stanley

Noun stanley has 2 senses

• stanley(n = noun.person) francis edgar stanley - United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918);
is a kind of artificer, discoverer, inventor

• stanley(n = noun.person) henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley - 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);
is a kind of adventurer, explorer, journalist