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Who attended the memorial service for Steve Jobs?

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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October 17, 2011, 5:27 AM ET

The mourners included actors, singers, politicians and dozens of tech luminaries



Stanford Memorial Church. Photo: Jill Clardy via Flikr

Given the solemnity of the event and the intrusive curiosity of the media (a local news helicopter circled overhead), Apple (AAPL) was understandable tight-lipped about who was among the hundreds who attended the private memorial for Steve Jobs, held Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church.

But some of the names have been published. In alphabetical order:

Tim Allen, actor
Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-founder
Joan Baez, folksinger
Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com
Bono, U2 frontman
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Jerry Brown, Governor of California
Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit
Bill Clinton, former President
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
Ron Conway, founder of Angel Investors
Tim Cook, Apple CEO
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell
John Doerr, venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago
Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle
Tony Fadell, former senior vice president of Apple’s iPod division
Scott Forstall, Apple senior vice president of iOS software
Stephen Fry, actor
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft
Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC
Chuck Geschke, Adobe co-founder
Al Gore, former Vice President
Andy Hertzfeld, from original Macintosh design team, now at Google
Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president for design
Laurene Powell Jobs, widow
John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar
Lee Jae-yong, COO of Samsung
Yo Yo Ma, cellist
Jon Miller, chief technical officer of News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp.
Larry Page, CEO of Google
Jonathan Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm
Maria Shriver, former first lady of California
Mona Simpson, novelist
Larry Sonsini, chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Avie Tevanian, former Apple senior vice president of software engineering
Bud Tribble, Apple vice president of software technology
John Warnock, Adobe co-founder

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