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Stephen Crabb

Stephen Crabb (born 1973) is a Welsh Conservative former MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire (2005-2024), ex-Secretary of State for Wales, brief Work and Pensions Secretary, and 2016 Conservative leadership contender backing Brexit with single market access.

Stephen Crandall

Stephen Harry Crandall (1920–2013) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his career at MIT, pioneered random vibrations, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and Sciences.

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, and war correspondent; author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat, and The Black Riders; pioneer of American literary naturalism who died of tuberculosis at 28.

Stephen Crichton

Stephen Crichton ("Critta"), born 2000 in Apia, Samoa, is a centre and captain of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs; a three-time premiership winner with Penrith, NSW Origin winner, and Samoa's 2022 World Cup final field-goal hero.

Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry (born 1988) is an American NBA point guard for the Golden State Warriors, drafted seventh in 2009 from Davidson; four-time champion, two-time MVP, and first player with 4,000 career three-pointers.

Stephen Curry (comedian)

Stephen Curry, born in Melbourne in 1976, is an Australian actor and comedian known for playing Dale Kerrigan in the 1997 comedy film The Castle.

Stephen D. Bell

Stephen D. Bell is a Scottish molecular biologist who studies how archaea organize and duplicate their chromosomes, and has been a professor at The Ohio State University since 2024.

Stephen D. Liberles

Stephen D. Liberles is a neuroscientist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for mapping vagus nerve sensory neurons.

Stephen D. Nimer

Stephen D. Nimer is an American physician-scientist who studies leukemia and blood formation and has directed the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami since 2012.

Stephen D. Roper

Stephen D. Roper, also published as Stephen Roper, is a neuroscientist at the University of Miami known for establishing ATP as the main transmitter linking taste cells to nerves.

Stephen D. Senturia

Stephen D. Senturia is an American electrical engineer and Weller Professor emeritus at MIT, a MEMS pioneer who wrote Microsystem Design and founded Polychromix after retiring in 2002.

Stephen D. Silberstein

Stephen D. Silberstein is an American neurologist and headache-medicine specialist who directed the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia, led the fremanezumab HALO trial, and won the American Headache Society's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stephen D. Umans

Stephen D. Umans is an American electrical engineer specializing in electric machinery who spent 28 years as an MIT research engineer and authored the textbook Electric Machinery.

Stephen D. Wiviott

Stephen D. Wiviott is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who led the TRITON-TIMI 38 and DECLARE-TIMI 58 trials at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Stephen Dacus

Stephen Hayes Dacus is an American business executive who became the first foreign chief executive of Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of 7-Eleven, in May 2025.

Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry (Stephen David Daldry, born 1960, Dorset) is an English director of theatre, film, and television; Royal Court artistic director 1992–1998, director of An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader, and The Crown, with three Oscar nominations, three Tony Awards, and an Emmy.

Stephen Daley (American football)

Stephen Daley is an American college football defensive lineman for the Indiana Hoosiers, known for 19 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks in 2025 before a knee injury ended his season.

Stephen Darby

Stephen Mark Darby is an English retired footballer, a right-back from Liverpool's academy who captained Bradford City and retired in 2018 with motor neurone disease.

Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur (1779–1820), American naval officer and commodore, burned USS Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804, captured HMS Macedonian in 1812, defeated Algiers in 1815, and died in a duel with James Barron.

Stephen Desiderio

Stephen V. Desiderio is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on V(D)J recombination and RAG proteins.

Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane (born Stephen Delaney, 1956, London) is an English stage and screen actor: Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones, Leonard Woolf in The Hours, Karl Roebuck in The Tunnel; Tony winner for The Real Thing.

Stephen DiNardo

Stephen DiNardo is an American molecular and developmental biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on engrailed, hedgehog, and Drosophila stem cell niches.

Stephen Dorff

Stephen Dorff (born 1973, Atlanta) is an American actor known as Deacon Frost in Blade (1998), Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, and Roland West in True Detective season 3; also an executive producer on Felon, Brake, Zaytoun, and Embattled.

Stephen Doughty

Stephen Doughty is a British Labour politician who has been MP for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012 and a Foreign Office minister since 2024.

Stephen Doxsey

Stephen J. Doxsey (1955–2025) was an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School who identified pericentrin and opened up centrosome biology as a molecular field.

Stephen Duck

Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756) was an English laboring-class poet known as the "thresher poet" who rose from Wiltshire farm work to Queen Caroline's patronage in 1730.

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy (born 1960), also Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, English singer-songwriter from Birmingham; founded Duran Duran in 1978, had the 1985 UK No. 4 hit "Kiss Me," and leads the folk-pop band The Lilac Time.

Stephen Duncan

Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was an American physician turned Mississippi planter, banker, and financier who enslaved more than 2,200 people on fifteen plantations and moved to New York as a unionist during the Civil War.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), American historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Band of Brothers, and Undaunted Courage, Eisenhower biographer, founder of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, later central figure in a 2002 plagiarism controversy.

Stephen E. Fienberg

Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) was a Canadian-born statistician who spent 36 years at Carnegie Mellon University and showed the 1970 US draft lottery was not properly randomized.