Who are some famous alumni of Notre Dame?

Answer 1

Carson Palmer, Reggie Bush, O.J. Simpson, Matt Leinart, Marcus Allen, Ronnie Lott, Rodney Peete, Frank Gifford, Troy Polamalu, Junior Seau, Willie McGinest, Sean Salisbury, Lynn Swann, Tom Seaver, Mark McGwire, Randy "Big Unit" Johnson, Mark Prior, Barry Zito, Lisa Leslie, Cheryl Miller, Janet Evans, Jerry Buss, Frank McCourt, John Carpenter (writer), Ron Howard, George Lucas (Star Wars), Jack Warner (Warner Bros.), Judge Joe Wapner, Salvatore Ferragamo (designer), Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Macy Gray, Mark McGrath (singer of Sugar Ray), McLyte (rap), Young MC (rap), Harry Blackstone, Jr. (actor, magician), Will Ferrell, Michael Landon, John Ritter, Tom Selleck, Ally Sheedy, Cybill Shepherd, John Wayne.

Answer 2

The list of all people who are from Stanford.

Donald E. Knuth - author of The Art of Computer Programming (Volume 1-5). The books are named among the the "12 best works in physical-sciences in the century", the others include Einstein's papers, von Nuemann's work on game theory, Dirac's work on quantum mechanics.

John F. Wakerly, his work on FSM(finite state machines) is considered one of the best works in this field.

Douglas Engelbart, was the one who invented the GUI at Stanford research Labs which was later used by Xerox, and later by Apple, and (obviously) followed by Microsoft.

The list isn't exhaustive.

Many multinationals were also from Stanford like Google,Yahoo, etc.

Answer 3

Berkeley tends to create famous people. Including actors such as Bill Bixby and John Cho. Business owners such Tom Anderson and Walter A. Haas and other famous people in different fields.

Answer 4

Charles Schwab