Noun
- 1. Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley
- usage: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
- 2. Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands
- usage: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
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