All articles starting with S

Stefan Effenberg

Stefan Effenberg, born 1968 in Hamburg, German midfielder; Bayern captain and 2001 Champions League winner, three Bundesliga titles, 35 Germany caps, expelled from 1994 World Cup for obscene gesture.

Stefan Engelhardt

Stefan Engelhardt (born 1969 in Munich) is a German pharmacologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who established microRNA-21 as a driver of heart disease.

Stefan Evers (born 1979, Herdecke) is a Berlin CDU politician: Senator for Finance and Deputy Mayor since 2023, 2026 CDU lead candidate after Kai Wegner's withdrawal, later CDU faction chairman in the Abgeordnetenhaus.

Stefan Feske

Stefan Feske is a German-trained immunologist and physician, Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who identified the first patients with mutations in ORAI1 and STIM1, defining the immunodeficiency CRAC channelopathy.

Stefan Fröhling

Stefan Fröhling is a German physician-scientist in hematology and medical oncology, Managing Director of NCT Heidelberg since 2020 and head of Translational Medical Oncology at the German Cancer Research Center.

Stefan G. Tullius

Stefan G. Tullius is a German-born American transplantation surgeon who leads the Division of Transplant Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Oct 10, 2026

Stefan George

Stefan George (1868–1933) was a German poet, translator, and editor who renewed German lyric through French Symbolism, led the exclusive George-Kreis, and refused honors from the Nazi government.

Oct 10, 2026

Stefan Gillessen

Stefan Gillessen is a German infrared astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, first author of key analyses of stellar orbits around the Milky Way's central black hole.

Stefan Grimme

Stefan Grimme, born 1963 in Braunschweig, is a German theoretical chemist and professor at the Universität Bonn, known for the DFT-D dispersion corrections and GFN-xTB methods.

Oct 20, 2026

Stefan Gusgen

Stephan Güsgen (born 1962) is a German former swimmer who swam the 50 m freestyle for West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, placed 14th, won national titles in 1986 and 1988, and later became an orthopedic surgeon in Düsseldorf.

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann is a German immunologist and microbiologist known for research on immunity to tuberculosis and for developing the vaccine candidate VPM1002, tested through phase 3 trials.

Stefan H. Hohnloser

Stefan H. Hohnloser is a German cardiologist specializing in clinical electrophysiology, professor emeritus at University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, known for leading the ATHENA and RE-DUAL PCI trials.

Stefan Hecht

Stefan Hecht, born 1974, is a German chemist and Einstein Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin known for photoswitchable molecules and for inventing xolography, a volumetric 3D printing method.

Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell (Stefan Walter Hell, born 1962 in Arad, Romania) is a physicist who invented STED nanoscale microscopy, winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Stefan Heller

Stefan Heller is a sensory neuroscientist and hearing researcher who holds a professorship in otolaryngology at Stanford, working on hair cell regeneration and stem-cell treatments for hearing loss.

Oct 22, 2026

Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym, born Helmut Flieg (1913–2001), was a German writer and journalist who fled the Nazis, became a bestselling novelist in America, and settled in East Berlin in 1952 as the GDR's leading literary dissident.

Oct 21, 2026

Stefan Hirniak

Stefan Hirniak (born 1985) is a Canadian competitive swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle relays, winning 200 m butterfly bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Stefan Holm

Stefan Holm (Stefan Christian Holm), Swedish high jumper born 1976, 2004 Athens Olympic champion, four-time World Indoor champion (2001, 2003, 2004, 2008), personal best 2.40 m despite being about 1.80 m tall.

Stefan Howorka

Stefan Howorka is Professor of Chemical Biology at University College London, where he builds DNA origami nanopores that span lipid membranes for biosensing and synthetic biology.

Oct 22, 2026

Stefan I Crnojević

Stefan I Crnojević, also called Stefanica, was ruler of Zeta from 1451 to 1464/65 and founder of the Crnojević dynasty, under which Upper Zeta became known as Montenegro.

Oct 22, 2026

Stefan I of Bulgaria

Stefan I of Bulgaria (Стефан I), born Stoyan Popgeorgiev Shokov, was Exarch of Bulgaria from 1945 to 1948, known for opposing the deportation of Bulgarian Jews.

Stefan James

Stefan K. James is a Swedish interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Uppsala University, and scientific director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center, known for large randomized myocardial infarction trials.

Sep 19, 2026

Stefan Jansson

Stefan Jansson is a Swedish battery-industry entrepreneur with over 25 years in energy storage who co-founded Polarium in 2015, led it as CEO until 2024, and saw it reach a $1 billion valuation in 2022.

Stefan Jentsch

Stefan Jentsch (1955–2016) was a German molecular biologist who led the Molecular Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry from 1998 until his death.

Oct 21, 2026

Stefan Johansson

Stefan Johansson (Jan Bengt Stefan Johansson), Swedish race walker born 1967 in Falkenberg; Krogsereds IK; competed in 20 km and 50 km walk at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992, and took 1992 European Indoor 5000 m walk bronze.

Stefan Joksimović

Stefan Joksimović (born 2008) is a Slovenian basketball guard for Baskonia and the 2025 FIBA U18 EuroBasket MVP, a projected 2027 NBA Draft first-round pick.

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975–2018), Icelandic stage and television actor best known as villain Robbie Rotten in LazyTown (2004–2014); founded anti-bullying group Rainbow Children, died of bile duct cancer aged 43, became a meme via 'We Are Number One'.