Alumni

Academic Leaders

• John Bravman, Bucknell president
• Michael Drake, University of California president
• Jonathan Holloway, Rutgers University president
• Vincent E. Price, Duke University president
• John Scholz, University of Oregon president
• Lori White, DePauw University president

News Media

• Gretchen Carlson, producer/host
• Dave Flemming, broadcaster
• Rodney Gilmore, broadcaster  
• Josh Haner, photojournalist
• Ted Koppel, broadcaster
• Rachel Maddow, broadcaster

Arts and Entertainment

• Tauba Auerbach, artist
• Andre Braugher*, actor 
• Sterling K. Brown, actor
• Cheo Coker, producer/writer
• Jennifer Connelly, actor
• Ted Danson, actor 
• Richard Diebenkorn*, artist
• Issa Rae Diop, actor, producer 
• Christy Haubegger, producer
• Holly Herndon, composer/musician
• Gale Anne Hurd, producer
• David Lang, composer
• Robert Motherwell*, artist
• Jon Nakamatsu, pianist
• Stephanie Syjuco, artist
• Christopher Tin, composer
• Sigourney Weaver, actor
• Reese Witherspoon, actor
• Richard Zanuck*, producer

Athletics

Baseball

• Jason Castro
• Jed Lowrie
• Mike Mussina
• Stephen Piscotty

Football

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

Basketball

• Jarron Collins
• Brook Lopez
• Robin Lopez
• Chiney Ogwumike
• Nneka Ogwumike

Golf

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

Tennis

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

Soccer

• Corey Baird
• Tierna Davidson 
• Catarina Macario
• Jordan Morris 
• Kelley O’Hara 
• Christen Press 
• Andi Sullivan

Softball

• Jessica Mendoza 

Olympians

• Tony Azevedo 
• Jennifer Azzi 
• Maya DiRado 
• Julie Foudy
• Katie Ledecky 
• Simone Manuel 
• Bob Mathias* 
• Pablo Morales 
• Summer Sanders 
• Erik Shoji
• Kerri Strug
• Jenny Thompson
• Brenda Villa
• Kerri Walsh Jennings

Business

• Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder
• Mary Barra, General Motors
• Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems 
• Sergey Brin, Google
• Carlos Brito, Belron
• José E. Feliciano, Clearlake Capital Group
• Doris Fisher, Gap
• Xavier A. Gutierrez, Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club
• Reed Hastings, Netflix
• William Hewlett*, Hewlett-Packard
• Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn  
• Jensen Huang, NVIDIA
• Phil Knight, Nike
• Mike Krieger, Instagram
• Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix
• Marissa Mayer, Sunshine
• Charlotte Pera, Bezos Earth Foundation
• Miriam Rivera, Ulu Ventures
• Charles R. Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp.
• Debbie Sterling, GoldieBlox
• Kevin Systrom, Instagram
• Jerry Yang, Yahoo

Writing & Poetry

• Brit Bennett
• Dana Gioia
• Yaa Gyasi
• Robert Hass
• bell hooks*
• David Henry Hwang 
• Ken Kesey*
• N. Scott Momaday 
• Robert Pinsky
• John Steinbeck*
• Jesmyn Ward 
• Tobias Wolff

Government

• Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister, Greece
• Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Presidents

• Herbert Hoover*, U.S. president

Supreme Court Justices

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

Nobel Prize Winners

• Eric Cornell, physics
• Dudley Herschbach, chemistry
• Roger Kornberg, chemistry
• Paul Milgrom, economics 
• Al Roth, economics 
• K. Barry Sharpless, chemistry
• Richard E. Taylor, physics
• Carl Wieman, physics
• Oliver E. Williamson, economics

Inventors

• Vinton Cerf, Internet protocol
• John Chowning, synthesizer
• Ray Dolby*, noise-reduction system
• Ted Hoff, microprocessor
• Ted Maiman*, laser
• Brad Parkinson, GPS
• Brent Townshend, 56K modem

And More

• Stewart Brand, internet pioneer
• France Anne-Dominic Córdova, National Science Foundation director
• Atul Gawande, surgeon 
• Jessica Jackley, Kiva
• Valerie Jarrett, Obama Foundation
• Robert Mondavi*, vintner
• Ellen Ochoa, astronaut
• Jeff Raikes, The Raikes Foundation
• Sally Ride*, first U.S. woman in space
• Blake Ross, Mozilla Firefox developer
• Premal Shah, Kiva co-founder  
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver*, Special Olympics founder
• Jeffrey Skoll, Skoll Foundation