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Stanley Armour Dunham
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, Kansas-born WWII Army sergeant under Patton, furniture salesman, who with wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age ten.
Stanley Atcitty
Stanley Atcitty is an American electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who works on grid energy storage and received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2012.
Stanley B. Kater
Stanley B. Kater is a retired cellular and molecular neuroscientist who worked at Iowa, Colorado State, and Utah, showing that calcium levels in the growth cone steer developing nerve fibers.
Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner, born in 1942, is an American biochemist and neurologist at UCSF who discovered and named prions, winning the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Stanley Backer
Stanley Backer (1920–2003) was an American textile engineer and MIT professor who led its Fibers and Polymers Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Stanley Bacon
Stanley Vivian Bacon (1885–1952), British wrestler, won freestyle middleweight gold at the 1908 London Olympics, beating George de Relwyskow 2-0; competed again in 1912 and 1920.
Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker (William Stanley Baker, 1928–1976), Welsh actor and producer of Zulu, Hell Drivers, and The Guns of Navarone; knighted 1976, died of lung cancer aged 48.
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), British Conservative statesman, three-time prime minister (1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37) and party leader 1923–37; handled the 1926 General Strike and 1936 abdication crisis, later unfairly branded a 'Guilty Man'.
Stanley Barber
Stanley Arthur Barber (1921–2002) was a Canadian-born soil scientist who spent his career at Purdue University, building a mechanistic model of nutrient uptake by plant roots.
Stanley Baum
Stanley Baum was an American radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the first interventional radiologists in the United States, chairing Penn's radiology department from 1975 to 1996.
Stanley Baxter
Stanley Livingstone Baxter (1926–2025), Scottish actor, comedian and impressionist; star of The Stanley Baxter Show, the Parliamo Glasgow sketches and lavish TV specials reaching over 20 million viewers; BAFTA winner.
Stanley Black & Decker
Stanley Black & Decker, also known as the Stanley Works, is an American tool and industrial manufacturer in New Britain, Connecticut, formed in 2010 when Stanley merged with Black & Decker.
Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr.
Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
Stanley Bruce
Stanley Melbourne Bruce was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1923 to 1929, leading a Nationalist–Country Party coalition, and later became Viscount Bruce of Melbourne.
Stanley C. Froehner
Stanley C. Froehner is an American molecular biologist at the University of Washington who studies skeletal muscle and gene therapy, known for discovering the syntrophin proteins.
Stanley C. Jordan
Stanley C. Jordan is an American transplant nephrologist and immunologist who directs nephrology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for antibody-removal desensitization therapies enabling HLA-incompatible kidney transplants.
Stanley C. Suboleski
Stanley C. Suboleski is an American mining engineer and coal executive who served at Massey Energy and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), American Harvard philosopher of ordinary language, skepticism, Emersonian perfectionism, and film; author of The Claim of Reason, The World Viewed, and Pursuits of Happiness.
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke, born 1951 in Philadelphia, is an American jazz bassist and composer, co-founder of Return to Forever with Chick Corea, known for School Days, the Clarke/Duke Project, Grammy wins, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master honors.
Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
Stanley Cohen (1922–2020) was an American biochemist who discovered epidermal growth factor and characterized its receptor, sharing the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini for discoveries of growth factors.
Stanley Cohen (sociologist)
Stanley Cohen (1942–2013), South African-born British sociologist and criminologist at LSE, coined "moral panic" and "folk devils" in Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) and wrote States of Denial (2001).
Stanley controller
The Stanley controller is a geometric lateral path-tracking method for autonomous vehicles that steers from heading error and lateral offset, named after Stanford's 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin (1920–1986) was an American fluid dynamicist at Johns Hopkins University, a National Academy of Engineering member known for the Obukhov–Corrsin scalar spectrum theory.
Stanley Crane
L. Stanley Crane (1915–2003) was an American railroad engineer and executive, president of Southern Railway and chairman of Conrail from 1981, returning it to profit and private ownership.
Stanley Crooke
Stanley Crooke is an American pharmacologist who founded Ionis Pharmaceuticals in 1989 and led it as chief executive until 2020, overseeing more than 20 marketed antisense drugs including Spinraza.
Stanley Cup
Stanley Cup, or Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, is the NHL's championship trophy, donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston, first won by Montreal AAA in 1893, NHL-exclusive since 1926-27.
Stanley Cup Finals
Stanley Cup Final, NHL's annual best-of-seven championship series between conference winners for the Stanley Cup; NHL-exclusive since 1926-27, best-of-seven since 1939; recent champions Florida Panthers (2025) and Carolina Hurricanes (2026).
Stanley Cup playoffs
Stanley Cup playoffs, NHL postseason tournament; 16 teams, four best-of-7 rounds, division-based bracket with wild cards; champion wins the Stanley Cup, awarded to NHL playoff champion since 1926-27.
Stanley D. Wilson
Stanley D. Wilson was an American geotechnical engineer who co-founded the Seattle firm Shannon & Wilson in 1954 and invented the slope inclinometer, delivering the sixth Terzaghi Lecture in 1969.
Stanley Dancer
Stanley Dancer (1927-2005), American harness racing trainer-driver from New Egypt, New Jersey; trained and drove Triple Crown winners Nevele Pride, Most Happy Fella, and Super Bowl, won five Hambletonians, and had seven Horses of the Year.