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Stanley Praimnath
Stanley Praimnath, Guyanese-born American banker and pastor, assistant vice president of Fuji Bank on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center South Tower on 9/11; survived the Flight 175 impact zone under his desk and was freed by Brian Clark, descending 1,620 steps before collapse.
Stanley R. Chesler
Stanley R. Chesler (born 1947) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of New Jersey, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Stanley R. Hamilton
Stanley R. Hamilton is an American gastrointestinal and molecular pathologist known for colorectal cancer genetics work and for chairing pathology at City of Hope from 2020 to 2025.
Stanley R. Hart
Stanley R. Hart is an American isotope geochemist and Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who helped found chemical geodynamics and won the 2016 William Bowie Medal.
Stanley R. Petrick
Stanley R. Petrick was an American researcher at IBM and the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, known for Petrick's method in Boolean minimization and a 1965 MIT dissertation on transformational grammars.
Stanley Riddell
Stanley R. Riddell is a tumor immunologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center who pioneered adoptive T cell therapy for cancer and co-founded Juno Therapeutics in 2013.
Stanley Rossiter Benedict
Stanley Rossiter Benedict (1884–1936) was an American physiological chemist at Cornell University Medical College, known for Benedict's Solution, the copper-based diabetes test used for more than fifty years.
Stanley Schachter
Stanley Schachter (1922–1997) was an American social psychologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, known for the two-factor theory of emotion.
Stanley Shaldon
Stanley Shaldon (1931–2013) was a British nephrologist who pioneered the percutaneous Shaldon catheter for dialysis access, introduced home and nocturnal dialysis in the UK, and won the 2011 ERA-EDTA Award.
Stanley Simons
Stanley Simons (born 2000), Australian-born American actor from Sydney living in Brooklyn; debut Angelfish (2019), Sundance film Superior, Mike Von Erich in The Iron Claw (2023), and Julian in the Off-Broadway play The Saviors (2026).
Stanley Smith Stevens
Stanley Smith Stevens was an American experimental psychologist and psychophysicist who spent his career at Harvard, founded the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and introduced the four scales of measurement.
Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), English painter of Cookham, Berkshire; Slade-trained, RAMC veteran of Macedonia, creator of Sandham Memorial Chapel murals and The Resurrection, Cookham; knighted 1958.
Stanley T. Anderson
Stanley Thomas Anderson, born 1953 in Lexington, Tennessee, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Tennessee since 2008, chief judge from 2017 to 2023.
Stanley T. Rolfe
Stanley T. Rolfe (1934–2023) was an American civil engineer at the University of Kansas who applied fracture mechanics to steel structure design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Stanley Theodore Adams
Stanley Theodore Adams (born 1966) is an American serial killer from Trumbull County, Ohio, convicted of the 1999 murders of Roslyn Taylor, Esther Cook, and Ashley Cook; he was sentenced to death in 2001 and remains on Ohio death row, his execution rescheduled to February 16, 2028.
Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born 1961) is a Dublin-born Irish actor and co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company, based in London. Known for Shining City, Phedre, Quirke, Saddam's Tribe, and recent roles in Kaos, The Regime and Star Wars: Andor.
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci, born 1960 in Peekskill, New York, is an American character actor, director, and food broadcaster; Oscar-nominated for The Lovely Bones, host of Searching for Italy and Tucci in Italy, and author of Taste.
Stanley William Herbert Cowley
Stanley William Herbert Cowley, born 1947, is a British space plasma physicist and Royal Society Fellow at Leicester known for magnetic reconnection and the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams (1953–2005), Los Angeles gang co-founder with Raymond Washington of the Crips in 1971, convicted of four 1979 murders, later anti-gang author on death row, executed at San Quentin December 13, 2005 after clemency denial.
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley Wojcicki (Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki) was a Polish-American experimental particle physicist and Stanford professor, known for kaon physics, the Superconducting Super Collider, and founding the MINOS neutrino experiment.
Stanley, Falkland Islands
Stanley (Port Stanley), capital and only city of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory on Stanley Harbour; founded 1843, occupied 74 days in 1982; 2,538 of 3,662 residents, fishing-licence-driven economy, city status 2022.
Stanley's trans-African expedition
Stanley's trans-African expedition, known in the archives as the Anglo-American Expedition, was the 1874 to 1877 crossing of Africa by Henry Morton Stanley, who traced the Congo River to the Atlantic, reaching Boma in August 1877.
Stanlow Refinery
Stanlow Refinery is an oil refinery at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, on the Manchester Ship Canal, owned by EET Fuels and producing about one-sixth of Britain's transport fuels.
Stanmore Resources
Stanmore Resources Limited, formerly Stanmore Coal Limited, is an Australian metallurgical coal mining company headquartered in Brisbane that operates Bowen Basin mines supplying global steelmakers.
Stannin
Stannin (Snn, SNN gene, HGNC 11149) is an 88-amino-acid human single-pass mitochondrial outer membrane protein, discovered in 1992, that mediates trimethyltin organotin toxicity and roles in endosomal maturation and cell growth.
Stanniocalcin
Stanniocalcin (STC1, STC2): glycoprotein hormones first found in fish corpuscles of Stannius regulating calcium and phosphate; in mammals, secreted homodimers inhibiting PAPP-A/PAPP-A2 and modulating IGF signaling, immunity, and cancer.
Stannis Baratheon
Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and claimant king in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (played by Stephen Dillane): second Baratheon brother, dutiful commander, Melisandre ally, dies onscreen in season 5 but lives in the books.
Stannosis
Stannosis, also called tin pneumoconiosis or tin miners' lung, is a benign non-fibrotic pneumoconiosis from chronic inhalation of tin oxide (SnO, SnO2) dust or fume, causing dense 2-4 mm lung radiopacities without fibrosis; first described by Beintker in 1944.
Stannous fluoride
Stannous fluoride, or tin(II) fluoride, is a tin salt used in toothpastes to prevent cavities and gingivitis; it was the fluoride in Crest, launched in 1956.
Stannsoporfin
Stannsoporfin, also called tin mesoporphyrin (SnMP) or Stanate, is a heme oxygenase inhibitor developed by InfaCare and Mallinckrodt as a single-injection adjunct to phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia; it lowered bilirubin in phase 2b trials but was never FDA approved and development is discontinued.