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Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow (1934–2018) was an American microbiologist and Stanford professor known as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, honored with the 2008 Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science.
Stanley Fields (molecular biologist)
Stanley Fields is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, known for the yeast two-hybrid method and deep mutational scanning.
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer (1943–2025) was a Zambian-born economist who held top posts at the IMF, Bank of Israel, and Federal Reserve, and whose 1977 staggered-contracts paper founded New Keynesian economics.
Stanley G Nathenson
Stanley G Nathenson is an immunologist and cell biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose work on H-2 transplantation antigens established the basis of transplant rejection.
Stanley G. Mason
Stanley George Mason (1914–1987) was a Canadian colloid scientist and physical chemist at McGill University who pioneered microrheology, the study of how individual particles move in flowing suspensions.
Stanley Garton
Stanley Garton (Arthur Stanley Garton, 1889-1948), British rower; won gold in the men's eights for Leander Club at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, won three Boat Races with Oxford 1909-11, three Henley Grand Challenge Cups, and coached the Oxford eight.
Stanley George Stephens
Stanley George Stephens (1911–1986) was an English-born plant geneticist who studied the genetics and evolution of cotton, working in Trinidad and at North Carolina State University.
Stanley Gerald Thompson
Stanley Gerald Thompson (1912–1976) was an American nuclear chemist who co-discovered five transuranium elements at Berkeley and conceived the Bismuth Phosphate Process that separated plutonium at Hanford during World War II.
Stanley Golder
Stanley Golder was a Chicago private equity pioneer who in 1980 co-founded Golder Thoma & Co., the buyout firm known today as GTCR, and retired in 1993.
Stanley H. Horowitz
Stanley H. Horowitz (1925–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at American Electric Power in power system protection and coauthored the standard textbook Power System Relaying.
Stanley Hiller
Stanley Hiller Jr. was an American helicopter designer who at 18 built and flew the XH-44, the first successful coaxial-rotor helicopter in the United States, and founded Hiller Aircraft.
Stanley Ho (何鸿燊)
Stanley Ho Hung-sun (何鸿燊, 1921 to 2020), Hong Kong-born tycoon known as Macau's Casino King, who held Macau's gambling monopoly from the early 1960s through STDM, opened the Hotel Lisboa, and founded SJM and Shun Tak Holdings.
Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann (1928–2015) was a French-American political scientist who spent 58 years on the Harvard faculty and became the leading American interpreter of French politics.
Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway was an English actor and comedian who performed in musical revues and monologues. He is best known for playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
Stanley I. Sandler
Stanley I. Sandler is an American chemical engineering thermodynamicist who spent his career at the University of Delaware and is known for research on phase equilibria and a widely used thermodynamics textbook.
Stanley Island
Stanley Island (Antarctica): an island off Heros Peninsula on the Foyn Coast, western Cabinet Inlet, Antarctic Peninsula; 3.2 km long, 520 m high, at 66°31′54″S 63°40′24″W, distinct from Stanley Islands in Australia, Canada, and Chile.
Stanley J. Brodsky
Stanley J. Brodsky is an American theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at SLAC and Stanford University, known for the constituent counting rules, rigorous perturbative QCD, and light-front holography, and winner of the 2015 Pomeranchuk Prize.
Stanley J. Cristol
Stanley J. Cristol (1916–2008) was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972, known for elimination reaction mechanisms and DDT chemistry.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950–2005) was an American physician-scientist who showed that BCL2 causes cancer by blocking cell death rather than driving growth, founding the molecular study of apoptosis in cancer.
Stanley J. Opella
Stanley J. Opella is a chemist at the University of California, San Diego, known for developing solid-state NMR methods that determine membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.
Stanley J. Peloquin
Stanley J. Peloquin was an American plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for potato breeding research and election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Stanley J. Szefler
Stanley J. Szefler is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who directed the Pediatric Asthma Research Program at Children's Hospital Colorado, individualizing childhood asthma therapy, and retired in 2026.
Stanley J. Watson
Stanley J. Watson Jr is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for mapping brain opioid systems and psychiatric genomics.
Stanley J. Wolfe
Stanley J. Wolfe (1923–2018) was an American physician and liver researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital, later a gastroenterologist and clinical professor at UCSF.
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1929–2014) was a Sri Lankan-born social anthropologist at Harvard University known for his studies of Theravada Buddhism, ethnicity, and collective violence in South and Southeast Asia.
Stanley Johnson (basketball)
Stanley Johnson (born 1996) is an American forward, 2015 NBA draft eighth pick by Detroit, later Pelicans, Raptors, Lakers, and Spurs; 449 NBA games, 6.2 PPG, now in Japan's B.League with Gunma.
Stanley Johnson (writer)
Stanley Johnson (born 1940, Penzance) is a British writer, environmentalist, and former Conservative MEP (1979-1984), father of Boris Johnson, author of over 25 books including The Commissioner and In the Footsteps of Marco Polo.
Stanley Ka Dabba
Stanley Ka Dabba (स्टेनली का डब्बा, Stanley's Tiffin Box) is a 2011 Hindi drama written, directed, and produced by Amole Gupte, starring his son Partho as an orphan schoolboy barred from school for not bringing a tiffin.
Stanley Kamel
Stanley Kamel (1943–2008), American character actor, played Dr. Charles Kroger, Adrian Monk's psychiatrist, on Monk, and earlier Eric Peters on Days of Our Lives; died of a heart attack April 8, 2008.
Stanley Kowalski
Stanley Kowalski is Stella's husband in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), a Polish-American WWII veteran whose conflict with Blanche DuBois ends in rape; Marlon Brando originated the role.