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Steven Page

Steven Page, Canadian singer-songwriter born in Scarborough, Ontario; co-founder and co-lead vocalist of Barenaked Ladies (1988-2009), later solo artist behind Page One, Excelsior, Discipline, and the Steven Page Trio.

Steven Pasquale

Steven Pasquale (born 1976, Hershey, Pennsylvania) is an American actor and tenor, known for Sean Garrity on Rescue Me, Broadway roles in The Bridges of Madison County and American Son, a 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, and marriage to Phillipa Soo.

Steven Peil

Steven Peil is a physicist who, with Gerald Gabrielse at Harvard, demonstrated quantum jumps of a one-electron cyclotron in 1999, the platform behind the most precise electron magnetic moment measurements.

Steven Pienaar

Steven Pienaar, South African left-sided midfielder (born 1982, Johannesburg), played for Ajax Cape Town, Ajax, Borussia Dortmund, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Sunderland and Bidvest Wits; 62 South Africa caps, famed for his left-flank partnership with Leighton Baines at Everton.

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker (born 1954, Montreal), also known for The Language Instinct and Better Angels, is a Harvard cognitive psychologist researching language, verbs, common knowledge, and violence, and author of thirteen books including Enlightenment Now (2018).

Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide

Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide: on April 12, 2018 Pladl killed his infant son Bennett in Knightdale, NC, shot his daughter-wife Katie Pladl and her adoptive father Anthony Fusco in New Milford, CT, then died by suicide in Wingdale, NY, after incest arrests.

Steven Pruitt

Steven Pruitt, editing as Ser Amantio di Nicolao, is English Wikipedia's most prolific editor by edit count, with over six million edits and 33,000+ articles created; a Time 2017 honoree and unpaid volunteer.

Steven R. Cummings

Steven R. Cummings is an American epidemiologist who studies osteoporosis and aging, led the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures and the FREEDOM denosumab trial, and is a UCSF professor emeritus.

Steven R. Furlanetto

Steven R. Furlanetto is a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA whose research centers on cosmic reionization, the first galaxies, and the hydrogen 21-centimeter signal.

Steven R. H. Barrett

Steven R. H. Barrett, also known as Steven Barrett, is an aeronautical engineer known for flying the first airplane with no moving propulsion parts in 2018.

Steven R. Kass

Steven R. Kass is an American physical organic chemist and professor at the University of Minnesota known for work on Brønsted acids, bases, and hydrogen-bond catalysis.

Steven R. McQueen

Steven R. McQueen (born 1988, Los Angeles) is an American actor, grandson of Steve McQueen, known for Jeremy Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries and Jimmy Borrelli on Chicago Fire.

Steven R. White

Steven R. White is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of California, Irvine, known as the inventor of the density matrix renormalization group, published in 1992.

Steven Raga

Steven Raga is an American Democratic politician elected in 2022 to the New York State Assembly from the 30th district in Queens, the first Filipino American to serve in the legislature.

Steven Ray Thacker

Steven Ray Thacker (born 1970), also known as David Wilson, was an American triple murderer executed in Oklahoma on March 12, 2013, for the 1999 rape-murder of Laci Dawn Hill and killings in Missouri and Tennessee.

Steven Reilly

Steven Reilly is an American geneticist and assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine who studies cis-regulatory elements, the DNA that controls gene activity.

Steven Rinella

Steven Rinella, American outdoorsman, writer, and TV host born in Twin Lake, Michigan; founder of MeatEater Inc., host of MeatEater on Netflix and The MeatEater Podcast, and author of American Buffalo.

Steven Robertson

Steven Robertson, Scottish actor from Vidlin, Shetland, born January 1 (1977 or 1980 in sources); known as DC Sandy Wilson in BBC One's Shetland and for Inside I'm Dancing (2004), Kingdom of Heaven, Luther, and Being Human.

Steven Rose

Steven Rose (1938–2025) was a British neurobiologist who spent his career searching for the molecular traces of memory in chick brains while campaigning against genetic determinism.

Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg is an American surgeon and cancer researcher who has led the National Cancer Institute's Surgery Branch since 1974, pioneering IL-2, TIL, and CAR T-cell immunotherapies for cancer.

Steven Rudich

Steven Rudich (1961–2024) was an American theoretical computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for the natural proofs barrier with Alexander Razborov, which won the 2007 Gödel Prize.

Steven Rudy

Steven Rudy is an American Republican politician who has represented Kentucky's 1st District in the state House since 2005 and serves as its Majority Leader.

Steven Runciman

Sir Steven Runciman (James Cochran Stevenson Runciman, 1903–2000), British historian of Byzantium and the Crusades; Trinity College Cambridge fellow; author of A History of the Crusades (1951–54) and The Great Church in Captivity.

Steven S. Brown

Steven S. Brown is an American atmospheric chemist and Deputy Director of NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for research on nighttime nitrogen oxide chemistry.

Steven S. DeKnight

Steven S. DeKnight (born 1964, Millville, New Jersey) is an American TV writer, director, and producer who created Starz's Spartacus, showran Daredevil season 1, and directed Pacific Rim: Uprising; not the British screenwriter Steven Knight.

Steven Salzberg

Steven L. Salzberg is a computational biologist at Johns Hopkins University, known for developing the widely used genome-sequencing software tools Bowtie, HISAT, and StringTie, and for contributing to the first draft human genome sequence.

Steven Sample

Steven Sample was an American electrical engineer whose touch-panel appliance controls appeared in over 300 million home appliances, and the tenth president of USC from 1991 to 2010.

Steven Schneider

Steven Jay Schneider (born 1974), American film producer, author, and former critic; founder of Room 101 and co-founder of Spooky Pictures with Roy Lee; known for Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Split, and the 1001 Movies book series.

Steven Schonfeld

Steven Schonfeld is an American billionaire trader who founded the New York multi-strategy hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors in 1988 with $400,000, a firm now managing more than $22 billion.

Steven Schussler

Steven Schussler is an American entrepreneur who founded the Rainforest Cafe, then created T-Rex Cafe, Yak & Yeti, and The Boathouse through his firm Schussler Creative.