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Stanford (name)
Stanford is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Aaron Stanford (born 1976), American film actor *Ala Stanford, American physician *Alan Stanford, Irish actor/director *Al Bourke (born Alan Stanford in 1928), Australian boxer of the 1940s and '50s *Allen Stanford, American businessman and fraudster *Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), Irish composer of classical and church music *Cliff Stanford, co-founder of the ISP Demon Internet * Craig Stanford, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at the Jane Goodall Research Center *Edward Stanford, founder of map and book publisher Stanford's *Frank Stanford (1948–1978), American poet *Henry King Stanford (born 1916), former President of the University of Georgia *J. K. Stanford (1892–1971), British writer and ornithologist *Jason Gray-Stanford (born 1970), Canadian film and television actor * Karin Stanford, Professor of Pan-African Studies, California State Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Stanford
Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor best known for his roles as Pyro in '' X2'' and '' X-Men: The Last Stand'', and Doug in the 2006 remake of '' The Hills Have Eyes''. From 2010 to 2013, he starred as Birkhoff in '' Nikita''. He has also starred as James Cole on the television series ''12 Monkeys'', based on the 1995 film of the same name. Early life and education Stanford was born in Westford, Massachusetts, the son of Judith ( née Dupras), an English professor, and Don Stanford, who works in publishing. His brother David is a musician. Stanford attended Westford Academy in Westford Massachusetts for high school and met his first acting teacher there. He initially attended SUNY Purchase, but transferred to Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Arts. He graduated in 2000, magna cum laude. Career Stanford's first major film role was in the low-budget indie film ''Tadpole'' (2002), in which he portrays Oscar Grubman, a precocious 15-year-old wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles J
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford Samuels Jr
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
