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                                    Noted alumni                                   | 
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- Tariq Abdul-Wahad -- NBA player (played at SJSU as Olivier
Saint-Jean)
 
- Bernd Behr -- artist
 
- Lee P. Brown -- former Mayor of
Houston, former Director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy
 
- Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks -- musicians best known for Fleetwood
Mac
 
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -- U.S. Senator from
Colorado
 
- Christopher Darden -- prosecutor of O. J. Simpson
 
- Dian Fossey -- ethologist
and gorilla expert
 
- Jeff Garcia -- Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland
Browns
 
- Krazy George Henderson -- professional cheerleader,
inventor of the audience wave
 
- Mike Honda -- U.S. Representative from California
 
- Jayne Ann Krentz -- author
 
- Jessica McClintock
-- fashion designer
 
- Gordon Moore -- co-founder of Intel (who spent 2 years at SJSC and then graduated from Cal)
 
- Gaylord Nelson -- U.S. Senator and Governor of Wisconsin
 
- Kurtwood Smith -- actor
 
- Tommie Smith -- 1968 Olympic gold medalist, best known for "Black
Power" salute with fellow SJSC student and medalist John Carlos
 
- The Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick Smothers -- comedians
 
- Amy Tan - novelist
 
- Peter Ueberroth -- head of 1984 Summer Olympics, Time 1984 Man of the Year and commissioner (1984-1989) of Major League Baseball
 
- Dick Vermeil -- American football coach
 
- Bill Walsh -- American football coach
 
- Michael Whelan -- artist
 
- David Willman -- reporter,
winner of the 2001 Pulitzer
Prize
 
- Hamza Yusuf -- Islamic scholar
 
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