Stanford University (officially called "Leland Stanford Junior University") is a private university in the city of Stanford in northern California. The university 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. Stanford was a former Governor of California and U.S. Senator; he made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. Although the movie Legally Blonde is based on Harvard Law School, it was written based on experiences at Stanford's Law School. Stanford has many successful sports teams. Stanford students have won medals in every Olympic Games since 1908. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2016 Summer Olympics, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any other university in the United States. Stanford athletes won 16 medals at the 2012 Summer Games (12 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze), and 27 medals at the 2016 Summer Games. Stanford may be best known for the startups whose founders came from the school, to name a few: the founders of Yahoo, Netflix, Instagram, Google, PayPal, and Nvidia all graduated from Stanford.