Harold Urey, PhD 19

eral; 30th Governor of California.



Steven Chu, PhD 1976, Nobel laureate and former United States Secretary of Energy



Jennifer Granholm, BA 1984, First female Governor of Michigan



Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor



Christina Romer, Professor of Economics, 25th Chairperson of the President's Council of Economic Advisers



Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, co-founder of Apple Computer



Gordon Moore, BS 1950, co-founder of semiconductor company Intel



Eric Schmidt, MS 1979, PhD 1982, Executive Chairman of Google Inc.



Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr, BA 1961, Governor of California, former California Attorney General



Gregory Peck, BA 1939, 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 that have attracted Oscar-caliber talent. Irving Stone (BA 1923) wrote the novel Lust for Life, which was later made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh. Stone also wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar winner Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. Mona Simpson (BA 1979) wrote the novel Anywhere But Here, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar-winning actress Susan