Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Morton I. Abramowitz |
Diplomat |
20-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1989-91 |
Jonathan S. Adelstein |
Government |
1962 |
|
FCC Commissioner |
David R. Albin |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Natural Gas Partners |
Charlotte Allen |
Journalist |
? |
|
Conservative writer |
Herbert M. Allison |
Business |
24-Aug-1943 |
14-Jul-2013 |
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 2002-08 |
Eric Alterman |
Columnist |
14-Jan-1960 |
|
The Nation columnist |
Mukesh Ambani |
Business |
19-Apr-1957 |
|
India's richest man |
Maxwell Anderson |
Playwright |
15-Dec-1888 |
28-Feb-1959 |
What Price Glory? |
Paul M. Anderson |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of Duke Energy, 2003-07 |
Leonore Annenberg |
Socialite |
20-Feb-1918 |
12-Mar-2009 |
Wife of Walter Annenberg |
Brent R. Appel |
Judge |
c. 1951 |
|
Justice, Iowa Supreme Court |
Joyce Appleby |
Historian |
9-Apr-1929 |
|
Capitalism and a New Social Order |
Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
Samuel Armacost |
Business |
Mar-1939 |
|
Chairman of SRI International |
Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
John Arrillaga |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Silicon Valley real estate developer |
Michael Arrington |
Business |
13-Mar-1970 |
|
TechCrunch |
Taro Aso |
Politician |
20-Sep-1940 |
|
Prime Minister of Japan, 2008-09 |
Donald B. Ayer |
Attorney |
30-Apr-1949 |
|
Partner, Jones Day |
Kenneth J. Bacon |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
EVP at Fannie Mae |
Robert E. Badham |
Politician |
9-Jun-1929 |
21-Oct-2005 |
Congressman from California, 1977-89 |
Thomas A. Bailey |
Historian |
14-Dec-1902 |
26-Jul-1983 |
The American Pageant |
John C. Baldwin |
Doctor |
c. 1949 |
|
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech |
Steve Ballmer |
Business |
24-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of Microsoft, 2003-14 |
Ehud Barak |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001 |
Arija Bareikis |
Actor |
21-Jul-1966 |
|
The Myth of Fingerprints |
Leroy T. Barnes, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Treasurer of PG&E, 2001-05 |
Edward W. Barnholt |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of Agilent Technologies, 1999-2005 |
Craig H. Barratt |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Atheros Communications |
Craig R. Barrett |
Business |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Chairman of Intel |
Richard Barton |
Business |
2-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of Expedia and Zillow |
Robert Bass |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Billionaire |
Sid Bass |
Business |
1942 |
|
Fort Worth Billionaire |
A. George Battle |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Ask Jeeves, 2000-04 |
Max Baucus |
Politician |
11-Dec-1941 |
|
US Senator from Montana |
Carlos T. Bea |
Judge |
18-Apr-1934 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Xavier Becerra |
Politician |
26-Jan-1958 |
|
Congressman, California 31st |
Riley P. Bechtel |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Bechtel |
Charles H. Bell, Jr. |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
Republican National Lawyers Association |
Eric A. Benhamou |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of 3Com, 1990-2000 |
Betsy J. Bernard |
Business |
16-May-1955 |
|
President of AT&T, 2002-03 |
Jeffrey L. Bewkes |
Business |
25-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Time Warner |
Steve Bing |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1965 |
|
Film producer and massive political donor |
Jeff Bingaman |
Politician |
3-Oct-1943 |
|
US Senator from New Mexico |
K. Gunnar Bjorklund |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Sverica International |
Natalie A. Black |
Business |
1949 |
|
VP at Kohler Company |
Robert O. Blake |
Diplomat |
7-Apr-1921 |
28-Dec-2015 |
US Ambassador to Mali, 1971-73 |
Ronee Blakley |
Actor |
24-Aug-1945 |
|
Nashville |
Gene D. Block |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Chancellor, UCLA |
Derek Bok |
Educator |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
President of Harvard, 1971-91 |
William Bolcom |
Composer |
26-May-1938 |
|
Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
Josh Bolten |
Government |
16-Aug-1955 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 2006-09 |
Cory Booker |
Politician |
27-Apr-1969 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
John F. Bookout III |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Former Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
Richard Boone |
Actor |
18-Jun-1917 |
10-Jan-1981 |
Have Gun, Will Travel |
Walter G. Borst |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Treasurer of General Motors |
Edgar Bowers |
Poet |
2-Mar-1924 |
4-Feb-2000 |
For Louis Pasteur |
Richard W. Boyce |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Texas Pacific Group |
Stephen G. Bradbury |
Government |
1958 |
|
Acting head, Office of Legal Counsel, 2004-09 |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
William Reynolds Braisted |
Historian |
14-Mar-1918 |
|
The United States Navy in the Pacific |
David Brancaccio |
TV Personality |
c. 1960 |
|
NOW, Marketplace |
Stewart Brand |
Business |
14-Dec-1938 |
|
Founder, Whole Earth Catalog |
H. W. Brands |
Historian |
7-Aug-1953 |
|
Prolific historian, professor at UT-Austin |
Martha Brant |
Journalist |
c. 1967 |
|
Newsweek reporter |
Andre Braugher |
Actor |
1-Jul-1962 |
|
Det. Pembleton on Homicide |
John R. Brazil |
Educator |
1946 |
|
President of Trinity University, 2000-10 |
Richard C. Breeden |
Government |
6-Dec-1949 |
|
SEC Chairman, 1989-93 |
James W. Breyer |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Venture capitalist, Accel Partners |
Stephen Breyer |
Judge |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
Claude S. Brinegar |
Business |
16-Dec-1926 |
13-Mar-2009 |
US Secretary of Transportation, 1973-75 |
Bertrand R. Brinley |
Author |
19-Jun-1917 |
20-Oct-1994 |
The Mad Scientists' Club |
John Brodie |
Football |
14-Aug-1935 |
|
Former San Francisco 49ers QB |
William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
Rhonda L. Brooks |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
R. Brooks Advisors, Inc. |
Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher |
Stephen M. Brophy |
Business |
? |
|
Page Land & Cattle Co. |
Kathleen Brown |
Politician |
15-Oct-1945 |
|
California State Treasurer, 1991-95 |
Michael A. Brown |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Quantum, 1995-2002 |
Phil Brown |
Actor |
30-Apr-1916 |
9-Feb-2006 |
Uncle Owen in Star Wars |
John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
Alexander O. Bryner |
Judge |
1943 |
|
Alaska Chief Justice, 2003-06 |
John E. Bryson |
Business |
24-Jul-1943 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce, 2011-12 |
Louise H. Bryson |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Chairman of Getty Trust |
Mary Brown Bullock |
Historian |
1944 |
|
President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006 |
Raymond Burr |
Actor |
21-May-1917 |
12-Sep-1993 |
Perry Mason |
Nolan Bushnell |
Business |
5-Feb-1943 |
|
Co-founder of Atari, started Chuck E. Cheese |
John R. Butler, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
JR Butler and Company |
Orkut Buyukkokten |
Computer Programmer |
6-Feb-1976 |
|
Designed Google's Orkut social network |
Brook Byers |
Business |
2-Aug-1945 |
|
Co-Founder, Kleiner-Perkins |
Mariann Byerwalter |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
JDN Corporate Advisory |
Frank Cady |
Actor |
8-Sep-1915 |
8-Jun-2012 |
Sam Drucker on Green Acres |
Consuelo M. Callahan |
Judge |
9-Jun-1950 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Carl Cannon |
Journalist |
24-Oct-1953 |
|
RealClearPolitics |
Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
Gretchen Carlson |
TV Personality |
21-Jun-1966 |
|
Fox & Friends |
Walter L. Carpeneti |
Judge |
1-Dec-1945 |
|
Justice, Alaska Supreme Court |
Julian Castro |
Politician |
16-Sep-1974 |
|
US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
Jean-Lou Chameau |
Educator |
1953 |
|
President, California Institute of Technology |
Otis Chandler |
Publisher |
23-Nov-1927 |
27-Feb-2006 |
Publisher of the L.A. Times, 1960-80 |
Russell Chew |
Government |
18-Jan-1953 |
|
Runs the US Air Traffic Control system |
Warren Christopher |
Government |
27-Oct-1925 |
18-Mar-2011 |
US Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
Frank Church |
Politician |
25-Jul-1924 |
7-Apr-1984 |
US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81 |
William P. Clark |
Government |
23-Oct-1931 |
10-Aug-2013 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1983-85 |
Chelsea Clinton |
Relative |
27-Feb-1980 |
|
Daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton |
Sue M. Cobb |
Attorney |
18-Aug-1937 |
|
Florida Secretary of State, 2005-07 |
Vance D. Coffman |
Business |
3-Apr-1944 |
|
CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004 |
Jared Cohen |
Government |
24-Nov-1981 |
|
Children of Jihad |
Deborah A. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
SmartForest Ventures |
Lewis W. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Dreamworks Animation SKG |
William T. Coleman III |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of BEA Systems, 1995-2001 |
Bud Colligan |
Business |
14-Aug-1954 |
|
CEO of Macromedia, 1992-97 |
Jason Collins |
Basketball |
2-Dec-1978 |
|
Brooklyn Nets center |
Peter Coneway |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Switzerland |
Jeffrey Connaughton |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie |
Jennifer Connelly |
Actor |
12-Dec-1970 |
|
Betty Ross in The Hulk |
Kent Conrad |
Politician |
12-Mar-1948 |
|
US Senator from North Dakota |
Andrew Conru |
Business |
3-Feb-1968 |
|
Creator of Friendfinder |
Dan W. Cook III |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Conservative fundraiser |
France A. Córdova |
Educator |
5-Aug-1947 |
|
President, Purdue University |
Roger Corman |
Film/TV Producer |
5-Apr-1926 |
|
Frankenstein Unbound |
Joe Coulombe |
Business |
3-Jun-1930 |
|
Cofounder of Trader Joe's Market |
James G. Coulter |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Billionaire, Texas Pacific Group |
Molly J. Coye |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Founder, Health Technology Center |
Alan Cranston |
Politician |
19-Jun-1914 |
31-Dec-2000 |
US Senator from California, 1969-93 |
Charles Crocker |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Crocker Capital |
Gary Crosby |
Actor |
27-Jun-1933 |
24-Aug-1995 |
Son of Bing Crosby |
Charles K. Crovitz |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
EVP at Gap, 1998-2003 |
William J. Crowe, Jr. |
Government |
2-Jan-1925 |
18-Oct-2007 |
US Navy Admiral |
James S. Crown |
Business |
25-Jun-1953 |
|
Henry Crown and Company |
James W. Crownover |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Retired Partner, McKinsey |
Michael Cunningham |
Novelist |
6-Nov-1952 |
|
The Hours |
Peter L. S. Currie |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CFO of Netscape, 1995-99 |
John J. Danilovich |
Diplomat |
1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 2001-04 |
Ted Danson |
Actor |
29-Dec-1947 |
|
Bartender on Cheers |
Lisa Darr |
Actor |
21-Apr-1963 |
|
Jane McPherson on Popular |
Ram Dass |
Religion |
5-Apr-1931 |
|
Be Here Now |
Gray Davis |
Politician |
26-Dec-1942 |
|
Governor of California, 1999-2003 |
Kelvin Davis |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Texas Pacific Group |
Yves C. de Balmann |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust |
Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
Alexander DeConde |
Historian |
13-Nov-1920 |
|
Entangling Alliance |
Rust M. Deming |
Diplomat |
c. 1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 2001-03 |
Henry T. DeNero |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of HomeSpace, Inc., 1999-2000 |
Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
Larry Diamond |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Foreign policy expert |
W. Ronald Dietz |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former Citicorp VP |
Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
Burton A. Dole, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Puritan Bennett, 1980-95 |
John Donahoe |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of eBay |
Cal Dooley |
Politician |
11-Jan-1954 |
|
Congressman from California, 1991-2005 |
Jim Doyle |
Politician |
23-Nov-1945 |
|
Governor of Wisconsin, 2003-11 |
Walter W. Driver, Jr. |
Attorney |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman Southeast, Goldman Sachs |
Allen Drury |
Novelist |
2-Sep-1918 |
2-Sep-1998 |
Advise and Consent |
Jennifer Dunn |
Politician |
29-Jul-1941 |
5-Sep-2007 |
Congresswoman from Washington, 1993-2005 |
Thère du Pont |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
CFO of Drugstore.com |
Ronald M. Dykes |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of BellSouth, 1995-2005 |
Larry EchoHawk |
Politician |
2-Aug-1948 |
|
Head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
Tracey Edmonds |
Business |
18-Feb-1967 |
|
CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group |
Don Edwards |
Politician |
6-Jan-1915 |
1-Oct-2015 |
Congressman from California, 1963-95 |
Kevin Efrusy |
Business |
c. 1972 |
|
Accel Partners |
Richard Egan |
Actor |
29-Jul-1921 |
20-Jul-1987 |
Samuel Clegg on Capitol |
John Ehrlichman |
Government |
20-Mar-1925 |
14-Feb-1999 |
Watergate criminal, served time |
Allison H. Eid |
Judge |
1965 |
|
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court |
Karl W. Eikenberry |
Military |
1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Taher Elgamal |
Computer Programmer |
18-Aug-1955 |
|
Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm |
John Elway |
Football |
28-Jun-1960 |
|
1999 Superbowl MVP |
Richard Engel |
Journalist |
16-Sep-1973 |
|
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent |
Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
2-Jul-2013 |
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
Jeffery E. Epstein |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CFO of Oracle, 2008-11 |
Judith L. Estrin |
Business |
1954 |
|
Packet Design LLC |
John Etchemendy |
Educator |
1952 |
|
Provost of Stanford University |
March Fong Eu |
Politician |
29-Mar-1922 |
|
California Secretary of State, 1975-93 |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
Author |
8-Mar-1960 |
|
The Virgin Suicides |
Janet Evans |
Swimmer |
28-Aug-1971 |
|
Olympic distance swimmer |
John V. Evans |
Politician |
18-Jan-1925 |
8-Jul-2014 |
Governor of Idaho, 1977-87 |
Richard D. Fairbank |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Capital One |
Susan Faludi |
Activist |
18-Apr-1959 |
|
Backlash |
Paul J. Fannin |
Politician |
29-Jan-1907 |
13-Jan-2002 |
Governor and Senator from Arizona |
Elizabeth Farnsworth |
Journalist |
c. 1943 |
|
News Hour anchor |
Dianne Feinstein |
Politician |
22-Jun-1933 |
|
US Senator from California |
Trevor Fetter |
Business |
1960 |
|
CEO of Tenet Healthcare |
David Filo |
Business |
20-Apr-1966 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
Eric D. Fingerhut |
Politician |
6-May-1959 |
|
Congressman from Ohio, 1993-95 |
Carly Fiorina |
Business |
6-Sep-1954 |
|
CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1999-2005 |
Bryan Fischer |
Radio Personality |
1951 |
|
Right-wing radio host |
Doris F. Fisher |
Business |
1932 |
|
Co-Founder of The Gap |
Raymond C. Fisher |
Judge |
12-Jul-1939 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
Robert J. Fisher |
Business |
1954 |
|
Interim CEO of The Gap |
Betty B. Fletcher |
Judge |
29-Mar-1923 |
22-Oct-2012 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-98 |
Henrietta Holsman Fore |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Acting Administrator, USAID |
Steve Fossett |
Aviator |
22-Apr-1944 |
3-Sep-2007 |
First to cross Pacific in a balloon |
Peter T. Francis |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
J. M. Huber Corporation |
Gene J. Frantz |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
Partner, Texas Pacific Group |
Jendayi E. Frazer |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for Africa, 2005-09 |
Leslie M. Frécon |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
LFE Capital, LLC |
Bradford M. Freeman |
Business |
1942 |
|
Freeman Spogli & Co. |
Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Tully M. Friedman |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth |
Government |
1957 |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1997-2001 |
Richard M. Gabrys |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Deloitte & Touche |
James I. Gadsden |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Iceland, 2002-05 |
Ernest J. Gaines |
Novelist |
15-Jan-1933 |
|
A Lesson Before Dying |
Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
John W. Gardner |
Administrator |
8-Oct-1912 |
16-Feb-2002 |
Founder of Common Cause |
Jonathan Garfinkel |
Business |
c. 1976 |
|
Texas Pacific Group |
Jean-Pierre Garnier |
Business |
31-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of GlaxoSmithKline |
Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
Mimi Gardner Gates |
Administrator |
c. 1953 |
|
Director, Seattle Art Museum |
Jay M. Gellert |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Health Net |
Ronald M. George |
Judge |
11-Mar-1940 |
|
California Chief Justice |
John R. Gillis |
Historian |
13-Jan-1939 |
|
Islands of the Mind |
Sam Ginn |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Joseph H. Gleberman |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Managing Director at Goldman Sachs |
Wilford D. Godbold, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of ZERO Corporation, 1984-98 |
Seth Godin |
Business |
10-Jul-1960 |
|
Tribes |
Ronald E. Goldsberry |
Business |
12-Sep-1942 |
|
Former VP, Ford |
Joshua S. Goldstein |
Political Scientist |
27-Dec-1952 |
|
War and Gender |
Claudio X. Gonzalez |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico |
Matt Gonzalez |
Politician |
4-Jun-1965 |
|
Progressive politician, activist |
Nicholas Gonzalez |
Actor |
3-Jan-1976 |
|
Alex Santiago on Resurrection Blvd. |
Kim C. Goodman |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
EVP at American Express |
Bing Gordon |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts, 1998-2008 |
Jennifer Grant |
Actor |
26-Feb-1966 |
|
Daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon |
Gary A. Grappo |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Oman |
Dwight H. Green |
Politician |
9-Jan-1897 |
20-Feb-1958 |
Governor of Illinois, 1941-49 |
Shawn Green |
Baseball |
10-Nov-1972 |
|
New York Mets |
Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
James W. Griffith |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Timken |
Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
Joseph A. Grundfest |
Legal Scholar |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
Ann Morgan Guilbert |
Actor |
16-Oct-1928 |
14-Jun-2016 |
Yetta Rosenberg on The Nanny |
Narendra K. Gupta |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Co-Founder, Integrated Systems Inc. |
Anne Gust |
Attorney |
15-Mar-1958 |
|
Wife of Jerry Brown |
D. James Guzy |
Business |
7-Mar-1936 |
|
Chairman of SRC Computers |
Ann Fritz Hackett |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Horizon Consulting Group |
John A. Hagg |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Co-Founder, Canadian Northstar Corporation |
Cynthia H. Hall |
Judge |
19-Feb-1929 |
26-Feb-2011 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1984-97 |
Ira D. Hall |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Utendahl Capital Management |
David M. Halperin |
Scholar |
2-Apr-1952 |
|
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality |
Bill Halter |
Politician |
30-Nov-1960 |
|
Lt. Governor of Arkansas |
Daniel Hamburg |
Politician |
6-Oct-1948 |
|
Congressman from California, 1993-95 |
Gail E. Hamilton |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Former EVP at Symantec |
John R. Hamilton |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Guatemala, 2003-05 |
Bray Hammond |
Economist |
20-Nov-1886 |
20-Jul-1968 |
Banks and Politics in America |
Donna Hanover |
Radio Personality |
13-Feb-1950 |
|
WOR Radio Morning Co-Host, NYC |
Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
Victor Davis Hanson |
Historian |
5-Sep-1953 |
|
Carnage and Culture |
John D. Harkey, Jr. |
Business |
12-Sep-1960 |
|
Consolidated Restaurant Operations |
Harry Harlow |
Psychologist |
31-Oct-1905 |
6-Dec-1981 |
Comparative psychologist, studied isolation |
Sam Harris |
Author |
9-Apr-1967 |
|
The End of Faith |
Walter L. Harris |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Tanenbaum-Harber Co. |
George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
Douglas A. Hartwick |
Diplomat |
1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Laos, 2001-04 |
Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
Robert Hass |
Poet |
1-Mar-1941 |
|
US Poet Laureate, 1995-97 |
Scott Hassan |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1970 |
|
eGroups, Willow Garage |
Reed Hastings |
Business |
8-Oct-1960 |
|
Founder and CEO of Netflix |
Mark Hatfield |
Politician |
12-Jul-1922 |
7-Aug-2011 |
US Senator from Oregon, 1967-97 |
Yukio Hatoyama |
Politician |
11-Feb-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Japan, 2009-10 |
Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Life Re, 1988-98 |
Trip Hawkins |
Business |
28-Dec-1953 |
|
Founder of Electronic Arts |
Harry Hay |
Activist |
7-Apr-1912 |
24-Oct-2002 |
Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society |
Carl T. Hayden |
Politician |
2-Oct-1877 |
25-Jan-1972 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1927-69 |
Robert H. Hayes |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Professor at HBS, 1966-2000 |
Ron Hayes |
Actor |
26-Feb-1929 |
1-Oct-2004 |
Ben Jones on The Rounders |
Edith Head |
Designer |
28-Oct-1897 |
24-Oct-1981 |
Hollywood costume designer |
Eric Heiden |
Speed Skating |
15-Jun-1958 |
|
Olympic speed skater, 5 gold medals |
Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
Monte Hellman |
Film Director |
12-Jul-1932 |
|
Two-Lane Blacktop |
Keith B. Hennessey |
Economist |
? |
|
National Economic Council |
John S. Herrington |
Government |
31-May-1939 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 1985-89 |
Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
Kenneth A. Hersh |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
Natural Gas Partners |
James L. Heskett |
Educator |
c. 1934 |
|
Professor at HBS |
William Hewlett |
Business |
20-May-1913 |
12-Jan-2001 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
George V. Higgins |
Novelist |
13-Nov-1939 |
6-Nov-1999 |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle |
Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
Roderick M. Hills |
Business |
9-Mar-1931 |
29-Oct-2014 |
SEC Chairman, 1975-77 |
Peter Hoagland |
Politician |
17-Nov-1941 |
30-Oct-2007 |
Congressman from Nebraska, 1989-95 |
Thomas E. Hoaglin |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Huntington Bancshares |
Nicholas J. Hoff |
Engineer |
3-Jan-1906 |
4-Aug-1997 |
Aluminum in aircraft design |
Alice Hoffman |
Novelist |
16-Mar-1952 |
|
Property Of |
Reid Hoffman |
Business |
5-Aug-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of LinkedIn |
Douglas Hofstadter |
Author |
15-Feb-1945 |
|
Godel, Escher, Bach |
Elizabeth Holmes |
Business |
3-Feb-1984 |
|
Disgraced CEO of Theranos |
bell hooks |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1952 |
|
Ain't I A Woman |
Herbert Hoover |
Head of State |
10-Aug-1874 |
20-Oct-1964 |
31st US President, 1929-33 |
Lou Hoover |
First Lady |
29-Mar-1874 |
7-Jan-1944 |
Wife of US President Herbert Hoover |
Stephen Horn |
Politician |
31-May-1931 |
17-Feb-2011 |
Congressman from California, 1993-2003 |
Douglas G. Houser |
Attorney |
11-Jul-1935 |
|
Partner, Bullivant Houser Bailey |
Jen-Hsun Huang |
Business |
17-Feb-1963 |
|
CEO of NVIDIA |
Michael Huffington |
Government |
3-Sep-1947 |
|
Congressman from California, 1993-95 |
Shirley Hufstedler |
Judge |
24-Aug-1925 |
30-Mar-2016 |
US Secretary of Education, 1979-81 |
Procter Hug, Jr. |
Judge |
11-Mar-1931 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1977-2002 |
Sandra S. Ikuta |
Judge |
24-Jun-1954 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Jay Inslee |
Politician |
9-Feb-1951 |
|
Governor of Washington |
Henry "Scoop" Jackson |
Politician |
31-May-1912 |
1-Sep-1983 |
US Senator from Washington, 1953-83 |
Kenneth Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Lazard North America |
Valerie B. Jarrett |
Business |
14-Nov-1956 |
|
White House Office of Public Liaison |
Eugene Jarvis |
Computer Programmer |
1955 |
|
Defender, Robotron, Smash TV |
Reuben Jeffery III |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Under Secy. State, Economic Affairs |
Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
John D. Jernegan |
Diplomat |
12-Jun-1911 |
7-Nov-1980 |
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1958-62 |
Kristina M. Johnson |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
Ron Johnson |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of JC Penney, 2011-13 |
Blake Jorgensen |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CFO of Yahoo |
Robert L. Joss |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Dean, Stanford Business School |
Daryn Kagan |
Journalist |
26-Jan-1963 |
|
CNN Live Today |
Robert C. Kagle |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Benchmark Capital |
Salar Kamangar |
Business |
c. 1977 |
|
CEO of YouTube |
Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
Curtis Kamman |
Diplomat |
15-Jan-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia, 1997-2000 |
Alex Karp |
Business |
2-Oct-1967 |
|
CEO of Palantir Technologies |
Kevin D. Katari |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Watershed Asset Management |
Jeffrey G. Katz |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Orbitz, 2000-04 |
Samuel H. Kauffmann |
Business |
17-Jan-1924 |
4-Apr-2002 |
California tract housing developer |
Guy Kawasaki |
Business |
30-Aug-1954 |
|
Former chief evangelist of Apple Computer |
Robert Keeley |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1929 |
9-Jan-2015 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89 |
Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
Lydia H. Kennard |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Los Angeles World Airports |
William E. Kennard |
Government |
19-Jan-1957 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1997-2001 |
Anthony Kennedy |
Judge |
23-Jul-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
David M. Kennedy |
Historian |
22-Jul-1941 |
|
Freedom from Fear |
John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
Joseph P. Kennedy III |
Politician |
4-Oct-1980 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 4th |
Clark Kerr |
Educator |
17-May-1911 |
1-Dec-2003 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1952-58 |
Ken Kesey |
Novelist |
17-Sep-1935 |
10-Nov-2001 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Vinod Khosla |
Business |
28-Jan-1955 |
|
Venture capitalist |
Leslie Kilgore |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
CMO of Netflix, 2000-12 |
Lawrence A. Kimpton |
Educator |
7-Oct-1910 |
1-Nov-1977 |
Chancellor, University of Chicago, 1951-60 |
Hans G. Klemm |
Diplomat |
c. 1958 |
|
US Ambassador to East Timor |
Goodwin Knight |
Politician |
9-Dec-1896 |
22-May-1970 |
Governor of California, 1953-59 |
Phil Knight |
Business |
24-Feb-1938 |
|
Co-Founder of Nike |
Loring Knoblauch |
Business |
31-Oct-1941 |
|
CEO of Underwriter's Laboratories, 2001-04 |
Allen E. Koenig |
Educator |
11-Feb-1939 |
28-Aug-2012 |
President of Emerson College, 1979-89 |
Martin M. Koffel |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of URS |
Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
Jim Kolbe |
Politician |
28-Jun-1942 |
|
Congressman from Arizona, 1985-2007 |
Timothy Koogle |
Business |
5-Jul-1951 |
|
CEO of Yahoo, 1995-2001 |
Ted Koppel |
Journalist |
8-Feb-1940 |
|
Nightline |
Omid Kordestani |
Business |
19-Oct-1963 |
|
Executive Chairman of Twitter |
Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
Richard Kovacevich |
Business |
30-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2007 |
Robert D. Krebs |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of BNSF, 1995-2000 |
Brian Krolicki |
Politician |
31-Dec-1960 |
|
Lt. Governor of Nevada |
Thomas R. Kuhn |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Edison Electric Institute |
William H. Kurtz |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CFO of Novellus Systems |
Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
Walter LaFeber |
Historian |
30-Aug-1933 |
|
The New Empire |
Arthur B. Laffer |
Economist |
14-Aug-1940 |
|
Reagan advisor, Laffer curve |
Laurence W. Lane, Jr. |
Publisher |
7-Nov-1919 |
31-Jul-2010 |
US Ambassador to Australia, 1986-89 |
Heather Langenkamp |
Actor |
17-Jul-1964 |
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street |
Paul Gordon Lauren |
Historian |
17-Feb-1946 |
|
The Evolution of International Human Rights |
Paul C. Lauterbur |
Scientist |
6-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2007 |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
Howard Leach |
Diplomat |
19-Jun-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to France, 2001-05 |
William P. Leahy |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, Boston College |
Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
Scripps Research Institute |
Richard C. Levin |
Educator |
7-Apr-1947 |
|
President of Yale University |
Kenneth D. Lewis |
Business |
9-Apr-1947 |
|
CEO of Bank of America, 2001-09 |
Bernard Liautaud |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Co-Founder of Business Objects |
György Ligeti |
Composer |
28-May-1923 |
12-Jun-2006 |
Lontano, Lux Aeterna |
Peter W. Likins |
Educator |
1936 |
|
President, University of Arizona, 1997-2006 |
Dan Lipinski |
Politician |
15-Jul-1966 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 3rd |
Marc S. Lipschultz |
Business |
c. 1971 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
Dahlia Lithwick |
Journalist |
c. 1968 |
|
Slate senior editor |
Goodwin Liu |
Attorney |
1970 |
|
Boalt Hall law professor |
Ann M. Livermore |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
HP Technology Solutions Group |
Philip R. Lochner, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Senior VP at Time Warner, 1991-98 |
Dennis P. Lockhart |
Business |
1-Feb-1947 |
|
President and CEO, Atlanta Fed |
Zoe Lofgren |
Politician |
21-Dec-1947 |
|
Congresswoman, California 16th |
Mark Loughridge |
Business |
1953 |
|
CFO of IBM |
Robert J. Lowe |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Lowe Enterprises, Inc. |
Donald L. Lucas |
Business |
18-Mar-1930 |
|
Venture Capitalist |
Andrew Luck |
Football |
12-Sep-1989 |
|
Indianapolis Colts QB |
Stephen J. Luczo |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Seagate, 1998-2004 |
Hank Luisetti |
Basketball |
16-Jun-1916 |
17-Dec-2002 |
Invented one-handed shot |
Robert L. Lumpkins |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Vice Chairman of Cargill |
John F. Lundgren |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Stanley Works |
Heather Mac Donald |
Columnist |
c. 1956 |
|
Neoconservative bombthrower |
Douglas F. Mackenzie |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Partner, Kleiner Perkins |
William P. Madar |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Nordson Corp., 1986-97 |
Rachel Maddow |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1973 |
|
The Rachel Maddow Show |
Peter A. Magowan |
Business |
5-Apr-1942 |
|
President, San Francisco Giants |
Theodore Maiman |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1927 |
5-May-2007 |
Built the first working laser |
Julianne Malveaux |
Columnist |
c. 1953 |
|
Pundit |
C. Roland Marchand |
Historian |
21-Oct-1933 |
14-Nov-1997 |
Advertising the American Dream |
Philip F. Maritz |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Maritz, Wolff & Co. |
David F. Marquardt |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Venture capital investor |
William B. Marx, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Former AT&T/Lucent EVP |
Theodore A. Mathas |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
President of New York Life |
Scott M. Matheson |
Politician |
8-Jan-1929 |
7-Oct-1990 |
Governor of Utah, 1977-85 |
Bob Mathias |
Sports Figure |
17-Nov-1930 |
2-Sep-2006 |
Decathlon athlete turned Congressman |
Robert W. Matschullat |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CFO of Seagram, 1995-2000 |
Warren W. Matthews |
Judge |
5-Apr-1939 |
|
Justice, Alaska Supreme Court |
Marissa Mayer |
Business |
30-May-1975 |
|
CEO of Yahoo! |
Adrienne Mayor |
Historian |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Amazons |
Michael G. McCaffery |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Makena Capital Management |
Craig McCaw |
Business |
11-Aug-1949 |
|
Billionaire, Nextel |
Susan McCaw |
Diplomat |
c. 1962 |
|
US Ambassador to Austria, 2005-07 |
Wendy McCaw |
Philanthropist |
1951 |
|
Billionaire |
James McClatchy |
Publisher |
17-Dec-1920 |
26-May-2006 |
Former Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers |
Robert McClintock |
Diplomat |
30-Aug-1909 |
1976 |
US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1970-75 |
Pete McCloskey |
Politician |
29-Sep-1927 |
|
Congressman from California, 1967-83 |
John B. McCoy |
Business |
11-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of Bank One, 1987-99 |
John G. McCoy |
Business |
30-Jan-1913 |
4-Apr-2010 |
CEO of Bank One, 1958-84 |
Edward R. McCracken |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Silicon Graphics, 1984-98 |
Douglas L. McElhaney |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004-07 |
William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
John McEnroe |
Tennis |
16-Feb-1959 |
|
Winner of 17 Grand Slam titles |
Ernest W. McFarland |
Politician |
9-Oct-1894 |
8-Jun-1984 |
Governor of Arizona, 1955-59 |
Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
Scott A. McGregor |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Broadcom |
Thomas McGuane |
Novelist |
11-Dec-1939 |
|
The Sporting Club |
Henry A. McKinnell, Jr. |
Business |
23-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Pfizer, 2001-06 |
Stephen T. McLin |
Business |
1946 |
|
America First Financial |
Doyle McManus |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
LA Times Washington bureau chief |
Charles L. McNary |
Politician |
12-Jun-1874 |
25-Feb-1944 |
US Senator from Oregon, 1917-44 |
Scott McNealy |
Business |
13-Nov-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems |
John McWhorter |
Linguist |
c. 1963 |
|
Linguist, social critic |
Ted Meisel |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of Overture, 2000-03 |
Ralph Merkle |
Scientist |
2-Feb-1952 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
Jeff Merkley |
Politician |
24-Oct-1956 |
|
US Senator from Oregon |
Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
Marc Mezvinsky |
Business |
15-Dec-1977 |
|
Husband of Chelsea Clinton |
Ralph S. Michael III |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of Ohio Casualty, 2005-07 |
William Milam |
Diplomat |
24-Jul-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1998-2001 |
Robert H. Miller |
Diplomat |
8-Sep-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1983-86 |
Robert S. Miller |
Business |
4-Nov-1941 |
|
CEO of Delphi, 2005-07 |
Ross Miller |
Politician |
26-Mar-1976 |
|
Nevada Secretary of State |
William I. Miller |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Irwin Financial |
Theodore R. Mitchell |
Administrator |
c. 1956 |
|
President of Occidental College, 1999-2005 |
Kathleen C. Mitic |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Director of Marketing at Facebook |
D. W. Moffett |
Actor |
26-Oct-1954 |
|
Dean Winston on For Your Love |
N. Scott Momaday |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
House Made of Dawn |
James C. Momtazee |
Business |
c. 1972 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
Robert Mondavi |
Business |
12-Jun-1913 |
16-May-2008 |
Vintner |
Ernest J. Moniz |
Educator |
22-Dec-1944 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
William T. Monroe |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Bahrain, 2004-07 |
Philip Montgomery III |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO, P.O'B. Montgomery & Co. |
Charles H. Moore |
Computer Programmer |
1938 |
|
Forth programming language |
Carlos R. Moreno |
Judge |
4-Nov-1948 |
|
Justice, California Supreme Court |
Glen Moreno |
Business |
1943 |
|
Chairman of Pearson |
Michael C. Morgan |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
President of Kinder Morgan Energy, 2001-04 |
John P. Morgridge |
Business |
23-Jul-1933 |
|
CEO of Cisco, 1988-95 |
James M. Moroney III |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Dallas Morning News |
Steven W. Mosher |
Scholar |
9-May-1948 |
|
Prominent Sinologist |
Robert Motherwell |
Painter |
24-Jan-1915 |
16-Jul-1991 |
Abstract expressionist |
George R. Mrkonic, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Former President, Borders |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Doctor |
1970 |
|
The Emperor of All Maladies |
Dick Murphy |
Politician |
16-Dec-1942 |
|
Mayor of San Diego, 2000-05 |
Edward R. Murrow |
Journalist |
25-Apr-1908 |
27-Apr-1965 |
The epitome of broadcast journalism |
Elon Musk |
Business |
28-Jun-1971 |
|
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors |
Mike Mussina |
Baseball |
8-Dec-1968 |
|
Orioles and Yankees Pitcher |
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. |
Doctor |
14-Feb-1954 |
|
EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05 |
Ali Naimi |
Government |
2-Aug-1935 |
|
Saudi Minister of Oil |
Philip M. Neal |
Business |
1940 |
|
CEO of Avery Dennison, 1998-2005 |
Michael A. Needham |
Activist |
c. 1982 |
|
Heritage Action for America |
Thomas C. Nelson |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of National Gypsum |
Ernie Nevers |
Football |
11-Jun-1902 |
3-May-1976 |
NFL Hall of Famer |
James B. Nicholson |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of PVS Chemicals, Inc. |
George Hugh Niederauer |
Religion |
14-Jun-1936 |
|
Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco |
Howard C. Nielson |
Politician |
12-Sep-1924 |
|
Congressman from Utah, 1983-91 |
Daniel A. Ninivaggi |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
CEO of Icahn Enterprises LP |
Ronald K. Noble |
Government |
1957 |
|
Head of Interpol |
Luis G. Nogales |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of UPI, 1984-86 |
Janne E. Nolan |
Educator |
28-Dec-1951 |
|
Defense and foreign policy analyst |
Lloyd Nolan |
Actor |
11-Aug-1902 |
27-Sep-1985 |
Dr. Chegley on Julia |
Bruce P. Nolop |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CFO of Pitney Bowes, 2000-08 |
Charles Nordhoff |
Novelist |
1-Feb-1887 |
10-Apr-1947 |
Mutiny on the Bounty |
John J. O'Connor III |
Relative |
10-Jan-1930 |
11-Nov-2009 |
Sandra Day O'Connor's husband |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
Judge |
26-Mar-1930 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 |
Wally O'Dell |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Diebold, 1999-2005 |
Denise M. O'Leary |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former Partner, Menlo Ventures |
Rodney O'Neal |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Delphi |
Ellen Ochoa |
Astronaut |
10-May-1958 |
|
First hispanic female astronaut |
Charles Ogletree |
Attorney |
31-Dec-1952 |
|
Law professor |
Herbert S. Okun |
Diplomat |
27-Nov-1930 |
8-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
Sharon Olds |
Poet |
19-Nov-1942 |
|
The Dead and the Living |
Barney Oliver |
Astronomer |
27-May-1916 |
23-Nov-1995 |
SETI researcher |
Camillo Olivetti |
Business |
13-Aug-1868 |
4-Dec-1943 |
Founder of Olivetti SpA |
Chris Onstad |
Cartoonist |
14-Jun-1975 |
|
Achewood |
John M. Ordway |
Diplomat |
1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Kazakhstan |
Paul A. Ormond |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Manor Care |
Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
Management Professor, UCLA |
M. Kenneth Oshman |
Business |
9-Jul-1940 |
6-Aug-2011 |
CEO of Echelon, 1988-2009 |
Clarence Otis |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Darden Restaurants |
William G. Ouchi |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Theory Z |
Douglas H. Paal |
Diplomat |
? |
|
Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 2002-06 |
David Packard |
Business |
7-Sep-1912 |
26-Mar-1996 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
Elaine Pagels |
Historian |
13-Feb-1943 |
|
The Gnostic Gospels |
Jack Palance |
Actor |
18-Feb-1919 |
10-Nov-2006 |
Performed one-handed push-ups |
Scott E. Parazynski |
Astronaut |
28-Jul-1961 |
|
Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest |
George G. C. Parker |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford |
Bradford W. Parkinson |
Engineer |
16-Feb-1935 |
|
Global Positioning System |
Frank Pastore |
Radio Personality |
21-Aug-1957 |
17-Dec-2012 |
Talk radio host, former MLB pitcher |
Elizabeth Paté-Cornell |
Educator |
17-Aug-1948 |
|
Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor |
William J. Patterson |
Business |
27-Jan-1962 |
24-Sep-2010 |
SPO Partners & Co. |
Alexander Payne |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
About Schmidt |
Daniel Pearl |
Journalist |
10-Oct-1963 |
21-Feb-2002 |
Murdered Wall Street Journal reporter |
George A. Peinado |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Madison Dearborn Partners |
Gregory B. Penner |
Business |
c. 1970 |
|
Madrone Capital Partners |
William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
Tom Peters |
Author |
7-Nov-1942 |
|
In Search of Excellence |
Sundar Pichai |
Business |
12-Jul-1972 |
|
CEO of Google |
Mark C. Pigott |
Business |
1954 |
|
CEO of PACCAR |
Jim Pinkerton |
Pundit |
11-Mar-1958 |
|
Fox News Watch |
Robert Pinsky |
Poet |
20-Oct-1940 |
|
US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000 |
Danny Pintauro |
Actor |
6-Jan-1976 |
|
Jonathan Bower on Who's the Boss? |
Jane G. Pisano |
Administrator |
c. 1945 |
|
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles |
James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
Jim Plunkett |
Football |
5-Dec-1947 |
|
Superbowl MVP |
Steve Poizner |
Government |
4-Jan-1957 |
|
California Insurance Commissioner |
Jonathan Pollard |
Spy |
7-Aug-1954 |
|
Spied for Israel |
Tom Pollock |
Business |
10-Apr-1943 |
|
MCA/Universal Studios executive |
John C. Porfilio |
Judge |
14-Oct-1934 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-99 |
Kendall J. Powell |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of General Mills |
Susan Westerberg Prager |
Legal Scholar |
14-Dec-1942 |
|
Dean of UCLA Law School, 1982-98 |
Megyn Price |
Actor |
24-Mar-1971 |
|
Grounded for Life |
Penny Pritzker |
Business |
2-May-1959 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce |
Frank Quattrone |
Business |
14-Oct-1955 |
|
The Prince of Silicon Valley |
Howard H. Quint |
Historian |
3-Jan-1917 |
23-Jun-1981 |
The Forging of American Socialism |
George Quist |
Business |
22-Feb-1925 |
4-Dec-1982 |
Co-Founder, Hambrecht & Quist |
Richard Rainwater |
Business |
15-Jun-1944 |
27-Sep-2015 |
Billionaire investor |
A. Barry Rand |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of Equitant, 2003-05 |
M. Ali Rashid |
Business |
c. 1976 |
|
Apollo Management |
Dixy Lee Ray |
Politician |
3-Sep-1914 |
2-Jan-1994 |
Governor of Washington, 1977-81 |
Roy Raymond |
Business |
c. 1946 |
26-Aug-1993 |
Founder of Victoria's Secret |
Harry Reasoner |
Journalist |
17-Apr-1923 |
6-Aug-1991 |
60 Minutes |
Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
Chuck Reed |
Politician |
15-Aug-1948 |
|
Mayor of San Jose |
William Rehnquist |
Judge |
1-Oct-1924 |
3-Sep-2005 |
US Chief Justice, 1986-2005 |
L. Rafael Reif |
Educator |
21-Aug-1950 |
|
President of MIT |
William K. Reilly |
Business |
26-Jan-1940 |
|
EPA Administrator, 1989-93 |
J. Pedro Reinhard |
Business |
? |
|
CFO of Dow Chemical, 1995-2005 |
Walden C. Rhines |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Mentor Graphics |
Susan E. Rice |
Diplomat |
17-Nov-1964 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN |
Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
Charles Richter |
Scientist |
26-Apr-1900 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Groundbreaking seismologist |
Sally Ride |
Astronaut |
26-May-1951 |
23-Jul-2012 |
First American woman in space |
Thomas Riley |
Diplomat |
1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Morocco |
Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
Jay Roach |
Film Director |
14-Jun-1957 |
|
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery |
John D. Roach |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Stonegate International |
Charles W. Robinson |
Business |
7-Sep-1919 |
20-May-2014 |
Deputy Secretary of State, 1976-77 |
Joyce M. Roché |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Girls Incorporated |
Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Business |
10-Dec-1944 |
|
CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting |
Johnathan A. Rodgers |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of TV One |
Richard Rodriguez |
Essayist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Hunger of Memory |
Chase T. Rogers |
Judge |
12-Nov-1956 |
|
Connecticut Chief Justice |
John M. Rogers |
Judge |
26-Jun-1948 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Will Rogers, Jr. |
Actor |
20-Oct-1911 |
10-Jul-1993 |
Son of Will Rogers |
Heidi Roizen |
Business |
1958 |
|
Mobius Venture Capital |
Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
Mitt Romney |
Politician |
12-Mar-1947 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts, 2003-07 |
John V. Roos |
Attorney |
14-Feb-1955 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan |
Bob Rosburg |
Golf |
21-Oct-1926 |
14-May-2009 |
Winner, 1959 PGA Championship |
Cristine Rose |
Actor |
31-Jan-1951 |
|
Angela Petrelli on Heroes |
Walter M. Rosebrough, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Steris |
Rex C. Ross |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Schlumberger executive |
Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
20-Apr-1960 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
Edward M. Rowell |
Diplomat |
31-Oct-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1990-94 |
Pamela Ann Rymer |
Judge |
6-Jan-1941 |
21-Sep-2011 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1989-2011 |
Arthur J. Samberg |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Pequot Capital Management |
Summer Sanders |
TV Personality |
13-Oct-1972 |
|
NBA Inside Stuff |
Dick Sargent |
Actor |
19-Apr-1930 |
8-Jul-1994 |
Darrin #2 on Bewitched |
William F. Sater |
Historian |
17-Nov-1937 |
|
Chile and the War of the Pacific |
Philip G. Satre |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, 1993-2003 |
Ben Savage |
Actor |
13-Sep-1980 |
|
Cory on Boy Meets World |
Fred Savage |
Actor |
9-Jul-1976 |
|
The Wonder Years |
Robert Sayre |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1924 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1978-81 |
Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
Adam Schiff |
Politician |
22-Jun-1960 |
|
Congressman, California 29th |
John Patrick Schmitz |
Government |
1955 |
|
Washington lobbyist |
Joseph E. Schmitz |
Government |
c. 1956 |
|
Pentagon Inspector General, 2002-05 |
Katharine Jefferts Schori |
Religion |
26-Mar-1954 |
|
Presiding Episcopal Bishop |
Lars Schoultz |
Historian |
23-Aug-1942 |
|
Beneath the United States |
Bernard A. Schriever |
Military |
14-Sep-1910 |
20-Jun-2005 |
US Air Force space program |
Ted Schroeder |
Tennis |
20-Jul-1921 |
26-May-2006 |
Winner of 1949 Wimbledon |
Jack W. Schuler |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Abbot Laboratories, 1987-89 |
Charles Schwab |
Business |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Founded Charles Schwab & Co. |
Susan Schwab |
Government |
23-Mar-1955 |
|
US Trade Representative |
Dr. Gene Scott |
Religion |
14-Aug-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Eccentric televangelist |
Hal S. Scott |
Legal Scholar |
25-Nov-1943 |
|
Professor, Harvard Law School |
Robert Sedgewick |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1946 |
|
Algorithms |
Jim Sensenbrenner |
Politician |
14-Jun-1943 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 5th |
Oliver Seth |
Judge |
30-May-1915 |
27-Mar-1996 |
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1962-84 |
O. Griffith Sexton |
Business |
1944 |
|
Former investment banker, Morgan Stanley |
Ajay B. Shah |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Co-Founder, Smart Modular Technologies |
Michael E. Shannon |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CFO of Ecolab, 1984-2000 |
Marc J. Shapiro |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 1997-2003 |
K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
Mayo A. Shattuck III |
Business |
1954 |
|
CEO of Constellation Energy Group |
Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
12-Sep-2016 |
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
Robert N. Shelton |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, University of Arizona |
James G. Shennan, Jr. |
Business |
? |
|
Trinity Ventures |
Richard Sherman |
Football |
30-Mar-1988 |
|
Seattle Seahawks CB |
Harry W. Shlaudeman |
Diplomat |
17-May-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1990-92 |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
Relative |
10-Jul-1921 |
11-Aug-2009 |
Founder of the Special Olympics |
Jennifer Siebel |
Relative |
19-Jun-1974 |
|
Wife of Gavin Newsom |
Sam Simon |
Film/TV Producer |
6-Jun-1955 |
8-Mar-2015 |
Co-creator of The Simpsons |
Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Hungarian notation |
Elizabeth A. Smith |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of OSI Restaurant Partners |
Kurtwood Smith |
Actor |
3-Jul-1943 |
|
Red on That 70's Show |
R. J. Smith |
Activist |
? |
|
Center for Private Conservation |
Robert S. Smith |
Judge |
31-Aug-1944 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
Evan Spiegel |
Business |
4-Jun-1990 |
|
Co-Founder and CEO of Snapchat |
Ronald P. Spogli |
Business |
1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Italy |
Barbara Stallings |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Watson Institute for International Studies |
Monteagle Stearns |
Diplomat |
5-Dec-1924 |
14-May-2016 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85 |
William C. Steere, Jr. |
Business |
17-Jun-1936 |
|
CEO of Pfizer, 1991-2001 |
Dwight A. Steffensen |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Midrange Open Computing Alliance |
Joel Stein |
Columnist |
23-Jul-1971 |
|
LA Times columnist |
John Steinbeck |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1902 |
20-Dec-1968 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
Nettie Stevens |
Biologist |
7-Jul-1861 |
4-May-1912 |
X and Y chromosomes |
Kenneth E. Stinson |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons, 1998-2005 |
James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
Walter Stoessel |
Diplomat |
24-Jan-1920 |
9-Dec-1986 |
Ambassador to the USSR, Germany, Poland |
Robert Stone |
Novelist |
21-Aug-1937 |
10-Jan-2015 |
Dog Soldiers |
Stephanie A. Streeter |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Banta Corporation, 2002-07 |
Edward W. Strong |
Educator |
1901 |
13-Jan-1990 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1961-65 |
Kerri Strug |
Gymnastics |
19-Nov-1977 |
|
Olympic gymnast, Magnificent Seven |
Jane J. Su |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
Blum Capital Partners |
Aaron Swartz |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1986 |
11-Jan-2013 |
Co-Inventor of RSS |
J. Taft Symonds |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Tetra Technologies |
Kevin Systrom |
Computer Programmer |
21-Sep-1984 |
|
Instagram |
David Sze |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
Greylock Partners |
George W. Tamke |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
Roscoe Tanner |
Tennis |
15-Oct-1951 |
|
Winner, 1977 Australian Open |
James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
Edward Tatum |
Scientist |
14-Dec-1909 |
7-Nov-1975 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
Peter Thiel |
Business |
11-Oct-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of PayPal |
Kent J. Thiry |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of DaVita |
Richard L. Thompson |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Group President at Caterpillar, 1995-2004 |
Carolyn M. Ticknor |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President HP Printing Systems, 1991-2001 |
Ward J. Timken |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President, The Timken Foundation |
William R. Timken, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany |
Michael Tolan |
Actor |
27-Nov-1924 |
31-Jan-2011 |
The Bold Ones |
Timothy Tomlinson |
Business |
14-Feb-1950 |
|
Former Partner, Tomlinson Zisko |
Donald B. Tresidder |
Educator |
7-Apr-1894 |
28-Jan-1948 |
President of Stanford University, 1943-48 |
Charles Trowbridge |
Actor |
10-Jan-1882 |
30-Oct-1967 |
The Great Lie |
Edward Tufte |
Author |
14-Mar-1942 |
|
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully |
Activist |
15-Dec-1925 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Feminism activist |
Victor W. Turner |
Anthropologist |
28-May-1920 |
18-Dec-1983 |
The Drums of Affliction |
Scott Turow |
Novelist |
12-Apr-1949 |
|
Presumed Innocent |
Robert H. Tuttle |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 2005-09 |
James R. Ukropina |
Attorney |
1937 |
|
Former Partner, O'Melveny & Myers |
Lynn M. Utter |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
President, Knoll North America |
John Van de Kamp |
Government |
1936 |
|
Attorney General of California, 1982-91 |
Kirk Varnedoe |
Curator |
19-Jan-1946 |
15-Aug-2003 |
Curator at MOMA, 1988-2001 |
Mike Vaska |
Activist |
1960 |
|
Discovery Institute |
John Vlissides |
Computer Programmer |
2-Aug-1961 |
24-Nov-2005 |
Author number 4 of the Gang of Four |
Mike Volpi |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
CEO of Joost |
William R. Voss |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Lake Pacific Partners |
Doug Walgren |
Politician |
28-Dec-1940 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1977-91 |
Olene Walker |
Politician |
15-Nov-1930 |
28-Nov-2015 |
Governor of Utah, 2003-05 |
Kerri Walsh |
Sports Figure |
15-Aug-1978 |
|
Top beach volleyball player |
Jane L. Warner |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Illinois Tool Works executive |
Kevin M. Warsh |
Economist |
13-Apr-1970 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 2006-11 |
Tom Watson |
Golf |
4-Sep-1949 |
|
Three-time Vardon Trophy winner |
Earl Anthony Wayne |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Argentina, 2006-09 |
Doodles Weaver |
Radio Personality |
11-May-1911 |
17-Jan-1983 |
Professor Feetlebaum |
Sigourney Weaver |
Actor |
8-Oct-1949 |
|
Alien |
Walter L. Weisman |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
American Medical International |
Katharine Weymouth |
Publisher |
c. 1966 |
|
Washington Post publisher |
Miles D. White |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of Abbott Laboratories |
Carl E. Wieman |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1951 |
|
Bose-Einstein Condensates |
James B. Wigdale |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Marshall & Ilsley, 1992-2001 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur |
Educator |
13-Apr-1875 |
26-Jun-1949 |
President of Stanford University, 1916-43 |
Anré D. Williams |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
EVP at American Express |
Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
Frances E. Willis |
Diplomat |
20-May-1899 |
1983 |
First Female US Ambassador |
Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
15-Jun-2013 |
Second-order phase transitions |
William Julius Wilson |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1935 |
|
Poverty in America's inner cities |
Jerry Wind |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Director, SEI Center, Wharton |
Timothy E. Wirth |
Politician |
22-Sep-1939 |
|
US Senator from Colorado, 1987-93 |
Reese Witherspoon |
Actor |
22-Mar-1976 |
|
Legally Blonde |
Tobias Wolff |
Author |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
The Barracks Thief |
David Wolman |
Journalist |
c. 1974 |
|
The End of Money |
Joan B. Woodard |
Scientist |
c. 1951 |
|
EVP at Sandia National Laboratories |
Tiger Woods |
Golf |
30-Dec-1975 |
|
Greatest living golfer |
James Woolsey |
Government |
21-Sep-1941 |
|
CIA Director, 1993-95 |
Suzanne H. Woolsey |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
National Academies |
Hank Worden |
Actor |
23-Jul-1901 |
6-Dec-1992 |
The Searchers |
Donald R. Wright |
Judge |
2-Feb-1907 |
21-Mar-1985 |
California Chief Justice, 1970-77 |
Mickey Wright |
Golf |
14-Feb-1935 |
|
Winner of 13 Majors |
Julie A. Wrigley |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Wrigley Investments, LLC |
David Wu |
Politician |
8-Apr-1955 |
|
Congressman from Oregon, 1999-2011 |
Ron Wyden |
Politician |
3-May-1949 |
|
US Senator from Oregon |
Jerry Yang |
Business |
6-Nov-1968 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
David B. Yoffie |
Business |
? |
|
Competing on Internet Time |
Michael T. Yonker |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Portec, 1988-98 |
John A. Young |
Business |
24-Apr-1932 |
|
CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1978-92 |
Gideon Yu |
Business |
c. 1971 |
|
CFO of Facebook, 2007-09 |
Lorenzo H. Zambrano |
Business |
27-Mar-1944 |
14-May-2014 |
CEO of Cemex |
Richard D. Zanuck |
Film/TV Producer |
13-Dec-1934 |
13-Jul-2012 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
Ed Zschau |
Politician |
6-Jan-1940 |
|
Congressman from California, 1983-87 |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Chinua Achebe |
Novelist |
16-Nov-1930 |
22-Mar-2013 |
Things Fall Apart |
Ephraim Douglass Adams |
Historian |
18-Dec-1865 |
1-Sep-1930 |
The Power of Ideals in American History |
Jonathan S. Adelstein |
Government |
1962 |
|
FCC Commissioner |
Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
Thomas A. Bailey |
Historian |
14-Dec-1902 |
26-Jul-1983 |
The American Pageant |
Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
Paul A. Baran |
Economist |
8-Dec-1910 |
26-Mar-1964 |
Marxist economist |
Craig R. Barrett |
Business |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Chairman of Intel |
Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
Wendell Berry |
Author |
5-Aug-1934 |
|
A Place on Earth |
Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
Rose Bird |
Judge |
2-Nov-1936 |
4-Dec-1999 |
California Chief Justice, 1977-87 |
David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
Felix Bloch |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1905 |
10-Sep-1983 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
Albert H. Bowker |
Educator |
8-Sep-1919 |
20-Jan-2008 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80 |
Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
Karl Brandt |
Economist |
9-Jan-1899 |
8-Jul-1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1958-61 |
Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher |
Luther Burbank |
Botanist |
7-Mar-1849 |
11-Apr-1926 |
Botanist and plant breeder |
Frank Cady |
Actor |
8-Sep-1915 |
8-Jun-2012 |
Sam Drucker on Green Acres |
Tom Campbell |
Politician |
14-Aug-1952 |
|
Congressman from California, 1995-2001 |
Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
Jerome Charyn |
Novelist |
13-May-1937 |
|
The Good Policeman |
Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13 |
Jim Clark |
Business |
1944 |
|
Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape |
G. Wayne Clough |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Secretary of the Smithsonian |
Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
Robert X. Cringely |
Journalist |
c. 1953 |
|
Computer pundit I, Cringely |
Richard Danzig |
Government |
8-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001 |
Donald Davidson |
Philosopher |
6-Mar-1917 |
30-Aug-2003 |
Actions, Reasons And Causes |
Joseph S. Davis |
Economist |
5-Nov-1885 |
1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 |
Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
Larry Diamond |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Foreign policy expert |
Lloyd H. Donnell |
Engineer |
20-May-1895 |
7-Nov-1997 |
Donnell's thin shell theory |
Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
William F. Durand |
Engineer |
5-Mar-1859 |
9-Aug-1958 |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
Paul R. Ehrlich |
Scientist |
29-May-1932 |
|
The Population Bomb |
John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
John Etchemendy |
Educator |
1952 |
|
Provost of Stanford University |
Daniel A. Farber |
Educator |
16-Jul-1950 |
|
Retained by the People |
Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
John W. Gardner |
Administrator |
8-Oct-1912 |
16-Feb-2002 |
Founder of Common Cause |
Geoffrey Garrett |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
President of the Pacific Council |
Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
Jennifer Granick |
Attorney |
1969 |
|
Cyber lawyer |
Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
Joseph A. Grundfest |
Legal Scholar |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
Peter Blair Henry |
Economist |
30-Jul-1969 |
|
Dean, Stern School of Business |
Roderick M. Hills |
Business |
9-Mar-1931 |
29-Oct-2014 |
SEC Chairman, 1975-77 |
Nicholas J. Hoff |
Engineer |
3-Jan-1906 |
4-Aug-1997 |
Aluminum in aircraft design |
Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
Joel Hyatt |
Attorney |
c. 1950 |
|
Hyatt Legal Services |
Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
Pamela S. Karlan |
Legal Scholar |
1959 |
|
Constitutional and legal scholar |
Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
David M. Kennedy |
Historian |
22-Jul-1941 |
|
Freedom from Fear |
Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
Nan Keohane |
Political Scientist |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Philosophy and the State in France |
Robert O. Keohane |
Scholar |
3-Oct-1941 |
|
After Hegemony |
Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
Robert B. Laughlin |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1950 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
Lawrence Lessig |
Legal Scholar |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
David E. Liddle |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Metaphor Computer Systems |
Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
Modesto A. Maidique |
Educator |
20-Mar-1940 |
|
President, Florida International University |
John Markoff |
Journalist |
24-Oct-1949 |
|
New York Times computer guy |
John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
Teresa H. Meng |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Co-Founder, Atheros Communications |
Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
Diane Middlebrook |
Author |
16-Apr-1939 |
15-Dec-2007 |
Biographer of Anne Sexton |
Ferid Murad |
Scientist |
14-Sep-1936 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
Michael Novak |
Religion |
9-Sep-1933 |
|
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism |
Frank O'Connor |
Author |
17-Sep-1903 |
10-Mar-1966 |
Guests of the Nation |
Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
William G. Ouchi |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Theory Z |
George Pake |
Scientist |
1-Apr-1924 |
4-Mar-2004 |
First director of Xerox PARC |
Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
George G. C. Parker |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford |
Bradford W. Parkinson |
Engineer |
16-Feb-1935 |
|
Global Positioning System |
Elizabeth Paté-Cornell |
Educator |
17-Aug-1948 |
|
Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor |
Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Discovered the tau lepton |
William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
Mary Lake Polan |
Doctor |
c. 1943 |
|
OG Professor at Stanford |
Katherine Anne Porter |
Author |
15-May-1890 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Ship of Fools |
Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
David M. Potter |
Historian |
6-Dec-1910 |
18-Feb-1971 |
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 |
Joseph W. Prueher |
Diplomat |
25-Nov-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to China, 1999-2001 |
Jack N. Rakove |
Historian |
4-Jun-1947 |
|
Original Meanings |
Jef Raskin |
Computer Programmer |
9-Mar-1943 |
26-Feb-2005 |
Designed Macintosh human interface |
Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
Condoleezza Rice |
Government |
14-Nov-1954 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2005-09 |
Adrienne Rich |
Poet |
16-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2012 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Roger W. Sant |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Billionaire, AES |
Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
Max Savelle |
Historian |
8-Jan-1896 |
12-Sep-1979 |
The Origins of American Diplomacy |
Arthur L. Schawlow |
Physicist |
5-May-1921 |
28-Apr-1999 |
Laser spectroscopy |
Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
William F. Sharpe |
Economist |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Capital asset pricing model |
K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
Kathryn L. Shaw |
Economist |
c. 1954 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
12-Sep-2016 |
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
John B. Shoven |
Economist |
24-May-1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
Thomas W. Simons |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 |
Anna Deavere Smith |
Actor |
18-Sep-1950 |
|
Nancy McNally on The West Wing |
Vernon L. Smith |
Economist |
1-Jan-1927 |
|
Experimental economics |
Joseph T. Sneed |
Judge |
21-Jul-1920 |
9-Feb-2008 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1973-87 |
Ezra Solomon |
Economist |
20-Mar-1920 |
9-Dec-2002 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73 |
Larry Sonsini |
Attorney |
5-Feb-1941 |
|
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
Wallace Stegner |
Author |
18-Feb-1909 |
13-Apr-1993 |
The Angle of Repose |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
Kathleen Sullivan |
Legal Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
Robert J. Swieringa |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Dean of Johnson School at Cornell |
Raymond Tanter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Iran Policy Committee founder |
Edward Tatum |
Scientist |
14-Dec-1909 |
7-Nov-1975 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
Lewis Terman |
Psychologist |
15-Jan-1877 |
21-Dec-1956 |
Intelligence tests |
Sebastian Thrun |
Scientist |
1967 |
|
Stanford AI Laboratory |
Stephen Timoshenko |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1878 |
29-May-1972 |
Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford |
Scott Turow |
Novelist |
12-Apr-1949 |
|
Presumed Innocent |
James Van Horne |
Educator |
c. 1935 |
|
Economics Professor, Stanford |
Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
Abraham Verghese |
Doctor |
30-May-1955 |
|
My Own Country |
Peter C. Wendell |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Venture capitalist, Sierra Ventures |
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur |
Educator |
13-Apr-1875 |
26-Jun-1949 |
President of Stanford University, 1916-43 |
Terry Winograd |
Scientist |
24-Feb-1946 |
|
Understanding Natural Language |
Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
Tobias Wolff |
Author |
19-Jun-1945 |
|
The Barracks Thief |
Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |