List of Stanford University faculty and staff

This is a list of encyclopedic alumni associated with Stanford University in the United States.

Notable Stanford alumni

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 (dropped out); entrepreneur Charles Schwab; Hewlett-Packard cofounders Bill Hewlett and David Packard; author John Steinbeck (didn't graduate); and athletes Tiger Woods (dropped out), John Elway, and John McEnroe (dropped out).

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 1933), President Emeritus of the University of California
Kenji Erik Kushida (MA), Author and Scholar
Paul W Klipsch (MS), Inventor, Engineer, Scientist, Pilot
Richard Levin (1968), President Yale University
Ronald Rivest (Ph.D.), cryptographer
Peter Salovey, Dean Yale University
Robert Moyer, Ph.D., psychologist at Bates College.
Daniel Sleator (Ph.D.), computer scientist

Actors, film, and media

David Brown, movie producer
Jennifer Connelly, actress (dropped out)
Ted Danson, actor (transferred to Carnegie Mellon University)
Elizabeth Farnsworth (MA), broadcast journalist
Daryn Kagan, CNN anchor
Amy Kellogg (MA), news reporter for the Fox News Channel
Ted Koppel (MA), journalist
Justine Mattera, Italian TV personality
Daniel Pearl, journalist
Danny Pintauro, actor
Fred Savage, actor
Ben Savage, actor
Joel Stein, humorist and columnist for the Los Angeles Times
Sigourney Weaver, actress
Reese Witherspoon, actress (dropped out)
Richard Zanuck, movie producer

Astronauts

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

Mukesh Ambani (MBA candidate, dropped out) Reliance Industries Limited Chairman
Steven A. Ballmer, (MBA candidate, dropped out in 1979) CEO, Microsoft
Robert M. Bass, (MBA 1974) President, Keystone, Inc.
Jeffrey Bewkes (MBA 1977), Time Warner President and COO
Sergey Brin (M.S.), Google co-founder
Bud Colligan (MBA 1983), Macromedia cofounder
Ray Dolby, audio engineer, founder of Dolby Labs
Richard Fairbank, Capital One co-founder
David Filo (M.S.), Yahoo! cofounder
Carly Fiorina (1976), CEO of Hewlett-Packard from July 1999 until her forced resignation in February 2005.
Doris Fisher, Gap Inc. cofounder (with husband Donald Fisher)
Samer Hamadeh, Vault.com cofounder
Reed Hastings (M.S. 1988), Netflix founder
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
John Morgridge (MBA 1957), Cisco Systems Chairman
Mark Oldman, Vault.com cofounder
David Packard (1934), Hewlett-Packard cofounder
Larry Page (M.S.), Google co-founder
James Sachs (M.A. 1979), IDEO cofounder
Charles R. Schwab (1959, MBA 1961), founder, chairman, and CEO of Charles Schwab Corporation
Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder, Clarium Capital founder
Alan Tripp, (B.A. 1985, MBA 1989) founder of SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
Jerry Yang, Yahoo! cofounder

Literature and arts

Stewart Brand, editor
Allette Brooks, musician
Robbie Conal (MFA), artist
Michael Cunningham, author
Harriet Doerr, author
Dana Gioia (1973, MBA 1977), VP at General Foods, poet, NEA chairman
Sam Harris, author and neuroscientist
Robert Hass (M.A., Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
George V. Higgins (M.A.), attorney and author
Ollie Johnston, pioneering Disney animator
Ken Kesey (M.A.), author
Robert Motherwell, painter
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and author
Scott O'Dell, author
Robert Pinsky (Ph.D.), U.S. Poet Laureate
Edward Rutherfurd, novelist
Vikram Seth, poet and author (dropped out of Ph.D program)
John Steinbeck, author (dropped out)
Scott Turow (M.A.), author
Albert Wilson (M.S.), author, botanist, talk show personality

Miscellaneous

Chelsea Clinton (2001), First Daughter
Robin Lee Graham Author, sailed the world alone as a teenager
Harry Harlow, psychologist
Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady
Michael Murphy, author and co-founder of Esalen Institute
Stephen Timoshenko, engineer
H.R.H Prince Philippe (MA 1985), Duke of Brabant, Crown Prince of Belgium
Dr. Mehmet Serkan Apaydin (M.S., Ph.D.), computer scientist and electrical engineer
Jobst Brandt, mechanical engineer, cyclist and author

Political leaders

Mohammad Reza Aref (M.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1981), First Vice President of Iran
Ehud Barak (M.A. 1979), former Prime Minister of Israel
Max Baucus (1963, LL.B. 1967), U.S. Senator
Jeff Bingaman (LL.B. 1968), U.S. Senator
Frank Church (1947, LL.B. 1950), late U.S. Senator
Warren Christopher (LL.B. 1949), former U.S. Secretary of State
Kent Conrad (1970), U.S. Senator
Gray Davis (1964), former Governor of California
Dianne Feinstein (1955), U.S. Senator
Herbert Hoover (1895), President of the United States
Thomas M. Storke (1898), late U.S. Senator
Alejandro Toledo (A.M. 1972, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1993), President of Peru
James Woolsey (1963), former CIA director
Ron Wyden (1971), U.S. Senator
William Perry (1949, M.A. 1950), Engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
Ricardo Maduro (BA 1969), President of Honduras

U.S. 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)

Notable Stanford faculty and affiliates

Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
Felix Bloch, Nobel Laureate, physics professor
Eavan Boland, Irish poet, professor
Paul Berg, Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor
Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor. Professor at Stanford from 1987 to 2004.
Paul Cohen, Fields Medal-recipient mathematics professor
Don E. Fehrenbacher, Pulitzer Prize winner author (1979, The Dred Scott Case: Its Signficance in American Law & Politics). Was William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies from 1953.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
Avner Greif, economist
Lala Hardayal , Indian freedom fighter
Donald Knuth, creator of TeX and computer science pioneer and professor emeritus
Robert Laughlin, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, Professor at Stanford from 1989 to 2004.
Lawrence Lessig, IP and constitutional law professor
John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
Martin L. Perl, Nobel Prize winning physics professor
William Perry, engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
Condoleezza Rice, political science professor from 1981 to 2000, Provost from 1993 to 1999, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and 66th Secretary of State of the United States
Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
Patrick Suppes, National Medal of Science recipient, professor
Richard Taylor, Nobel Laureate
Paul Watzlawick

Notable Stanford athletes

Frankie Albert, football
Tony Azevedo, water polo
Jennifer Azzi, basketball in the ABL and WNBA
Brad Badger, football
Notah Begay III, golf
David Bergeron, football
Mike Boit, track (graduate student)
Bob Boone, former Major League Baseball catcher
Curtis Borchardt and his wife Susan King Borchardt, basketball
Colin Branch – National Football League safety
John Brodie, National FootballLeague player
Bob Bryan, tennis (dropped out)
Mike Bryan, tennis (dropped out)
Josh Childress, basketball
Amy Chow, gymnastics
Jarron Collins, basketball
Jason Collins, basketball
Ian Dobson, cross country, track & field
John Elway, Hall of Fame football quarterback
Janet Evans, swimming
Lauren Fleshman, cross country, track & field
Kristin Folkl, basketball
Julie Foudy, former US women's soccer player
Sam Fuld, Baseball, CHN system
Jody Gerut, Major League Baseball outfielder
Ryan Hall, cross country, track & field
Eric Heiden, speed skating, cycling
Rick Helling, Major League Baseball pitcher
Regina Jacobs, cross country, track & field
Casey Jacobsen, basketball
Teyo Johnson, basketball and football
Brevin Knight, basketball
Arthur Lee, basketball
James Lofton, National Football League player
Jim Lonborg, former Major League Baseball pitcher
Hank Luisetti, basketball
John Lynch, National Football League safety
Mark Madsen, basketball
Casey Martin, golf
Bob Mathias, track and football
Jack McDowell, former Major League Baseball pitcher
John McEnroe, tennis (dropped out)
Patrick McEnroe, tennis
Carolyn Moos, basketball
Pablo Morales, swimming
Mike Mussina, Major League Baseball pitcher
Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand international soccer player; formerly with D.C. United in MLS, now with Blackburn Rovers in English Premiership
Darrin Nelson, former National Football League running back
Ernie Nevers, football
Vanessa Nygaard, basketball
Kate Paye, basketball
Jim Plunkett, former National Football League quarterback
Nicole Powell, basketball in the WNBA
Markus Rogan, swimming
Summer Sanders, swimming
Olympia Scott, basketball in the WNBA
Jamie Schroeder, rowing – US National Team
Kate Starbird, basketball
Toby Stevenson, pole vault
Kerri Strug, gymnastics
Debi Thomas, figure skating
Jenny Thompson, swimming
Logan Tom, volleyball
Jeff Rouse, swimming
Peter Marshall, swimming
Kerri Walsh, volleyball
Tom Watson, golfer
Bob Whitfield – National Football League offensive lineman
Tank Williams, National Football League defensive back
Kailee Wong, National Football League outside linebacker
Tiger Woods, tried out for golf team