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Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow (周星馳, born 1962) is a Hong Kong actor-director whose mo lei tau comedies like All for the Winner, Shaolin Soccer, and Kung Fu Hustle broke Hong Kong box office records, and whose later mainland films The Mermaid set Chinese records.

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert (Stephen Tyrone Colbert, born 1964) is an American comedian and host of The Colbert Report and CBS's The Late Show from 2015 until its CBS-cancelled finale on May 21, 2026.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Stephen Cole Kleene, known as Stephen Kleene, was an American mathematical logician who founded recursion theory and created the regular events behind regular expressions, spending most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Stephen Colletti

Stephen Colletti (born 1986, Newport Beach, California) is an American actor known as Stephen from MTV's Laguna Beach seasons 1-2 and as Chase Adams on One Tree Hill (2007-2012), later co-creating Everyone Is Doing Great.

Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins (born 1947, Des Moines, Iowa) is the American actor who played Rev. Eric Camden on 7th Heaven (1996-2007) and Captain Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; his career collapsed in 2014 after molestation admissions.

Stephen Cook

Stephen Arthur Cook is a computer scientist at the University of Toronto who introduced the theory of NP-completeness in his 1971 paper and formulated the P versus NP question.

Stephen Corey Bryant

Stephen Corey Bryant was an American convicted murderer who received a death sentence for the murder of Willard “T.J.” Tietjen and life sentences for the murders of Clifton Gainey and Christopher Burgess.

Stephen Corteen Cowin

Stephen Corteen Cowin (1934–2016) was an American mechanician who applied continuum mechanics to bone, known for the theory of adaptive elasticity and the fabric tensor.

Stephen Cottrell

Stephen Cottrell (Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell, born 1958) is a Church of England bishop who has been the 98th Archbishop of York since 2020, after serving as Bishop of Chelmsford.

Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey, also known as Stephen Richards Covey, was an American management author and educator whose 1989 book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People founded a training business.

Stephen Crabb

Stephen Crabb (born 1973) is a Welsh Conservative former MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire (2005-2024), ex-Secretary of State for Wales, brief Work and Pensions Secretary, and 2016 Conservative leadership contender backing Brexit with single market access.

Stephen Crandall

Stephen Harry Crandall (1920–2013) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his career at MIT, pioneered random vibrations, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and Sciences.

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, and war correspondent; author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat, and The Black Riders; pioneer of American literary naturalism who died of tuberculosis at 28.

Stephen Crichton

Stephen Crichton ("Critta"), born 2000 in Apia, Samoa, is a centre and captain of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs; a three-time premiership winner with Penrith, NSW Origin winner, and Samoa's 2022 World Cup final field-goal hero.

Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry (born 1988) is an American NBA point guard for the Golden State Warriors, drafted seventh in 2009 from Davidson; four-time champion, two-time MVP, and first player with 4,000 career three-pointers.

Stephen Curry (comedian)

Stephen Curry, born in Melbourne in 1976, is an Australian actor and comedian known for playing Dale Kerrigan in the 1997 comedy film The Castle.

Stephen D. Bell

Stephen D. Bell is a Scottish molecular biologist who studies how archaea organize and duplicate their chromosomes, and has been a professor at The Ohio State University since 2024.

Stephen D. Liberles

Stephen D. Liberles is a neuroscientist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for mapping vagus nerve sensory neurons.

Stephen D. Nimer

Stephen D. Nimer is an American physician-scientist who studies leukemia and blood formation and has directed the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami since 2012.

Stephen D. Roper

Stephen D. Roper, also published as Stephen Roper, is a neuroscientist at the University of Miami known for establishing ATP as the main transmitter linking taste cells to nerves.

Stephen D. Senturia

Stephen D. Senturia is an American electrical engineer and Weller Professor emeritus at MIT, a MEMS pioneer who wrote Microsystem Design and founded Polychromix after retiring in 2002.

Stephen D. Silberstein

Stephen D. Silberstein is an American neurologist and headache-medicine specialist who directed the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia, led the fremanezumab HALO trial, and won the American Headache Society's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stephen D. Umans

Stephen D. Umans is an American electrical engineer specializing in electric machinery who spent 28 years as an MIT research engineer and authored the textbook Electric Machinery.

Stephen D. Wiviott

Stephen D. Wiviott is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who led the TRITON-TIMI 38 and DECLARE-TIMI 58 trials at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Stephen Dacus

Stephen Hayes Dacus is an American business executive who became the first foreign chief executive of Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of 7-Eleven, in May 2025.

Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry (Stephen David Daldry, born 1960, Dorset) is an English director of theatre, film, and television; Royal Court artistic director 1992–1998, director of An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader, and The Crown, with three Oscar nominations, three Tony Awards, and an Emmy.

Stephen Daley (American football)

Stephen Daley is an American college football defensive lineman for the Indiana Hoosiers, known for 19 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks in 2025 before a knee injury ended his season.

Stephen Darby

Stephen Mark Darby is an English retired footballer, a right-back from Liverpool's academy who captained Bradford City and retired in 2018 with motor neurone disease.

Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur (1779–1820), American naval officer and commodore, burned USS Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804, captured HMS Macedonian in 1812, defeated Algiers in 1815, and died in a duel with James Barron.

Stephen Desiderio

Stephen V. Desiderio is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on V(D)J recombination and RAG proteins.