Namesakes
Australian Prime Ministers:
1 prime minister
Stanley Bruce 1923-1929 
British Prime Ministers:
1 prime minister
Stanley Baldwin 1923-1924; 1924-1929; 1935-1937
Fictional Characters from Books:
1 hero
"Flat" Stanley Lambchop 1964 Flat Stanley
Fictional Characters from Movies:
1 character
Stanley Kowalski 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
Fictional Characters from Plays and Musicals:
1 character
Stanley Kowalski 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire
Fictional Characters from Television:
5 characters
Stan Switek 1984 Miami Vice
Ray Kowalski (a.k.a. Stanley) 1994 Due South
Stan Marsh 1997 South Park
Jack Hodgins (middle name Stanley) 2005 Bones
Stanley Hudson 2005 The Office
Grammy Award Winners:
1 album of the year/record of the year
(album of the year/record of the year) Stan Getz (a.k.a. Stanley) 1965 Getz/Gilberto; The Girl from Ipanema
Hall-of-Famers:
5 baseball, 1 football
(baseball) Mickey Cochrane (middle name Stanley) 1947
(baseball) Stan Coveleski 1969
(baseball) Stan Musial 1969
(baseball) Bucky Harris (a.k.a. Stanley) 1975
(football) Stan Jones 1991
(baseball) Fred McGriff (middle name Stanley) 2023
Most Valuable Players:
2 winners
Mickey Cochrane (middle name Stanley) 1928; 1934 baseball
Stan Musial 1943; 1946; 1948 baseball
Nobel Prize Winners:
2 medicine, 1 chemistry, 1 economics
(medicine) Stanley Cohen 1986
(economics) Gary Becker (middle name Stanley) 1992
(medicine) Stanley B. Prusiner 1997
(chemistry) M. Stanley Whittingham 2019
Notable Actors and Entertainers:
8 actors
Stan Laurel (middle name Stanley) 1890-1965
Stanley Holloway 1890-1982
Dennis Morgan (middle name Stanley) 1908-1994
Stanley Baker 1928-1976
Bill Smitrovich (middle name Stanley) 1947-
Charles S. Dutton (middle name Stanley) 1951-
Stanley Tucci 1960-
Tom Holland (middle name Stanley) 1996-
Notable Athletes:
3 baseball, 2 tennis, 1 soccer
(baseball) Stan Coveleski 1889-1984
(baseball) Mickey Cochrane (middle name Stanley) 1903-1962
(soccer) Stanley Matthews 1915-2000
(baseball) Stan Musial 1920-2013
(tennis) Roy Emerson (middle name Stanley) 1936-
(tennis) Stan Smith 1946-
Notable Filmmakers:
1 director
Stanley Kubrick 1928-1999
Notable Musicians:
3 singers, 2 musicians
Stanley Holloway 1890-1982
Stan Getz (a.k.a. Stanley) 1927-1991
Paul Stanley (a.k.a. Stanley) 1952-
Darren Hayes (middle name Stanley) 1972-
Olly Murs (middle name Stanley) 1984-
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers:
1 mathematician, 1 psychologist
Arthur Eddington (middle name Stanley) 1882-1944
Stanley Milgram 1933-1984
Notable Politicians and Statespeople:
1 politician
Michael Dukakis (middle name Stanley) 1933-
Notable Scientists and Inventors:
1 astronomer/physicist
Arthur Eddington (middle name Stanley) 1882-1944
Notable Writers:
3 authors, 1 author/poet
William Stanley Braithwaite 1878-1962
Stanley Middleton 1919-2009
Stan Lee (a.k.a. Stanley) 1922-2018
Malcolm Bradbury (middle name Stanley) 1932-2000
Olympic Medalists:
5 bronze, 1 gold, 1 gold/bronze, 1 gold/silver, 1 silver
(gold/bronze) Stan Rowley 1900 100 m; 200 m; 5000 m team; 60 m
(bronze) Claude Jameson (middle name Stanley) 1904 football
(bronze) Stanley B. Glover 1928 4x400 m relay
(gold) Carl Knowles (middle name Stanley) 1936 basketball
(gold/silver) Arthur Wint (middle name Stanley) 1948; 1952 400 m; 4x400 m relay; 800 m
(bronze) Stan Vickers 1960 20 km walk
(bronze) Stanley Cole 1972 water polo
(bronze) Stanley Dziedzic 1976 freestyle wrestling
(silver) Grant Holloway (a.k.a. Stanley) 2020 110 m hurdles
Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famers:
3 musicians
Jim McCarty (middle name Stanley) 1992 The Yardbirds
Stan Lynch 2002 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Paul Stanley (a.k.a. Stanley) 2014 Kiss
Saints:
1 blessed
Blessed Stanley Rother 1935-1981