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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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Interesting Fact |
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In the 1905 college football season, 18 men were killed and 159 more permanently injured during regular U.S. collegiate football games. The NCAA was subsequently formed to establish rules and require protective equipment. |
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