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Undergraduate Colleges /
San Jose State University |
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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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