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Steve Womack

Steve Womack is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district since 2011, after serving as mayor of Rogers, Arkansas.

Steve Worland

Steve Worland is a biotechnology executive who co-founded eFFECTOR in 2012 to regulate protein synthesis, and previously led Anadys Pharmaceuticals until its acquisition by Roche in 2011.

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak, also known as The Woz, is an American electronics engineer who co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and designed the Apple I and Apple II.

Steve Wright (DJ)

Steve Wright (Stephen Richard Wright, 1954–2024) was an English BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 presenter who brought the American 'zoo' format to British radio with Steve Wright in the Afternoon and hosted Sunday Love Songs; he died of a ruptured stomach ulcer.

Steve Wynn

Steve Wynn, born Stephen Alan Wynn, is an American casino resort developer who built the Golden Nugget, the Mirage, Treasure Island, and Bellagio, and founded Wynn Resorts.

Steve Wynn (musician)

Steve Wynn (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, founder of the Dream Syndicate of the Paisley Underground, later a solo artist, Baseball Project member, and 2024 memoirist.

Steve Yeager

Steve Yeager (born 1948), MLB catcher 1972-1986 for the Dodgers and Mariners; 1981 World Series tri-MVP with Cey and Guerrero; survived a 1976 broken-bat throat injury; introduced the catcher's throat protector.

Steve Yeager (Nevada politician)

Steve Yeager is an American politician, attorney, and former Clark County public defender serving as Democratic Speaker of the Nevada State Assembly since 2023, after his 2016 election.

Steve Young

Steve Young, NFL quarterback (USFL Los Angeles Express, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers 1987-1999), two-time MVP, Super Bowl XXIX MVP, Hall of Fame 2005, retired with 96.8 passer rating.

Steve Yzerman

Steve Yzerman, born 1965, Canadian hockey center and executive; Detroit Red Wings captain 1986-2006, three Stanley Cups, 1,755 points; later Tampa Bay and Detroit GM, removed July 15, 2026.

Steve Zahn

Steve Zahn (Steven James Zahn, born 1967, Marshall, Minnesota) is an American actor known for Reality Bites, That Thing You Do!, Happy Texas (Spirit Award, Sundance jury prize), The White Lotus (Emmy nomination), Silo as Solo, and Chad Powers.

Steve Zouski

Steve Zouski (born 1954) is an American former heavyweight boxer, active 1978-1991, record 31-18 with 15 KOs; a durable 1980s gatekeeper who fought Mike Tyson, George Foreman, and Marvis Frazier without ever challenging for a title.

Steve-O

Steve-O (Stephen Gilchrist Glover), American stunt performer and comedian from MTV's Jackass (2000), known for self-injury stunts, Wildboyz, sobriety, stand-up tours, and the Wild Ride podcast.

Steve's Lava Chicken

Steve's Lava Chicken is a 34-second Jack Black jingle from A Minecraft Movie (2025), the shortest song ever on the Billboard Hot 100 and shortest-ever UK Top 40 hit, later added to Minecraft as a Hyper Potions music disc.

Steve1989MREInfo

Steve1989MREInfo is the YouTube channel of Steven Andrew Thomas (born 1989), a Florida landscaper who unboxes and taste-tests military rations from the Civil War to today, known for "nice hiss" and the Bob Ross comparison.

Stevedore

A stevedore is a person or company engaged in loading and unloading cargo between ship and shore; in American usage the word often means the contracting companies employing longshoremen.

Steven A. Benner

Steven A. Benner (born 1954) is an American chemist and astrobiologist whose laboratory first synthesized a gene encoding an enzyme and DNA with 12 nucleotides.

Steven A. Carr

Steven A. Carr is a mass spectrometry researcher who is senior director of proteomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, known for proteomics methods for analyzing protein modifications.

Steven A. Cummer

Steven A. Cummer is an American electrical engineer and William H. Younger Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for work on electromagnetic cloaking, acoustic metasurfaces, and sprites.

Steven A. Goldman

Steven A. Goldman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Rochester known for research on neural stem cells and glial progenitor cell therapy.

Steven A. Goldstein

Steven A. Goldstein is an American bioengineer at the University of Michigan, a professor emeritus known for research on the mechanical and biologic regulation of bone repair and regeneration.

Steven A. Hillyard

Steven A. Hillyard (born 1942) is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who showed that selective attention amplifies attended inputs and codiscovered the N400 brain potential.

Steven A. Kivelson

Steven A. Kivelson is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University, known for work on stripes and electronic liquid-crystal phases in doped Mott insulators.

Steven A. Kliewer

Steven A. Kliewer is an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for defining targets of thiazolidinedione diabetes drugs and discovering FGF19 and FGF21.

Steven A. Narod

Steven A. Narod, also known as Steven Narod, is a Canadian medical geneticist who studies hereditary breast and ovarian cancer at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.

Steven A. Orszag

Steven A. Orszag, also known as Steven Orszag, was an American applied mathematician who held a Yale professorship and created spectral methods for fluid simulation, dying in 2011.

Steven A. Porcelli

Steven A. Porcelli is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for establishing that CD1 molecules present lipid antigens to T cells.

Steven A. Rosenberg

Steven A. Rosenberg is an American cancer immunotherapy researcher who, as Chief of the National Cancer Institute's Surgery Branch since 1974, developed the first effective immunotherapies for advanced cancer.

Steven A. Schroeder

Steven A. Schroeder is an American physician and health policy researcher who was President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002.

Steven A. Siegelbaum

Steven A. Siegelbaum is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies ion channels and hippocampal circuits underlying learning, memory, and social behavior, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.