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Stefan Starzyński
Stefan Starzyński (1893–1939) was a Polish economist and politician, president of Warsaw from 1934, whose radio addresses rallied the city during the 1939 German siege before his Gestapo execution.
Stefan Steinweg
Stefan Steinweg (born 1969 in Dortmund) is a retired German track cyclist who won team pursuit gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and world titles in 1991 and 2000.
Stefan Strandberg
Stefan Strandberg is a Swedish video game developer who was game director on Battlefield 4 and creative director on Battlefield 1 at DICE before co-founding Embark Studios in Stockholm in 2018.
Stefan Struve
Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve, Dutch UFC heavyweight born 1988; tallest UFC fighter at 213 cm; 29-13 record; beat Stipe Miocic; retired 2021 for health reasons.
Stefan Tewes
Stefan Tewes (born 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr), German field hockey goalkeeper, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist (2-1 final vs Australia), brother of Jan Peter Tewes; 37 caps, 1991 European champion, later co-founder of Coffee Fellows.
Stefan the First-Crowned
Stefan the First-Crowned (Стефан Немањић), grand prince of Serbia from 1196, became the first crowned king of Serbia in 1217 and died in 1227 or 1228.
Stefan Thor
Stefan Thor is a Swedish developmental biologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Queensland since 2019, after holding a chair at Linköping University.
Stefan Uroš II Milutin
Stefan Uroš II Milutin (Стефан Урош II Милутин) was king of Serbia from 1282 to 1321, a Nemanjić ruler who conquered most of Macedonia from Byzantium.
Stefan Uroš V
Stefan Uroš V (Стефан Урош V), known as Uroš the Weak, was the second and last emperor of the Serbian Empire, reigning from 1355 to 1371.
Stefan Vilsmeier
Stefan Vilsmeier is a German entrepreneur who founded the medical-technology company Brainlab in Munich in 1989 and led it as chief executive for 35 years.
Stefan Vonifatiev
Stefan Vonifatiev (Стефан Вонифатьев), in monasticism Savvaty, was archpriest of the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow, confessor to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and leader of the Zealots of Piety who declined the patriarchate in favor of Nikon.
Stefan Wolff
Stefan Wolff is a German-born political scientist and Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, known for research on preventing and settling ethnic conflicts and civil wars.
Stefan Yavorsky
Stefan Yavorsky (Стефан Яворский) was a Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Ryazan, locum tenens of the patriarchal throne from 1700, and first president of the Holy Synod in 1721.
Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist hailed at his death as the "conscience of Polish literature", known for Syzyfowe prace, Popioły, and Przedwiośnie.
Stefan Zeuzem
Stefan Zeuzem is a German hepatologist and professor at University Hospital Frankfurt who led the phase 3 trials that replaced interferon with 8- to 12-week oral cures for hepatitis C.
Štefan Znám
Štefan Znám (1936–1993) was a Slovak mathematician at Comenius University in Bratislava who worked in number theory and graph theory, best known for Znám's problem, posed in 1972.
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian-Jewish writer of psychological novellas and popular biographies, author of Sternstunden der Menschheit, The Royal Game, and The World of Yesterday; exiled from Nazi Europe, died by suicide in Petrópolis, Brazil.
Stefan–Boltzmann law
The Stefan–Boltzmann law, also called Stefan's law, states that a blackbody's radiant emission per unit area is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
Stefana Broadbent
Stefana Broadbent is a Swiss-trained cognitive scientist and ethnographer known for finding that people concentrate 80 percent of digital contact on four or five close ties.
Stefani Zinerman
Stefani Zinerman is an American politician who has served as the Democratic member of the New York State Assembly for District 56 in Brooklyn since 2020.
Stefania Belmondo
Stefania Belmondo is a retired Italian cross-country skier, born 1969 in Vinadio, who won ten Olympic medals (two gold) across five Winter Games from 1988 to 2002.
Stefania Craxi
Stefania Craxi is an Italian Forza Italia politician, a senator since 2018 and daughter of Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, who leads the party's Senate group.
Stefania Jabłońska
Stefania Jabłońska, born Stefania Shelah Ginsburg (1920–2017), was a Polish dermatologist at the Medical University of Warsaw who first described the link between HPV and skin cancer in 1972.
Stefania LaVie Owen
Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress born 1997 in Miami, debuted in The Lovely Bones, played Dorrit in The Carrie Diaries and Bear in Netflix's Sweet Tooth, earning a 2025 Emmy nomination.
Stefanie Clausen
Stefanie Clausen (Anna Stefanie Nanny Fryland Clausen, 1900–1981), Danish diver, won plain high diving gold at Antwerp 1920, the first Danish woman with Olympic gold and Denmark's only diving champion.
Stefanie Dimmeler
Stefanie Dimmeler, born 1967 in Ravensburg, Germany, is a biologist who directs the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration at Goethe University Frankfurt and won the 2005 Leibniz Prize.
Stefanie Dolson
Stefanie Dolson (Big Mama Stef), born 1992, American WNBA center, 6-5, drafted 6th overall 2014 by Washington Mystics; 2021 champion with Chicago Sky, 2x All-Star, 2x NCAA champion at UConn, first Olympic women's 3x3 gold (Tokyo 2020), now Seattle Storm.
Stefanie Heinzmann
Stefanie Heinzmann is a Swiss pop and soul singer, born in 1989 in Valais, who won Stefan Raab's casting show in 2008 with 'My Man Is a Mean Man'.
Stefanie Hellweg
Stefanie Hellweg is a Swiss environmental engineer and full professor at ETH Zurich, holding the Chair of Ecological Systems Design since 2006 and specializing in life cycle assessment.
Stefanie Hubig
Stefanie Hubig, born 1968, is a German SPD politician serving as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection since May 2025, after leading education in Rhineland-Palatinate.