List of Stanford University faculty and staff

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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.

No.	Name	Term
1.	David Starr Jordan	1891–1913
2.	John Casper Branner	1913 – December 31, 1915
3.	Ray Lyman Wilbur	January 22, 1916 – June 30, 1943
*	Robert Eccles Swain	March 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933
4.	Donald Bertrand Tresidder	October 14, 1943 – January 28, 1948
*	Alvin C. Eurich	January 28, 1948 – December 31, 1948
*	Clarence H. Faust	January 1, 1949 – April 1, 1949
5.	J. E. Wallace Sterling	April 1, 1949 – September 1, 1968
*	Robert J. Glaser	September 1, 1968 – December 1, 1968
6.	Kenneth Pitzer	December 1, 1968 – June 25, 1970
7.	Richard Wall Lyman	September 24, 1970 – August 1, 1980
8.	Donald Kennedy	August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992
9.	Gerhard Casper	September 1, 1992 – August 31, 2000
10.	John L. Hennessy	September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2016
*	John Etchemendy	February 14, 2012 – June 8, 2012
11.	Marc Tessier-Lavigne	September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2023
*	Richard Saller	September 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024
12.	Jonathan Levin	August 1, 2024 – present

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Acting University president (*)

Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

S. No.	Name	Term
1.	Douglas M. Whitaker	1952–1955
2.	Frederick Terman	1955–1965
3.	Richard Wall Lyman	1967–1970
4.	William F. Miller	1971–1978
5.	Gerald J. Lieberman	1979
6.	Donald Kennedy	1979–1980
7.	Albert M. Hastorf	1980–1984
8.	James N. Rosse	1984–1992
9.	Gerald J. Lieberman	1992–1993
10.	Condoleezza Rice	1993–1999
11.	John L. Hennessy	1999–2000
12.	John Etchemendy	2000–2017
13.	Persis Drell	2017–2023
14.	Jenny Martínez	2023–present

Chancellors

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

S. No.	Name	Term
1	David Starr Jordan	1913–1916
2	Ray Lyman Wilbur	1943–1949
3	J. E. Wallace Sterling	1968–1985

School deans

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

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Acting dean (*)

Graduate School of Business
	Name	Years	Notes
1	Willard E. Hotchkiss	1926–1930
2	J. Hugh Jackson	1931–1956
	Carlton A. Pederson	1956–1958	acting dean
3	Ernest C. Arbuckle	1958–1968
	Samuel "Pete" Pond	1968–1969	acting dean
4	Arjay Miller	1969–1979	The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.
	Robert Jaedicke	1979–1980	acting dean
5	Rene C. McPherson	1980–1982
6	Robert Jaedicke	1983–1990
7	Michael Spence	1990–1999
8	Robert L. Joss	1999–2009	Stanford Ph.D. 1970
9	Garth Saloner	2009–2015
10	Jonathan Levin	2016–present

Doerr School of Sustainability
	Name	Years	Notes
1	Arun Majumdar	2022–present

School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
	Name	Years	Notes
1	A. I. Levorsen	1947–1950	Petroleum geologist
2	Charles Park	1950–1965
3	Richard Jahns	1965–1979
4	Allan V. Cox	1979–1987
5	George A. Thompson	1987–1989
6	W. G. Ernst	1989–1994
7	Lynn Orr	1994–2002
8	Pamela Matson	2002–2017
9	Stephan Graham	2017–2022

Graduate School of Education
	Name	Years	Note
1	Ellwood Patterson Cubberley	1917–1933
2	Grayson N. Kefauver	1933–1946
*	Lucien Blair Kinney	1943–1946	acting
3	A. John Bartky	1946–1953
4	I. James Quillen	1954–1966
5	H. Thomas James	1966–1970
6	Arthur Coladarci	1970–1979
7	Myron Atkin	1979–1986
8	Marshall S. Smith	1986–1993
9	Richard Shavelson	1993–2001
10	Deborah Stipek	2000–2011
11	Claude Steele	2011–2014
*	Deborah Stipek	2014–2015	acting
12	Daniel L. Schwartz	2015–present

School of Engineering
	Name	Years	Department	Notes
1	Theodore J. Hoover	1925–1936	Mining and Metallurgy	Stanford AB 1901
2	Samuel B. Morris	1936–1944	Civil Engineering	Stanford AB 1911
3	Frederick E. Terman	1944–1958	Electrical Engineering
4	Joseph M. Pettit	1958–1972	Electrical Engineering	Stanford Ph.D. 1942
5	William M. Kays	1972–1984	Mechanical Engineering	Stanford Ph.D. 1951
6	James F. Gibbons	1984–1996	Electrical Engineering	Stanford Ph.D. 1956
7	John L. Hennessy	1996–1999	Computer Science
8	James Plummer	1999–2014	Electrical Engineering
9	Persis Drell	2014–2016	SLAC/Physics
10	Jennifer Widom	2017–present	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

School of Humanities and Sciences
	Name	Years	Department
1	Clarence H. Faust	1948–1951	English
2	Douglas Merritt Whitaker	1951–1952	Biology
3	Ray N. Faulkner	1952–1956	Art and Architecture
4	Philip H. Rhinelander	1956–1961	Philosophy
5	Robert Richardson Sears	1961–1970	Psychology
6	Albert H. Hastorf III	1970–1973	Psychology
7	Halsey L. Royden	1973–1981	Mathematics
8	Norman K. Wessells	1981–1988	Biology
9	Ewart A.C. Thomas	1988–1993	Psychology
10	John B. Shoven	1993–1998	Economics
11	Malcolm R. Beasley	1998–2001	Applied Physics
12	Sharon R. Long	2001–2007	Biological Sciences
13	Richard Saller	2007–2018	Classics and History
14	Debra Satz	2018–present	Philosophy

Law School
#	Name	Years	Notes
1	Nathan Abbott	1893–1907	executive head
*	Charles H. Huberich	1906	acting
2	Frederic Campbell Woodward	1908–1916	first to be called dean
3	Charles A. Huston	1916–1922
*	Arthur M. Cathcart	1917–1919	acting
4	Marion R. Kirkwood	1922–1945
*	Arthur M. Cathcart	1930–1931	acting
*	Lowell Turrentine	1945–1946
5	Carl B. Spaeth	1946–1962
*	Samuel D. Thurman	1952–1953	acting
*	John R. McDonough	1959–1960	acting
*	John R. McDonough	1962–1964	acting
6	Bayless Manning	1964–1971
7	Thomas Ehrlich	1971–1976
*	J. Keith Mann	1976	acting
8	Charles J. Meyers	1976–1981	acting
*	J. Keith Mann	1981–1982	acting
9	John Hart Ely	1982–1987
10	Paul Brest	1987–1999
11	Kathleen Sullivan	1999–2004
12	Larry Kramer	2004–2012
13	M. Elizabeth Magill	2012–2019
14	Jennifer Martínez	2019–present

School of Medicine
#	Name	Years	Notes
1	Ray Lyman Wilbur	1911–1916
2	William Ophüls	1916–1933
3	Loren R. Chandler	1933–1953
4	Windsor C. Cutting	1953–1957
5	Robert H. Always	1957–1965
6	Robert J. Glaser	1965–1971
7	Clayton Rich	1971–1982
8	Dominick P. Purpura	1982–1984	went on to be dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine
9	David Korn	1984–1995
10	Eugene A. Bauer	1995–2001
11	Philip Pizzo	2001–2012
12	Lloyd B. Minor	2012–present

Stanford faculty and affiliates

For a more comprehensive list, see Category:Stanford University faculty.

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
Marion Buckwalter, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, co-founder of the Stroke Recovery Program at Stanford
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
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
Christian Guilleminault, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
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
Donald Redelmeier, internist, professor of medicine at University of Toronto, noted expert in medical decision making
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

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 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; 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
Teresa Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering
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

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
Jennifer Burns, historian
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
Grant Sanderson, YouTuber, podcaster and owner of mathematics channel 3blue1brown, contributor to Khan Academy
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

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
Amado M. Padilla, 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

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
Hazel D. Hansen (1899–1962), professor, classicist
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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