Donald Kennedy (born 1931) is an American scientist, public administrator and academic. Donald Kennedy was born in New York and educated at Harvard University (A.B.; Ph.D., Biology, 1956). He has spent most of his professional career at Stanford University. He served for 26 months as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration during the Carter Administration. Kennedy served as president of Stanford from 1980 to 1992.

David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 - September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. Jordan was also an early leader in the american Eugenics movement.

John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.

Gerhard Casper (1937 -) was the 9th president of Stanford University from 1992-2000. He is currently the " Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education" at Stanford.

Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875-June 26, 1949) was a medical doctor, the 3rd President of Stanford University, and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior. He was born in Boone County, Iowa, to Dwight Locke Wilbur and Edna Maria Lyman (his brother, Curtis Dwight Wilbur, became United States Secretary of the Navy under President Calvin Coolidge and a Judge of the Supreme Court of California).

John Ewart Wallace Sterling (1906-1985) was a U.S. (Canadian-born) educator. He served as the president of Stanford University between 1949 and 1968.

John Casper Branner (1850-1922) was an American geologist and academic who discovered bauxite in Arkansas in 1887 as State Geologist. As State Geologist, he exposed gold-mining swindles then operating in Arkansas, for which the citizens of Bear City, Arkansas burned him in effigy, and the stock promoters tried to have him fired. He was Chair of the Department of Botany and Geology at Indiana University. He served as President of the Indiana Academy of Science in 1889.

Richard Wall Lyman was an American educator and historian. He served as the provost of Stanford University between 1967 and 1970. He then served as president of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980. In 1983 he founded the Stanford Institute for International Studies and became its first director. He was the president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980–88.

Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer (1914-December 26, 1997) was an American theoretical chemist and educator. He received his B.S. in 1935 from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. Upon graduation, he was appointed to the faculty of Berkeley's Chemistry Department and was eventually elevated to professor. From 1951 to 1960, he served as dean of the College of Chemistry.

Donald Bertrand Tresidder (April 7, 1894-January 28, 1948) was the fourth president of Stanford University. Tresidder was born in Tipton, Indiana. At the age of 20 he took a trip with his sister to Southern California. However, the railroad tracks were washed out and they went to Yosemite Valley instead. There he met many Stanford faculty, who convinced him to enroll in Stanford University.

Ted Mitchell CEO Ted Mitchell , CEO Ted Mitchell assumed the role of CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund in the fall of 2005 after having served on the NewSchools Board of Directors for seven years. Prior to joining NewSchools, Mitchell served as the 12th president of Occidental College in Los Angeles.

David Patterson joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1977, where he now holds the Pardee Chair of Computer Science. He led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer. This research became the foundation of the SPARC architecture, used by Sun Microsystems and others.

Joan F. Lane Mrs. Lane has been a director of McClatchy since March 1989. She is currently a special assistant to the board of trustees and to the president of Stanford University. She served on the board of directors of the James Irvine Foundation from 1990 to 2001 and the Brown Group, Inc. from 1985 to 1996. From 1984 to 1991, she was a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation.

John L. Hennessy President, Stanford University John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.

David Starr Jordan About The DAVID STARR JORDAN was built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 1964 and commissioned in San Diego, CA, in 1966. The ship was designed and built for the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, which later became part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for the purpose of fisheries research in the tropical Pacific.

David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University, wrote in November 1898 in The Atlantic Monthly an essay entitled "California and the Californians," saying California is corrupt, I'm very depressed, what are we going to do? A group of lawyers met at Levy's Café in Los Angeles in 1907 and formed the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League.