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Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, known for polished studio recordings blending rock, pop, and jazz harmony with ironic lyrics.
Steen Lerche Olsen
Steen Lerche Olsen (1886-1960), Danish artistic gymnast from Copenhagen; won bronze in the men's team free system at Stockholm 1912 and gold in the same event at Antwerp 1920, his only two Olympic appearances.
Steen Raskopoulos
Steen Raskopoulos, Australian-born UK-based character comedian and improviser, The Bear Pack duo with Carlo Ritchie, Sydney Best Newcomer 2013, Edinburgh nominee 2014, star of The Office Australia (2024).
Steen Secher
Steen Klaaborg Secher (born 1959, Torsted, Horsens) is a Danish Soling sailor, Olympic gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 with Jesper Bank and Jesper Seier, and bronze medalist at Seoul 1988 with Bank and Jan Mathiasen.
Steen Steensen Blicher
Steen Steensen Blicher (1782–1848) was a Danish writer and Lutheran pastor whose short stories about rural Jutland made him a founder of modern Danish prose and its first great realist.
Steens Mountain
Steens Mountain is a 9,733-foot fault-block mountain in southeastern Oregon, the state's highest point east of the Cascades, with glacial gorges, the 170,200-acre Steens Mountain Wilderness, and the 2000 CMPA.
Steep (video game)
Steep is a 2016 open-world winter sports game by Ubisoft Annecy for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, featuring skiing, snowboarding, wingsuit, and paragliding in the Alps; Metacritic 71, Road to the Olympics expansion, ~15 million players.
Steep Canyon Rangers
Steep Canyon Rangers: American bluegrass band from Brevard/Asheville, North Carolina, formed around 2000 at UNC-Chapel Hill; Grammy winner for Nobody Knows You (2013), Steve Martin's backup band since 2009, 15th album Next Act (2026).
Steepest descent method (optimization)
The steepest descent method is an iterative first-order method for minimizing a differentiable function by moving opposite the gradient; it dates to the mid-19th century and underlies gradient-based training.
Steeplechase (athletics)
Steeplechase (athletics), 3000m steeplechase: track race with 28 fixed barriers and 7 water jumps, five jumps per lap; barriers 0.914 m (men) and 0.762 m (women); derived from 1850 Oxford cross-country runs.
Steeplechase (horse racing)
Steeplechase, also called jump or National Hunt racing, is Thoroughbred horse racing over fences, ditches, and water jumps. It began with Ireland's 1752 Buttevant-Doneraile race and includes the Grand National.
Steer-by-wire
Steer-by-wire (SbW) is a vehicle steering technology with no mechanical connection between the steering wheel and road wheels; electronic signals drive actuators that turn the wheels.
Steering
Steering is the system by which a vehicle's driver controls its direction, converting rotation of a wheel into angled motion of the road wheels, often with power assistance.
Steering damper
A steering damper, also called a steering stabilizer, is a hydraulic device on a motorcycle that resists rapid, unwanted handlebar movement while leaving normal steering unaffected.
Steering flow
Steering flow is the large-scale environmental wind field that determines the movement of a tropical cyclone, averaged through the troposphere's depth, and it underlies most track forecasting.
Steering wheel
The steering wheel is the wheel-shaped control a driver rotates to steer a vehicle, first used in the 1894 Paris–Rouen race and standard in cars ever since.
Steeve Guenot
Steeve Guénot (Steeve François Fabien Guénot), French Greco-Roman wrestler born 1985 in Chalon-sur-Saône; Olympic gold at 66 kg, Beijing 2008, first French wrestling champion since 1936, bronze London 2012, UWW Hall of Fame 2024.
Stef van Grieken
Stef van Grieken (Stefan van Grieken, born 1986) is a Dutch technology entrepreneur and former Google engineer who co-founded Cradle, a generative AI protein design company, in 2021.
Stefaan C. De Smedt
Stefaan C. De Smedt (born 1967) is a Belgian pharmaceutical scientist and full professor at Ghent University known for nanomedicine research, including laser-induced nanobubbles that ablate vitreous opacities.
Stefaan De Wolf
Stefaan De Wolf is a Belgian materials scientist who has been a professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia since 2016, leading research on silicon heterojunction and perovskite tandem solar cells.
Stefan (lunar crater)
Stefan is a 112.18 km lunar far-side impact crater at 46.33°N, 108.77°W, named for Austrian physicist Josef Stefan and IAU-approved in 1970; satellite crater Stefan L hosts a documented impact melt pit.
Stefan Andres
Stefan Andres (1906–1970) was a German novelist and playwright, a left-Catholic author who spent the Nazi years in exile in Positano and wrote Wir sind Utopia there in 1941.
Stefan Bajcetic
Stefan Bajcetic (Stefan Bajčetić Maquieira), Spanish defensive midfielder born 2004 in Vigo to Serbian ex-footballer Srdjan; Celta academy product who broke through at Liverpool under Klopp, later loaned to Salzburg and Las Palmas, now back at Celta Fortuna.
Stefan Banach
Stefan Banach (1892–1945) was a self-taught Polish mathematician who founded modern functional analysis, defined Banach spaces, proved the Banach–Tarski paradox, and led the Lwów School of Mathematics.
Stefan Baral
Stefan D. Baral is a Canadian physician epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for the 2016 Lancet series on transgender health.
Stefan Bergman
Stefan Bergman (1895–1977) was a Polish-born mathematician who created the kernel-function method in complex analysis; dismissed from Berlin in 1933, he joined Stanford University in 1952.
Stefan Blankenberg
Stefan Blankenberg (born 1968) is a German cardiologist, director of cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg and president of the German Society of Cardiology since 2025.
Stefan Blügel
Stefan Blügel (born 1957) is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist who led the quantum theory of materials institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich and co-discovered an atomic-scale skyrmion lattice in 2011.
Stefan Bogoridi
Stefan Bogoridi (Стефан Богориди; born Stoyko Tsonkov) was a high Ottoman official of Bulgarian origin, a diplomat and counselor to two sultans, Prince of Samos, and patron of Bulgarian education and the church.
Stefan Bräse
Stefan Bräse is an organic chemist and full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2003, known for organic azide chemistry and OLED emitter design.