List of Stanford University faculty and staff


List of Stanford University faculty and staff


This page lists faculty and staff members of Stanford University.

Stanford office

Presidents

Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.

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Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

Chancellors

This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.

School Deans

Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.

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Stanford faculty and affiliates

Aeronautics and astronautics

  • Sigrid Close, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • William F. Durand, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958)
  • Charbel Farhat, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering
  • G. Scott Hubbard, Adjunct Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Antony Jameson, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Sanjay Lall, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • Bradford Parkinson, professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Stephen Rock, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Debbie Senesky, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • George Springer, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology/biochemistry/medicine

  • George W. Beadle, professor of biology, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Caltech at time of award)
  • Paul Berg, emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, pioneer in recombinant DNA technology
  • David Botstein, former professor of genetics, pioneer in Human Genome Project
  • Patrick O. Brown, professor of biochemistry, inventor of DNA microarray technology
  • Eugene C. Butcher, professor of pathology, 2004 Crafoord Prize winner
  • Stanley Norman Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Carl Degler, professor of history, Pulitzer Prize for History (1972)
  • William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
  • Christian Guilleminault, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
  • Paul R. Ehrlich, professor of biology, 1990 Crafoord Prize winner
  • James Ferrell, systems biologist and the first chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its establishment until 2011
  • Andrew Z. Fire, professor of genetics and pathology, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Thomas J. Fogarty, clinical professor of surgery; member of National Inventors Hall of Fame; owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter
  • Toby Freedman Space Medicine
  • Jessica Hellmann, professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, director of the Institute on the Environment
  • Daniel Herschlag, senior associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of biochemistry and, by courtesy, of chemistry
  • Leonard Herzenberg, professor of genetics, winner of Kyoto Prize for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting
  • Andrew D. Huberman, professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, known for discoveries of brain function, plasticity and regeneration
  • David Katzenstein, virologist and AIDS researcher and associate medical director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit at Stanford
  • Robert Kerlan Sports Medicine pioneer
  • Peter S. Kim, professor of biochemistry, former president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), 2003–2013
  • Brian Kobilka, professor in medical school, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
  • Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry, winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Roger D. Kornberg, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • William Langston, neurologist; founder, CEO, and scientific director of the Parkinson's Institute
  • Joshua Lederberg, founder of the Stanford Department of Genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Michael Levitt, professor in medical school, 2013 Nobel prize winner in chemistry
  • Kate Lorig, chronic disease self-management, patient education, director of the Stanford Patient Education Center
  • Nicole Martinez-Martin, assistant professor of biomedical ethics, ethics of AI and digital health, STS
  • José Gilberto Montoya, professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service
  • Peter Raven, professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; Time Magazine "Hero for the Planet" 1999
  • Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including MacArthur Fellowship genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience
  • Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes
  • Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science
  • Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique
  • Lubert Stryer, professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip
  • Thomas Sudhof, professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Edward L. Tatum, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at time of award)
  • Jared Tinklenberg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
  • Donald Redelmeier, internist, Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto, noted expert in medical decision making

Chemistry

  • Carolyn R. Bertozzi, professor of chemistry, winner of 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Carl Djerassi, professor emeritus in chemistry; father of birth control pill; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, and Wolf Prize; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Paul Flory, former professor of chemistry, winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • William Johnson, former professor in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
  • Harden M. McConnell, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
  • Vijay S. Pande, associate professor in the Chemistry Department, founder of Folding@home distributed computing project
  • Linus Pauling, former professor in chemistry, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry (1954) and in Peace (1962)
  • John Ross, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
  • Henry Taube, former professor in chemistry, winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Richard Zare, professor in chemistry, winner of National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize

Graduate School of Business

  • Edward Lazear, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (2006–2009); professor, Graduate School of Business; Hoover Fellow

Communication

  • Clifford Nass, co-creator of The Media Equation theory of human-computer interaction
  • Darwin Teilhet, mystery novelist, taught journalism at Stanford

Computer science

  • Vinton Cerf, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
  • Douglas Engelbart, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Edward Feigenbaum, Turing award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of Dendral
  • Robert Floyd, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Alexandra Illmer Forsythe, wrote the first series of introductory computer science textbooks
  • George Forsythe, founder of the Department of Computer Science and president of the Association for Computing Machinery
  • Gene Golub, former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
  • David Gries, former faculty. First text on compilers, winner of four national education awards
  • Leonidas J. Guibas, Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
  • John L. Hennessy, pioneer in RISC, president of Stanford
  • Sir Antony Hoare, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • John Hopcroft, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Alan Kay, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Donald Knuth, professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of TeX, author of The Art of Computer Programming, Turing award winner
  • Daphne Koller, professor in CS
  • John Koza, pioneer in genetic programming
  • Barbara Liskov, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language and time sharing, Turing award winner
  • Edward McCluskey, professor in EE, IEEE John Von Neumann Prize winner
  • Robert Metcalfe, former faculty, co-inventor of Ethernet, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Allen Newell Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Andrew Ng, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
  • John Ousterhout, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
  • Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Raj Reddy, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Ronald Rivest former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Tim Roughgarden, faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
  • Arthur Samuel, former faculty; pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence; his checkers-playing program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and an early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Dana Scott, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Robert Tarjan, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • Sebastian Thrun, director of Stanford AI LAB; team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley won the 2005 DARPA grand challenge
  • Jeff Ullman, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
  • Terry Winograd, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
  • Keith Winstein, faculty in CS, author of Mosh
  • Niklaus Wirth former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of PASCAL
  • Andrew Yao, former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
  • William Yeager, inventor of multi-protocol internet router

Economics

  • Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
  • Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
  • Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
  • Gérard Debreu, Nobel Prize winner in economics, former staff
  • Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
  • Francisco Gil Díaz, economist, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico
  • Avner Greif, economist
  • Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics
  • Ro Khanna, visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce (2009–2011), U.S. Congressman (2017–present)
  • Jonathan Levin, professor of economics, won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal
  • Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover fellow
  • Douglass North, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
  • Paul Romer, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
  • Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize-winning economics professor
  • Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
  • William F. Sharpe, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner
  • Thomas Sowell, economist and popular author, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
  • Michael Spence, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
  • Joseph Stiglitz, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
  • John B. Taylor, economist, Hoover Fellow, developed the Taylor rule, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International affairs
  • Robert B. Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor

Education

  • Margaret Lee Chadwick, headmistress and founder of the Chadwick School and author
  • William Damon, pioneer in peer collaboration and project-based learning
  • Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign
  • Nathaniel Gage, pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching
  • Richard Wall Lyman, former provost of Stanford University
  • Fred Swaniker, co-founder of African Leadership Academy, CEO and co-founder of African Leadership University
  • Lewis Terman, creator of the Stanford Binet IQ test
  • John Willinsky, Open Access educator, activist and author

Engineering

  • Andreas Acrivos, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
  • Stephen Barley, organizational theorist and developer of adaptive structuration, co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization
  • Sally Benson, professor of engineering
  • Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., professor emeritus in Aeronautics and Astronautics, father of modern optimal control theory
  • Roland Doré, former president of the Canadian Space Agency
  • William F. Durand, professor and head of Mechanical Engineering (1904–24), aerodynamics pioneer and chair of NASA forerunner NACA
  • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, pioneer of discontinuous automatic control theory
  • Kenneth E. Goodson, mechanical engineer and endowed professor in the School of Engineering
  • William Webster Hansen, former professor, contributed to the development of microwave technology
  • Siegfried Hecker, professor, former director of Los Alamos National Lab
  • Ronald A. Howard, professor, father of decision analysis, founding director and former chairman of Strategic Decision Group
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of engineering
  • Elizabeth Jens, NASA engineer
  • Rudolf Kálmán, former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner
  • Rudolf Kompfner, former professor, National Medal of Science winner
  • Bruce Lusignan, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, made contributions to communication satellites and reusable launch vehicles
  • Bridgette Meinhold, artist and author with a focus on sustainability
  • Dwight Nishimura, Addie and Al Macovski professor in the School of Engineering, who leads the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory
  • William Perry (A.M. 1950), engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
  • Calvin Quate, professor, National Medal of Science winner
  • Paul V. Roberts, pioneer of environmental engineering
  • Stephen Timoshenko, pioneer of modern engineering mechanics
  • Powtawche Valerino, NASA JPL space navigation engineer
  • Giovanni De Micheli, former professor of Electrical Engineering
  • Teresa Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering

History

  • Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook The American Pageant* Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history
  • Bipan Chandra, emeritus professor of history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
  • Don E. Fehrenbacher, Pulitzer Prize winner author (1979, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law & Politics); William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies from 1953
  • Paula Findlen, professor of history of science
  • David M. Kennedy, professor of history and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  • Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture
  • Sabine G. MacCormack, award-winning professor of late antique history
  • Aron Rodrigue, historian
  • Londa Schiebinger, professor of history of science
  • James J. Sheehan, professor of history and former American Historical Association president
  • Payson J. Treat (Ph.D. 1910), professor of Far Eastern history
  • Gordon Wright, professor of history, former American Historical Association president

International relations

  • Stephen D. Krasner, former director of policy planning (2005–2007) for the United States Department of State

Law

  • Benjamin Harrison, constitutional and international law professor and 23rd President of the United States
  • William Lerach, guest lecturer on securities and corporate law
  • Lawrence Lessig, IP and constitutional law professor
  • Richard Posner, associate professor and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Linguistics

  • Jared Bernstein, Adjunct Professor
  • Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, emerita
  • Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
  • Ronald M. Kaplan, Adjunct Professor
  • Lauri Karttunen, Adjunct Professor
  • Martin Kay, professor of linguistics
  • Paul Kay, Adjunct Professor
  • Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
  • Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
  • John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
  • Elizabeth Traugott, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
  • Tom Wasow, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
  • Annie Zaenen, Adjunct Professor
  • Arnold M. Zwicky, Adjunct Professor

Literature and arts

  • Gerald M. Ackerman, Assistant Professor of Art History (1965–1971)
  • Judith Bettina, soprano
  • Bahram Beyzai, Persian playwright and filmmaker
  • Eavan Boland, Irish poet, professor
  • George Hardin Brown, medieval literature
  • Scott Bukatman, film and media professor
  • Albert Elsen, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities (1968–1995)
  • Lowell Gallagher, literary theorist and associate professor, earned Ph.D. in 1989
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, literary theorist
  • John L'Heureux, novelist and creative writing professor
  • D. R. MacDonald, creative writing
  • Alexander Nemerov, professor of art and art history
  • Juan Bautista Rael, linguist and folklorist
  • Jack Rakove, professor in history, 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Adrienne Rich, poet and critic; 1974 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry; 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Wallace Stegner, 1972 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • Yvor Winters, poet and critic

Mathematics and statistics

  • Theodore W. Anderson, professor in statistics, NAS member
  • Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr
  • Emmanuel Candès, professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award
  • Paul Cohen, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient, National Medal of Science winner
  • Brian Conrad, professor in mathematics
  • George Dantzig, former professor in operations research, inventor of the simplex algorithm, father of linear programming, National Medal of Science (1975) winner
  • Keith Devlin, executive director Center for the Study of Language and Information
  • Persi Diaconis, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
  • David Donoho, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
  • Bradley Efron, professor in statistics, inventor of bootstrap, National Medal of Science winner, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
  • Solomon Feferman, professor in mathematics and philosophy, Schock Prize recipient
  • Jerome H. Friedman, professor in statistics, NAS member
  • Samuel Karlin, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
  • Joseph Keller, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
  • Maryam Mirzakhani, professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
  • Amnon Pazy, Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • George Pólya, former professor in mathematics, author of How to solve it
  • Richard Schoen, professor in mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
  • David O. Siegmund, professor in statistics, NAS member
  • Charles Stein, professor in statistics, NAS member
  • Gábor Szegő, former professor in mathematics, founder of Stanford Math department
  • Robert Tibshirani, professor in statistics, NAS member
  • Ravi Vakil, professor in mathematics, one of seven four-time Putnam Fellows
  • Akshay Venkatesh, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
  • Shing-Tung Yau, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
  • Grant Sanderson, YouTuber, podcaster and owner of mathematics channel 3blue1brown, contributor to Khan Academy.

Political science

  • Coit D. Blacker, political science professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President
  • Larry Diamond, professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute
  • Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author
  • Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010
  • Terry Karl, professor of Latin American studies
  • Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow
  • Condoleezza Rice, political science professor, Secretary of State
  • Douglas Rivers, political science professor, chief scientist of YouGov

Philosophy

  • Joshua Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy
  • Lala Hardayal, lecturer, Indian freedom fighter
  • Patrick Suppes, National Medal of Science recipient, professor

Physics

  • Felix Bloch, 1952 Nobel Laureate, physics professor
  • Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor; professor at Stanford 1987–2004
  • Eric Cornell (B.S. 1985), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
  • Jerome Friedman, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC as research associate (1957–1960)
  • Sheldon Glashow, 1979 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor (1961–1962)
  • Theodor Hänsch, 2005 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at Stanford 1972–1986
  • Conyers Herring, physics professor and the winner of Wolf Prize in Physics in 1984/85
  • Robert Hofstadter, 1961 Nobel prize winner in physics, former professor
  • Henry Way Kendall, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor at Stanford (1958–1961)
  • Willis Eugene Lamb, former professor, 1955 Nobel prize winner in physics
  • Robert Laughlin, 1998 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, professor at Stanford 1989–2004
  • Ann Nelson, 2018 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipient
  • Douglas Osheroff, 1996 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
  • Martin L. Perl, 1995 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
  • Burton Richter, 1976 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
  • Arthur Schawlow, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of laser, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Leonard Schiff, physics professor
  • Melvin Schwartz, 1988 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
  • William Shockley, 1956 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of transistor, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Leonard Susskind, physics professor, originator of string theory
  • Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), 1990 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
  • Carl Wieman (Ph.D. 1977), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
  • Kenneth G. Wilson, 1982 Nobel Prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC (1969–1970)

Psychology

  • Richard Atkinson, professor of psychology 1956–1980, former president, University of California
  • Albert Bandura, professor of psychology since 1964, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology since 1973, known for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, on social cognitive theory and self efficacy
  • Gordon H. Bower, professor of psychology, 2005 National Medal of Science winner
  • Carol Dweck, professor of psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait
  • Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of psychology, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
  • Kalanit Grill-Spector, professor of psychology
  • Roger Shepard, professor of psychology, National Medal of Science winner
  • Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. (1884–1963), professor of psychology at Stanford University 1923–1963
  • Lewis Terman, former professor, pioneer in I.Q. testing
  • Leanne M. Williams, professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2013
  • Philip Zimbardo, former professor of psychology, former president of the APA, researcher
  • Amado M. Padilla, professor of psychology

Hoover Fellows

  • Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)
  • Abbas Milani, political scientist and historian
  • George Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
  • Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert

Coaches

  • Dick Gould, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All-American players
  • Payton Jordan, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
  • Bill Walsh, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers; inventor of the West Coast Offense
  • Glenn Scobey Warner, College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Other

  • St. Clair Drake, sociology and anthropology, founding head of African American studies program
  • James M. Hyde, metallurgist
  • Scotty McLennan, Dean for Religious Life, Minister of Stanford Memorial Church, and inspiration for the Reverend Scot Sloan character in the comic strip Doonesbury


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