Stephenson
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. People with the surname include:
- Ashley Stephenson, Canadian hockey and baseball player
- Ashley Stephenson, British horticulturalist
- Benjamin Stephenson, several people
- Ben Stephenson, Anglo-American television executive
- Chandler Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Bruce Stephenson, American astronomer
- D. C. Stephenson, American, Ku Klux Klan leader
- Debra Stephenson, British actress
- Dwight Stephenson, American football player
- Earl Stephenson, American baseball pitcher
- F. Richard Stephenson, British astronomer
- Gene Stephenson, American college baseball coach
- George Stephenson, British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket
- George Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer
- George Stephenson, multiple other people
- Gilbert Stephenson, British Vice Admiral
- Gordon Stephenson, Australian town planner and architect
- Helga Stephenson, Canadian media executive
- Henry Stephenson, British actor
- Isaac Stephenson, U.S. politician from Wisconsin
- Jim Stephenson, New Zealand international football goalkeeper
- John Stephenson, people named John Stephenson
- June Ethel Stephenson, Australian artist
- Lance Stephenson, American professional basketball player
- M. F. Stephenson, American assayer of the Dahlonega, Georgia Mint
- Neal Stephenson, U.S. author
- Nicola Stephenson, British actress
- Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-Australian comedian, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connolly
- Paul Stephenson , former British footballer
- Paul Stephenson , British civil rights campaigner
- Sir Paul Stephenson, former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- Paul Stephenson, Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Riggs Stephenson, U.S. baseball player
- Robert Stephenson, British civil and railway engineer
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, U.S. Wikipedia editor
- Roy Laverne Stephenson, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Samuel M. Stephenson, U.S. politician from Michigan
- Sean Stephenson, American therapist, writer, and speaker
- Shay Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player
- Thomas Alan Stephenson, British zoologist
- Thomas Frederick Stephenson, British World War I flying ace
- Tyler Stephenson, American baseball player
- William Stephenson, Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster
- William Stephenson , psychologist and physicist
- William Haswell Stephenson, English industrialist and philanthropist in Newcastle upon Tyne