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Larger memorial held for passing of Steve Jobs, CEOs and celebrities in attendance

A private memorial for Steve Jobs, held Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church, was attended by a long list of notable people, including politicians, actors, musicians and peers of the late Apple co-founder.

Though Apple was “tight-lipped” about the hundreds of people who attended the event, Apple 2.0 obtained some of the names of those who attended. They include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Google CEO Larry Page, and Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.

Per Fortune, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who also remains a member of Apple’s board of directors. Actor Tim Allen, who plays the character Buzz Lightyear in the “Toy Story” films by Pixar — a company acquired by Jobs in 1986 and sold to Disney for US$7.4 billion in 2006 — was also present.

Bono, lead singer of the band U2, was there as well. U2 and Apple have been closely tied for years, with songs by the band appearing in Apple’s commercials, and a special U2-branded iPod was released by the company in 2004.

Others present included actor Stephen Fry, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, former California first lady Maria Shriver, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and singer Joan Baez.

Sunday’s memorial was an opportunity for a larger number of people to pay their respects to Jobs. A smaller service, featuring family and friends of the late Apple co-founder, was held earlier this month, just a few days after he passed away.

Jobs died on Wednesday, Oct. 5 after a long bout with cancer. He was 56 years old. The list of some memorial attendees follows in alphabetical order:

Tim Allen, actor

Joan Baez, folksinger

Bono, U2 frontman

Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit

Bill Clinton, former President

Ron Conway, founder of Angel Investors

Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Michael Dell, CEO of Dell

Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle

Scott Forstall, Apple senior vice president

Stephen Fry, actor

Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft

Chuck Geschke, Adobe co-founder

Al Gore, former Vice President

John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar

Jon Miller, chief technical officer of News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp.

Larry Page, CEO of Google

Maria Shriver, former first lady of California

Larry Sonsini, Silicon Valley attorney

John Warnock, Adobe co-founder