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Stuart Symington
Stuart Symington (1901-1988), Missouri Democrat and businessman, was the first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-1950) under Truman, then served four terms as U.S. senator (1953-1976), sought the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, and opposed the Vietnam War by the late 1960s.
Stuart Tinney
Stuart Tinney, Australian Olympic eventing rider born 1964 in Mundubbera, Queensland; won team gold at Sydney 2000 on Jeepster and team bronze at Rio 2016 on Pluto Mio; also competed Athens 2004.
Stuart Townsend
Stuart Townsend, Irish actor and director born 1972 in Howth, County Dublin; played Lestat in Queen of the Damned, was replaced by Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, and directed Battle in Seattle.
Stuart Varney
Stuart Varney, British-born American business journalist and Fox Business Network host of Varney & Co. (weekdays 9 AM-12 PM ET) since 2007; helped launch CNN's business news team in 1980, co-anchored Moneyline, and co-moderated the September 2023 Republican primary debate.
Stuart W. Churchill
Stuart W. Churchill (1920–2016) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974 for heat transfer and combustion.
Stuart W.J. Reid
Stuart W.J. Reid, also known as Stuart William John Reid, is a veterinary epidemiologist who has led the Royal Veterinary College in London since 2011.
Stuart Weitzman
Stuart Weitzman is an American luxury women's footwear brand founded in 1986 by designer Stuart Weitzman, known for its 5050 over-the-knee boot and Spanish-made heels.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor of Westerns and action films, Oscar-nominated for The Mark (1961), star of The Comancheros and TV's Cimarron Strip.
Stuart Wilson (actor)
Stuart Conan Wilson (born 1946, Guildford) is an English RADA-trained actor known for Vronsky in Anna Karenina, Jack Travis in Lethal Weapon 3, and Don Rafael Montero in The Mask of Zorro; distinct from the 1984-born Big Brother contestant of the same name.
Stuart Wyithe
Stuart Wyithe, also known as J. Stuart B. Wyithe, is an Australian theoretical astrophysicist who studies the earliest galaxies and supermassive black holes, and is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at ANU.
Stuart Zender
Stuart Patrick Jude Zender, born in 1974 in Sheffield, England, is a British bassist best known as the original bass player of the funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai.
Stuart, Florida
Stuart, Florida: county seat of Martin County on the St. Lucie River, Treasure Coast; settled 1870, incorporated 1914, chartered 1925; formerly Potsdam; known as the Sailfish Capital of the World; 2020 population 17,425.
Stub matcher
A stub matcher is an RF impedance-matching network in which a short transmission-line stub, connected in shunt or series, cancels reflections, replacing lumped inductors and capacitors at microwave frequencies.
STUB1
STUB1 (CHIP, UBOX1, SCA48, SCAR16) is a human gene at 16p13.3 encoding a chaperone-dependent E3 ubiquitin ligase/co-chaperone that ubiquitinates chaperone-bound misfolded proteins; mutations cause dominant SCA48 and recessive SCAR16 ataxia.
Stubbs (cat)
Stubbs, known as Mayor Stubbs, was a tailless orange tabby cat who served as honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017.
Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye (Bernard Kotzin, 1918–1997), American comic actor and singer. Created Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Broadway's Guys and Dolls (1950) and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner (1956), repeating both roles on film, and played Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Stuber (film)
Stuber is a 2019 American action comedy directed by Michael Dowse and starring Kumail Nanjiani as an Uber driver commandeered by Dave Bautista's detective for a manhunt.
StubHub
StubHub: online ticket resale marketplace founded 2000 by Eric Baker, owned by eBay 2007-2020, then viagogo ($4.05B), IPO 2025 (STUB, ~$8.1B). FanProtect Guarantee; FTC $10M and UK CMA £889,000 hidden-fee actions.
Stucco
Stucco is an exterior plaster, applied in two or three wet coats onto masonry or over lath, serving as both a weather-resistant finish and a decorative surface.
Stuck in the Middle (TV series)
Stuck in the Middle is a Disney Channel single-camera family sitcom (2016–2018, 3 seasons) created by Alison Brown, starring Jenna Ortega as inventor Harley Diaz, the middle child of a Latino family of nine; it ended with Harley's quinceañera finale.
Stuck in the Middle with You
Stuck in the Middle with You, 1972 Stealers Wheel song written by Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty, produced by Leiber and Stoller; a Dylan-style satire of the music industry that hit No. 6 US and No. 8 UK, later famous for the Reservoir Dogs torture scene.
Stuck in the Suburbs
Stuck in the Suburbs is a 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie, also called Jordan-mania in Spanish markets, about teen Brittany Aarons swapping phones with pop star Jordan Cahill; directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring Danielle Panabaker and Brenda Song, filmed in New Orleans.
Stuck on You (film)
Stuck on You is a 2003 American comedy directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins pursuing an acting career.
Stud poker
Stud poker, best known as Seven Card Stud, is a poker family where players hold individual hands of hidden and exposed cards with no community cards. Key facts: antes, bring-in, five betting streets, fixed limit, variants Stud/8 and Razz.
Stud wall
A stud wall is a wall built from a frame of evenly spaced vertical studs covered with drywall, the most common way to build a wall in modern construction.
Studbook selection
Studbook selection: choosing breeding animals and pairings from pedigree registries (studbooks/herdbooks), from the 1791 Thoroughbred General Studbook to zoo EEP programs, managing inbreeding via maximum-avoidance mating and modern genomic supplements.
Studebaker
Studebaker was an American vehicle manufacturer in South Bend, Indiana, that grew from a blacksmith shop into the world's largest wagon maker, building cars from 1902 to 1966.
Studebaker Avanti
The Studebaker Avanti was a fiberglass-bodied personal luxury coupe produced in South Bend, Indiana, from 1962 to 1963, designed by Raymond Loewy's team in under a year.
Studebaker Golden Hawk
The Studebaker Golden Hawk was the top-of-the-line model of the Studebaker Hawk family, built from 1956 through 1958 with a Packard V8 and, later, a supercharged Studebaker 289.
Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk
The Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk, often shortened to GT Hawk, is a personal luxury hardtop coupe built in South Bend, Indiana, from 1962 to 1964, the last variant of the Studebaker Hawk line.