Editing Stanford University (section)

== Notable people ==
{{Main|List of Stanford University alumni|List of Stanford University faculty and staff}}
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=== Award laureates and scholars ===
{{Main list|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Stanford University|
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Stanford's current community of scholars includes:
*2 [[Association for Computational Linguistics|ACL]] Lifetime Achievement Award winners;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php? |title=ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients |access-date=August 1, 2024}}</ref>
*3 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] winners;<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" /><ref name="Teller">{{cite news |first=Dawn |last=Levy |title=Edward Teller wins Presidential Medal of Freedom |url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/03/teller723.html |date=July 22, 2003 |access-date=November 17, 2008 |quote=Teller, 95, is the third Stanford scholar to be awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The others are Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1988) and former Secretary of State George Shultz (1989). |archive-date=June 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614040209/http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/03/teller723.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schad |first1=Tom |title=Katie Ledecky, Jim Thorpe among 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients by Joe Biden |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/05/03/katie-ledecky-jim-thorpe-awarded-presidential-medal-of-freedom/73549309007/ |work=[[USA Today]] |date=May 3, 2024}}</ref>
*3 recipients of the [[National Medal of Technology]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*4 [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners;<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*6 recipients of the [[National Humanities Medal]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*6 [[Turing Award]] winners;
*7 [[Wolf Foundation Prize]] winners;<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*10 recipients of the [[National Medal of Science]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*14 [[AAAI]] fellows;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |access-date=February 9, 2011}}</ref>
*22 [[Nobel Prize]] laureates (as of 2022, 58 affiliates in total);<ref name=alumnifacts>{{cite web |title=Alumni: Stanford University Facts |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/alumni/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=December 4, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stanford Nobel Laureates |url=http://news.stanford.edu/nobel/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 17, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alvin E. Roth – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2012/roth-bio.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Richard E. Taylor – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-bio.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Press Release (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006) |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref>
*33 [[MacArthur Fellow]]s;<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*47 members of [[American Philosophical Society]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*56 fellows of the [[American Physics Society]] (since 1995);<ref>{{cite news |url=http://aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm |title=APS Fellows Archive |access-date=February 9, 2011}}</ref>
*90 members of [[National Academy of Medicine]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*113 members of [[National Academy of Engineering]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*174 members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]];<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />
*303 members of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" />

Stanford's current and former faculty includes 58 Nobel laureates,<ref name="stanford_facts_faculty" /> as well as 29 winners of the [[Turing Award]], the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science", comprising one-third of the [[List of Stanford University people#Computer science|awards given]] in its 44-year history. The university also has 27 [[ACM Fellow]]s and is affiliated with four [[Gödel Prize]] winners, four [[Knuth Prize]] recipients, ten [[IJCAI Computers and Thought Award]] winners, and fifteen [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]] winners for their work in the foundations of computer science. Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to ''[[Forbes]]'', Stanford has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/billionaire-study-harvard-stanford-business-billionaires-colleges-09-wealth.html |title=Billionaire University |access-date=April 15, 2011 |work=Forbes |first=Marie |last=Thibault |date=August 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/059.html |title=What MIT Learned from Stanford |magazine=Forbes |date=August 25, 1997 |access-date=April 16, 2014 |last=Pfeiffer |first=Eric W.}}</ref><ref name="StanfordAlumCompanies">{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/wellspring/index.html |title=Stanford Entrepreneurs |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=March 11, 2011 |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715223508/http://web.stanford.edu/group/wellspring/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2022, 128 Stanford students or alumni have also been named [[Rhodes Scholars]].<ref name="undergraduate-facts">{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Profile: Stanford University Facts |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/academics/undergraduate-facts |access-date=February 10, 2022 |website=Stanford Facts at a Glance |publisher=Stanford Office of University Communications |language=en}}</ref>

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File:Herbert Hoover.jpg|[[Herbert Hoover]] (BS 1895), [[President of the United States]], founder of Hoover Institution at Stanford. Trustee of Stanford for nearly 50 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hoover@100: The Cardinal Roots of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover |url=https://histories.hoover.org/cardinal-roots/ |website=histories.hoover.org |publisher=Hoover Institution Library & Archives |access-date=12 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
File:CJ_Rehnquist.tif|[[William Rehnquist]] (BA 1948, MA 1948, LLB 1952) 16th [[Chief Justice of the United States]]
File:Sandra_Day_O'Connor.jpg|[[Sandra Day O'Connor]] (BA 1950, LLB 1952), Former [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]]
File:Official Portrait of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (cropped).jpg|[[Rishi Sunak]] (MBA 2006), Former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
File:Yukio Hatoyama 20070824.jpg|[[Yukio Hatoyama]] (PhD 1976), Former [[Prime Minister of Japan]]
File:Stephen_Breyer,_SCOTUS_photo_portrait.jpg|[[Stephen Breyer]] (BA 1959), Former [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]]
File:Larry_Page_in_the_European_Parliament,_17.06.2009_(cropped).jpg|[[Larry Page]] (MS 1998), founder of [[Alphabet Inc.]]
File:Sergey_Brin_Ted_2010.jpg|[[Sergey Brin]] (MS 1995), founder of [[Alphabet Inc.]]
File:Re_publica_2015_-_Tag_1_(17195424118).jpg|[[Reed Hastings]] (MS 1988), founder of [[Netflix Inc.]]
File:Philknightfootball.jpg|[[Phil Knight]] (MBA 1962), founder of [[Nike Inc.]]
File:Reid_Hoffman_in_SF_2011.jpg|[[Reid Hoffman]] (BS 1990), founder of [[LinkedIn Corporation]]
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File:Philip_Zimbardo_(cropped).jpg|[[Philip Zimbardo]]

File:TobiasWolff.jpg|[[Tobias Wolff]]

File:Condoleezza_Rice_cropped.jpg|[[Condoleezza Rice]]
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