# Stefan (given name)

Stefan is a masculine given name, a form of the English name Stephen.

## People
### Medieval period

    Ordered chronologically
* Stefan Vojislav (died 1043), Serbian Byzantine governor and Prince of Duklja
* Stefan (archbishop of Uppsala), Sweden, (before 1150–1185), first archbishop from 1164 to 1185
* Stefan Nemanja or Stefan I, Nemanja (c. 1109–1199), grand prince of the Serb state of Raška
* Stefan Nemanjić or Stefan II, Nemanja (1176–1228), proclaimed King of Serbia in 1217
* Stefan Radoslav of Serbia (c. 1192 – c. 1235), King of Serbia, son of Nemanjić
* Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia (died after 1264), son of Stefan Nemanjić
* Stefan Dragutin (died 1316), King of Serbia, son of Stefan Uroš I
* Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia (1282–1321)
* Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia (1321 – c. 1325)
* Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (1321–1331)
* Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (Dušan the Mighty) (1331–1355), king 1331–1346; tsar 1346–1355
* Stefan Uroš V of Serbia (Uroš the Weak) (1355–1371), tsar
* Stefan Lazarević (c. 1377–1427), Serbian despot
* Stefan Lochner (c. 1410–1451), German painter
* Stefan Branković (c. 1417–1476), Serbian despot
* Stefan I Crnojević (1426–1465), Lord of Zeta (Montenegro) 1451–1465
* Stefan II Crnojević, lord of Zeta (Montenegro) 1496–1499

### A–F

* Stefan Airapetjan (born 1997), Estonian singer and Eurovision 2022 competitor
* Stefan Andersson (born 1967), Swedish singer-songwriter
* Stefan Andres (1906–1970), German novelist
* Stefan Arndt (born 1961), German film producer and manager
* Stefan Banach (1892–1945), Polish mathematician
* Stefan Baretzki (1919–1988), Romanian-German concentration camp guard
* Stefan Bellof (1957–1985), German racing driver
* Stefan Birčević (born 1989), Serbian basketball player
* Stefan Bogoridi (1775–1859), Ottoman statesman of Bulgarian origin
* Stefan Bradl (born 1989), German motorcycle racer
* Stefan Brink (born 1952), Swedish philologist
* Stefan Brogren (born 1972), Canadian actor, director, and producer
* Stefan Brzózka (1931–2023), Polish chess player
* Stefan Burnett (born 1978), American musician, rapper and visual artist
* Stefan Charles (born 1988), American football player
* Stefan Czarniecki (1599–1665), Polish nobleman, general and military commander
* Stefan Dembiński (1887–1972), Polish general
* Stefan Dennis (born 1958), Australian actor
* Stefan Docx (born 1974), Belgian chess player
* Stefan Dohr (born 1965), German horn player
* Stefan Drzewiecki (1844–1938), Polish engineer and inventor
* Stefan Edberg (born 1966), Swedish tennis player
* Stefan Effenberg (born 1968), German footballer
* Stefan Everts (born 1972), Belgian motocross racer
* Stefan Fatsis (born 1963), American author and journalist
* Stefan Florescu (1926/1927–2010), American paralympic swimmer and table tennis player
* Stefan Frenkel (1902–1979), American violinist

### G–M

* Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor, and translator
* Stefan Gieren, German film producer and writer
* Stefan Golaszewski, British-Polish writer, performer, and director
* Stefan Grimm (1963–2014), German biologist and professor
* Stefan Groothuis (born 1981), Dutch speed skater
* Stefan Gruhner (born 1984), German politician
* Stefan Heinig (born 1962), German business executive
* Stefan Hell (born 1962), Romanian-born German physicist
* Stefan Holm (born 1976), Swedish high jumper
* Stefan Holt (born 1986/1987), American journalist and TV news anchor
* Stefan Humphries (born 1962), American former football player
* Stefan Ilsanker (luger) (born 1965), West German luger
* Stefan Ilsanker (footballer) (born 1989), Austrian footballer
* Stefan Jędrychowski (1910–1996), Polish politician
* Stefan de Leval Jezierski (born 1954), American horn player
* Stefan Johansen (born 1991), Norwegian footballer
* Stefan Jović (born 1990), Serbian basketball player
* Stefan Kälin (born 1942), Swiss alpine skier
* Stefan Kalipha (born 1940), British actor originally from Trinidad
* Stefan Kießling (born 1984), German footballer
* Stefan Kramer (born 1982), Chilean impressionist
* Stefan Koubek (born 1977), Austrian tennis player
* Stefan Kraft (born 1993), Austrian ski jumper
* Stefan Küng (born 1993), Swiss cyclist
* Stefan Koch (born 1964), German basketball coach
* Stefan Kuntz (born 1962), German footballer
* Stefan Lamanna (born 1995), Canadian soccer player
* Stefan Langerman, Belgian mathematician and computer scientist
* Stefan Lindemann (born 1980), German figure skater
* Stefan Liv (1980–2011), Polish-born Swedish ice hockey goaltender
* Stefan Łodwigowski (1815–1895), Polish composer
* Stefan Löfven (born 1957), Swedish politician and former Prime Minister of Sweden
* Stefan Lövgren (born 1970), Swedish handball player
* Stefan Lulchev (1971–2017), Bulgarian footballer
* Stefan Lux (1888–1936), Slovak journalist
* Stefan Maierhofer (born 1982), Austrian footballer
* Stefan Majewski (born 1956), Polish footballer
* Stefan Mappus (born 1966), German politician
* Stefan Marković (born 1988), Serbian basketball player
* Stefan Matz, German head chef
* Stefan Mitrović (born 1988), Serbian water polo player
* Stefan Möller (born 1975), German politician
* Stefan Mohr (born 1967), German chess player

### N–Z

* Stefan Nadelman, American film director and animator
* Stefan Nigro (born 1996), Australian footballer
* Stefan Nimke (born 1978), German track cyclist
* Stefan Noesen (born 1993), American ice hockey player
* Stefan Nutz (born 1992) Austrian football player
* Stefan Nystrand (born 1981), Swedish swimmer
* Stefan Olsdal (born 1974), Swedish rock guitarist
* Stefan Pejic (born 1988), Welsh actor
* Stefan Peno (born 1997), Serbian basketball player
* Stefan Persson (born 1947), Swedish business magnate
* Stefan Pettersson (born 1963), Swedish footballer
* Stefan Petzner (born 1981), Austrian BZÖ politician
* Stefan Raab (born 1966), German entertainer, comedian, musician and TV host
* Stefan Raunser (born 1976), German scientist
* Stefan Ravaničanin (c. 1670–after 1733), Serbian monk and chronicler
* Stefan Rehn (born 1966), Swedish football player and manager
* Stefan Reinartz (born 1989), German footballer
* Stefan Reuter (born 1966), German football player and manager
* Stefan Romaniw (1955–2024), Ukrainian-Australian activist
* Stefan Rowecki (1895–1944), Polish general, journalist and leader of the resistance during World War II
* Stefan Ruzowitzky (born 1961), Austrian film director and screenwriter
* Stefan Rzadzinski (born 1993), Canadian racing driver
* Stefan Sandborg (born 1970), Swedish Army major general
* Stefan Savić (born 1991), Montenegrin footballer
* Stefan Schörghuber (1961–2008), German businessman
* Stefan Schwarz (born 1969), Swedish football player and manager
* Stefan Schumacher (born 1981), German road racing cyclist
* Stefan Skarbek, British songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer
* Stefan Sofiyanski (born 1951), Bulgarian politician
* Stefan Soltész (1949–2022), Hungarian-born Austrian conductor
* Stefan Soroka (born 1951), Canadian archbishop
* Stefan Stambolov (1854–1895), Bulgarian journalist, revolutionist, poet
* Stefan Strandberg (born 1990), Norwegian footballer
* Stefan Takov (born 2002), Serbian taekwondo practitioner
* Stefan Toshev (1859–1924), Bulgarian General during World War I
* Stefan de Vrij (born 1992), Dutch footballer
* Stefan Wallin (born 1967), Swedish-Finnish politician
* Stefan Wilmont - Polish criminal who assassinated the mayor of Gdańsk
* Stefan William (born 1993), Indonesian actor on SCTV
* Stefan Wisniewski (born 1953), German extremist convicted criminal
* Stefan Wul (1922–2003), pseudonym of Pierre Pairault, French science fiction writer
* Stefan Wyszyński (1901–1981), Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
* Stefan Yanev (1939–2024), Bulgarian football player, sports journalist, and author
* Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925), Polish novelist and dramatist
* Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer

## Fictional characters

* King Stefan, father of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty
* Stefan DiMera, in the soap opera Days of Our Lives
* Stefan Salvatore, in The Vampire Diaries novel and TV series
* Stefan Urquelle the alter ego of Steve Urkel from the show Family Matters
* Prince Stefan in Barbie as Rapunzel