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Alumni

The Stanford Alumni Association was established in 1892 by the university’s first graduates. There are currently more than 220,000 Stanford 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

* deceased