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John Stockton
John Stockton (born 1962, Spokane) is a Hall of Fame point guard who played 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz and holds NBA career records for assists (15,806) and steals (3,265), with two Olympic golds and 1997-98 Finals runs.
John Stockwell (actor)
John Stockwell (John Stockwell Samuels IV, born 1961, Galveston, Texas) is an American actor turned director-writer, known for Christine, Losin' It, and Top Gun (Cougar), and for directing Blue Crush, Into the Blue, and Turistas; distinct from the CIA officer of the same name.
John Stoltenberg
John Stoltenberg, American radical feminist author of Refusing to be a Man (1989) and The End of Manhood (1993), co-founder of Men Against Pornography, and Andrea Dworkin's widower.
John Stone Stone
John Stone Stone (1869–1943) was an American electrical engineer whose tuned wireless patents the Supreme Court held in 1943 to have anticipated Marconi's four-circuit radio patent.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse (1925–1988), British Labour MP and Postmaster General who introduced first and second class stamps, faked his death in Miami in 1974, was arrested in Melbourne, convicted of fraud, and later confirmed as a Czech agent.
John Stones
John Stones (born 1994, Barnsley) is an English centre-back; Barnsley, Everton, then Manchester City 2016-2026 (£47.5m, 293 apps, 20 trophies, Treble hybrid role), now Inter Milan; 94 England caps.
John Stossel
John Stossel (born 1947) is an American libertarian consumer television journalist, 19-time Emmy winner, former ABC 20/20 coanchor and Fox Business Stossel host, now running Stossel TV; rated Lean Right by AllSides.
John Straffen
John Thomas Straffen (1930–2007), English child murderer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner. Killed two Bath girls in 1951, escaped Broadmoor in 1952, killed Linda Bowyer, was reprieved from a death sentence on insanity grounds and died at Frankland prison after 55 years.
John Stratford
John Stratford (c. 1275–1348) was an English churchman and administrator who served as bishop of Winchester and chancellor before becoming archbishop of Canterbury in 1333.
John Strong Newberry
John Strong Newberry (1822–1892) was an American geologist and paleontologist, the first trained geologist to visit the Grand Canyon and leader of the second Ohio Geological Survey.
John Strype
John Strype (1643–1737) was an English Anglican clergyman and ecclesiastical historian whose biographies of Reformation leaders and Annals of the Reformation remained standard works for two centuries.
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson (1908–1990) was a British and Australian inorganic chemist who held posts at Imperial College, Harwell, Melbourne, and Oxford, known for non-stoichiometry and crystallographic shear planes.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was an English philosopher and political economist, a leading utilitarian and liberal thinker, member of Parliament, and advocate of women's suffrage.
John Studd (gynaecologist)
John Studd, full name John William Winston Studd, was a British gynaecologist and professor at Imperial College London known for pioneering menopause treatment and hormone replacement therapy.
John Stuelpnagel
John Stuelpnagel is an American genomics entrepreneur who co-founded Illumina in San Diego in 1998, led it as first CEO, and later chaired 10x Genomics.
John Stumpf
John G. Stumpf is an American banking executive who led Wells Fargo as CEO from 2007 to 2016, resigning after the fake-accounts scandal cost him roughly $70 million.
John Sturges
John Sturges (John Eliot Sturges, 1910-1992) was an American film director of Westerns and action films, distinct from Preston Sturges, best known for Bad Day at Black Rock, The Magnificent Seven, and The Great Escape.
John Suchet
John Suchet, British broadcaster born 1944, ITN foreign correspondent and News at Ten anchor 1972-2004, then Classic FM morning host 2011-2020 and Beethoven biographer.
John Suckling
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641 or 1642) was an English Cavalier poet, playwright, and courtier of Charles I, known for witty love lyrics like "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"
John Sullivan (writer)
John Sullivan (1946–2011), English TV comedy writer, creator of Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith, Just Good Friends, and Dear John; wrote all 64 OFAH episodes alone, OBE 2005.
John Summit
John Summit (John Schuster) is an American DJ and producer from Naperville, Illinois, a former CPA at Ernst & Young. Breakout 2020 tech-house track "Deep End"; albums Comfort in Chaos (2024) and CTRL ESCAPE (2026); founder of Experts Only label.
John Suppe
John Suppe, born 1942 in Los Angeles, is an American structural geologist known for fault-bend folding, critical-taper wedge mechanics, and a tectonic chronology of Venus; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
John Surratt
John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916), Confederate courier and Lincoln kidnapping conspirator, son of executed Mary Surratt; fled to Rome's Pontifical Zouaves and Egypt, tried in the 1867 civilian court, hung jury, last surviving conspirator.
John Surtees
John Surtees (1934-2017), English racer, the only person to win world championships on both two and four wheels: seven motorcycle titles with MV Agusta 1956-1960 and the 1964 Formula One title with Ferrari, later running his own F1 team.
John Sutherland (chemist)
John D. Sutherland (born 1962) is a chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies the chemical origins of life, including prebiotic ribonucleotide synthesis.
John Sutter
John Augustus Sutter, born Johann August Suter, was a Swiss immigrant who established the New Helvetia colony in California, where the 1848 gold discovery began the Gold Rush.
John Suttie
John Suttie, also known as John W. Suttie, was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked out how vitamin K enables blood coagulation.
John Swartzwelder
John Swartzwelder (born 1949, Seattle) is the reclusive American comedy writer who wrote 59 Simpsons episodes, more than any other writer, then self-published thirteen Frank Burly novels; his first major interview appeared in The New Yorker in 2021.
John Sweeney (journalist)
John Sweeney, British investigative journalist of The Observer and BBC Panorama/Newsnight, known for the cot-death convictions campaign, his 2007 Scientology outburst, undercover North Korea reporting, and books including Killer in the Kremlin.
John Swift (footballer, born 1995)
John David Swift (born 1995, Portsmouth) is an English attacking midfielder. Chelsea academy graduate, over 200 games and 34 goals for Reading, 126 for West Brom, joined Portsmouth in July 2025.