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Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer (born 1969, born Stephen John Emery) is an English actor and director, best known as vampire Bill Compton in HBO's True Blood (2008-2014) opposite Anna Paquin; LAMDA-trained, RSC alumnus, later director of The Parting Glass and A Bit of Light.

Stephen Mulhern

Stephen Mulhern (born 1977, Stratford, London) is an English TV presenter, magician, and children's author known for ITV's Catchphrase, Britain's Got More Talent, In for a Penny, and Deal or No Deal.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.

Stephen Nedoroscik

Stephen Nedoroscik, American pommel horse specialist from Worcester, Massachusetts; 2021 world champion (first US world gold on the event), two-time NCAA champion, and double 2024 Paris Olympic bronze medalist known as Pommel Horse Guy.

Stephen Neidle

Stephen Neidle (born 1946) is a British chemical biologist and Emeritus Professor at the UCL School of Pharmacy known for establishing G-quadruplex DNA structures as targets for cancer drug discovery.

Stephen Nichols

Stephen Earl Nichols (born 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American soap opera actor, Steve "Patch" Johnson on Days of Our Lives since 1985, also Stefan Cassadine on General Hospital and Tucker McCall on The Young and the Restless.

Stephen Nickell

Stephen Nickell, born 1944, is a British labor economist known for the Layard-Nickell-Jackman unemployment framework, econometrics' Nickell bias, and Bank of England service from 2000 to 2006.

Stephen Nutt

Stephen Nutt, also published as Stephen L. Nutt, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, known for defining the roles of Pax5 and Blimp1.

Stephen O. Rice

Stephen O. Rice (1907–1986) was an American Bell Labs engineer whose 1944–1945 paper "Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise" founded the statistical theory of random noise.

Stephen O’Rahilly

Stephen O'Rahilly (born 1958) is an Irish-trained endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the University of Cambridge who established that mutations in single genes, including the leptin gene, cause severe obesity.

Stephen of Perm

Stephen of Perm (Стефан Пермский), who died in 1396, was the first bishop of Perm, converting the Komi people and creating the Old Permic alphabet for their language.

Stephen Oskoui

Stephen Oskoui is an American venture capital investor who co-founded Gigafund in 2017 with Luke Nosek, investing over $1 billion in SpaceX and backing Neuralink.

Stephen P. Bell

Stephen P. Bell is an American molecular biologist, the Whitaker Professor of Biology at MIT, who discovered the origin recognition complex that initiates eukaryotic DNA replication.

Stephen P. Cramer

Stephen P. Cramer (S. P. Cramer) is a chemist working in synchrotron x-ray spectroscopy and bio-inorganic chemistry, professor emeritus at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Stephen P. Fortmann

Stephen P. Fortmann is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Stanford University who directed the Stanford Five-City Project and the Stanford Prevention Research Center.

Stephen P. Friot

Stephen P. Friot (born 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.

Stephen P. Hubbell

Stephen P. Hubbell (born 1942) is an American ecologist, best known for the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and for founding the ForestGEO forest plot network.

Stephen P. Hunt

Stephen P. Hunt is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at University College London, known for research on the molecular biology of pain.

Stephen P. Long

Stephen P. Long (1950–2025) was a British crop scientist and plant physiologist who led the RIPE photosynthesis project and established Miscanthus as a bioenergy crop.

Stephen P. McGlynn

Stephen Patrick McGlynn is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Illinois since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Stephen P. Peters

Stephen P. Peters is an American pulmonologist and asthma researcher who holds the Thomas H Davis Chair in Pulmonary Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Stephen P. Sanders

Stephen P. Sanders is an American pediatric cardiologist and cardiovascular morphologist who directs the Cardiac Registry at Boston Children's Hospital and teaches part-time at Harvard Medical School.

Stephen P. Schoenberger

Stephen P. Schoenberger is a translational immunologist and professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, known for defining how helper T cells program killer T-cell immune memory.

Stephen Paddock

Stephen Craig Paddock, American accountant and gambler, perpetrated the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest festival massacre from Mandalay Bay's 32nd floor, killing 58 (later 60); no motive was ever established.

Stephen Palumbi

Stephen Palumbi is an American marine biologist and conservation geneticist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, known for DNA forensics exposing whale-meat and seafood fraud.

Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Pearcy, born 1956 in Long Beach, California, is the American founder, lead vocalist, and songwriter of glam metal band Ratt, the voice behind "Round and Round" and multi-platinum albums like Out of the Cellar, later fronting Arcade, Vertex, and Vicious Delite and recording solo albums on his Top Fuel Records label.

Stephen Perkins

Stephen Perkins (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American rock drummer, founding member of Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros, also of Banyan, Infectious Grooves, and The Panic Channel, known for tribal, jazz- and African-influenced drumming.

Stephen Pickell

Stephen John "Steve" Pickell (born 1957, Vancouver) is a Canadian swimmer who won silver in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, medaled at the 1974 Commonwealth and 1979 Pan American Games, and missed the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games; later a USC NCAA champion and California swim coach.

Stephen Pohlig

Stephen Pohlig (died 2017) was an American cryptographer who earned his PhD at Stanford under Martin Hellman in 1978 and co-invented the Pohlig–Hellman discrete-logarithm algorithm and a related exponentiation cipher.

Stephen Polasky

Stephen Polasky is an American environmental and ecological economist at the University of Minnesota who studies ecosystem services and biodiversity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.