List of Stanford University people


This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

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.
S. No.NameTerm
1.David Starr Jordan1891–1913
2.John Casper Branner1913–1915
3.Ray Lyman Wilbur1916–1943
*Robert Eccles Swain1929–1933
4.Donald Bertrand Tresidder1943–1948
*Alvin C. Eurich1948
*Clarence H. Faust1949
5.J. E. Wallace Sterling1949–1968
*Robert J. Glaser1968
6.Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer1968–1970
7.Richard Wall Lyman1970–1980
8.Donald Kennedy1980–1992
9.Gerhard Casper1992–2000
10.John L. Hennessy2000–2016
*John Etchemendy2012
11.Marc Tessier-Lavigne2016–present

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Provosts

The position was created in 1952.
S. No.NameTerm
1.Douglas M. Whitaker1952–1955
2.Frederick E. Terman1955–1965
3.Richard Wall Lyman1967–1970
4.William F. Miller1971–1978
5.Gerald J. Lieberman1979
6.Donald Kennedy1979–1980
7.Albert M. Hastorf1980–1984
8.James N. Rosse1984–1992
9.Gerald J. Lieberman1992–1993
10.Condoleezza Rice1993–1999
11.John L. Hennessy1999–2000
12.John Etchemendy2000–2017
13.Persis Drell2017–present

Chancellors

This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.
S. No.NameTerm
1David Starr Jordan1913–1916
2Ray Lyman Wilbur1943–1949
3J. E. Wallace Sterling1968–1985

School Deans

Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.
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NameYearsNotes
1Willard E. Hotchkiss1926–1930
2J. Hugh Jackson1931–1956
Carlton A. Pederson1956–1958acting dean
3Ernest C. Arbuckle1958–1968
Samuel "Pete" Pond1968–1969acting dean
4Arjay Miller1969–1979The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.
Robert Jaedicke1979–1980acting dean
5Rene C. McPherson1980–1982
6Robert Jaedicke1983–1990
7Michael Spence1990–1999
8Robert L. Joss1999–2009Stanford PhD 1970
9Garth Saloner2009–2015
10Jonathan Levin2016–present

Nameyearsnote
1Ellwood Patterson Cubberley1917–1933
2Grayson N. Kefauver1933–1946
*Lucien Blair Kinney1943–1946acting
3A. John Bartky1946–1953
4I. James Quillen1954–1966
5H. Thomas James1966–1970
6Arthur Coladarci1970–1979
7Myron Atkin1979–1986
8Marshall S. Smith1986–1993
9Richard Shavelson1993–2001
10Deborah Stipek2000–2011
11Claude Steele2011–2014
*Deborah Stipek2014–2015acting
12Daniel Schwartz2015–present

NameYearsDepartmentNotes
1Clarence H. Faust1948–1951English
2Douglas Merritt Whitaker1951–1952Biology
3Ray N. Faulkner1952–1956Art and Architecture
4Philip H. Rhinelander1956–1961Philosophy
5Robert Richardson Sears1961–1970Psychology
6Albert H. Hastorf III1970–1973Psychology
7Halsey L. Royden1973–1981Mathematics
8Norman K. Wessells1981–1988Biology
9Ewart A.C. Thomas1988–1993Psychology
10John B. Shoven1993–1998Economics
11Malcolm R. Beasley1998–2001Applied Physics
12Sharon R. Long2001–2007Biological Sciences
13Richard Saller2007–2018Classics and History
14Debra Satz2018–presentPhilosophy

#NameYearsNotes
1Nathan Abbott1893–1907Executive Head
*Charles H. Huberich1906acting
2Frederic Campbell Woodward1908–1916first to be called dean
3Charles A. Huston1916–1922
*Arthur M. Cathcart1917–1919acting
4Marion R. Kirkwood1922–1945
*Arthur M. Cathcart1930–1931acting
*Lowell Turrentine1945–1946
5Carl B. Spaeth1946–1962
*Samuel D. Thurman1952–1953acting
*John R. McDonough1959–1960acting
*John R. McDonough1962–1964acting
6Bayless Manning1964–1971
7Thomas Ehrlich1971–1976
*J. Keith Mann1976acting
8Charles J. Meyers1976–1981acting
*J. Keith Mann1981–1982acting
9John Hart Ely1982–1987
10Paul Brest1987–1999
11Kathleen Sullivan1999–2004
12Larry Kramer2004–2012
13M. Elizabeth Magill2012–present

Alumni

Academics

Presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges

Artists

Company founders

Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers, and royalty

Cabinet Secretaries/Ministers

U.S. Senators

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Governors

U.S. Ambassadors

Other diplomats

Lieutenant Governors

U.S. Statewide officials other than Governors/Lieutenant Governors

California State Legislators

National Supreme Court Justices

U.S. Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judges

U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Judges outside the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Federal District Court Judges for the Northern District of California

U.S. Federal District Court Judges in California outside the Northern District

U.S. Federal District Court Judges Outside California

U.S. State Supreme Court Chief Justices

U.S. State Supreme Court Associate Justices

California Second District Court of Appeal Justices

California Court of Appeal Justices outside the Second District

Aeronautics and astronautics

Baseball

In film