04-25-2025, 12:54 PM
Here is the Stanford Alumni Association's list of notable alumni: https://facts.stanford.edu/alumni/
Of all the categories, Athletes has the most entries. And it's not even close.
NB: This isn't quite what the OP was going for, I admit, as he was trying to find a measure of how the outside world views athletics as a part of the Stanford brand.
I had forgotten that Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a Stanford grad. I wonder if JFK influenced her decision to attend.
Of all the categories, Athletes has the most entries. And it's not even close.
NB: This isn't quite what the OP was going for, I admit, as he was trying to find a measure of how the outside world views athletics as a part of the Stanford brand.
I had forgotten that Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a Stanford grad. I wonder if JFK influenced her decision to attend.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)