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Stephen Port

Stephen Port, born 1975, is the British 'Grindr killer', a serial killer convicted in 2016 of murdering four young gay men with GHB overdoses in Barking, London, 2014-2015; he received a whole life order amid documented Metropolitan Police investigation failures.

Stephen Quake

Stephen Quake is a Stanford bioengineer and applied physicist whose lab pioneered microfluidic large-scale integration, single-molecule DNA sequencing, and the first non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome.

Stephen R. Bloom

Sir Stephen R. Bloom is a British endocrinologist at Imperial College London whose discovery of gut hormones' role in appetite led to GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity.

Stephen R. Bough

Stephen Rogers Bough is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Stephen R. Carpenter

Stephen R. Carpenter, born 1952, is an American limnologist and ecosystem ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for whole-lake experiments and the trophic cascade concept.

Stephen R. Clark, Sr.

Stephen R. Clark, Sr. is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2019.

Stephen R. Durham

Stephen R. Durham is a British allergist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London whose trials showed grass-pollen immunotherapy can stop after three years with lasting benefit.

Stephen R. Elliott

Stephen R. Elliott is a chemical physicist known for research on disordered solids, chalcogenide glasses, and phase-change memory, and Professor of Chemical Physics at Cambridge until 2019.

Stephen R. Farmer

Stephen R. Farmer, also published as Stephen Farmer, is an American cell biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, known for work on adipocyte formation.

Stephen R. Forrest

Stephen R. Forrest is an American electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Michigan whose phosphorescent OLED work underpins Samsung's displays and who co-founded Universal Display Corporation.

Stephen R. Holdsworth

Stephen R. Holdsworth, also known as Stephen Holdsworth, is an Australian clinician scientist at Monash University whose research established that macrophages and T cells drive glomerular injury in glomerulonephritis.

Stephen R. Langhoff

Stephen R. Langhoff, also published as S. R. Langhoff, was a theoretical chemist at NASA Ames Research Center known for the modified coupled-pair functional electron correlation method.

Stephen R. Lawhead

Stephen R. Lawhead (Stephen Ray Lawhead, born 1950, Kearney, Nebraska) is an American historical and Christian fantasy writer, author of the Pendragon Cycle, Dragon King trilogy, and King Raven trilogy, long resident in Oxford, England.

Stephen R. Leone

Stephen R. Leone, also known as Stephen Leone, is an American chemist and physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for attosecond science and ultrafast XUV spectroscopy.

Stephen R. Palumbi

Stephen R. Palumbi is an American evolutionary biologist who directs Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Stephen R. Sprang

Stephen R. Sprang, also known as S.R. Sprang, is an American structural biologist best known for determining the first crystal structure of a complete G protein heterotrimer in 1995.

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea, born 1946 in Belfast, is a Northern Irish actor Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), co-founder of Field Day Theatre Company with Brian Friel (1980), winner of a 2015 BAFTA TV Award and the 2024 IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award; distinct from the Belfast author of the same name.

Stephen Root

Stephen Root (born 1951) is an American character actor known for Milton Waddams in Office Space, Jimmy James on NewsRadio, and voicing Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on King of the Hill; he won his first Emmy in 2026 for Widow's Bay and voices Brian Heder in Grand Theft Auto VI.

Stephen Roy Bond

Stephen Roy Bond, born in 1963, is a British economist at Nuffield College, Oxford, known for the Arellano–Bond and Blundell–Bond GMM estimators and for research on corporate investment and taxation.

Stephen S Lim

Stephen S Lim, also published as Stephen Lim, is a professor at the University of Washington's IHME, known for Global Burden of Disease risk-factor methods.

Stephen S. Taylor

Stephen S. Taylor is a British cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology and Head of the Division of Cancer Sciences at the University of Manchester, known for work on the spindle assembly checkpoint.

Stephen S. Trott

Stephen S. Trott, born 1939, is an American jurist who served as a judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1988 to 2020, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Stephen S. Wachtel

Stephen S. Wachtel is an American geneticist whose 1975 and 1976 New England Journal of Medicine papers used the H-Y antigen to detect Y-chromosomal material in sex-reversed patients.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Stephen Samuel Wise, also known as Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, was a Budapest-born American rabbi (1874–1949) who founded the Free Synagogue, the American Jewish Congress, and the World Jewish Congress.

Stephen Sanchez

Stephen Sanchez (born 2002) is an American retro-pop singer-songwriter from California, based in Nashville, known for "Until I Found You" (2021), the Gold concept album Angel Face (2023), and the 2026 album Love, Love, Love.

Stephen Schanuel

Stephen Hoel Schanuel (1933–2014) was an American mathematician at SUNY Buffalo known for Schanuel's conjecture, a central open problem in transcendental number theory, Schanuel's lemma, and the Ax–Schanuel theorem.

Stephen Schnetzer

Stephen Schnetzer (born 1948) is an American actor known for Cass Winthrop on Another World (1982–1999), Steve Olson on Days of Our Lives, and Broadway roles in Filumena and The Goat.

Stephen Schuler

Stephen Schuler, known as Steve Schuler, is an American electronic-trading entrepreneur who spent 18 years on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor before co-founding the high-frequency trading firm GETCO in 1999.

Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Schwartz (born 1948, New York City) is the American composer-lyricist of Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, and Wicked, and of songs for Pocahontas, The Prince of Egypt, and Enchanted; winner of three Oscars, four Grammys, and the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award.

Stephen Self

Stephen Self is a physical volcanologist and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, best known as co-deviser of the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the standard scale for ranking volcanic eruptions.