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Stephan Ewen

Stephan Ewen, Berlin-based German engineer, co-creator of Apache Flink and Stratosphere, co-founder and CTO of data Artisans/Ververica, and founder of Restate (durable execution).

Stephan Grill

Stephan W. Grill, born 1974 in Heidelberg, is a German biophysicist and director at MPI-CBG Dresden known for discovering how the actomyosin cortex generates forces and torques that shape embryos.

Stephan Gruber

Stephan Gruber is a molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Lausanne, known for the 2003 discovery that cohesin forms a ring around sister chromatids.

Stephan Grzesiek

Stephan Grzesiek is a Swiss structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist who was Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, from 1999 until his retirement in 2025.

Stephan Hansen

Stephan Hansen, born 1995, Danish-born compound archer, two-time World Archery Champion (2013 team, 2015 individual), former world number one, first perfect 150 in a 15-arrow match; competes for the USA since October 2025.

Stephan Herzig

Stephan Herzig is a German metabolic physiologist, director of the Helmholtz Diabetes Center and Institute for Diabetes and Cancer in Munich, known for work on fasting metabolism.

Stephan Hocke

Stephan Hocke (born 1983, Suhl) is a German ski jumper, 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic team gold medalist and 2001 Engelberg World Cup winner; retired 2012, now a teacher at Sportgymnasium Oberhof.

Stephan J. Guyenet

Stephan J. Guyenet is an obesity researcher and health writer who studies how the brain regulates body fat, wrote The Hungry Brain in 2017, and debated Gary Taubes in 2019.

Stephan J. Sigrist

Stephan J. Sigrist, born 1967 in Freiburg, is a German molecular neuroscientist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how presynaptic active zones organize neurotransmitter release.

Stephan James (actor)

Stephan James (born 1993) is a Canadian actor from Scarborough, Toronto; brother of Shamier Anderson; played John Lewis in Selma, Jesse Owens in Race (CSA winner), Fonny in If Beale Street Could Talk, and Walter Cruz in Homecoming (Golden Globe nominee), and co-founded The Black Academy.

Stephan Jenkins

Stephan Jenkins (born 1964, Oakland, California) is an American singer-songwriter, founder and frontman of Third Eye Blind, known for Semi-Charmed Life and Jumper and his Mega Collider label.

Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz

Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz (1863–1933) was a German genealogist, jurist, and heraldist, son of chemist August Kekulé, who described and popularized the ahnentafel ancestor-numbering system.

Stephan Keller

Stephan Keller is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served as Mayor of Düsseldorf since 2020, after previously serving as city director in Cologne.

Stephan Lichtsteiner

Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss right-back born 1984 in Adligenswil; clubs GC Zürich, Lille, Lazio, Juventus, Arsenal, Augsburg; 108 Switzerland caps, seven Serie A titles; FC Basel head coach since January 2026.

Stephan Link

Stephan Link is a German-born chemist and the Walton Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for plasmonics and single-particle spectroscopy of metallic nanostructures.

Stephan Mølvig

Stephan Mølvig is a retired Danish rower, born in 1979 in Odense, who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004 and two world titles in the lightweight coxless four.

Stephan Morais

Stephan Morais is a Portuguese British venture capitalist, born 1973 in London, who co-founded and leads Indico Capital Partners in Lisbon, which backed Anchorage, Talkdesk, Sword Health, and Remote.

Stephan R. Targan

Stephan R. Targan is a gastroenterologist and immunologist at Cedars-Sinai who established TNF's role in Crohn's disease and led the 1997 infliximab trial, the first biologic therapy for inflammatory bowel disease.

Stephan Remmler

Stephan Remmler is a German singer and composer best known as the frontman of Trio, whose 1982 hit "Da da da" sold in 30 countries.

Stephan Roche

Stephan Roche is a French condensed-matter physicist and ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona, known for linear-scaling quantum transport methods and leading European graphene spintronics research.

Stephan S. Meyer

Stephan S. Meyer is an American experimental cosmologist and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, known for the COBE and WMAP satellites and the South Pole Telescope.

Stephan Saalfeld

Stephan Saalfeld is a computer scientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, a founding developer of ImgLib2 and contributor to Fiji and ImageJ.

Stephan Stilgenbauer

Stephan Stilgenbauer, born 1966, is a German hematologist-oncologist known for defining the prognostic role of genomic aberrations in CLL and leading pivotal venetoclax trials as head of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm.

Stephan van den Berg

Stephan van den Berg (born 1962, Hoorn, Netherlands), Dutch windsurfer; four-time world champion 1980-1983 and first Olympic windsurfing gold medalist, Windglider class, Los Angeles 1984; 7th at Barcelona 1992.

Stephan Veen

Stephan Veen (Stephan Patrick Veen), Dutch field hockey captain born 1970 in Groningen; two Olympic golds (1996, 2000), two world titles, World Hockey Player of the Year 1998 and 2000.

Stephan Volkert

Stephan Volkert, born 1971 in Cologne, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the quadruple sculls in 1992 and 1996 and bronze in 2000.

Stephan Windecker

Stephan Windecker is a Swiss interventional cardiologist who directs the University Clinic of Cardiology at Bern's Inselspital, leads randomized stent and antithrombotic trials, and holds senior European Society of Cardiology roles.

Stephan's Quintet

Stephan's Quintet, Hickson Compact Group 92, is a group of five galaxies in Pegasus discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877; four are truly interacting, about 290 million light-years away.

Stephane Boissel

Stéphane Boissel (born 1968) is a French biotechnology executive who has led SparingVision since 2020, advancing its gene-agnostic therapy SPVN06 into Phase I/II testing for retinitis pigmentosa.

Stéphane Breitwieser

Stéphane Breitwieser, French art thief from Alsace, stole 239 works from about 170 European museums, 1994–2001, never selling any; his mother destroyed much of the loot after his 2001 Lucerne arrest.