Stanford University faculty

American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)

Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)

Russian politician, prime minister in 1917 (1881–1970)

American political scientist, political economist, and author

American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)

American computer scientist (born 1943)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016

American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)

American economist (born 1955)

American politician (1920–2021)

American economist

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

American mathematician from Hong Kong

Australian number theorist

American actor

German-American computer scientist (1923-2008)

American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)

Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915–2008)

American physicist and futurologist (1927–1992)

English philosopher (1922–2009)

Iranian film director (1938-2025)

Canadian astronaut

Rohit "Ro" Khanna is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic representative Mike Honda in the 2016 general election, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011.

American writer

Soviet linguist (1929-2017)

Dutch-American microbiologist (1897–1985)

American developmental biologist

American research psychologist

American writer (1912–2007)

Canadian economist (1892–1970)

American chemist, 1902-1995

Indian ecologist, writer, environmental activist

American sociologist (1928–2018)

American botanist

Finnish politician, journalist and diplomat (1881–1945)

American physicist (1921–2016)

American nuclear physicist (1927–2003)

American neuroscientist and author

American economist

British physicist

American actor, educator (1936-2009)

American educational psychologist (1916–2001)

Chilean writer (born 1947)

American dramatist (1894–1977)

American Japanologist (1921–2007)

American academic

American political scientist and sociologist

American poet (1925–2014)

American psychologist and university teacher (1929–2012)

actress, drama teacher (1912-1998)

English poet (1929-2004)

Croatian American historian (1908-1994)

Argentine-American economist

Norwegian philosopher

American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, science administrator and author (1867-1937)

Dutch physician and neurobiologist

American ichthyologist (1859–1928)

scientific integrity expert (born 1966)

Swazi writer

American physician, bacteriologist (1878–1940)