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1,666 profilesRoger Penrose
8 August 1931 – present
Roger Penrose is a British mathematician and mathematical physicist whose work spans general relativity, geometry and th...
Ronald Reagan
6 February 1911 – 5 June 2004
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States from 198...
Rosa Parks
4 February 1913 – 24 October 2005
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomer...
Rosalind Franklin
25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958
English chemist whose X-ray diffraction work was central to understanding the molecular structure of DNA, as well as RNA...
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
19 July 1921 – 30 May 2011
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist who, with Solomon Berson, developed the radioimmunoassay, a tech...
Rudolf Diesel
18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913
Rudolf Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the compression-ignition engine that bears his...
Rudolf Nureyev
17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993
Rudolf Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20t...
Rudolf Virchow
13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902
Rudolf Virchow was a German physician, pathologist, and statesman known as the founder of modern pathology and social me...
Ruhollah Khomeini
24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the mo...
Rumi
30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic whose works, above all the Masnavi, are...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
15 March 1933 – 18 September 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Co...
Ryuichi Sakamoto
17 January 1952 – 28 March 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer, pianist and record producer. A founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 19...
Saadat Hasan Manto
11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955
Saadat Hasan Manto was an Urdu short-story writer, essayist and screenwriter active in Bombay and, after 1948, in Lahore...
Saadi Shirazi
c. 1210 – c. 1291
Saadi Shirazi was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period, regarded as one of the greatest masters of cla...
Sabah
10 November 1927 – 26 November 2014
Sabah, born Jeanette Gergis Feghali, was a Lebanese singer and actress whose career spanned more than six decades. She r...
Sacagawea
c. 1788 – 20 December 1812
Sacagawea (c. 1788 - 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1805 to 1806,...
Sachin Tendulkar
24 April 1973 – present
Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian former cricketer who played international cricket for India from 1989 to 2013. A right-han...
Sadaharu Oh
20 May 1940 – present
Sadaharu Oh is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager who spent his entire playing career with the Y...
Saddam Hussein
28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006
Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician who led the Ba'ath Party and served as President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. His r...
Sadegh Hedayat
17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951
Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator and folklorist regarded as a founder of modern Persian fiction. His bes...
Sadi Carnot
1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) was a French military engineer and physicist often described as the 'father of t...
Sakıp Sabancı
1933 – 10 April 2004
Sakıp Sabancı was a Turkish businessman who led Sabancı Holding, one of Turkey's largest industrial and financial conglo...
Saladin
1137 – 4 March 1193
Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub) was a Kurdish Muslim commander who founded the Ayyubid dynasty and ruled Egypt an...
Salif Keita
25 August 1949 – present
Salif Keita is a Malian singer and songwriter, often described as the golden voice of Africa, whose work blends Mandinka...
Salim Abdool Karim
1960 – present
Salim Abdool Karim is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist known for research on HIV prevention a...
Sally Ride
26 May 1951 – 23 July 2012
Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist who in 1983 became the first American woman to fly in space, aboard t...
Salman Rushdie
19 June 1947 – present
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist whose second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker P...
Salvador Allende
26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973
Salvador Allende was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who became the first Marxist to be elected president o...
Salvador Dalí
11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989
Spanish Surrealist whose melting clocks and flamboyant persona made him one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th...
Sam Altman
22 April 1985 – present
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who is chief executive of OpenAI. He left Stanford University to co-...
Sam Cooke
22 January 1931 – 11 December 1964
Sam Cooke was an American singer and songwriter who moved from gospel music to popular music and became a central figure...
Sam Walton
29 March 1918 – 5 April 1992
Sam Walton was an American retailer who founded Walmart and Sam's Club. After running Ben Franklin variety store franchi...
Sameera Moussa
3 March 1917 – 5 August 1952
Sameera Moussa was an Egyptian nuclear physicist and the first Egyptian woman to hold a doctorate in atomic radiation. S...
Samora Machel
29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican military commander and politician who led the liberation movement FRELIMO from 197...
Samori Touré
c. 1828 – 2 June 1900
Samori Touré was a West African military leader who founded and ruled the Wassoulou Empire in the region of present-day...
Samuel Beckett
13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989
Samuel Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet who became one of the most influential writers of the 20th ce...
Samuel de Champlain
c. 1574 – 25 December 1635
Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, cartographer, and colonial administrator known as the 'Father of New France'....
Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English writer, lexicographer, critic, and moralist, often described as the most disti...
Samuel Morse
27 April 1791 – 2 April 1872
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter who co-developed the single-wire electric te...
Samuel Pepys
23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, famous for the detailed private di...
Sandro Botticelli
c. 1445 – 17 May 1510
Florentine painter of the early Renaissance, celebrated for the mythological masterpieces Primavera and The Birth of Ven...
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and histologist widely regarded as the father of modern...
Sarojini Naidu
13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949
Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was an Indian poet and independence activist known as the 'Nightingale of India'. A close ass...
Satyajit Ray
2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992
Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and author widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of...
Satyendra Nath Bose
1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) was an Indian mathematical physicist best known for his 1924 derivation of Planck's radi...
Saul Bass
8 May 1920 – 25 April 1996
Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker best known for his motion-picture title sequences, film posters...
Seamus Heaney
13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013
Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, translator and lecturer whose collections include Death of a Naturalist, North and Fiel...
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
May 1633 – 30 March 1707
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban was a French military engineer and Marshal of France under Louis XIV, regarded as the gre...