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Stephen E. Girardin

Stephen E. Girardin is an immunologist and microbiologist at the University of Toronto, best known for showing that the intracellular sensors Nod1 and Nod2 recognize bacterial peptidoglycan fragments.

Stephen E. Haggerty

Stephen E. Haggerty was a mantle petrologist and diamond geologist who spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying diamonds and Earth's upper mantle.

Stephen E. Malawista

Stephen E. Malawista (1934–2013) was an American rheumatologist, professor of medicine at Yale, and co-discoverer of Lyme disease, whose 1983 paper established its spirochete cause.

Stephen E. Sallan

Stephen E. Sallan is a pediatric oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose ALL treatment protocols helped raise childhood leukemia survival from below 20 percent to about 90 percent.

Stephen E. Straus

Stephen E. Straus (1946–2007) was an American virologist and immunologist at NIH who discovered autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and directed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Stephen Eckel

Stephen Eckel is an American atomic physicist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who develops the Cold Atom Vacuum Standard and received the 2024 Presidential Early Career Award.

Stephen Elledge

Stephen J. Elledge, born 1956, is an American geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who mapped the DNA damage response and created the VirScan blood test.

Stephen Ellsworth

Stephen Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the prebiotic soda brand Poppi with his wife Allison in Austin, Texas, serving as Chief Product Officer.

Stephen Eustáquio

Stephen Antunes Eustáquio (born 1996, Leamington, Ontario) is a Canadian midfielder, Portugal U-21 alumnus, FC Porto regular 2021-2026, LAFC loanee, then Swansea City signing; Canada vice-captain and 2026 World Cup Round-of-32 match-winner.

Stephen F. Altschul

Stephen F. Altschul is a computational biologist known for the BLAST family of sequence search programs and their statistical theory, long at NCBI, retiring in 2020.

Stephen F. Austin

Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas," was an empresario who founded Anglo-American Texas under Mexican colonization laws, settled 300 families and more, was imprisoned in Mexico City, and died as Republic of Texas secretary of state.

Stephen F. Austin State University

Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), a public university in Nacogdoches, Texas founded in 1923, joined the UT System as its 14th member on September 1, 2023. About 13,000 students, six colleges, record 2025 first-time class, President Neal Weaver.

Stephen F. Badylak

Stephen F. Badylak is a physician-scientist in regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburgh whose laboratory developed extracellular matrix bioscaffolds that have treated more than 13 million patients.

Stephen F. Heinemann

Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was an American molecular neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who identified the genes encoding the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors activated by glutamate and acetylcholine.

Stephen F. Kingsmore

Stephen F. Kingsmore, also known as Stephen Kingsmore, is a geneticist who developed rapid whole-genome sequencing of critically ill newborns and served as president and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.

Stephen F. Martin

Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has held the Waggoner Regents Chair since 2000 and studies natural product synthesis.

Stephen F. Nelsen

Stephen F. Nelsen was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on the faculty from 1965 to 2012, known for work on radicals and electron transfer.

Stephen F. Traynelis

Stephen F. Traynelis is an American pharmacologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine known for his work on the biophysics and pharmacology of glutamate receptors.

Stephen F. Vatner

Stephen F. Vatner is an American cardiovascular physiologist who argued in 1975 for studying conscious animals, helped discover myocardial stunning, and chaired cell biology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Stephen Feinstone

Stephen M. Feinstone, born 1944, is an American virologist who first visualized the hepatitis A virus in 1973 and later helped develop the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Stephen Fesik

Stephen W. Fesik is a biochemist and cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, best known for developing SAR by NMR, a foundation of fragment-based drug discovery.

Stephen Flaherty

Stephen Flaherty (born 1960, Pittsburgh) is an American musical theatre composer; with lyricist Lynn Ahrens he wrote Ragtime (1998 Tony), Once on This Island, Seussical, and Anastasia, earning Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy nominations.

Stephen Fleming

Stephen Paul Fleming (born 1973, Christchurch) is a former New Zealand cricket captain, 111-Test left-handed batter, five-title Chennai Super Kings coach, and England Test head coach from 2026.

Stephen Flemmi

Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi, Boston Winter Hill Gang lieutenant under Whitey Bulger and FBI informant from 1965; pleaded guilty to ten murders, admitted about 50 killings, and is serving life imprisonment.

Stephen Fletcher

Stephen P. Fletcher is a Canadian-born organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford whose group develops asymmetric cross-coupling reactions, winning a 2023 RSC prize.

Stephen Flynn

Stephen Flynn is a Scottish National Party politician who became Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport in May 2026, after serving as MP for Aberdeen South.

Stephen Fodor

Stephen Fodor, also known as Steve Fodor, is an American scientist and entrepreneur from Seattle who pioneered DNA microarray technology and founded the biotechnology company Affymetrix.

Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864), American songwriter born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania; wrote "Oh! Susanna," "Camptown Races," "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Beautiful Dreamer," and "Hard Times Come Again No More." First American full-time professional songwriter; died poor in New York; legacy tied to blackface minstrelsy.

Stephen Francis Traynelis

Stephen Francis Traynelis is an American pharmacologist at Emory University who studies glutamate receptor ion channels and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Stephen Franks

Stephen Franks is a British reproductive endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London, described by the Academy of Medical Sciences as the world authority on polycystic ovary syndrome.