Skip to content
Category

Stanford University alumni

page 2
Paul Winfield
actor (1939–2004)
Phil Knight
American billionaire and co-founder of Nike
Adam Schiff
United States Senator from California
David Baszucki
Co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation
Laurene Powell Jobs
American political activist, business executive, philanthropist, heiress, billionaire
Kurtwood Smith
American actor
Josh Hawley
American lawyer and politician (born 1979)
Daniel Pearl
American journalist (1963–2002)
Kevin Systrom
American computer programmer and entrepreneur (born 1983)
Edith Head
American film and television costumer (1897-1981)
Ray Dolby
American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)
Andre Braugher
American actor (1962–2023)
Issa Rae
American actress, writer and producer
John Gavin
American film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico (1931–2018)
Fred Savage
American actor and director (born 1976)
Heather Langenkamp
American actress
David Filo
American businessman
William Perry
American mathematician and businessman, former Secretary of Defense
Nicole Krauss
American novelist (born 1974)
Sam Simon
American television producer (1955–2015)
Owen K. Garriott
American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)
Ricardo Maduro
President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006
Simin Daneshvar
Iranian writer (1921–2012)
Daphne Koller
Israeli-American computer scientist
Gale Anne Hurd
American film producer and screenwriter
Yaa Gyasi
Ghanaian-American novelist
Julián Castro
16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio
Ronee Blakley
actress, singer
Arthur Laffer
American economist (1940-)
Jeff Merkley
American politician (born 1956)
Ram Dass
American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
Kathleen Rubins
NASA astronaut selected in July 2009
Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Aaron "Danya" Naroditsky was an American chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator. During his career, he was widely considered one of the best speed chess players in the world and was consistently ranked among the top 25 players. His major tournament wins include the 2007 World Youth Championship, the 2013 U.S. Junior Championship, and the 2025 U.S. Blitz Championship. He became one of the youngest published authors in chess history at age 14 and earned the chess grandmaster title at age 17.
Tamara E. Jernigan
astronaut
Eric Temple Bell
Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author (1883-1960)
Ron Wyden
American politician and educator (born 1949)
Tobias Wolff
fiction writer, memoirist (b. 1945)
David Chase
American screenwriter, director and producer
Peter Senge
American systems scientist
Reid Hoffman
American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author
Joe Kennedy III
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022
Stephen Robinson
American astronaut
Tina Smith
United States Senator from Minnesota
Evan Spiegel
American businessman (born 1990)
Skyler Samuels
American actress
John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist
Gray Davis
Governor of California from 1999 to 2003
Kelly Catlin
American cyclist
Michael S. Hopkins
NASA astronaut, and Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force
Robert Sternberg
American psychologist & scholar
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Vivian Kong Man-wai
member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and ex-Hong Kong female fencer
Robert Motherwell
American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker (1915–1991)
Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)
Prince William of Gloucester
elder son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1941–1972)
Garrett Hardin
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Jessica Watkins
US astronaut
Delmer Daves
American film director, producer, and screenwriter (1904–1977)
Parimarjan Negi
Indian chess grandmaster
N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa author and academic (1934–2024)