Alumni

Academic Leaders

Joseph Castro, California State University chancellor

Sean Decatur, Kenyon College president

Michael Drake, University of California president

Jonathan Holloway, Rutgers University president

Kristina Johnson, Ohio State University president

Hilary Link, Allegheny College president

Vincent E. Price, Duke president

Jason Wingard, Temple University president

News Media

Gretchen Carlson, producer/host

Dave Flemming, broadcaster

Rodney Gilmore, broadcaster

Josh Haner, photojournalist

Ted Koppel, broadcaster

Rachel Maddow, broadcaster

Arts and Entertainment

Andre Braugher, actor

Sterling K. Brown, actor

Cheo Coker, producer/writer

Jennifer Connelly, actress

Ted Danson, actor

Issa Rae Diop, actress

Richard Diebenkorn*, artist

Christy Haubegger, producer

Gale Anne Hurd, producer

David Lang, composer

Robert Motherwell*, artist

Jon Nakamatsu, pianist

Alexander Payne, director

Edward Pressman, producer

Sigourney Weaver, actress

Reese Witherspoon, actress

Richard Zanuck*, producer

Daniel Lee (Tablo), artist

Jack Palance*, actor

Athletics

Baseball

Jason Castro

Jed Lowrie

Mike Mussina

Stephen Piscotty

Football

John Elway

Zach Ertz

Andrew Luck

John Lynch

Christian McCaffrey

Jim Plunkett

Basketball

Jarron Collins

Brook Lopez

Robin Lopez

Chiney Ogwumike

Nneka Ogwumike

Golf

Notah Begay III

Tom Watson

Michelle Wie

Tiger Woods

Mickey Wright

Olympians

Tony Azevedo

Jennifer Azzi

Maya DiRado

Julie Foudy

Katie Ledecky

Simone Manuel

Bob Mathias*

Pablo Morales

Summer Sanders

Erik Shoji

Kerri Strug

Jenny Thompson

Brenda Villa

Kerri Walsh Jennings

Tennis

Bob Bryan

Mike Bryan

Nicole Gibbs

John McEnroe

Soccer

Corey Baird

Tierna Davidson

Julie Foudy

Catarina Macario

Jordan Morris

Kelley O’Hara

Christen Press

Andi Sullivan

Softball

Jessica Mendoza

Business

Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder

Mary Barra, General Motors

Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems

Sergey Brin, Google

Carlos Brito, Anheuser-Busch InBev

José E. Feliciano, Clearlake Capital Group

Doris Fisher, Gap

Xavier A. Gutierrez, Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club

Reed Hastings, Netflix

William Hewlett*, Hewlett-Packard

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA

Phil Knight, Nike

Mike Krieger, Instagram

Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix

Marissa Mayer, Lumi Labs

Charlotte Pera, ClimateWorks Foundation

Miriam Rivera, Ulu Ventures

Charles R. Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp.

Debbie Sterling, GoldieBlox

Kevin Systrom, Instagram

Jerry Yang, Yahoo

Writing & Poetry

Brit Bennett

Michael Cunningham

Jeffrey Eugenides

Dana Gioia

Yaa Gyasi

Robert Hass

David Henry Hwang

Ken Kesey*

N. Scott Momaday

Robert Pinsky

John Steinbeck*

Tobias Wolff

Government

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister, Greece

Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Great Britain

Presidents

Herbert Hoover*, U.S.

president

Supreme Court Justices

Stephen Breyer

Anthony Kennedy

Sandra Day O’Connor

William Rehnquist*

Nobel Prize Winners

Eric Cornell, physics

Dudley Herschbach, chemistry

Roger Kornberg, chemistry

Paul Milgrom, economic sciences

Al Roth, economics

K. Barry Sharpless, chemistry

Richard E. Taylor, physics

Carl Wieman, physics

Oliver E. Williamson, economics

Inventors

Vinton Cerf, Internet protocol

John Chowning, synthesizer

Ray Dolby,* noise-reduction system

Ted Hoff, microprocessor

Ted Maiman*, laser

Brad Parkinson, GPS

Brent Townshend, 56K modem

And More

Stewart Brand, Internet pioneer

France Anne-Dominic Córdova, National Science Foundation director

Atul Gawande, surgeon

Jessica Jackley, Kiva

Robert Mondavi*, vintner

Ellen Ochoa, astronaut

Jeff Raikes, The Raikes Foundation

Sally Ride*, first U.S. woman in space

Blake Ross, Mozilla Firefox developer

Premal Shah, Kiva founder

Eunice Kennedy Shriver*, Special Olympics founder

Jeffrey Skoll, Skoll Foundation

Edward Tufte, statistician