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Stephen Wei-Lun Tsai
Stephen Wei-Lun Tsai is an American engineer and emeritus professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and known for the Tsai-Hill and Tsai-Wu failure criteria.
Stephen West
Stephen West (1735–1819) was a Congregational minister of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, who succeeded Jonathan Edwards in the Stockbridge Indian mission and wrote as a Hopkinsian theologian.
Stephen Wilson Jr.
Stephen Wilson Jr. is an American country singer-songwriter from Seymour, Indiana, blending country with grunge and indie rock on nylon-string guitar. Former Mars food scientist and Golden Gloves boxer; debut double album søn of dad (2023, Big Loud), songs "Gary" and "Stand By Me", CMA New Artist nominee.
Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist and MBE (2006), draws city panoramas from memory after brief viewing; Tokyo 10-metre eight-day panorama, Empire State Building observatory design, autism diagnosed at three.
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist and theoretical physicist who created Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, founded Wolfram Research in 1987, and wrote A New Kind of Science.
Stephen Wooldridge
Stephen Wooldridge (1977-2017), Australian track cyclist; Olympic gold in the 4000 m team pursuit at Athens 2004 and four team pursuit world titles; later a UNSW engineering academic.
Stephen Zamenhof
Stephen Zamenhof (1911–1998) was a Polish-born American biochemist, nephew of the creator of Esperanto, who worked on nucleic acid chemistry and chemical mutagenesis at Columbia and UCLA.
Stephen Zápolya
Stephen Zápolya (Hungarian: Szapolyai István) was a Hungarian magnate who served as palatine, the highest office of the kingdom, from 1492 until his death in 1499.
Stephen, King of England
Stephen (c.1097–1154), King of England 1135–1154, nephew of Henry I who seized the throne from Empress Matilda, triggering the Anarchy civil war; ended by the Treaty of Wallingford making Henry II his heir.
Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick
Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, American reality-TV competitor, four-time Survivor contestant (Palau, Guatemala, Heroes vs. Villains, season 50), famous as Ulong's tribe of one and Guatemala runner-up, also The Traitors.
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer, born Stephanie Morgan in 1973, is an American novelist whose Twilight Saga vampire romance series has sold over 160 million copies and spawned a five-film franchise.
Stephenson Yang
Stephenson Yang is a stellar astrophysicist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, known for precise stellar radial velocities, variable stars, and exoplanet detection work.
Stephenson's Rocket
Stephenson's Rocket, built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in 1829, won the Rainhill Trials for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and became the template for later steam locomotives.
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador is a town of about 6,600 people on Bay St. George on the west coast of Newfoundland, serving a surrounding area of roughly 25,000.
Stephenville, Texas
Stephenville, Texas, county seat of Erath County on the North Bosque River, home of Tarleton State University, known as the Rodeo Cowboy Capital of the World, population 20,897 (2020).
Stephnie Weir
Stephnie Weir (Stephnie Carmel Weir), American actress, comedian, and writer born 1967 in Odessa, Texas; MADtv cast member and writer 2000-2006, creator of Dot Goddard and Anna Nicole Smith impression, Second City and WeirDass improviser.
Stephon Gilmore
Stephon Gilmore (Gilly Lock), American NFL cornerback, 2012-2024; 2019 AP Defensive Player of the Year with the Patriots, Super Bowl LIII champion, 5x Pro Bowl; retired April 2026.
Stephon Marbury
Stephon Marbury, "Starbury", Brooklyn-born NBA point guard (1996 draft, 4th pick), 2x All-Star with Timberwolves, Nets, Suns, Knicks; later CBA star winning three titles with Beijing Ducks and their head coach.
Stephy Mavididi
Stephy Mavididi (Stephy Alvaro Mavididi), English winger born 1998 in Derby; Arsenal academy product, 2019 Serie A champion with Juventus, Montpellier 2020-23, Leicester City 2023-26, on loan at Watford 2026/27.
Stepin Fetchit
Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Perry, an American comedian and film actor who became Hollywood's first Black movie star in the late 1920s.
Stepmom (1998 film)
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon play a girlfriend and ex-wife who move from hostility to cooperation after a cancer diagnosis.
Stepmother
Stepmother: a woman partnered to a child's biological parent, not the biological mother. Also called father-stepmother families. Key facts: 19% of US children with a stepparent lived with father and stepmother; stepmothers face role ambiguity, more conflict, and give less support than stepfathers.
Steponas Kairys
Steponas Kairys (1879–1964) was a Lithuanian engineer and social democratic politician who signed Lithuania's Act of Independence in 1918 and led the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party for over four decades.
Stepovak Bay Group
Stepovak Bay Group: volcanic field of four Quaternary vents (Stepovak Bay 1-4) on the western Alaska Peninsula, SW of Kupreanof volcano; tholeiitic andesite, Holocene flows, GVP number 312055.
Stepparent and second-parent adoption
Stepparent and second-parent adoption, also known as coparent adoption, lets a stepparent or a parent's unmarried partner adopt a child without ending that parent's rights.
Steppe
A steppe is a level, treeless grassland plain, the name coming from the Russian stepi; the vast Eurasian Steppe stretches from Eastern Europe to Mongolia.
Steppe bison
Steppe bison (Bison priscus), extinct Pleistocene Holarctic bison, ancestor of American bison; large-horned, grass-feeding mammoth-steppe herbivore known from Blue Babe and European cave art.
Steppe eagle
Steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis), a large Endangered migratory raptor of Eurasian steppe breeding in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia, wintering in Africa, Arabia, and South Asia; threatened by electrocution, poisoning, and habitat loss.
Steppe Governorate-General
The Steppe Governorate-General (Степное генерал-губернаторство), informally the Steppe Region, was a Russian Empire administrative unit governing what is now northern and eastern Kazakhstan from its center in Omsk from 1882 to 1917.
Stepped care model
The stepped care model is a healthcare approach that offers patients the least intensive effective treatment first, escalating only if monitoring shows it is insufficient.