Stephen S. Sternberg, M.D., F.C.A.P. (born July 30, 1920) is a retired American surgical pathologist, who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for his entire career.He is well known because of his editorship of two widely used reference books in anatomical pathology (Diagnostic Surgical Pathology [now Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology] and Histology for Pathologists).