Stella or STELLA may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Comedy

* Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain

Characters

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 in ...

, including a list of characters with the name

Films

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Miss Stella ''Miss Stella'' is a 1991 Indian Malayalam film, directed by I. Sasi and produced by S. Kumar. The film has musical score by Raveendran.- - Cast Soundtrack The music was composed by Raveendran Madhavan Raveendran ( ml, മാധവൻ � ...

'', 1991 Indian Malayalam film, directed by I. Sasiand * ''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

Victor Lanoux Victor Lanoux (18 June 1936 – 4 May 2017) was a French actor best known to English speaking audiences for his role as Ludovic in '' Cousin, Cousine''. Biography Victor Lanoux, born Victor Robert Nataf was the son of a Tunisian Jew from Sfax a ...

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

Literature

*Stella, novel attributed to Haitian author Emeric Bergeaud * ''Stella'' (novel), by Jan de Hartog, made into the 1958 film '' The Key'' * ''Stella'' (Norwegian magazine), Norwegian lifestyle magazine * ''Stella'' (Swedish magazine), Swedish science fiction magazine *''Stella'', magazine supplement for ''

The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in 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 Telegraph'', kn ...

'' * Stella Prize, Australian literary prize, first awarded in 2013, for women writers across multiple genres and forms

Music

*''Stella'', a 2006 album by Italian band Uzeda * ''Stella'' (album), a 1985 album by Swiss band Yello * Stella (band), a Finnish rock-pop band * Stella (German band), a German rock-pop band from Hamburg * Stella (singer), actress and singer Stella Huang * Stella (Namibian singer), Stella Tjazuko !Naruses, Namibian singer * "Stella" (song), by All Time Low *

The Stellas The Stellas are a married Canadian country music duo from Whitby, Ontario. They finished in fourth place on the second season of the CMT series ''Can You Duet'' in 2009. Their self-titled debut album was released by EMI Music Canada in September ...

, a Canadian country music duo

Television

* ''Stella'' (Croatian TV series), a 2013 TV series starring Amar Bukvić * ''Stella'' (UK TV series), a comedy drama set in South Wales which started in 2012 * ''Stella'' (U.S. TV series), a half-hour comedy program by the Stella troupe that aired on Comedy Central

Video games

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Stella Glow ''Stella Glow'' is a turn-based role-playing game developed by Imageepoch for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan by Sega, in North America by Atlus USA, and in Europe and Australia by NIS America in March 2016. Its story centers around ...

'', a 2015 role-playing game *''

Stella of The End is a Japanese post-apocalyptic visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on September 30, 2022 for Windows and is Key's 18th game overall. The story follows transporter Jude Gray who accepts a request to deliver a gyn ...

'', a 2022 Japanese visual novel video game

Companies and product names

* Stella (beer), an Egyptian beer * Stella (bicycle company), a French bicycle manufacturer * Stella cherry, 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 Robert Johnson, ...

, a brand of a guitar * STELLA (language courses), online language courses *

Stella (scooter) The LML Star (also known as Star De Luxe in Europe or Stella in United States) is a model motor scooter manufactured by Lohia Machinery Limited in Kanpur, India between 1999 and 2017 and based on the italian Piaggio Vespa PX. History In 1986 ...

, a vintage scooter brand introduced by the Chicago-based Genuine Scooter Company * Stella (solar vehicles), three iterations of a practical solar powered racecar, all of which won their class in the World Solar Challenge *

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 ABV, the country's standard for pilsners. The beer is also sold in other countries like the UK, Ir ...

, a Belgian beer *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 prod ...

that makes Italian style cheeses * Stella D'oro, an American brand of cookies * Subaru Stella, an automobile

Computing and technology

* Stella (emulator), multiplatform Atari 2600 game-console emulator. * STELLA (programming language), a simulation modeling tool developed by Barry Richmond * Stella (software), polyhedra modeling software *Stella, code name for the

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600, initially branded as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) from its release until November 1982, is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977, it popularized microprocesso ...

game console, named after the designer's bicycle *Stella, the IBM

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

-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), several Italian mountains that share the name ''Monte Stella'' * Pizzo Stella, a mountain of Lombardy, Italy *

Stella Creek Stella Creek () is a narrow winding passage extending from Thumb Rock to the southeast end of Winter Island and lying between Winter Island and Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted in 1935 by the British Graham ...

, a narrow winding passage between Winter and Galindez Islands in the Argentine Islands, Wilheim Archipela * Stella Point, on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

People

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

Places

England

* Stella Park, 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 * Monte Stella (disambiguation), several locations that share the name

United States

Stella, Kentucky Stella is an unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. It was originally called Goshen as that was the name of the community's Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historicall ...

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

Stella, North Carolina Stella is an unincorporated community in Carteret County, North Carolina Carteret County is located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,686. Its county seat is Beaufort. The county was created in 1 ...

, an unincorporated community in Carteret County * Stella, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Vinton County * Stella, Harris County, Texas, a former unincorporated area incorporated into Houston, Texas * Stella, Fayette County, Texas, a ghost town *

Stella, Washington Stella is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington. Stella is located northwest of the city of Longview, reached by traveling westbound out of the city along Washington State Route 4, also known as Ocean Beach Highway, and turni ...

, an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County * Stella, Wisconsin, a town in Oneida County

Elsewhere

Stella, North West Stella is a cattle farming town situated in North West Province of South Africa between Vryburg and Mafikeng. The large salt pan on the outskirts of town, especially well known for the number of lions in the area, was visited by a number of ear ...

, a town in North West Province, South Africa *

Stella, Ontario Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands. The Island is part of Loyalist Township in Lennox and Addin ...

, a village on Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada *

Stella-Plage Cucq (; unofficially also: ''Cucq-Trépied-Stella-Plage''; vls, Kuuk, lang) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Cucq is made up of three villa ...

, a seaside resort in northern France *

Stella, Puerto Rico Stella ''(Stella comunidad)'' is a community in Pueblo barrio and Calvache barrio, in the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,088. See also * List of communities in Puerto Rico In Puerto Rico, there are 78 m ...

, a commune in Rincón * 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. The design was to the requirements of a customer who had seen the Nordic Folkboat and decided that the Eng ...

, a class of yacht designed in the UK by C.R. (Kim) Holman in 1959 * SS ''Stella'', various steamships * SS ''Stella Solaris'', 1952 ocean liner

Other uses

* Stella (crater), on the Moon * Stella (satellite), a French geodetic satellite *

Stella (United States coin) The United States four dollar coin, also officially called a Stella, is a unit of currency equivalent to four United States dollars. It was originally minted as a universal coin exchangeable with any currency around the world. Two varieties of ...

, a pattern gold coin minted from 187980 with a face value of four dollars ($4) *Stella, a gene expressed by

primordial germ cells Primordial may refer to: * Primordial era, an era after the Big Bang. See Chronology of the universe * Primordial sea (a.k.a. primordial ocean, ooze or soup). See Abiogenesis * Primordial nuclide, nuclides, a few radioactive, that formed before ...

*Stella Award, comedy prize now known as Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award *Stella Awards, given to people who file ridiculous lawsuits for huge financial gain, based on 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. Current squad ...

, 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 tha ...

, the brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation * Stella Prize, an Australian annual literary award established in 2013