Stanford Facts: Alumni
Stanford Alumni
There are an estimated 185,707 living Stanford degree holders, including 73,650 undergraduate alumni, 93,598 graduate alumni and 18,459 dual-degree holders. Stanford alumni can be found in 142 countries, 18 territories and all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Among Stanford alumni are:
Academic Leaders: Derek Bok, former Harvard president; William Brody, former Johns Hopkins president; Nancy Cantor, Syracuse chancellor and president; France Cordova, Purdue president; Pamela Eibeck, University of the Pacific president; Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie Corp. president; Rev. William Leahy, Boston College president; Richard Levin, Yale president; Robert Shelton, University of Arizona president
Science and Engineering: Astronauts Eileen Collins, Mae Jemison, Bruce McCandless, Ellen Ochoa and Sally Ride; Vinton Cerf, co-author of Internet protocol; Ray Dolby, designed noise reduction systems; Nobel Prize winners Dudley Herschbach and Eric Cornell; Brent Townsend, inventor of 56K modem; Brad Parkinson, GPS co-principal investigator
Business: Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft; Jeff Bewkes, CEO, Time Warner, Inc.; Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google founders; Doris Fisher, co-founder, Gap, Inc.; Joseph Gallo, CEO, E. & J. Gallo Winery; Reed Hastings, chairman and CEO of Netflix, Inc.; William Hewlett and David Packard (both deceased), founders, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Philip Knight, chairman, Nike, Inc.; Peter Magowan, partner, San Francisco Giants; Robert Mondavi, founder, Robert Mondavi Winery (deceased); Charles Schwab, CEO and chairman, Charles Schwab Corp.; Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal; Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! founders
Government and Public Service: Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister of Japan; Ehud Barak, Israeli minister of defense, former prime minister; Warren Christopher, former U.S. Secretary of State; U.S. President Herbert Hoover (deceased); Ricardo Maduro, former president of Honduras; Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, governor of Bank of Mexico; William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru; U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy; former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist (deceased); U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Ron Wyden and Dianne Feinstein; former California Gov. Gray Davis; former Utah Gov. Olene Walker
Sports: William Neukom, managing general partner and CEO, San Francisco Giants; Chuck Armstrong, president, Seattle Mariners; football players John Elway, Jim Plunkett and Trent Edwards; Olympians Kerri Walsh, Julie Foudy, Jessica Mendoza, Jenny Thompson, Janet Evans, Eric Heiden, Kerri Strug and Logan Tom; women’s basketball players Nicole Powell, Jennifer Azzi and Candice Wiggins; baseball player Mike Mussina; men’s basketball players Brevin Knight and Brook Lopez; golfers Tiger Woods and Tom Watson; tennis player John McEnroe
Journalism and Writing: journalists Ted Koppel and Daniel Pearl (deceased); Bill and the late Mel Lane, formerly of Sunset Publishing Corp.; Henry Muller, editor-at-large of Time, Inc.; authors Jeffrey Eugenides, Ernest Gaines, N. Scott Momaday, John Steinbeck (deceased), Ken Kesey (deceased), Harriet Doerr (deceased), Michael Cunningham and Tobias Wolff; playwrights David Henry Hwang and Warren Leight; U.S. poets laureate Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky
Arts and Entertainment: artists Richard Diebenkorn and Robert Motherwell (both deceased); composer David Lang; actors Ted Danson, Jennifer Connelly and Sigourney Weaver; movie producers David Brown, Roger Corman, Gale Ann Hurd, Edward Pressman and Richard Zanuck; movie directors Jay Roach and Alexander Payne
Stanford Alumni Association
Established in 1892 by members of Stanford’s first graduating class, the Stanford Alumni Association oversees alumni activities and services, including reunions and homecoming; campus conferences; regional and class programming and events; Stanford magazine; a website; enrichment education; recreation programs; faculty-led travel; and alumni networking, mentoring and volunteering.
