Stephen Alan Miller (May 31, 1940 – December 27, 1993) was an American businessperson. He was a restaurateur, pedagogical expert, and creator, manufacturer, and distributor of educational and creative toys, a number of which were sold at the Museum of Modern Art Gift Shop. He founded the café The Hip Bagel on MacDougel Street in New York City's Greenwich Village with NYC restaurateur Shelly Fireman in the early 1960s. He also founded the restaurant Avec. He created the 1•2•Kangaroo Toy Store, which was subsequently acquired by CBS Broadcasting as part of their Creative Playthings division. In 1969 he became the youngest president of a CBS division, Creative Playthings, at 29 years old. After leaving Creative Playthings in 1973, he became president of NOVO Toys, a subsidiary of the Sadlier Company. After Novo Toys, he then went on to Ruth Glasser, Inc, from 1977 to 1978, in the Toy Center at 1107 Broadway and was executive vice-president, responsible for the catalogue designed by Fredun Shapur. From 1979, until his death in 1993, he was president and major stockholder of the Willette Corporation, designers and manufacturers of vitreous china bathroom accessories in New Brunswick, New Jersey; a family business founded by his maternal grandparents, William and Ethel Elstein in 1921.
