User:Erp/Sandbox list of SU people

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These need to be integrated into the List of Stanford University people web page assuming they can be verified. The following is scraps of stuff from elsewhere.

Tenzin Tethong, former prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, chairs the university's Tibetan Studies Initiative, and was a candidate for Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile.[1]

Notable alumni[edit]

Nvidia (Jen-Hsun Huang),

Gap (Doris F. Fisher), A.B., Economics

William S. Fisher, M.B.A. 1984, Gap director, son of Doris F. Fisher

Stephen Cohen), BSc computer science 2005, co-founder Palantir Technologies

Vinod Khosla, MBA, co-founder Sun Microsystems

David O. Sacks, A.B. 1994 Economics, Yammer

Tim Draper, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, co-founder Draper Fisher Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson), B.Sc., M.S., Electrical Engineering, M.B.A., co-founder Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Keith Rabois, Roelof Botha, Brook Byers, Jim Goetz, Bob Kagle, and Peter Fenton, as are financiers Sid Bass and Richard Rainwater and hedge fund manager Andreas Halvorsen.

Stanford-educated executives include former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito,

DROP Broadcom president and CEO Scott McGregor, [2]

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson,

CEMEX chairman and CEO Lorenzo Zambrano, Bank of America Merrill Lynch COO Thomas Montag, Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat, Godrej Industries managing director Nadir Godrej, Dan Siroker founder and CEO of Optimizely, and Infosys CEO and managing director Vishal Sikka.

former President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elias,

Richard D. Hearney,


Rich Kelley,

Gene Washington, Gordon Banks, and Doug Baldwin, NFL offensive linemen Pat Donovan, Bruno Banducci, Blaine Nye, Andrus Peat, Hugh Gallarneau, Scott Laidlaw, Benny Barnes, NFL defensive lineman Paul Wiggin, NFL linebacker David Wyman,

Sarah Rafanelli,

Olympic softball player Jessica Mendoza,


Alum David Chase, a seven-time Emmy Award winner, is the creator and writer of The Sopranos.<ref name="stanford_facts_alumni">"Stanford Facts: Alumni". Stanford University. 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-11..


Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove, studied for two years at Stanford on the Stegner Fellowship.


Jeffrey Eugenides, who wrote Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.

N. Scott Momaday is credited as a leader in bringing Native American fiction into mainstream American literature.

and another Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, studied poetry at Stanford.

Author Marta Acosta also attended Stanford.


Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber earned his M.D. from Stanford Medical School. former Brown University President Vartan Gregorian, Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch,

Uncommon Man/Woman[edit]

1953 Paul C. Edwards, '06 (board of trustees president)

1954 Morgan Gunst, '06 Louis H. Roseberry, '03

1957 Harry B. Reynolds, '96

1959 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, '20 (Posthumous)

1965 Herbert Hoover, '95 (Posthumous) George A. Ditz, '11, JD '13

1975 May Chandler Goodan, '14

1978 J. E. Wallace Sterling, PhD '38 Frederick E. Terman, '20, ENG '22

1984 John W. Gardner, '33, AM '36

1987 William R. Hewlett, '34, ENG '39 David Packard, '34, ENG '39 Lucile Salter Packard, '35

1988 Cecil Green Ida M. Green (Posthumous)

1991 Jing Lyman Richard W. Lyman

1994 Peter S. Bing, '55

1997 Morris M. Doyle, '29

2000 Linda Randall Meier, '61

2006 Jim Gaither, JD '64

2009 John Arrillaga, '60

2010 John Freidenrich, '59, LLB '63 Jill Freidenrich, '63

2013 Anne T. Bass, MLA '07 Robert M. Bass, MBA '74

2016 John P. Morgridge, MBA '57 Tashia Morgridge