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Stefano Ermon

Stefano Ermon is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, known for score-based and diffusion generative models and for the 2016 Science paper predicting poverty from satellite imagery.

Stefano Gabbana

Stefano Gabbana, Italian fashion designer born 1962 in Milan, co-founded Dolce & Gabbana with Domenico Dolce in 1985; resigned as chairman in 2026 while keeping his creative role.

Stefano Longhi

Stefano Longhi is an Italian physicist and full professor of experimental physics at Politecnico di Milano, known for photonic quantum-optical analogies, PT-symmetric photonics, and the 2010 laser-absorber proposal.

Stefano M Bertozzi

Stefano M Bertozzi is a health economist, physician, and former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health who led the WHO Global Programme on AIDS.

Stefano Mancuso

Stefano Mancuso, born 1965 in Calabria, is an Italian botanist at the University of Florence who co-founded plant neurobiology, directs LINV, and studies plant intelligence.

Stefano Nardini

Stefano Nardini (c. 1420, Forlì – 1484, Rome) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Milan, created cardinal by Sixtus IV in 1473 and camerlengo of the Sacred College in 1481–82.

Stefano Okaka

Stefano Okaka Chuka (born 1989, Castiglione del Lago) is an Italian centre-forward of Nigerian descent; Roma academy record-setter, Coppa Italia 2006/07 winner, later Anderlecht, Watford, Udinese, Başakşehir and Ravenna; 5 Italy caps, 1 goal.

Stefano Passerini

Stefano Passerini is an Italian electrochemist known for ionic liquid electrolytes and sodium-ion batteries, formerly professor at Münster and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, and since 2026 dean at Nanjing Normal University.

Stefano Piccolo

Stefano Piccolo is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Padua and PI at IFOM, known for showing that YAP/TAZ convert cell shape and mechanical cues into gene regulation.

Stefano Pioli

Stefano Pioli (born 1965, Parma) is an Italian football coach and former Juventus defender; AC Milan head coach 2019-2024, winning the 2021-22 scudetto, later coaching Al Nassr and Fiorentina.

Stefano Pirandola

Stefano Pirandola is an Italian quantum information scientist and full professor of computer science at the University of York since 2016, known for the PLOB bound and measurement-device-independent quantum cryptography.

Stefano Pizzamiglio

Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio, Italian backstroke and relay swimmer born 1991 in Milan; 2013 Mediterranean Games double champion, Herning 2013 European short-course medalist, and member of Italy's 4x50m medley relay short-course world record (1:33.65).

Stefano Sacanna

Stefano Sacanna is an Italian colloidal chemist and Professor of Chemistry at New York University whose lab builds self-assembling synthetic colloids, including lock-and-key colloids and colloidal diamond.

Stefano Sanvito

Stefano Sanvito is an Italian condensed matter physicist and computational materials scientist who directs the CRANN institute at Trinity College Dublin and develops the Smeagol nanoscale modeling code.

Stefano Sensi

Stefano Sensi, born 1995 in Urbino, is an Italian midfielder from Cesena and Sassuolo who won two Serie A titles and two Supercoppa italiane with Inter (2019-2024) and was capped by Italy 2018-2022, his career marked by muscle injuries.

Stefano Soatto

Stefano Soatto is an Italian-American computer vision and robotics researcher, a UCLA professor on leave who is a vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS's Agentic AI organization.

Stefano Sollima

Stefano Sollima (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian director, son of Sergio Sollima, known for Romanzo Criminale, Gomorrah – The Series, Suburra, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Without Remorse, Adagio, and Netflix's Il Mostro.

Stefano Tilli

Stefano Tilli (Stefano Maria Tilli), Italian sprinter born 1962 in Orvieto; 1983 European indoor 60 m champion, 1983 World 4x100 relay silver (38.37), former world indoor 200 m record holder (20.52), four-time Olympian.

Stefano Zapperi

Stefano Zapperi, born 1970 in Rome, is an Italian statistical and condensed-matter physicist, full professor at the University of Milan, known for work on fracture, plasticity, and crackling noise.

Stefanos N. Kales

Stefanos N. Kales is an American physician-scientist in occupational and environmental medicine, Chief of Occupational Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance and a Harvard professor known for showing how strenuous emergency duties trigger cardiac death in firefighters.

Stefanos Ntouskos

Stefanos Ntouskos (Στέφανος Ντούσκος), Greek rower born 1997 in Ioannina; Olympic gold medalist in the men's single sculls at Tokyo 2020 (6:40.45, Olympic best time), Greece's first rowing gold; also competed at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 and won the 2025 world title.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς)

Stefanos Tsitsipas (Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς), Greek tennis player born 1998, former world No. 3, 2019 ATP Finals champion, three-time Monte-Carlo Masters winner with 13 titles; known for forehand-led attack and a vulnerable one-handed backhand.

Stefansson Island

Stefansson Island is an uninhabited island in Nunavut's Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northeast of Victoria Island; about 4,463 km², flat lowland, named in 1952 for explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Stefansson Strait

Stefansson Strait, also called Stefansson Sound or formerly Boggs Strait, is an ice-filled Antarctic strait 35 nautical miles long between Palmer Land and Hearst Island, photographed by Wilkins in 1928 and named for Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Stefany Shaheen

Stefany Shaheen is an American politician, health care advocate, and entrepreneur, the Democratic nominee for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District House seat in 2026 and a former Portsmouth city councilor.

Steffan Rhodri

Steffan Rhodri (born 1967, Morriston, Swansea) is a Welsh actor best known as Dave Coaches in Gavin & Stacey and as DCI Barry Clarke in Death Valley, with roles in House of the Dragon, Wonder Woman, and Harry Potter, extensive stage work, and fluent Welsh.

Steffanie A. Strathdee

Steffanie A. Strathdee is a Canadian-American infectious disease epidemiologist at UC San Diego, known for HIV research among people who inject drugs and for reviving phage therapy.

Steffen Bilger

Steffen Bilger, born 1979, is a German CDU politician and lawyer who has represented the Ludwigsburg constituency in the Bundestag since 2009 and serves as Federal Minister of Transport.

Steffen Deibler

Steffen Deibler, German swimmer (born 1987, Biberach an der Riß), short course 50m butterfly world record holder (21.80, 2009–2018), three-time Olympian 2008–2016, brother of Markus Deibler.

Steffen Jung

Steffen Jung is a German-born immunologist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, known for fate-mapping studies of monocytes and tissue macrophages.