{"id":48,"date":"2002-08-07T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T01:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/08\/07\/really-famous-stanford-alumni\/"},"modified":"2005-08-31T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T04:16:06","slug":"really-famous-stanford-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/07\/really-famous-stanford-alumni","title":{"rendered":"Really Famous Stanford Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Really Famous Stanford Alumni\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/stanford_alumni.gif?resize=254%2C361\" width=\"254\" height=\"361\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/000002.html\">talked about the incredible Stanford alumni roster before<\/a>, but I had occasion recently to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/000048.html\">make a postcard<\/a> featuring them. I thought uploading the photo montage I created might help you get a handle on exactly who I\u2019m talking about (not all are pictured):&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Government<\/b>: 3 current Supreme Court Justices (Chief Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/rehnquist.bio.clr.html\">William Rehnquist<\/a> along with Associate Justices  <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/kennedy.bio.clr.html\">Anthony Kennedy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/breyer.bio.clr.html\">Stephen Breyer<\/a>),  former U.S. Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/dosfan.lib.uic.edu\/ERC\/biographies\/christopher.html\">Warren Christopher<\/a>, 5 U.S. senators, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-israel.org\/jsource\/biography\/barak.html\">Ehud Barak<\/a> (former Prime Minister of Israel)<\/li>\n<li><b>Business<\/b>: the CEOs of 3Com, Hewlett-Packard,<br>\n          Nike, and Sun Microsystems (see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/wellspring\/industry.html\">list of companies<\/a> founded by members of the Stanford community)<\/li>\n<li><b>Celebrities<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Witherspoon,+Reese\">Reese Witherspoon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who2.com\/chelseaclinton.html\">Chelsea Clinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/nightline\/Nightline\/nl_koppel_bio.html\">Ted Koppel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Weaver,+Sigourney\">Sigourney           Weaver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Danson,+Ted\">Ted Danson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Palance,+Jack\">Jack Palance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Connelly,+Jennifer\">Jennifer Connelly<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Savage,+Fred\">Fred Savage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Sports<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerwoods.com\/aboutme\/bio.sps?sid=825&amp;lid=1&amp;aid=0\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/qbclub\/elway.html\">John Elway<\/a>,<br>\n          and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisfame.org\/enshrinees\/john_mcenroe.html\">John McEnroe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Education<\/b>: the presidents of&nbsp;Yale,<br>\n          the University of Arizona, and Johns Hopkins.<\/li>\n<li><b>Science<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.worldcom.com\/global\/resources\/cerfs_up\/\">Vinton Cerf <\/a>\u201cthe Father<br>\n          of the Internet\u201d, and 17 astronauts (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lucidcafe.com\/lucidcafe\/library\/96may\/ride.html\">Sally Ride<\/a>), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.yahoo.com\/info\/misc\/history.html\">founders of Yahoo! <\/a>(most<br>\n          popular site on the Internet) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/corporate\/history.html\">founders of Google<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, Stanford is one of the most strategic mission fields in the world! For an even fuller list of alumni, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/home\/stanford\/facts\/alumni.html\">check out the famous alumni list maintained by Stanford itself<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief overview of Stanford\u2019s really famous alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}