| Sa, Mem de (Portuguese colonial official) |
1500-1572 |
| Saada, Antun (Brazilian-born Syrian political agitator) |
1904-1949 |
| Sa'adia ben Joseph (Jewish commentator, scholar) |
882-942 |
| Saakashvili, Mikhail (or Mikheil) "Misha" (Georgian politician) |
b.1967 |
| Saarinen, Eero (Finnish-born American architect; son of Eliel) |
1910-1961 |
| Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel (Finnish-born American architect) |
1873-1950 |
| Saavedra, Juan Bautista (Bolivian jurist; president 1921-25) |
1870-1939 |
| Saavedra Fajardo, Diego (Spanish diplomat, writer) |
1584-1648 |
| Saavedra Lamas, Carlos (Argentinean jurist, diplomat) |
1878-1959 |
| Saavedra Ramirez de Baquendano, Angel de (Span. polit., writer) |
1791-1865 |
| Saba (or Sabas), Saint (Turkish Christian monk) |
439-532 |
| Saba, Umberto née Poli (Italian poet) |
1883-1957 |
| Sabatier, Louis-Auguste (French Protestant theologian) |
1839-1901 |
| Sabatier, Paul (French chemist) |
1854-1941 |
| Sabatini, Rafael (Italian novelist in English) |
1875-1950 |
| Sabbatini, Nicola (Italian architect) |
1574-1654 |
| Sabato, Ernesto (Argentinean writer, critic, essayist) |
b.1911 |
| Sabellius (Roman Christian prelate, theologian) |
fl. c.220 |
| Sabin, Albert Bruce (American physician) |
1906-1993 |
| Sabine, Sir Edward (British soldier, astronomer) |
1788-1883 |
| Sabine, Wallace Clement Ware (American physicist) |
1868-1919 |
| Sabinian (Sabinianus) (Pope 604-606) |
d.606 |
| Sable, Jean Baptist Point (Haitian-born Am. pioneer trader) |
1750?-1818 |
| Sabutai (or Subotai) (Mongol general) |
c.1172-1245 |
| Sabzevari, Haji Hadi (Persian philosopher, poet) |
1797/8-1878 |
| Sacagawea (also Sacajawea) (Shoshone guide with Lewis & Clark) |
1786?-1812 |
| Sa-Carneiro, Mario de (Portuguese poet, writer) |
1890-1916 |
| Sacasa, Juan Bautista (Nicaraguan politician; pres. 1933-36) |
1874-1946 |
| Saccheri, Giovanni Girolamo (Italian Jesuit teacher, math.) |
1667-1733 |
| Sacchetti, Franco (Italian poet, writer of novelle) |
c.1330-1400 |
| Sacchi, Andrea (Italian painter) |
1599-1661 |
| Sacchi, Bartolomeo "Platina" (Italian Humanist, historian) |
1421-1481 |
| Sacchis, Giovanni Antonio de' "Pordenone" (Venetian painter) |
c.1483-1539 |
| Sacco, Nicola (Italian-born American political radical) |
1891-1927 |
| Sacharow, Lawrence J. "Larry" (American stage director) |
1937-2006 |
| Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von (German novelist) |
1836-1895 |
| Sacheverell, Henry (English clergyman) |
1674?-1724 |
| Sacheverell, William (English politician) |
1638-1691 |
| Sachs, Curt (German-born American musicologist) |
1881-1959 |
| Sachs, Hans (German poet, Meistersinger, shoemaker) |
1494-1576 |
| Sachs, Julius von (German botanist) |
1832-1897 |
| Sachs, Nelly Leonie (German-born Swedish poet, dramatist) |
1891-1970 |
| Sackman, Janet (Am. model; Lucky Strike girl,Chesterfield girl) |
b.1931/2 |
| Sackville, Thomas (1st Earl of Dorset) (English poet, diplomat) |
1536-1608 |
| Sackville-West, Victoria Mary (English poet, novelist) |
1892-1962 |
| Sacrobosco, Johannes de (aka John of Holywood) (Englist math.) |
d.1244/56 |
| Sa da Bandeira, Bernardo de (Portuguese politician) |
1795-1876 |
| Sadat, Muhammad Anwar (Egyptian soldier, statesman) |
1918-1981 |
| Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de (French writer) |
1740-1814 |
| Sadeddin, Hoca (Turkish historian) |
1536-1599 |
| Sa de Miranda, Francisco de (Portuguese poet, playwright) |
1481-1558 |
| Sa'di (Mosharref od-Din ibn Mosleh od-Din Sa'di) (Persian poet) |
c.1213-1292 |
| Sadie, Stanley (English scholar, editor; New Grove Dictionary) |
1930-2005 |
| Sadji, Abdoulaye (Senegalese writer) |
1910-1961 |
| Sadler, Michael Thomas (English politician, reformer) |
1780-1835 |
| Sadler (or Sadleir, Sadleyer), Sir Ralph (English diplomat) |
1507-1587 |
| Sadlier, Denis (Irish-born American book publisher) |
1817-1885 |
| Sadlier, James (Irish-born American book publisher) |
d.1869 |
| Sadoleto, Jacopo (Italian prelate) |
1477-1547 |
| Sadoveanu, Mihail (Romanian politician, writer) |
1880-1961 |
| Saemund Sigfusson (Icelandic chieftain-priest, scholar) |
1056-1133 |
| Saenredam, Pieter Jansz (Dutch painter) |
1597-1665 |
| Saenz, Manuela "La Saenz" (Ecuadorian mistress of S. Bolivar) |
1797-1856 |
| Saenz Pena, Luis (Argentinean politician; president 1892-1895) |
1823-1907 |
| Saenz Pena, Roque (Argentinean diplomat, politician) |
1851-1914 |
| Safarik, Pavel Josef (Czech scholar) |
1795-1861 |
| Safi od-Din (Persian mystic) |
1252-1334 |
| Safire, William (American columnist, language authority) |
b.1929 |
| Safiye Sultan (Ottoman consort) |
d.c.1605/19 |
| Sagan, Carl Edward (American astronomer, writer) |
1934-1996 |
| Sagan, Francoise (pseud. of Francoise Quoirez) (French writer) |
b.1935 |
| Sagasta, Praxedes Mateo (Spanish politician) |
1825-1903 |
| Sage, Margaret Olivia née Slocum (American philanthropist) |
1828-1918 |
| Sage, Russell (American financier, politician) |
1816-1906 |
| Saghal, Nayantara Pandit (Indian journalist, writer) |
b.1927 |
| Sagra, Ramon de la (Spanish naturalist, sociologist, anarchist) |
1798-1871 |
| Saha, Meghnad N. (Indian astrophysicist) |
1893-1956 |
| Sahagun, Bernardino de (Spanish Franciscan missionary, hist.) |
1499-1590 |
| Sahibdin (Indian painter) |
17th cent. |
| Sahle Selassie (King of Shewa, Ethiopia 1813-1847) |
1795/1801-1847 |
| Sa'ib (aka Sa'ib of Tabriz or of Isfahan) (Persian poet) |
1601/02-1677 |
| Saicho (aka posthumously Dengyo Daishi) (Japanese religious) |
767-822 |
| Sa'id, Ali Ahmad (pseud. Adonis) (Lebanese poet, lit. critic) |
b.1930 |
| Said, Edward Wadie (Jerusalem-born American polymath scholar) |
1935-2003 |
| Said Halim Pasa (Turkish politician) |
1863-1921 |
| Sa'id ibn Sultan (Ruler of Muscat, Oman, and Zanzibar) |
1791-1856 |
| Sa'id Pasha (Ottoman viceroy of Egypt 1854-1863) |
1822-1863 |
| Saigo Takamori (Japanese general, patriot) |
1828-1877 |
| Saigo (orig Sato Norikiyo) (Japanese Buddhist priest-poet) |
1118-1190 |
| Saint-Andre, Andre Jeanbon (orig. surname Jeanbon)(Fr. clergy.) |
1749-1813 |
| Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques Leroy de (French soldier) |
1798-1854 |
| St. Clair, Arthur (Scottish-born American soldier) |
1736-1818 |
| Saint-Denis, Louis Juchereau de (French-Canadian explorer) |
1676-1744 |
| St. Denis, Ruth (orig. surname Dennis) (Am. dancer, teacher) |
1879-1968 |
| Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin (French critic, author) |
1804-1869 |
| Sainte-Claire Deville, Henri-Etienne (French chemist) |
1818-1881 |
| Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de (Fr. medievalist) |
1697-1781 |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine-Marie-Roger de (French aviator, writer) |
1900-1944 |
| Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (Irish-born American sculptor) |
1848-1907 |
| Saint-Gelais, Mellin de (French poet) |
1491-1558 |
| Saint-Germain, Comte de (Adventurer in Paris of unknown origin) |
1707?-1784 |
| St. John, Henry (1st Viscount Bollingbroke) (Eng. pol., writer) |
1678-1751 |
| St. John, Oliver (English judge) |
1598?-1673 |
| Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine-Leon de (French revolutionary leader) |
1767-1794 |
| St. Laurent, Louis Stephen (Canadian lawyer, politician) |
1882-1973 |
| St. Leger (or Sentleger), Sir Anthony (English administrator) |
1496?-1559 |
| St. Leger, Barry (British officer in American Revolution) |
1737-1789 |
| Saint-Leon, Arthur (French violinist, dancer, choreographer) |
1821-1870 |
| Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de (French mystic philosopher) |
1743-1803 |
| Saint-Maure, Charles de (French soldier, man of letters) |
1610-1690 |
| Saint-Saens, Charles-Camille (French composer) |
1835-1921 |
| Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman (English critic, journalist) |
1845-1933 |
| Saint-Vincent, Gregoire de (Belgian mathematician) |
1584-1667 |
| St. Vrain, Ceran de Hault de Lassus de (American fur trader) |
1802-1870 |
| Sai Ong Hue (Ruler of Laotian kingdom of Lan Xang 1700-1735) |
d.1735 |
| Saionji Kimmochi (Japanese politician) |
1849-1940 |
| Saisset, Bernard (French prelate) |
c.1232-1311? |
| Sait Faik Abasiyanik (Turkish writer) |
1907-1954 |
| Saito Makoto (Japanese admiral, administrator) |
1858-1936 |
| Sakai Hoitsu (orig. Tadanao) (Japanese painter, poet) |
1761-1828 |
| Sakai Toshihiko (pseud. Kosen) (Japanese Socialist) |
1870-1933 |
| Sakaida Kakiemon (orig. Sakaida Kizaemon) (Japanese potter) |
d.1666 |
| Sakamoto Ryoma (Japanese samurai, revolutionary) |
1835-1867 |
| Saker, Alfred (English missionary in West Africa) |
1814-1880 |
| Sakharov, Ardrey Dmitriyevich (Russian physicist, dissident) |
1921-1989 |
| Saki (pseud. of Hector Hugh Munro) (Burmese-born Scot. writer) |
1870-1916 |
| Sakmann, Bert (German biochemist) |
b.1942 |
| Sakuma Shozan (aka Sakuma Zozen) (Japanese scholar) |
1811-1864 |
| Sakurada Jisuke I (pseudonym Sato) (Japanese Mabuki dramatist) |
1734-1806 |
| Sala, George Augustus Henry (English writer) |
1828-1895 |
| Salacrou, Armand (French dramatist) |
1899-1989 |
| Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub) (Muslim sultan, hero) |
1137/8-1193 |
| Salam, Abdus (Pakistani physicist in Britain) |
b.1926 |
| Salamanca, Daniel (Bolivian politician; president 1931-1934) |
1869-1935 |
| Salamun, Tomaz (Slovenian poet) |
b.1941 |
| Salandra, Antonio (Italian politician) |
1853-1931 |
| Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Jeronimo de (Spanish writer) |
1581-1635 |
| Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira (Portuguese dictator 1932-1968) |
1889-1970 |
| Salazar y Torres, Agustin de (Spanish poet, playwright) |
1642-1675 |
| Salchow, Karl Emil Julius Ulrich (Swedish figure skater) |
1877-1949 |
| Saldana, Excilia (Cuban poet, writer) |
b.1946 |
| Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, Joao Carlos de (Port. general, pol.) |
1790-1876 |
| Salesbury (or Salisbury), William (Welsh scholar) |
c.1520-c.1584 |
| Salieri, Antonio (Italian composer) |
1750-1825 |
| Salih, Tayeb (or at-Tayyib Salih) (Sudanese writer) |
b.1929 |
| Salih Ayyub (Ruler of Egypt 1239, 1245-1249) |
d.1249 |
| Salim, Hadji Agus (Indonesian nationalist, Islamic leader) |
1884-1954 |
| Salimbene di Adam (Ognibene de Adamo) (It. monk, chronicler) |
1221-c.1290 |
| Salinas de Gortari, Carlos (Mexican politician; pres. 1988-) |
b.1948 |
| Salinas y Serrano, Pedro (Spanish poet, scholar, dramatist) |
1891-1951 |
| Salinger, Jerome David (American writer) |
b.1919 |
| Salisbury, Rollin Daniel (American geologist) |
1858-1922 |
| Salis-Seewis, Johann Gaudenz (Swiss soldier, poet) |
1762-1834 |
| Salitis (or Salatis; also Mayebre Sheshi) (King of Egypt) |
fl. c.1670 BC |
| Salk, Jonas Edward (American immunologist; disc. polio vaccine) |
1914-1995 |
| Salkey, Felix Andrew Alexander (Panamanian writer, anthologist) |
b.1928 |
| Salle, Marie (French dancer, choreographer) |
c.1707-1756 |
| Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (Roman historian, polit.) |
c.86-35/4 BC |
| Salluste, Guillaume de (French poet) |
1544-1590 |
| Salman al-Farisi (Persian national hero) |
7th cent. |
| Salom, Jaime (Spanish playwright) |
b.1925 |
| Salomao, Waly (Brazilian poet) |
1944-2003 |
| Salome (Judaean princess; daughter of Herodias & Herod Philip) |
1st cent. |
| Salome Alexandra (Queen of Judea 76-67 BC) |
d.67 BC |
| Salomon, Alice (German social worker) |
1872-1948 |
| Salomon, Erich (German photographer) |
1886-c.1944 |
| Salomon, Haym (Polish-born American merchant, financier) |
1740-1785 |
| Salomon, Louis-Etienne-Felicite (Haitian general, politician) |
1815-1888 |
| Salomonovich, Alexander (Russian radio astronomer) |
b.1916 |
| Salt, Sir Titus (English manufacturer) |
1803-1876 |
| Saltonstall, Gurdon (American clergyman) |
1666-1724 |
| Saltonstall, Leverett (American lawyer, politician) |
1892-1979 |
| Saltus, Edgar Evertson (American author) |
1855-1921 |
| Saltykov, Mikhail Yevgrafovich (pseud. N. Shchedrin)(Rus. nov.) |
1826-1889 |
| Saltykov, Pyotr Semyonovich (Russian field marshal) |
1698?-1772 |
| Salutati, Lino Coluccio di Piero (Italian Humanist) |
1331-1406 |
| Salvatierra, Juan Maria (Italian Jesuit missionary) |
1648-1717 |
| Salvi, Niccolo (or Nicola) (Italian sculptor) |
1697-1751 |
| Salvianus (aka Salvianus of Marseilles) (Germanic ecclesiastic) |
c.400-c.480 |
| Salviati, Antonio (Italian mosaicist) |
1816-1900 |
| Salviati, Cecchino (orig. Francesco de' Rossi) (It. painter) |
1510-1563 |
| Salviati, Leonardo (academic name Infarinato) (It. Humanist) |
1540-1589 |
| Salvius Julianus (Roman jurist) |
2nd cent. |
| Salzillo y Alcaraz, Francisco (Spanish sculptor) |
1707-1783 |
| Salzmann, Siegmund (pen name Felix Salten) (Hung. nov., jour.) |
1869-1945 |
| Samain, Albert-Victor (French poet) |
1858-1900 |
| Samaniego, Felix Maria (Spanish Basque poet) |
1745-1801 |
| Sambhaji (Hindu raja of Maratha 1680-1689) |
d.1689 |
| Sambourne, Edward Linley (English draftsman, illustrator) |
1844-1910 |
| Sambucuccio d'Alando (Corsican rebel) |
d.c.1370 |
| Sammartini, Giovanni Battista "Il Milanese" (Italian composer) |
1700/1-1775 |
| Sammartini, Giuseppe Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre (It. comp.) |
1695-1750 |
| Sammuramat (Semiramis) (Assyrian queen) |
9th cent. BC |
| Samo (Frankish merchant) |
d.c.660 |
| Samory Toure (West African ruler) |
c.1830-1900 |
| Samoset (American Pemaquid Indian leader) |
d.1653? |
| Sampson, William Thomas (American naval officer) |
1840-1902 |
| Sam Sene Thai, Phya (Ruler of Lan Xang kingdom of Laos) |
1356-1417 |
| Samson of Tottington (English ecclesiastic) |
c.1135-1212 |
| Samsonov, Aleksandr Vasiliyevich (Russian general) |
1859-1914 |
| Samudra Gupta (Second emperor of Gupta dynasty in India) |
d.c.380 |
| Samuel (Shmu'el) (Hebrew judge, prophet) |
c.11th cent. BC |
| Samuel (Czar of Bulgaria 980-1014) |
d.1014 |
| Samuel of Nehardea (Mars Samuel) (Babylonian scholar, rabbi) |
c.177-257 |
| Samuel, Sir Herbert Louis (1st Viscount Samuel) (Eng. polit.) |
1870-1963 |
| Samuel, Marcus (1st Viscount Bearsted) (English financier) |
1853-1927 |
| Samuel ha-Nagid (Spanish Talmudic scholar, warrior, politician) |
993-1055/6 |
| Samuelson, Paul Anthony (American economist) |
b.1915 |
| Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar (Swedish biochemist) |
b.1934 |
| Sanatescu, Constantin (Romanian soldier, politician) |
1885-1947 |
| Sanatruces (aka Arshakan) (King of Parthia 76/75-70/69 BC) |
d.70/69 BC |
| Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (American journalist) |
1831-1917 |
| Sanborn, James (Am. businessman; org. Chase & Sanborn 1878) |
1835-1903 |
| Sanches, Francisco (Portuguese or Span. physician, philosopher) |
c.1550-1623 |
| Sanchez, Florencio (Uruguayan dramatist) |
1875-1910 |
| Sanchez, Luis Rafael (Puerto Rican playwright, writer) |
b.1936 |
| Sanchez, Sonia Benita (b.Wilsonia Driver)(Am. poet, playwright) |
b.1934 |
| Sanchez Cerro, Luis M. (Peruvian soldier, politician) |
1889-1933 |
| Sanchez Coello, Alonso (Spanish painter) |
1531/2-1588 |
| Sanchez Cotan, Juan (Spanish painter) |
1561-1627 |
| Sanchuniathon (Phoenician writer) |
14-13th cent. BC |
| Sancroft, William (Eng. prelate; archbishop of Canterbury 1678) |
1617-1693 |
| Sand, George (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant)(French novelist) |
1804-1876 |
| Sandage, Allan Rex (American astronomer) |
b.1926 |
| Sanday, William (English New Testament scholar) |
1843-1920 |
| Sandburg, Carl (American biographer, poet) |
1878-1967 |
| Sandby, Paul (English engraver, painter) |
1725-1809 |
| Sandeau, Leonard-Sylvain-Julien "Jules" (Fr. nov., playwright) |
1811-1883 |
| Sandel, Cora (Sara Margarethe Fabricius) (Norwegian writer) |
1880-1974 |
| Sandeman, Robert (Scottish religious leader) |
1718-1771 |
| Sandemose, Aksel (Danish-born Norwegian novelist) |
1899-1965 |
| Sanders, George (Russian-born British actor) |
1906-1972 |
| Sanders, Harland David "Colonel Sanders" (Am. food franchiser) |
1890-1980 |
| Sanders (or Sander), Nicholas (English controversialist, hist.) |
1530?-1581 |
| Sanders, Pharoah (Farrell) (American saxophonist) |
b.1940 |
| Sanderson, Frederick William (English educator) |
1857-1922 |
| Sandino, Augusto Cesar (Nicaraguan guerrilla leader) |
1893-1934 |
| Sandoval y Rojas, Francisco Gomez de (Spanish politician) |
1553-1623 |
| Sandow, Eugene (German-born American strongman) |
1867-1925 |
| Sandel, Cora (Sara Margarethe Fabricius) (Norwegian writer) |
1880-1974 |
| Sandoz, Marie Susette "Mari" (Am. biographer, hist. writer) |
1901-1966 |
| Sandrart, Joachim von (German painter, engraver, art scholar) |
1606-1688 |
| Sandys, Anthony Frederick Augustus (English artist) |
1829-1904 |
| Sandys, Edwin (English prelate; archbishop of York 1576-1588) |
1516?-1588 |
| Sandys, Sir Edwin (English colonial organizer; son of Edwin) |
1561-1629 |
| Sandys, George (English colonist, poet; brother of Sir Edwin) |
1578-1644 |
| Sandys, Sir John Edwin (English scholar) |
1844-1922 |
| Sanford, Edward Terry (American Supreme Court justice 1923-30) |
1865-1930 |
| Sanfuentes Andonaegui, Juan Luis (Chilean pol.; pres. 1915-20) |
1858-1930 |
| Sangallo, Antonio (Florentine architect, military engineer) |
1455-1535 |
| Sangallo, Antonio Giamberti da (Florentine architect) |
1483-1546 |
| Sangallo, Francesco "Il Margotta" (Florentine sculptor) |
1494-1576 |
| Sangallo, Giuliano da (Florentine architect, sculptor) |
1445?-1516 |
| Sanger, Eugen (Austrian rocket propulsion engineer) |
1905-1964 |
| Sanger, Frederick (English biochemist) |
b.1918 |
| Sanger, George (English circus proprietor; brother of John) |
1825-1911 |
| Sanger, John (English circus proprietor; brother of George) |
1816-1889 |
| Sanger, George (English circus proprietor; brother of John) |
1825-1911 |
| Sanger, Margaret Louise née Higgins (Am. birth control adv.) |
1879-1966 |
| Sanjar (Mu'izz ad-Din Sanjar) (Prince of Khorasan c.1096-1157) |
1084/6-1157 |
| Sanjo II (Gosanjo) (71st emperor of Japan 1168-1172) |
1034-1073 |
| Sanjo Sanetomi (Japanese politician) |
1837-1891 |
| Sankara (or Sankaracarya) (Indian philosopher, theologian) |
700?-750? |
| Sankaran Nair, Sir Chettur (Indian jurist, politician) |
1857-1934 |
| Sankey, Ira David (American evangelist, hymn writer) |
1840-1908 |
| Sankey, John (1st Viscount Sankey) (English jurist) |
1866-1948 |
| San Martin, Jose Francisco de (Argentinian soldier, statesman) |
1778-1850 |
| Sanmicheli, Michele (Italian architect, military engineer) |
1484-1559 |
| Sannazzaro, Jacopo (academic name Actius Sincerus) (It. poet) |
1456-1530 |
| Sansom, William (English writer, banker, advertiser) |
1912-1976 |
| Sanson, Charles Henri (French executioner; executed Louis XVI) |
1740-1795? |
| Sansovino, Jacopo (orig. surname Tatti) (It. sculptor, arch.) |
1486-1570 |
| Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de (Mexican general, politician) |
1794-1876 |
| Santa Cruz, Alonso de (Spanish cartographer, chronicler) |
1505-1567 |
| Santa Cruz, Andres (Bolivian general, politician) |
1792-1865 |
| Santa Maria, Domingo (Chilean politician; president 1881-1886) |
1825-1889 |
| Santana, Pedro (Dominican military & political leader) |
1801-1864 |
| Santander, Francisco de Paula (Colombian general, politician) |
1792-1840 |
| Santareno, Bernardo (Antonio Martinho do Rosario) (Port. poet) |
1924-1980 |
| Santayana, George (Spanish poet, philosopher) |
1863-1952 |
| Sant'Elia, Antonio (Italian architect) |
1888-1916 |
| Santerre, Antoine-Joseph (French revolutionary polit., general) |
1752-1809 |
| Santerre, Jean-Baptiste (French painter) |
1658-1717 |
| Santillana, Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, marquis de (Spanish poet) |
1398-1458 |
| Santiraksita (Indian Buddhist teacher) |
8th cent. |
| Santorini, Giovanni Domenico (Italian physician) |
1681-1737 |
| Santorio, Santorio "Sanctorius" (Italian physician) |
1561-1636 |
| Santos, Eduardo (Colombian politician; president 1938-1942) |
1888-1974 |
| Santos, Maximo (Uruguayan politician; president 1882-1886) |
1847-1887 |
| Santos-Dumont, Alberto (Brazilian aviation pioneer in France) |
1873-1932 |
| Sanudo, Marino (Venetian chronicler) |
1466-1536 |
| Sanusi, as- (Libyan theologian) |
c.1787-1859 |
| Sapir, Edward (Pomeranian-born Am. anthropologist, linguist) |
1884-1939 |
| Sappho (Greek lyric poet, of Lesbos) |
fl. c.610-580 BC |
| Sapronov, Timofey Vladimirovich (Russian politician) |
1887-1939? |
| Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur (Indian jurist, politician) |
1875-1949 |
| Saracoglu, Sukru (Turkish politician) |
1887-1953 |
| Sarasin (or Sarrasin or Sarrazin), Jean-Francois (French poet) |
1614-1654 |
| Sarbiewski, Maciej Kazimierz (Polish Jesuit, monk) |
1595-1640 |
| Sardou, Victorien (French playwright) |
1831-1908 |
| Sarduri I (King of Urartu c.840-830 BC) |
9th cent. BC |
| Sarduri II (King of Urartu c.755-735 BC) |
8th cent. BC |
| Sarduri III (King of Urartu c.644-640 BC) |
7th cent. BC |
| Sarduy, Severo (Cuban writer) |
1937-1993 |
| Sarg, Anthony Frederick "Tony" (Guatemalan-born Am. illus.) |
1882-1942 |
| Sargent, Charles Sprague (American dendrologist) |
1841-1927 |
| Sargent, John Singer (Italian-born American painter) |
1856-1925 |
| Sargent, Winthrop (American soldier, administrator) |
1753-1820 |
| Sargeson, Frank (Norris Frank Davey) (New Zealand writer) |
1903-1982 |
| Sargon of Akkad (Mesopotamian ruler c.2334-2279 BC) |
24-23rd cent. BC |
| Sargon II (Assyrian conqueror, king 721-705 BC) |
d.705 BC |
| Sariputra (Sariputta) (Indian Buddhist) |
c.6th cent. BC |
| Saris, John (English merchant, sea captain) |
d.1646 |
| Sarit Thanarat (Thai soldier, politician) |
1908-1963 |
| Sarkar, Sir Jadunath (Indian historian) |
1870-1958 |
| Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (Argentine educator, pol., writer) |
1811-1888 |
| Sarmiento de Acuna, Diego (Conde de Gondomar) (Span. diplomat) |
1567-1626 |
| Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro (Spanish explorer) |
1532-1592? |
| Sarnoff, David (Russian-born American executive; fnd. NBC 1926) |
1891-1971 |
| Saroyan, William (American writer, playwright) |
1908-1981 |
| Sarpi, Paolo (It. prelate, historian, scientist, theologian) |
1552-1623 |
| Sarrail, Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel (French general) |
1856-1929 |
| Sarraut, Albert-Pierre (French colonial administrator, polit.) |
1872-1962 |
| Sarrette, Bernard (French musical administrator) |
1765-1858 |
| Sarraute, Nathalie (Russian-born French writer, playwright) |
1900-1999 |
| Sars, Michael (Norwegian marine biologist) |
1805-1869 |
| Sarsfield, Patrick (Irish Jacobite, soldier) |
d.1693 |
| Sartain, Emily (American engraver, painter; daughter of John) |
1841-1927 |
| Sartain, John (English-born American engraver) |
1808-1897 |
| Sartain, Samuel (American engraver; son of John) |
1830-1906 |
| Sartain, William (American painter; son of John) |
1843-1924 |
| Sarti, Giuseppe (Italian composer) |
1729-1802 |
| Sarton, Eleanore Marie "May" (Belgian-born Am. poet, writer) |
1912-1995 |
| Sarton, George Alfred Leon (Belgian-born American scholar) |
1884-1956 |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul (French writer, playwright, philosopher) |
1905-1980 |
| Sarzec, Gustave-Charles-Ernest Chocquin de (French diplomat) |
1832-1901 |
| Sasan (Persian noble) |
1st? cent. |
| Sassoon, Siegfried Lorraine (English writer, poet) |
1886-1967 |
| Sastre, Alfonso (Spanish dramatist) |
b.1926 |
| Sastri, Valangiman Sankarana-Rayana Srinivasa (Indian polit.) |
1869-1946 |
| Sastroamidjojo, Ali (Indonesian politician) |
1903-1975 |
| Satie, Eric-Alfred-Leslie (French composer) |
1866-1925 |
| Sata Eisaku (Japanese politician) |
1901-1975 |
| Sato Haruo (Japanese poet, writer, critic) |
1892-1964 |
| Sato Nobuhiro (Japanese scientist) |
1769-1850 |
| Satterlee, Francis Le Roy (American roentgenologist) |
1881-1935 |
| Saturninus, Lucius Appuleius (Roman politician) |
d.100 BC |
| Saud (King of Saudia Arabia 1953-1964; son of Ibn Sa'ud) |
1902-1969 |
| Sauer, Carl Ortwin (American geographer) |
1889-1975 |
| Sauganash (Canadian-born American Potawatomi Indian leader) |
1780-1841 |
| Saul (First king of Israel c.1020-1000 BC) |
11th cent. BC |
| Saumaise, Claude de (Claudius Salmasius) (French scholar) |
1588-1653 |
| Saumarez, James (Baron de Saumarez) (British naval commander) |
1757-1836 |
| Saunders, Nicholas (English entrepreneur, writer) |
1938-1998 |
| Sauser, Frederic Louis (pseud. Blaise Cendrars) (Swiss writer) |
1887-1961 |
| Saussier, Felix-Gustave (French general) |
1828-1905 |
| Saussure, Ferdinand de (Swiss linguist; pioneer of semiotics) |
1857-1913 |
| Saussure, Henri de (Swiss entomologist; grandson of Horace) |
1829-1905 |
| Saussure, Horace-Benedict de (Swiss geologist, physicist) |
1740-1799 |
| Saussure, Nicolas de (Swiss agriculturist) |
1709-1790 |
| Saussure, Nicolas-Theodore de (Swiss chemist, naturalist) |
1767-1845 |
| Saustatar (or Shaushshatar) (King of Mitanni) |
16-15th cent. BC |
| Sautuola, Marcellino de (Spanish amateur archaeologist) |
d.1888 |
| Sauveur, Albert (Belgian-born American metallurgist) |
1863-1939 |
| Sauveur, Joseph (French physicist) |
1653-1716 |
| Sava, Saint (Sabas) (Serbian prelate) |
c.1176-c.1236 |
| Savage, Arthur William (Jamaican-born Am. arms manufacturer) |
1857-1938 |
| Savage, Daniel Keenan (American sex advice columnist, writer) |
b.1964 |
| Savage, Edward (American painter, engraver) |
1761-1817 |
| Savage, Henry Wilson (American theatrical producer) |
1859-1927 |
| Savage, James (American antiquary) |
1784-1873 |
| Savage, Michael Joseph (Australian-born New Zealand politician) |
1872-1940 |
| Savage, Richard (English poet, playwright, satirist) |
1697?-1743 |
| Savage, Thomas Staughton (American clergyman, naturalist) |
1804-1880 |
| Savard, Felix-Antoine (French-Canadian priest, poet, writer) |
1896-1982 |
| Savarkar, Vir Vinayak Damodar (Indian nationalist) |
1883-1966 |
| Savart, Felix (French physicist, physicist) |
1791-1841 |
| Savary, Anne-Jean-Marie-Rene (French soldier, politician) |
1774-1833 |
| Savelli, Luca (Roman politician; father of Pope Honorius IV) |
d.1266 |
| Savery, Thomas (English military engineer) |
1650?-1715 |
| Savery, William (American cabinetmaker) |
1721-1787 |
| Savigny, Friedrich Karl von (German jurist) |
1779-1861 |
| Savile, Sir George (English politician, essayist) |
1633-1695 |
| Savile, Sir Henry (English scholar) |
1549-1622 |
| Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich (pseud. V. Ropshin) (Russian rev.) |
1879-1925 |
| Savold, Lee (orig. surname Hulver) (American boxer) |
1914?-1972 |
| Savonarola, Girolamo (Italian religious reformer) |
1452-1498 |
| Saw, U (aka Galon U Saw) (Burmese politician) |
1900-1948 |
| Sax, Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" (Belg. musical instrument maker) |
1814-1894 |
| Sax, Charles-Joseph (Belgian musical instrument maker) |
1791-1865 |
| Saxo Grammaticus (Danish historian) |
c.1150-1216? |
| Saxton, Joseph (American inventor) |
1799-1873 |
| Say, Jean-Baptiste (French economist) |
1767-1832 |
| Say, Thomas (American entomologist) |
1787-1834 |
| Sayadian, Aruthin (pseud. Sayat-Nova) (American troubadour) |
1712-1795 |
| Sayana (Hindu scholar; brother of Madhavacarya) |
1320-1387 |
| Saya San (Burmese nationalist) |
d.1931 |
| Sayce, Archibald Henry (English philologist) |
1845-1933 |
| Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (English writer, scholar) |
1893-1957 |
| Sayers, Tom "the Little Wonder" (English boxer) |
1826-1865 |
| Sayf ad-Dawlah (Arab ruler of northern Syria) |
916-967 |
| Sayre, Lewis Albert (American surgeon) |
1820-1900 |
| Sazonov, Sergey Dmitriyevich (Russian diplomat) |
1861-1927 |
| Scaevola, Gaius Mucius (Roman hero) |
6th cent. BC |
| Scaevola, Publius Mucius (Roman jurist, orator) |
d.115? BC |
| Scaevola, Quintus Mucius "Pontifex" (Roman consul) |
d.82 BC |
| Scaevola, Quintus Mucius "Augur" (Roman jurist; cousin of Q.M.) |
d.88 BC |
| Scalia, Antonin (American jurist; Supreme Court justice 1986-) |
b.1936 |
| Scaliger, Joseph Justus (French scholar; son of Julius) |
1540-1609 |
| Scaliger, Julius Caesar (Italian-born Fr. physician, scholar) |
1484-1558 |
| Scamozzi, Vincenzo (Italian architect) |
1552-1616 |
| Scarlatti, Giuseppe Domenico (It. composer; son of Alessandro) |
1685-1757 |
| Scarlatti, Pietro Alessandro (Gaspare) (Italian composer) |
1660-1725 |
| Scarlett, Sir James Yorke (English general) |
1799-1871 |
| Scarpa, Antonio (Italian anatomist, surgeon) |
1752-1832 |
| Scarron, Paul (French comic poet, novelist, dramatist) |
1610-1660 |
| Scaurus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman politician) |
c.162-c.89 BC |
| Scaurus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman soldier, polit.; son of M.A.) |
d.52? BC |
| Sceve, Maurice (French poet) |
c.1501-c.1560/4 |
| Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar (German financier) |
1877-1970 |
| Schack, Adolf Friedrich (German man of letters) |
1815-1894 |
| Schadow, Johann Gottfried (German sculptor) |
1764-1850 |
| Schadow, Rudolf (German sculptor; son of Johann) |
1786-1822 |
| Schadow, Wilhelm (German painter; son of Johann) |
1788-1862 |
| Schaechter, Mordkhe (Romanian-born American Yiddish scholar) |
1927-2007 |
| Schaepman, Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria (Dutch politician) |
1844-1903 |
| Schafer, Wilhelm (German writer) |
1868-1952 |
| Schaff, Phillip (Swiss-born American theologian, church hist.) |
1819-1893 |
| Schaffer, Pierre (French composer) |
1910-1995 |
| Schaffle, Albert (German economist, sociologist) |
1831-1903 |
| Schaffner, Jakob (Swiss writer, essayist) |
1875-1944 |
| Schall von Bell, Johann Adam (Ger. Jesuit missionary, astron.) |
1591-1666 |
| Schally, Andrew Victor (Polish-born American physiologist) |
b.1926 |
| Schantz, Edward Joseph (American biochemist) |
1908-2005 |
| Schaper, Johann (German ceramist) |
1621-1670 |
| Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann David von (Prussian general) |
1755-1813 |
| Scharoun, Hans Bernhard (German architect) |
1893-1972 |
| Scharwenka, Franz Xaver (German piano virtuoso, composer) |
1850-1924 |
| Scharwenka, Ludwig Philipp (German composer; brother of Franz) |
1847-1917 |
| Schaudinn, Fritz Richard (German zoologist) |
1871-1906 |
| Schawlow, Arthur Leonard (American physicist) |
b.1921 |
| Schechter, Solomon (Romanian-born American Talmudist, educator) |
1850-1915 |
| Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (Swedish pharmacist, chemist) |
1742-1786 |
| Scheemakers, Peter (Belgian sculptor) |
1691-1770 |
| Scheer, Reinhard (German admiral) |
1863-1928 |
| Scheffel, Josef Victor von (German poet, novelist) |
1826-1886 |
| Scheffler, Johannes (Polish mystic, polemicist, poet) |
1624-1677 |
| Scheibler, Johann Heinrich (Ger. silk manu., amateur musician) |
1777-1837 |
| Scheidemann, Philipp (German politician) |
1865-1939 |
| Scheidler, Joseph M. (American anti-abortion activist) |
b.1927 |
| Scheidt, Samuel (German organist, composer) |
1587-1654 |
| Schein, Johann Hermann (German composer) |
1586-1630 |
| Scheiner, Christoph (German astronomer) |
1573-1650 |
| Scheler, Max (German philosopher) |
1874-1928 |
| Schelling, Felix Emanuel (American educator) |
1858-1945 |
| Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (German philosopher) |
1775-1854 |
| Schendel, Arthur Francois Emile van (Dutch novelist) |
1874-1946 |
| Schenker, Heinrich (Polish-born Austrian music theorist) |
1868-1935 |
| Scherchen, Herman (German composer) |
1891-1966 |
| Scherer, Barthelemy-Louis-Joseph (French Revolutionary general) |
1747-1804 |
| Scherer, Wilhelm (German philologist) |
1841-1886 |
| Scherrer, Paul Hermann (Swiss physicist) |
1890-1969 |
| Scheuer, Peter (German astronomer) |
b.1930 |
| Schiaparelli, Elsa (Italian-born French dress designer) |
1896-1973 |
| Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (Italian astronomer) |
1835-1910 |
| Schichau, Ferdinand (German engineer, shipbuilder) |
1814-1896 |
| Schick, Bela (Hungarian-born American pediatrician) |
1877-1967 |
| Schickele, Rene (German journalist, poet, writer, dramatist) |
1883-1940 |
| Schick Gutierrez, Rene (Nicaraguan politician; pres. 1963-1966) |
1910-1966 |
| Schiele, Egon (Austrian painter) |
1890-1918 |
| Schiff, Jacob Henry (German-born Am. banker, philanthropist) |
1847-1920 |
| Schiff, Moritz (German physiologist) |
1823-1896 |
| Schikaneder, Emanuel Johann Joseph (German theater manager) |
1751-1812 |
| Schildkraut, Joseph (German actor; son of Rudolph) |
1895-1964 |
| Schildkraut, Rudolph (German actor) |
1862-1930 |
| Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott (English philosopher) |
1864-1937 |
| Schiller, Herbert Irving (American social scientist, author) |
b.1919 |
| Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von (German poet, dram.) |
1759-1805 |
| Schillings, Max von (German conductor, composer) |
1868-1933 |
| Schiltberger, Johann "Hans" (German noble, traveler) |
1380-c.1440 |
| Schimmel, Hendrik Jan (Dutch journalist, writer) |
1823-1906 |
| Schimmelpenninck, Rutger Jan (Dutch politician) |
1761-1825 |
| Schimper, Andreas Franz Wilhelm (Ger. botanist; son of Wilhelm) |
1856-1901 |
| Schimper, Karl Friedrich (German scientist) |
1803-1867 |
| Schimper, Wilhelm Philipp (German botanist; cousin of Karl) |
1808-1880 |
| Schindewolf, Otto Heinrich (German paleontologist) |
1896-1971 |
| Schindler, Anton Felix (German conductor) |
1795-1864 |
| Schiner, Matthaus (also Mathias Schinner) (Swiss prelate) |
c.1465-1522 |
| Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (German architect, painter) |
1781-1841 |
| Schirach, Baldur von (German politician; founded Hitler Youth) |
1907-1974 |
| Schirmer, Gustave (German-born American music publisher) |
1829-1893 |
| Schirmer, Rudolph Edward (Am. music publisher; son of Gustave) |
1859-1919 |
| Schirra, Walter Marty Jr. "Wally" (American astronaut) |
1923-2007 |
| Schjelderup, Gerhard Rosenkrone (Norwegian composer) |
1859-1933 |
| Schlaf, Johannes (German writer) |
1862-1941 |
| Schlafli, Ludwig (Swiss mathematician) |
1814-1895 |
| Schlafly, Phillis née Steward (American activist) |
b.1924 |
| Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (German man of letters) |
1767-1845 |
| Schlegel, Friedrich von (German writer, critic; bro. of August) |
1772-1829 |
| Schlegel, Johann Elias (German playwright; uncle of August) |
1719-1749 |
| Schleicher, August (German philologist) |
1821-1868 |
| Schleicher, Kurt von (German soldier, politician) |
1882-1934 |
| Schleiden, Matthias Jakob (German botanist, microscopist) |
1804-1881 |
| Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel (German theol., philos.) |
1768-1834 |
| Schlemmer, Oskar (German painter) |
1888-1943 |
| Schlesinger, Arthur Meier (American historian) |
1888-1965 |
| Schlesinger, Arthur Meier (b.Arthur Bancroft S.)(Am. historian) |
1917-2007 |
| Schlesinger, Frank (American astronomer) |
1871-1943 |
| Schlesinger, Hermann Irving (American chemist) |
1882-1960 |
| Schley, Winfield Scott (American naval officer) |
1839-1909 |
| Schleyer, Johann Martin (German clergyman, linguistic scholar) |
1831-1912 |
| Schlich, Sir William (German-born British forester) |
1840-1925 |
| Schlick, Friedrich Albert Moritz (German philosopher) |
1882-1936 |
| Schlieffen, Alfred von (German soldier) |
1833-1913 |
| Schliemann, Heinrich (German archaeologist, scholar) |
1822-1890 |
| Schlink, Frederick John (American consumer rights activist) |
1891-1995 |
| Schlippenbach, Alexander von (German musician, bandleader) |
b.1938 |
| Schlosser, Friedrich Christoph (German historian) |
1776-1861 |
| Schlozer, August Ludwig von (German historian) |
1735-1809 |
| Schlumberger, Francois-Conrad (Fr. geophysicist, petrol. geol.) |
1878-1936 |
| Schlumberger, Marcel (Fr. geophysicist, petroleum geologist) |
1884-1953 |
| Schluter, Andreas (German sculptor, architect) |
1664-1714 |
| Schmeling, Max (German boxer) |
1905-2005 |
| Schmerling, Anton von (Austrian jurist, politician) |
1805-1893 |
| Schmid, Eduard (pseud. Kasimir Edschmid) (German writer) |
1890-1966 |
| Schmid, Jeanette (b. Rudolf Schmid) (Czech whistler) |
1924-2005 |
| Schmidt, Arno Otto (German writer, essayist, translator) |
1914-1979 |
| Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (Estonian-born German optician) |
1879-1935 |
| Schmidt, Helmut (West German politician; chancellor 1974-1982) |
b.1918 |
| Schmidt, Johann Kaspar (pseud. Max Stirner) (Ger. philosopher) |
1806-1856 |
| Schmidt, Johannes (German philologist) |
1843-1901 |
| Schmidt, Maarten (Dutch-born American astronomer) |
b.1929 |
| Schmidt, Otto Ernst (pseud. Otto Ernst) (German writer) |
1862-1926 |
| Schmidt, Wilhelm (German anthropologist) |
1868-1954 |
| Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl (aka Karl Schmidt) (German painter) |
1884-1976 |
| Schmitt, Florent (French composer) |
1870-1958 |
| Schmitz, Ettore (pseud. Italo Svevo) (Italian novelist) |
1861-1928 |
| Schmoller, Gustav von (German economist) |
1838-1917 |
| Schmucker, Samuel Simon (American theologian, educator) |
1799-1873 |
| Schnabel, Artur (Austrian-born American pianist, composer) |
1882-1951 |
| Schnabel, Johann Gottfried (pseud. Gisander) (German writer) |
1692-1750? |
| Schneebaum, Theodore "Tobias" (Am. writer, artist, explorer) |
1922-2005 |
| Schneider, Johann "Magister Islebius" (German Protestant ref.) |
1494-1566 |
| Schneider, Johann Christian Friedrich (German composer, cond.) |
1786-1853 |
| Schneider, Adolphe (French industrialist; brother of Joseph) |
1802-1845 |
| Schneider, Charles-Prosper-Eugene (French industrialist) |
1868-1942 |
| Schneider, Joseph-Eugene (Fr. industrialist; bro. of Adolphe) |
1805-1875 |
| Schneier, Bruce (Am. cryptographer, computer security expert) |
b.1963 |
| Schneirla, Theodore Christian (American animal psychologist) |
1902-1968 |
| Schnitger, Arp (German organ builder) |
1648-1719 |
| Schnitzler, Arthur (Austrian physician, playwright, novelist) |
1862-1931 |
| Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius (German painter) |
1794-1872 |
| Schober, Johann (Austrian politician) |
1874-1932 |
| Schobert, Johann (German harpsichordist, composer) |
c.1735-1767 |
| Schoeck, Othmar (Swiss composer) |
1886-1957 |
| Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter (Austrian-born Am. composer) |
1874-1951 |
| Schoenheimer, Rudolf (German biochemist) |
1898-1941 |
| Schoffer (or Schoeffer), Peter (German printer) |
1425?-1502 |
| Schofield, John McAllister (American army officer) |
1831-1906 |
| Scholem, Gershom Gerhard (Ger.-born Jewish hist., philologist) |
1897-1982 |
| Schollaert, Francois (Belgian politician) |
1851-1917 |
| Schomberg, Charles (French politician; son of Henri) |
1601-1656 |
| Schomberg, Friedrich Hermann (German soldier of fortune) |
1615-1690 |
| Schomberg, Gaspard de (German-born French soldier) |
1540-1599 |
| Schomberg, Henri (French politician; son of Gaspard) |
1575-1632 |
| Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann (British explorer) |
1804-1865 |
| Schonbein, Christian Friedrich (German chemist) |
1799-1868 |
| Schonborn, Friedrich Karl von (German prince-prelate) |
1674-1746 |
| Schonborn, Johann Philipp von (German prince-prelate) |
1605-1673 |
| Schonemann, Anna Elisabeth "Lili" (German woman) |
1758-1817 |
| Schoner, Johannes (German astronomer, geographer) |
1477-1547 |
| Schonerer, Georg von (Austrian politician) |
1842-1921 |
| Schonfeld, Eduard (German astronomer) |
1828-1891 |
| Schongauer, Martin (aka Martin Schon) (Ger. engraver, painter) |
1445/50-1491 |
| Schonherr, Karl (Austrian playwright, poet, writer) |
1867-1943 |
| Schonlein, Johann Lukas (German physician) |
1793-1864 |
| Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (American explorer, ethnologist) |
1793-1864 |
| Schopenhauer, Arthur (German philosopher) |
1788-1860 |
| Schopenhauer, Johanna née Trosiener (German writer) |
1766-1838 |
| Schopler, Eric (German-born American psychologist) |
1927-2006 |
| Schott, Charles Anthony (German-born American geodesist) |
1826-1901 |
| Schottky, Walter Hans (German physicist) |
1886-1976 |
| Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon (Dutch mariner) |
c.1580-1625 |
| Schreiber, Moses ben Samuel (aka Moses Sofer) (German rabbi) |
1763-1839 |
| Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina (Ralph Iron) (S. Af. writer) |
1855-1920 |
| Schreiner, William Philip (South African politician) |
1857-1919 |
| Schreker, Franz (Austrian composer) |
1878-1934 |
| Schreyer, Edward Richard (Canadian polit.; gov-general 1979-84) |
b.1935 |
| Schrieffer, John Robert (American physicist) |
b.1931 |
| Schrieke, Bertram (Dutch social anthropologist) |
1890-1945 |
| Schroder, Carl (German composer, conductor) |
1848-1935 |
| Schroder, Friedrich Ludwig (German actor, theater manager) |
1744-1816 |
| Schroeder, Gerhardt (German politician; Chancellor 1998-) |
b.1944 |
| Schrodinger, Erwin (Austrian physicist) |
1887-1961 |
| Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel (German musician, poet) |
1739-1791 |
| Schubert, Franz Peter (Austrian composer) |
1797-1828 |
| Schuchardt, Hugo (German philologist) |
1842-1927 |
| Schuchert, Charles (American paleontologist) |
1858-1942 |
| Schuck, Johan Henrik Emil (Swedish historian of literature) |
1855-1947 |
| Schucking, Levin (German journalist, novelist) |
1814-1883 |
| Schulberg, Budd Wilson (Am. writer, screenwriter, journalist) |
b.1914 |
| Schulte, Johann Friedrich von (German scholar) |
1827-1914 |
| Schultes, Richard Evans (American botanist, biology educator) |
1915-2001 |
| Schulthess, Edmund (Swiss politician) |
1868-1944 |
| Schultz, Theodore William (American economist) |
b.1902 |
| Schultze, Carl Emil (pseud. Bunny) (American cartoonist) |
1866-1939 |
| Schultze, Max Johann Sigismund (German zoologist, cytologist) |
1825-1874 |
| Schulz, Bruno (Polish writer, essayist, artist) |
1892-1942 |
| Schulz, Charles Monroe (Am. cartoonist; created "Peanuts" 1950) |
1922-2000 |
| Schulze, Alfred Otto Wolfgang (pseud. Wols) (French painter) |
1913-1951 |
| Schulze, Gottlob Ernst (Schulze-Aenesidemus) (Ger. philosopher) |
1761-1833 |
| Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich (German-born British economist) |
1911-1977 |
| Schumacher, Heinrich Christian (Danish astronomer) |
1780-1850 |
| Schumacher, Peder (Count Griffenfeld) (Danish politician) |
1635-1699 |
| Schuman, Robert (French politician) |
1886-1963 |
| Schuman, William Howard (American composer) |
1910-1992 |
| Schumann, Clara Josephine née Wieck (German pianist, composer) |
1819-1896 |
| Schumann, Elisabeth (German-born American soprano) |
1885-1952 |
| Schumann, Georg Alfred (German composer, conductor) |
1866-1952 |
| Schumann, Robert Alexander (German composer) |
1810-1856 |
| Schumann, Victor (German physicist) |
1841-1913 |
| Schumann-Heink, Ernestine (Austrian-born American contralto) |
1861-1936 |
| Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (Moravian-born American economist) |
1883-1950 |
| Schur, Friedrich Heinrich (German mathematician) |
1856-1932 |
| Schurman, Jacob Gould (Canadian-born Am. educator, diplomat) |
1854-1942 |
| Schurz, Carl (German-born Am. army officer, polit., reformer) |
1829-1906 |
| Schuschnigg, Kurt von (Austrian politician) |
1897-1977 |
| Schuster, Sir Arthur (British physicist) |
1851-1934 |
| Schuster, Max Lincoln (Austria-born American publisher) |
1897-1970 |
| Schutz, Heinrich (also Henricus Sagittarius) (German composer) |
1585-1672 |
| Schuyler, James Marcus (American poet, writer, playwright) |
1923-1991 |
| Schuyler, Philip John (American army officer, politician) |
1733-1804 |
| Schvarts, Elena Andreevna (Russian poet, writer, translator) |
b.1948 |
| Schwab, Charles Michael (American steel industrialist) |
1862-1939 |
| Schwab, Gustav Benjamin (German writer) |
1792-1850 |
| Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (German astronomer) |
1789-1875 |
| Schwandhardt, Georg (German glass engraver) |
1611-1667 |
| Schwann, Theodor Ambrose Hubert (German physiologist) |
1810-1882 |
| Schwartz, Delmore (American poet, writer, literary critic) |
1913-1966 |
| Schwartz, Karl Herman Amandus (Polish mathematician) |
1843-1921 |
| Schwartz, Melvin (American physicist, businessman) |
1932-2006 |
| Schwarz, Herthold (German monk, alchemist) |
14th cent. |
| Schwarz, Hermann Amandus (German mathematician) |
1843-1921 |
| Schwarz-Bart, Andre (French writer) |
b.1928 |
| Schwarz-Bart, Simone (Guadeloupean writer, playwright) |
b.1938 |
| Schwarzenberg, Felix zu (Austrian statesman) |
1800-1852 |
| Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp zu (Austrian field marshal, dipl.) |
1771-1820 |
| Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Friederike (Pol.-born Ger. soprano) |
b.1915 |
| Schwarzkopf, Herbert Norman (American general) |
b.1934 |
| Schwarzkopf, Olga Maria Elisabeth Fredericke (German soprano) |
1915-2006 |
| Schwarzschild, Karl (German astronomer, physicist) |
1873-1916 |
| Schweigaard, Anton Martin (Norwegian jurist, economic reformer) |
1808-1870 |
| Schweigger, Johann Salomo Christoph (German physicist) |
1779-1857 |
| Schweinfurth, Georg August (German botanist, traveler) |
1836-1925 |
| Schweitzer, Albert (French theologian, philosopher, physician) |
1875-1965 |
| Schwendener, Simon (Swiss botanist) |
1829-1919 |
| Schwenckfeld von Ossig, Kaspar (German nobleman, mystic) |
1489-1561 |
| Schwimmer, Rosika (Hungarian feminist, pacifist, author) |
1877-1948 |
| Schwind, Moritz von (German painter) |
1804-1871 |
| Schwinger, Julian Seymour (American physicist) |
1918-1994 |
| Schwitters, Kurt (German artist, writer) |
1887-1948 |
| Sciascia, Leonardo (Italian writer, teacher, politician) |
1921-1989 |
| Scipio, Gnaeus Cornelius (Roman general; brother of Publius) |
d.211 BC |
| Scipio, Publius Cornelius (Roman general; father of Scipio Af.) |
d.211 BC |
| Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus, Publius C. (Roman gen.) |
185/4-129 BC |
| Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius "the Elder" (Roman general) |
236-184/3 BC |
| Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius (Roman politician) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Scipione, Francesco (Italian dramatist, archaeologist, scholar) |
1675-1755 |
| Scogan, Henry (English poet) |
1361?-1407 |
| Scogan, John (English court jester) |
fl. 1480-1500 |
| Scopas (Greek sculptor, architect) |
4th cent. BC |
| Scopes, John Thomas (American educator; taught evolution) |
1900-1970 |
| Scoresby, William (English clergyman, scientist, explorer) |
1789-1857 |
| Scorsese, Martin (American filmmaker) |
b.1942 |
| Scorza, Manuel (Peruvian writer, poet, political activist) |
1928-1983 |
| Scot, Michael (Scottish translator, astrologer) |
1175?-1235? |
| Scott, Alexander (Scottish poet) |
1525?-1585? |
| Scott, Charles (American Revolutionary officer) |
1739?-1813 |
| Scott, Cyril Meir (English pianist, composer) |
1879-1970 |
| Scott, Dred (American slave) |
1795?-1858 |
| Scott, Dukinfield Henry (English paleobotanist) |
1854-1934 |
| Scott, Duncan Campbell (Canadian poet, writer, administrator) |
1862-1947 |
| Scott, Francis Reginald "Frank" (Canadian poet, writer, lawyer) |
1899-1985 |
| Scott, Sir George Gilbert (English architect) |
1811-1878 |
| Scott, George Herbert (English airship commander) |
1888-1930 |
| Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert (English architect; grandson of G.G.) |
1880-1960 |
| Scott, Harold Russell Jr. (American actor, producer, director) |
1935-2006 |
| Scott, Hugh Lenox (American army officer) |
1853-1934 |
| Scott, Hugh Stowell (pseud. Henry Seton Merriman) (Eng. nov.) |
1862-1903 |
| Scott, James (Dutch claimant to English throne, rebel) |
1649-1685 |
| Scott, James Brown (Canadian-born American jurist, educator) |
1866-1943 |
| Scott, John (1st Earl of Eldon) (English jurist) |
1751-1838 |
| Scott, Orange (American clergyman, abolitionist) |
1800-1847 |
| Scott, Paul Mark (English novelist) |
1920-1978 |
| Scott, Raymond (born Harry Warnow) (Am. band leader, inventor) |
1908-1994 |
| Scott (or Scot), Reginald (or Reynold) (English writer) |
1538?-1599 |
| Scott, Robert Falcon (English Antarctic explorer) |
1868-1912 |
| Scott, Shirley (American musician) |
1934-2002 |
| Scott, Sir Walter (Scot. poet, novelist, historian, biographer) |
1771-1832 |
| Scott, Walter (Canadian politician) |
1867-1938 |
| Scott, Walter Edward "Death Valley Scotty" (Am. adventurer) |
1872-1954 |
| Scott, William (Baron Stowell) (English jurist) |
1745-1836 |
| Scott, William Berryman (American geologist) |
1858-1947 |
| Scott, Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers" (American army officer) |
1786-1866 |
| Scott-Maxwell, Florida Pier (Am. psychologist, actor, writer) |
1883-1979 |
| Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth Michael (Scottish translator) |
1889-1930 |
| Scott-Paine, Hubert (English aircraft & marine engineer) |
1891-1954 |
| Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Russian composer, pianist) |
1872-1915 |
| Scribe, Augustin-Eugene (French playwright) |
1791-1861 |
| Scriblerus, Martinus (pseud. of Pope, Swift, & Arbuthnot) |
1751 |
| Scribner, Arthur Hawley (American publisher; son of Charles) |
1859-1932 |
| Scribner, Charles (surname orig. Scrivener) (Am. publisher) |
1821-1871 |
| Scribner, Charles (American publisher; son of Charles) |
1854-1930 |
| Scribner, Charles (American publisher; son of 2nd Charles) |
1890-1952 |
| Scribner, John Blair (American publisher; son of Charles) |
1850-1879 |
| Scribonia (Roman matron; 2nd wife of Emperor Augustus) |
1st cent. BC |
| Scripps, Edward Wyllis (American newspaperman, publisher) |
1854-1926 |
| Scripps, Ellen Browning (English-born American newspaperwoman) |
1836-1932 |
| Scripps, James Edmund (English-born Am. newspaper publisher) |
1835-1906 |
| Scripps, Robert Paine (American newspaperman; son of Edward) |
1895-1938 |
| Scroggs, Sir William (English judge) |
1623?-1683 |
| Scrope, George Julius Poulett (English geologist) |
1797-1876 |
| Scrope, Richard le (English lawyer, soldier) |
1327?-1403 |
| Scruggs, Earl Eugene (American musician) |
b.1924 |
| Scudder, Horace Elisha (Am. editor, author; bro. of Samuel) |
1838-1902 |
| Scudder, Samuel Hubbard (American entomologist) |
1837-1911 |
| Scudery, Georges de (French writer; brother of Madeleine) |
1601-1667 |
| Scudery, Madeleine "Sapho" (French poet, novelist, socialite) |
1607-1701 |
| Scullin, James Henry (Australian polit.; prime min. 1929-31) |
1876-1953 |
| Scully, Vincent Joseph Jr. (American architectural historian) |
b.1920 |
| Scylax of Caria (Greek historian, geographer) |
6th cent. BC |
| Scyllis (Greek sculptor; collaborated with Dipoenus) |
6th cent. BC |
| Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (American physicist) |
b.1912 |
| Seabury, Samuel (American clergyman) |
1729-1796 |
| Seals, Frank "Son" (American musician) |
1942-2004 |
| Sealsfield, Charles (orig. Karl Postl) (Moravian-born Am. nov.) |
1793-1864 |
| Seaman, Elizabeth née Cochrane (pseud. Nellie Bly) (Am. journ.) |
1867-1922 |
| Searle, Frederick Moore (pseud. Eric Parker) (Eng. journalist) |
1870-1955 |
| Sears, Edmund Hamilton (American Unitarian clergyman) |
1810-1876 |
| Sears, Isaac (American merchant, Revolutionary patriot) |
1730-1786 |
| Sears, Richard Dudley (American tennis player) |
1862-1943 |
| Sears, Richard Warren (American merchant with Alvah Roebuck) |
1863-1914 |
| Seaton, William Winston (American journalist) |
1785-1866 |
| Seattle (or Seatlh) (American Suquamish Indian chief) |
1786?-1866 |
| Sebastian, Saint (Christian martyr) |
d.c.288 |
| Sebastian (Sebastiao) (King of Portugal 1557-1578) |
1554-1578 |
| Sebbar, Leila (Algerian-born French writer) |
b.1941 |
| Sebeknefru (or Sobeknefru) (Egyptian ruler) |
d.1786 BC |
| Sebetwane (African king) |
d.1851 |
| Sebuktigin (Abu Mansur Sebuktigin) (Afghan ruler) |
c.942-997 |
| Secchi, Pietro Angelo (Italian astronomer) |
1818-1878 |
| Sechenov, Ivan Mikhaylovich (Russian psychologist) |
1829-1905 |
| Seckendorff, Veit Ludwig von (German politician, historian) |
1626-1691 |
| Secondat, Charles-Louis de (French political philosopher) |
1689-1755 |
| Sedaine, Michel-Jean (French dramatist, stonemason) |
1719-1797 |
| Seddon, Richard John "King Dick" (Eng.-born New Zealand polit.) |
1845-1906 |
| Sederholm, Jakob Johannes (Finnish geologist) |
1863-1934 |
| Sedgwick, Adam (English geologist) |
1785-1873 |
| Sedgwick, Adam (English zoologist; grandnephew of Adam) |
1854-1913 |
| Sedgwick, John (American army officer) |
1813-1864 |
| Sedgwick, Theodore (American jurist) |
1746-1813 |
| Sedley, Sir Charles (English poet, dramatist, wit, courtier) |
1639-1701 |
| Sedulius, Coelius (or Caelius) (Roman poet) |
5th cent. |
| Sedulius Scottus (Irish poet, scholar) |
c.848-860/874? |
| See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson (American astronomer) |
1866-1962 |
| Seebeck, Thomas Johann (German physicist) |
1770-1831 |
| Seeberg, Peter (Danish writer) |
b.1925 |
| Seebohm, Frederic (English economic historian) |
1833-1912 |
| Seeckt, Hans von (German general) |
1866-1936 |
| Seegal, Herbert Leonard (American businessman: R.H. Macy) |
1915-2005 |
| Seeger, Alan (American poet) |
1888-1916 |
| Seeger, Peter (American folk-singer, songwriter) |
b.1919 |
| Seeley, Sir John Robert (English historian) |
1834-1895 |
| Seers, Eugene (pseud. Louis Dantin) (Fr.-Can. writer, critic) |
1865-1945 |
| Seferiades, Giorgos Stylianou (Greek poet, diplomat) |
1900-1971 |
| Seferis, George (b. Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades) (Greek poet) |
1900-1971 |
| Sefrioui, Ahmed (Moroccan writer) |
b.1915 |
| Sefstrom, Nils Gabriel (Swedish chemist, mineralogist) |
1787-1854 |
| Segal, George (American sculptor) |
1924-2000 |
| Segantini, Giovanni (Italian painter) |
1858-1899 |
| Segar, Elzie Crisler (American cartoonist; created Popeye 1929) |
1894-1938 |
| Seghers, Anna (pen name of Netty Radvanyi) (German writer) |
1900-1983 |
| Seghers, Charles Jean (Belgian prelate, missionary) |
1839-1886 |
| Seghers, Hercules Pietersz (Dutch painter, etcher) |
1589/90-c.1638 |
| Segner, Johann Andreas von (German physicist, mathematician) |
1704-1777 |
| Segovia, Andres (Spanish guitarist, composer) |
1893?-1987 |
| Segrais, Jean Regnault de (French poet) |
1624-1701 |
| Segre, Emilio Gino (Italian-born American physicist) |
1905-1989 |
| Seguier, Pierre (Duc de Villemor) (French politician) |
1588-1672 |
| Seguin, Camille (French engineer; brother of Marc) |
d.1852 |
| Seguin, Edouard (French-born American physician) |
1812-1880 |
| Seguin, Marc (French engineer; nephew of Joseph Montgolfier) |
1786-1875 |
| Sehested, Hannibal (Danish politician) |
1609-1666 |
| Sei Shonagon (Japanese diarist) |
966/7-1013 |
| Seidl, Johann Gabriel (Austrian journalist, poet) |
1804-1875 |
| Seifert, Jaroslav (Czech poet, journalist) |
1901-1986 |
| Seipel, Ignaz (Austrian prelate, politician) |
1876-1932 |
| Sei Shonagon (Japanese diarist, poet) |
966/67-1013? |
| Seitz, Frederick (American physicist) |
1911-2008 |
| Seitz, Karl (Austrian politician) |
1869-1950 |
| Sejanus, Lucius Aelius (Roman politician, conspirator) |
d.31 |
| Sejong (King of Korea 1419-1450) |
1397-1450 |
| Seki Takakazu (aka Seki Kowa) "Shinsuke" (Japanese math.) |
1642-1708 |
| Selberg, Atle (Norwegian mathematician) |
1917-2007 |
| Selby, Hubert Jr. (American writer) |
b.1928 |
| Selby, Norman "Kid McCoy" (American boxer) |
1873-1940 |
| Selden, George Baldwin (American lawyer, inventor) |
1846-1922 |
| Selden, John (Eng. jurist, antiquary, Orientalist, politician) |
1584-1654 |
| Seldes, Gilbert Vivian (American journalist, writer) |
1893-1970 |
| Seleucus I Nicator (Macedonian general; fd. Seleucid dynasty) |
358/4-281 BC |
| Seleucus II Callinicus (King of Seleucid Empire 246-226 BC) |
d.226 BC |
| Seleucus III Soter (King of Seleucid Empire 226-223 BC) |
d.223 BC |
| Seleucus VI Philopator (King of Seleucid Empire 187-175 BC) |
218?-175 BC |
| Seleucus V (King of Seleucid Empire 125 BC) |
d.125 BC |
| Seleucus VI Epiphanes (King of Seleucid Empire 96-95 BC) |
d.95 BC |
| Selfridge, Harry Gordon (American-born British merchant) |
1864?-1947 |
| Seligman, Charles Gabriel (English ethnologist) |
1873-1940 |
| Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson (Am. economist; son of Joseph) |
1861-1939 |
| Seligman, Gerald (English glaciologist) |
1886-1973 |
| Seligman, Isaac Newton (American banker; son of Joseph) |
1855-1917 |
| Seligman, Jesse (Bavarian-born Am. financier; bro. of Joseph) |
1827-1894 |
| Seligman, Joseph (Bavarian-born American financier) |
1819-1880 |
| Selim I "Yavuz (the Grim)" (Ottoman Sultan 1512-1520) |
1467-1520 |
| Selim II "Sari" or "the Blonde" (Ottoman Sultan 1566-1574) |
1524-1574 |
| Selim III (Ottoman Sultan 1789-1807; son of Mustafa III) |
1761-1808 |
| Selincourt, Ernest de (English educator) |
1870-1943 |
| Selkirk (or Selcraig), Alexander (Scottish marooned sailor) |
1676-1721 |
| Sella, Quintino (Italian politician) |
1827-1884 |
| Sellers, Isaiah (American riverboat pilot; pseud. Mark Twain) |
1802?-1854 |
| Sellers, Peter Richard Henry (English actor) |
1925-1980 |
| Selmi, Francesco (Italian toxicologist) |
1817-1881 |
| Selormey, Francis (Ghanaian writer, teacher) |
b.1927 |
| Selous, Frederick Courteney (English hunter, explorer) |
1851-1917 |
| Selvon, Samuel Dickson (Trinidadian-born Canadian writer, poet) |
1923-1994 |
| Selwyn, George Augustus (English prelate) |
1809-1878 |
| Selznick, David Oliver (American motion-picture producer) |
1902-1965 |
| Sembene, Ousmane (Senegalese writer, film director) |
b.1923 |
| Semenov, Nikolay Nikolayevich (Soviet chemist) |
1896-1986 |
| Semler, Johann Salomo (German Lutheran theologian) |
1725-1791 |
| Semmelweiss, Ignaz Phillipp (Hungarian obstetrician) |
1818-1865 |
| Semmes, Raphael (American Confederate naval officer) |
1809-1877 |
| Semper, Gottfried (German architect) |
1803-1879 |
| Sempill of Beltrees, Francis (Scottish ballad writer, wit) |
1616?-1682 |
| Sempill of Beltrees, Sir James (Scottish poet) |
1566-1625 |
| Sempill of Beltrees, Robert (Scottish poet; son of James) |
1595?-1665? |
| Sempronius Longus, Tiberius (Roman general, politician) |
d.c.210 BC |
| Senac, Jean (Algerian poet, administrator) |
1926-1973 |
| Senanayake, Don Stephen (Ceylonese politician) |
1884-1952 |
| Senancour, Etienne Pivert de (French writer) |
1770-1846 |
| Senapati (aka Adiwijoyo) (King of Mataram) |
d.1601 |
| Sendak, Maurice Bernard (American artist, writer) |
b.1928 |
| Sender, Ramon Jose (Spanish writer, essayist) |
1902-1982 |
| Senebier, Jean (Swiss botanist) |
1742-1809 |
| Seneca, Lucius Annaeus "the Elder" (Roman rhetorican) |
c.55 BC-AD c.39 |
| Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Roman statesman, philosopher) |
4? BC-AD 65 |
| Senefelder, Aloys (German lithographer; invented lithography) |
1771-1834 |
| Senfl, Ludwig (Swiss composer) |
c.1486-1542/3 |
| Senghor, Leopold Sedar (French-Senegalese poet, pres. 1960-80) |
b.1906 |
| Senior, Nassau William (English economist) |
1790-1864 |
| Sennacherib (King of Assyria 704-681; son of Sargon II) |
d.681 BC |
| Sennett, Mack (Canadian-born Am. motion-picture producer, dir.) |
1880-1960 |
| Senoa, August (Croatian writer, critic, editor, poet) |
1838-1881 |
| Sen Rikyo (orig. Sen Soeki) (Japanese tea master) |
1521-1591 |
| Sep Szarzynski, Mikolaj (Polish poet, metaphysician) |
1550?-1581 |
| Sepulveda, Juan Gines de (Spanish theologian, historian) |
1490?-1572/3 |
| Seqenenre II (Seqenenre Tao II) (King of Egypt c.1575 BC) |
16th cent. BC |
| Sequoya (Sikwayi; George Guess) (Am. Cherokee Indian scholar) |
1760/70-1843 |
| Serafinowicz, Leszek (pseud. Jan Lechon) (Polish poet) |
1899-1956 |
| Serao, Matilda (Greek-born Italian writer, journalist) |
1856-1927 |
| Seraphim of Sarov, Saint (Prokhor Moshnin) (Rus. monk, mystic) |
1759-1833 |
| Serapion (or Sarapion), Saint (Egyptian Christian theologian) |
4th cent. |
| Sereni, Vittorio (Italian poet, writer, editor, translator) |
1913-1983 |
| Sergeant, John (English clergyman) |
1622-1707 |
| Sergeyev, Nicholas Grigorievich (Russian dancer, ballet master) |
1876-1951 |
| Sergius, Saint (Christian martyr; executed with Bacchus) |
d.c.303 |
| Sergius I, Saint (Pope 687-701) |
d.701 |
| Sergius II (Pope 844-847) |
d.847 |
| Sergius III (Pope 904-911) |
d.911 |
| Sergius IV (orig. Peter Buccaporci) (Pope 1009-1012) |
d.1012 |
| Sergius (orig. Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky) (Rus. prelate) |
1867-1944 |
| Sergius of Radonezh, Saint (orig. B. Kirillovich) (Rus. monk) |
1314-1392 |
| Sergius of Resaina (Syrian scholar) |
d.536 |
| Serkin, Rudolf (Bohemian-born American pianist) |
1903-1991 |
| Serling, Edward Rodman "Rod" (Am. actor, prod., screenwriter) |
1924-1975 |
| Serlio, Sebastiano (Italian architect, painter, theorist) |
1475-1554 |
| Sermissy, Claudin (or Claude) de (French composer) |
c.1490-1562 |
| Serov, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Russian composer) |
1820-1871 |
| Serpa Pinto, Alexandre Alberto da Rocha (Port. colonial admin.) |
1846-1900 |
| Serpotta, Giacomo (Italian sculptor, stucco-worker) |
1656-1732 |
| Serra, Junipero (orig. Miguel Jose) (Spanish missionary) |
1713-1784 |
| Serrano y Dominguez, Francisco (Spanish general, politician) |
1810-1885 |
| Serrato, Jose (Uruguayan politician; president 1923-1927) |
1868-1960 |
| Serre, Jean-Pierre (French mathematician) |
b.1926 |
| Sertorius, Quintus (Roman general, politician) |
c.123-72 BC |
| Sert y Badia, Jose Maria (Spanish painter) |
1874-1945 |
| Serusier, Louis-Paul-Henri (French painter, theorist) |
1865-1927 |
| Servandoni, Giovanni Nicolo (Italian architect, painter) |
1695-1766 |
| Serveto, Miguel (Michael Servetus) (Sp. theologian, physician) |
1511-1553 |
| Service, Robert William (English-born Canadian writer) |
1874-1958 |
| Servius (Marius Servius Honoratus) (Latin grammarian, scholar) |
4th cent. |
| Servius Tullius (Sixth legendary king of Rome 578-534 BC) |
6th cent. BC |
| Sesostris I (King of Egypt 1971-1928 BC; son of Amenemhet I) |
d.1928 BC |
| Sesostris II (King of Egypt 1897-1878 BC; son of Amenemhet II) |
d.1878 BC |
| Sesostris III (King of Egypt 1878-1843 BC; son of Sesostris II) |
d.1843 BC |
| Sesshu (family name Oda; Toyo) (Japanese Zen priest, artist) |
1420-1506 |
| Sessions, Roger Huntington (American composer) |
1896-1985 |
| Sesson Shukei (orig. Satake Heizo) (Japanese artist) |
1504-c.1589 |
| Seth, Vikram (Indian writer, poet, travel writer) |
b.1952 |
| Sethathirath I (King of Laotian kingdom of Lan Xang 1547-1571) |
1534-1571 |
| Seti I (King of Egypt 1318-1304 BC; son of Ramses I) |
d.1304 BC |
| Seti II (King of Egypt 1216-1210 BC) |
d.1210 BC |
| Seton, Anya (b. Ann Seton) (American writer) |
1904?-1990 |
| Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann née Bayley (American religious) |
1774-1821 |
| Seton, Ernest Thompson (English-born Am. naturalist, writer) |
1860-1946 |
| Settembrini, Luigi (Italian writer, patriot) |
1813-1877 |
| Settle, Elkanah (English playwright) |
1648-1724 |
| Seurat, Georges-Pierre (French painter; originated Pointillism) |
1859-1891 |
| Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (Am. writer, illustrator) |
1904-1991 |
| Sevareid, Arnold Eric (American newscaster, journalist) |
1912-1992 |
| Severian of Gabala (Syrian prelate, theologian) |
d.408? |
| Severin, Christian "Longomontanus" (Danish astronomer) |
1562-1647 |
| Severin, Fernand (Belgian poet) |
1867-1931 |
| Severing, Carl (German politician) |
1875-1952 |
| Severini, Gino (Italian painter) |
1883-1966 |
| Severinus (Pope 640) |
d.640 |
| Severn, Joseph (English painter) |
1793-1879 |
| Severus, Flavius Valerius (Roman emperor 306-307) |
d.307 |
| Severus, Libius (Roman emperor 461-465) |
d.465 |
| Severus, Lucius Septimius (Roman emperor 193-211) |
146-211 |
| Severus Alexander, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 222-235) |
208-235 |
| Severus of Antioch (Greek monk-theologian, prelate) |
c.465-538 |
| Sevier, John (American soldier, politician) |
1745-1815 |
| Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (Fr. writer, lady of fashion) |
1626-1696 |
| Sevket Pasa, Mahmud (Ottoman general, politician) |
1858-1913 |
| Sewall, Samuel (English-born American merchant, jurist) |
1652-1730 |
| Seward, Anna "the Swan of Lichfield" (English poet) |
1747-1809 |
| Seward, William Henry (American politician) |
1801-1872 |
| Sewell, Anna (British writer: Black Beauty) |
1820-1878 |
| Sexton, Anne née Harvey (American poet, model, librarian) |
1928-1974 |
| Sexton, Patricia Cayo (American sociology professor, writer) |
b.1924 |
| Sextus Empiricus (Greek physician, philosopher) |
3rd cent. |
| Seydlitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von (Prussian cavalry commander) |
1721-1773 |
| Seyfeddin (or Seyfettin), Omer (Turkish writer) |
1884-1920 |
| Seyfried, Ignaz Xaver von (Austrian composer) |
1776-1841 |
| Seyhi (or Sheyki), Yusuf Sinan (Turkish poet, physician) |
d.1428 |
| Seymour, Alan (Australian playwright, writer, scriptwriter) |
b.1927 |
| Seymour, David (Polish-born American photojournalist) |
1911-1956 |
| Seymour, Sir Edward Hobart (British naval commander) |
1840-1929 |
| Seymour, Horatio (American politician) |
1810-1886 |
| Seymour, Sir Michael (British naval commander) |
1802-1887 |
| Seymour, Robert (English caricaturist, illustrator) |
1800?-1836 |
| Seyss-Inquart, Arthur (Austrian Nazi politician) |
1892-1946 |
| Se-yung, Chung (Korean-born South Korean businessman: Hyundai) |
1928-2005 |
| Sgambati, Giovanni (Italian pianist, conductor, composer) |
1841-1914 |
| Shaaban, Robert (Tanzanian-born Swahili writer) |
1911-1962 |
| Shabaka (King of Egypt 716-695 BC) |
d.695 BC |
| Shabbetai Tzevi (also Sabbatai Zevi)(Smyrna-born Jewish mystic) |
1626-1676 |
| Shabestari, Sa'd od-Din Mahmud (Persian mystic) |
c.1250-c.1320 |
| Shabonee (or Shabbona) (American Potawatomi Indian chief) |
c.1775-1859 |
| Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (Irish-born British explorer) |
1874-1922 |
| Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard (New Zealand writer) |
b.1932 |
| Shadhili, ash- (Moroccan theologian) |
1196/7-1258 |
| Shadwell, Thomas (English dramatist; poet laureate 1689-1692) |
1642?-1692 |
| Shaffer, Peter Levin (British playwright) |
b.1926 |
| Shafi'i, ash- (Muslim theologian, jurist) |
767-820 |
| Shafter, William Rufus (American army officer) |
1835-1906 |
| Shaftesbury, Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper) (English polit.) |
1621-1683 |
| Shah 'Alam II ('Ali Gauhar) (Mughal emperor of India 1759-1806) |
1728-1806 |
| Shah Jahan (Mughal emperor of India 1628-1658; son of Jahangir) |
1592-1666 |
| Shahn, Benjamin "Ben" (Lithuanian-born American painter) |
1898-1969 |
| Shah Rokh (Central Asian ruler; son of Tamerlane) |
1377-1447 |
| Shah Shoja (or Shah Shuja) (King of Afghanistan 1803-1810) |
1780-1842 |
| Shah Sultan Husayn (Safavid emperor of Persia 1694-1722) |
1668-1726 |
| Shaka (also Chaka, Tshaka) (Founder of Zulu Empire) |
c.1787-1828 |
| Shakespeare, William (English dramatist, poet) |
1564-1616 |
| Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich (Russian writer, poet) |
1907-1982 |
| Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (American geologist) |
1841-1906 |
| Shalmaneser I (King of Assyria 1274-1245 BC) |
13th cent. BC |
| Shalmaneser II (King of Assyria 1030-1019 or 1019-1008 BC) |
11th cent. BC |
| Shalmaneser III (King of Assyria 858-824 BC) |
9th cent. BC |
| Shalmaneser IV (King of Assyria 782-772 BC) |
8th cent. BC |
| Shalmaneser V (King of Assyria 726-722 BC) |
8th cent. BC |
| Shalala, Donna Edna (American administrator, educator) |
b.1941 |
| Shamash-shum-ukin (Ruler of Babylon 668-648 BC) |
d.648 BC |
| Shamil (Caucasian leader) |
1798?-1871 |
| Shamir, Adi (Israeli cryptographer; co-inv. RSA algorithm) |
b.1952 |
| Shamir, Yitzhak (Polish-born Israeli prime minister 1983-92) |
b.1914 |
| Shammai (Jewish sage in Palestine) |
1st cent. |
| Shange, Ntozake (b. Paulette Williams) (Am. playwright, poet) |
b.1948 |
| Shang K'o-hsi (Chinese general) |
d.1676 |
| Shang Yang (orig. Kung-sun Yang) (Chinese politician) |
d.338 BC |
| Shankar, Uday (Indian dancer, choreographer) |
1900-1977 |
| Shannon, Claude Elwood (Am. mathematician, electrical engineer) |
1916-2001 |
| Shao Yung (aka Shao K'ang-chieh) (Chinese philosopher) |
1011-1077 |
| Shapiro, Karl Jay (American poet, critic) |
b.1913 |
| Shapley, Harlow (American astronomer) |
1885-1972 |
| Shaposhnikov, Boris Mikhaylovich (Russian army officer) |
1882-1945 |
| Shapur I (King if Sasanian dynasty of Persia 241-272) |
d.272 |
| Shapur II (King if Sasanian dynasty of Persia 309-379) |
309-379 |
| Shapur III (King if Sasanian dynasty of Persia 383-388) |
d.388 |
| Sharaf ad-Din 'Ali Yazdi (Persian historian) |
d.1454 |
| Sha 'rani ash-l ('Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad) (Egyptian mystic) |
1492-1565 |
| Sharett, Moshe (Ukrainian-born Israeli politician) |
1894-1965 |
| Sharif, Mian Muhammad Nawaz (Pakistani prime minister 1990-93) |
b.1949 |
| Shar-kali-sharri (King of Semitic dynasty of Akkad) |
23-22nd cent. BC |
| Sharma, Shankar Dayal (Indian politician; president 1992-1997) |
1918-1999 |
| Sharon, Ariel "Arik" (Palestine-born Israeli pol., soldier) |
b.1928 |
| Sharp, Cecil James (Eng. musician, music teacher, anthologist) |
1859-1924 |
| Sharp, Elliot (American musician) |
b.1951 |
| Sharp, Granville (English philanthropist, scholar) |
1735-1813 |
| Sharp, James (Scottish prelate) |
1613-1679 |
| Sharp, William (pseudonym Fiona Macleod) (Scottish writer) |
1856-1905 |
| Sharpe, Sir Alfred (English adventurer, colonial administrator) |
1853-1935 |
| Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (English ornithologist) |
1847-1909 |
| Sharpe, William Forsyth (American economist) |
b.1934 |
| Sharpey-Shafer, Sir Edward Albert (English physiologist) |
1850-1935 |
| Sharples, James (English-born American painter, inventor) |
c.1751-1811 |
| Sharrock, Warren Harding "Sonny" (American guitarist) |
1940-1994 |
| Shastri, Lal Bahadur (orig. surname Bahadur) (Indian polit.) |
1904-1966 |
| Shattuck, George Cheyne (American physician) |
1813-1893 |
| Shattuck, Lydia White (American botanist) |
1822-1889 |
| Shaughnessy, Clark Daniel (American football coach) |
1892-1970 |
| Shaw, Albert (American editor) |
1857-1947 |
| Shaw, Anna Howard (English-born Am. preacher, physician) |
1847-1919 |
| Shaw, Artie (b.Arthur Arshawsky) (Am. musician, bandleader) |
1910-2004 |
| Shaw, Geoffrey Turton (Eng. organist, composer; bro. of Martin) |
1879-1943 |
| Shaw, George Bernard (Irish-born British playwright, critic) |
1856-1950 |
| Shaw, Gordon L. (American physicist, neuroscientist) |
1933-2005 |
| Shaw, Henry Wheeler (pseud. Josh Billings) (American humorist) |
1818-1885 |
| Shaw, Irwin (American playwright, screenwriter, writer) |
1913-1984 |
| Shaw, Lemuel (Am. jurist; father-in-law of Herman Melville) |
1781-1861 |
| Shaw, Martin Fallas (English organist, composer, editor) |
1875-1958 |
| Shaw, Richard Norman (Scottish-born British architect) |
1831-1912 |
| Shaw, Robert Gould (American soldier) |
1837-1863 |
| Shaw, Warren Wilbur (American automobile racing driver) |
1902-1954 |
| Shaw, Sir William Napier (English meteorologist) |
1854-1945 |
| Shaw, Woody Herman II (American trumpeter) |
1944-1989 |
| Shaw-Lefevre, George John (1st Baron Eversley) (Eng. polit.) |
1831-1928 |
| Shawn, Ted (orig. Edwin Myers) (American dancer, choreographer) |
1891-1972 |
| Shawqi (or Shauqi), Ahmad (Egyptian poet, dramatist) |
1868-1932 |
| Shay, Ephraim (American inventor) |
1839-1916 |
| Shays, Daniel (American Rev. officer, insurrectionary leader) |
1747?-1825 |
| Shchepkin, Mikhail Semenovich (Russian actor) |
1788-1863 |
| Shcherbatskoy, Fyodor Ippolitovich (Russian scholar) |
1866-1942 |
| Shean, Albert "Al" (German-born American comedian, actor) |
1868-1949 |
| Shearing, George (English pianist) |
b.1919 |
| Sheed, Francis Joseph "Frank" (Australian-born Brit. publisher) |
1897-1981 |
| Sheed, Mary Josephine Ward "Maisie" (Eng. publisher, lecturer) |
1889-1975 |
| Sheed, Wilfrid John Joseph (English-born Am. writer, critic) |
b.1930 |
| Sheeler, Charles (American photographer, painter) |
1883-1965 |
| Sheen, Fulton John (American prelate) |
1895-1979 |
| Sheffield, John (English politician, poet) |
1648-1721 |
| Shehu, Mehmet (Albanian politician; prime minister 1954-81) |
1913-1981 |
| Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo (Fulani Muslim leader in West Africa) |
1775-1844 |
| Sheil, Richard Lalor (Irish dramatist, politician) |
1791-1851 |
| She-kuei (Turkish ruler) |
7th cent. |
| Shelby, Evan (Welsh-born American militia officer) |
1719-1794 |
| Shelby, Isaac (American soldier; son of Evan) |
1750-1826 |
| Sheldon, Charles Monroe (American clergyman, author) |
1857-1946 |
| Sheldon, Edward Brewster (American playwright) |
1886-1946 |
| Sheldon, Gilbert (English prelate) |
1598-1677 |
| Shelekhov, Grigory Ivanovich (Russian merchant, fur trader) |
1747-1795 |
| Shelford, Victor Ernest (American zoologist) |
1877-1968 |
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft née Godwin (English novelist) |
1797-1851 |
| Shelly, Percy Bysshe (English Romantic poet) |
1792-1822 |
| Shelton, Thomas (English translator) |
fl. 1612-1620 |
| Shen Chou (aka Shen Shih-t'ien) (Chinese painter) |
1427-1509 |
| Shen Congwen (or Shen Ts'ung-wen; b.Shen Yuehuan)(Chin. writer) |
1902-1988 |
| Sheng Hsuan-huai (Chinese government official, entrepreneur) |
1844-1916 |
| Shen Kua (Chinese government official, engineer, astronomer) |
1030-1093 |
| Shenstone, William (English poet, amateur landscape gardener) |
1714-1763 |
| Shenute (aka Shenould or Shenoute) (Egyptian Coptic religious) |
5th cent. |
| Shen Yen-ping (pen name Mao Tun) (Chinese writer) |
1896-1981 |
| Shen-yueh (Chinese courtier) |
6th cent. |
| Shepard, Alan Bartlett Jr. (American astronaut) |
b.1923 |
| Shepard, Ernest Howard (English artist, cartoonist) |
1879-1976 |
| Shepard, Helen Miller née Gould (American philanthropist) |
1868-1938 |
| Shepard, Lucius (American writer) |
b.1947 |
| Shepard, Sam (Samuel Shepard Rogers) (Am. playwright, actor) |
b.1943 |
| Shepard, Thomas (English-born American clergyman) |
1605-1649 |
| Shepherd, William Robert (American historian) |
1871-1934 |
| Shepp, Archie Vernon (American saxophonist, educator) |
b.1937 |
| Sheppard, John (also spelled Shepherd) (English composer) |
c.1519-1559/60 |
| Sheppard, John "Jack" (English robber) |
1702-1724 |
| Shepstone, Sir Theophilus (English-born South African polit.) |
1817-1893 |
| Sheptoon La-Pha (Tibetan lama) |
17th cent. |
| Sheraton, Thomas (English furniture maker, designer) |
1751-1806 |
| Sherbrooke, Sir John Coape (English soldier) |
1764-1830 |
| Sheridan, Frances née Chamberlaine (Irish novelist) |
1724-1766 |
| Sheridan, Philip Henry (American army commander) |
1831-1888 |
| Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler (Irish dramatist, politician) |
1751-1816 |
| Sheridan, Thomas (Irish schoolmaster; father of Thomas) |
1687-1738 |
| Sheridan, Thomas (Irish actor; theatrical manager) |
1719-1788 |
| Sherley (or Shirley), Sir Anthony (English soldier) |
1565?-1635 |
| Sherley (or Shirley), Sir Robert (English soldier) |
1581?-1628 |
| Sherley (or Shirley), Sir Thomas (English soldier) |
1564?-1630? |
| Sherman, Allan (American entertainer, comedy writer, producer) |
1924-1973 |
| Sherman, James Schoolcraft (American vice-president 1909-1912) |
1855-1912 |
| Sherman, John (American politician; brother of William T.) |
1823-1900 |
| Sherman, Roger (American jurist, politician) |
1721-1793 |
| Sherman, William Tecumseh (American army commander) |
1820-1891 |
| Shermarke, Abdi Rashid Ali (Somalian politician; pres. 1967-69) |
1919-1969 |
| Sherriff, Robert Cedric (English playwright, screenwriter) |
1896-1975 |
| Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (English neurophysiologist) |
1857-1952 |
| Sher Shah of Sur (Islamic Sur emperor of North India 1540-1545) |
1486?-1545 |
| Sherwood, Mary Martha née Butt (English writer) |
1775-1851 |
| Sherwood, Robert Emmet (American playwright; Algonquin Wit) |
1896-1955 |
| Sheshonk (King of 22nd dynasty of Egypt c.935-914 BC) |
10th cent. BC |
| Shevardnadze, Eduard Amvrosiyevich (Georgian Soviet diplomat) |
b.1928 |
| Shevchenko (or Sevcenko), Taras Hryhorovych (Ukrainian poet) |
1814-1861 |
| Shiba Kokan (orig. Ando Shun) (Japanese painter) |
1738-1818 |
| Shibata Zeshin (Japanese lacquer artist, painter) |
1807-1891 |
| Shibusawa Eiichi (Japanese businessman, government official) |
1840-1931 |
| Shidehara Kijuro (Japanese diplomat, statesman) |
1872-1951 |
| Shield, William (English composer) |
1748-1829 |
| Shields, Alan J. (American artist) |
1944-2005 |
| Shields, James (Irish-born American politician) |
1806?-1879 |
| Shiels, Robert (Scottish poet, editor) |
1700?-1753 |
| Shiga Kiyoshi (Japanese bacteriologist) |
1870-1957 |
| Shiga Naoya (Japanese writer) |
1883-1971 |
| Shigemitsu Mamoru (Japanese diplomat) |
1887-1957 |
| Shihab-ud-Din Ahmad I (Indian Bahmani sultan of the Deccan) |
15th cent. |
| Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud (Indian Bahmani sultan of the Deccan) |
15th-16th cent. |
| Shih Ta-k'ai (Chinese rebel) |
1821/31-1863 |
| Shih-t'ao (aka Tao-chi) (Chinese painter) |
1641-c.1720 |
| Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow (American humorist) |
1814-1890 |
| Shimazaki Toson (b. Shimazaki Haruki) (Japanese poet, writer) |
1872-1943 |
| Shimomura Kanzan (Japanese painter) |
1873-1930 |
| Shinn, Everett (American painter; member of The Eight) |
1876-1953 |
| Shinran (Japanese Buddhist philosopher, religious reformer) |
1173-1262 |
| Shinwell, Emanuel (British politician) |
1884-1986 |
| Shippard, Sir Sidney Godolphin Alexander) (British col. admin.) |
1837-1902 |
| Shippen, Edward (English-born American politician) |
1639-1712 |
| Shippen, Edward (American jurist; great-grandson of Edward) |
1729-1806 |
| Shippen, William (American physician; cousin of Edward) |
1736-1808 |
| Shir 'Ali Khan (Amir of Afghanistan 1863-1879) |
1825-1879 |
| Shirakawa (Emperor of Japan 1072-1086) |
1053-1129 |
| Shirakawa II (Emperor of Japan 1155-1158) |
1127-1192 |
| Shiras, George (American Supreme Court justice 1892-1903) |
1832-1924 |
| Shirer, William Lawrence (American historian, journalist) |
1904-1993 |
| Shirkuh, Asad ad-Din (Kurdish general) |
d.1169 |
| Shirley, James (English poet, dramatist) |
1596-1666 |
| Shirley, Laurence (4th Earl Ferrers) (English nobleman) |
1720-1760 |
| Shirley, William (English-born American colonial governor) |
1694-1771 |
| Shirreff, Emily Anne Eliza (English educator; sister of Maria) |
1814-1897 |
| Shirreff, Marie Georgina (English educator; sister of Emily) |
1816-1906 |
| Shishakli, Adib ash- (Syrian army officer) |
1909-1964 |
| Shishkov, Aleksandr Semyonovich (Russian politician) |
1754-1841 |
| Shizuo Kakutani (Japanese mathematician) |
1911-2004 |
| Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich (Russian writer, literary critic) |
1893-1984 |
| Shlomo Yitzhaqi, Rabbi "Rashi" (French Talmudist) |
1040-1105 |
| Shlonsky (or Shlonski), Abraham (Ukrainian-born Israeli poet) |
1900-1973 |
| Shlyapnikov, Aleksandr Gavrilovich (Soviet government official) |
1884-1943 |
| Shmidt, Otto Yulyevich (Soviet scientist, Arctic explorer) |
1891-1956 |
| Shocked, Michelle (American musician) |
b.1962 |
| Shockley, William Bradford (Am. physicist; inv. transistor) |
1910-1989 |
| Shoenberg, Sir Isaac (Russian-born British electrical engineer) |
1880-1963 |
| Shoghi Effendi Rabbani (Persian religious leader) |
1896-1957 |
| Shohaku (aka Muan) (Japanese scholar, writer) |
1443-1527 |
| Shokado Shojo (Japanese calligrapher, painter) |
1584-1639 |
| Sholes, Christopher Latham (American inventor; inv. typewriter) |
1819-1890 |
| Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (Russian-born Soviet nov.) |
1905-1984 |
| Shomu (also Shomu Tenno) (45th emperor of Japan 715-749) |
701-756 |
| Shore, Jane (English mistress of Edward IV) |
1445?-1526 |
| Shorey, Paul (American scholar) |
1857-1934 |
| Short, James (Scottish optician, instrument maker) |
1710-1768 |
| Short, Walter Campbell (American army officer) |
1880-1949 |
| Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (English novelist) |
1834-1903 |
| Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitriyevich (Russian composer) |
1906-1975 |
| Shotoku Taishi (Regent of Japan; son of Emperor Yomei) |
573-621 |
| Shotwell, James Thomson (Canadian-born Am. diplomat, historian) |
1874-1965 |
| Shoup, George Laird (American merchant, politician) |
1836-1904 |
| Shoulders, James Arthur "Jim" (American rodeo cowboy) |
1928-2007 |
| Showalter, Elaine (American literary critic, teacher) |
b.1941 |
| Shrapnel, Henry (Eng. artillery officer; inv. shrapnel shell) |
1761-1842 |
| Shreve, Henry Miller (American steamboat captain) |
1785-1851 |
| Shubert, Jacob J. (Russian-born Am. theatrical manager, prod.) |
1880-1963 |
| Shubert, Lee (Russian-born Am. theatrical manager, producer) |
1873?-1953 |
| Shubert, Samuel S. (Russian-born Am. theatrical manager, prod.) |
1876-1905 |
| Shubrick, William Branford (American naval officer) |
1790-1874 |
| Shubun (aka Tensho Shubun) (Japanese priest-painter) |
d.1444/48? |
| Shudi, Burkat (Swiss-born English harpsichord maker) |
1702-1773 |
| Shudi, Burkat (English harpsichord maker; son of Burkat) |
c.1738-1803 |
| Shuja-'ud-Dawlah (Indian governor of Oudh) |
1754-1775 |
| Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich (Russian writer, scriptwriter) |
1929-1974 |
| Shulgi (2nd king of Sumerian dynasty of Ur 2094-2047 BC) |
21st cent. BC |
| Shulgin, Alexander Theodore (American pharmacologist, chemist) |
b.1925 |
| Shull, George Harrison (American botanist, geneticist) |
1874-1954 |
| Shulman, David (American lexicographer) |
1912-2004 |
| Shultz, George Pratt (American administrator, diplomat) |
b.1920 |
| Shurcliff, William Asahel (American physicist, activist) |
1909-2006 |
| Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (American antiquary) |
1810-1874 |
| Shu She-yu (pen name Lao She) (Chinese novelist) |
1899-1966 |
| Shuster, William Morgan (American lawyer, financier, publisher) |
1877-1960 |
| Shute, Henry Augustus (American humorist) |
1856-1943 |
| Shute, Nevil (b. N.S. Norway) (English-born Australian writer) |
1899-1960 |
| Shute, Samuel (British colonial administrator in America) |
1662-1742 |
| Shutruk-Nahhunte (King of Elam) |
fl. c.1160 BC |
| Shuvalov, Pyotr Andreyevich (Russian diplomat, police director) |
1827-1889 |
| Shvernik, Nikolay Mikhaylovich (Soviet politician) |
1888-1970 |
| Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian (Finnish composer) |
1865-1957 |
| Sibley, Henry Hastings (American pioneer, politician) |
1811-1891 |
| Sibley, Hiram (American businessman) |
1807-1888 |
| Sibyl (Queen of crusader state of Jerusalem) |
1160-1190 |
| Sickel, Theodor von (German historian) |
1826-1908 |
| Sickert, Bernhard (German-born British painter; bro. of W.R.) |
1862-1932 |
| Sickert, Johann Jurgen (German painter; grandfather of Walter) |
1803-1864 |
| Sickert, Walter Richard (German-born British painter, etcher) |
1860-1942 |
| Sickingen, Franz von (German knight) |
1481-1523 |
| Sickles, Daniel Edgar (American army officer, politician) |
1825-1914 |
| Siddhwa, Bapsi (Pakistani writer) |
b.1938 |
| Siddons, Sarah née Kemble (English tragic actor) |
1755-1831 |
| Sidgwick, Henry (English philosopher) |
1838-1900 |
| Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent (English chemist) |
1873-1952 |
| Sidney (or Sydney), Algernon (Eng. republican leader, martyr) |
1622-1683 |
| Sidney, Sir Philip (English poet, politician, soldier) |
1554-1586 |
| Siebe, Augustus (German inventor in England) |
1788-1872 |
| Siebold, Carl Theodor Ernst von (German zoologist) |
1804-1885 |
| Siedentopf, Henry Friedrich Wilhelm (German physicist) |
1872-1940 |
| Sieg, Emil (German Sanskritist, scholar) |
1866-1951 |
| Siegbahn, Kai Manne Boerje (Swedish physicist; son of Karl) |
b.1918 |
| Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg (Swedish physicist; father of Kai) |
1886-1978 |
| Siegel, Donald "Don" (Am. actor, film director, producer) |
1912-1991 |
| Siegen (or Sechten), Ludwig von (German painter, engraver) |
1609-c.1680 |
| Siegfried, Andre (Fr. economist, educator, author, historian) |
1875-1959 |
| Siegwart-Muller, Konstantin (Swiss politician) |
1801-1869 |
| Siemens, Ernst Werner von (Ger. elec. engineer, industrialist) |
1816-1892 |
| Siemens, Friedrich (German engineer, inventor in England) |
1826-1904 |
| Siemens, Karl von (German industrialist) |
1829-1906 |
| Siemens, Karl Wilhelm (German-born British inventor, engineer) |
1823-1883 |
| Siemens, Sir Charles William (German-born British inventor) |
1823-1883 |
| Siemering, Rudolf (German sculptor) |
1835-1905 |
| Siemienowicz, Kazimierz (or Casimirus) (Polish artillerist) |
d.1651? |
| Sienkiewicz, Henryk Adam Alexander Pius "Litwos" (Pol. writer) |
1846-1916 |
| Sierpinski, Waclaw (Polish mathematician) |
1882-1969 |
| Sievers, Frederick William (American sculptor) |
1872-1966 |
| Sieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph (French Revolutionary leader) |
1748-1836 |
| Sigebert of Gembloux (Belgian chronicler) |
c.1030-1112 |
| Sigel, Franz (German-born American soldier, editor) |
1824-1902 |
| Siger de Brabant (French philosopher) |
c.1240-1281/4 |
| Sigerist, Henry Ernest (Swiss medical historian) |
1891-1957 |
| Sighibuldi, Cino dei "Cino da Pistoia" (Italian jurist, poet) |
c.1270-1336/7 |
| Sigismund, Saint (King of Burgundy 516-524) |
d.524 |
| Sigismund (Holy Roman emperor 1433-1437) |
1368-1437 |
| Sigismund I "Stary", i.e. "the Old" (King of Poland 1506-1548) |
1467-1548 |
| Sigismund II Augustus (King of Poland 1548-1572) |
1520-1572 |
| Sigismund III Vasa (King of Poland 1587-1632) |
1566-1632 |
| Signac, Paul (French painter) |
1863-1935 |
| Signorelli, Luca d'Egidio di Ventura de' (Italian painter) |
1445/50-1523 |
| Sigonio, Carlo (aka Sigonius) (Italian Humanist) |
1524-1584 |
| Sigourney, Lydia Howard née Huntley (American writer, educator) |
1791-1865 |
| Sigsbee, Charles Dwight (American naval officer) |
1845-1923 |
| Sigurd I "Jorsalafarer" (King of Norway 1103-1130) |
c.1090-1130 |
| Sigurd II "Munnr", i.e. "the Mouth" (King of Norway 1136-1155) |
1134-1155 |
| Sigurdsson, Jon (Icelandic man of letters, politician) |
1811-1879 |
| Sigurjonsson, Johann (Icelandic poet, playwright) |
1880-1919 |
| Sijistani, Abu Da'ud as- (Muslim theologian) |
817-859 |
| Sikandar Lodi (Second Lodi sultan of Delhi 1489-1517) |
d.1517 |
| Sikelianos, Angelos (Greek poet) |
1884-1951 |
| Siklos, Albert (Hungarian cellist, composer, musicologist) |
1878-1942 |
| Sikorski, Jozef (Polish composer, music critic) |
1813-1896 |
| Sikorski, Wladislaw Eugeniusz (Polish general, politician) |
1881-1943 |
| Sikorsky, Igor Ivan (Russian-born Am. aeronautical engineer) |
1889-1972 |
| Silas, Saint (Christian prophet, missionary) |
fl. 50 |
| Silberman, Andreas (German musical instrument builder) |
1678-1734 |
| Silberman, Gottfried (German musical instrument builder) |
1683-1753 |
| Silberman, Johann Andreas (German musical instrument builder) |
1712-1783 |
| Silberman, Johann Daniel (German musical instrument builder) |
1717-1766 |
| Siles, Hernando (Bolivian politician; president 1926-1930) |
1882-1942 |
| Silhouette, Etienne de (French politician) |
1709-1767 |
| Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius (Latin poet, polit.) |
25/26-101 |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon (Native American poet, writer, essayist) |
b.1948 |
| Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil (Finnish novelist, short-story author) |
1888-1964 |
| Silliman, Benjamin (American chemist, geologist) |
1779-1864 |
| Silliman, Benjamin (American chemist; son of Benjamin) |
1816-1885 |
| Silliphant, Stirling Dale (Am. screenwriter, producer) |
1918-1996 |
| Sillitoe, Alan (English writer, poet, playwright) |
b.1928 |
| Siloe, Diego (Spanish sculptor, architect; son of Gil) |
c.1495-1563 |
| Siloe, Gil de (aka Gil de Urliones) (Spanish sculptor) |
d.c.1501 |
| Silva, Antonio Jose da "O Judeu" (Portuguese playwright) |
1705-1739 |
| Silva, Jose Asuncion (Colombian poet) |
1865-1896 |
| Silva Xavier, Joaquim Jose da "Tiradentes" (Brazilian patriot) |
1748-1792 |
| Silvela, Francisco (Spanish polit.; premier 1899-1900, 1902-03) |
1843-1905 |
| Silverberg, Robert (American writer) |
b.1935 |
| Silverius, Saint (Pope 536-537; son of Pope St. Hormisdas) |
d.537? |
| Silverman, Sime (American newspaper publisher) |
1873-1933 |
| Silvester Guzzolini, Saint (Italian religious) |
1177-1267 |
| Silvestre, Paul-Armand (French writer) |
1837-1901 |
| Simcoe, John Graves (English soldier, colonial administrator) |
1752-1806 |
| Simenon, Georges-Joseph-Christian (Belgian-born French writer) |
1903-1989 |
| Simeon (or Symeon) the Great (Bulgarian sovereign) |
d.927 |
| Simeon (or Symeon) of Durham (English chronicler) |
d.1130/8 |
| Simeon, Charles (English clergyman) |
1759-1836 |
| Simeon ben Yohai (Galilean rabbi) |
2nd cent. |
| Simeon Metaphrastes (Byzantine hagiographer) |
c.900-984? |
| Simeon Stylites, Saint (Syrian ascetic, pillar dweller) |
c.390-459 |
| Simic, Charles (Yugoslavian-born American poet, translator) |
b.1938 |
| Simmel, Georg (German philosopher, sociologist) |
1858-1918 |
| Simmons, Edward Emerson (American painter) |
1852-1931 |
| Simmons, Furnifold McLendell (American politician) |
1854-1940 |
| Simms, William Gilmore (American writer, poet, politician) |
1806-1870 |
| Simnel, Lambert (English impostor) |
c.1475-1535 |
| Simon of St. Quentin (French Dominican friar) |
13th cent. |
| Simon of Sudbury (orig. surname Tybald) (English prelate) |
d.1381 |
| Simon, Claude Henri Eugene (Madagascar-born French writer) |
1913-2005 |
| Simon, Sir John (English physician) |
1816-1904 |
| Simon, Sir John Allsebrook (British politician) |
1873-1954 |
| Simon, Herbert Alexander (Am. cognitive scientist, economist) |
b.1916 |
| Simon, Jules (orig. Jules Suisse) (Fr. philosopher, politician) |
1814-1896 |
| Simon, Kate (b. Kaila Grobsmith) (Polish-born Am. memoirist) |
1912-1990 |
| Simon, Marvin Neil (Am. dramatist, screenwriter, librettist) |
b.1927 |
| Simon, Richard (French theologian) |
1638-1712 |
| Simon, Richard Leo (Am. publisher; partner with Max Schuster) |
1899-1960 |
| Simonides of Amorgos (Greek poet) |
fl. 660 BC |
| Simonides of Ceos (Greek poet, epigrammatist) |
c.556-c.468 BC |
| Simonin, Albert-Charles (French writer, journalist) |
1905-1980 |
| Simon Magus (Samaritan sorcerer; source of word "simony") |
1st cent. |
| Simonov, Konstantin Kirill Mikhailovich (Russian writer) |
1915-1979 |
| Simonson, Lee (American designer) |
1888-1967 |
| Simon Thassi (Jewish high priest; son of Mattathias) |
d.135 BC |
| Simovic, Dusan (Yugoslav general, politician) |
1882-1962 |
| Simplicius, Saint (Pope 468-483) |
d.483 |
| Simplicius of Cilicia (Greek Neoplatonic philosopher) |
fl. c.530 |
| Simpson, Sir George (Scottish-born Canadian explorer) |
1792-1860 |
| Simpson, George Gaylord (American palaeontologist) |
1902-1984 |
| Simpson, Sir James Young (Scottish physician) |
1811-1870 |
| Simpson, Jeremiah "Sockless Jerry" (American politician) |
1842-1905 |
| Simpson, Sir John Hope (English administrator in India) |
1868-1961 |
| Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz (Jamaican-born Am. poet, critic) |
b.1923 |
| Simpson, Matthew (American clergyman) |
1811-1884 |
| Simpson, Norman Frederick (British playwright) |
b.1919 |
| Simpson, Thomas (English mathematician) |
1710-1761 |
| Simrock, Friedrich August "Fritz" (German music publisher) |
1837-1901 |
| Simrock, Karl Joseph (German poet, literary scholar) |
1802-1876 |
| Simrock, Nicolaus (German music publisher) |
1751-1832 |
| Simrock, Peter Joseph (German music publisher; son of Nicolaus) |
1792-1868 |
| Sims, George Robert (ps. Dagonet) (Eng. journalist, playwright) |
1847-1922 |