Stevens (surname)
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Literature

  • Henry Stevens (1819–1886), U.S. bibliographer
  • Benjamin Franklin Stevens
    Benjamin Franklin Stevens
    Benjamin Franklin Stevens , like his brother Henry Stevens was a bibliographer, was born at Barnet, Vermont, was educated at the University of Vermont, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Society....

     (1833–1902), U.S. bibliographer
  • Brooke Stevens
    Brooke Stevens
    Brooke Stevens is an American novelist. His first novel, The Circus of the Earth and the Air, was a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer's Award in 1994 and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 1995. He has published two subsequent novels, not works of fantasy, and has...

    , U.S. fantasy and thriller writer
  • Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

     (1879–1955), U.S. poet
  • Barry Stevens
    Barry Stevens (therapist)
    Barry Stevens, born Mildred Fox, was a writer and Gestalt therapist. She developed her own form of Gestalt therapy body work, based on the awareness of body processes. For the human potential movement of the 1970s, she became a kind of "star", but she always refused to accept that role.She worked...

     (1902–1985), writer, Gestalt therapist
  • Shane Stevens
    Shane Stevens
    Shane Stevens is an American author of crime novels. His parents are John and Caroline Stevens....

     (born 1941), U.S. crime writer
  • K.J. Stevens (born 1973), U.S. writer

Visual arts

  • Alfred Stevens (sculptor)
    Alfred Stevens (sculptor)
    Alfred Stevens , British sculptor, was born at Blandford Forum in Dorset.He was the son of a house painter and in the early part of his career he painted pictures in his spare time. In 1833, the rector of his parish enabled him to go to Italy, where he spent nine years studying at Naples, Pompeii,...

     (1818–1875), British sculptor
  • Alfred Stevens (painter)
    Alfred Stevens (painter)
    Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens was a Belgian painter.Alfred Stevens was born in Brussels. He came from a family involved with the visual arts: his older brother Joseph and his son Léopold were painters, while another brother Arthur was an art dealer and critic...

     (1828–1906), Belgian painter
  • Noreen Stevens
    Noreen Stevens
    Noreen Stevens is a Canadian cartoonist, who created and wrote the lesbian comic strip The Chosen Family....

     (born 1962), Canadian cartoonist
  • Craig Stevens (photographer)
    Craig Stevens (photographer)
    Craig Stevens is a photographer and professor of Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is one of the original instructors to teach at the Maine Photographic Workshops, and has authored numerous articles on photographic craft and personal vision.His work relies on a range of...

    , U.S. photographer and educator

Music

  • Ragbaby Stevens
    Ragbaby Stevens
    Joe Stephens, generally known as "Ragbaby" or "Rag Baby Stephens", was an early New Orleans dixieland and jazz drummer....

     (“Ragbaby Stevens”) (1887–c.1927), U.S. ragtime and jazz drummer
  • Risë Stevens
    Risë Stevens
    Risë Stevens is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano.-Professional life:Stevens studied at New York's Juilliard School for three years. She went to Vienna, where she was trained by Marie Gutheil-Schoder and Herbert Graf. She made her début as Mignon in Prague in 1936 and stayed there until...

     (born 1913), American mezzo-soprano
  • Roy Stevens
    Roy Stevens
    Roy Stevens was an American trumpet player, Stevens-Costello System brass embouchure teacher, and author of the Embouchure Self-Analysis: Stevens-Costello Triple C Embouchure Technique with Bill Moriarity.-Biography:...

     (1918–1989), co-author of Stevens-Costello Triple C Embouchure Technique (1971)
  • Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs.-Early career:...

     (born 1939), U.S. country music singer and songwriter
  • John Stevens (drummer)
    John Stevens (drummer)
    John William Stevens was an English drummer. He was one of the most significant figures in early free improvisation, and a founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble .-Biography:Stevens was born in Brentford, the son of a tap dancer...

     (1940–1994), British drummer in Spontaneous Music Ensemble
  • Shakin' Stevens
    Shakin' Stevens
    Shakin' Stevens, also known as "Shaky" is a platinum selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who holds the distinction of being the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s . His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, although it was not until 1980 that he saw...

     (born 1948), Welsh rock and roll singer
  • Cat Stevens
    Cat Stevens
    Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....

     (born 1948), British musician
  • Leigh Howard Stevens
    Leigh Howard Stevens
    Leigh Howard Stevens is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique or Musser-Stevens grip, a method of independent four-mallet marimba performance based on the Musser grip...

     (1953), marimba
    Marimba
    The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

     artist
  • Steve Stevens
    Steve Stevens
    Steve Stevens is an American guitarist and songwriter.He is best known for playing for other artists and less known for his critically acclaimed solo efforts , collaborations Steve Stevens (born as Steven Schneider on May 5, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and songwriter.He...

     (born 1959), U.S. rock guitarist
  • Rogers Stevens
    Rogers Stevens
    Thomas Rogers Stevens is the guitarist from Blind Melon, an alternative rock band which began in the 1990s and is most famous for their hit song "No Rain"...

     (born 1970), pop guitarist
  • Sufjan Stevens
    Sufjan Stevens
    Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...

     (born 1975), U.S. musician and songwriter
  • John Stevens (singer)
    John Stevens (singer)
    John Bassat Stevens IV is an American classic pop singer and was the sixth-place finalist on the third season of the television series American Idol.-Biography:...

     (1987), U.S. singer and American Idol contestant
  • Connie Stevens
    Connie Stevens
    Connie Stevens is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles in the television series Hawaiian Eye and other TV and film work.-Early life:...

     (born 1938), U.S. singer and actress
  • Rachel Stevens
    Rachel Stevens
    Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer-songwriter, actress, presenter, dancer, television personality and model. She is a former member of the successful pop group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005...

     (born 1978), British singer and actress

Theatre, film and television

  • Ashton Stevens
    Ashton Stevens
    Ashton P Stevens was an American drama critic. His newspaper column appeared in the San Francisco Examiner and later in the Chicago Herald-American...

     (1872–1951), U.S. drama critic
  • Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American stage, television and film actor.-Career:Born Onslow Ford Stevenson in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of character actor Housley Stevenson...

     (1902–1977), U.S. actor
  • George Stevens
    George Stevens
    George Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Among his most notable films were Diary of Anne Frank , nominated for Best Director, Giant , winner of Oscar for Best Director, Shane , Oscar nominated, and A Place in the Sun , winner of Oscar for Best...

     (1904–1975), U.S. film director
  • Craig Stevens (actor)
    Craig Stevens (actor)
    Craig Stevens was an American motion picture and television actor.-Early and personal life:Born Gail Shikles, Jr., in Liberty, Missouri, his father was a high school teacher....

     (1918–2000), U.S. actor
  • Robert Stevens (director)
    Robert Stevens (director)
    Robert Stevens was a director, sometimes confused with the better-known director Robert Stevenson.Between 1955-1962, he directed 42 episodes of the TV Series Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

     (1920–1989), U.S. film director
  • Leslie Stevens
    Leslie Stevens
    Leslie Clark Stevens III was the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits and director of the cult horror film Incubus , starring William Shatner. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, Est: The Steersman Handbook .-Early life and career:Leslie Stevens was born in Washington, D.C...

     (1925–1998), U.S. television writer (The Outer Limits)
  • Inger Stevens
    Inger Stevens
    Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American movie and TV actress.- Early life :Inger Stevens was born Inger Stensland in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an insecure child and was often ill. When she was nine, her parents divorced and she moved with her father to New York City...

     (1934–1970), U.S. actress
  • Stella Stevens
    Stella Stevens
    Stella 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...

     (born 1936), U.S. actress
  • K.T. Stevens (1919-1994) U.S. actress
  • Andrew Stevens
    Andrew Stevens
    Andrew Stevens is an American executive, film producer, director and former actor.-Early life:Andrew Stevens was born Herman Andrew Stephens in Memphis, Tennessee...

     (born 1955), U.S. actor and film producer
  • Michael Fenton Stevens
    Michael Fenton Stevens
    Michael Fenton Stevens , sometimes credited as Michael Fenton-Stevens, is a UK actor and comedian, a founder member of The Hee Bee Gee Bees and the voice behind the Spitting Image 1986 number 1 hit "The Chicken Song"...

     (1957), British actor and comedian
  • Fisher Stevens
    Fisher Stevens
    Fisher Stevens is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love...

     (born 1963), U.S. actor
  • Carrie Stevens
    Carrie Stevens
    Carrie Stevens is an American model and actress. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in June 1997.Stevens grew up in Hardwick, Massachusetts and studied journalism at Memphis State University....

     (born 1969), U.S. model and actress
  • D. Stevens
    D Stevens
    D Stevens is an American broadcast journalist, photojournalist, photographer and filmmaker.-Career:In early 1970, as Public Affairs Director KPFK-FM, Stevens won a Golden Mike award for exposing conditions at California's Soledad Prison and the cause of the "Soledad Brothers" including George...

    , U. S. broadcast journalist, photojournalist, photographer and filmmaker.

Sports

  • Aaron Stevens (wrestler)
    Aaron Stevens (wrestler)
    Aaron Haddad is an American professional wrestler. He is contracted to WWE, and appears in Florida Championship Wrestling , a WWE developmental territory, as Damien Sandow. He is the current FCW 15 Champion...

     (1982), American professional wrestler
  • Brad Stevens
    Brad Stevens
    Brad Stevens is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Butler University. He grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, where he starred on the Zionsville Community High School basketball team, setting four school records...

     (born 1976), American basketball coach
  • Chase Stevens
    Chase Stevens
    Chase Stevens is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he was a member of The Naturals alongside his tag team partner Andy Douglas.-Career:...

     (born 1979), American professional wrestler
  • Félix Stevens
    Félix Stevens
    Félix Stevens is a retired male sprinter from Cuba, who competed in the 1980s and the early 1990s for his native country. He set is personal best in the men's 200 metres event on July 7, 1989 at a meet in Sofia, Bulgaria....

     (born 1964), Cuban sprinter
  • Gary Stevens
    Gary Stevens
    Gary Michael Stevens is a retired English footballer who is best remembered playing in defence for a successful Everton side of the 1980s, as well as for the England national football team....

     (born 1963), the best known of several English footballers with this name
  • Gary A. Stevens
    Gary A. Stevens
    Gary Andrew Stevens is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth. He won seven caps for England.-Career:...

     (born 1962), another English footballer
  • Gary Stevens
    Gary Stevens (footballer born 1954)
    Gary Martin Stevens is a former English professional footballer. He was born in Birmingham.Stevens was playing non-league football for Evesham United while working at a Herefordshire chicken factory, when he was spotted by Cardiff City, and signed for the club during the summer of 1978 for a...

     (born 1954), still another English footballer
  • Gary Stevens
    Gary Stevens (rugby league)
    Gary Stevens is an Australian former rugby league player, a hard tackling second-row forward of the 1960s and 1970s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and Australian national representative side. He is the grandson of Souths club great Arthur Oxford.-Club...

     (fl. 2010), Australian rugby league player
  • Gary L. Stevens (born 1963), American jockey
  • Greer Stevens
    Greer Stevens
    Greer "Cat" Stevens is a former ladies professional tennis player. A native of Pietermaritzburg, Stevens in 1980 reached a career high singles ranking of World No. 7 and the Wimbledon quarterfinals in both singles and doubles. She also played for the Boston Lobsters of World TeamTennis...

     (born 1957), South African tennis player
  • Greville Stevens
    Greville Stevens
    Greville Thomas Scott Stevens was an English cricketer who played for Middlesex, Oxford University and England. He captained England in one Test match, which was lost to South Africa in 1927/8, when he stood in for Rony Stanyforth. Stevens was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918.-External...

     (1901–1970), English cricketer
  • Huub Stevens
    Huub Stevens
    Hubertus "Huub" Jozef Margaretha Stevens is a Dutch football manager and former defender.- Playing career :...

     (born 1953), Dutch football (soccer) player and coach
  • Kevin Stevens
    Kevin Stevens
    Kevin "Artie" Stevens is a retired ice hockey player and current NHL scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played left wing on a line with Mario Lemieux during the Penguins' Stanley Cup championships in 1991 and 1992...

     (born 1965), American ice hockey player
  • Kirk Stevens
    Kirk Stevens
    Kirk Stevens is a Canadian professional snooker player.Stevens started playing young, achieving his first aged just 12. He turned professional aged 20, and reached the semi-finals of the World Championship aged 21...

     (born 1958), Canadian professional snooker player
  • Matthew Stevens
    Matthew Stevens
    Matthew Stevens is a Welsh professional snooker player. Stevens has won two of the game's most prestigious events, the Benson and Hedges Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been the runner-up in the World Snooker Championship on two occasions, in 2000 and 2005...

     (born 1977), Welsh professional snooker player
  • Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens is a retired sprinter from Belgium, best known for winning the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland...

     (born 1968), Belgian sprinter
  • R. C. Stevens
    R. C. Stevens
    R.C. Stevens was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates before the 1952 season and traded to the Washington Senators on December 16, 1960. He played for the Pirates from 1958 to 1960, and for the Washington Senators in 1961...

     (born 1934), Major League Baseball first baseman
  • Raymond Stevens (born 1963), English judoka
  • Scott Stevens
    Scott Stevens
    Ronald Scott Stevens is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Stevens played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals, St. Louis Blues, and the New Jersey Devils...

     (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Thomas Stevens (cyclist)
    Thomas Stevens (cyclist)
    Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, from April 1884 to December 1886...

     (1854–1935), British cyclist, the first person to circle the globe by bicycle

Science and technology

  • John Stevens (inventor)
    John Stevens (inventor)
    Col. John Stevens, III was an American lawyer, engineer and an inventor.-Life and career:Born the son of John Stevens , a prominent New Jersey politician who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of New York lawyer and statesman James Alexander. His...

     (1749–1838), U.S. inventor, recipient of the first American railroad charter
  • John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens was an American engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907.- Biography :...

     (1853–1943), U.S. engineer (Great Northern Railway, Panama Canal)
  • Nettie Stevens
    Nettie Stevens
    Nettie Maria Stevens was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex....

     (1861–1912), U.S. biologist and geneticist
  • Stanley Smith Stevens
    Stanley Smith Stevens
    Stanley Smith Stevens was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and is credited with the introduction of Stevens' power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page "Handbook of Experimental Psychology" . He was also one of the founding organizers...

     (1906–1973), U.S. psychologist
  • Brooks Stevens
    Brooks Stevens
    Clifford Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer of home furnishings, appliances, automobiles and motorcycles — as well as a graphic designer and stylist....

     (1911–1995), U.S. car designer
  • Peter Stevens (born 1945), British car designer
  • Austin Stevens
    Austin Stevens
    Austin James Stevens is a South African-born herpetologist and wildlife photographer best known for hosting a series of snake documentaries. Austin is also the author of 2 books.-Biography:...

     (born 1950), South African herpetologist and documentary film maker
  • W. Richard Stevens
    W. Richard Stevens
    William Richard Stevens was one of the most famous and widely acclaimed authors of UNIX and TCP/IP books.-Biography:...

     (1951–1999), author of UNIX and TCP/IP books

Business

  • Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin Augustus Stevens was an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who left a bequest that was used to establish the Stevens Institute of Technology.-Early life and family:...

     (1795–1868), U.S. philanthropist
  • Robert L. Stevens (1787–1856), U.S. railroad executive

United States

  • Frederick P. Stevens
    Frederick P. Stevens
    Frederick P. Stevens was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving 1856–1857. He was born on October 26, 1810 in Pierpont, New Hampshire. He taught, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1835 or 1836, soon after coming to Buffalo. On January 20, 1837 he was appointed judge of the...

     (1810-1866), Mayor of Buffalo, New York
  • John Stevens (New Jersey)
    John Stevens (New Jersey)
    John Stevens was a prominent politician from New Jersey who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1783....

     (c.1716–1792), U.S. politician, delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Hestor L. Stevens
    Hestor L. Stevens
    Hestor Lockhart Stevens was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Stevens was born in Lima, New York and attended the common schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Rochester, New York. He ranked as major general of militia of western New York.Stevens...

     (1803–1864), U.S. Representative from Michigan
  • Isaac Stevens
    Isaac Stevens
    Isaac Ingalls Stevens was the first governor of Washington Territory, a United States Congressman, and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly...

     (1818–1862), first governor of Washington Territory, brigadier general in the Union Army
  • John L. Stevens
    John L. Stevens
    John Leavitt Stevens was the United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston and Sanford B...

     (1820–1895), U.S. diplomat
  • Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
    Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
    Robert Ten Broeck Stevens was a U.S. businessman and former chairman of J.P. Stevens and Company, which was one of the most established textile manufacturing plants in the U.S...

     (1899–1983), U.S. businessman and politician
  • John Paul Stevens
    John Paul Stevens
    John Paul Stevens served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 19, 1975 until his retirement on June 29, 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court's history...

     (b. 1920), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • Ted Stevens
    Ted Stevens
    Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history...

     (1923-2010), U.S. politician, U.S. Senator from Alaska
  • Ben Stevens
    Ben Stevens
    Ben Stevens is an American politician and former President of the Alaska State Senate. He is a Republican and the son of former United States Senator Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in United States Senate history.- Career :...

     (born 1959), U.S. politician, Alaska State Senator, son of Ted Stevens
  • Richard Y. Stevens
    Richard Y. Stevens
    Richard Y. Stevens is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's seventeenth Senate district, including constituents in Wake county in North Carolina. A management consultant from Cary, North Carolina, Stevens is currently serving his third term in the...

    , U.S. politician (North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

    )

Canada

  • Henry Herbert Stevens
    Henry Herbert Stevens
    Henry Herbert Stevens, PC was a Canadian politician and businessman. A member of R.B. Bennett's cabinet, he split with the Conservative Prime Minister to found the Reconstruction Party of Canada.-Early life:...

     (1878–1973), Canadian politician and businessman
  • Sinclair Stevens
    Sinclair Stevens
    Sinclair McKnight Stevens, PC is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and former parliamentarian.-Early life:He was born in Esquesing Township , the third child of Northern Irish immigrants Robert Murray Stevens and Anna Bailey McKnight...

     (born 1927), Canadian politician
  • Ron Stevens
    Ron Stevens
    Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

     (born 1949), Canadian politician
  • Jenny Stevens, Canadian politician
  • Dale Stevens, Canadian politician and television producer

Other countries

  • Siaka Stevens
    Siaka Stevens
    Siaka Probyn Stevens was the 3rd prime minister of Sierra Leone from 1967–1971 and the 1st president of Sierra Leone from 1971–1985. Stevens is generally criticised for dictatorial methods of government in which many of his political opponents were executed, as well as for mismanaging...

     (1905–1988), former President of Sierra Leone
  • Jimmy Stevens
    Jimmy Stevens
    Jimmy Stevens, known as "Moses" , was a Ni-Vanuatu nationalist and politician. As leader of the conservative Nagriamel movement, he declared the independence of Espiritu Santo island as the "State of Vemerana" in June 1980 and referred to himself as "prime minister"...

     (1910s or 1920s–1994), Ni-Vanuatu politician
  • John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
    John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
    John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington KStJ QPM DL FRSA was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2000 until 2005. From 1991 to 1996, he was Chief Constable of Northumbria Police before being appointed one of HM Inspectors of Constabulary in September 1996...

    , (b. 1942), former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London

Military

  • Thomas Holdup Stevens
    Thomas Holdup Stevens
    Captain Thomas Holdup Stevens, USN was an American naval commander in the War of 1812.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Thomas Holdup was orphaned at an early age and was adopted by General Daniel Stevens. On February 8, 1809, he was appointed midshipman on board Hornet...

     (1795–1841), American naval admiral in the War of 1812
  • Thomas H. Stevens, Jr.
    Thomas H. Stevens, Jr.
    Thomas Holdup Stevens, Jr. was an admiral of the United States Navy who fought in the American Civil War.-Early life and commission:...

     (1819–1896), American naval admiral
  • William J.C. Stevens (1957-), Japanese Field Marshal and Mastermind of Operation Genesis

History

  • John Stevens (immigrant)
    John Stevens (immigrant)
    John Stevens , who immigrated to America at age 17, invested in land, married the wealthy Ann Campbell, and became Port Collector at Perth Amboy. He was one of the thirteen original patentees of the Kayaderosseras tract, near Lake George, New York....

     (1682–1737), immigrant to the U.S.A., Port Collector at Perth Amboy, New Jersey
  • Thaddeus Stevens
    Thaddeus Stevens
    Thaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...

     (1792–1868), U.S. lawyer famous for defending runaway slaves
  • John H. Stevens
    John H. Stevens
    John Harrington Stevens was the first authorized resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military reservation, in exchange for providing ferry service to St. Anthony...

     (1820–1900), considered to be the first settler in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Robert Stevens (photo editor)
    Robert Stevens (photo editor)
    Robert Stevens was a photo editor for the Florida based tabloid, Sun, employed by American Media Inc. He was the first fatality linked to the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. He died of pulmonary anthrax after inhaling anthrax spores from a letter that is believed to have arrived at...

     (d. 2001), U.S. photo editor, 2001 anthrax attacks victim

Fictional characters

  • Bebe Stevens, South Park
    South Park
    South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...

  • Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure), Northern Exposure
  • Izzie Stevens
    Izzie Stevens
    Isobel 'Izzie' Katherine Stevens is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, which airs on ABC in the United States. The character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes, and was portrayed by actress Katherine Heigl from 2005 to 2010...

    , Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...

  • The Stevens family, in Even Stevens
    Even Stevens
    Even Stevens is an American comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel with a total of three seasons and 65 episodes from June 17, 2000, to June 2, 2003...

    , U.S. comedy television program
  • Stevens, the butler in Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's third published novel. One of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels, the work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989...

  • Stevens, the Pirates' star player, Galactik Football
    Galactik Football
    Galactik Football is a French animated television series, co-produced by Alphanim, France 2, Jetix Europe and Welkin-Animation. It started airing its 3rd 26-episode season in territories around Europe in June 2010....

  • Serena Stevens, a fictional character in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...

    .
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