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--Maurice Saatchi (1946— )
Co-founder of advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi.

--Florence Sabin (1871—1953)
American anatomist and teacher.

--Anwar Sadat (1918—1981)
Egyptian politician and Pesident [1970—1981].

--Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (1740—1814)
French aristocrat and writer of pornography.

--Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1213—1292)
Iranian poet.
_The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_ [A.D. 1258]
tr. Edward Rehatsek [1964]
_The Maxims of Sa'di_ tr. Mehdi Nakosteen [1977]

--William Safire (1929— )
Journalist, speechwriter, novelist, lexicographer,
and winner of the 1978 Pulitzer for commentary.
_No Uncertain Terms_ [2003]

--Carl Sagan (1934—1996)
American astronomer and author.
_Cosmos_ [1980]
_Contact_ [1985]
_Pale Blue Dot_ [1995]

--Franηoise Sagan (1935—2004)
French novelist.

--The Seven Sages (c. 650—550 BC)

--Bernardino de Sahagun (c. 1500—1590)
Franciscan missionary.
_The General History of the Things of New Spain_ [c.1555]

--Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (1900—1944)
French novelist.
_Flight to Arras_ [1942)] tr. Lewis Galantiθre
_The Little Prince_ [1944]

--Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.

--Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916)
Scottish writer.
_Reginald_ [1904]
_Reginald in Russia_ [1910]
_The Chronicles of Clovis_ [1911]
_The Square Egg_ [1924]

--George Sala (1828—1896)
English journalist and illustrator.

--Raoul de Roussy de Sales
French journalist and historian.
_The Making of Tomorrow_ [1943]

--J.D. Salinger (1919— )
American novelist and short-story writer.
_Catcher in the Rye_ [1951]

--Lord Salisbury (1830—1903)
British Conservative statesman.
Prime Minister [1886—1892, 1895—1901]

--Jonas Edward Salk (1914—1995)
American physician and medical reseacher
who developed the vaccine for polio.

--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86 BC—35/34 BC)
Roman historian.
_Bellum Catilinae_ (Catiline's War) [c. 43—42 BC]
_The Jugurthine War_ [c. 41—40 BC]

--Paul Samuelson (1915— )
American economist,
winner of the 1970 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

--George Sand [pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin] (1804—1876)
French author.
_Consuelo_ [1842]

--Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
American poet.
_Chicago Poems_ [1916]
_The People, Yes_ [1936]
_Complete Poems_ [1950]

--George Sanders (1906—1972)
Russian-born British actor.

--Edward Terry Sanford (1865—1930)
Associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court [1923—1930].

--Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838—1912)
American author, poet, and magazine editor.
_At Sunset_

--Emperor Sanjo (976—1017)
The 67th emperor of Japan.

--George Santayana (1863—1952)
Spanish-born philosopher and critic.
_The Life of Reason_ [1905]
_Little Essays_ [1920]
_Soliloquies in England_ [1922]
_Dialogues in Limbo_ [1925]

--Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895—1967)
English conductor.

--David Sarnoff (1891—1971)
Russian-born American pioneer in the development
of both radio and television broadcasting.

--William Saroyan (1908—1981)
American author.

--May Sarton (1912—1995)
American poet, novelist, and essayist.

--Siegfried Sassoon (1886—1967)
English poet.

--Vidal Sassoon (1928— )
British hairstylist.

--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905—1980)
French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist;
winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature.
_The Words_ [1964], tr. Bernard Frechtman [1981]

--Marilyn vos Savant (1946— )
American magazine columnist, author, and lecturer.

--George Savile [Lord Halifax] (1633—1695)
English politicial and essayist.
_Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections_ [1750]

--John Godfrey Saxe (1816—1887)
American poet.

--Dorothy L. Sayers (1893—1957)
English writer of detective fiction.

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--Prunella Scales (1932— )
British actress.

--Thomas D. Schall (1878—1935)
American politician.

--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
_Wilhelm Tell_ [1804]

--Phyllis Schlafly (1924— )
American author and antifeminist leader.

--Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917—2007)
American historian.
_A Thousand Days_ [1965]
_The Imperial Presidency_ [1973]
_The Cycles of American History_ [1986]

--Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947— )
American radio host.

--Mary Schmich
American newspaper columnist.

--Romy Schneider (1938—1982)
Austrian actress.

--Arthur Schnitzler (1862—1931)
Austrian doctor, playwright, and novelist.
_Buch der Spruche und Bedenken_ [1927]

--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Counsels and Maxims_
_The Art of Literature_
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders
_Studies in Pessimism_ [1851], tr. T. Bailey Saunders
_Parerga and Paralipomena_ [1861]

--Franz Peter Schubert (1797—1828)
Austrian composer.

--Budd Schulberg (1914— )
American screenwriter.
"On the Waterfront" [1954 screenplay]

--Robert H. Schuller (1926— )
American televangelist.
_Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!_ [1984]

--Charles Schulz (1922—2000)
American cartoonist.
_Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown_ [1960]
_You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown_

--E.F. Schumacher (1911—1977)
German-born British economist.

--Robert Schumann (1810—1856)
German composer.

--Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883—1950)
Morovian-born American economist and sociologist.

--Carl Schurz (1829—1906)
German-born American politician, journalist, and reformer.

--Charles Schwab (1862—1939)
American industrialist.

--H. Norman Schwarzkopf, III (1934— )
American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991.

--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.
_The Philosophy Of Civilization_ [1923]
_Memories of Childhood and Youth_ [1949]
_Out of My Life and Thought_ [1949]

--C.P. Scott (1846—1932)
British journalist.

--Florida Scott-Maxwell (1884—1979)

--George C. Scott (1927—1999)
American stage and film actor.

--Robert Falcon Scott (1868—1912)
English polar explorer.

--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.
_Guy Mannering_ [1815]
_The Pirate_ [1821]

--General Winfield Scott (1786—1866)
American army officer who served as a general in three wars
and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852.

--Roger Scruton (1944— )
British writer and philosopher.
_The Good Life_ [1998]
_Modern Philosophy_

--Vin Scully (1927— )
American sportscaster.

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--E. H. Sears (1810—76)
American Unitarian parish minister and author.

--George Seaton (1911—1979)
American screenwriter, director, and producer.

--Peter F. Secchia (1937— )
American ambassador to Italy [1989—1993]

--General John B. Sedgwick (1813—1864)
The most senior officer from either side to be
killed during the American Civil War.

--Pete Seeger (1919— )
American folk singer and songwriter.

--George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (1900—1971)
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.
_On Stage_ [1966]

--Elzie Crisler Segar (1894—1938)
American cartoonist and creator of _Popeye_.

--Seinfeld

--Jerry Seinfeld (1954— )
American actor, writer, and comedian.

--Haile Selassie - see Haile

--John Selden (1584—1654)
English historian.
_Table Talk_ [1689]

--W.C. Sellar (1898—1951)
British writer.

--Peter Sellers (1925—1980)
English comic actor.

--Hans Selye (1907—1982)
Austrian-Hungarian endocrinologist.

--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Minor Dialogues_ tr. Aubrey Stewart [1889]
_Troades_ tr. Frank Justus Miller [1917]
_Letters to Lucilius_ (1st c.) tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918]
_Moral Essays_ tr. John W. Basore [1928]

--Mack Sennett (1880—1960)
Canadian-born innovator of
slapstick comedy in film.

--Rod Serling (1924—1975)
American screenwriter who created,
hosted, and wrote for "The Twilight Zone,"
an American television show [1959-1964].

--Robert William Service (1874—1958)
British poet.

--Dr. Seuss - see Theodor Seuss Geisel

--The Seven Sages (c. 650—550 BC)

--Eric Sevareid (1912—1992)
American news commentator.

--Anna Sewell (1820—1878)
English author.
_Black Beauty_ [1877]
{This was her only book for which
she was paid £20.}

--Brian Sewell
British art historian and critic.

--Anne Sexton (1928—1974)
American poet who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
_To Bedlam and Part Way Back_ [1960]

--Horatio Seymour (1810—1886)
American politician; governor of New York State.
[1852—1854] & [1863—1865]

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--Galeazzo Sforza (1444—1476)
Duke of Milan.

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--Ernest Shackleton (1874—1922)
British Antarctic explorer who attempted
to reach the South Pole.

--Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621—1683)
British statesman.

--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VI_ [1590—1591]
_King Richard III_ [1592—1593]
_The Taming of the Shrew_ [1593—1594]
_Richard II_ [1595]
_Romeo and Juliet_ [1595—1596]
_A Midsummer Night's Dream_ [1595—1596]
_King John_ [c. 1596]
_The Merchant of Venice_ [1596—1598]
_Henry IV_ [1597]
_Much Ado About Nothing_ [1598—1599]
_King Henry V_ [1598—1599]
_As You Like It_ [1599]
_Julius Caesar_ [1599]
_Hamlet_ [1601]
_Twelfth-Night_ [1601—1602]
_All's Well That Ends Well_ [1602—1604]
_Measure for Measure_ [1604]
_Othello_ [1604—1605]
_King Lear_ [1605-1606]
_Macbeth_ [1606]
_Antony and Cleopatra_ [1606—1607]
_The Tempest_ [1611—1612],
_Henry VIII_ [1613]

--Bill Shankly (1913—1981)
Scottish footballer.

--Robert Shapiro (1942— )
Ameican lawyer.

--Natan Sharansky (1948— )
Ukranian-born anti-Communist and
Israeli politician and writer.

--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Philanderer_ [1893]
_Mrs. Warren's Profession_ [1893]
_The Devil's Disciple_ [1897]
_Caesar and Cleopatra_ [1899]
_Candida_ [1897]
_Major Barbara_ [1905]
_Man and Superman_ [1905]
_Dramatic Opinions and Essays_ [1907]
_Pygmalion_ [1913]
_Parents and Children _ [1914]
_Back to Methuselah_ [1921]
_On the Rocks_ [1933]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Hesketh Pearson _George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality_ [1963]
Arnold Silver _Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side_ [1982]

--George Sheehan, M.D. (1918—1993)

--Gail Sheehy (1937— )
American writer and lecturer.

--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular
preacher to appear on television.
_For God and Country_ [1941]
_Lift Up Your Heart_ [1942]
_Preface To Religion_ [1946]
_Peace of Soul_ [1949]
_Life Is Worth Living_ (Second Series) [1954]
_Life Is Worth Living_ (Fifth Series) [1957]
_Thoughts For Daily Living_ [1955]
_Guide to Contentment_ [1970]
_God Love You_ [1981]
_On Being Human_ [1982]

--John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
(1648—1721), English statesman.
_Essay on Poetry_ [1682]

--Mary Shelley (1797—1851)
English novelist.
_Frankenstein_ [1818]

--Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)
English poet.

--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.

--Morris Sheppard (1875—1941)
American politician - served as U.S. Senator
from Texas [1913—1941].

--Philip H. Sheridan (1831—1888)
American army general.

--Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816)
Anglo-Irish dramatist.
_The Rivals_ [1775]
_The School for Scandal_ [1777]
_The Critic_ [1779]

--Allan Sherman (1932—1973)
American song parodist and satirist.

--William Tecumseh Sherman (1820—1891)
American Union general.
_Memoirs_ [1875]

--Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1861—1952)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 1932.

--Taras Shevchenko (1814—1861)
Ukranian poet.

--Ren Shields (1868—1913)
American songwriter.

--Murasaki Shikibu (974—1031)
Japanese novelist and poet.

--Florence Scovel Shinn (1871—1940)
American author.

--William L. Shirer (1904—1993)
American journalist, historian, and novelist.
_Berlin Diary_ [1941]
_The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany_ [1960]

--Bill Shoemaker (1931—2003)
American jockey and winner of 8,833 races.

--Shoichi Yokoi (1915—1997)
Japanese soldier.

--Dinah Shore [Frances Rose Shore] (1916—1994)
American singer and actress.

--"Show Boat"

--Joe Shuster (1914—1992)
Co-creator of Superman comic strip.

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--Walter Sickert (1860—1942)
German-born British artist.

--Hugh Sidey (1927—2005)
American journalist.

--Algernon Sidney (1622—1683)
English Whig politician.
_Discourses Concerning Government_ [1698]

--Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586)
English soldier, poet, and courtier.
_The Arcadia_ [written 1580]

--Bernie Siegel (1932— )
American physician and author.
_Love, Medicine & Miracles_ [1986]

--Jerry Siegel (1914—1996)
Co-creator of Superman comic strip.

--Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846—1916)
Polish novelist.
_Without Dogma_ [1891]

--Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791—1865)
American poet & teacher.

--Edward Rowland Sill (1841—1887)
American poet and essayist.

--Beverly Sills (1929—2007)
American opera singer.

--Sime Silverman (1873—1933)
Founder and editor of "Variety."

--Shel Silverstein (1930—1999)
Ameican poet and songwriter.

--Curt Simmons (1929— )
American professional baseball player
inducted into the Hall of Fame.

--Jake Simmons (1901—1981)
American industrialist.

--Carly Simon (1945— )
American singer and songwriter.

--Neil Simon (1927— )
American playwright.

--Paul Simon (1941— )
American singer and songwriter.

--Richard Leo Simon (1889—1960)
American publisher.

--Alan K. Simpson (1931— )
American politician. U.S. Senator
from Wyoming [1979—1997].

--O.J. Simpson (1947— )
American football player, actor, and murder suspect.

--Frank Sinatra (1915—1998)
American singer and actor.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Pete Hamill _Why Sinatra Matters_ [1998]

--Sir John Alexander Sinclair (1897—1977)
British head of Military Intelligence [1953—1956].

--Upton Sinclair (1878—1968)
American novelist.
_The Jungle_ [1906]

--Jeremy Sinden (1950—1996)
British actor.

--Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904—1991)
Polish-American novelist who won the 1978
Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Shosha_ [1978]
_Collected Stories_ [1986]

--Mary Singleton [nιe Lamb] (1843—1905) [later Baronness Currie]
English poet.

--Sitting Bull [Tatanka Iyotake] (c. 1831—1890)
Hunkpapa Sioux leader.

--Dame Edith Sitwell (1887—1964)
British poet and critic.

--Swami Sivananda (1887—1963)
Hindu leader.

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--Red [Richard Bernard] Skelton (1913—1997)
American comedian.

--Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901—1979)
American author and actress.
_Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals_ [1962]

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--Grace Slick (1939— )
American rock singer - lead singer of "Jefferson
Airplane" and "Jefferson Starship."

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--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.
_Duty_ [1880]

--Adam Smith (1723—1790)
Scottish economist.
_The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759]

--Alexander Smith (1830—1867)
Scottish poet.

--Alfred E. Smith (1873—1944)
American politician; four-time Democratic
governor of New York and the first Roman
Catholic to run for President of the U.S..

--Betty Smith (1904—1972)
American playwright and novelist.
_A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_

--Elinor Goulding Smith
_The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect Baby and Child Care_ [1957]

--F. E. Smith (1872—1930)
British Conservative politician and lawyer.

--Hedrick Smith (1933— )
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author.

--Dr. Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith (1800—1879)
American doctor, editor, author, and mayor of Boston.

--John Alexander Smith (1863—1939)
English philosopher.

--Langdon Smith (1858—1908)
American journalist, writer and poet.
"Evolution"

--Lillian Smith (1897—1966)
American publisher and writer.

--Liz Smith (1923—)
American gossip columnist.

--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931]
_More Trivia_ [1934]

--Margaret Chase Smith (1897—1995)
Maine senator.

--Oliver P. Smith (1893—1977)
American general.

--Red [Walter] Smith (1905—1982)
American sports columnist and broadcaster.

--Stevie [Florence Margaret] Smith (1902—1971)
English poet and novelist.
"The Past" [1957]

--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review."
_Lady Holland's Memoir_ [1855]

--Tobias George Smollett (1721—1771)
English satirical novelist.

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--John Snagge (1904—1996)
English sports commentator.

--Speckled Snake (c. 1729—1829)
American Creek Indian chief.

--Sam Snead (1912—2002)
American professional golfer; winner of
82 PGA tour events including 7 "majors."

--Billy Snedden (1926—1987)
Australian Liberal politician.

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--Ralph Washington Sockman (1889—1970)
American pastor of the United Methodist Christ Church
in New York City and radio personality [1928—1962].
_How to Believe_ [1953]

--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

--Hjalmar Sφderberg (1869—1941)
Swedish novelist and playwright.
_Doctor Glas_ [1905]

--Solon (630?—560? B.C.)
Athenian lawmaker and Lyric poet.

--Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918—2008)
Russian novelist.
_The First Circle_ [1968]
_The Gulag Archipelago_ [1973]

--Mary Somerville (1780—1872)
Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
_Physical Geography_ [1848]

--Stephen Sondheim (1930— )
American musical theater lyricist and composer.
"Sunday In The Park With George"

--Susan Sontag [Susan Rosenblatt] (1933—2004)
American essayist, critic, and novelist.

--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Ajax_
_Oedipus Rex_ tr. David Grene [1942]
_Oedipus at Colonus_ tr. Robert Fitzgerald [1941]

--Theodore Sorensen (1928— )
American lawyer, author, and speechwriter
for President John F. Kennedy.

--Aaron Sorkin (1961— )
American screenwriter and producer.

--John L.B. Soule (1815—1891)
American journalist.

"South Pacific"

--Bishop Robert South (1634—1716)
English theologian and author.

--Robert Southey (1774—1843)
English poet.

--Robert Southwell (1561—1595)
English poet and martyr.

--Thomas Sowell (1930— )
American economist and author.

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--Muriel Spark (1918—2006)
British novelist.
_The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_ [1962]

--Britney Spears (1981— )
American pop singer.

--Albert Speer (1905—1981)
First architect of the Third Reich.

--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
_First Principles_ [1861]
_Principles of Biology_ [1864]
_The Principles of Sociology_ [1876—1896]

--Tim Spencer [Vernon Harold Spencer] (1908—1974)
American songwriter of country and western music
and the founder and member of the Sons of the Pioneers.

--Oswald Spengler (1880—1936)
German philosopher.
_Der Untergang des Abendlandes_, 2 vol. [1918—1922] (the Decline of the West)
_Der Mensch und die Technik_ [1931] (Man and Technics)

--Edmund Spenser (1552/53—1599)
English poet.
_The Faerie Queen_ [1590—1596]
_Colin Clouts Come Home Again_ [1595]

--Leonora Speyer (1872—1956)
American poet.

--Steven Spielberg (1946— )
American film director and producer.

--Benedict de Spinoza (1632—1677)
Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent
of 17th century Rationalism.
_Ethics_ [1677]

--Benjamin Spock (1903—1998)
American pediatrician.
_Baby and Child Care_ [1946]

--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834—1892)
English nonconformist preacher.
_Gems from Spurgeon_ [1859]
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_

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--J.C. Squire (1884—1958)
English man of letters.

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--Walter Parker Stacy (1884—1951)
American jurist.

--Germaine de Staλl (1766—1817)
French writer.

--Elwin Charles Stakman (1885—1979)

--Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1879—1953),
Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from
the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death.

--Luther Standing Bear (1868—1939)
Native American writer and actor.

--Sally Stanford (1903—1982)
American Madam, politician, and author.

--Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield (1694—1773)
English statesman and author.

--Stanislaw I [Stanislaw Leszczynski]
(1677—1766) King of Poland.

--Bessie A. Stanley (b.1879)

--Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841—1904)
Welch-born British-American explorer.

--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815—1902)
Leading figure of the Women's Rights movement.

--Col. Charles E. Stanton (1859—1933)
American army officer.

--Freya Stark (1893—1993)
English traveller and author.
_Baghdad Sketches_ [1929]

--John Stark (1728—1822)
American revolutionary officer.

--Harold E. Stassen (1907—2001)
Governor of Minnesota [1939—1943] who campaigned for
the Republican presidential nomination nine times.

--Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833—1908)
American poet and anthologist.
_Victorian Poets_ [1887]

--Sir Richard Steele (1672—1729)
Irish-born essayist and dramatist.

--Lincoln Steffens (1866—1936)
American journalist.
_The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens_
_The Letters of Lincoln Steffens_ [1938]

--Gertrude Stein (1874—1946)
American writer.

--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
_The Grapes of Wrath_ [1939]
_Travels With Charley_ [1962]

--Saul Steinberg (1914—1999)
Romanian-American cartoonist painter and cartoonist.

--Gloria Steinem (1934— )
American feminist, jounalist, and founder of "Ms." magazine.

--Dr. Jessie Steinfeld (1927— )
Former U.S. Surgeon General [1969—1973].

--Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865—1923)
American electrical engineer.

--Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle] (1783—1842)
French writer.

--Casey Stengel (1891—1975)
American Major League baseball player and manager;
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1966.

--Sir Leslie Stephen (1832—1904)
English critic, man of letters, and first editor
of the _Dictionary of National Biography_.

--James Stephens (1882—1950)
Irish poet and storyteller.

--Gladys Browyn Stern (1890—1973)
English author and playwright.

--Isaac Stern (1920—2001)
Ukrainian-born violinist.

--Laurence Sterne (1713—1768)
English novelist.
_Tristram Shandy_ [1760]

--Norman St. John Stevas (1929—)
British politician, author, and barrister.
Leader of the House of Commons [1979-1981].

--Cat Stevens (1947— )
Singer-songwriter, born Stephen Demetre Georgiou in London.
Changed his name to Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam.

--Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886—1945)
French architect, interior designer and author.

--Thaddeus Stevens (1792—1868)
American politician and lawyer.

--Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
American Modernist poet.

--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
_Call to Greatness_ [1954]

--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_Travels with a Donkey_ [1879]
_Virginibus Puerisque_ [1881]
_Treasure Island_ [1883]
_A Child's Garden of Verses_ [1885]
_Kidnapped_ [1886]
_Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ [1886]
_Across the Plains_ [1892]

--Potter Stewart (1915—1985)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1958—1981].

--Rod Stewart (1945— )
English singer and songwriter.

--Mark Steyn (1959— )
Canadian journalist.

--Ben Stiller (1965— )
American comedian, actor, and film director.

--Caskie Stinnett (1911—1998)
American writer.

--John G. Stoessinger (1927— )
Political analyst, teacher, and author.
_Why Nations Go to War_ [1974]

--Leopold Stokowski (1882—1977)
Conductor of the Cincinnati & NBC Symphony Orchestras.

--Tom Stoppard [Tomas Straussler] (1937— )
Czech-born British playwright.
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_ [1967]
"Night and Day" [1978]
"The Dog It Was That Died" [1983]

--Joseph Story (1779—1845)
American jurist.

--John Stossel (1947— )
American television journalist and author.
_Give Me A Break_ [2005]

--Juanita Kidd Stout (1919—1998)
American lawyer and in 1959 the first black
women in America to be elected to the Bench.

--Rex Stout (1886—1975)
American author who created the
fictional detective Nero Wolfe.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
[Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.]
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_ [1852]
_Little Foxes_ [1865]

--Lytton Strachey (1880—1932)
English biographer.

--Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (1896—1974)
American businessman who was Chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission [1953—1958].

--Alfred Billings Street (1811—1881)
American poet, lawyer, and librarian.

--"A Streetcar Named Desire"

--Barbra Streisand (1942— )
American singer and actress.

--Anna Louise Strong (1885—1970)
American journalist.
_I Change Worlds_ [1935]

--George Templeton Strong (1820—1875)
American lawyer and diarist.

--William Strunk Jr. (1869—1946)
American teacher and editor.
_The Elements of Style_ [1918]

--Jan Struther [pseu. of Joyce Maxtone Graham] (1901—1953)
English poet.

--Sally Struthers (1948— )
American actress best known for her
role in "All in the Family" [TV show].

--William Stubbs (1825—1901)
English historian.

--Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy
(1883—1929) British poet.

--Preston Sturges [Edmund Preston Biden] (1898—1959)
American motion picture director, screenwriter, and playwright.

--Eric Stykes (1923— )
British comedic writer and actor.

--Jule Styne [Julius Kerwin Stein] (1905—1994)
American songwriter.

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--Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69—c. 122)
Roman biographer and antiquarian.

--A.M. Sullivan (1830—1884)
Irish politician, lawyer and journalist.

--Andrew Sullivan (1963— )
Anglo-American journalist.

--Harry Stack Sullivan (1892—1949)
American psychiatrist.

--William Graham Sumner (1840—1910)
American sociologist and economist.
_War and Other Essays_ [1911]
_Earth Hunger and Other Essays_ [1913]
_The Forgotten Man and Other Essays_ [1919]

--Sun Tzu (fl. early 4th cent.)
Reputed author of of the Chinese classic
Ping-fa (The Art of War), the earliest known
treatise on war and military science {EB}.

--Billy Sunday [William Ashley Sunday] (1862—1935)
American evangelist.

--Robert Smith Surtees (1803—1864)
English sporting journalist and novelist.
_Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities_ [1838]
_Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds_ [1865]

--Don Sutton (1945— )
American Major League baseball pitcher.

--Willie Sutton (1901—1980)
American criminal.

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--Donald Swann (1923—1994)
British composer, musician, and entertainer;
partnered for many years with Michael
Flanders.

--Gloria Swanson [Gloria May Josephine Svensson]
(1897—1983) American motion-picture, stage
and television actress.

--H.N. Swanson
Literary agent of the 1940's.

--May Swenson (1919—1989)
American poet.

--Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.

--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_The Battle of the Books_ [1704]
_The Tale of a Tub_ [1704]
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711]
_Cadenus and Vanessa_ [1713]
_Gulliver's Travels_ [1726]
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1727 ed.]
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738]

--Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837—1909)
English poet.

--Charles R. Swindoll (1934— )
American evanegelical Christian pastor.

--Herbert Bayard Swope (1882—1958)
American editor and journalist; the first recipient
of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting [1917].

--Herbert Swope (1928— )
American biochemist.

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--Thomas Sydenham (1624—1689)
English physician recognized as a founder
of clinical medicine and epidemiology.

--John Millington Synge (1871—1909)
Irish dramatist.
_The Aran Islands_ [1907]

--Nahman Syrkin (1868—1924)
Political theorist.
_Natzionale Freiheit_ [1917]

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--Thomas Szasz (1920— )
American psychiatrist.
_The Ethics of Psychoanalysis:
The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy_ [1965]
_The Second Sin_ [1973]
_Heresies_ [1976]
_The Myth of Psychotherapy_ [1978]
_The Untamed Tongue_ [1990]

--Albert von Szent-Gyφrgyi (1893—1992)
Hungarian-born biochemist.
winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine.


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