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title: "Stanford University: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr, who died from typhoid at the age of 15."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-stanford-university
type: Organization
wikidata: Q41506
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University
website: https://stanford.edu
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Stanford University

> Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr, who died from typhoid at the age of 15.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1885-01-01
- Headquarters: Stanford
- Status: private
- Website: https://stanford.edu
- Employees: 16,673 (as of 2020-09-01)
- Also known as: stanford.edu, Stanford, The Farm, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Leland Stanford Junior University, Leland Stanford University, University of Stanford
- Industries: higher education

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/stanford
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanford-university
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-EnprmCZ3OXyAoG7vjVNCA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stanford
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stanford

## Key people

- Jane Stanford, founder (philanthropist, first lady of California, co-founder of Stanford University (1828-1905))
- Leland Stanford, founder (American politician and railroad tycoon (1824-1893))
- Benjamin Harrison (President of the United States from 1889–1893 (1833–1901))
- Condoleezza Rice (American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954))
- Linus Pauling (American scientist (1901–1994))
- Maryam Mirzakhani (Iranian mathematician (1977–2017))
- Donald Knuth (American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938))
- William Shockley (American physicist and inventor (1910–1989))
- Ashraf Ghani (President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021)
- Sally Ride (American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012))
- Paul Krugman (American economist (born 1953))
- Joseph Stiglitz (American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics)
- Alexander Kerensky (Russian politician, prime minister in 1917 (1881–1970))
- Felix Bloch (Swiss physicist (1905-1983))

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Hoover Institution, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, [Stanford University Centers and Institutes](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-stanford-university-centers-and-institutes.md), Stanford University School of Medicine, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University Mechanical Engineering Department, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Frydman Lab, Stanford Literary Lab, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford Transportation, Stanford Recreation & Wellness, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford Office of Religious & Spiritual Life

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Stanford University, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-stanford-university#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41506, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University

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