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Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears (Stephen Arthur Frears) is a British film and television director from Leicester, knighted, known for My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, and Philomena, with two Oscar directing nominations.

Stephen Frost

Stephen Frederick Eustace Frost (born 1955) is an English actor and comedian, AKA Steve Frost, of the Oblivion Boys double act, the Comedy Store Players, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry (born 1957, Hampstead, London) is a British actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster, also known as a QI host and knighted in 2024. Known for Blackadder's Melchett, Jeeves and Wooster, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the film Wilde, and Emmy-winning mental-health documentaries.

Stephen Fulton (boxer)

Stephen Fulton Jr., "Cool Boy Steph" (born 1994, Philadelphia), American boxer, former WBO/WBC super bantamweight and WBC featherweight champion, 23-2 (8 KOs), stopped by Naoya Inoue in 2023.

Stephen Fung (冯德伦)

Stephen Fung (冯德伦), born 1974, is a Hong Kong actor and film director whose credits include Enter the Phoenix, Tai Chi Zero, and Netflix's Wu Assassins.

Stephen Furst

Stephen Furst (Stephen Nelson Feuerstein), 1954-2017, American actor best known as Flounder in Animal House, Dr. Elliot Axelrod on St. Elsewhere, and Vir Cotto on Babylon 5; also a director and producer.

Stephen G. Ellis

Stephen G. Ellis is an American interventional cardiologist who directs interventional cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and led randomized coronary stent trials including FINESSE and ABSORB III.

Stephen G. Harding

Stephen G. Harding is an American Republican politician who has served as Minority Leader of the Connecticut State Senate since 2024, representing the 30th District.

Stephen G. Lisberger

Stephen G. Lisberger is an American systems neuroscientist at Duke University who studies smooth pursuit eye movements and cerebellar motor learning, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Stephen G. Monismith

Stephen G. Monismith is an environmental fluid dynamicist at Stanford University, where he directs the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Stephen G. Oliver

Stephen G. Oliver is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for yeast functional genomics and systems biology.

Stephen G. Pauker

Stephen G. Pauker (1942–2024) was an American physician and medical decision scientist who spent over 50 years at Tufts, founding the field of medical decision making.

Stephen G. Waxman

Stephen G. Waxman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Yale University who chaired its neurology department from 1986 to 2009 and identified sodium channels as the molecular basis of inherited pain disorders.

Stephen G. Withers

Stephen G. Withers is a Canadian-based organic chemist and chemical biologist at the University of British Columbia, known for studies of glycosidases and for enzyme technology that converts blood types.

Stephen G. Young

Stephen G. Young (born 1952) is an American physician-scientist at UCLA whose research covers triglyceride metabolism and nuclear envelope diseases, including his discovery of the endothelial protein GPIHBP1.

Stephen Gageler

Stephen John Gageler AC, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Australia since November 2023, High Court justice from 2012, former Commonwealth Solicitor-General 2008-2012, ANU and Harvard educated, known for Ely-influenced constitutional jurisprudence.

Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan (born 1965, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American screenwriter and director who won the 2001 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Traffic, wrote and directed Syriana (2005), and later directed Gold (2016) and Dolittle (2020).

Stephen Galatti

Stephen Galatti (1888–1964) was an American philanthropist who directed the American Field Service for over 28 years, turning its wartime ambulance corps into a worldwide student exchange program.

Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner (c. 1495–1555) was an English theologian and Bishop of Winchester who served Henry VIII as diplomat and secretary, then became Lord Chancellor to Mary I.

Stephen Gately

Stephen Gately (1976–2009), Irish singer in Boyzone and solo musical-theatre performer; first boyband member to come out as gay (Sun, June 1999); died of pulmonary oedema in Majorca aged 33.

Stephen Geoffreys

Stephen Geoffreys (born Stephen Geoffrey Miller, 1964, Cincinnati) is an American actor, Tony-nominated in 1984, best known as Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985) and Hoax in 976-EVIL; he worked in gay adult film as Sam Ritter and returned to indie horror with Sick Girl (2007).

Stephen Gethins

Stephen Gethins is a Scottish National Party politician who has been Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Energy in the Scottish Government since May 2026.

Stephen Gevedon

Stephen Gevedon (born 1966, New York City) is an American actor and screenwriter, co-writer and co-star of Session 9 (2001); also known for Oz, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, and Madoff.

Stephen Glass

Stephen Randall Glass (born 1972), American disgraced journalist at The New Republic who fabricated 27 of 41 articles with fake notes, voicemails, and websites; exposed by Forbes in 1998, denied California bar admission in 2014, subject of the film Shattered Glass.

Stephen Glover (screenwriter)

Stephen Glover is an American screenwriter and executive producer, younger brother of Donald Glover, known for FX's Atlanta, the 2017 Emmy-nominated episode 'Streets on Lock,' Guava Island, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith; distinct from the British journalist Stephen Glover.

Stephen Goff

Stephen Goff is an American virologist at Columbia University known for genetic analysis of retrovirus replication and for showing that clam leukemia spreads as a transmissible cancer.

Stephen Goldfinch

Stephen Goldfinch is an American Republican politician representing District 34, covering Georgetown and Horry Counties, in the South Carolina Senate, after serving in the state House of Representatives.

Stephen Gostkowski

Stephen Gostkowski, NFL placekicker (born 1984), Patriots 2006-19 and Titans 2020; Patriots' all-time leading scorer (1,775 points), 3 Super Bowl titles, 4 Pro Bowls, drafted 2006 fourth round from Memphis.

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (born 1973, Kirkby, England) is an English actor, producer, and writer known for This Is England's Combo, Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, Boiling Point, and the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Netflix series Adolescence, which he co-created.

Stephen Gray (writer)

Stephen Gray (1941–2020) was a South African novelist, poet, playwright, and editor, widely described as the country's foremost literary historiographer; his works include eight novels and biographies of Beatrice Hastings and Herman Charles Bosman.