Santa Clara University - Alumni

Alumni

• Jon Ramon Aboitiz, Chairman, Aboitiz Equity Ventures
• Arthur Hull Hayes, Former FDA Commissioner, Doctor, First SCU Rhodes Scholar
• Bill Duffy, Professional Sports Agent, Top Ten most influential
• Brandi Chastain, Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist, and World Cup champion, current player FC Gold Pride Women's Soccer, U.S. National Team Member, Author and Broadcaster on ABC/ESPN.
• Chris Malachowsky, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations, NVIDIA
• Dan Pastorini, Former professional Football Player and Pro Bowler, Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders
• David Drummond, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Google
• Dee Dee Myers, Former Clinton Administration White House Press Secretary, author, and political commentator
• Everett Alvarez Jr., Navy Commander, first American pilot held as a POW in North Vietnam. Over 8 years in captivity, making him the second longest-held POW in American history
• Francisco Jimenez, Author, The Circuit, Breaking Through, and Reaching Out
• Frank Arellanes, Professional Baseball Player, Major League Baseball pitcher played for the (Boston Red Sox and commonly believed to be the first Mexican-American to play in the American League
• Fred Franzia, CEO, Bronco Wine Company and Classic Wines of California
• Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California, Former Mayor of San Francisco, California.
• Irene Li, President and CEO of Acellent Technologies Inc.
• Jack Kuehler, Former President and Vice Chairman, IBM
• John Maffeo 2010 World Cup of Frisbee MVP
• Jamby Madrigal, Filipino Senator and Philippine's 2010 Presidential candidate
• Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security (Obama Administration) and former Governor of Arizona
• Jeff Brazil, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, Orlando Sentinel
• Jerry Brown, Former and current (2011) Governor of California; former Mayor of Oakland, California
• John A. Sobrato, American billionaire businessman, chairman, Sobrato Development Companies
• John Fry, Co-Founder and President, Fry's Electronics
• Jorma Kaukonen, Member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guitarist for the Band Jefferson Airplane
• Khaled Hosseini, Author, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Kurt Rambis, Professional basketball player, 4 time NBA title winner with the Los Angeles Lakers, Head Coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves
• Leon Panetta, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Obama Administration, Former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Former Director, United States Office of Management and Budget, Former Member of U.S. Congress, 17th District
• Mike Carey, National Football League (NFL) Official, First African-American Super Bowl Referee, Founder of Seirus Innovation
• Michael Hackworth, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Cirrus Logic, Inc.
• Paul Locatelli, S.J., Former President of Santa Clara University, Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus
• Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Financial Officer, Apple Inc.
• Randy Winn], Profession Baseball Player Rays, Mariners, Giants
• Reza Aslan, Scholar and author, No god but God, The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
• Richard Tallman, Judge, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Rick Davis, Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, professional soccer player, former captain and member of the of the United States men's national soccer team
• Ron Hansen, Author, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Mariette in Ecstasy
• Steve Nash, Professional basketball player, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers, Two-Time NBA Most Valuable Player, 8 Time NBA All-Star and Two-time NBA Skills Challenge Champion
• Thomas E. Leavey, Co-Founder of Farmers Insurance, Co-Founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
• Zoe Lofgren, Representative of U.S. Congress, 16th District

• Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

• Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense

• Brandi Chastain, Olympian

• Khaled Hosseini, author

• Steve Nash, NBA MVP