, Academy Award winning actor
Natalie Coughlin, BA 2005, multiple gold medal winning Olympic swimmer
Mostafa Chamran, Ph.D. 1963, Iranian scientist, Vice President and Defense Minister of Iran
Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, BA 1999[127]
Robert McNamara, BA 1937, President of World Bank (1968–1981), United States Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), President of Ford Motor Company (1960)
Daniel Kahneman, PhD 1961, awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory
Harold Urey, PhD 1923, Nobel laureate and discoverer of deuterium
Kartar Singh Sarabha was an Indian revolutionary who was hanged till death by British rule in 1915.
The computer mouse was invented by Turing Award laureate Doug Engelbart, B. Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1955
26 alumni and 27 past and present full-time faculty are counted among the 72 Nobel laureates associated with the university. The Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of computer science", has been awarded to nine alumni and six past and present full-time faculty.
Alumni have been involved in the field of politics and international relations, one of whom is Nicholas A. Veliotes (1928-). Veliotes went on to become the Ambassador to the countries of Jordan (1978–1981) and Egypt (1984–1986), among holding many other highly prestigious job titles and positions throughout his lengthy career.
Alumni have written novels and screenplays
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