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Also Known As Leland Stanford Junior University
Date 1885 - present
Notable Alumni Karl Deisseroth • Paul Milgrom • Owen Garriott • Alvin E. Roth • Ernest J. Gaines • Roger D. Kornberg • Herbert Hoover • Tiger Woods • Charles Stark Draper • Roger Corman • Ehud Barak • Elizabeth Holmes • Mitt Romney • Alejandro Toledo • Sandra Day O’Connor • Reese Witherspoon • Ahn Cheol-Soo • Dianne Feinstein • Lou Hoover • Vinton Cerf • Juan Felipe Herrera • Rachel Maddow • Susan Helms • Carly Fiorina • Dana Gioia • Menzies Campbell • Asō Tarō • Bengt Holmström • Sigourney Weaver • Issa Rae • Ottessa Moshfegh • Julie Foudy • Josh Hawley • Doug Burgum • Nicole Aunapu Mann • Rishi Sunak • Adam Schiff • Jensen Huang • Jean Tatlock • Michael W. Young • France A. Córdova • Jeffrey Eugenides • Jesmyn Ward • Sophia Smith • Sophia Smith • Phil Knight • Kevin Young • Chelsea Clinton • Jessica Watkins • Marshall B. Clinard • Jonathan Pollard • Kerri Walsh Jennings • Katie Ledecky • Anthony Kennedy • John McEnroe • Steve Fossett • John Elway • Azim Premji • Jean-Pierre Garnier • Arthur Laffer • Susan Rice • John Browne, Lord Browne of Madingley • Alice Hoffman • Sally Ride • Peter Thiel • Valerie Jarrett • Marissa Mayer • Eileen Collins • Anne Henrietta Martin • Sergey Brin • Mae Jemison • Morris Chang • John D. Ehrlichman • Hosain Rahman • Randy W. Schekman • Paul Modrich • Elaine Pagels • Reed Hastings • Ron Wyden • William Bolcom • Sundar Pichai • Jeff Merkley • Bruce McCandless • Robert Hass • Nettie Stevens • Larry Page • Tom Steyer • Robert Motherwell • Sam Yagan • Jennifer Connelly • Cory Booker • Armen A. Alchian • Tom Harrell • bell hooks • Vikram Seth • Katharine Jefferts Schori • Oliver E. Williamson • Robert Endre Tarjan • Thomas McGuane • N. Scott Momaday • Robert Pinsky • Ellen Ochoa • Sharon Olds • Eunice Kennedy Shriver • Charles Simonyi • David Packard • Carleton Washburne • K. Barry Sharpless • Homer Lea • Barbara Liskov • Charles F. Richter • Richard Barton • John Hopcroft • Tom Watson • Eric A. Cornell • Dudley R. Herschbach • Richard E. Taylor • Harry Hay • Okello Oculi • Jane Luu • Harry F. Harlow
Related People Frederick Law Olmsted • Ellwood Cubberley • David Starr Jordan • Leland Stanford

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