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Stephen Shaw (immunologist)
Stephen Shaw is an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known for establishing the adhesion molecule ICAM-1 as the ligand for LFA-1 in 1988.
Stephen Shenker
Stephen Shenker, born in 1953, is an American theoretical physicist at Stanford University known for the Matrix Theory conjecture defining M theory and work on black hole chaos.
Stephen Shin
Stephen Shin is a DC Comics marine biologist created by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, debuting in Aquaman Vol. 7 #2 (2011). A friend of Tom Curry who trained young Arthur Curry, he later betrayed Aquaman over Atlantis's location; Randall Park plays him in the DCEU films.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore, born 1947 in New York City, is an American photographer known for pioneering color photography as a fine art through his 1970s series American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, which documented everyday North American life.
Stephen Silas
Stephen Silas (born 1973, Boston) is an NBA coach, son of Paul Silas; head coach of the Houston Rockets 2020-23 (59-177), longtime assistant with Charlotte, Cleveland, Golden State, Dallas, Detroit, and now Toronto.
Stephen Sligar
Stephen G. Sligar is an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for inventing Nanodisc technology and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale, also known as Steve Smale, is an American mathematician born in 1930 who won the 1966 Fields Medal and created the Smale horseshoe model of chaos.
Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers (born 1962, Indianapolis) is the American director-writer of The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Odd Thomas (2014), his last feature to date.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021), American composer and lyricist of West Side Story lyrics and the scores of Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods; six Best Score Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize, and an Academy Award.
Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet of the 1930s Oxford Poets with Auden and Isherwood; author of Poems (1933), Vienna, and World Within World; Communist Party member turned disillusioned; editor of Horizon and Encounter.
Stephen Stigler
Stephen M. Stigler, born in 1941, is an American statistician and historian of statistics at the University of Chicago, known for Stigler's law of eponymy.
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills (born 1945, Dallas, Texas), American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, CSNY, Manassas, and The Rides; wrote "For What It's Worth" and "Love the One You're With"; twice a 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Stephen Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange, MCU sorcerer played by Benedict Cumberbatch since 2016; a neurosurgeon whose injured hands led him to Kamar-Taj, where he became the Sorcerer Supreme, wielded the Time Stone, and opened the MCU's multiverse.
Stephen Strasburg
Stephen James Strasburg is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire career with the Washington Nationals and was the 2019 World Series MVP.
Stephen Stucker
Stephen Stucker (1947–1986), American comic actor; played manic controller Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs in Airplane! (1980) and its sequel, Kentucky Fried Theater member, died of AIDS at 38.
Stephen Szántó
Stephen Szántó, Latinized as Stephanus Arator, was a Hungarian Jesuit missionary in Transylvania and Ottoman Hungary who wrote a 1610 refutation of the Quran and helped found a Hungarian college in Rome.
Stephen T. Crews
Stephen T. Crews is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for defining how the single-minded gene controls CNS midline development in Drosophila.
Stephen T. Emlen
Stephen T. Emlen is a Cornell University professor emeritus and authority on the evolution of vertebrate social behavior, especially birds, known for work on mating systems and animal families.
Stephen T. Holgate
Sir Stephen T. Holgate is a British physician-scientist, MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton since 1987, known for asthma and air pollution research.
Stephen T. Mason
Stephen T. Mason is a behavioral neuroscientist who showed in Nature papers from 1975 that rats depleted of forebrain noradrenaline learn normally but respond abnormally to reward omission.
Stephen T. Reeders
Stephen T. Reeders is a geneticist and physician who in 1985 first mapped the gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease to chromosome 16, enabling diagnostic and prenatal tests.
Stephen T. Warren
Stephen T. Warren (1953–2021) was an American human geneticist who led the team that identified the FMR1 gene as the cause of fragile X syndrome in 1991.
Stephen Talbot
Stephen Talbot (born 1949), American documentary filmmaker and former child actor (Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver); Emmy, DuPont, and Peabody winner known for Frontline films and The Movement and the "Madman" (2023).
Stephen the Great
Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare, also Stephen III) was Voivode of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504, winning renown for his long resistance to the Ottoman Turks.
Stephen Theodore Badin
Stephen Theodore Badin (Étienne Théodore Badin) was a French-born Catholic missionary priest, the first ordained in the United States, who spent six decades as a pioneer missionary of Kentucky and the Old West.
Stephen Thomas Kent
Stephen Thomas Kent is an American computer scientist and network security pioneer who was primary author of the IPsec standards and joined the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
Stephen Thompson (fighter)
Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson (born 1983) is an American UFC welterweight from Simpsonville, South Carolina; undefeated 57-0 kickboxer, Tetsushin Ryu Kempo karate black belt, two-time Tyron Woodley title challenger known for his side-on karate striking stance.
Stephen Timoshenko
Stephen Timoshenko (Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko, 1878–1972) was a Ukrainian-born engineer regarded as the father of applied mechanics in the United States, known for beam theory.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951, Dallas) is an American character actor with over 200 screen credits, known for Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, Sammy Jankis in Memento, and his podcast The Tobolowsky Files.
Stephen Tomaš of Bosnia
Stephen Tomaš, also known as Stjepan Tomaš, was the penultimate King of Bosnia from 1443 to 1461, an illegitimate son of King Stjepan Ostoja who died in unexplained circumstances.