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List of Stanford University alumni

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Following is a list of noble students and alumni of Stanford University.

Academia

Presidents and chancellors

Provosts

Deans

Professors

Other scholarship and education

Advocacy and nonprofits

Art and architecture

Astronauts

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Eileen Collins
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E. Michael Fincke

Business

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Ray Dolby
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Reed Hastings
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Reid Hoffman
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Jensen Huang
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Phil Knight
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Kevin Systrom
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Jerry Yang

Company founders

Other business leaders

Computer science and electrical engineering

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Sergey Brin
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Vinton Cerf
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Larry Page
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Diplomacy

U.S. ambassadors

Other U.S. diplomats

Entertainment

Film and television

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Rachel Maddow
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Jennifer Connelly
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Ted Danson
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Reese Witherspoon

Music

Radio

Judiciary

U.S. Supreme Court

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William Rehnquist
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Sian Elias
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Sandra Day O'Connor

U.S. Court of Appeals

U.S. Federal District Court

State Supreme Court

State Court of Appeal

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Law

Attorney

Attorney General

District Attorney

U.S. Attorney

Literature and journalism

Journalism

Writers

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Robert Pinsky

Medicine

Military

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Paul Sohl

Miscellaneous

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Chelsea Clinton
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Lou Henry Hoover

Politics

Presidents, vice presidents, and prime ministers

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Herbert Hoover
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John F. Kennedy
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Ehud Barak
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Yukio Hatoyama

Royalty

Cabinet secretaries and ministers

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Regina Ip

U.S. Senators

U.S. House of Representatives

Governors

Lieutenant governors

State legislators

Other U.S. federal and state officials

Local officials

Non-U.S. political officials

Religion

Science

Sports

Baseball

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Sam Fuld
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Shawn Green
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John Mayberry Jr.

Basketball

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Anthony Brown
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Landry Fields

Football

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Greg Camarillo
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John Elway
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Jim Plunkett

Golf

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Tiger Woods

Gymnastics

  • Amy Chow, Olympic gold medalist
  • Nancy Goldsmith, Israeli Olympic gymnast
  • Ivana Hong, U.S. Olympic team alternate and 2007 World Champion
  • Carly Janiga, NCAA champion in uneven bars, 2010
  • Heather Purnell, captain of the 2004 Canadian Olympic Team
  • Jennifer Sey, former U.S. National Gymnastics Champion
  • Samantha Shapiro, five-time member of the USA Gymnastics National Team, 2007 U.S. junior uneven bars champion, 2008 U.S. junior uneven bars, and balance beam champion
  • Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist

Poker

  • Diego Cordovez (A.B., M.S.), World Series of Poker Champion
  • Ben Yu, poker player, World Series of Poker bracelet winner

Rowing

Rugby

  • Kaleiwahine Kim, US Women's Eagles Canada Cup, Australia & Fiji Tour, 1998 World Cup Silver Medal and 1995 and 1996 Collegiate All-American

Soccer

Skating, ice

Swimming

Tennis

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The Bryan Brothers
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John McEnroe

Track and field

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Steven Solomon

Volleyball

Water polo

Other sports

Notable current students

Fictional alumni

In film

  • In The American President, President Andrew Shepherd mentions that he went to Stanford.[396]
  • In Antitrust, the main character is depicted as a Stanford graduate.[396]
  • In Avatar, Grace Augustine wears a Stanford T-shirt.[397]
  • In Challengers, two of the main characters attend Stanford while the third main character visits them on campus[398]
  • In Die Hard, Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi graduated from Stanford Law School in 1962.[399]
  • In Double Indemnity (1944), the storyline is about a wife who conspires with her lover to kill her husband in Palo Alto on his way to a Stanford reunion.[396]
  • In The Family Plan, attending Stanford is a key theme throughout including the final scene.[400]
  • In The Internship, characters portrayed by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson seek help from fictional Stanford Professor Charles Xavier.[401]
  • In Legally Blonde, the storyline was inspired by Amanda Brown's real-life experience as a student at Stanford Law School.[402] Character Warner Huntington III is revealed to have attended Stanford.[403]
  • In Mother of the Bride, all four main characters are noted to have attended Stanford, a centerpiece of the storyline.[404]

In literature

In television

  • In 24, Kate Warner and President Wayne Palmer have Stanford degrees.[396][405]
  • In 9-1-1, character Darius states his intention to go to Stanford[406] in Seasons 3 and 6. Stanford is also mentioned in Season 2 Episode 2, where it is mentioned that the basketball team's top recruits wanted to go to either "Duke or Stanford"[407]
  • In Castle, character Detective Kate Beckett attended Stanford as a pre-law undergrad.
  • In Chuck, the main character Chuck Bartowski is presented as a Stanford dropout, and Stanford plays a central role in the theme.[396]
  • In Cobra Kai, character Miguel Diaz is accepted to Stanford in the series finale.[408]
  • In Dharma & Greg, main character Greg Montgomery graduated from Stanford Law School.
  • In Entourage, character Lloyd Lee received his MBA from Stanford.
  • In Grey's Anatomy, character Cristina Yang holds a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford,[409] where her former boyfriend Colin Marlowe was a professor.[396]
  • In How I Met Your Mother, character Stella (Ted's almost bride) attended Stanford as both an undergrad and medical school graduate.
  • In Just Shoot Me!, character Maya Gallo attended Stanford.
  • In M*A*S*H, character Captain B. J. Hunnicutt graduated from Stanford.[396]
  • In The Morning Show, character Stella Bak attended Stanford. There is a 2023 episode named "The Stanford Student".[410]
  • In Landman, Jerry Jones plays himself describing his business revolving around Stanford and his daughter attending.[411]
  • In MythBusters, several scenes were filmed at Stanford and included real Stanford students.[401]
  • In Parenthood, character Julia Braverman-Graham attended Stanford for law school.[412]
  • In Scandal, character Quinn Perkins (also known as Lindsay Dwyer) graduated from Stanford Law School.[413]
  • In Star Trek, character Jonathan Archer studied at Stanford.[396]
  • In Supernatural, character Sam Winchester (portrayed by Jared Padalecki) was studying law at Stanford.
  • In The West Wing, character Joey Lucas (portrayed by Marlee Matlin) graduated from Stanford and character Surgeon General Millicent Griffith (portrayed by Mary Kay Place) graduated from Stanford.
  • In The X-Files, character Dana Scully earned her medical degree from Stanford University.[414]
  • In Zero Day, the President of the United States (played by Angela Basset) prominently wears at Stanford sweatshirt.

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