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John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (Johnnie Althorp, 1924-1992), British peer and royal equerry to George VI and Elizabeth II, father of Diana, Princess of Wales, owner of Althorp.
John Splithoff
John Splithoff is an American singer-songwriter from Chicago, based in Los Angeles, blending soul and laid-back pop. Known for "Sing to You" (2016), "Show Me" (2017), and the albums All In (2021) and Far From Here (2025).
John Spratt
John McKee Spratt Jr. (1942–2024) was a Democratic U.S. representative for South Carolina's 5th District, 1983–2011, House Budget Committee chairman, and co-author of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, defeated in 2010 by Mick Mulvaney.
John Spytek
John Spytek, Raiders general manager since January 24, 2025 (sixth in franchise history), former Buccaneers assistant GM and Michigan linebacker; drafted Ashton Jeanty in 2025 and Fernando Mendoza No. 1 overall in 2026.
John Squire
John Squire (born 1962, Broadheath, Greater Manchester) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and painter, founder of the Stone Roses and later the Seahorses, whose Pollock-style artwork defined the band's image; he reached UK No. 1 in 2024 with Liam Gallagher.
John Stack
John Charles Stack (1924–1997), American rower from Camden, New Jersey; bow seat of the University of California eight that won gold in the men's eights at the 1948 London Olympics; later an x-ray engineer.
John Stafford
John Stafford was an English royal administrator and churchman who served as Lord Chancellor for nearly eighteen years before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury from 1443 to 1452.
John Stagliano
John Stagliano (born 1951, Chicago), known as Buttman, is the American adult-film director and founder of Evil Angel credited with inventing gonzo pornography through The Adventures of Buttman (1989); later Fashionistas and a 2008-2010 federal obscenity case ending in acquittal.
John Stamos
John Stamos (born 1963, Cypress, California) is an American actor and musician, full name John Phillip Stamos, known for Uncle Jesse on Full House (1987–1995), Fuller House, ER, Grandfathered, Big Shot, and touring with the Beach Boys.
John Standing
John Standing (John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet, born 1934) is an English stage, film, and TV actor from a famous acting dynasty; known for Private Lives with Maggie Smith, Game of Thrones' Jon Arryn, and The Great Escaper (2023).
John Stanley (British Army officer)
Captain John Stanley (1750–1783) was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to General John Burgoyne and was wounded and captured at Freeman's Farm in 1777.
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist who led three Indian Ocean coral reef expeditions and held the Cambridge Chair of Zoology from 1909 to 1937.
John Stanley Plaskett
John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941) was a Canadian astronomer who rose from machinist to found the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, and measured the Milky Way's size, mass, and rotation.
John Stapp
John Stapp, also known as John Paul Stapp, was an Air Force flight surgeon whose rocket sled rides proved the human body could survive far more deceleration than believed.
John Steel (drummer)
John Steel (born 1941, Gateshead) is the English founding drummer of The Animals, drummer on "The House of the Rising Sun", left in 1966, and owns the band's UK trademark.
John Steele (paratrooper)
John Marvin Steele (1912–1969), 82nd Airborne paratrooper of F Company, 505th PIR, whose parachute caught the Sainte-Mère-Église church steeple on D-Day; captured, escaped, and played by Red Buttons in The Longest Day (1962).
John Steell
Sir John Steell (1804–1891) was a Scottish sculptor, regarded for fifty years as Scotland's leading sculptor, known for the Scott Monument statue and Edinburgh's bronze Wellington.
John Steenhuisen
John Henry Steenhuisen, South African Democratic Alliance leader from 2019, Durban councillor from 1999, DA Federal Leader, opposition leader, Minister of Agriculture 2024-2026, then Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (1902–1968), Salinas-born American novelist and 1962 Nobel laureate, author of Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize), East of Eden, and Travels with Charley.
John Steinbeck (Nevada politician)
John Steinbeck is an American politician and Republican member of the Nevada Senate representing the 18th district, elected in 2024 after a career as Clark County Fire Chief.
John Steinbeck bibliography
John Steinbeck bibliography: his books from Cup of Gold (1929) through America and Americans (1966) plus posthumous titles, the Pulitzer-winning Grapes of Wrath (1939), the Library of America four-volume collection, and the 12,000-record Cox-Manville bibliography.
John Stephen Bazin
John Stephen Bazin (Jean Étienne Bazin) was a French-born Catholic priest who spent seventeen years in Mobile, Alabama, before serving six months as the third Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana.
John Stephenson (virologist)
John R. Stephenson is a virologist known for his 1970s work at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, on murine leukemia virus and endogenous type-C RNA viruses.
John Sterling (sportscaster)
John Sterling (born John Sloss, 1938-2026) was the radio play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees from 1989 to 2024, famous for personalized home run calls like "Bern, baby, Bern!" and "theee Yankees win!" after 5,631 games over 36 seasons.
John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry was an American painter and muralist of the 1930s Regionalist movement, alongside Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, known for Tragic Prelude in the Kansas State Capitol.
John Stevens (Tennessee politician)
John Stevens is an American attorney and Republican member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 24th District, first elected in 2012 and among its most active legislators.
John Stewart (musician)
John Stewart (1939–2008), American singer-songwriter, Kingston Trio member 1961–1967, writer of the Monkees' No. 1 "Daydream Believer," and creator of the 1969 Americana landmark album California Bloodlines and the 1979 hit "Gold."
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) was a Northern Irish theoretical physicist at CERN whose 1964 theorem made the Einstein–Bohr debate over quantum mechanics experimentally testable; the 2022 Nobel Prize honored the experimentalists who tested it.
John Stirling Meyer
John Stirling Meyer was a neurologist and pioneer of cerebral blood flow and metabolism research in stroke, migraine, and dementia, longtime chairman of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
John Stith Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888), Georgia pharmacist and Confederate lieutenant colonel, created the original Coca-Cola formula, first sold May 8, 1886 at Jacobs Pharmacy, Atlanta; he sold his rights for $1,750 before dying that year.