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The Stanford Alumni Association was established in 1892 by the university’s first graduates. There are currently more than 248,000 Stanford alumni.

Academic Leaders

  • John Bravman, Bucknell University president
  • Brian Casey, Colgate University president
  • Nancy Cantor, Hunter College president
  • Lynn Mahoney, San Francisco State University president
  • Vincent E. Price, Duke University president
  • Karl Scholz, University of Oregon president
  • Lori White, DePauw University president

Arts and Entertainment

  • Andre Braugher*, actor
  • David Brown*, producer
  • Sterling K. Brown, actor
  • Yvette Lee Bowser, producer/writer
  • Linda Yvette Chávez, producer/writer
  • Cheo Hodari Coker,
  • producer/writer
  • Roger Corman*, producer/director
  • Jennifer Connelly, actor
  • Ted Danson, actor
  • Richard Diebenkorn*, artist
  • Issa Rae Diop, actor/producer
  • Edith Head*, costume designer
  • Gale Anne Hurd, producer
  • David Henry Hwang, playwright
  • David Lang, composer
  • Robert Motherwell*, artist
  • Jon Nakamatsu, pianist
  • Alexander Payne, director/producer/writer
  • Stephanie Syjuco, artist
  • Frank Thomas* and Ollie Johnston*, animators
  • Christopher Tin, composer
  • Sigourney Weaver, actor
  • Richard Zanuck*, producer

Astronauts

  • Eileen Collins
  • Ellen Ochoa
  • Sally Ride*

Athletics

Baseball

  • Jason Castro
  • Tommy Edman
  • Jed Lowrie
  • Mike Mussina

Basketball 

  • Brook Lopez
  • Robin Lopez
  • Chiney Ogwumike
  • Nneka Ogwumike

Fencing

  • Alexander Massialas

Football 

  • John Elway
  • Zach Ertz
  • Andrew Luck
  • John Lynch
  • Christian McCaffrey
  • Jim Plunkett
  • Richard Sherman

Golf

  • Notah Begay III
  • Tom Watson
  • Michelle Wie West
  • Tiger Woods
  • Mickey Wright

Soccer

  • Corey Baird
  • Julie Foudy
  • Naomi Girma
  • Jordan Morris
  • Kelley O’Hara
  • Christen Press
  • Sophia Smith

Softball

  • Jessica Mendoza 

Swimming

  • Katie Ledecky
  • Simone Manuel
  • Pablo Morales
  • Summer Sanders
  • Jenny Thompson

Tennis 

  • Bob Bryan
  • Mike Bryan
  • Nicole Gibbs
  • John McEnroe

Track and Field

  • Bob Mathias*

Volleyball

  • Erik Shoji
  • Kerri Walsh Jennings

Water Polo

  • Tony Azevedo
  • Maggie Steffens
  • Brenda Villa

Business

  • Brian Acton, WhatsApp
  • Mary Barra, General Motors
  • Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, and Vinod Khosla, Sun Microsystems
  • Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
  • Carlos Brito, Belron
  • Joe Coulombe*, Trader Joe’s
  • José E. Feliciano, Clearlake Capital Group
  • Doris Fisher, Gap
  • Reed Hastings, Netflix
  • William Hewlett* and David Packard*, Hewlett-Packard
  • Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn  
  • Jensen Huang, NVIDIA
  • Phil Knight, Nike
  • Marissa Mayer, Dazzle
  • Robert Mondavi*, Robert Mondavi Winery
  • Charles R. Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp.
  • Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram
  • Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo

Government

  • Herbert Hoover*, U.S. president
  • Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prime minister, Greece

Supreme Court Justices

  • Stephen Breyer
  • Anthony Kennedy
  • Sandra Day O’Connor*
  • William Rehnquist*

Inventors

  • Vinton Cerf, Internet protocol
  • John Chowning, digital FM synthesizer
  • Ray Dolby*, noise-reduction system
  • Ted Hoff, microprocessor
  • Ted Maiman*, laser
  • Brad Parkinson, GPS

Media

  • Gretchen Carlson, producer/host
  • Juju Chang, broadcaster
  • Richard Engel, journalist
  • Dave Flemming, broadcaster
  • Rodney Gilmore, broadcaster
  • Ted Koppel, broadcaster
  • Rachel Maddow, broadcaster

Nobel Prize Winners

  • Eric Cornell, physics
  • John C. Harsanyi*, economics
  • Dudley Herschbach, chemistry
  • Bengt Holmström, economics
  • Roger Kornberg, chemistry
  • Paul Milgrom, economics
  • Paul Modrich, chemistry
  • Al Roth, economics
  • Randy W. Schekman, physiology or medicine
  • K. Barry Sharpless, chemistry
  • Richard E. Taylor*, physics
  • Carl Wieman, physics
  • Oliver E. Williamson*, economics

Nonprofit

  • Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation
  • France A. Córdova, Science Philanthropy Alliance
  • Jeff Raikes, Raikes Foundation
  • Blake Ross, Mozilla Firefox developer
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver*, Special Olympics founder
  • Jeffrey Skoll, Skoll Foundation

Writers

  • Elif Batuman
  • Brit Bennett
  • Michael Cunningham
  • Atul Gawande
  • Dana Gioia
  • Robert Hass
  • bell hooks*
  • Ken Kesey*
  • N. Scott Momaday*
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Vikram Seth
  • John Steinbeck*
  • Jesmyn Ward
  • Tobias Wolff 

* deceased