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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tess Bridgeman Tess received a Masters of Philosophy in International Relations in 2006 at Oxford University where she studied for the past three years on a Rhodes Scholarship and worked with the Global Economic Governance Programme. In 2003-2004 Tess was a John Gardner Fellow at the World Bank Inspection Panel – an accountability mechanism established to provide recourse for communities harmed by Bank-funded projects.

Martin Slusser Mr. Slusser is a Principal and Co-founder of The Magellan Group. He currently directs Magellan's acquisition team, in addition to sitting on the Investment Committee.

Mary Kathryn Harcombe Mary Kathryn Harcombe received a B.A. from Stanford University in March of 1999, where she majored in Feminist Studies and Human Biology. She was awarded the Feminist Studies Rosaldo Lopez Award for Best Social Science Essay and the Human Biology Joshua Lederberg Award for Academic Excellence. She was elected as a Junior to Phi Beta Kappa and to the Cap and Gown Women's Honor Society.