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John S. Waugh
John S. Waugh (1929–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT known as the founder of high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy, honored with the Wolf Prize in 1983.
John Sall
John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.
John Salley
John Salley, born 1964, Brooklyn; nicknamed Spider; NBA power forward/center drafted 11th in 1986; won four titles with Pistons, Bulls, Lakers; first to win championships with three franchises; later actor and vegan advocate.
John Samuel Forrest
John Samuel Forrest (1907–1992) was a British electrical power engineer who helped develop the National Grid at 132, 275, and 400 kV and directed the Central Electricity Research Laboratory until 1973.
John Sandford (novelist)
John Sandford is the pen name of John Roswell Camp (born 1944), Pulitzer-winning journalist and author of the Lucas Davenport Prey thrillers, Virgil Flowers and Letty Davenport series, Kidd novels, and Saturn Run.
John Saul (prostitute)
John (Jack) Saul, c.1857–c.1904, Irish-born Victorian London male prostitute, attributed author of The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881) and star witness in the 1889 Cleveland Street scandal and Euston libel trial.
John Saul Howson
John Saul Howson (1816–1885) was an English Anglican clergyman and educational reformer, principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institute and Dean of Chester, co-author of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul.
John Saunders (journalist)
John Saunders (1955–2016), Canadian-born ESPN and ABC sportscaster, SportsCenter anchor, host of The Sports Reporters and Stanley Cup playoffs coverage 1993–2004, first Toronto Raptors TV voice, V Foundation founding board member.
John Savage (actor)
John Savage (born John Youngs, 1949), American actor of The Deer Hunter, Hair, The Onion Field, Salvador, Dark Angel, and SEAL Team, born in Old Bethpage, New York.
John Savident
John Savident (1938–2024), British character actor, played booming butcher Fred Elliott on Coronation Street 1994–2006 with the "I say" verbal tic; also appeared in A Clockwork Orange, Gandhi, Yes Minister, and the original London Phantom of the Opera cast.
John Saxon
John Saxon (Carmine Orrico, 1936–2020), American actor of nearly 200 roles over 60 years; Roper in Enter the Dragon, Lt. Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Golden Globe winner 1958, nominee 1966.
John Sayles
John Sayles (born 1950) is an American independent filmmaker and novelist, director of Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, and Lone Star, twice Oscar-nominated for original screenplay, known for self-financed political films funded by studio script work.
John Sayre
John Anthony Sayre (1936-2023), American rower, University of Washington class of 1958, won Olympic gold in the coxless fours at Rome 1960 and the 1959 Pan-American Games with the Lake Washington Rowing Club.
John Scalzi
John Scalzi (born 1969), American science fiction author of Old Man's War and Redshirts, Hugo and Locus Award winner, former SFWA president, blogger at Whatever since 1998.
John Schellman
John Anthony Schellman (1924–2014) was an American biophysical chemist and University of Oregon professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, who established the thermodynamic study of protein folding.
John Schiefelbein
John W. Schiefelbein is a professor at the University of Michigan who studies Arabidopsis root epidermis patterning, identified the WEREWOLF transcription factor, and pioneered plant single-cell RNA sequencing.
John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger (1926-2003), English film and stage director of the British New Wave; directed Midnight Cowboy, Darling, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Marathon Man; won the 1970 Best Director Oscar for Midnight Cowboy, the first X-rated Best Picture winner.
John Schnatter
John Schnatter, known as Papa John, is the American founder of Papa John's pizza, which he started in 1984 from a broom closet at his father's tavern in Jeffersonville, Indiana; he led it to IPO and global scale before resigning as chairman in 2018.
John Schneeberger
John Schneeberger was convicted of sexual assault and obstruction of justice in Canada in 1999 after falsifying DNA samples. His citizenship was later revoked, and he was deported to South Africa.
John Schneider (producer)
John Steven Schneider (born 1962, San Francisco) is an American film producer and writer, brother and manager of Rob Schneider, known for The Animal, Big Stan, and Hitchcock; distinct from the Dukes of Hazzard actor of the same name.
John Schneider (screen actor)
John Richard Schneider (born 1960, Mount Kisco, New York), American actor known as Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard (128 episodes, 1979-1985) and Jonathan Kent on Smallville (114 episodes), with four #1 Billboard Country singles and over 20 albums.
John Schofield
John McAllister Schofield (1831–1906), Union general, Medal of Honor recipient at Wilson's Creek, commander of the Army of the Ohio at Franklin and Nashville, Secretary of War 1868–1869, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army 1888–1895.
John Schrank
John Flammang Schrank (1876–1943), Bavarian-born Milwaukee saloonkeeper, shot Theodore Roosevelt on October 14, 1912; declared insane after a McKinley-ghost delusion, he died institutionalized in Wisconsin.
John Schuck
John Schuck (Conrad John Schuck Jr., b. Feb 4, 1940, Boston) is an American actor: Sgt. Enright on McMillan & Wife, Herman Munster on The Munsters Today, Klingon ambassador Kamarag in Star Trek IV and VI, and Broadway's most-cast Daddy Warbucks.
John Schulman
John Schulman is an American reinforcement-learning researcher, a co-founder of OpenAI, and creator of the PPO algorithm who helped build ChatGPT before leaving for Anthropic in 2024.
John Scofield
John Scofield (born 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer, Berklee graduate and Miles Davis band member 1982–1985, known for a distorted blues-inflected post-bop and funk style, over 30 leader albums, and three Grammy Awards.
John Scott Haldane
John Scott Haldane (1860–1936) was a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on respiration, carbon monoxide poisoning, and staged decompression reshaped diving practice, mine safety, and respiratory physiology.
John Scotus Eriugena
John Scotus Eriugena, also known as Johannes Scottus Eriugena, was an Irish philosopher and translator at the court of Charles the Bald, active from about 800 to about 877.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American technology executive, recruited from PepsiCo, who served as Apple's CEO from 1983 to 1993 and pushed Steve Jobs out in 1985.
John Searle
John Rogers Searle (1932–2025), Berkeley philosopher of mind and language, creator of the Chinese Room argument and biological naturalism, opponent of Dennett on AI intentionality.