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Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is an American literary critic, founder of new historicism, and Harvard professor whose 2011 book The Swerve won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (born 1949, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film and TV director, producer, writer, and poet, known for Paris Trout, Waterland, Losing Isaiah, and Homegrown, and father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Stephen H. Anderson

Stephen H. Anderson, born 1932 in Salt Lake City, is a senior US circuit judge on the Tenth Circuit, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

Stephen H. Bryant

Stephen H. Bryant is a computational biologist and Senior Investigator at NCBI, NIH, known for PubChem and the Conserved Domain Database, and a 2016 Herman Skolnik Award recipient.

Stephen H. Davis

Stephen H. Davis was an American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist at Northwestern University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for interfacial dynamics and solidification research.

Stephen H. Embury

Stephen H. Embury is an American hematologist and physician-scientist who joined UCSF in 1977, known for research on the molecular genetics of sickle cell disease and thalassemia and for founding Vanguard Therapeutics.

Stephen H. Friend

Stephen H. Friend is a clinician-scientist who led the team that cloned the first human cancer susceptibility gene, founded Sage Bionetworks, worked at Apple on digital health, and co-founded 4YouandMe.

Stephen H. Howell

Stephen H. Howell is an American plant molecular biologist at Iowa State University known for introducing recombinant DNA into plants and for work on plant stress responses.

Stephen H. Hughes

Stephen H. Hughes is an American virologist known for structural work on HIV reverse transcriptase and for showing that HIV-infected cells persist by clonal expansion.

Stephen H. Leppla

Stephen H. Leppla is an American bacterial toxin biologist who is Chief of the Microbial Pathogenesis Section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying anthrax toxin.

Stephen H. Locher

Stephen H. Locher, born 1978 in Mason City, Iowa, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Iowa, appointed by President Biden in 2022.

Stephen H. Maslen

Stephen H. Maslen was an aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist who earned a 1952 Brown University Ph.D. and developed approximate analytical methods for hypersonic flow over blunt bodies, applied to the Space Shuttle's windward surfaces.

Stephen H. Richardson

Stephen H. Richardson is an isotope geochemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town known for developing radiometric dating of mineral inclusions in diamonds.

Stephen H. Robinson

Stephen H. Robinson (died 1998) was an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, known for work on heme metabolism, bilirubin formation, and the porphyrias.

Stephen H. Schneider

Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was an American climatologist at NCAR and Stanford who founded the journal Climatic Change and shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Stephen H. Scott

Stephen H. Scott is a neuroscientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on voluntary motor control, who invented the KINARM robotic system in 1998.

Stephen H. Zinner

Stephen H. Zinner is an American infectious disease physician and pharmacology researcher, Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor at Mount Auburn Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor since 1999.

Stephen Hanessian

Stephen Hanessian, born 1935, is an organic chemist at the Université de Montréal known for the Chiron approach, which builds complex natural products from chiral starting materials.

Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper, born 1959, is an economist and politician who served as Canada's 22nd prime minister from 2006 to 2015, founded Reform, merged the Alliance and PCs into the Conservative Party, and won elections in 2006, 2008, and 2011.

Stephen Harriman Long

Stephen Harriman Long, also known as Stephen H. Long, was an American army engineer who explored the Great Plains and patented the Long truss bridge design in 1830.

Stephen Harris (physicist)

Stephen Harris, born 1936 in Brooklyn, is an American physicist at Stanford whose 1991 demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency opened a field underlying slow light and quantum memory.

Stephen Harrison (structural biologist)

Stephen Harrison, also known as Stephen C. Harrison, is an American structural biologist at Harvard Medical School who pioneered high-resolution virus crystallography, beginning with tomato bushy stunt virus in 1978.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (1942–2018) was a British theoretical physicist who discovered Hawking radiation, held the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge, and wrote A Brief History of Time.

Stephen Hedetniemi

Stephen Hedetniemi (born 1939) is an American mathematician and computer scientist at Clemson University, known for his 1966 graph coloring conjecture, disproved in 2019, and for founding domination theory.

Stephen Hedrick

Stephen M. Hedrick is an American immunologist at UC San Diego who helped identify the T cell antigen receptor and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Stephen Hendry

Stephen Hendry is a former professional snooker player known for his dominance in the 1990s. He won seven World Championships, a record that stood until 2022.

Stephen Hibbert

Stephen Hibbert (1957 or 1960–2026), English-born actor and writer, played The Gimp in Pulp Fiction, wrote for Late Night with David Letterman, MADtv, and Boy Meets World, and co-wrote It's Pat: The Movie with Julia Sweeney; distinct from an AWS architect, a Huddersfield academic, and a Qatar Rail lawyer of the same name.

Stephen Hilbert

Stephen Hilbert is an American mathematician in numerical analysis, best known for the widely used Bramble–Hilbert lemma from his 1970 paper with advisor James Bramble, and a longtime Ithaca College professor.

Stephen Hill (actor)

Stephen Hill (born 1969) is the American actor who plays Theodore "TC" Calvin in the Magnum P.I. reboot (2018–2024, 96 episodes); distinct from Steven Hill and from BET's Stephen Hill.

Stephen Hillenburg

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator and marine biologist, creator of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants (1999); former Orange County Marine Institute teacher, CalArts graduate, Rocko's Modern Life director, died of ALS.