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John Sebastian
John Sebastian, born 1944 in New York, is an American singer-songwriter and harmonicist, founder of the Lovin' Spoonful ('Do You Believe in Magic,' 'Summer in the City'), a 1969 Woodstock solo performer, and the writer of the 1976 number-one hit 'Welcome Back.'
John Sedat
John W. Sedat is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, a 2009 National Academy of Sciences member known for research on 3D chromosome structure.
John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick (1813–1864), Union major general nicknamed "Uncle John," commanded the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac; killed at Spotsylvania on May 9, 1864, the highest-ranking Union officer to die in the Civil War.
John Selfridge
John Selfridge (1927–2010) was an American computational number theorist who pioneered computers in number theory, proved the Erdős–Selfridge theorem, and conjectured that 78,557 is the smallest Sierpiński number.
John Sentamu
John Sentamu, Baron Sentamu, is a Ugandan-born Anglican bishop who fled Idi Amin's Uganda in 1974 and served as the 97th Archbishop of York from 2005 to 2020.
John Sessions
John Sessions (John Gibb Marshall, 1953-2020), Scottish actor, comedian and impressionist; star of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Stella Street and QI, and portrayer of Harold Wilson and Ted Heath.
John Sewell
John Sewell (1882–1947), Scottish-born British tug-of-war puller and City of London Police officer; Olympic silver 1912 Stockholm and gold 1920 Antwerp; also British Cumberland & Westmoreland heavyweight wrestling champion 1907–1910.
John Seymour (1474–1536)
Sir John Seymour (c.1474–1536), English soldier-courtier of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire; knighted at Blackheath 1497, Knight Banneret at Tournay 1513; father of Queen Jane Seymour and grandfather of Edward VI.
John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare (c. 1520s-1601), father of William Shakespeare, was a Stratford-upon-Avon glover and whittawer who rose from Snitterfield farmer's son to high bailiff (mayor), then fell into debt; granted a coat of arms in 1596.
John Shaw
John Shaw refers to several sports figures: John David Shaw, British Olympic field hockey player (1992, 1996); John Cameron Shaw, Australian Dragon class sailing gold medalist at Munich 1972; a Los Angeles Rams general manager; and a Titans speed coach.
John Shaw Billings
John Shaw Billings (1838–1913) was an American army surgeon, medical librarian, and statistician who built the National Library of Medicine, created the Index Medicus, and planned the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
John Shea
John Shea is an American actor, director, and screenwriter who won a Primetime Emmy for Baby M (1988) and played Lex Luthor on Lois & Clark (1993–1997).
John Shelby Spong
John Shelby Spong (1931–2021) was the Episcopal bishop of Newark from 1979 to 2000 who ordained openly gay clergy and wrote best-selling books calling for a non-theistic Christianity.
John Shipley Rowlinson
John Shipley Rowlinson (1926–2018) was a British physical chemist who held the Dr Lee's Professorship at Oxford, wrote Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, and was knighted in 2000.
John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth
John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, was an East India Company administrator who served as Governor-General of India from 1793 to 1798 and designed the Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
John Shrapnel
John Morley Shrapnel (1942–2020), English character actor of the RSC and National Theatre, known for Gladiator, 101 Dalmatians, Notting Hill, and his narration voice; Cambridge-trained, not RADA.
John Shuster
John Shuster (born 1982, Chisholm, Minnesota) is an American curler, five-time Olympian, and skip who won U.S. curling's first Olympic gold at PyeongChang 2018 and bronze at Turin 2006.
John Sigismund Zápolya
John Sigismund Zápolya (Szapolyai János Zsigmond) was elected king of Hungary as an infant in 1540 and first Prince of Transylvania, remembered for religious toleration.
John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg
John Sigismund (Johann Sigismund, 1572-1619), Hohenzollern Elector of Brandenburg from 1608; converted to Calvinism at Christmas 1613, pursued the Cleves claim, and inherited Ducal Prussia in 1618.
John Silke
John Silke is a cell death researcher leading a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, whose work took IAP-antagonist cancer drugs into trials.
John Simes
John Simes, whose full name is Robert John Simes, is an Australian medical oncologist who founded the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre in Sydney in 1988.
John Simm
John Simm (born 1970, Leeds) is an English actor known for Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, the Master in Doctor Who, and Roy Grace in ITV's Grace, plus stage Hamlet and Macbeth.
John Simon
John Simon (सर जॉन साइमन) was a British politician who chaired the all-white Simon Commission of 1927–1930, leading to the Government of India Act 1935.
John Simpson (journalist)
John Simpson (born 1944) is the BBC's World Affairs Editor since 1988 and a correspondent since 1966. Known for Iran 1979, Tiananmen 1989, Kabul 2001 in a burqa, 2003 Iraq friendly fire, CBE, three BAFTAs, Emmy, and Unspun World.
John Simpson Kirkpatrick
John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892-1915), "the man with the donkey", English-born AIF stretcher-bearer of the 3rd Field Ambulance who ferried wounded men by donkey at Gallipoli from 25 April until killed by machine-gun fire on 19 May 1915.
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American expatriate portraitist of the Edwardian era, trained with Carolus-Duran in Paris; his 1884 Madame X scandal drove him to London, and he later painted watercolors and Boston murals.
John Singleton
John Singleton (1968-2019), American director of Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, and Snowfall; first African American and youngest Best Director Oscar nominee, and creator of the Hood Trilogy set in South Central Los Angeles.
John Singleton (Australian entrepreneur)
John Singleton, known as Singo, is an Australian advertising entrepreneur who founded the agency SPASM in 1968, pioneered the ocker style, and became a major racehorse breeder.
John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was an American-born painter, the leading portraitist of Britain's North American colonies who moved to London in 1774 and painted history scenes like Watson and the Shark.
John Skelton
John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) was an English poet, satirist, and priest who served the Tudor court as tutor to the young Henry VIII and was later named orator regius.