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Undergraduate Colleges /
Stanford University |
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Notable Stanford alumni |
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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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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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