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1,666 profilesSofonisba Anguissola
c. 1532 – 16 November 1625
Sofonisba Anguissola was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona, the first woman artist to achieve international re...
Soichiro Honda
17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991
Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist who founded Honda Motor Company. Starting from a small workshop...
Sojourner Truth
c. 1797 – 26 November 1883
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist who was born into slavery in New...
Sophia Loren
20 September 1934 – present
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress whose career spans from Italian post-war cinema to international film. She won the Ac...
Sophie Germain
1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831
Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was a French mathematician who, despite being barred from formal education as a woman, made s...
Sophie Scholl
9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943
Sophie Scholl was a German student and a member of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. While...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
c. 1648 – 17 April 1695
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) was a Hieronymite nun, poet, dramatist, and scholar of New Spain (colonial Mexico)...
Søren Kierkegaard
5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer, widely regarded as the father of existen...
Stan Lee
28 December 1922 – 12 November 2018
Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor and publisher who led Marvel Comics from a small publisher to a major...
Stanisław Lem
12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006
Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophical essays and satire. Trained in medicine in Lwów and K...
Stanley Kubrick
26 July 1928 – 7 March 1999
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer, widely regarded as one of the g...
Stefan Banach
30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945
Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is regarded as one of the founders of modern functional analysis. A leading...
Steffi Graf
14 June 1969 – present
Steffi Graf is a German former professional tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and held the world number...
Stephanie Kwolek
31 July 1923 – 18 June 2014
Stephanie Kwolek was an American chemist who invented Kevlar, a high-strength synthetic fiber used in bulletproof vests...
Stephen Hawking
8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018
English theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on black holes and relativity, and for the bestselling...
Stephen Jay Gould
10 September 1941 – 20 May 2002
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science who spent his career a...
Stephen King
21 September 1947 – present
Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense and fantasy, whose books have sold hundreds...
Stephen Sondheim
22 March 1930 – 26 November 2021
Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist who worked primarily in musical theatre. He first gained wide att...
Steve Biko
18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977
Steve Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist and the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in the late 1...
Steve Jobs
24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011
American entrepreneur, co-founder of Apple, who shaped personal computing, animated film, music distribution and the sma...
Steve Wozniak
11 August 1950 – present
Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer and computer pioneer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and...
Steven Chu
28 February 1948 – present
Steven Chu is an American physicist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to cool an...
Steven Spielberg
18 December 1946 – present
Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Steven Weinberg
3 May 1933 – 23 July 2021
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for unifyin...
Stevie Wonder
13 May 1950 – present
Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who became one of the most acclaimed and infl...
Strive Masiyiwa
1961 – present
Strive Masiyiwa (born 1961) is a Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist who founded the telecommunications group Econ...
Su Shi
8 January 1037 – 24 August 1101
Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo, was a Song dynasty statesman, poet, essayist, calligrapher, and gastronome,...
Subhas Chandra Bose
23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945
Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist leader who served twice as president of the Indian National Congress befor...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist who determined the maximum mass of a stable...
Suharto
8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008
Suharto was an Indonesian army officer who served as the second president of Indonesia from 1967 until 1998. He rose to...
Sukarno
6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970
Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman who led the country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and became the...
Suleiman the Magnificent
c. 1494 – 6 September 1566
Longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who led it to the peak of its military and cultural power. Known in the E...
Sun Yat-sen
12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman regarded as the founding father of the Republic of China. He led t...
Sundiata Keita
c. 1217 – c. 1255
Sundiata Keita (c. 1217 - c. 1255) was the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa. He defeated the Sosso ruler Sumang...
Sunni Ali
c. 1430 – 6 November 1492
Sunni Ali (died 1492), also known as Sunni Ali Ber, was the first great ruler of the Songhai Empire in West Africa, reig...
Surdas
c. 1478 – c. 1583
Surdas was a 16th-century blind Hindu devotional poet and singer, celebrated for his Braj-language compositions in prais...
Suryavarman II
c. 1094 – c. 1150
Suryavarman II (c. 1094 - c. 1150) was king of the Khmer Empire from 1113 until around 1150 and the builder of Angkor Wa...
Susan B. Anthony
15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a central role in th...
Susumu Tonegawa
5 September 1939 – 11 July 2026
Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939) is a Japanese molecular biologist and neuroscientist who received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Ph...
Swami Vivekananda
12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902
Indian Hindu monk and philosopher who introduced Vedanta and yoga to the Western world. He founded the Ramakrishna Missi...
Sydney Brenner
13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019) was a South African-born biologist who helped establish the foundations of molecular biology,...
Sylvia Plath
27 October 1932 – 11 February 1963
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer credited with advancing the genre of confessional po...
T.S. Eliot
26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-born British poet, essayist, and playwright who became a central figure in modernis...
Tadao Ando
13 September 1941 – present
Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect who taught himself the discipline through travel and self-study after an early period...
Tadashi Yanai
7 February 1949 – present
Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese businessman who founded and leads Fast Retailing, the parent company of the clothing chain U...
Tadeusz Kościuszko
4 February 1746 – 15 October 1817
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and national hero who fought for independence o...
Tahar Ben Jelloun
1 December 1944 – present
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan novelist, poet and essayist who writes in French. He settled in Paris in the early 1970s...
Taiichi Ohno
29 February 1912 – 28 May 1990
Taiichi Ohno (1912–1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer and Toyota executive regarded as the principal architect of...