Stella (given name)
Stella is a female given name. It is derived from the Latin word for star. It has been in use in English-speaking countries since it was first used by Philip Sidney in Astrophel and Stella, his 1580s sonnet sequence. Use might also have increased due to Stella Maris as a title for the Virgin Mary by Catholics. Alternately, it is a feminine version of the Greek name Stylianos, meaning pillar.
Popularity
Stella has been well-used in countries where Germanic and Romance languages are spoken: England and Italy themselves, and especially Anglophone Africa and Latin America.List of people with the given name Stella
Arts and entertainment
- Stella, stage name of Stella Huang, Singaporean singer-actress
- Stella Abrera, Filipino-American ballet dancer
- Stella Adler, American actress and acting teacher
- Stella Arbenina, Russian-born actress
- Stella Bennett or Benee, New Zealand singer-songwriter
- Stella Benson, English feminist, travel writer, and novelist
- Stella Blandy, French woman of letters, feminist
- Stella Bowen, Australian artist
- Stella Brennan, New Zealand artist, curator, and essayist
- Stella Chitty, British stage manager
- Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwean musician
- Stella Corkery, New Zealand artist and musician
- Stella Dadzie, British writer, historian, educationalist and activist
- Stella Feehily, London-born Irish playwright and actress
- Stella Miles Franklin, Australian novelist
- Stella Jones (singer), German soul and jazz singer, pianist, arranger and composer
- Stella Keitel, American actress
- Stella Kon, Singaporean playwright
- Stella Weiner Kriegshaber, American pianist
- Stella LeSaint, American silent film actress
- Stella Linden, actress and writer
- Stella Madden, English actress
- Stella Maessen, Dutch singer
- Stella Maeve, American actress
- Stella Malucchi, Thai model and actress
- Stella Maxwell, Northern Irish model
- Stella Meghie, Canadian film director and screenwriter
- Stella De Mette, American contralto opera singer
- 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 Seah, Singaporean singer-songwriter
- Stella Soleil, American pop and rock singer
- Stella Stevens, American model and actress born Estelle Eggleston
- 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 Ashcroft, gymnast from New Zealand
- Stella Barsosio, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Stella Boumi, Greek swimmer
- Stella Heiß, German curler
- Stella de Heij, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
- Stela Posavec, Croatian handball player
- 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 Dupont, French Member of Parliament
- Stella Garza-Hicks, former Republican legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
- Stella Goldschlag, German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II
- Stella Gherman, Moldovan Member of Parliament
- 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 Maris Olalla, Argentine politician
- 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 Burry, Canadian activist
- Stella Cunliffe, British statistician
- Stella Din-Jacob, Nigerian media executive, broadcast journalist, lawyer and Director of News at TVC Communications
- Stella Immanuel, Cameroonian-American physician, author, and pastor
- Stella Koutros, American cancer epidemiologist
- Stella Liebeck, American plaintiff in the "McDonald's coffee case"
- Stella Manzie, British public servant and civil servant
- Stella Márquez, Colombian beauty queen and first Miss International
- Stella Mary Newton, English fashion designer and dress historian
- Stella Mason, Muscogee/Creek freedman, subject to a known lawsuit over an estate
- Stella Maxwell, Northern Irish fashion model
- Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
- Stella Nickell, American murderer
- Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan human rights activist
- Stella Obasanjo, former First Lady of Nigeria
- Stella Rimington, British author and Director General of MI5
- Stella Ross-Craig, British botanic illustrator
- Stella de Silva, paediatrician from Sri Lanka
- Stella Hackel Sims, Director of the United States Mint from 1977 to 1981
- Stella Tennant, Scottish model
- Stella Tillyard, British author and historian
- Stella Young, Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist
Fictional characters
- Stella (Winx Club), one of the main characters of Winx Club
- Stella a female snow goose who is Boris' girlfriend and appears in Balto III: Wings of Change
- Stella, female protagonist of an anime movie Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
- Stella of the Ars Goetia, a character in the animated series Helluva Boss, voiced by Georgina Leahy
- Stella Bains, a character from the movie Back to the Future
- 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 & Friends
- Stella Crawford, character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Stella Dagostino, character in Rush
- Stella Graybur, a character in Poppy Playtime
- Stella Kidd, character in the TV drama “Chicago Fire”
- 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
- 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 One series Stella
- Stella Mudd, wife of Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd. from Star Trek "I, Mudd"
- Stella Price, character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Stella Nicholls, protagonist of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- Stella Shortman, a character from Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!
- Stella Takachiho, a character in the Revue Starlight franchise
- Stella Urquhart, character in the 1983 film Local Hero
- Stella Vermillion, a mage knight from Chivalry of a Failed Knight
- Stella Zhau, from the American animated series The Loud House
- 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, a supporting character in Totally Spies! in which she is the mother of super spy Clover
- Stella, a character in the 2006 film Over the Hedge
- Stella, one of the main characters in the series Trulli Tales
- Stella, the guardian of the Sparkle Theater in Princess Peach: Showtime!
- Stella the Star Fairy, a character from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Stella, the main protagonist of the video game ''Spiritfarer''