Stephenson
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Language(s) | English |
Meaning | "son of Stephen" (from Greek "stephanos", meaning "crown") |
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Variant form(s) | De Stefano, Di Stefano, Estébanez, Estensoro, Estenssoro, Esteves, Estévez, Estevez, Ştefănescu, Stefanov, Stefansen, Stefánsson, Stefansson, Stefanović, Stefanowicz, Stepanov, Stepanian, Stepanishvili, Stepanović, Stepanyan, Stephanides, Stephanopoulos, Steponavičius, Stevanović, Stević, Stevenson, Stevović, Szczepanowicz |
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Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning "son of Stephen". The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279. There are variant spellings including Stevenson.[2] People with the surname include:
- Ashley Stephenson (born 1982), Canadian hockey and baseball player
- Ashley Stephenson (1927–2021), British horticulturalist
- Benjamin Stephenson (disambiguation), several people
- Ben Stephenson (fl. 1990s–2020s), Anglo-American television executive
- Chandler Stephenson (born 1994), Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Bruce Stephenson (1929–2001), American astronomer
- D. C. Stephenson (1891–1966), American, Ku Klux Klan leader
- Debra Stephenson (born 1972), British actress
- Dwight Stephenson, American football player
- Earl Stephenson (born 1947), American baseball pitcher
- F. Richard Stephenson (born 1941), British astronomer
- Gene Stephenson, American college baseball coach
- George Stephenson (1781–1848), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket
- George Robert Stephenson (1819–1905), English civil engineer (nephew of George Stephenson)
- George Stephenson (disambiguation), multiple other people
- Gilbert Stephenson (1878–1972), British Vice Admiral
- Gordon Stephenson (1908–1997), Australian town planner and architect
- Helga Stephenson, Canadian media executive
- Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), British actor
- Isaac Stephenson (1829–1918), U.S. politician from Wisconsin
- Jim Stephenson, New Zealand international football (soccer) goalkeeper
- John Stephenson (disambiguation), people named John Stephenson
- June Ethel Stephenson (1914–1999), Australian artist
- Lance Stephenson (born 1990), American professional basketball player
- M. F. Stephenson (1801 – after 1878), U.S. assayer of the Dahlonega, Georgia Mint
- Neal Stephenson (born 1959), U.S. author
- Nicola Stephenson (born 1971), British actress
- Pamela Stephenson (born 1949), New Zealand-Australian comedian, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connolly
- Paul Stephenson (footballer) (born 1968), former British footballer
- Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner) (born 1937), British civil rights campaigner
- Sir Paul Stephenson (born 1983), former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- Paul Stephenson (rugby league), Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Riggs Stephenson (1898–1985), U.S. baseball player
- Robert Stephenson (1803–1859), British civil and railway engineer (son of George Stephenson)
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (born 1953), U.S. Wikipedia editor
- Roy Laverne Stephenson (1917–1982), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Samuel M. Stephenson (1803–1859), U.S. politician from Michigan
- Sean Stephenson (1979–2019), American therapist, writer, and speaker
- Shay Stephenson (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898–1961), British zoologist
- Tyler Stephenson (born 1996), American baseball player
- William Stephenson (1897–1989), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster
- William Stephenson (psychologist) (1902–1989), psychologist and physicist
- William Haswell Stephenson (1836–1918), English industrialist and philanthropist in Newcastle upon Tyne
See also
- Justice Stephenson (disambiguation)
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Surnames associated with the given name Stephen
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- Fitzstephen
- Steenson
- Steevens
- Stenson
- Stefan
- Stefanowitz (from Slavic)
- Stefansson
- Steffen
- Steffensen
- Stephan
- Stephans
- Stephen
- Stephens
- Stephensen
- Stephenson
- Stevens
- Stevenson
- Stinson
- De Stefano
- DeStefano
- Di Stefano
- Distefano
- Esteves
- Estevez
- Estienne
- Étienne
- Ștefan
- Stefani
- Ștefănescu
- Stefano
- Stefanoni
- Stec
- Stefan
- Stefanik/Štefánik
- Stefanko
- Stefanov
- Stefanovski
- Stefanovsky
- Stefanovic
- Stefanowicz
- Stefanović
- Stefański
- Stepanovich
- Stepanović
- Stepan
- Stepankov
- Stepanov
- Stepanovsky / Štepanovský
- Stepanenko
- Stepanets
- Stepanchenko
- Stepančić
- Stepanchuk
- Stepanishchev
- Stepaniv
- Stepantsev
- Stepantsov
- Stepanyuk
- Stepashin
- Stepashkin
- Stepin
- Stepinac
- Stepun
- Stepushkin
- Stets
- Stetsenko
- Steshenko
- Stetskiv
- Stetsko
- Stevanović
- Stipančić
- Stipanovich
- Stjepanović
- Styopin
- Styopkin
- Štěch
- Štefan
- Štěpán
- Štěpánek
References
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Surname list
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