Stanford Faculty
Stanford faculty are leaders in their fields with their accomplishments recognized across the disciplines. Faculty work closely with students and conduct groundbreaking research.
Today, Stanford has 2,279 members of the professoriate faculty. There are 664 members appointed to endowed professorships.
Stanford’s current community of scholars includes:
- 19 Nobel laureates
- 34 Nobel Prize winners since the university’s founding
- 33 MacArthur Fellows
- 4 National Humanities Medal recipients
- 4 Pulitzer Prize winners
- 12 National Medal of Science recipients
- 1 National Medal of Technology recipient
- 1 National Medal of Arts winner
- 4 Kavli Prize laureates
- 7 A.M. Turing Award winners while on faculty
- 300 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
- 167 National Academy of Sciences members
- 109 National Academy of Engineering members
- 78 National Academy of Medicine members
- 29 National Academy of Education members
- 47 American Philosophical Society members
- 6 Wolf Foundation Prize winners
- 2 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Numbers have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
Nobel Laureates
Thirty-two Stanford faculty have won the Nobel Prize since the university’s founding. Seventeen Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community. For more details, please visit our Stanford Nobel Prize website.
Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Adam Johnson
2013, Fiction - David M. Kennedy
2000, History
- Jack Rakove
1997, History - James Risser
1976, 1979, National Reporting
Kavli Prize Laureates
- Carla Shatz
2016, Neurobiology and Biology, Neuroscience Prize - Andrei Linde
2014, Physics, Astrophysics Prize
- Thomas Südhof
2010, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neuroscience Prize
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