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John Slate
John H. Slate (1913-1967), American aviation lawyer, co-founded Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York on April Fools' Day 1948 with Marshall Skadden and Les Arps; former Pan Am employee, Columbia classmate of Thomas Merton, died September 1967.
John Slattery
John Slattery is an American actor and director known for Emmy-nominated roles as Roger Sterling on Mad Men, Howard Stark in the Marvel films, and Ben Bradlee Jr. in Spotlight.
John Sloan
John French Sloan (1871–1951), American painter and etcher of the Ashcan School and The Eight; New York urban realist, The Masses art director, Art Students League teacher, record sale Easter Eve $3,032,000.
John Slonczewski
John Slonczewski (1929–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM's Yorktown Heights lab, predicted spin-transfer torque in 1996, and shared the 2013 Buckley Prize.
John Smeaton
John Smeaton (1724–1792) was an English engineer from near Leeds who designed the third Eddystone Lighthouse and became the first person to describe himself as a civil engineer.
John Smibert
John Smibert (1688–1751) was a Scottish-born portrait painter, the first academically trained artist to build a portrait career in colonial America, settling in Boston in 1729.
John Smith (actor)
John Smith (actor), born Robert Errol Van Orden (1931-1995), American western TV star; lead of NBC's Cimarron City and Laramie (Slim Sherman); stage name chosen by agent Henry Willson.
John Smith (Chippewa Indian)
John Smith, Ojibwe name Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce ('Wrinkled Meat'), was a Chippewa man of Cass Lake, Minnesota, a photographed celebrity reputed to be 137 when he died February 6, 1922; the age is undocumented and disputed.
John Smith (explorer)
John Smith (baptized 1580, died 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, and author of the Jamestown colony who mapped the Chesapeake Bay in 1608 and named New England, whose writings are valued primary sources despite disputed self-aggrandizing episodes.
John Smith (Labour Party leader)
John Smith (1938–1994), Scottish Labour leader 1992–94, MP for Monklands East, reformer of union bloc vote (OMOV), devolution champion; died of heart attacks 12 May 1994, succeeded by Tony Blair.
John Smith (olympedia 121633)
John Smith (Olympedia 121633), South African rower born 1990 in Germiston, TuksSport Pretoria; Olympic gold 2012 lightweight coxless four, also raced 2016, 2020, 2024; distinct from sprinter and wrestler John Smiths.
John Smith (olympedia 60764)
John William Smith (born 1965), American freestyle wrestler; two Olympic featherweight golds (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992) and four World titles 1987-1991; later Oklahoma State head coach with five NCAA team titles. Not the Canadian rower or other namesakes.
John Smithee
John Smithee is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Amarillo, serving District 86 since 1985 and chairing the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee.
John Smol
John P. Smol is a Canadian paleolimnologist and Distinguished University Professor at Queen's University who founded the PEARL laboratory, documented acid rain damage to lakes, and tracked Arctic climate warming.
John Smoltz
John Smoltz, "Smoltzie," born 1967, Hall of Fame pitcher (2015) for the Atlanta Braves; 1996 NL Cy Young winner, NL-record 55 saves in 2002, and the only MLB pitcher with 200+ wins and 150+ saves.
John Smyth (barrister)
John Smyth, full name John Jackson Smyth, was a British barrister and Queen's Counsel who abused boys at Christian summer camps in England, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
John Smythies
John Smythies, also known as J. R. Smythies, was a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who co-proposed the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia in 1952 and did early psychedelic research.
John Snow
John Snow (1813–1858), English physician and anesthesiologist to Queen Victoria, proved cholera was waterborne via the 1854 Broad Street pump investigation and the south London Grand Experiment, founding modern epidemiology.
John Sorenson
John Sörenson (John Emil Sörenson, 1889–1976), Swedish artistic gymnast; won Olympic gold in the men's team all-around, Swedish system, at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, the only Swede to win both.
John Southon
John R. Southon is an Earth scientist who directs the W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility at UC Irvine, where his laboratory measures about 500 radiocarbon samples per month.
John Souttar
John Souttar (born 1996, Aberdeen) is a Scottish centre-back for Rangers and Scotland, formerly Dundee United and Hearts; Scotland's 2018 debutant, 2021 goal vs Denmark, 2026 World Cup squad, brother of Australia's Harry Souttar.
John Spangler Nicholas
John Spangler Nicholas (1895–1963) was an American experimental embryologist and zoologist at Yale who showed mammalian development is more flexible than assumed and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
John Sparrow David Thompson
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (1845-1894), fourth prime minister of Canada, served 5 December 1892 to his death at Windsor Castle. Nova Scotia lawyer, Catholic convert, Minister of Justice, author of the Criminal Code of 1892.
John Speakman
John Speakman is a British physiologist at the University of Aberdeen and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for research on energy expenditure, obesity, and aging.
John Spellman
John Franklin Spellman (1899–1966), American freestyle wrestler, 1924 Paris Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist for Brown University; later NFL lineman with Providence Steam Rollers and Boston Braves, then mining engineer in Zimbabwe.
John Spencer (actor)
John Spencer (born John Speshock, 1946-2005), American character actor; not the snooker champion or the Princess Diana biopic. Emmy-winning Leo McGarry on The West Wing, Tommy Mullaney on L.A. Law, Obie for Still Life.
John Spencer (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir John Spencer (died 1610), called "Rich Spencer", was a Clothworkers' Company merchant trading with Spain, Turkey, and Venice, Sheriff 1583–84 and Lord Mayor of London 1594–95, who died worth £800,000, the richest private citizen of England.
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897–1972), British officer and peer, son of the 9th Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt; opened Blenheim Palace to the public in 1950, founding the stately homes business.
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926-2014), British peer who held the Marlborough dukedom from 1972 and ran Blenheim Palace as a commercial visitor attraction, securing UNESCO status in 1987.
John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822–1883), Conservative politician, MP for Woodstock, Lord President of the Council, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1876–80; father of Lord Randolph Churchill and grandfather of Winston Churchill.