Arts and entertainment •
Stella, stage name of Stella Huang, Singaporean singer-actress •
Stella Abrera (born 1978), Filipino-American ballet dancer •
Stella Adler (1901–1992), American actress and acting teacher •
Stella Arbenina (1884–1976), Russian-born actress •
Stella Bennett or Benee (born 2000), New Zealand singer-songwriter •
Stella Benson (1892–1933), English feminist, travel writer, and novelist •
Stella Blandy (1836–1925), French woman of letters, feminist •
Stella Bowen (1893–1947), Australian artist •
Stella Brennan (born 1974), New Zealand artist, curator, and essayist •
Stella Chitty (1928–2005), British stage manager •
Stella Chiweshe (1946–2023), Zimbabwean musician •
Stella Corkery (born 1960), New Zealand artist and musician •
Stella Dadzie (born 1952), British writer, historian, educationalist and activist •
Stella Feehily (born 1969), London-born Irish playwright and actress •
Stella Miles Franklin (1879–1954), Australian novelist •
Stella Jones (singer) (born 1971), German soul and jazz singer, pianist, arranger and composer •
Stella Keitel, American actress •
Stella Kon (born 1944), Singaporean playwright •
Stella Weiner Kriegshaber (1879–1966), American pianist •
Stella LeSaint (1881–1948), American silent film actress •
Stella Linden (1919–2005), actress and writer •
Stella Madden, English actress •
Stella Maessen (born 1953), Dutch singer •
Stella Maeve (born 1989), American actress •
Stella Malucchi (born 1977), Thai model and actress •
Stella Maxwell (born 1990), Northern Irish model •
Stella Meghie, Canadian film director and screenwriter •
Stella De Mette (1891–1989), American contralto opera singer •
Stella Moray (1923–2006), English actress •
Stella Mwangi (born 1986), Norwegian-Kenyan singer •
Stella Parton (born 1949), American country music singer/songwriter, sister of Dolly Parton •
Stella Pevsner (1921–2020), author of children's books •
Stella Reid (born 1964), co-star of the Fox network reality television show
Nanny 911 •
Stella Richman (1922–2002), British television producer •
Stella Roman (1904–1992), Romanian operatic soprano •
Stella Seah (born 1992), Singaporean singer-songwriter •
Stella Soleil (born 1971), American pop and rock singer •
Stella Stevens (1934–2023), American model and actress born Estelle Eggleston •
Stella Steyn (1907–1987), Irish artist •
Stella Stocker (1858–1925), American composer and choral conductor •
Stella Stratigou (1931–2005), Greek actress •
Stella Vander (born 1950), French singer and musician •
Stella Vine (born 1969), English artist
Sports •
Stella Ashcroft (born 2002), gymnast from New Zealand •
Stella Barsosio (born 1993), Kenyan long-distance runner •
Stella Boumi (born 1988), Greek swimmer •
Stella Heiß (born 1993), German curler •
Stella de Heij (born 1968), Dutch field hockey goalkeeper •
Stela Posavec (born 1996), Croatian handball player •
Stella Pilatou (born 1980), Greek long jumper • •
Stella Tsikouna (born 1972), Greek discus thrower •
Stella Zakharova (born 1963), Olympic gymnast for the former Soviet Union
Politics •
Stella Ambler (born 1966), Canadian politician •
Stella Creasy (born 1977), British Member of Parliament •
Stella Dupont (born 1973), French Member of Parliament •
Stella Garza-Hicks (born 1953), former Republican legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado •
Stella Goldschlag (1922–1994), German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II •
Stella Gherman (born 1974), Moldovan Member of Parliament •
Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading (1894–1971), British political and military figure •
Stella Jantuan (born 1966), Moldovan politician •
Stella Levy (1924–1999), Israeli soldier and politician •
Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi (born 1962), Nigerian Minister of Aviation •
Stella Maris Olalla (born 1943), Argentine politician •
Stella Omu (born 1946), Nigerian politician •
Stella Sigcau (1937–2006), Minister in the South African government and first female Prime Minister of the Transkei
Other •
Stella Baruk (born 1932), Iranian-born French teacher, mathematician, author and educationalist •
Stella Burry (1897–1991), Canadian activist •
Stella Cunliffe (1917–2012), British statistician •
Stella Din-Jacob, Nigerian media executive, broadcast journalist, lawyer and Director of News at TVC Communications •
Stella Immanuel (born 1965), Cameroonian-American physician, author, and pastor •
Stella Koutros, American cancer epidemiologist •
Stella Liebeck, American plaintiff in the "McDonald's coffee case" •
Stella Manzie (born 1960), British public servant and civil servant •
Stella Márquez (born 1937), Colombian beauty queen and first Miss International •
Stella Mary Newton (1901–2001), English fashion designer and dress historian •
Stella Mason (c.1901?–1918), Muscogee/Creek freedman, subject to a known lawsuit over an estate •
Stella Maxwell (born 1990), Northern Irish fashion model •
Stella McCartney (born 1971), British fashion designer •
Stella Nickell (born 1943), American murderer •
Stella Nyanzi (born 1974), Ugandan human rights activist •
Stella Obasanjo (1945–2005), former First Lady of Nigeria •
Stella Rimington (1935–2025), British author and Director General of MI5 (1992–1996) •
Stella Ross-Craig (1906–2006), British botanic illustrator •
Stella de Silva (1918–2012), paediatrician from Sri Lanka •
Stella Hackel Sims (born 1926), Director of the United States Mint from 1977 to 1981 •
Stella Tennant (1970–2020), Scottish model •
Stella Tillyard (born 1957), British author and historian •
Stella Young (1982–2014), Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist
Fictional characters •
Stella (Winx Club), one of the main characters of
Winx Club •
Stella a female snow goose who is Boris' girlfriend and appears in
Balto III: Wings of Change • Stella, female protagonist of an anime movie
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem •
Stella of the Ars Goetia, a character in the animated series
Helluva Boss, voiced by Georgina Leahy • Stella Bains, a character from the movie
Back to the Future •
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 & Friends •
Stella Crawford, character in the BBC soap opera
EastEnders • Stella Dagostino, character in
Rush • Stella Grayber, a character in
Poppy Playtime • Stella Kidd, character in the TV drama “Chicago Fire” •
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 Maynard, support character from
Devil's Third • Stella Moon, character in the Scottish BBC drama TV series
Monarch of the Glen • Stella Morris, title character of
Sky One series
Stella • Stella Mudd, wife of
Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd. from
Star Trek "
I, Mudd" •
Stella Price, character in the British soap opera
Coronation Street • Stella Nicholls, protagonist of
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark •
Stella Shortman, a character from Nickelodeon's
Hey Arnold! • Stella Takachiho, a character in the
Revue Starlight franchise • Stella Urquhart, character in the 1983 film
Local Hero • Stella Vermillion, a mage knight from
Chivalry of a Failed Knight • Stella Zhau, from the American animated series
The Loud House • 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, a supporting character in
Totally Spies! in which she is the mother of super spy
Clover • Stella, a character in the 2006 film
Over the Hedge • Stella, one of the main characters in the series
Trulli Tales • Stella, the guardian of the Sparkle Theater in
Princess Peach: Showtime! • Stella the Star Fairy, a character from the
Rainbow Magic book franchise • Stella, the main protagonist of the video game
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