Stephen King | Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Fry | Stephen Harper | Stephen Hawking | Stephen Stills | Stephen | Stephen Frears | Stephen Crane | Stephen Foster | Steve Biko | St. Stephen's College, Delhi | Stephen Hendry | Stephen Gardiner | Stephen Rea | Stephen Jay Gould | Stephen F. Austin | Stephen Colbert | Stephen Breyer | Stephen Thomas Erlewine | Stephen Merchant | Stephen Chow | Marcus Stephen | Stephen Spender | Stephen Lewis | Stephen Kovacevich | James Fitzjames Stephen | St. Stephen | Stephen Hopkins | Stephen Bishop |
Well-known activists and political figures included Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Stephen Biko, and Harriet Tubman.
The band's lyric sheets contain references to, or quotes from, writer William Shakespeare, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, individualist anarchist Max Stirner, leftist writers Susan Sontag and Herbert Marcuse, political prisoner Stephen Biko, and others.