- Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. He was born in Watervliet, New York, one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720. He attended Clifton Liberal Institute, in Clifton, New York, and studied law at Cazenovia Seminary in Cazenovia, New York and later in Albany.
- Jane Stanford
Jane Stanford (August 25, 1828-February 28, 1905), was the wife of Leland Stanford and cofounded Stanford University with her husband. Born Jane Eliza Lathrop in Albany, New York, she married Leland Stanford on Sept. 30, 1850. Upon the death of their only son, Leland Stanford, Jr., the elder Leland turned to his wife, Jane, and said, famously, …
- Allen Stanford
Sir Allen Stanford is a Texas-born American billionaire businessman based in Antigua and Barbuda. He heads the Stanford group of companies. He has recently come into limelight owing to his patronizing of cricket in Caribbean nations. The Stanford 20/20 Cup held in August was huge success, where teams from 19 Caribbean nations competed.
- Charles Villiers Stanford
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (September 30, 1852 - 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer. Stanford was born in Dublin, the only son of John Stanford, examiner in the Court of Chancery (Dublin) and clerk of the Crown, County Meath. Both parents were accomplished amateur musicians; his father sang bass and his mother was a pianist. Charles trained under R. M. Levey (violin), Miss Meeke, Mrs Joseph Robinson, …
- Sally Stanford
Sally Stanford was a madam, restaurateur, and the mayor of Sausalito, California. Born Mabel Busby in Baker City, Oregon in 1903, she came to San Francisco in 1924. She eventually came to run San Francisco's most famous and elegant bordello at 1144 Pine Street near Jones Street on the south slope of Nob Hill in a house built by Stanford White (demolished in 1961 to build condominiums). She was the madam of this house of ill repute from 1940 to 1949, …
- Miles J. Stanford
Miles J. Stanford (January 4, 1914 - September 21, 1999) was a Christian author best known for his classic collection on spirituality, "The Green Letters", published in 1964.
- Aaron Stanford
Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor.
- Frank Stanford
Frank Stanford (1948-1978) was a notable American poet. He is known for his long rural focused poems.
- Richard Stanford
Richard Stanford (2 March 1767 - 9 April 1816) was a Democratic-Republican Party|Republican]] U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1816. Born near Vienna, Maryland in 1767, Stanford moved to Hawfields, North Carolina around 1793 and established an academy. He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1796 and was re-elected nine times before his death in Georgetown, [[Washington, D.C.|Georgetown]] in 1816.
- William Bedell Stanford
William Bedell Stanford (1911 - 1984), was an Irish classical scholar and senator. He was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin between 1940 and 1980 and served as the twenty-second Chancellor of the University between 1982 and 1984. He was born in Belfast, the son of a Dublin-born clergyman who served in Waterford and Tipperary. He was educated at Bishop Foy's School in Waterford, where a special teacher had to be recruited to coach him in Greek.
- Henry King Stanford
Henry King Stanford (born April 22, 1916) was the President of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. He served in that capacity on an interim basis from 1986 until 1987. After Stanford left UGA, the Georgia Board of Regents named him president emeritus of the University.
- Peter Stanford
Peter Stanford is a British writer, editor, journalist, and presenter. He writes for "The Guardian", "The Sunday Times", and "The Independent on Sunday". He was editor of "The Catholic Herald", and a regular contributor to the "New Statesman". He has written many books, mainly biographies and books about religion.
- Wesley Matthias Stanford
Wesley Matthias Stanford (born 15 March 1846) was an American Bishop of the United Evangelical Church (predecessor to the United Methodist Church), elected in 1891.
- Alan Stanford
Alan Stanford is an Irish actor and director
- Thomas C. Stanford
Thomas C. Stanford is the founder of Carey, Idaho. He was a Mormon rancher and a state legislator in Idaho.
- Jason Stanford
Jason John Stanford (born January 23, 1977 in Tucson, Arizona) is a left-handed starting pitcher in the Cleveland Indians organization in Major League Baseball. He is a 1995 graduate of Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Tucson. Stanford attended Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas in 1996 and 1997, where he was an Academic All-American.
- Martin Stanford
Martin Stanford is a long standing presenter at Sky News who has proven to be popular with viewers because of his down-to-earth style. Stanford currently presents the morning 'shift' of Sky News Today between 9am and 12pm alongside Anna Jones. This style and appearance meant Stanford rose to fame and gained great popularity amongst channel regulars during 2002 with the launch of Sky News Today which aimed to give the news in an informal and interactive environment.
- Derek Stanford
Derek Stanford (born 1918) is an English writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet. He was educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London. During World War II he was in a non-combatant corps He edited "Resistance", a poetry magazine of just one issue, with David West in 1946. For a period in the early 1950s he worked with Muriel Spark on several books, and was a supporter of hers (together with the poetic eccentric Hugo Manning, a long-term friend), …
- Richard Stanford
Richard Stanford (born 21 June 1754 at East Peckham, Kent; died 16 July 1792) was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was one of the leading amateur batsmen of his time. Richard Stanford made 12 known first-class appearances between 1777 and 1787 for various Kent and All-England teams. He was a very useful batsman.
- Phil Stanford
Phil Stanford is a journalist and author. He is best known for his work on the murder of Oregon Corrections director Michael Francke and his efforts to prove the innocence of Frank Gable, the man who was convicted of the crime. Stanford worked for several years on the Oregonian before taking a job with the Portland Tribune. He now writes a biweekly column in that newspaper, …
- Edward Stanford
Edward Stanford was the founder of Standford's Ltd, now a chain of Map and book stores in London, Bristol and Manchester. Born in 1827, and educated at the City of London School, Edward got into maps after being employed by Mr Trelawney Saunders, at his map and stationers. He became a partner to Mr Trelawney Saunders in 1852 at the age of 25. Just one year later the company was dissolved, …
- Dennis Stanford
Dennis Stanford is the head of the Archaeology Division and Director of the Paleo-Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Along with Dr. Bruce Bradley, Stanford is known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have influenced the development of the Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas.
- William Stanford
William Stanford (1837 - 1880) was an Australian sculptor. He was born in England in 1836 or 1837 and as a youth was apprenticed to a stone mason. He came to Victoria in 1852 and for a time worked on the diggings at Bendigo. In 1854 he was found guilty on a charge of horse-stealing and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. After serving nearly six years he was released on ticket-of-leave.
- Rawghlie Clement Stanford
Rawghlie Clement Stanford (August 2, 1879-December 15, 1963) was the 9th governor of Arizona and served from 1937 to 1939. Born in Buffalo Gap, Texas, he was a lawyer and served as Justice of the Arizona State Supreme Court after his governorship in 1943. He later became Chief Justice of the Arizona State Supreme Court in 1953. Stanford died in 1963.
- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world.
- Brook Lopez
Brook Lopez is a 7'0" American basketball player who currently plays for Stanford in the Pacific-Ten Conference of the NCAA.
- Jennifer Granick
Jennifer Stisa Granick is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California. She defends people charged with computer-related crimes, as well as other offenses. Jennifer has been published in Wired and the magazine for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women.
- Bill Walsh
William Ernest Walsh (born November 30, 1931) is a former American football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University. The inventor of the West Coast Offense, he is widely considered one of the most brilliant and innovative football minds to ever coach. He has a home in Pacific Grove, California.
- Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st United States President. His acts of philanthropy ranged from monetary donations to volunteerism. Hoover donated his entire presidential salary to charity. More >> Hoover is known for being elected president by one of the biggest majorities in the history of the Republican Party. Hoover's administration worked for legislation to protect children, to help small businesses and homeowners, and legislation for the reform of criminals.
- Marissa Mayer
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time.
- Philip Zimbardo
Hi my name is Philip Zimbardo and i teach Psychology at Stanford Univerity.
- Trent Johnson
Trent Johnson (born September 12, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is a men's college basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the Stanford Cardinal, succeeding Mike Montgomery in 2004. Johnson had previously been the head coach at University of Nevada, Reno.
- Mike Montgomery
Mike Montgomery (born February 27 1947 in Long Beach, California, United States) is the former head coach of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA. He was also the men's basketball coach of the Stanford Cardinal from 1986 to 2004 and at the University of Montana for eight seasons prior to coaching at Stanford.
- David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America?
- Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation.
- Donald Knuth
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a faculty member of Caltech, he was called upon to be a long-term substitute organist at Faith Lutheran Church in Pasadena, California. He became a member of the American Guild of Organists in 1965, and saw his first Abbott and Sieker organ at that time.