- Trent Johnson
Trent Johnson (born September 12, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is a men's college basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the Stanford Cardinal, succeeding Mike Montgomery in 2004. Johnson had previously been the head coach at University of Nevada, Reno.
- T. C. Ostrander
Thomas Clinton "T. C." Ostrander (born January 4, 1985 in Stanford, California) is the starting quarterback of the Stanford Cardinal football team. Ostrander graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, where he led the team to a Central Coast Section Division II championship in his senior year. That year, he completed 193 of 288 passes for 3,059 yards, 44 touchdowns, and just seven interceptions. Ostrander was a top quarterback recruit in 2002.
- Trent Edwards
Trent Edwards is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. He was the starting quarterback for the Stanford Cardinal football team from 2003–2006.
- Evan Moore
Evan Moore (born January 3, 1985 in Brea, California) is the star wide receiver on the Stanford Cardinal football team. Evan also played basketball at Stanford in his first two years on "the farm".
- Brad Miller
Bradley Alan Miller (born April 12 1976) is an American professional basketball player, currently starting at center for the Sacramento Kings. He is also a member of the USA national basketball team. Miller was selected two times for the NBA All-Star Game: he is notable for being one of the only three players ever to be in an NBA All-Star Game without having been drafted (John Starks and Ben Wallace are the others). Miller was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- Tara Vanderveer
Tara VanDerveer is the Stanford University women's basketball coach for most of the past two decades. She has led her Stanford team, known as "The Cardinal", to two NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships in 1990 and 1992. VanDerveer was a standout player at Indiana University, and later coached at Ohio State.
- Joe Borchard
Joseph Edward Borchard (born November 25, 1978 in Panorama City, California), a 1997 graduate of Adolfo Camarillo High School in Camarillo, California was the 12th pick of the first round in the 2000 MLB amateur draft out of Stanford University by the Chicago White Sox. Borchard, who also played quarterback for Stanford, took a $5.3 million signing bonus to play for the White Sox.
- Jon Alston
Jon Alston (born June 4, 1983) is an American football linebacker for the National Football League St. Louis Rams. Having grown up in Bastrop, Louisiana, Jon Alston played for Loyola College Prep before going on to play college football for the Stanford Cardinals. Alston played Defensive End his freshman year in high school, but after seeing his speed his coaches moved him to line backer, where he remains to this day.
- Todd Husak
Todd Husak (born July 6, 1978 in Long Beach, California) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. He attended Stanford, and as the starting quarterback, led the Cardinal to the Rose Bowl in 2000, the school's first such appearance since 1972. Husak was named First Team All-Pac-10 for the 1999 season, and was named co-Most Valuable Player of the 2000 Hula Bowl. Husak threw for 6,564 yards and 41 touchdowns while at Stanford, …
- Chuck Taylor
Charles A. "Chuck" Taylor (January 24, 1920 - May 7, 1994) was an American college football coach at Stanford from 1951 to 1957. During his tenure, he compiled a 40-29-2 record and led the Indians to the Rose Bowl his first season. Taylor was named Coach of the Year that year. Taylor's football playing days were also at Stanford, where he was an all-American at guard. Taylor played in Stanford's 1941 Rose Bowl victory over Nebraska.
- Jessica Nguyen
Jessica Nguyen was born on November 24, 1987, and she is a tennis player for Stanford University.
- Katy Steding
Katy Steding (born on December 11, 1967, in Tualatin, Oregon) is a former collegiate and professional basketball player and current college basketball coach. Steding was recruited to Stanford University from Lake Oswego High School. At Stanford, Steding, a power forward, helped lead Stanford to its first NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1990.
- Jessica Mendoza
Jessica Mendoza (born 11 November 1980) is an American softball player who won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She was a four-time first team All-American at Stanford University from 1998-2002. Mendoza was named Softball player of the year in 2006. She was a member of the PFX tour in 2006, and she has been a member of the Arizona Heat, a professional team in the National Pro Fastpitch league.
- Rich Kelley
Richard (Rich) Ryland Kelley (born March 23, 1953 in San Mateo, California) is a retired American basketball player. A center/power forward, he played college basketball for Stanford, and in the NBA, for the New Orleans Jazz/Utah Jazz (1975-79 and 1983-85), New Jersey Nets (1979-80), Phoenix Suns (1980-82), Denver Nuggets (1982-83) and Sacramento Kings (1985-86). He helped the Suns win the 1980-81 NBA Pacific Division and the Jazz win the 1983-84 NBA Midwest Division.
- Everett Dean
Everett S. Dean was a college men's basketball and baseball coach. Born in Livonia, Indiana, Dean was the head baseball and basketball coach at his alma mater, Indiana University, from 1924 to 1938. In 1938, Dean was named head basketball coach at Stanford University, where he coached the team to the 1942 NCAA championship. Dean was named baseball coach at Stanford in 1950, and led Stanford's baseball team to the 1953 College World Series.
- Kendall Beck
Kendall Rhea Beck is an artistic gymnast from the United States. She was a member of the US junior national team from 1996–1997, and was the US national junior vault champion that year. She was a member of the senior national team from 1997–2000. In 1997, she was the US national beam champion, and was known for a connected full twist on the beam. She was a member of the World Championship team in 1997 that finished sixth place.
- Lise Leveille
Lise Annique Leveille is a French Canadian gymnast who represented Canada at the 2000 Olympic Games. She later became part of Stanford University's gymnastics team and is currently a medical student in Vancouver, BC.
- Don Bunce
Don Bunce (January 17, 1949 - April 15, 2003) was an American football quarterback and orthopedic surgeon. Bunce attended Stanford University, where he played behind Jim Plunkett. After Plunkett graduated in 1971, Bunce became the starting quarterback and led the Indians to the Pac-8 championship and a spot in the 1972 Rose Bowl against unbeaten Michigan.
- Amy Chow
Amy Chow is an American gymnast and a member of the famous Magnificent 7 who were the first American team to win Olympic gymnastics gold. Her fellow team members were Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Kerri Strug, Amanda Borden and Dominique Moceanu. Chow was coached by Mark Young and was the first Asian-American woman to take an Olympic medal in her sport.
- Jim Pollard
James Clifford "Jim" Pollard (b. July 9, 1922 in Oakland, California - d. January 22, 1993 in Stockton, California) was a former pro basketball player. In college, Pollard played for Stanford and was a key member of Stanford's 1942 national championship team (though due to illness, he did not play in the final game). In the NBA, Pollard was considered one of the best forwards in the 50s and was known for his leaping ability, earning him the nickname "The Kangaroo Kid".
- Heather Purnell
Heather Mary Purnell (b. November 5th, 1986, Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian gymnast who represented Canada at the 2004 Olympic Games. She trained at Ottawa Gymnastics Centre with coaches Tobie Goreman, Lori Iurello, and Peter Grozdanovic. In 1999 she was the Canadian All-Around Artistic Gymnastics Champion.
- Sam Lee
Sam Lee (born 1914 or 1915 in Oregon) is a former youth, college, and professional tennis player. As a youth tennis player, Lee reached as high as #7 in the U.S. tennis rankings for players 15 and under. He attended Stanford University, and as a sophomore, won the 1933 NCAA Doubles Championship with partner Joe Coughlin. Lee won the Oregon state doubles championships with Elwood Cooke in 1936, and the Oregon state singles championship in 1937.
- Brenda Helser
Brenda Helser de Morelos (born May 26, 1926) is a former competitive freestyle swimmer from the United States who won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. A graduate of Stanford University, de Morelos is a native of Oregon where her swim coach was International Swimming Hall of Fame member Jack Cody.
- Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring was a competitive springboard diver from the United States who won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany at the age of 13 years, 268 days—the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. With the cancellation of the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II, Gestring did not get a chance to defend her title, and her comeback attempt for the 1948 Summer Olympics fell short.
- Harvey Holmes
Harvey R. Holmes was an American college football coach at the University of Utah (1900-1903), the University of Southern California (1904-1907), and the Academy of Idaho (now Idaho State University) (1909-1914). Holmes attended the University of Wisconsin, where he lettered in football in 1897 and 1898. He became coach at the University of Utah in 1900, and led the team to a record of 12-8-1; he was the first Utah coach to compile a winning record.
- Matt Hurwitz
Matt Hurwitz is an American public address announcer for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. Hurwitz has held the position since December 2000 upon the resignation of Dick Callahan.
- Jeff Cravath
Newell Jefferson Cravath was an American football coach best known as the head coach of the USC Trojans football team from 1942-1950. He compiled a 54-28-8 record while coaching at USC, and is known to have introduced the T formation to the USC program.
- Sam Weinberger
- Tyrone McGraw
- Tavita Pritchard
- Richard Sherman
- Jeremy Stewart
- Jim Dray
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- Thaddeus Chase
- Clinton Snyder
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