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Samuel Barrington
Samuel Barrington (1729–1800) was a British admiral of the Royal Navy, best known as commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands during the American War of Independence, where he captured St Lucia in 1778.
Samuel Bateman
Samuel Rappylee Bateman (born c. 1976) is an American polygamist sect leader from Colorado City, Arizona, who proclaimed himself an FLDS prophet in 2019, led the "Samuelites," and was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison in 2024 plus 24 years in 2026 for child sexual abuse and kidnapping conspiracies.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish novelist, playwright, and poet of the Paris avant-garde; author of Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and the Molloy trilogy; wrote in French after 1946; Nobel Prize in Literature 1969.
Samuel Bedson
Sir Samuel Phillips Bedson (1886–1969) was a British bacteriologist who showed during the 1929–1930 psittacosis pandemic that its cause was a filterable agent, later grouped as Chlamydia.
Samuel Bellamy
Samuel Bellamy, known as "Black Sam", was an English pirate who robbed 53 ships before dying in the 1717 wreck of his flagship Whydah off Cape Cod.
Samuel Bellet
Samuel Bellet (1902–1971) was an American cardiologist in Philadelphia and a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias who wrote Clinical Disorders of the Heart Beat and left an endowed professorship at Penn.
Samuel Benchetrit
Samuel Benchetrit (born 1973, Champigny-sur-Marne) is a French director, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist; Sundance best-screenplay winner for J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster, Cannes director of Asphalte and Cette musique ne joue pour personne, husband of Vanessa Paradis.
Samuel Benchimol
Samuel Benchimol is a Canadian cancer biologist known for research on the p53 tumor suppressor gene and for identifying the ligase Pirh2, which promotes p53 degradation.
Samuel Bendahan
Samuel Bendahan is a Swiss politician and economist of the Social Democratic Party, a National Council member for Vaud since 2017 who co-presides the party's Federal Chambers group.
Samuel Blenkin
Samuel Blenkin (born 1996, Cheltenham, England) is an English actor trained at Guildhall School, known as Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Boy Kavalier in Alien: Earth, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, and Black Mirror's Loch Henry.
Samuel Bochart
Samuel Bochart (1599–1667) was a French Protestant pastor and Orientalist at Caen, whose Geographia Sacra and Hierozoicon made him one of the seventeenth century's most admired biblical scholars.
Samuel Bodman
Samuel Bodman (1938–2018) was an American chemical engineer who taught at MIT and served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2005 to 2009.
Samuel Bogoch
Samuel Bogoch is a physician and neurochemist who studied brain glycoproteins and gangliosides at Harvard, Boston University, and the Nathan Kline Institute from the late 1950s onward.
Samuel Bogumił Linde
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1771–1847) was a Polish lexicographer, pedagogue, and librarian, best known for the six-volume Dictionary of the Polish Language published in Warsaw from 1807 to 1814.
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne (1834–1912) was an English photographer who worked in India from 1863 to 1870, made three Himalayan expeditions, produced some 2,200 views, and co-founded the studio Bourne & Shepherd.
Samuel Bowers
Samuel Holloway Bowers Jr., Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi from 1964, directed Klan murders and bombings including the 1964 Freedom Summer killings; convicted 1967 and 1998, died in prison 2006.
Samuel Bowles (economist)
Samuel Bowles is an American economist at the Santa Fe Institute and emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for research on inequality and cooperation.
Samuel Broder
Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and immunologist who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995 and whose NIH laboratory helped develop the first AIDS drugs, including AZT.
Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971) was a Canadian distiller and businessman who founded the Distillers Corporation in Montreal in 1924 and built the Seagram Company into the world's largest liquor distilling firm.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English novelist and satirist, author of Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), New Zealand sheep farmer, critic of Darwin, and posthumous Victorian iconoclast.
Samuel C. Bradford
Samuel Clement Bradford (1878–1948) was a British mathematician and librarian at the Science Museum in London, known for Bradford's law of scattering, published in 1934.
Samuel C. Florman
Samuel C. Florman (1925–2024) was an American civil engineer, contractor, and author best known for The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976), elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Samuel C. Lind
Samuel C. Lind (1879–1965) was an American radiochemist known as the father of radiation chemistry in America, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1930.
Samuel C. Phillips
Samuel C. Phillips was a US Air Force general who directed NASA's Apollo lunar landing program from 1964 to 1969 and later led the National Security Agency.
Samuel C. Silverstein
Samuel C. Silverstein is an American cell biologist and immunologist, an emeritus professor at Columbia University known for research on phagocytic white blood cells and for founding Columbia's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers.
Samuel C.C. Ting
Samuel C.C. Ting, also known as Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中), is an American MIT physicist who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the J/psi particle.
Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase (1741–1811), Maryland lawyer, Declaration of Independence signer, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1796–1811); the only justice ever impeached, acquitted by the Senate in 1805.
Samuel Cheetham
Samuel Cheetham (1827–1908) was an Anglican priest and church historian who served as archdeacon of Rochester and co-edited the Dictionary of Christian Antiquities with Sir William Smith.
Samuel Chukwueze
Samuel Chimerenka Chukwueze, born 1999 in Umuahia, Nigeria, is a left-footed right winger for AC Milan and Nigeria; Villarreal 2017-2023, 2021 Europa League winner, 2023 Milan signing, 2025/26 Fulham loan.
Samuel Clarke
Samuel Clarke (1599–1682 or 1683) was an English non-conformist Puritan minister, ejected from the Church of England in 1662, remembered for The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History and A General Martyrology.