List of Famous people with last name Stock
Kathleen Stock
Kathleen Stock is a former professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex. She has published academic work on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, and sexual orientation. Her views on gender self-identification have become a contentious issue. In December 2020, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), in recognition of services to higher education, a decision which was subsequently criticised by a group of 600 academic philosophers who argued that Stock's "harmful rhetoric" contributed to the marginalisation of transgender people. In October 2021, a student campaign called for her dismissal, leading to a group of over 200 academic philosophers from the UK signing an open letter in support of Stock's academic freedom. On 28 October 2021 Stock resigned from the University of Sussex.
Jürgen Stock
Jürgen Stock is a German police officer and academic. He has served as Secretary-General of Interpol since 7 November 2014.
Leonhard Stock
Leonhard Stock is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
Franz Stock
The Servant of God Franz Stock was a German Roman Catholic priest. He is known for ministering to prisoners in France during World War II, and to German prisoners of war in the years following. The cause for his canonization has been accepted by the Holy See.
Dennis Stock
Dennis Stock was an American journalist and professional photographer.
Simon Stock
Saint Simon Stock, an Englishman who lived in the 13th century, was an early Prior of the Carmelite religious order. Little is known about his life with any historical certainty. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Carmelite habit, the Brown Scapular. Thus, popular devotion to Saint Simon Stock is usually associated with devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Jutta Stöck
Jutta Bettina Stöck is a retired West German sprinter who won European silver medals in the 4 × 100 m relay in 1966 and 1969. She also held the national title in the relay in 1966–68. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay and placed eighth and sixth, respectively. Her eighth-place result was enough for setting a new German record over 200 m.
Nigel Stock
Nigel Hector Munro Stock was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played character roles in many films and television dramas. He was perhaps best known for his stint as Dr Watson in TV adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories, for his supporting roles as a solidly reliable English soldier or bureaucrat in several war and historical film dramas, and for playing the title role in Owen, M.D..
Gerhard Stöck
Gerhard Karl Eduard Stöck was a German athlete. He won the javelin throw event at the 1936 Olympics and placed third in the shot put.
Mike Stock
Michael Stock is an English songwriter, record producer and musician, best known for being a member of the songwriting and production team Stock Aitken and Waterman that achieved success in the 1980s and 1990s. He has written and/or produced numerous worldwide hits including 18 No. 1 records in America and the UK, and over a hundred top-40 hits. Stock is one of the most successful songwriters of all time as recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. As part of Stock Aitken and Waterman, he is acknowledged as the most successful producer-songwriter in British chart history and holds the record for the most No. 1 records with different acts, with 11. In the UK Singles Chart he has written 54 top-ten hits including 7 number ones.