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Stanford Tree
Stanford Tree: costumed mascot of the LSJUMB marching band, unofficial mascot of Stanford University since its 1975 Big Game debut; each Tree builds a new costume after Tree Week stunts.
Stanford University
Stanford University (Leland Stanford Junior University): private research university in Stanford, California, founded 1885, opened 1891; seven schools, 8,353-acre campus, $40.8 billion endowment, Jonathan Levin president.
Stanford Watershed Model
The Stanford Watershed Model is a pioneering computer program developed at Stanford University by Norman Crawford and Ray Linsley that simulates streamflow from precipitation, becoming the ancestor of the EPA's HSPF model.
Stanford Wessler
Stanford Wessler was an American physician-scientist in internal medicine who researched thrombosis at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital, later led Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and challenged Buerger's disease in 1960.
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, known for Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and Rosecliff.
Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, also called the Stanford-Binet, are individually administered intelligence tests dating to 1905 and revised by Lewis Terman at Stanford in 1916.
Stanford, California
Stanford, California is a census-designated place (CDP) in unincorporated Santa Clara County covering Stanford University's campus; 21,150 residents at the 2020 census, median age 22, governed under the county's 1985 Land Use Policy.
Stanford/JPL Hand
The Stanford/JPL Hand, later the Salisbury Hand, is a three-fingered, tendon-actuated robot hand developed from 1982 under a NASA program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford.
Stanhopea
Stanhopea (J.Frost ex Hook.) is a Neotropical epiphytic orchid genus in subtribe Stanhopeinae, native from Mexico to southern tropical America and Trinidad, with roughly 55–78 accepted species, pendent few-flowered inflorescences, and euglossine bee pollination via fragrant osmophores.
Staniel Cay
Staniel Cay is a small Exuma Cays island in the Bahamas, about 75 miles south of Nassau, home to Staniel Cay Yacht Club (founded 1956), Thunderball Grotto, and the nearby Big Major Cay swimming pigs.
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910) was an Italian chemist whose 1858 Sunto clarified atomic and molecular weights via Avogadro's hypothesis, who discovered the Cannizzaro reaction, and who built Italian chemistry institutions at Palermo and Rome.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene, born 1965, is a French cognitive neuroscientist, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France and director of NeuroSpin, known for the number-sense hypothesis and neuronal recycling theory.
Stanislas du Lac
Stanislas du Lac (1835–1909) was a French Jesuit priest and educationist, rector of the École Sainte-Geneviève in Paris and a figure in the Dreyfus Affair.
Stanislas Kostka
Stanislas Kostka (Stanisław Kostka, 1550–1568) was a Polish Jesuit novice who died in Rome at seventeen, the first Jesuit beatified, in 1605, and canonized in 1726.
Stanislas Leibler
Stanislas Leibler is a Polish-born, French-trained physicist turned systems biologist, head of the Laboratory of Living Matter at Rockefeller University since 2001, known for the repressilator.
Stanislas Pol
Stanislas Pol is a French hepatologist, professor at Université Paris Descartes and head of the hepatology department at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, known for coordinating the ANRS HEPATHER cohort study of hepatitis C treatment.
Stanislaus County
Stanislaus County is a California county in the San Joaquin Valley with county seat Modesto. Population 557,719 (2025 estimate), FIPS 06099; a top-ten agricultural county with $3.33 billion gross farm value in 2025.
Stanislaus Hosius
Stanislaus Hosius (Polish: Stanisław Hozjusz, 1504–1579) was a Polish cardinal, Bishop of Warmia, and papal legate to the Council of Trent whose Confessio fidei defended Catholicism during the Reformation.
Stanislaus Mugwanya
Stanislaus Mugwanya, also known as Stanislas Mugwanya, was a Catholic chief and regent of Buganda who signed the 1900 Buganda Agreement for Kabaka Daudi Chwa.
Stanislaus S. Wong
Stanislaus S. Wong is a materials chemist, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, known for carbon nanotube chemistry and nanostructure synthesis.
Stanislaus Zbyszko
Stanislaus Zbyszko (Jan Stanisław Cyganiewicz, 1879-1967), Polish wrestler, three-time world heavyweight champion, drew with Gotch and Gama, staged the 1925 double cross, and acted in Night and the City.
Stanislav Cherchesov (Станислав Саламович Черчесов)
Stanislav Cherchesov (Станислав Саламович Черчесов), born 1963 in Alagir, is a Russian football manager and former USSR/CIS/Russia goalkeeper who coached Russia to the 2018 World Cup quarter-finals and now manages Akhmat Grozny.
Stanislav Donets
Stanislav Donets (Станислав Юрьевич Донец), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1983 in Dimitrovgrad; three-time short course world champion, eleven-time European short course champion, and former short course world record holder in the 100 m backstroke and 4x100 m medley relay.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
Stanislav Drobyshevsky (Станислав Владимирович Дробышевский) is a Russian anthropologist and associate professor at Moscow State University, scientific editor of Antropogenez.ru, and a leading popularizer of human evolution.
Stanislav Hoffman
Stanislav Hoffman (born 1945, Prague) is a Czechoslovak retired runner, 1500 m bronze medalist at the 1967 European Indoor Games, with personal bests of 3:39.1 (1500 m), 13:28.2 (5000 m), and 28:21.8 (10,000 m).
Stanislav Jungwirth
Stanislav Jungwirth (1930–1986), Czechoslovak middle-distance runner; set 1000 m (2:21.2, 1952) and 1500 m (3:38.1, 1957, first under 3:40) world records, 1954 European 1500 m bronze, two-time Olympian.
Stanislav Kosior
Stanislav Kosior (Станислав Викентьевич Косиор) was a Soviet party official of Polish origin who led the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1928 to 1938, during collectivization and the famine.
Stanislav Kulinchenko
Stanislav Kulinchenko (born 1971) is a retired Russian handball playmaker who won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, the 1997 world title, and the 1996 European championship with Russia.
Stanislav Lusk
Stanislav Lusk (1931–1987), Czechoslovak rower from Třeboň; Olympic gold in coxed four at Helsinki 1952, bronze in eights at Rome 1960, three Games, later coach and driver.
Stanislav Meshcherskikh
Stanislav Meshcherskikh (Станислав Николаевич Мещерских, born 1949, Revda) is a Soviet middle-distance runner; he won the 1971 European indoor 4x800 m relay in world-record 7:17.8 and the 1972 USSR indoor 600 m title.