Stella

Stella is the Latin and Italian word for star. It may refer to:

People

• Stella Zapata — a renown Colombian Spanish teacher
• Didacus Stella — 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 was called "Stella" by Jonathan Swift in his Journal to 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 Beatle Paul McCartney
• Stella Nickell — the "Excedrin murderer"
• Stella Obasanjo — First Lady of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.
• Stella Tennant — British supermodel.
• Stella Reid — Nanny Stella on Nanny 911.
• Stella Adler, A North American actress and acting teacher.

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.

Popular culture

Film

• Stella (1943 film), 1943 film with Zully Moreno (Argentina).
• Stella (1950 film), 1950 film with Ann Sheridan and Victor Mature
• Stella (1955 film) — directed by Michael Cacoyannis
• Stella (1990 film), 1990 film with Ben Stiller
• Stella (2008 film), starring Madhavan, Vidya Balan and Brendan Fraser, 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

Miscellaneous

• "Stella!", a memorable line from A Streetcar Named Desire.
• Stella (comedy group), a comedy trio 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 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.

Products & producers

• Stella (beer) — an Egyptian beer.
• Stella Artois — a Belgian beer.
• Stella (bicycles) — French bicycle manufacturer.
• Stella (yacht) — 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

Computing

• Stella (emulator) — multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator.
• Stella (software) — polyhedra modeling software
• Stella; numerical-model-building and simulation software, by isee systems (formerly High Performance Systems)
• 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.

Miscellaneous

• Stella (U.S. coin) — face value four dollars.