# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-welton-stanford
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:09:13.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-welton-stanford"
name: "Thomas Welton Stanford"
slug: "thomas-welton-stanford"
description: "Thomas Welton Stanford (1832–1918), also known as Welton Stanford, was an American-born Australian businessman, spiritualist and philanthropist, most notably toward Stanford University, which was founded by his older brother Leland Stanford. Although living most of his adult life in Australia, he kept his American citizenship and served intermittently as honorary American vice consul-general in Melbourne."
tagline: "American/Australian businessman, spiritualist, and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Welton_Stanford.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1832"
deathDate: "1918-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.538409333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welton_Stanford"
    title: "Thomas Welton Stanford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations