Think tank founded 1919 on the campus of Stanford University. Hoover economists led by Milton Friedman drafted Ronald Reagan's "supply-side economics" policies (derided by George H.W. Bush as "voodoo economics" in 1980).
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Abizaid |
Military |
1-Apr-1951 |
|
C-in-C, US Central Command, 2003-07 |
| Spencer Abraham |
Politician |
12-Jun-1952 |
|
US Secretary of Energy, 2001-05 |
| Renata Adler |
Journalist |
19-Oct-1938 |
|
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker |
| Richard V. Allen |
Government |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
| Jonathan Alter |
Columnist |
6-Oct-1957 |
|
Newsweek Senior Editor |
| Martin Anderson |
Economist |
5-Aug-1936 |
3-Jan-2015 |
Revolution: The Reagan Legacy |
| Michael Antonovich |
Politician |
12-Aug-1939 |
|
LA County Board of Supervisors |
| Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
| Anne L. Armstrong |
Government |
27-Dec-1927 |
30-Jul-2008 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77 |
| Chuck Babington |
Journalist |
? |
|
Washington Post political editor |
| Michael Barone |
Pundit |
19-Sep-1944 |
|
Almanac of American Politics |
| Donald R. Beall |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Rockwell, 1988-98 |
| John Berlau |
Columnist |
c. 1972 |
|
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
| Philip Bobbitt |
Author |
22-Jul-1948 |
|
The Shield of Achilles |
| Clint Bolick |
Activist |
26-Dec-1957 |
|
Libertarian school choice activist |
| Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
19-Dec-2012 |
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
| Karl Brandt |
Economist |
9-Jan-1899 |
8-Jul-1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1958-61 |
| Tom Brazaitis |
Columnist |
8-Aug-1940 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist |
| Ron Brownstein |
Columnist |
6-Apr-1958 |
|
The Los Angeles Times |
| Elisabeth Bumiller |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
New York Times Washington correspondent |
| Mary K. Bush |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Bush International |
| Mary Ann Casey |
Diplomat |
11-Nov-1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1991-94 |
| Eleanor Clift |
Journalist |
7-Jul-1940 |
|
Madam President |
| Jared Cohen |
Government |
24-Nov-1981 |
|
Children of Jihad |
| Lewis W. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Dreamworks Animation SKG |
| Monica Crowley |
Pundit |
19-Sep-1968 |
|
Conservative commentator on FOX News |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
Author |
25-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservative author |
| Midge Decter |
Journalist |
25-Jul-1927 |
|
Neoconservative maven |
| Kenneth T. Derr |
Business |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 1989-99 |
| Larry Diamond |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Foreign policy expert |
| Dixon R. Doll |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Doll Capital Management |
| Theodore Draper |
Historian |
11-Sep-1912 |
21-Feb-2006 |
The Roots of American Communism |
| Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
| Lee Edwards |
Historian |
1-Dec-1932 |
|
Conservative historian |
| Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Andrew Ferguson |
Journalist |
? |
|
Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard |
| Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
| Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
1976 Nobel Prize for Economics |
| Geoffrey Garrett |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
President of the Pacific Council |
| Timothy Garton Ash |
Historian |
12-Jul-1955 |
|
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent |
| Bill Gertz |
Journalist |
21-Mar-1952 |
|
Washington Times reporter, Fox News analyst |
| Newt Gingrich |
Politician |
17-Jun-1943 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1995-99 |
| Sam Ginn |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99 |
| Jonah Goldberg |
Columnist |
21-Mar-1969 |
|
National Review Online |
| James M. Goldgeier |
Scholar |
c. 1961 |
|
America Between the Wars |
| Michael W. Grebe |
Attorney |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Bradley Foundation |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Philip C. Habib |
Diplomat |
25-Feb-1920 |
24-May-1992 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74 |
| Victor Davis Hanson |
Historian |
5-Sep-1953 |
|
Carnage and Culture |
| Steven Hayward |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Conservative environmentalism pundit |
| David R. Henderson |
Economist |
21-Nov-1950 |
|
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics |
| Robert J. Herbold |
Business |
24-Jul-1942 |
|
COO of Microsoft, 1994-2001 |
| Heather R. Higgins |
Activist |
1959 |
|
Chairman, Independent Women's Forum |
| Christopher Hitchens |
Journalist |
13-Apr-1949 |
15-Dec-2011 |
Agent provocateur |
| Laura Ingraham |
Pundit |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
The Hillary Trap |
| Michael Isikoff |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
Reporter who broke Lewinsky story |
| Josef Joffe |
Editor |
15-Mar-1944 |
|
Editor of Die Zeit |
| Charles B. Johnson |
Business |
6-Jan-1933 |
|
Billionaire, Franklin Resources |
| Howard P. Jones |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1899 |
Sep-1973 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1958-65 |
| Andrew S. B. Knight |
Journalist |
1-Nov-1939 |
|
Editor of The Economist, 1974-86 |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
| Finn E. Kydland |
Economist |
Dec-1943 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Laurence W. Lane, Jr. |
Publisher |
7-Nov-1919 |
31-Jul-2010 |
US Ambassador to Australia, 1986-89 |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Burton Levin |
Diplomat |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Burma, 1987-90 |
| Mara Liasson |
Journalist |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Fox News political analyst |
| Tod Lindberg |
Columnist |
1960 |
|
Policy Review editor |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
| Heather Mac Donald |
Columnist |
c. 1956 |
|
Neoconservative bombthrower |
| John W. Madigan |
Business |
7-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Tribune Co., 1995-2002 |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
| Doyle McManus |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
LA Times Washington bureau chief |
| Ed Meese |
Government |
2-Dec-1931 |
|
US Attorney General, 1985-88 |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Dana Milbank |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1968 |
|
Washington Post White House reporter |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Stephen Moore |
Activist |
16-Feb-1960 |
|
Club for Growth |
| Thomas Gale Moore |
Economist |
6-Nov-1930 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Deroy Murdock |
Columnist |
1963 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| George Neumayr |
Columnist |
c. 1972 |
|
Editor, Catholic World Report |
| Douglass C. North |
Economist |
5-Nov-1920 |
23-Nov-2015 |
Cliometrics |
| Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
| William J. Perry |
Government |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1994-97 |
| Walter Pincus |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1932 |
|
Washington Post reporter with CIA ties |
| John Podhoretz |
Columnist |
18-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservative columnist |
| Ramesh Ponnuru |
Columnist |
16-Aug-1974 |
|
Senior Editor, National Review |
| George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
| Dennis Prager |
Radio Personality |
2-Aug-1948 |
|
Conservative Jewish radio host |
| John Price |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritius, 2002-05 |
| John Raisian |
Economist |
c. 1953 |
|
Director, Hoover Institution |
| Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
| John J. Rhodes |
Politician |
18-Sep-1916 |
24-Aug-2003 |
Congressman from Arizona, 1953-83 |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Government |
14-Nov-1954 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2005-09 |
| Thomas Ricks |
Journalist |
25-Sep-1955 |
|
Fiasco |
| Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
|
The Supply-Side Revolution |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Nouriel Roubini |
Economist |
29-Mar-1958 |
|
Dr. Doom, Roubini Global Economics |
| Chris Ruddy |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
CEO, NewsMax Media |
| Donald Rumsfeld |
Government |
9-Jul-1932 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 |
| Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
| Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
4-Jul-2014 |
The Republican George Soros |
| Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
19-Oct-1919 |
31-Oct-2011 |
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
| Rowan Scarborough |
Journalist |
? |
|
Rumsfeld's War |
| Bill Schneider |
Pundit |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
CNN senior political analyst |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| John Shoven |
Economist |
1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
| George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
| William E. Simon |
Government |
27-Nov-1927 |
3-Jun-2000 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1974-77 |
| Thomas W. Simons |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 |
| Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Shelby Steele |
Activist |
1-Jan-1946 |
|
The Content of Our Character |
| Thomas F. Stephenson |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal |
| George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
| James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
| J. Curtis Struble |
Diplomat |
c. 1953 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 2004-07 |
| Raymond Tanter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Iran Policy Committee founder |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Peter Thiel |
Business |
11-Oct-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of PayPal |
| Marc A. Thiessen |
Columnist |
c. 1967 |
|
White House speechwriter, 2004-09 |
| Thomas J. Tierney |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Bain & Company, 1992-2000 |
| Jim VandeHei |
Journalist |
1972 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Sander Vanocur |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1928 |
|
ABC and NBC correspondent |
| Eric Voegelin |
Philosopher |
3-Jan-1901 |
19-Jan-1985 |
Order and History |
| William D. Walsh |
Business |
4-Aug-1930 |
16-Nov-2013 |
Sequoia Associates |
| Walter E. Williams |
Economist |
31-Mar-1936 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Pete Wilson |
Politician |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Governor of California, 1991-99 |
| Albert Wohlstetter |
Author |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
| Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
| Harry Wu |
Activist |
8-Feb-1937 |
|
Human rights activist |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1965 |
|
Time columnist |
