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Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane (born Stephen Delaney, 1956, London) is an English stage and screen actor: Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones, Leonard Woolf in The Hours, Karl Roebuck in The Tunnel; Tony winner for The Real Thing.

Stephen DiNardo

Stephen DiNardo is an American molecular and developmental biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on engrailed, hedgehog, and Drosophila stem cell niches.

Stephen Dorff

Stephen Dorff (born 1973, Atlanta) is an American actor known as Deacon Frost in Blade (1998), Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, and Roland West in True Detective season 3; also an executive producer on Felon, Brake, Zaytoun, and Embattled.

Stephen Doughty

Stephen Doughty is a British Labour politician who has been MP for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012 and a Foreign Office minister since 2024.

Stephen Doxsey

Stephen J. Doxsey (1955–2025) was an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School who identified pericentrin and opened up centrosome biology as a molecular field.

Stephen Duck

Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756) was an English laboring-class poet known as the "thresher poet" who rose from Wiltshire farm work to Queen Caroline's patronage in 1730.

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy (born 1960), also Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, English singer-songwriter from Birmingham; founded Duran Duran in 1978, had the 1985 UK No. 4 hit "Kiss Me," and leads the folk-pop band The Lilac Time.

Stephen Duncan

Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was an American physician turned Mississippi planter, banker, and financier who enslaved more than 2,200 people on fifteen plantations and moved to New York as a unionist during the Civil War.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), American historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Band of Brothers, and Undaunted Courage, Eisenhower biographer, founder of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, later central figure in a 2002 plagiarism controversy.

Stephen E. Fienberg

Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) was a Canadian-born statistician who spent 36 years at Carnegie Mellon University and showed the 1970 US draft lottery was not properly randomized.

Stephen E. Girardin

Stephen E. Girardin is an immunologist and microbiologist at the University of Toronto, best known for showing that the intracellular sensors Nod1 and Nod2 recognize bacterial peptidoglycan fragments.

Stephen E. Haggerty

Stephen E. Haggerty was a mantle petrologist and diamond geologist who spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying diamonds and Earth's upper mantle.

Stephen E. Malawista

Stephen E. Malawista (1934–2013) was an American rheumatologist, professor of medicine at Yale, and co-discoverer of Lyme disease, whose 1983 paper established its spirochete cause.

Stephen E. Sallan

Stephen E. Sallan is a pediatric oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose ALL treatment protocols helped raise childhood leukemia survival from below 20 percent to about 90 percent.

Stephen E. Straus

Stephen E. Straus (1946–2007) was an American virologist and immunologist at NIH who discovered autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and directed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Stephen Eckel

Stephen Eckel is an American atomic physicist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who develops the Cold Atom Vacuum Standard and received the 2024 Presidential Early Career Award.

Stephen Elledge

Stephen J. Elledge, born 1956, is an American geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who mapped the DNA damage response and created the VirScan blood test.

Stephen Ellsworth

Stephen Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the prebiotic soda brand Poppi with his wife Allison in Austin, Texas, serving as Chief Product Officer.

Stephen Eustáquio

Stephen Antunes Eustáquio (born 1996, Leamington, Ontario) is a Canadian midfielder, Portugal U-21 alumnus, FC Porto regular 2021-2026, LAFC loanee, then Swansea City signing; Canada vice-captain and 2026 World Cup Round-of-32 match-winner.

Stephen F. Altschul

Stephen F. Altschul is a computational biologist known for the BLAST family of sequence search programs and their statistical theory, long at NCBI, retiring in 2020.

Stephen F. Austin

Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas," was an empresario who founded Anglo-American Texas under Mexican colonization laws, settled 300 families and more, was imprisoned in Mexico City, and died as Republic of Texas secretary of state.

Stephen F. Austin State University

Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), a public university in Nacogdoches, Texas founded in 1923, joined the UT System as its 14th member on September 1, 2023. About 13,000 students, six colleges, record 2025 first-time class, President Neal Weaver.

Stephen F. Badylak

Stephen F. Badylak is a physician-scientist in regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburgh whose laboratory developed extracellular matrix bioscaffolds that have treated more than 13 million patients.

Stephen F. Heinemann

Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was an American molecular neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who identified the genes encoding the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors activated by glutamate and acetylcholine.

Stephen F. Kingsmore

Stephen F. Kingsmore, also known as Stephen Kingsmore, is a geneticist who developed rapid whole-genome sequencing of critically ill newborns and served as president and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.

Stephen F. Martin

Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has held the Waggoner Regents Chair since 2000 and studies natural product synthesis.

Stephen F. Nelsen

Stephen F. Nelsen was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on the faculty from 1965 to 2012, known for work on radicals and electron transfer.

Stephen F. Traynelis

Stephen F. Traynelis is an American pharmacologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine known for his work on the biophysics and pharmacology of glutamate receptors.

Stephen F. Vatner

Stephen F. Vatner is an American cardiovascular physiologist who argued in 1975 for studying conscious animals, helped discover myocardial stunning, and chaired cell biology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Stephen Feinstone

Stephen M. Feinstone, born 1944, is an American virologist who first visualized the hepatitis A virus in 1973 and later helped develop the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.