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Why was Stephenson's rocket so named as there were no rockets around in those days?

• D. C. Stephenson
  D. C. Stephenson
  
  David Curtiss ?Steve? Stephenson was an American Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S. state of Indiana and 22 other northern states. He is considered to have been one of the most successful Klan leaders up until his downfall after his conviction for murder....
   (1891 – 1966), American, Ku Klux Klan leader
• Debra Stephenson
  Debra Stephenson
  
  Debra Stephenson is an England actress and singer....
   (b. 1972), British actress
• Earl Stephenson
  Earl Stephenson
  
  Chester Earl Stephenson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The left-hander was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 3rd round of the 1967 amateur draft and played for the Cubs , Milwaukee Brewers , and Baltimore Orioles ....
   (b. 1947), American baseball pitcher
• George Stephenson
  George Stephenson
  
  George Stephenson was an England civil engineer and mechanical engineering who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam engine locomotives and is known as the "Father of Railways"....
   (1781 – 1848), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket
• George Robert Stephenson (engineer)
  George Robert Stephenson (engineer)
  
  George Robert Stephenson was a United Kingdom civil engineer.Stephenson was born to Robert Stephenson Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was born into a great family of civil engineers, his father was engineer of Pendleton Colliery and Nantlle Railway, his elder brother George Stephenson was a prolific railway engineer as were his uncle Ge...
   (1819 – 1905), English civil engineer (nephew of George Stephenson)
• Gilbert O. Stephenson (1878 – 1972), British Vice Admiral
• Henry Stephenson
  Henry Stephenson
  
  Henry Stephenson , sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a United Kingdom character actor.Born Henry S. Garroway, he was educated in England and started acting in his twenties....
   (1871 - 1956), British actor
• Isaac Stephenson
  Isaac Stephenson
  
  Isaac Stephenson was an United States politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin as both a United States Representative and a United States Senator....
   (1829 – 1918), U.S. politician from Wisconsin
• John Stephenson
  John Stephenson
  
  John Stephenson may refer to:*John Stephenson , American voice actor*John Stephenson , American baseball catcher*John Stephenson , a 19th century Irish-American coachbuilder who created the street railway...
   - people named John Stephenson
• M. F. Stephenson
  M. F. Stephenson
  
  M.F. Stephenson , whose full name was Dr. Matthew Fleming Stephenson, was born in Virginia. On February 25, 1836, he married Sarah Elizabeth Sumter Lyon....
   (1801-?), U.S. assayer of the Dahlonega, Georgia Mint
• Neal Stephenson
  Neal Stephenson
  
  Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk....
   (b. 1959), U.S. author
• Nicola Stephenson
  Nicola Stephenson
  
  Nicola Stephenson is an English actress. She is known mainly for her roles in television, which include Margaret Clemence in Brookside, Julie Fitzjohn/Bradford in Holby City, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie in ITV's Christmas Lights/Northern Lights/City Lights , and Sarah Williams in BBC's The Chase ....
   (b. 1971), British actress
• Pamela Stephenson
  Pamela Stephenson
  
  Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a New Zealand actress, comedian and clinical psychologist, now a resident of New York City, USA....
   (b. 1949), New Zealand-Australian comedienne, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connelly
• Paul Stephenson (police officer)
  Paul Stephenson (police officer)
  
  Sir Paul Robert Stephenson, Queen's Police Medal is the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis of London's Metropolitan Police Service....
  , British police officer
• Riggs Stephenson
  Riggs Stephenson
  
  Jackson Riggs Stephenson was an United States left fielder in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed Old Hoss, Stephenson played for the Cleveland Indians from to and the rest of his career from to with the Chicago Cubs....
   (1898 - 1985), U.S. baseball player
• Robert Stephenson
  Robert Stephenson
  
  Robert Stephenson Fellow of the Royal Society was an England civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and Rail transport engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son....
   (1803 – 1859), British civil and railway engineer (son of George Stephenson)
• Rod Stephenson
  Rod Stephenson
  
  Rod Stephenson was an independent candidate who ran for the riding of Turtle Mountain in Manitoba's provincial elections of 1988 and 1990. On the latter occasion, he ran on a platform of separating Turtle Mountain from Manitoba and Canada....
  , Canadian politician from Manitoba
• Samuel M. Stephenson
  Samuel M. Stephenson
  
  Samuel Merritt Stephenson was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Stephenson was born in Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada and moved with his parents to Maine, and later, in 1846, to Delta County, Michigan....
   (1803 – 1859), U.S. politician from Michigan
• Thomas Alan Stephenson
  Thomas Alan Stephenson
  
  Thomas Alan Stephenson was a United Kingdom marine biology, specialising in sea anemones.He was born at Burnham-on-Sea, the son of a Minister of religion and amateur botany....
   (1898 - 1961), British zoologist
• Thomas Bowman Stephenson, British Methodist minister and founder of the children's charity now known as NCH
• William Stephenson
  William Stephenson
  
  Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Order of Canada, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross was a Canada soldier, airman, businessperson, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of United Kingdom intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II....
   (1897 – 1989), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster
• William Stephenson (psychologist)
  William Stephenson (psychologist)
  
  William Stephenson was a psychologist and physicist best known for developing Q methodology....
   (1902 - 1989), psychologist and physicist

See also

• Stevenson
  Stevenson
  
  Stevenson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Steven". Its first historical record is from pre 10th century England. People with the name include:...