Stella (given name)
| Stella | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈstɛlə/ STEL-ə |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin, Italian |
| Meaning | star |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Stelios, Estelle, Estella |
Stella is a feminine given name of Latin and Italian origin, meaning "star".[1][2]
List of people with the given name Stella
Arts and entertainment
- Stella, stage name of Stella Huang, singer-actress
- Stella Adler, American actress and acting teacher
- Stella Arbenina, Russian-born actress
- Stella Benson, English feminist, travel writer, and novelist
- Stella Bowen, Australian artist
- Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwean musician
- Stella Feehily, London-born Irish playwright and actor
- Stella Gibbons, English author
- Stella Gonet, Scottish theatre, film and TV actress
- Stella Hudgens, sister of American actress Vanessa Hudgens
- Stella Keitel, American actress
- Stella LeSaint (1881-1948), American silent film actress
- Stella Linden, actress and writer
- Stella Maessen, Dutch singer
- Stella Maeve, American actress
- Stella Malucchi, Italian-Colombian model and actress
- Stella March, pen name of a British romance novel author
- Stella Maxwell, Northern Irish model
- Stella Moray, English actress
- Stella Mwangi, Norwegian-Kenyan singer
- Stella Parton, American country music singer/songwriter, sister of Dolly Parton
- Stella Pevsner, author of children's books
- Stella Reid, co-star of the Fox network reality television show Nanny 911
- Stella Richman, British television producer
- Stella Roman, Romanian operatic soprano
- Stella Soleil, American pop and rock singer
- Stella Stevens, American film, television and stage actress
- Stella Steyn, Irish artist
- Stella Stocker, American composer and choral conductor
- Stella Stratigou, Greek actress
- Stella Vander, French singer and musician
- Stella Vine, English artist
Sports
- Stella Boumi, Greek swimmer
- Stella Carey, American mountain biker and cyclo-cross racer
- Stella Heiß, German curler
- Stella de Heij, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
- Stella Pilatou, Greek long jumper
- Stella Tsikouna, Greek discus thrower
- Stella Zakharova, Olympic gymnast for the former Soviet Union
Politics
- Stella Ambler, Canadian politician
- Stella Creasy, British Member of Parliament
- Stella Garza-Hicks, former Republican legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
- Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994), was a German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews.
- Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, British political and military figure
- Stella Jantuan, Moldovan politician
- Stella Levy, Israeli soldier and politician
- Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, Nigerian Minister of Aviation
- Stella Omu, Nigerian politician
- Stella Sigcau, Minister in the South African government and first female Prime Minister of the Transkei
Other
- Stella Baruk, Iranian-born French teacher, mathematician, author and educationalist
- Stella Cunliffe, British statistician
- Stella Kübler, German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II
- Stella Márquez, former Colombian beauty queen and first Miss International
- Stella Mary Newton, English fashion designer and dress historian
- Stella Maxwell, Northern Irish fashion model
- Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
- Stella Nickell, convicted murderer
- Stella Obasanjo, former First Lady of Nigeria
- Stella Rimington, British author and Director General of MI5
- Stella Ross-Craig, British botanic illustrator
- Stella Hackel Sims, Director of the United States Mint from 1977 to 1981
- Stella Tennant, British model
- Stella Tillyard, British author and historian
Fictional characters
- Stella (Winx Club), character in the animated series Winx Club
- Stella Bonasera, character in CSI: NY
- Stella Bonnaro, character in Cowboy Bebop
- Stella Chernak, character in the TV drama Peyton Place
- Stella the Storyteller, fictional character from the TV series Barney and Friends
- Stella Crawford, character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Stella Kowalski, character in the play A Streetcar Named Desire
- Stella Loussier, character in the anime Gundam SEED Destiny
- Stella Malone, character in the Disney Channel series Jonas
- Stella Mann (television character), character in the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)
- Stella Maynard, character in Anne of the Island
- Stella Moon, character in the Scottish BBC drama TV series Monarch of the Glen
- Stella Morris, title character of Sky series Stella
- Stella Price, character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Stella, the ideal woman in the work of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland
- Stella is the name of the Glinda analogue in The Wizard of the Emerald City series by Alexander Volkov
- Stella, a female Galah in the Angry Birds series including the spin-off Angry Birds Stella
- Stella Klauser, a non-playable character in Final Fantasy V
- Queen Stella, a non-playable character in Final Fantasy IX
- Stella, a non-playable character in Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
- Stella Hill, a student at Blackwell Academy in Life is Strange
- Stella Reid, the title character in a novel by A. LaFaye called Stella Stands Alone
Name day
Bulgaria: 26 November
References
- ↑ http://www.behindthename.com/name/stella
- ↑ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Stella
- ↑ "Decembris 2016". Kalendārs. Vārda dienas. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
See also
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