Stella or STELLA may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Stella'' (1921 film), directed by Edwin J. Collins * ''Stella'' (1943 film), with Zully Moreno * ''Stella'' (1950 film), with Ann Sheridan and Victor Mature * ''Stella'' (1955 film), directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Melina Mercouri * ''Stella'' (1976 film), written and directed by Luigi Cozzi *''Stella'' (1983 film), directed by Laurent Heynemann, see

Jean-Louis Bauer Jean-Louis Bauer (1 June 1952 – 30 September 2022) was a French actor and playwright. Biography Bauer studied at the and played roles on the stage and on television. He also wrote plays for France Inter and France Culture. In particular, he wr ...

* ''Stella'' (1990 film), starring Bette Midler * ''Stella'' (2008 film), directed by Sylvie Verheyde *''

Stella. A Life. ''Stella. A Life.'' () is a 2023 German Biographical drama film. This is based on the true story of Stella Goldschlag, who delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo from September 1943 until the end of the war. Paula Beer plays Stella. Th ...

'', 2023 German film

Literature

*Stella, a novel attributed to Haitian author Emeric Bergeaud *''Stella'', a 1951 novel by Jan de Hartog, made into the 1958 film '' The Key'' * ''Stella'' (Norwegian magazine), a Norwegian lifestyle magazine * ''Stella'' (Swedish magazine), a Swedish science fiction magazine * ''Stella'' (play), 1806 tragic play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *''Stella'', a magazine supplement for ''

The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, first published on 5 February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Tele ...

'' *

Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Bailey ...

, an Australian literary prize

Music

Stella (band) Stella was formed in Joensuu, Finland in 2002. The band quickly managed a deal with Sony Records Sony Records was a record label founded by R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner in 1963. It was not affiliated with Sony Group Corporation. Ike Turner pro ...

, a Finnish rock-pop band * The Stellas, a Canadian country music duo * ''Stella'' (album), a 1985 album by Swiss band Yello *''Stella'', a 2006 album by Italian band Uzeda * "Stella" (song), by All Time Low

Television

*''Stella'' (Croatian TV series), a 2013 TV series starring

Amar Bukvić Amar Bukvić (born June 10, 1981) is a Croatian actor of Bosniak descent.Biography
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* ''Stella'' (British TV series), a comedy drama set in South Wales * ''Stella'' (American TV series), a comedy program by the Stella troupe *''Stella's Big Party'', episode in the sixth season of ''Winx Club''

Other

Stella (comedy group) Stella is a comedy trio or comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain. The group formed in 1997 as a weekly nightclub comedy attraction, performing at New York City nightclub Fez from 1997 until the club ...

, a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain * ''Stella'', a 2021 card game derived from Dixit

Companies and product names

Stella (beer) Stella () is a popular Egyptian beer brand established in 1897. Founded by Belgian entrepreneurs as the Crown Brewery Company in Alexandria, Stella quickly became synonymous with beer culture in Egypt, reflecting the nation's historical and cu ...

, an Egyptian beer *

Stella (bicycle company) Stella was a French bicycle manufacturer founded in 1909. The company sponsored Louison Bobet, a French professional cyclist. Bobet won the Tour de France in 1953 and 1954 while riding Stella bicycles. Trivia Stella became the codename for the At ...

, a French bicycle manufacturer *

Stella cherry Stella is a cultivar of cherry developed in British Columbia, Canada. It is notable as the first self-fertile sweet cherry to be named. It has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Cultivar history The Stella vari ...

, a sweet cherry cultivar *

Stella (guitar) Stella was an American guitar brand owned by the Oscar Schmidt Company. It was founded around 1899. The Stella brand consists of low and mid-level stringed instruments. Stella guitars were played by notable artists, including Elizabeth Cotten ...

, a brand of a guitar * STELLA (language courses), online language courses * Stella (scooter), a vintage scooter brand * Stella (solar vehicles), three iterations of a practical solar powered racecar *

Stella Artois Stella Artois ( , ) is a pilsner beer, first brewed in 1926 by Brouwerij Artois in Leuven, Belgium. In its original form, the beer is 5.2 per cent Alcohol by volume, ABV, the country's standard for pilsners. The beer is sold in many EU countrie ...

, a Belgian beer *Stella (air freshener), an Indonesian air freshener *Stella Cheese, a division of

Saputo Incorporated Saputo Inc. is a Canadian dairy company based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954 by the Saputo family. It produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream produ ...

* Stella D'oro, an American brand of cookies *

Subaru Stella The Subaru Stella is a 5-door kei car produced by Subaru starting in June 2006. The Stella is based on the same architecture as the Subaru R2. It can be considered as a direct replacement of the Subaru Pleo, although the Pleo soldiered on for an ...

, an automobile * Cagiva Stella, an

underbone An underbone (弯梁车, literal translation: curve beam car) is a type of motorcycle that uses structural tube framing with an overlay of plastic or non-structural body panels and contrasts with monocoque or unibody designs where pressed st ...

produced by Italian motorcycle manufacturer Cagiva

Computing and technology

* Stella (emulator), multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator. *

STELLA (programming language) STELLA (short for Systems Thinking, Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation; also marketed as iThink) is a visual programming language for system dynamics modeling introduced by Barry Richmond in 1985. The program, distributed by isee syste ...

, a simulation modeling tool developed by Barry Richmond *

Stella (software) Stella is a computer program available in three versions (Great Stella, Small Stella and Stella4D). It was created by Robert Webb of Australia. The programs contain a large library of polyhedra which can be manipulated and altered in various w ...

, polyhedra modeling software *Stella, a code name for the

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridg ...

game console *Stella, the

IBM Blue Gene Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption. The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue ...

-L supercomputer used with the LOFAR radio telescope project

Geographic features

* Corno Stella, a mountain of Lombardy, Italy * Lake Stella, a lake in Alger County, Michigan, U.S. *

Monte Stella (disambiguation) Monte Stella may refer to the following hills or mountains in Italy: * Monte Stella (Calabria) * Monte Stella (Cilento) * Monte Stella (Cuneo) * Monte Stella (Milan) * Monte Stella (Salerno) {{geodis ...

, several Italian mountains * Pizzo Stella, a mountain of Lombardy, Italy * Stella Creek, in the Argentine Islands, Wilheim Archipelago * Stella Point, on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

People

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 i ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters bearing the name *

Stella (surname) Stella is a surname meaning ''star'' in Latin and Italian. Notable persons with the surname include: Artists *Fermo Stella (1490s–1560s), Italian painter *François Stella (1563–1605), French Baroque painter *Frank Stella (1936–2024), Amer ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters bearing the name * Stella (singer) (born 1980), Singaporean singer *

Stella (Namibian singer) Stella Tjazuko !Naruses'', stage name Stella, is a Namibian musician. She was born as Stella Kavendjii in Omaruru, Namibia and raised in the township of Mondesa, Swakopmund. Stella sings in her native Otjiherero Herero (Otjiherero) is a Ba ...

, Stella Tjazuko !Naruses, Namibian singer

Places

England

Stella, Gateshead Stella is a community in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the south bank of the Tyne, about west of central Newcastle upon Tyne, between Blaydon (to the south-east) and Ryton (to the west). The area inc ...

, a village in Tyne and Wear * Stella power stations, a demolished pair of coal-fired power stations in Tyne and Wear

Italy

* Stella, Liguria, a town in Liguria * Stella Cilento, a town in Campania * Stella (Naples), a neighbourhood *

, several locations

United States

* Stella, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Calloway County * Stella, Missouri, a village in Newton County *

Stella, Nebraska Stella is a village in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 150 at the 2020 census. History The earliest settlers in the Stella area arrived in about 1855. An August 1881 public meeting of local farmers led to an arr ...

, a village in Richardson County * Stella, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Carteret County *

Stella, Ohio Stella is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Vinton County, Ohio, in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is ...

, an unincorporated community in Vinton County *

Stella, Fayette County, Texas Stella is a ghost town in western Fayette County, Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansa ...

, a ghost town *

Stella, Harris County, Texas Stella, in Harris County, Texas was formerly an unincorporated area located approximately 10 miles southwest of downtown Houston. It existed there during the late 1800s through the 1920s and then Stella, Texas (Harris County)#External Links, it ...

, a former unincorporated area incorporated into Houston, Texas * Stella, Washington, an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County * Stella, Wisconsin, a town in Oneida County

Elsewhere

* Stella, South Africa, a town in North West Province * Stella, Ontario, a village on Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada *

Stella-Plage Cucq (; unofficially also: ''Cucq-Trépied-Stella-Plage''; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is made up of three villages: Cucq itself, the village of Trépied in the north and the coasta ...

, a seaside resort in northern France * Stella, Puerto Rico, a commune in Rincón *

Stellaland The Republic of Stellaland () was, from 1882 to 1883, a Boer republic located in an area of British Bechuanaland (now in South Africa's North West Province), west of the Transvaal. After unification with the neighbouring State of Goshen, it ...

or Stella Land, a Boer republic in South Africa's North West Province

Ships

Stella (yacht) The Stella is a 'one-design' Bermuda rig sloop yacht, designed for cruising and racing by the noted yacht designer CR (Kim) Holman in 1959. Design The design was to the requirements of a customer who had seen the Nordic Folkboat and decided that ...

, a class of yacht designed in the UK by C.R. (Kim) Holman in 1959 * SS ''Stella'', various steamships

Other uses

* Stella (crater), on the Moon *

Stella (satellite) Starlette (''Satellite de taille adaptée avec réflecteurs laser pour les études de la terre'', or ) and Stella are nearly identical French geodetic and geophysical satellites. Starlette was launched on 6 February 1975 and Stella on 26 Septe ...

, a French geodetic satellite * Stella (United States coin), a pattern gold coin minted from 187980 with a face value of four dollars ($4) *Stella Award, comedy prize now known as

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award (formerly the Barry Award and the Stella Award) is an annual prize presented to the most outstanding comedy act at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. History It has been awarded since 1 ...

Stella Award Randy C Cassingham (1959 in California, USA) is an American syndicated columnist, humorist, publisher, and speaker. He is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been the keynote speaker at several of The Skeptics So ...

, given to people who file ridiculous lawsuits for huge financial gain, based on the website by Randy Cassingham *

Stella Club d'Adjamé Stella Club d'Adjamé is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. History It was founded in 1953 in a fusion between ''Red Star'', ''Etoile d'Adjamé'' and ''US Bella''. They play at the Stade Robert Champroux. Former players * Kouame Desr ...

, an association football club based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast * Stella d'Italia, a five-pointed star symbolizing Italy *

Stella Polaris Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It is designated α Ursae Minoris ( Latinized to ''Alpha Ursae Minoris'') and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star. With an apparent magnitude th ...

, the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation