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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size: large;" | '''Stig'''
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! Gender:
| Male
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! Origin:
| Scandinavia
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! Meaning:
| ''"Wanderer"''
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| colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;" | {{{footnotes|}}}
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'''Stig''' is a common [[forename]] for men in [[Scandinavia]] - notable people with this name include:
* [[Stig Andersen Hvide]], a 13th century Danish [[marsk]] and magnate
* [[Stikkan Anderson]], given name Stig, manager of the Swedish band [[ABBA]]
* [[Stig Arild Råket]], Swedish footballer
* [[Stig Berge]], Norwegian athlete
* [[Stig Bergling]], Swedish police officer and convicted Soviet agent
* [[Stig Inge Bjørnebye]], Norwegian footballer
* [[Stig Blomqvist]], Swedish rally driver
* [[Stig Dagerman]], Swedish author and journalist
* [[Stig Dalager]], Danish writer
* [[Stig Fredriksson]], former Swedish footballer
* [[Stig Guldberg]], founder of the Guldberg-Plan
* [[Stig Gælok]], [[Sami]] poet
* [[Stig Roar Husby]], former Norwegian athlete
* [[Stig Guldberg]], Danish officer and educationalist
* [[Stig Johansen]], Norwegian footballer
* Stig Johansen, a member of the band [[The Sins of Thy Beloved]]
* [[Stig Järrel]], Swedish actor, film director and revue artist
* [[Stig Lindberg]], Swedish designer
* [[Stig Lindow]][http://www.yessy.com/stig2k]American Born and Raised Muti-Media Artist and Designer.
* [[Per Stig Møller]], Danish politician
* Stig O'Hara, a member of the fictional band [[The Rutles]]
* [[Stig Olin]], Swedish actor, theatre director and songwriter
* [[Stig Saeterbakken]], Norwegian author
* [[Stig Strand]], Swedish skier
* [[Stig Strömholm]], Swedish legal scholar
* [[Stig Synnergren]], Swedish general
* [[Stig Tøfting]], Danish footballer
* [[Stig Vilhelmson]], Swedish businessman
* [[Stig Wennerström]], a colonel in the [[Swedish Air Force]] convicted of treason in 1956
* [[Stig Wetzell]], former Swedish ice hockey player
* [[Stig von Bahr]], Swedish judge who sat on the [[European Court of Justice]]
Other uses for '''Stig''' are:
* ''[[Stig Hvide]]'', an opera by [[Ole Olsen (musician)|Ole Olsen]]
* [[The Stig]], the masked driver in the British television show ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]''
* [[STIG (fanzine)|STIG]], a [[fanzine]] dedicated to the [[Football League of Ireland|League of Ireland]] [[association football]] team [[UCD FC|UCD]]
* [[Evil Stig]], a band featuring [[Joan Jett]] and the surviving members of [[The Gits]]
* ''[[Stig of the Dump]]'', a children's book and two TV series
* ''[[Stig Serbia|Stig]]'', a region in eastern Serbia
* ''[[Security Technical Implementation Guide|Security Technical Implementation Guide.(STIG)]]'', a methodology for standardized secure installation and maintenance of computer software and hardware
* ''[[Stig's Inferno]]'', a comic by Ty Templeton
==See also==
*[[Stiga]]
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