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Stephanie St. Clair

Stephanie St. Clair, "Madam Queen" or "Queen of Numbers" (born 1897 Guadeloupe or 1887, died 1969), was a French Caribbean-born Harlem policy banker who fought Dutch Schultz and the police before ceding the numbers racket to Lucky Luciano's Mafia.

Stephanie Stahl Hamilton

Stephanie Stahl Hamilton is an American Democratic politician serving in the Arizona House of Representatives from the 21st district, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2022.

Stephanie Suganami

Stephanie Suganami (Stephanie Shepherd, Steph Shep), American actor and environmental advocate; former COO of Kardashian West Brands, Future Earth co-founder, known for Emily Katz in A24's Opus (2025).

Stephanie Thomas (Connecticut politician)

Stephanie Thomas is an American Democratic politician who has served as Connecticut's 75th Secretary of the State since 2023, the first Black person elected to the office.

Stephanie Vaquer

Stephanie Vaquer (Ana Stephanie Vaquer González, born 1993), Chilean WWE wrestler nicknamed La Primera; two-time WWE Women's World Champion, former NXT double champion, and former CMLL and NJPW STRONG women's champion.

Stephanie Vargas

Stephanie Vargas is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 33rd congressional district, and serves as Chief Deputy City Clerk of Colton.

Stephanie Wehner

Stephanie Wehner is a German physicist and computer scientist at QuTech, Delft University of Technology, known for quantum cryptography and leading the effort to build a quantum internet.

Stephanie White

Stephanie White, American basketball coach and former player; head coach of the Indiana Fever (2015-16, from 2025) and 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year with the Connecticut Sun; 1999 NCAA champion with Purdue.

Stephanie Williams (comics)

Stephanie Williams, American comic book writer, former research scientist; known for DC's Nubia & the Amazons, Marvel's Wakanda, and as the first Black woman Eisner Best Writer nominee (2026), writing Wonder Woman and Vixen.

Stephanie Zhan

Stephanie Zhan is a partner at Sequoia Capital who invests at the seed and earliest stages, known for backing companies at formation, including Skild AI, Reflection AI, and Linear.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Stephanie Zimbalist (born 1956, New York) is an American actor best known as Laura Holt on NBC's Remington Steele (1982–87, 94 episodes) with Pierce Brosnan, plus TV movies like Caroline? and a long stage career.

Stephanites

The Stephanites (Geʿez: däqiqä Ǝsṭifanos, "children of Ǝsṭifanos") were a 15th-century Ethiopian ascetic monastic reform movement founded by abunä Ǝsṭifanos around 1428 and later reconciled with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 16th century.

Stephano (moon)

Stephano (Uranus XX, provisional designation S/1999 U2) is a small, dark retrograde irregular moon of Uranus about 32 kilometers wide, discovered in 1999 and named after a butler in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Stephanolepis cirrhifer

Stephanolepis cirrhifer, the thread-sail filefish (Japanese kawahagi, Korean jwi-chi), is a western Pacific filefish of Monacanthidae from Hokkaido to the East China Sea, 30 cm max, commercially fished and cultured in Japan and Korea.

Stephanos Bibas

Stephanos Bibas, born in 1969 in Queens, New York, is a Third Circuit federal judge appointed by Trump in 2017, formerly a University of Pennsylvania law professor.

Stephanos I

Stephanos I (Greek: Στέφανος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 886 to 893, appointed by his brother Emperor Leo VI at about age 19 after Photios was removed.

Stephanos II

Stephanos II (Στέφανος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from August 925 to July 928, a former Metropolitan of Amaseia who blessed the Byzantine-Bulgarian royal marriage of 927.

Stephanus pagination

Stephanus pagination, also called Stephanus numbers or Estienne numbering, is the standard citation system for Plato's works, based on the page numbers and a–e section letters of Henri Estienne's 1578 three-volume Geneva edition.

Stephany Hollihan

Stephany Hollihan Vasconez, Ecuadorian fashion designer from Guayaquil and founder of Sensi Studio (2010), known for toquilla-straw Panama hats and artisanal resortwear sold in over 15 countries; died 19 August 2026 in a Kenya helicopter crash with her husband, intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi.

Stephen

Stephen, from Greek Stephanos (Στέφανος), "crown" or "wreath", is a masculine given name popularized by the protomartyr Saint Stephen; in English it is pronounced STEE-vən, one of the only "ph" words not said with an f sound.

Stephen "tWitch" Boss

Stephen "tWitch" Boss (Stephen Laurel Boss, 1982-2022) was an American freestyle hip-hop dancer from Montgomery, Alabama, runner-up on So You Think You Can Dance season 4 and DJ then co-executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Stephen (film)

Stephen (Tamil: ஸ்டீபன்) is a 2025 Tamil psychological thriller on Netflix, directed by debutant Mithun Balaji and starring Gomathi Shankar as Stephen Jebaraj, a self-confessed serial killer of nine women, with Smruthi Venkat as psychiatrist Seema.

Stephen A. Boppart

Stephen A. Boppart is an American physician-engineer and Grainger Distinguished Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for optical coherence tomography, label-free imaging, and co-founding four start-ups.

Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), the 'Little Giant,' was an Illinois Democratic senator, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty, winner of the 1858 Lincoln debates, and 1860 presidential loser to Lincoln.

Stephen A. Fuselier

Stephen A. Fuselier is an American space plasma physicist who studies magnetic reconnection and the heliosphere, and leads the Space Science Division at Southwest Research Institute.

Stephen A. Harrison

Stephen A. Harrison (1969–2024) was an American hepatologist who retired from the Army as a Colonel, led the trials behind the first FDA-approved MASH drug, and died at 55.

Stephen A. Herrod

Stephen A. Herrod is an American technology investor and former software executive, known as VMware's chief technology officer and for a decade as a General Catalyst managing director.

Stephen A. Higginson

Stephen A. Higginson, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Fifth Circuit since 2011, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Stephen A. Holditch

Stephen A. Holditch was an American petroleum engineer and Texas A&M professor. He founded S.A. Holditch & Associates and was known for his work on hydraulic fracturing.

Stephen A. Liebhaber

Stephen A. Liebhaber is an American geneticist and Emeritus Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on alpha-globin genes and messenger RNA stability.