Curated category
Stanford University alumni
- John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck once stole bacon from a local produce market to survive. During the Great Depression, he and his first wife lived on fish and crabs he…
- Mike KriegerMichel Krieger was born on the 4th of March 1986 in São Paulo, Brazil. He moved to California in 2004 to attend Stanford University.
- Margaret L. KingMargaret L. King entered Sarah Lawrence College in 1963 and graduated with a history degree in 1967. Her academic journey continued at Stanford University…
- Carl WiemanCarl Edwin Wieman was born on the 26th of March 1951 in Corvallis, Oregon. His father N. Orr Wieman and mother Alison Marjorie Fry raised him there before he…
- Eric Allin CornellEric Allin Cornell arrived in Palo Alto, California on the 19th of December 1961. His parents were finishing their graduate studies at Stanford University…
- Sally RideSally Kristen Ride was born on the 26th of May 1951, in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's…
- Do KwonDo Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea, on the 6th of September 1991. He attended Daewon Foreign Language High School before earning a Bachelor of Science in…
- Dario AmodeiDario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California, in 1983. His father Riccardo worked as an Italian-American leather craftsman.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang arrived in Oneida, Kentucky, as a ten-year-old boy with long hair and heavily accented English. He was an undersized Asian immigrant who…
- Hans MoravecHans Peter Moravec was born on the 30th of November 1948 in Kautzen, Austria. He began his higher education at Loyola College in Montreal but stayed for only…
- Sam AltmanSamuel Harris Altman was born on the 22nd of April 1985 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to Clayton, Missouri, in 1989 when he was four years old.
- Richard D. WolffRichard David Wolff was born on the 1st of April 1942 in New Rochelle, New York. His parents had fled Nazism to escape Germany during World War II.
- Victor Davis HansonVictor Davis Hanson was born on the 5th of September 1953 in Selma, California. He grew up working the family orchard and vineyard that had been in his…
- Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoyOn the 17th of her teenage years, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wrote to a local English-language newspaper in Karachi. Her mother Saba Obaid suggested she put her…