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Stephen Geoffreys

Stephen Geoffreys (born Stephen Geoffrey Miller, 1964, Cincinnati) is an American actor, Tony-nominated in 1984, best known as Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985) and Hoax in 976-EVIL; he worked in gay adult film as Sam Ritter and returned to indie horror with Sick Girl (2007).

Stephen Gethins

Stephen Gethins is a Scottish National Party politician who has been Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Energy in the Scottish Government since May 2026.

Stephen Gevedon

Stephen Gevedon (born 1966, New York City) is an American actor and screenwriter, co-writer and co-star of Session 9 (2001); also known for Oz, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, and Madoff.

Stephen Glass

Stephen Randall Glass (born 1972), American disgraced journalist at The New Republic who fabricated 27 of 41 articles with fake notes, voicemails, and websites; exposed by Forbes in 1998, denied California bar admission in 2014, subject of the film Shattered Glass.

Stephen Glover (screenwriter)

Stephen Glover is an American screenwriter and executive producer, younger brother of Donald Glover, known for FX's Atlanta, the 2017 Emmy-nominated episode 'Streets on Lock,' Guava Island, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith; distinct from the British journalist Stephen Glover.

Stephen Goff

Stephen Goff is an American virologist at Columbia University known for genetic analysis of retrovirus replication and for showing that clam leukemia spreads as a transmissible cancer.

Stephen Goldfinch

Stephen Goldfinch is an American Republican politician representing District 34, covering Georgetown and Horry Counties, in the South Carolina Senate, after serving in the state House of Representatives.

Stephen Gostkowski

Stephen Gostkowski, NFL placekicker (born 1984), Patriots 2006-19 and Titans 2020; Patriots' all-time leading scorer (1,775 points), 3 Super Bowl titles, 4 Pro Bowls, drafted 2006 fourth round from Memphis.

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (born 1973, Kirkby, England) is an English actor, producer, and writer known for This Is England's Combo, Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, Boiling Point, and the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Netflix series Adolescence, which he co-created.

Stephen Gray (writer)

Stephen Gray (1941–2020) was a South African novelist, poet, playwright, and editor, widely described as the country's foremost literary historiographer; his works include eight novels and biographies of Beatrice Hastings and Herman Charles Bosman.

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is an American literary critic, founder of new historicism, and Harvard professor whose 2011 book The Swerve won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (born 1949, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film and TV director, producer, writer, and poet, known for Paris Trout, Waterland, Losing Isaiah, and Homegrown, and father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Stephen H. Anderson

Stephen H. Anderson, born 1932 in Salt Lake City, is a senior US circuit judge on the Tenth Circuit, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

Stephen H. Bryant

Stephen H. Bryant is a computational biologist and Senior Investigator at NCBI, NIH, known for PubChem and the Conserved Domain Database, and a 2016 Herman Skolnik Award recipient.

Stephen H. Davis

Stephen H. Davis was an American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist at Northwestern University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for interfacial dynamics and solidification research.

Stephen H. Embury

Stephen H. Embury is an American hematologist and physician-scientist who joined UCSF in 1977, known for research on the molecular genetics of sickle cell disease and thalassemia and for founding Vanguard Therapeutics.

Stephen H. Friend

Stephen H. Friend is a clinician-scientist who led the team that cloned the first human cancer susceptibility gene, founded Sage Bionetworks, worked at Apple on digital health, and co-founded 4YouandMe.

Stephen H. Howell

Stephen H. Howell is an American plant molecular biologist at Iowa State University known for introducing recombinant DNA into plants and for work on plant stress responses.

Stephen H. Hughes

Stephen H. Hughes is an American virologist known for structural work on HIV reverse transcriptase and for showing that HIV-infected cells persist by clonal expansion.

Stephen H. Leppla

Stephen H. Leppla is an American bacterial toxin biologist who is Chief of the Microbial Pathogenesis Section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying anthrax toxin.

Stephen H. Locher

Stephen H. Locher, born 1978 in Mason City, Iowa, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Iowa, appointed by President Biden in 2022.

Stephen H. Maslen

Stephen H. Maslen was an aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist who earned a 1952 Brown University Ph.D. and developed approximate analytical methods for hypersonic flow over blunt bodies, applied to the Space Shuttle's windward surfaces.

Stephen H. Richardson

Stephen H. Richardson is an isotope geochemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town known for developing radiometric dating of mineral inclusions in diamonds.

Stephen H. Robinson

Stephen H. Robinson (died 1998) was an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, known for work on heme metabolism, bilirubin formation, and the porphyrias.

Stephen H. Schneider

Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was an American climatologist at NCAR and Stanford who founded the journal Climatic Change and shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Stephen H. Scott

Stephen H. Scott is a neuroscientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on voluntary motor control, who invented the KINARM robotic system in 1998.

Stephen H. Zinner

Stephen H. Zinner is an American infectious disease physician and pharmacology researcher, Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor at Mount Auburn Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor since 1999.

Stephen Hanessian

Stephen Hanessian, born 1935, is an organic chemist at the Université de Montréal known for the Chiron approach, which builds complex natural products from chiral starting materials.

Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper, born 1959, is an economist and politician who served as Canada's 22nd prime minister from 2006 to 2015, founded Reform, merged the Alliance and PCs into the Conservative Party, and won elections in 2006, 2008, and 2011.

Stephen Harriman Long

Stephen Harriman Long, also known as Stephen H. Long, was an American army engineer who explored the Great Plains and patented the Long truss bridge design in 1830.