Stella (given name)

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

Name day

Latvia: 25 December

Bulgaria: 26 November