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Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer (1913–2001), American film producer-director nicknamed "Hollywood's conscience," known for The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and the 1962 Thalberg Award.
Stanley Krippner
Stanley Krippner (born 1932) is an American psychologist and parapsychologist best known for directing the dream telepathy experiments at Maimonides Medical Center from 1964 to 1972, and later teaching at Saybrook University.
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), American director and former Look magazine photographer based in Britain from 1961, made thirteen features including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut.
Stanley Kubrick filmography
Stanley Kubrick filmography: 13 feature films from Fear and Desire (1953) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999), plus four early documentaries (Day of the Fight, Flying Padre, Mr. Lincoln, The Seafarers) and unrealized projects like Napoleon and Aryan Papers.
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) was an American poet from Worcester, Massachusetts, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize and became the tenth US Poet Laureate at age ninety-five.
Stanley L. Hazen
Stanley L. Hazen is an American physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic who discovered that gut microbes convert dietary choline and L-carnitine into TMAO, a metabolite linked to atherosclerosis.
Stanley L. Miller
Stanley L. Miller, born Stanley Lloyd Miller, was an American chemist known as the father of prebiotic chemistry, whose 1953 Miller–Urey experiment showed amino acids could form on the early Earth.
Stanley Lapidus
Stanley Lapidus is an American electrical engineer and diagnostics entrepreneur who founded Cytyc and Exact Sciences, whose Cologuard became the first FDA-approved stool-DNA colorectal cancer screening test in 2014.
Stanley Lieberson
Stanley Lieberson (1933–2018) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor at Harvard and 82nd president of the American Sociological Association, known for research on race and ethnic relations, sociolinguistics, and first names.
Stanley Livingston
Stanley Livingston (born 1950), American actor, producer, and director, best known as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons (1960–1972); the only actor besides Fred MacMurray in all 12 seasons, later a filmmaker and founder of The Actor's Journey.
Stanley M Lemon
Stanley M. Lemon is a physician-scientist in viral hepatitis, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Stanley M. Gartler
Stanley M. Gartler (S.M. Gartler; 1923–2026) was an American human geneticist at the University of Washington who showed that tumors arise from a single cell and exposed HeLa contamination of cell lines.
Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016) was a South African-born American theoretical physicist, a professor at UC Berkeley for 31 years, known for the Mandelstam variables and double dispersion relations.
Stanley Marcus
Stanley Marcus, born 1946, is an American jurist serving on the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 1997, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Stanley Marion Garn
Stanley Marion Garn (1922–2007) was an American biological anthropologist who led the long-running Fels growth study and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Stanley Marshall
Stanley Marshall, known as Stan Marshall, is a Canadian executive who led utility holding company Fortis Inc. as president and CEO from the mid-1990s until 2014.
Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews (1915–2000), known as the Wizard of Dribble, was an English footballer for Stoke City and Blackpool who won the first Ballon d'Or.
Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor, born 1941 in Chicago, is an American engineer who co-developed the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor, and later worked on the 8008 and 8080, sharing the 1997 Kyoto Prize.
Stanley Medical College
Stanley Medical College (SMC), Chennai, a government medical college established July 2, 1938 and affiliated with Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, with 250 MBBS seats, Government Stanley Hospital, and noted hand surgery and transplant programs.
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), American social psychologist at Yale and CUNY; creator of the obedience-to-authority shock experiments (65% full compliance) and the Small World Experiment behind 'Six Degrees of Separation.'
Stanley Morison
Stanley Morison (1889–1967) was an English typographer and type historian who directed the design of Times New Roman, first used by The Times of London in 1932.
Stanley Motor Carriage Company
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company, known for the Stanley Steamer, was an American maker of steam automobiles run by twin brothers F.E. and F.O. Stanley from 1902 to 1924.
Stanley Nattel
Stanley Nattel, born in 1951, is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, a global authority on atrial fibrillation appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2024.
Stanley Norman Cohen
Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist at Stanford who, with Herbert Boyer, carried out the first cloning and transfer of genes between organisms in 1973.
Stanley Osher
Stanley Osher is an American applied mathematician at UCLA, known as the primary developer of level set methods and total variation optimization, and winner of the 2014 Gauss Prize.
Stanley P. Azen
Stanley P. Azen is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist at the University of Southern California, co-author of the EPAT and ELITE estrogen trials and the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study.
Stanley Park
Stanley Park is Vancouver's 400-hectare urban park on a downtown peninsula, opened in 1888 and named for Governor General Lord Stanley, with a 9 km seawall, national historic site designation (1988), and Coast Salish history.
Stanley Patch
Stanley Patch, also charted by Argentina as Stacy banco, is a shoal and submerged scoria cone in Port Foster, Deception Island, Antarctica; it formed subaerially and shows the caldera flooded within the last ~2000 years.
Stanley Perlman
Stanley Perlman is a coronavirus researcher and professor of microbiology and pediatrics at the University of Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Stanley Plotkin
Stanley A. Plotkin is an American vaccinologist who developed the RA 27/3 rubella vaccine at the Wistar Institute in the 1960s and edited the standard textbook, Plotkin's Vaccines.