kerr (MA), President Emeritus of
the University of California
- Richard Levin (1968), President
Yale University
- Ronald Rivest (Ph.D.), cryptographer
- Peter Salovey, Dean Yale University
- Daniel Sleator (Ph.D.), computer scientist
Actors, film, and media
- David Brown, movie producer
- Jennifer Connelly, actress
- Ted Danson, actor (transferred to Carnegie-Mellon University)
- Ted Koppel (MA), journalist
- Daniel Pearl, journalist
- Fred Savage, actor
- Ben Savage, actor
- Sigourney Weaver, actress
- Reese Witherspoon, actress (dropped out)
- Richard Zanuck, movie producer
Astronauts
- Eileen Collins (MS)
- Mike Fincke (MS)
- William Fisher
- Owen Garriott (MS, Ph.D.)
- Susan Helms (MS)
- Mae Jemison
- Tamara Jernigan (BS, MS)
- Gregory Linteris (MS)
- David Low (MS)
- Edward Lu (Ph.D.)
- Bruce McCandless (MS)
- Barbara Rudding Morgan
- Ellen Ochoa (MS, Ph.D.)
- Scott Parazynski (BS,
MD)
- Sally Ride (BA, BS, MS, Ph.D.)
- Stephen Robinson (MS, Ph.D.)
- Steve Smith (BS, MS, MBA)
- Jeff Wisoff (MS, Ph.D.)
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Robert M. Bass, (MBA 1974) President, Keystone, Inc.
- Sergey Brin (MS), Google cofounder
- Ray Dolby, audio engineer, founder of Dolby Labs
- David Filo (MS), Yahoo! cofounder
- Carly Fiorina (1976), CEO of Hewlett-Packard from July 1999
until her forced resignation in February 2005.
- Bill Hewlett (1934),
Hewlett-Packard cofounder
- Vinod Khosla (MBA), Sun Microsystems cofounder, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &
Byers partner
- Philip H. Knight (MBA 1961), founder and former CEO, Nike
- Robert Mondavi, vintner
- David Packard (1934), Hewlett-Packard cofounder
- Larry Page (MS), Google cofounder
- Charles R. Schwab (1959, MBA 1961), founder, chairman, and
CEO of Charles Schwab, Inc.
- Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder,
Clarium Capital founder
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
cofounder
Literature and arts
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and author
- Stewart Brand, editor
- Robbie Conal, artist
- Harriet Doerr, author
- Dana Gioia, poet, head of NEA
- Robert Hass (MA, Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
- Ken Kesey (MA), author
- Robert Motherwell, painter
- Robert Pinsky (Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
- Vikram Seth, poet and author
- John Steinbeck, author (dropped out)
- Scott Turow (MA), author
Miscellaneous
- Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady
- Chelsea Clinton (2001),
First Daughter
- Michael Murphy, author and co-founder of
Esalen Institute
Political leaders
- Mohammad Reza Aref (MS 1976, PhD 1980), First Vice President of
Iran
- Ehud Barak, (MA) former Prime Minister of Israel
- Max Baucus, U.S. Senator
- Jeff Bingaman (LLB), U.S. Senator
- Frank Church, late U.S. Senator
- Warren Christopher (LLB), former U.S. Secretary
of State
- Kent Conrad, U.S. Senator
- Gray Davis, former Governor of California, replaced midway through his second term during the 2003 California recall by movie actor Arnold A. Schwarzenegger
- Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator
- Herbert Hoover, President of the United States during the Great Depression
- William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Thomas M. Storke, U.S. Senator
- Alejandro Toledo (Ph.D.), President of Peru
- James Woolsey, former CIA director
- Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator
Supreme Court Justices
- Stephen Breyer (1959),
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (nominated by Bill Clinton)
- Sandra Day O'Connor (1950, LL.B. 1952), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (nominated by Ronald Reagan)
- Anthony Kennedy (1958),
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (nominated by Ronald Reagan)
- William Rehnquist (1948, MA 1948, LL.B. 1952), U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (nominated by Richard Nixon)
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