Guy Stanton Ford (May 9, 1873 – December 29, 1962) was the sixth president of the University of Minnesota.

Ford had originally come to the University of Minnesota in 1913, serving as the dean of the Graduate School and as a professor of history.

Ford's division oversaw the production of informational bulletins, sample speeches, and other rhetorical aids for use by the CPI's Four Minute Men, a corps of public speakers tasked with addressing audiences around the nation to bolster support for the American war effort.

[2] As an historian of European civilization, Ford also directed the publication of "histories" designed to contrast the positive values of American "progressivism" against the evils of German "Prussianism.

"[3] Ford's doctoral thesis (Columbia University, 1903) was entitled Hanover and Prussia, 1795–1803.