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1,666 profilesSegenet Kelemu
1957 – present
Segenet Kelemu is an Ethiopian molecular plant pathologist who works on the diseases of tropical forage crops and on mic...
Seiji Ozawa
1 September 1935 – 6 February 2024
Seiji Ozawa was a Japanese conductor who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years, the lon...
Sejong the Great
15 May 1397 – 8 April 1450
Sejong the Great (1397-1450) was the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea, reigning from 1418 to 1450. He is celeb...
Seki Takakazu
c. 1642 – 5 December 1708
Seki Takakazu, also known as Seki Kōwa, was a Japanese mathematician of the Edo period, often called Japan's greatest ma...
Selman Waksman
22 July 1888 – 16 August 1973
Selman Waksman was a Russian-born American biochemist and microbiologist who pioneered the study of soil microorganisms...
Sen no Rikyu
1522 – 21 April 1591
Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591) was a Japanese tea master who perfected the wabi-cha style of the tea ceremony, emphasizing rus...
Serena Williams
26 September 1981 – present
Serena Williams is an American former professional tennis player. She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the...
Seretse Khama
1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980
Seretse Khama was a Botswanan statesman and the first President of Botswana, serving from independence in 1966 until his...
Serge Gainsbourg
2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991
Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer-songwriter, composer, actor and director. Born in Paris to Russian Jewish emigre pa...
Sergei Eisenstein
22 January 1898 – 11 February 1948
Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. His sil...
Sergei Korolev
12 January 1907 – 14 January 1966
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer widely regarded as the father...
Sergei Prokofiev
23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953
Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, one of the most admired composers of the 20th...
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor, one of the finest pianists of his era and a...
Sergey Brin
21 August 1973 – present
Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 while they w...
Sesshu Toyo
1420 – 1506
Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506) was a Japanese Zen monk and master of ink-wash painting (sumi-e), widely regarded as the greates...
Seymour Cray
28 September 1925 – 5 October 1996
Seymour Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that wer...
Sezen Aksu
13 July 1954 – present
Sezen Aksu is a Turkish singer and songwriter born in 1954 in Saraykoy, Denizli Province, and raised in the Izmir region...
Shah Jahan
5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666
Shah Jahan (1592-1666) was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 to 1658 over the empire at the height of its arc...
Shah Rukh Khan
2 November 1965 – present
Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian actor and film producer, often called the "King of Bollywood," and one of the most successfu...
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
21 February 1703 – 20 August 1762
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi was an Indian Islamic scholar, theologian, and reformer of the eighteenth century, regarded as on...
Shaka Zulu
c. 1787 – 24 September 1828
Shaka kaSenzangakhona, known as Shaka Zulu, was the founder of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa. Through sweeping mil...
Sheikh Hasina
28 September 1947 – present
Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician and the leader of the Awami League. The eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahm...
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman who is regarded as the founding leader of Bangladesh. A...
Shen Kuo
1031 – 1095
Shen Kuo (1031-1095) was a Song dynasty polymath, statesman, and scientist whose work spanned astronomy, mathematics, ge...
Sher Shah Suri
c. 1472 – 22 May 1545
Sher Shah Suri was an Afghan ruler who defeated the Mughal emperor Humayun and founded the Sur Empire in northern India,...
Shigeru Miyamoto
16 November 1952 – present
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo. He created or oversaw the Donkey Kong, Supe...
Shiing-Shen Chern
28 October 1911 – 3 December 2004
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the 20...
Shimon Peres
2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician whose career in public life spanned nearly seven decades. He served twice as prim...
Shin Saimdang
1504 – 1551
Shin Saimdang (1504-1551) was a Korean painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Joseon dynasty, renowned for her delicate...
Shinran
21 May 1173 – 16 January 1263
Shinran (1173-1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the founder of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land Buddhism), today one of...
Shinya Yamanaka
4 September 1962 – present
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and professor at Kyoto University, where he directs the Center for iP...
Shirin Ebadi
21 June 1947 – present
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate who was among the first women appointed as judges in Iran, s...
Shirin Neshat
26 March 1957 – present
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. She works in photography, video installation...
Shirley Chisholm
30 November 1924 – 1 January 2005
Shirley Chisholm was an American politician and educator who in 1968 became the first Black woman elected to the United...
Shivaji
19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680
Shivaji Bhonsle (1630-1680) was an Indian warrior-king who founded the Maratha Empire, carving out an independent kingdo...
Shohei Ohtani
5 July 1994 – present
Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese baseball player who competes as both a pitcher and a designated hitter. He played for the Ho...
Sidney Poitier
20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat who was the first Black actor to win the Acade...
Sigmund Freud
6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, whose theories of the unconscious mind transformed psychology an...
Silvio Berlusconi
29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media proprietor and politician who built the Fininvest holding company and Italy's lar...
Simón Bolívar
24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830
Venezuelan military and political leader who led the liberation of much of South America from Spanish rule, earning the...
Simone de Beauvoir
9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, philosopher, and feminist theorist whose work profoundly shaped existentialist t...
Simone Veil
13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017
Simone Veil was a French politician and Holocaust survivor who served as Minister of Health and as the first elected Pre...
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
31 March 1906 – 8 July 1979
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906-1979) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who developed a covariant formulation of quantum ele...
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
17 April 1916 – 10 October 2000
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world's first female head of government when she was e...
Sitting Bull
c. 1831 – 15 December 1890
Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man who led resistance to United States government pol...
Siya Kolisi
16 June 1991 – present
Siya Kolisi is a South African rugby union flanker who became the first Black player to captain the South Africa nationa...
Snorri Sturluson
1179 – 23 September 1241
Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and chieftain, the most important medieval author on Norse mythology...
Sofia Kovalevskaya
15 January 1850 – 10 February 1891
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was a Russian mathematician who made important contributions to analysis, partial differe...