Stella

Stella is the Latin for "star".

As a proper name, it may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Fictional characters 1.2 Surname 2 Toponym 3 Work title 4 Brands and product names 5 Other 6 See also

People

• Stella (given name), a feminine given name
  • Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
  • Stella (singer), Singaporean-Taiwanese singer
  • Stella Maessen, Dutch singer, sometimes going under the singular name of Stella

Fictional characters

• Stella Kowalski, a character in A Streetcar Named Desire
• Stella Bonasera, a fictional character from CSI: NY
• Stella Mayfair, a character in Mayfair Witch Chronicles by Anne Rice
• Stella (Winx Club), a character from the 2004 Italian show Winx Club

Surname

• Carlos Stella, an Argentine composer living in Berlin
• Joseph Stella, American Futurist painter

Toponym

• Stella, Liguria, a town in Liguria, Italy
• Stella, Missouri, a village in Newton County, Missouri
• Stella, Nebraska, a village in Richardson County, Nebraska
• Stella, South Africa, a town in the North West Province
• Stella-Plage, a seaside resort in northern France
• Stella de Mare, a seaside resort on the Red Sea in Ain El Sokhna, Egypt
• Stella Park, a village in the North East of England

Work title

Film

• Stella (1921 film), directed by Edwin J. Collins
• Stella (1943 film), with Zully Moreno (Argentina)
• Stella (1950 film), with Ann Sheridan and Victor Mature
• Stella (1955 film), directed by Michael Cacoyannis
• Stella (1983 film), directed by Laurent Heynemann
• Stella (1990 film), starring Bette Midler
• Stella (2008 film), starring Seema Biswas

Music

• Stella (Uzeda album), by Uzeda
• Stella (album), by Swiss electronica band Yello
• "Stella" (song), by All Time Low

Novels

• Stella (novella), by Colin Galbraith
• Stella (novel), by Jan de Hartog

Brands and product names

• Stella (magazine), Swedish science fiction magazine
• Stella (magazine supplement), magazine supplement for The Sunday Telegraph
• Stella (beer), an Egyptian beer
• Stella Artois, a Belgian beer
• Stella (bicycles), a French bicycle manufacturer
• Stella (yacht), a class of yacht designed in the UK by C.R. (Kim) Holman in 1959
• Stella (guitar), a brand of a guitar
• Stella (scooter), a vintage scooter brand introduced by the Chicago-based Genuine Scooter Company
• STELLA (language courses), online language courses
• Subaru Stella
• Stella Cheese, a division of Saputo Incorporated that makes Italian style cheeses

Computing

• Stella (emulator), multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator.
• Stella (software), polyhedra modeling software
• The graphics chip of the Atari 2600, named after the CEO's bicycle
• The IBM Blue Gene-L supercomputer used with the LOFAR radio telescope project

Other

• Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain
  • Stella shorts, a series of short films by the Stella comedy troupe
  • Stella (TV series), a half-hour comedy program by the Stella troupe that aired on Comedy Central
• Stella (band), a Finnish rock/pop band
• Stella, a gene expressed by primordial germ cells
• Stella Awards, given to people who file ridiculous lawsuits for huge financial gain
• Stella power stations, a demolished pair of coal-fired power stations once on the Tyne, northeast England
• SS Stella, shipwreck
• Stella (United States coin), with a face value of four dollars ($4)

See also

• Stella Maris
• Stellar
• Stela (disambiguation)
• "Stella by Starlight", a known jazz standard

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