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Philip Schaff

Philip Schaff (1819–1893) was a Swiss-born American Reformed theologian and church historian who taught at Mercersburg and Union Seminary and wrote more than eighty books.

Philip Scheltens

Philip Scheltens is a Dutch neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher, emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC, founder of its Alzheimer Center, and now head of the Dementia Fund at EQT Life Sciences.

Philip John Schuyler (1733–1804), Albany-born Dutch-aristocrat general, one of four original Continental major generals and Northern Department commander, blamed for Fort Ticonderoga's loss, replaced by Gates in 1777, later U.S. senator and canal advocate.

Philip Seeman

Philip Seeman (1934–2021) was a Canadian neuropharmacologist at the University of Toronto who identified the dopamine D2 receptor as the brain target of antipsychotic drugs, founding the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.

Philip Selway

Philip Selway is the English drummer of Radiohead and a solo artist whose albums Familial (2010), Weatherhouse (2014), and Strange Dance (2023) blend folk, classical, and electronic influences; he also composed film scores including Let Me Go.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American film and stage actor and director; Oscar winner for Capote, three more nominations, three Tony nominations, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company; died February 2, 2014.

Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen and stage

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American actor and theater director; Oscar winner for Capote with three supporting-actor nominations, three Tony nominations, and co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company.

Philip Sheppard (geneticist)

Philip Sheppard, also known as Philip Macdonald Sheppard, was a British geneticist who showed natural selection acting on wild populations and helped develop a Rhesus disease treatment.

Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan was a Union Army general in the American Civil War who led decisive cavalry campaigns in 1864 and commanded the US Army from 1883.

Philip Showalter Hench

Philip Showalter Hench (1896–1965), American rheumatologist and Mayo Clinic's first rheumatologist, shared the 1950 Nobel Prize with Kendall and Reichstein for demonstrating cortisone (compound E) could reverse rheumatoid arthritis inflammation.

Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier, soldier, and critic who wrote Astrophil and Stella, Arcadia, and The Defence of Poesy before dying of a wound at Zutphen in 1586.

Philip Siekevitz

Philip Siekevitz (1918–2009) was an American cell biologist and biochemist at Rockefeller University whose 1956 work established microsomes as endoplasmic-reticulum fragments and who isolated the postsynaptic density.

Philip Skell

Philip Skell (1918–2010) was an American chemist at Pennsylvania State University, a founder of modern carbene chemistry known for the Skell Rule and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Philip Sporn

Philip Sporn was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who served as president of American Electric Power from 1947 to 1961, building one of the largest investor-owned electric utility systems in the world.

Oct 15, 2026

Philip Sporn Power Plant

The Philip Sporn Power Plant was a coal-fired station on the Ohio River at New Haven, West Virginia, operated by American Electric Power from 1950 to 2015.

Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale

Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (Philip James Stanhope, 1847–1923) was a British Liberal politician, son of the 5th Earl Stanhope, who led the Inter-Parliamentary Union and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oct 22, 2026

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), was a British Whig politician, diplomat, and wit best known for Letters to His Son, an influential conduct book published after his death.

Philip Stein

Philip Stein (1890–1974) was a Lithuanian-born mathematician who spent his career in South Africa, known for his 1933 proof of M. Riesz's theorem on conjugate functions.

Philip Stone

Philip Stone (Philip Stones, 1924-2003), English character actor from Leeds; the only actor in three consecutive Stanley Kubrick films (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining), also in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Flash Gordon.

Philip T. Krein

Philip T. Krein is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Philip Taylor Kramer

Philip Taylor Kramer (1952–1995), Iron Butterfly bassist 1974–1977 and Total Multimedia fractal-compression executive, vanished February 12, 1995 after a 911 call; remains found 1999 in Decker Canyon, death undetermined.

Philip Testa

Philip Charles Testa, 'The Chicken Man', was boss of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family for just under a year after Angelo Bruno's 1980 murder; he was killed by a nail bomb at his South Philadelphia home on March 15, 1981, and succeeded by Nicodemo Scarfo.