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Stella is the Latin and Italian word for star. It may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the astronomical object. ...

Financial

• Stella (U.S. coin), with a face value of four dollars ($4)

The United States four dollar coin, also offically called a stella, is a unit of currency equaling four United States dollars. ...

People

• Diego de Estella, a 16th century Spanish theologian and writer
• Frank Stella, an American minimalist painter
• Joseph Stella, an American futurist painter
• Stella Voce, a southern California DJ and rock journalist
• Esther Johnson, English friend of Jonathan Swift, known as "Stella"
• Stella (Karen Scioli), a Philadelphia television horror movie hostess during the 1980s
• Stella Liebeck, who sued McDonald's after scalding herself with hot coffee
• Stella McCartney, British fashion designer and daughter of Beatles member Paul McCartney
• Stella Nickell, the "Excedrin murderer"
• Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of The Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Stella Tennant, a British supermodel
• Stella Reid, a British nanny known as Nanny Stella on the television show Nanny 911
• Stella Adler, a North American actress and acting teacher
• Stella Banyenza, The first lady to became an electronics and telecommunication engineer in Tanzania
• Stella Hudgens, an American actress.

Diego de Estella (Didacus Stella) was a 16th century Spanish mystic and theologian, born 1524 in Estella, Navarra, died 1578 in Salamanca. ... Frank Stella La scienza della pigrizia (The Science of Laziness) 1984, oil, enamel and alkyd paint on canvas, etched magnesium, aluminum and fiberglass, National Gallery of Art Washington DC Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. ... Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella. ... Stella Voce (born October 27 in Cleveland, Ohio) is the host of Stray Pop, a punk rock and alternative rock radio program on KXLU at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. ... Esther Johnson (March 18, 1681 - 1728) was the English friend of Jonathan Swift, known as Stella. She was female. ... Stella Liebeck v. ... Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. ... Stella Nickell is a Seattle-area woman who was sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing her husband in June 1986 (when she was 42 years old) by lacing his Excedrin capsules with cyanide after buying him life insurance policies amounting to $176,000. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Stella Tennant (born 17 December 1970) is a British supermodel. ... Stella Reid, (born 03 October, 1964 in Burnley, England) is Nanny Stella, a British nanny on the FOX reality television show Nanny 911 which also airs in Britain. ... Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress, and for decades was regarded as Americas foremost acting teacher. ... Stella Teodora Hudgens[1] (born November 15, 1995)[1]) is an American child actress. ...

Places

• Stella, Italy, a town in Liguria
• Stella, South Africa, a town in the North West Province
• Stella-Plage, a seaside resort in northern France
• Stella de Marie, a seaside resort on the Red Sea in Ain El Sokhna, Egypt

Stella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 35 km west of Genoa and about 11 km north of Savona. ... Stella is a cattle ranching town situated in North West Province of South Africa. ... Cucq (official name is Cucq-Trépied-Stella-Plage) is a coastal commune of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France. ...

In popular culture

• "Stella!", a memorable line from the play A Streetcar Named Desire
• 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 Bonnaro, a character from Cowboy Bebop
• Stella Loussier, a fictional character from Gundam Seed Destiny
• Stella (magazine), magazine supplement for the Sunday Telegraph
• Stella (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series

Stella Kowalski (nee DuBois) is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Stella is comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain (all former members of The State). ... The Stella shorts are a collection of short films by the comedy group Stella. ... Stella was a television series that originally ran June 28, 2005 - August 30, 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central, created by and starring Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and former cast members of... The following is a list of major and minor characters, with biographical information, from the anime and manga series Cowboy Bebop. ... Stella Loussier ) (also known as Stellar Loussier in some markets) is a fictional character in the anime series Gundam SEED Destiny. ... Stella is a fictional character from the animated series Winx Club. ... Winx Club is a 2004 Italian animated fantasy/adventure series created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.p. ...

Film

• 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 Ben Stiller
• Stella (2008 film), starring R. Madhavan, Vidya Balan and Brendan Fraser

Stella, a 1955 Greek film featuring Melina Mercouri, is a retelling of Carmen, and is considered by many to be the most important title in Greek cinema. ... Stella is a 1990 American drama film produced by Touchstone and released by Buena Vista Pictures. ... Stella is a English language comedy to be directed by Deepa Mehta. ...

Music

• Stella (album), by Swiss electronica band Yello
• Stella (band), a Finnish pop band
• Stella (Dutch singer), a Dutch singer
• Stella (Singaporean singer), a Singaporean singer
• Stella (band), an American rock band out of Nashville, TN

Stella was Yellos 1985 album and contained the track Oh Yeah, which gained fame through being featured in the 1986 movie Ferris Buellers Day Off Tracklist Desire Vicious Games Oh Yeah Desert Inn Stalakdrama Koladi-ola Domingo Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch) Let Me Cry Ciel Ouvert Angel No Categories... Stella is a Finnish pop/rock group formed on 2002 in Joensuu. ... Stella is the stage name of Stella Huang (Chinese: ; pinyin: Huáng Xiāngyí), born December 17, 1980, as Stella Ng, a singer-actress and former model who has become a pop star in much of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. ... Stella is a Finnish pop/rock group formed on 2002 in Joensuu. ...

Brands and products

• Stella (beer), an Egyptian beer
• Stella Artois, a Belgian beer
• Stella D'Oro, an American brand of cookies
• 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 (cheese), an Italian brand of cheeses
• Stella (scooter), a vintage scooter brand introduced by the Chicago-based Genuine Scooter Company
• STELLA (language courses), costfree online language courses

This article is about the Egyptian beer; for the Belgian beer, see Stella Artois. ... Stella Artois logo A Common 330 ml Bottle of Stella Artois Stella Artois brewery in Leuven This article is about Stella Artois lager. ... Stella DOro is a brand of cookies and breadsticks formerly owned by Kraft Foods. ... The Stella 26 is a one design bermudian (marconi) sloop rigged cruiser / racer designed by the noted yacht designer C.R.(Kim) Holman in 1959. ... Stella is a vintage scooter brand introduced by the Chicago-based Genuine Scooter Company in 2003. ... STELLA Online Language Courses. ...

Computing

• Stella (emulator), multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator.
• Stella (software), polyhedra modeling software
• A time-driven programming environment
• 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

Stella is an emulator for the Atari 2600 game console. ... Screenshot from Great Stella software, showing the stellation diagram and net for the compound of five tetrahedra Screenshot from Stella4D, looking at the truncated tesseract in perspective and its net, truncated cube cells hidden. ... The Atari 2600, released in October 1977, is the video game console credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in. ... This article is about the supercomputer. ... LOFAR is the LOw Frequency ARray for radio astronomy. ...

Other

• Stella, a gene expressed by primordial germ cells
• Stella Awards, given to people who file ridiculous lawsuits for huge financial gain

A germ cell is part of the germline and is involved in the reproduction of organisms. ... The Stella Awards are named after a woman named Stella Liebeck who, in 1992, spilled a cup of McDonalds coffee onto her lap, burning herself. ...

See also

• Stela, singular stele, a stone or wooden slab erected for funerary or commemorative purposes

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