Sally Stanford (May 5, 1903 – February 1, 1982) was a madam, restaurateur, councilmember and the mayor of Sausalito, California.Born Mabel Janice Busby, in Oregon in 1903, Stanford moved to San Francisco in 1924.
From 1940 to 1949, she was madam of a bordello at 1144 Pine Street on Nob Hill in a house designed by architect Stanford White.
She adopted the name Stanford as one of many pseudonyms for Mabel Busby.
According to her autobiography Lady of the House, she saw a newspaper headline about Stanford University's winning a football game and adopted the surname.