Stella
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Stella is the Latin and Italian for "star".
As a proper name, it may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Stella (given name), a feminine given name
- Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
- Stella (singer), Singaporean-Taiwanese singer
- Stella Maessen, Dutch singer, sometimes going under the singular name of Stella
- Fictional characters
- Stella Kowalski, a character in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Stella Bonasera, a fictional character from CSI: NY
- Stella Mayfair, a character in Mayfair Witch Chronicles by Anne Rice
- Stella (Winx Club), a character from the 2004 Italian show Winx Club
- Surname
- Carlos Stella, an Argentine composer living in Berlin
- Joseph Stella, American Futurist painter
[edit] Places
- Egypt
- Stella de Mare, a seaside resort on the Red Sea in Ain El Sokhna, Egypt
- England
- Stella Park, a village in Tyne and Wear
- Stella power stations, a demolished pair of coal-fired power stations in Tyne and Wear
- France
- Stella-Plage, a seaside resort in northern France
- Italy
- Stella, Liguria, a town in Liguria
- Stella Cilento, a town in Campania
- Monte Stella, a mountain in Calabria
- Monte Stella (Cilento), a mountain in Calabria
- Monte Stella (Milan), a hill and city park of Milan
- South Africa
- Stella, South Africa, a town in the North West Province
- United States
- Stella, Missouri, a village in Newton County, Missouri
- Stella, Nebraska, a village in Richardson County, Nebraska
[edit] Work title
- Film
- Stella (1921 film), directed by Edwin J. Collins
- 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 Bette Midler
- Stella (2008 film), starring Seema Biswas
- TV
- Stella (UK TV series)
- Stella (US TV series), a half-hour comedy program by the Stella troupe that aired on Comedy Central
- Stella shorts, a series of short films by the Stella comedy troupe
- Music
- Stella (Uzeda album), by Uzeda
- Stella (album), by Swiss electronica band Yello
- "Stella" (song), by All Time Low
- Stella (band), a Finnish rock/pop band
- Novels
[edit] Brands and product names
- Stella (magazine), Swedish science fiction magazine
- Stella (magazine supplement), magazine supplement for The Sunday Telegraph
- Stella (beer), an Egyptian beer
- Stella Artois, a Belgian beer
- 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 (scooter), a vintage scooter brand introduced by the Chicago-based Genuine Scooter Company
- STELLA (language courses), online language courses
- Subaru Stella
- Stella Cheese, a division of Saputo Incorporated that makes Italian style cheeses
- Computing
- Stella (emulator), multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator.
- Stella (software), polyhedra modeling software
- 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
[edit] Other
- Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain
- Stella, a gene expressed by primordial germ cells
- Stella Awards, given to people who file ridiculous lawsuits for huge financial gain
- SS Stella, shipwreck
- Stella (United States coin), with a face value of four dollars ($4)
[edit] See also
- Stella Maris
- Stellar
- Stela (disambiguation)
- "Stella by Starlight", a known jazz standard
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