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Stephenson, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 875
Housing Units (2000): 421
Land area (2000): 1.093570 sq. miles (2.832333 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.093570 sq. miles (2.832333 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76380
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 45.414600 N, 87.608757 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49887
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Stephenson -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 48979
Housing Units (2000): 21713
Land area (2000): 564.184232 sq. miles (1461.230391 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.536009 sq. miles (1.388256 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 564.720241 sq. miles (1462.618647 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.340808 N, 89.642608 W
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Stephenson

Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning "son of Stephen". The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279. There are variant spellings including Stevenson. People with the surname include:

  • Charles Bruce Stephenson (1929–2001), American astronomer
  • D. C. Stephenson (1891–1966), American, Ku Klux Klan leader
  • Debra Stephenson (born 1972), British actress
  • Dwight Stephenson, American football player
  • Earl Stephenson (born 1947), American baseball pitcher
  • Gene Stephenson, American college baseball coach
  • George Stephenson (1781–1848), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket
  • George Robert Stephenson (engineer) (1819–1905), English civil engineer (nephew of George Stephenson)
  • Gilbert Stephenson (1878–1972), British Vice Admiral
  • Gordon Stephenson (1908–1997), town planner and architect in Perth, Australia
  • Helga Stephenson, Canadian media executive
  • Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), British actor
  • Isaac Stephenson (1829–1918), U.S. politician from Wisconsin
  • Jim Stephenson, New Zealand international football (soccer) goalkeeper
  • John Stephenson (disambiguation), people named John Stephenson
  • M. F. Stephenson (1801 – after 1878), U.S. assayer of the Dahlonega, Georgia Mint
  • Neal Stephenson (born 1959), U.S. author
  • Nicola Stephenson (born 1971), British actress
  • Pamela Stephenson (born 1949), New Zealand-Australian comedian, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connolly
  • Paul Stephenson (footballer), former British footballer.
  • Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner), British civil rights campaigner.
  • Sir Paul Stephenson, former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
  • Paul Stephenson (rugby league), Australian professional rugby league footballer.
  • Riggs Stephenson (1898–1985), U.S. baseball player
  • Robert Stephenson (1803–1859), British civil and railway engineer (son of George Stephenson)
  • Samuel M. Stephenson (1803–1859), U.S. politician from Michigan
  • Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898–1961), British zoologist
  • Tyler Stephenson (b. 1996), American baseball player
  • Scott Stephenson, Australian ice hockey player
  • Todd Stephenson, Australian ice hockey player
  • William Stephenson (1897–1989), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster
  • William Stephenson (psychologist) (1902–1989), psychologist and physicist
Stephenson (disambiguation)

Stephenson is a surname.

Stephenson may also refer to:

Usage examples of "stephenson".

He had built some in England or Scotland or somewhere, but now he was in America, and do you think La Fayette would invite Stephenson to build his steam wagons in Canada?

Anyway, La Fayette laughed aloud and said, “Frederic, if I had Stephenson build his railroad in Canada, you’d have me cashiered for wasting money on nonsense.

Disregarding the Stephenson Rocket, the total heating surface ranged from ~1,400 to ~6,100 square feet, and the grate areas from 20 to 100 square feet.

In the case of Neal Stephenson, the SF geeks have embraced the author with an obsession unseen in speculative literature since the 1960s, even as his books make barely a blip in the consciousness of mainstream America.

This important use of the waste steam had been introduced by George Stephenson some years before, though entirely unknown to me.