Stella (given name)
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Arts and entertainment
- Stella (singer), stage name of Stella Huang, singer-actress
- Stella AdlerStella AdlerStella Adler was an American actress and an acclaimed acting teacher, who founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and the The Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles with long-time protege Joanne Linville, who continues to teach and furthers Adler's legacy...
, American actress and acting teacher - Stella ArbeninaStella ArbeninaStella Arbenina was a Russian-born English actress.Born Stella Zoe Whishaw in St. Petersburg, Russia into an English family who had mader their home in Russia for several generations, she was married in 1907 to Baron Paul Meyendorff Captain in the Horse Guards and Aides-de-camp to Tsar Nicholas II...
, Russian-born actress - Stella ArroyaveStella ArroyaveStella Arroyave, Lady Hopkins is an actress and producer. She married Sir Anthony Hopkins at a private ceremony in Malibu, California on 1 March 2003. Before her recent move into film Lady Hopkins was an antiques dealer...
, actress and producer - Stella BensonStella BensonStella Benson was an English feminist, travel writer, and novelist.-Early life:Benson was born to Ralph Beaumont Benson , a member of the landed gentry, and Caroline Essex Cholmondeley at Lutwyche Hall in Shropshire in 1892. Stella's aunt, Mary Cholmondeley, was a novelist. Stella was often ill...
, English feminist, travel writer, and novelist - Stella BowenStella BowenEsther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen was an Australian artist, born in North Adelaide in the southern part of the country. As a young girl, Bowen enjoyed drawing and convinced her mother to allow her to study with Margaret Preston...
, Australian artist - Stella ChiwesheStella ChiwesheStella Chiweshe is a Zimbabwean musician. She is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe...
, Zimbabwean musician - Stella FeehilyStella FeehilyStella Feehily is a London-born Irish playwright and actor. Her plays include "Game" 2003 produced by Fishamble Theatre company-Dublin -published in an anthology of first plays by New Island. ISBN 978-1-84840-020-7...
, London-born Irish playwright and actor - Stella GibbonsStella GibbonsStella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933...
, English author - Stella GonetStella GonetStella Gonet is a Scottish theatre, film and TV actress.- Career :Gonet trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is known for playing Beatrice Eliott, one of the two lead roles, in three series of the television drama, The House Of Eliott and Chief Executive Officer Jayne...
, Scottish theatre, film and TV actress - Stella Keitel, American actress
- Stella LeSaintStella LeSaintStella LeSaint was an American silent film actress.LeSaint started as an actress on the stage with the Florence Roberts company in San Francisco. She then moved on to vaudeville in New York City and formed the "Stella Razeto and Company" group...
, American silent film actress - Stella LindenStella LindenStella Linden was an actress and writer, best known for mentoring playwright John Osborne. In the cinema industry, she is best remembered as the wife of actor Terrence Edward Duff—better known by his stage name Patrick Desmond—and for writing the film Two a Penny...
, actress and writer - Stella MaessenStella MaessenStella Maessen is a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1970, 1977 and 1982- Hearts of Soul :...
, Dutch singer - Stella MalucchiStella MalucchiStella Malucchi is an Italian-Colombian model and actress. Fluent in the Thai language, she has primarily worked in Thailand, and has acted in two films, Tears of the Black Tiger and Angulimala....
, Italian-Colombian model and actress - Stella MarchStella MarchStella March was pen name of a British writer of romance novels from 1956 to 1986.She was the fourth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association.-Novels:*Just before the Dawn *Love Was the Reason...
, pen name of a British romance novel author - Stella MorayStella MorayStella Moray was an English character actress who appeared on stage, film, and television in dramas, comedies, and soap operas....
, English actress - Stella MwangiStella MwangiStella Nyambura Mwangi is a Norwegian-Kenyan singer, songwriter and rapper. Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya, also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991...
, Norwegian-Kenyan singer - Stella PartonStella PartonStella Parton is an American Country Music singer and songwriter. She is a younger sister of country music icon Dolly Parton, and musician and businessman Randy Parton. Stella Parton became a mildly successful country singer in the 70s, and though having nowhere near the success of her elder...
, American country music singer/songwriter, sister of Dolly Parton - Stella PevsnerStella PevsnerStella Pevsner is an author of children's books and works of young adult literature published since the late 1960s.Pevsner has published 18 books including And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine; Cute is a Four-Letter Word; How Could You Do It, Diane?; and Sing For Your Father, Su Phan...
, author of children's books - Stella ReidStella ReidStella Reid is a British nanny, best known as the co-star of the Fox network reality television show Nanny 911, on which she shares her child-rearing expertise with desperate parents.-Early life:...
, co-star of the Fox network reality television show Nanny 911 - Stella RichmanStella RichmanStella Richman was a British television producer.Originally an actress, she had a bit part in the second episode of The Quatermass Experiment in 1953, Richman was appointed script editor at Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision in 1960 working on single plays. Grade's sole condition was that her...
, British television producer - Stella RomanStella RomanStella Roman was a Romanian operatic soprano whose career brought her leading roles in Italy and the United States.-Background and training:...
, Romanian operatic soprano - Stella SoleilStella SoleilStella Katsoudas is an American pop and rock singer better known for stage names Stella Soleil and Sister Soleil. Katsoudas also fronts Dirty Little Rabbits.- Early life and career beginnings :...
, American pop and rock singer - Stella StevensStella StevensStella Stevens Stella Stevens Stella Stevens (born October 1, 1938 is an American film, television and stage actress, who began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as The Nutty Professor, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Silencers, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and The...
, American film, television and stage actress - Stella SteynStella SteynStella Steyn was an Irish artist of Jewish heritage. She was born in Dublin in 1907 to dentist William Steyn and Bertha Jaffe, who met and married in Limerick, having moved to Ireland from the town of Akmene on the borders of Latvia and Lithuania....
, Irish artist - Stella StockerStella StockerStella Prince Stocker was an American composer and choral conductor.-Biography:Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan in 1880 with a B.A....
, American composer and choral conductor - Stella StratigouStella StratigouStella Stratigou was a Greek actress. She played in theatre and films. She died on October 9, 2005. She was the sister of Stefanos, Aleka and Rena.-Filmography:-References:...
, Greek actress - Stella VanderStella VanderStella Vander is a French singer and musician.-Early years:Born in Paris into a family of Polish immigrants, she began writing music in the early sixties together with her uncle Maurice Chorenslup. Their songs were parodies of the Yé-yé style that was popular at the time...
, French singer and musician - Stella VineStella VineStella Vine is an English artist, who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting with subject matter drawn from either her personal life of family, friends and school, or rock stars, royalty and celebrities.After a difficult relationship with her stepfather, she left home and in...
, English artist
Sports
- Stella CareyStella CareyStella Carey is an American mountain biker and cyclo-cross racer. She is known for racing a single speed mountain bike. She began racing in 1994. She turned professional in 1998. She has raced for Nevada City, California-based Kelly Bicycles since 2001. She won the Single Speed World Championship...
, American mountain biker and cyclo-cross racer - Stella HeißStella HeißStella Heiß is a German curler. She played lead for Andrea Schöpp when she represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Curling...
, German curler - Stella de Heij, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
- Stella ZakharovaStella ZakharovaStella Zakharova is a retired gymnast who competed internationally for the former Soviet Union between 1977 and 1982. She was an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist in team competitions, and won individual all-around titles at other events.Zakharova won her first all-around championship...
, Olympic gymnast for the former Soviet Union
Politics
- Stella AmblerStella AmblerStella Ambler is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Mississauga South as a member of the Conservative Party.-External links:* official site...
, Canadian politician - Stella CreasyStella CreasyDr Stella Judith Creasy is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Walthamstow since 2010.-Education:...
, British Member of Parliament - Stella Garza-HicksStella Garza-HicksStella Garza-Hicks is a former Republican legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado.A former cosmetologist and salesperson, Garza-Hicks became active in Republican Party activism in Colorado Springs, Colorado and rose to become a district chairperson and campaign manager for local candidates. A...
, former Republican legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado - Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of ReadingStella Isaacs, Marchioness of ReadingStella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, GBE , née Stella Charnaud, was a British political and military figure....
, British political and military figure - Stella JantuanStella Jantuan- Biography :Stella Jantuan served as Chief of Unit of the Information and Analysis Department, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.She has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova since 2009.- External links :...
, Moldovan politician - Stella LevyStella Levy-Biography:Born in Syria in 1924, Levy made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1929. She attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and later studied psychology at the University of Haifa and political science and art at Tel Aviv University....
, Israeli soldier and politician - Stella Oduah-OgiemwonyiStella Oduah-OgiemwonyiPrincess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi is the Nigerian Minister of Aviation. She was confirmed to the post and sworn in on July 2, 2011. and was deployed to the Ministry of Aviation on July 4, 2011...
, Nigerian Minister of Aviation - Stella OmuStella OmuStella Omu is a Nigerian politician who was elected as national Senator on the People's Democratic Party platform in 1999 for the Delta South constituency of Delta State.-Background:Omu is of Isoko origin....
, Nigerian politician - Stella SigcauStella SigcauPrincess Stella Sigcau is best known as a Minister in the South African Government. Sigcau was also the first female Prime Minister of the Transkei before being deposed in a military coup in 1987....
, Minister in the South African government and first female Prime Minister of the Transkei
Other
- Stella BarukStella BarukStella Baruk is an influential Iranian-born French teacher, mathematician, author and educationalist. Since the 1970s she has been a key innovator in the teaching of mathematics in French schools.-Works:* Echec et maths...
, Iranian-born French teacher, mathematician, author and educationalist - Stella CunliffeStella CunliffeStella Vivian Cunliffe MBE was a British statistician.She was educated at Parsons Mead, Ashtead and the London School of Economics where she gained a BSc .- Career :...
, British statistician - Stella KüblerStella KüblerStella Kübler, Stella Isaacksohn , was a German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews.-Early life:...
, German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II - Stella McCartneyStella McCartneyStella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.-Early life:...
, English fashion designer - Stella Márquez, former Colombian beauty queen and first Miss International
- Stella Mary NewtonStella Mary NewtonStella Mary Newton, née Pearce was an English fashion designer and dress historian, who brought the history of fashion to bear on art history and the dating of paintings....
, English fashion designer and dress historian - Stella NickellStella NickellStella Maudine Nickell is a Seattle-area woman who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering after she allegedly poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, which resulted in the deaths of her husband Bruce and of Susan Chapman Snow...
, convicted murderer - Stella ObasanjoStella ObasanjoStella Obasanjo was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. She was not the First Lady in 1976, when Obasanjo was military head of state...
, former First Lady of Nigeria - Stella RimingtonStella RimingtonDame Stella Rimington, DCB is a British author, who was the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment...
, British author and Director General of MI5 - Stella Ross-CraigStella Ross-CraigStella Ross-Craig was an Anglo-Scottish illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora.- Early life and career :...
, British botanic illustrator - Stella Hackel SimsStella Hackel Sims-Biography:Stella Hackel Sims was born in 1926 in Burlington, Vermont. She was educated at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1945, and at the Boston University School of Law, receiving her J.D. in 1948....
, Director of the United States Mint from 1977 to 1981 - Stella TennantStella TennantStella Tennant is a British model. The granddaughter of the late Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford, who is the last of the noted Mitford sisters, Tennant was born in Scotland and attended St Leonards School in St Andrews. Her parents are The Hon...
, British model - Stella TillyardStella TillyardStella Tillyard is a British author and historian born in 1957, best known for the best-selling Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 which was made into a BBC Miniseries in 1999.-From academic to novelist:...
, British author and historian
Fictional characters
- Stella (Winx Club), character from the Winx Club animated series
- Stella BonaseraStella BonaseraStella Bonasera is a fictional character and protagonist on the CBS crime drama CSI: NY, portrayed by actress Melina Kanakaredes prior to season 7, at which point the character was written out of the show due to Kanakaredes not renewing her contract...
, character from CSI: NYCSI: NYCSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes... - Stella Bonnaro, character from Cowboy Bebop
- Stella ChernakStella ChernakStella Chernak is a fictional character on the television drama Peyton Place. She was portrayed in over 60 episodes by Lee Grant, between 1965 and 1966.-Character history:...
, character on the television drama Peyton Place - Stella CrawfordStella CrawfordStella Crawford is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Sophie Thompson. She left the show on 20 July 2007.-Storylines:...
, character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders - Stella KowalskiStella KowalskiStella Kowalski is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois.-In the play:...
, character from A Streetcar Named Desire - Stella Loussier, character from Gundam Seed Destiny
- Stella Malone, character from Jonas L.A.
- Stella Mann (television character), character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)
- Stella MoonStella MoonStella Moon is a fictional character in the Scottish BBC drama TV series Monarch of the Glen. Stella is played by actress Alexandra Gilbreath....
, character in the Scottish BBC drama TV series Monarch of the Glen - Stella PriceStella PriceStella Price is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Michelle Collins. Collins' casting was announced in April 2011 and she began filming her scenes in May. The actress commutes from north London to Manchester for filming. Collins joined the show in...
, character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street - Stella, the ideal woman in the poetry of Henrik WergelandHenrik WergelandHenrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist...
, Norwegian poet
See also
- Stela (disambiguation)
- StellarStellarStellar is an adjective referring to one or more stars. It may also refer to:* Hyundai Stellar, a car built by Hyundai Motor Company* "Stellar*", a New Zealand-based rock band.* "Stellar" , a song by Incubus...
- Estelle (given name)Estelle (given name)Estelle is a female given name of French derivation usually interpreted as meaning "star" via equation with "estoile" the Old French form of the Latin "stella". Saint Estelle is the name of a third century Occitan martyr: the older form of her name Eustalia indicates a Greek origin, the prefix eu...