Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Hope Carlill KBE CB DSO* (23 December 1902 – 9 February 1996) was a Royal Navy admiral who served as the last British Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from 1955 to 1958, when he was succeeded by Vice-Admiral Ram Dass Katari.

From 1928 to 1930, Carlill studied gunnery at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and aboard HMS Excellent from 1929 to 1930.

Carlill was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander in 1933,[3] and returned to Portsmouth from 1935 to 1936 to further study gunnery aboard HMS Excellent.

[4] He subsequently served as Squadron Gunnery Officer for the Mediterranean Fleet aboard the cruiser HMS Galatea until August 1939.

[1] Carlill was married in 1928 to Julie Fredrike Elisabeth Hildegard (died 1991), only daughter of late Reverend W. Rahlenbeck of Westphalia.