Stella (first name)
Stella is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
- Latin : Stella: star, star, sun
- Greek: feminine form of Stelios (strong as a column)
name day
The name day is July 21 .
For the Greek and Romanian Orthodox Christians, the name day is November 26th.
Name bearers
First name
- Stella Adler (1901–1992), American actress and drama teacher
- Stella Benson (1892-1933), English writer
- Stella Bettermann (* 1963), German journalist and book author
- Stella Carnacina (* 1955), Italian actress and singer
- Stella Cruz (birth name Estella Wiss; * 1983), Swiss singer-songwriter
- Stella Damasus (* 1978), also known as Stella Damasus-Aboderin, Nigerian film actress
- Stella Deetjen (* 1970), German development worker
- Stella Doufexis (1968-2015), German opera singer
- Stella Duffy (* 1963), British writer and theater maker
- Stella Goldschlag (1922–1994), German Jewish collaborator
- Stella Heiß (* 1993), German curler
- Stella von Hohenfels-Berger (1857–1920), Austrian actress
- Stella Ilboudo (* 1993), Burkinabe soccer player
- Stella Jones , b. Stellisa Zacher (* 1971), Austrian gospel singer
- Stella Kadmon (1902–1989) Austrian theater director
- Stella Kleindienst-Schaaf (1950–2019), German opera singer
- Stella Klein-Löw (1904–1986), Austrian teacher and politician
- Stella Kyriakides (* 1956), Cypriot politician
- Stella Luncke (* 1974), German journalist, writer and radio play director
- Stella Maessen (* 1953), Dutch singer
- Stella McCartney (* 1971), British fashion designer
- Stella Müller-Madej (1930–2013), Jewish contemporary witness of the Shoah
- Stella Mwangi (* 1986), Norwegian hip-hopper and singer of Kenyan descent
- Stella Nyanzi (* 1974), Ugandan gender researcher, medical anthropologist and feminist
- Stella Quartey (* 1973), former Ghanaian soccer player
- Stella Radford (* 1995), Australian obstacle runner
- Stella Rollig (* 1960), Austrian art and culture manager, author and journalist
- Stella Sommerfeld (* 1994), German voice actress
- Stella Styles (* 1985), German porn actress, singer and dancer
- Stella Young (1982-2014), Australian journalist, comedian and disability activist
- Stella Zázvorková (1922–2005), Czech actress
Fictional characters
- Stella , title heroine of the play of the same name by Goethe (1806)
- Stella, fairy godmother (sorceress) of the Pink Land, character in The Magician of the Emerald City by Alexander Volkov (1939)
- Stella Meredith, character in the horror film The Unheimliche Gast (1944); The movie song Stella by Starlight , today one of the most famous jazz standards, was named after her
- Stella Kowalski, character in Tennessee Williams ' drama Endstation Sehnsucht (1947)
- Stella Termogen, title heroine of the novel of the same name by Utta Danella (1960)
- Stella, character in Winx Club , an animated series (since 2003)
- Stella Bonasera, character in CSI: NY (2004–2013)
- Stella, Skunk, Figure in Ab durch die Hecke (2006)
- Dr. Stella Zinman, character in How I Met Your Mother (2008-2014)
- Stella, main character in the novel All Love Beginning by Judith Hermann (2014)
- Stella Grant, figure in Three Steps to You (2019)