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Stephen Stigler
Stephen M. Stigler, born in 1941, is an American statistician and historian of statistics at the University of Chicago, known for Stigler's law of eponymy.
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills (born 1945, Dallas, Texas), American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, CSNY, Manassas, and The Rides; wrote "For What It's Worth" and "Love the One You're With"; twice a 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Stephen Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange, MCU sorcerer played by Benedict Cumberbatch since 2016; a neurosurgeon whose injured hands led him to Kamar-Taj, where he became the Sorcerer Supreme, wielded the Time Stone, and opened the MCU's multiverse.
Stephen Strasburg
Stephen James Strasburg is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire career with the Washington Nationals and was the 2019 World Series MVP.
Stephen Stucker
Stephen Stucker (1947–1986), American comic actor; played manic controller Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs in Airplane! (1980) and its sequel, Kentucky Fried Theater member, died of AIDS at 38.
Stephen Szántó
Stephen Szántó, Latinized as Stephanus Arator, was a Hungarian Jesuit missionary in Transylvania and Ottoman Hungary who wrote a 1610 refutation of the Quran and helped found a Hungarian college in Rome.
Stephen T. Crews
Stephen T. Crews is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for defining how the single-minded gene controls CNS midline development in Drosophila.
Stephen T. Emlen
Stephen T. Emlen is a Cornell University professor emeritus and authority on the evolution of vertebrate social behavior, especially birds, known for work on mating systems and animal families.
Stephen T. Holgate
Sir Stephen T. Holgate is a British physician-scientist, MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton since 1987, known for asthma and air pollution research.
Stephen T. Mason
Stephen T. Mason is a behavioral neuroscientist who showed in Nature papers from 1975 that rats depleted of forebrain noradrenaline learn normally but respond abnormally to reward omission.
Stephen T. Reeders
Stephen T. Reeders is a geneticist and physician who in 1985 first mapped the gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease to chromosome 16, enabling diagnostic and prenatal tests.
Stephen T. Warren
Stephen T. Warren (1953–2021) was an American human geneticist who led the team that identified the FMR1 gene as the cause of fragile X syndrome in 1991.
Stephen Talbot
Stephen Talbot (born 1949), American documentary filmmaker and former child actor (Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver); Emmy, DuPont, and Peabody winner known for Frontline films and The Movement and the "Madman" (2023).
Stephen the Great
Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare, also Stephen III) was Voivode of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504, winning renown for his long resistance to the Ottoman Turks.
Stephen Theodore Badin
Stephen Theodore Badin (Étienne Théodore Badin) was a French-born Catholic missionary priest, the first ordained in the United States, who spent six decades as a pioneer missionary of Kentucky and the Old West.
Stephen Thomas Kent
Stephen Thomas Kent is an American computer scientist and network security pioneer who was primary author of the IPsec standards and joined the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
Stephen Thompson (fighter)
Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson (born 1983) is an American UFC welterweight from Simpsonville, South Carolina; undefeated 57-0 kickboxer, Tetsushin Ryu Kempo karate black belt, two-time Tyron Woodley title challenger known for his side-on karate striking stance.
Stephen Timoshenko
Stephen Timoshenko (Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko, 1878–1972) was a Ukrainian-born engineer regarded as the father of applied mechanics in the United States, known for beam theory.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951, Dallas) is an American character actor with over 200 screen credits, known for Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, Sammy Jankis in Memento, and his podcast The Tobolowsky Files.
Stephen Tomaš of Bosnia
Stephen Tomaš, also known as Stjepan Tomaš, was the penultimate King of Bosnia from 1443 to 1461, an illegitimate son of King Stjepan Ostoja who died in unexplained circumstances.
Stephen Tomašević
Stephen Tomašević (Stjepan Tomašević) was the last king of Bosnia from 1461 to 1463 and briefly despot of Serbia in 1459, before the Ottoman conquest ended his reign.
Stephen Tompkinson
Stephen Tompkinson (born 1965, Stockton-on-Tees) is an English actor known for Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey, Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel, Wild at Heart, DCI Banks, and Brassed Off.
Stephen Tredre
Stephen Ralph Tredre (1963–1997) was a British actor and television writer, RADA graduate 1987, with credits on Dark Season, EastEnders, Maisie Raine, and Fish, and the first partner of actress Kate Winslet.
Stephen Turner (physicist)
Stephen Turner is a physicist who co-founded Pacific Biosciences, the Menlo Park, California DNA-sequencing company, and with Jonas Korlach invented the zero-mode waveguide technology behind its SMRT sequencing.
Stephen V
Stephen V, also numbered Stephen VI, was the 110th pope, reigning from 885 to 891. Born in Rome, he crowned Guy III of Spoleto emperor in 891.
Stephen V Báthory
Stephen V Báthory (Hungarian: ecsedi Báthori István, c. 1430–1493) was a Hungarian baron who served as judge royal from 1471 and voivode of Transylvania from 1479.
Stephen V of Hungary
Stephen V of Hungary, born 1239, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1270 until his sudden death in 1272, the eldest son of King Béla IV.
Stephen V. Faraone
Stephen V. Faraone is a psychiatric geneticist known for research on ADHD genetics, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University and president of the World Federation of ADHD.
Stephen V. Wilson
Stephen Victor Wilson (born 1941) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California since 1985.
Stephen VI
Stephen VI, also numbered Stephen VII, was the 113th pope, reigning from 896 until 897, when he held the Cadaver Synod, the trial of his predecessor Formosus's corpse.