While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.

Other noteworthy hard SF authors include Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Bear, Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Sheffield, Ben Bova, Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Egan.

* Various works for trumpet and organ, arguably the most famous of which include the Prince of Denmark's March by Jeremiah Clarke as a processional, the " Trumpet Tune " by Henry Purcell and the " Trumpet Voluntary " by John Stanley as recessionals.

* June 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

With Stanley Clarke

* Stanley Clarke ( 1974 )

Several film adaptations of the novel have been attempted, with director Stanley Kubrick expressing interest in the 1960s, but collaborating with Clarke on 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) instead.

The movie is ranked seventh in Arthur C. Clarke's list of the best Science-Fiction films of all time, just above Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Clarke himself co-wrote.

The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

This " slap " bass style was later used by such artists as Les Claypool ( of Primus ), Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Tim Commerford ( of Rage Against The Machine ), Peter Hook, Mike Mills of R. E. M., Victor Wooten, Jonas Hellborg, Kim Clarke of Defunkt, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, John Norwood Fisher, P-Nut, Danny McCormack, Matt Noveskey, Dirk Lance, and Pino Palladino.

* Steve Hunt, jazz pianist who recorded and toured with Allan Holdsworth, Stanley Clarke, and Billy Cobham ; teaches at Berklee College of Music

There have been many other wheel-shaped space habitats in science fiction, such as the Ringworld or the Earth-orbiting Space Station V invented by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick and depicted in Kubrick's 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* Winner, Stanley Clarke

Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.

* " Ca ' Purange " ( 1972 ) with Thad Jones, Hank Jones, Stanley Clarke and Louis Hayes

2001: A Space Odyssey, the landmark 1968 collaboration between filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and classic science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke featured groundbreaking special effects, such as the realization of the space ship Discovery One ( pictured here )

Natalie Clarke crossed Bass Strait from Stanley, Tasmania to Venus Bay, Victoria in Australia, a distance of 240 km, in 9 hours 30 minutes on March 22, 2010.

* Trio !, a jazz supergroup consisting of Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Béla Fleck

The influences of some of the previous generation of electric bass players, such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, are audible in Miller's playing.

* 2008: Thunder ( as SMV, with Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten )

Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian.

Kim Stanley Robinson ( born March 23, 1952 ) is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.

* June 14 – Frederick Stanley, Governor-General of Canada and founder of the Stanley Cup ( born 1841 )

Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton University in 1981, studying under computer-music composers Paul Lansky and Milton Babbitt.

Legendary comic book writer Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904 ), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.

When Stanley was born in Denbigh, Wales, his mother, Elizabeth Parry, was 19 years old.

Gary Stanley Becker ( born December 2, 1930 ) is an American economist.

Lyons was born in Circular Head, at Stanley, Tasmania, the grandson of Irish immigrants.

* Peter Murphy ( footballer born 1990 ), English footballer with Accrington Stanley

Stanley Eugene Fish ( born April 19, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island ) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, academic, and public intellectual.

Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933 ) served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.

Edward Stanley, born 1962, became 19th Earl of Derby in 1994.

Famous people whose cremations have taken place include Kingsley Amis, Stanley Baldwin, Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Hugh Gaitskell, John Inman, Keith Moon, Ivor Novello, Anna Pavlova, Frank Rutter, Peter Sellers, Ghisha Tuckman ( born, Ghisha Koenig ) Amy Winehouse, Michael Foot and Wendy Richard.

Kaufman was born in New York City, on January 17, 1949, the first son of Janice ( née Bernstein ) and Stanley Kaufman.

Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents, Stanley, an electrical engineer, and Judy Sandler, a nursery school teacher.

* Wendell Meredith Stanley ( 1904 – 1971 ), winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was born in Ridgeville.

* Bill Guerin ( born 1970 ), a former NHL right winger who played for the New Jersey Devils, won two Stanley Cup championships, and represented the United States in the Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006.

* Jim Dowd, ( born 1968 ), former player in the National Hockey League ( NHL ), won a Stanley Cup with the 1994-95 New Jersey Devils and last played for the Philadelphia Flyers.

* Sir John Stanley ( born 1942 ) — MP for Tonbridge and Malling