A stempel is a shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.
Stempel is also a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gary Stempel (born 1957), English-Panamanian football manager Herbert Stempel (1926-2020), television game show contestant who exposed the rigging of results in the 1950s quiz show Twenty One Robert Stempel (1933–2011), Chairman and CEO of General Motors Wolf-Dieter Stempel (1929-2026) German Romance Scholar
Fictional characters: Aaron Stempel, fictional character on the television show Here Come the Brides and the Star Trek novel Ishmael (as Aaron Stemple)
See also Stemple D Stempel AG type foundry Stempel Garamond typeface