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Facts

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