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- Siqueiros, David Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974) - Siraj-ud-daula
Indian general and nawab of Bengal who opposed the colonization of India by England - Sitter, Willem de Sitter
Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) - Sitting Bull
a chief of the Sioux - Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
English poet (1887-1964) - Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere
Italian pope from 1471 to 1484 who consented to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and built the Sistine Chapel (1414-1484) - Skeat, Walter William Skeat
English philologist (1835-1912) - Skinner, Fred Skinner, B. F. Skinner, Burrhus Frederic Skinner
United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990) - Skinner, Cornelia Otis Skinner
United States actress noted for her one-woman shows (1901-1979) - Skinner, Otis Skinner
United States actor (1858-1942) - Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley
American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943) - Smetana, Bedrich Smetana
Czech composer (1824-1884) - Smith, Adam Smith
Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790) - Smith, John Smith, Captain John Smith
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia - Smith, Joseph Smith
religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844) - Smith, Bessie Smith
United States blues singer (1894-1937) - Smith, Julia Evelina Smith
United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886) - Smith, Kate Smith, Kathryn Elizabeth Smith
United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986) - Smith, David Smith, David Roland Smith
United States sculptor (1906-1965) - Smith, Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith
Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) - Smollett, Tobias Smollett, Tobias George Smollett
Scottish writer of adventure novels (1721-1771) - Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts
South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950) - Snead, Sam Snead, Samuel Jackson Snead
United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002) - Snellen, Hermann Snellen
Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908) - Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester
English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) - Socinus, Faustus Socinus, Fausto Paolo Sozzini
Italian theologian who argued against Trinitarianism (1539-1604) - Socrates
ancient Athenian philosopher - Soddy, Frederick Soddy
English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956) - Solomon
(Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC) - Solvay, Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) - Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) - Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim
United States composer of musicals (born in 1930) - Sontag, Susan Sontag
United States writer (born in 1933) - Sophocles
one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) - Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen
Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939) - Soufflot, Jacques Germain Soufflot
French architect (1713-1780) - Sousa, John Philip Sousa, March King
a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932) - Southey, Robert Southey
English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843) - Soutine, Chaim Soutine
French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943) - Spallanzani, Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799) - Spark, Muriel Spark, Dame Muriel Spark, Muriel Sarah Spark
Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918) - Spassky, Boris Spassky, Boris Vasilevich Spassky
Russian chess master who moved to Paris - Speer, Albert Speer
German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981) - Speke, John Speke, John Hanning Speke
English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika - Spencer, Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903) - Spender, Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender
English poet and critic (1909-1995) - Spengler, Oswald Spengler
German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936) - Spenser, Edmund Spenser
English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599) - Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry
United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) - Spielberg, Steven Spielberg
United States filmmaker (born in 1947) - Spillane, Mickey Spillane, Frank Morrison Spillane
United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918) - Spinoza, de Spinoza, Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677) - Spock, Benjamin Spock
United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world (1903-1998) - Spode, Josiah Spode
English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827) - Stael, Madame de Stael, Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein
French romantic writer (1766-1817) - Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) - Standish, Miles Standish, Myles Standish
English colonist in America - Stanford, Leland Stanford
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) - Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev
Russian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938) - Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands
Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871 - Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley
United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
United States suffragist and feminist - Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey
rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) - St. Denis, Saint Denis, Ruth Saint Denis, Ruth St. Denis
United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ted Shawn (1877-1968) - Steele, Sir Richrd Steele
English writer (1672-1729) - Steen, Jan Steen
Dutch genre painter (1626-1679) - Steffens, Lincoln Steffens, Joseph Lincoln Steffens
United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936) - Steichen, Edward Jean Steichen
United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973) - Stein, Gertrude Stein
experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) - Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck
United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968) - Steinberg, Saul Steinberg
United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999) - Steinem, Gloria Steinem
United States feminist (born in 1934) - Steiner, Rudolf Steiner
Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925) - Steinman, David Barnard Steinman
United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960) - Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Steinmetz
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923) - Steinway, Henry Steinway, Henry Engelhard Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinway
United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871) - Stella, Frank Stella, Frank Philip Stella
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936) - Steller, Georg Wilhelm Steller
German naturalist (1709-1746) - Stendhal, Marie Henri Beyle
French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842) - Stengel, Casey Stengel, Charles Dillon Stengel
United States baseball manager (1890-1975) - Stephen, Sir Leslie Stephen
English writer (1832-1904) - Stephenson, George Stephenson
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848) - Stern, Isaac Stern
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) - Sterne, Laurence Sterne
English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766) - Steuben, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben
American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794) - Stevens, George Stevens
United States filmmaker (1905-1975) - Stevens, Wallace Stevens
United States poet (1879-1955) - Stevens, Smitty Stevens, S. Smith Stevens, Stanley Smith Stevens
United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973) - Stevenson, Adlai Stevenson, Adlai Ewing Stevenson
United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968) - Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Scottish author (1850-1894) - Stewart, Dugald Stewart
Scottish philosopher and follower of Thomas Reid (1753-1828) - Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, James Maitland Stewart
United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997) - Stieglitz, Alfred Stieglitz
United States photographer (1864-1946) - Stilwell, Joseph Warren Stilwell, Vinegar Joe Stilwell, Uncle Joe
United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946) - Stockton, Frank Stockton, Francis Richard Stockton
United States writer (1834-1902) - Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker
Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) - Stokowski, Leopold Stokowski, Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977) - Stone, Edward Durell Stone
United States architect (1902-1978) - Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) - Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) - Stone, Lucy Stone
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) - Stone, Oliver Stone
United States filmmaker (born in 1946) - Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) - Stopes, Marie Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958) - Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Sir Tom Stoppard, Thomas Straussler
British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) - Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) - Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey
English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) - Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius, Antonius Stradivarius
Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737) - Strasberg, Lee Strasberg, Israel Strassberg
United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982) - Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Elder
Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849) - Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Younger
Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder - Strauss, Richard Strauss
German composer of many operas - Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971) - Streep, Meryl Streep
United States film actress (born in 1949) - Streisand, Barbra Streisand, Barbra Joan Streisand
United States singer and actress (born in 1942) - Strickland, William Strickland
United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854) - Strindberg, August Strindberg, Johan August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912) - Stroheim, Erich von Stroheim
United States film actor (born in Austria) (1885-1957) - Stuart, Gilbert Stuart, Gilbert Charles Stuart
United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828) - Stubbs, William Stubbs
English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901) - Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant, Petrus Stuyvesant
the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland - Styron, William Styron
United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) - Suckling, Sir John Suckling
English poet and courtier (1609-1642) - Sue, Eugene Sue
French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) - Suharto
Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921) - Sukarno, Achmad Sukarno
Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970) - Sulla, Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
Roman general and dictator (138-78 BC) - Sullivan, Arthur Sullivan, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Sir Arthur Sullivan
English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900) - Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936) - Sullivan, Ed Sullivan, Edward Vincent Sullivan
United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974) - Sullivan, Harry Stack Sullivan
United States psychiatrist (1892-1949) - Sullivan, Louis Sullivan, Louis Henry Sullivan, Louis Henri Sullivan
United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924) - Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
French statesman (1560-1641) - Sully, Thomas Sully
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872) - Sumner, William Graham Sumner
United States sociologist (1840-1910) - Sunday, Billy Sunday, William Ashley Sunday
United States evangelist (1862-1935) - Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yixian
Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925) - Sutherland, Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Sutherland
Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926) - Sverdrup, Otto Neumann Sverdrup
Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930) - Swammerdam, Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680) - Swanson, Gloria Swanson, Gloria May Josephine Svensson
United States actress in many silent films (1899-1983) - Swedenborg, Svedberg, Emanuel Swedenborg, Emanuel Svedberg
Swedish theologian (1688-1772) - Sweet, Henry Sweet
English phonetician - Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift
an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745) - Swift, Gustavus Franklin Swift
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903) - Swinburne, Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet (1837-1909) - Sydenham, Thomas Sydenham, English Hippocrates
English physician (1624-1689) - Sylvester II, Gerbert
French pope from 999 to 1003 who was noted for his great learning (945-1003) - Symonds, John Addington Symonds
English writer (1840-1893) - Symons, Arthur Symons
English poet (1865-1945) - Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge
Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) - Szell, George Szell
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970) - Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986) - Szilard, Leo Szilard
United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964) - Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120) - Taft, William Howard Taft, President Taft
27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930) - Taft, Lorado Taft
United States sculptor (1860-1936) - Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941) - Talbot, Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot
English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877) - Tallchief, Maria Tallchief
United States ballerina who promoted American ballet through tours and television appearances (born in 1925) - Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
French statesman (1754-1838) - Tallis, Thomas Tallis
English organist and composer of church and secular music - Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur, Timur Lenk
Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) - Tamm, Igor Tamm, Igor Yevgeneevich Tamm
Russian physicist (1895-1971) - Tancred
Norman leader in the First Crusade who played an important role in the capture of Jerusalem (1078-1112) - Tandy, Jessica Tandy
United States actress (born in England) who made many stage appearances, often with her husband Hume Cronyn (1909-1994) - Taney, Roger Taney, Roger Brooke Taney
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court - Tange, Kenzo Tange
Japanese architect (born in 1913) - Tanguy, Yves Tanguy
United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955) - Tappan, Arthur Tappan
United States abolitionist (1786-1865) - Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino
United States filmmaker (born in 1963) - Tarbell, Ida Tarbell, Ida M. Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarbell
United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) - Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky
Russian filmmaker (1932-1986) - Tarquin, Tarquin the Proud, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
according to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC) - Tasman, Abel Tasman, Abel Janszoon Tasman
Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659) - Tasso, Torquato Tasso
Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595) - Tate, Allen Tate, John Orley Allen Tate
United States poet and critic (1899-1979) - Tati, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff
French filmmaker (1908-1982) - Tatum, Art Tatum, Arthur Tatum
United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind - Tatum, Edward Lawrie Tatum
United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) - Tawney, Richard Henry Tawney
English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962) - Taylor, Zachary Taylor, President Taylor
12th President of the United States - Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star - Taylor, Deems Taylor, Joseph Deems Taylor
United States composer and music critic (1885-1966) - Tchaikovsky, Peter Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893) - Teach, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) - Teasdale, Sara Teasdale
United States poet (1884-1933) - Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi
Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922) - Tecumseh, Tecumtha
a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813) - Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French paleontologist and philosopher (1881-1955) - Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa
New Zealand operatic soprano (born in 1944) - Telemann, Georg Philipp Telemann
German baroque composer (1681-1767) - Teller, Edward Teller
United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003) - Tenniel, Sir John Tenniel
English cartoonist (1820-1914) - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892) - Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986) - Terence, Publius Terentius Afer
dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC) - Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia) - Teresa of Avila, Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish mystic and religious reformer - Tereshkova, Valentina Tereshkova, Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)