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Steven R. Kass

Steven R. Kass is an American physical organic chemist and professor at the University of Minnesota known for work on Brønsted acids, bases, and hydrogen-bond catalysis.

Steven R. McQueen

Steven R. McQueen (born 1988, Los Angeles) is an American actor, grandson of Steve McQueen, known for Jeremy Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries and Jimmy Borrelli on Chicago Fire.

Steven R. White

Steven R. White is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of California, Irvine, known as the inventor of the density matrix renormalization group, published in 1992.

Steven Raga

Steven Raga is an American Democratic politician elected in 2022 to the New York State Assembly from the 30th district in Queens, the first Filipino American to serve in the legislature.

Steven Ray Thacker

Steven Ray Thacker (born 1970), also known as David Wilson, was an American triple murderer executed in Oklahoma on March 12, 2013, for the 1999 rape-murder of Laci Dawn Hill and killings in Missouri and Tennessee.

Steven Reilly

Steven Reilly is an American geneticist and assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine who studies cis-regulatory elements, the DNA that controls gene activity.

Steven Rinella

Steven Rinella, American outdoorsman, writer, and TV host born in Twin Lake, Michigan; founder of MeatEater Inc., host of MeatEater on Netflix and The MeatEater Podcast, and author of American Buffalo.

Steven Robertson

Steven Robertson, Scottish actor from Vidlin, Shetland, born January 1 (1977 or 1980 in sources); known as DC Sandy Wilson in BBC One's Shetland and for Inside I'm Dancing (2004), Kingdom of Heaven, Luther, and Being Human.

Steven Rose

Steven Rose (1938–2025) was a British neurobiologist who spent his career searching for the molecular traces of memory in chick brains while campaigning against genetic determinism.

Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg is an American surgeon and cancer researcher who has led the National Cancer Institute's Surgery Branch since 1974, pioneering IL-2, TIL, and CAR T-cell immunotherapies for cancer.

Steven Rudich

Steven Rudich (1961–2024) was an American theoretical computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for the natural proofs barrier with Alexander Razborov, which won the 2007 Gödel Prize.

Steven Rudy

Steven Rudy is an American Republican politician who has represented Kentucky's 1st District in the state House since 2005 and serves as its Majority Leader.

Steven Runciman

Sir Steven Runciman (James Cochran Stevenson Runciman, 1903–2000), British historian of Byzantium and the Crusades; Trinity College Cambridge fellow; author of A History of the Crusades (1951–54) and The Great Church in Captivity.

Steven S. Brown

Steven S. Brown is an American atmospheric chemist and Deputy Director of NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for research on nighttime nitrogen oxide chemistry.

Steven S. DeKnight

Steven S. DeKnight (born 1964, Millville, New Jersey) is an American TV writer, director, and producer who created Starz's Spartacus, showran Daredevil season 1, and directed Pacific Rim: Uprising; not the British screenwriter Steven Knight.

Steven Salzberg

Steven L. Salzberg is a computational biologist at Johns Hopkins University, known for developing the widely used genome-sequencing software tools Bowtie, HISAT, and StringTie, and for contributing to the first draft human genome sequence.

Steven Sample

Steven Sample was an American electrical engineer whose touch-panel appliance controls appeared in over 300 million home appliances, and the tenth president of USC from 1991 to 2010.

Steven Schneider

Steven Jay Schneider (born 1974), American film producer, author, and former critic; founder of Room 101 and co-founder of Spooky Pictures with Roy Lee; known for Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Split, and the 1001 Movies book series.

Steven Schonfeld

Steven Schonfeld is an American billionaire trader who founded the New York multi-strategy hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors in 1988 with $400,000, a firm now managing more than $22 billion.

Steven Schussler

Steven Schussler is an American entrepreneur who founded the Rainforest Cafe, then created T-Rex Cafe, Yak & Yeti, and The Boathouse through his firm Schussler Creative.

Steven Schwaitzberg

Steven Schwaitzberg is an American surgeon known for minimally invasive surgery who chaired the Department of Surgery at the University at Buffalo from 2015 until 2026.

Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal, American action film star and 7th-dan aikido master, rose from 15 years in Japan to 1988's Above the Law and 1992's Under Siege, later facing misconduct allegations and gaining Russian citizenship.

Steven Seegel

Steven Seegel is a historian of cartography and professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas at Austin, awarded the Vega Medal in 2024.

Steven Sessegnon

Steven Sessegnon (Zeze Steven Sessegnon, b. 18 May 2000, Roehampton), twin of Ryan Sessegnon; English full-back/wing-back, Fulham academy, 2017 U17 World Cup winner, later Wigan, now AFC Wimbledon; Turks and Caicos international.

Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin is an American historian and sociologist of science, Professor Emeritus at Harvard, best known for Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) and studies of trust in scientific knowledge.

Steven Shook

Steven Shook is an American politician and nurse practitioner from Fort Worth, Texas, who won the 2026 Democratic primary for Texas's 26th House district and faces Republican incumbent Brandon Gill.

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh (born 1963) is an American director, cinematographer, and editor; his debut sex, lies, and videotape won the 1989 Cannes Palme d'Or, and Traffic won him the 2000 Best Director Oscar.

Steven Sotloff

Steven Joel Sotloff (1983–2014), American freelance journalist for TIME and The Media Line who covered the Arab Spring and Syria, was kidnapped in Syria in 2013 and beheaded by ISIS in September 2014, two weeks after James Foley.

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg, birth name Steven Allan Spielberg, is an American film director born in Cincinnati in 1946, widely called the father of the modern blockbuster for Jaws.

Steven Squyres

Steven W. Squyres is an American planetary scientist who served nearly twenty years as principal investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, then became Blue Origin's chief scientist in 2019.