SMU has nearly 112,000 alumni worldwide. About 60,000 live in Texas, with nearly 40,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Prominent alumni include Nobel Prize-winning physicist James Cronin; former First Lady Laura Bush; former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio O. Garza, Jr.; Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates; computer memory pioneer Robert Dennard; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley; the late Payne Stewart, championship golfer; and the late Doak Walker, Heisman Trophy recipient.