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| meaning ="son of Stephen"
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'''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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Stephenson |title=Surname: Stephenson |publisher=surnamedb.com |accessdate=2008-02-26}}</ref> People with the surname include:
*[[Allan Stephenson]], South African composer
*[[Christopher Stephenson]], British Mathematician and education specialist from [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]]
*[[D. C. Stephenson]] (1891 – 1966), American, Ku Klux Klan leader
*[[Debra Stephenson]] (b. 1972), British actress
*[[Earl Stephenson]] (b. 1947), American baseball pitcher
*[[George Stephenson]] (1781 – 1848), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket
*[[George Robert Stephenson (engineer)|George Robert Stephenson]] (1819 – 1905), English civil engineer (nephew of George Stephenson)
*[[Gilbert O. Stephenson]] (1878 – 1972), British Vice Admiral
*[[Henry Stephenson]] (1871 - 1956), British actor
*[[Isaac Stephenson]] (1829 – 1918), U.S. politician from Wisconsin
*[[John Stephenson]]
*[[M. F. Stephenson]] (1801-?), U.S. assayer of the Dahlonega, Georgia Mint
*[[Neal Stephenson]] (b. 1959), U.S. author
*[[Nicola Stephenson]] (b. 1971), British actress
*[[Pamela Stephenson]] (b. 1949), New Zealand-Australian comedienne, actress and psychologist
*[[Riggs Stephenson]] (1898 - 1985), U.S. baseball player
*[[Robert Stephenson]] (1803 – 1859), British civil and railway engineer (son of George Stephenson)
*[[Rod Stephenson]], Canadian politician from Manitoba
*[[Samuel M. Stephenson]] (1803 – 1859), U.S. politician from Michigan
*[[Thomas Alan Stephenson]] (1898 - 1961), British zoologist
*[[Thomas Bowman Stephenson]], British Methodist minister and founder of the children's charity now known as NCH
*[[Todd Stephenson]], New Zealand political campaign strategist
*[[William Stephenson]] (1897 – 1989), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence
*[[William Stephenson (psychologist)]] (1902 - 1989), psychologist and physicist best known for developing Q methodology
*[[John Loyd Stephenson]]- (1919-2008)restaurateur and entrepreneur, owned Stephenson's Apple Farm Restaurant in Independence, MO from 1946-2007
==References==
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==See also==
*[[Stevenson]]
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