Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player. Bingham has won two Triple Crown events, winning the 2015 World Snooker Championship and the 2020 Masters. A winner of six world ranking tournaments, his was ranked second in the world from 2015 to 2017. As a 20-year-old, Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship. The early years of his professional career featured some notable victories, such as beating defending world champion Stephen Hendry 10–7 in the first round of the 2000 World Snooker Championship, but he enjoyed little sustained success and became known as a journeyman player. His form improved in his mid-thirties; aged 35, he won his first ranking title at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, which helped him enter the top 16 in the rankings for the first time.