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Stanley Baxter
Stanley Livingstone Baxter (1926–2025), Scottish actor, comedian and impressionist; star of The Stanley Baxter Show, the Parliamo Glasgow sketches and lavish TV specials reaching over 20 million viewers; BAFTA winner.
Stanley Black & Decker
Stanley Black & Decker, also known as the Stanley Works, is an American tool and industrial manufacturer in New Britain, Connecticut, formed in 2010 when Stanley merged with Black & Decker.
Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr.
Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
Stanley Bruce
Stanley Melbourne Bruce was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1923 to 1929, leading a Nationalist–Country Party coalition, and later became Viscount Bruce of Melbourne.
Stanley C. Froehner
Stanley C. Froehner is an American molecular biologist at the University of Washington who studies skeletal muscle and gene therapy, known for discovering the syntrophin proteins.
Stanley C. Jordan
Stanley C. Jordan is an American transplant nephrologist and immunologist who directs nephrology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for antibody-removal desensitization therapies enabling HLA-incompatible kidney transplants.
Stanley C. Suboleski
Stanley C. Suboleski is an American mining engineer and coal executive who served at Massey Energy and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), American Harvard philosopher of ordinary language, skepticism, Emersonian perfectionism, and film; author of The Claim of Reason, The World Viewed, and Pursuits of Happiness.
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke, born 1951 in Philadelphia, is an American jazz bassist and composer, co-founder of Return to Forever with Chick Corea, known for School Days, the Clarke/Duke Project, Grammy wins, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master honors.
Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
Stanley Cohen (1922–2020) was an American biochemist who discovered epidermal growth factor and characterized its receptor, sharing the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini for discoveries of growth factors.
Stanley Cohen (sociologist)
Stanley Cohen (1942–2013), South African-born British sociologist and criminologist at LSE, coined "moral panic" and "folk devils" in Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) and wrote States of Denial (2001).
Stanley controller
The Stanley controller is a geometric lateral path-tracking method for autonomous vehicles that steers from heading error and lateral offset, named after Stanford's 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin (1920–1986) was an American fluid dynamicist at Johns Hopkins University, a National Academy of Engineering member known for the Obukhov–Corrsin scalar spectrum theory.
Stanley Crane
L. Stanley Crane (1915–2003) was an American railroad engineer and executive, president of Southern Railway and chairman of Conrail from 1981, returning it to profit and private ownership.
Stanley Crooke
Stanley Crooke is an American pharmacologist who founded Ionis Pharmaceuticals in 1989 and led it as chief executive until 2020, overseeing more than 20 marketed antisense drugs including Spinraza.
Stanley Cup
Stanley Cup, or Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, is the NHL's championship trophy, donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston, first won by Montreal AAA in 1893, NHL-exclusive since 1926-27.
Stanley Cup Finals
Stanley Cup Final, NHL's annual best-of-seven championship series between conference winners for the Stanley Cup; NHL-exclusive since 1926-27, best-of-seven since 1939; recent champions Florida Panthers (2025) and Carolina Hurricanes (2026).
Stanley Cup playoffs
Stanley Cup playoffs, NHL postseason tournament; 16 teams, four best-of-7 rounds, division-based bracket with wild cards; champion wins the Stanley Cup, awarded to NHL playoff champion since 1926-27.
Stanley D. Wilson
Stanley D. Wilson was an American geotechnical engineer who co-founded the Seattle firm Shannon & Wilson in 1954 and invented the slope inclinometer, delivering the sixth Terzaghi Lecture in 1969.
Stanley Dancer
Stanley Dancer (1927-2005), American harness racing trainer-driver from New Egypt, New Jersey; trained and drove Triple Crown winners Nevele Pride, Most Happy Fella, and Super Bowl, won five Hambletonians, and had seven Horses of the Year.
Stanley Deser
Stanley Deser (1931–2023) was an American theoretical physicist and longtime Brandeis University professor, known for the ADM formalism in general relativity, co-inventing supergravity in 1976, and work on massive gravity.
Stanley Donald Stookey
S. Donald Stookey (1915–2014) was an American materials scientist at Corning Glass Works who invented glass-ceramics, the crystallized glass behind CorningWare cookware, and the photochromic glass used in eyeglass lenses.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019), American film director and choreographer of the MGM golden age, co-directed On the Town and Singin' in the Rain with Gene Kelly, directed Seven Brides, Funny Face, Charade, and Two for the Road, and received an honorary 1998 Academy Award.
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood, born 1968) is the English artist and writer behind nearly all Radiohead album artwork since The Bends (1995), working alongside Thom Yorke, his Exeter University collaborator, plus Glastonbury Festival art since 2002, two Grammys, Macfarlane book covers, and the 2025 Ashmolean retrospective.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Stanley Druckenmiller is an American macro trader who founded Duquesne Capital in 1981. He is known for his 30% average annual returns and the 1992 pound bet.
Stanley Dwight Beck
Stanley Dwight Beck (1919–1997) was an American insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on insect photoperiodism, artificial diets, and corn pest resistance.
Stanley E. Bradley
Stanley E. Bradley (1913–1999) was an American renal physiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, known for work on the renal and hepatic circulations and the nephrotic syndrome.
Stanley E. Whitcomb
Stanley E. Whitcomb is a physicist who served as Chief Scientist of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech and retired in 2015, one day after LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection.
Stanley Electric
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (スタンレー電気) is a Japanese manufacturer of automotive lighting and optical electronic components, founded in 1920 in Tokyo and known for producing the world's first mass-produced LED headlamps in 2009.
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn is an American neurologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University, widely described as a founder of movement disorders, who led the ELLDOPA trial and founded the Movement Disorder Society.