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Samuel Girard
Samuel Girard (born 1996, Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, 2018 Olympic 1000m gold medallist and 5000m relay bronze medallist at PyeongChang; distinct from the NHL defenseman Samuel Girard born 1998 in Roberval.
Samuel Goldstein
Samuel Goldstein (1938–1994) was a Canadian physician and cellular gerontologist who used cultured human fibroblasts to study aging, publishing as S. Goldstein on progeria and Werner's syndrome.
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (Szmuel Gelbfisz, 1879–1974), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures (the G in MGM) and famed independent producer of Wuthering Heights and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926–2015), son of Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn, founded the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1979, championed independent film with Mystic Pizza and The Madness of King George, and produced Master and Commander.
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers, known as Sam Gompers, was an English-born American cigar maker who founded the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and led it for nearly forty years.
Samuel Goudsmit
Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch-born American physicist who, with George Uhlenbeck, proposed electron spin in 1925, led Alsos Mission intelligence against the German nuclear program, and founded Physical Review Letters.
Samuel Griffith
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845–1920), Welsh-born Australian jurist and politician: twice Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of Queensland 1893–1903, principal drafter of the 1891 Australian Constitution draft, and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1903–1919.
Samuel H. Barondes
Samuel H. Barondes is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for discovering the galectins and for genetic linkage studies of severe bipolar disorder.
Samuel H. Boyer
Samuel H. Boyer (1924–2006) was an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose biochemical genetics research on hemoglobin variation helped lay the basis for sickle cell disease drug therapy.
Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for pioneering foldamers and MNG amphiphiles, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Samuel H. Mays, Jr.
Samuel H. Mays, Jr. (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Western District of Tennessee since 2015.
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston (born 1943) is an American demographer at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for the Preston curve linking life expectancy and income.
Samuel H. Sternberg
Samuel H. Sternberg is an American biochemist, an HHMI Investigator and associate professor at Columbia University who trained with Jennifer Doudna and is known for discovering CRISPR-associated transposases that insert DNA without double-strand breaks.
Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, 1755–1843), German physician born in Meissen, MD Erlangen 1779, founder of homeopathy; author of the 1810 Organon, originator of 'like cures like' and potentized dilution.
Samuel Harris
Samuel Harris (1724–1799) was a colonial Virginia planter and Anglican officeholder who became a Separate Baptist preacher, called the "Apostle of Virginia" for his itinerant church planting.
Samuel Hayim
Samuel Hayim was Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of the Ottoman Empire from 1839 to 1841, a term that coincided with the 1839 Tanzimat decree and the 1840 Damascus blood libel.
Samuel Healey
Samuel (Sam) Healey, born 2002 in Pontefract, England, is an NRL hooker for the New Zealand Warriors, son of Cronulla great Mitch Healey; former Newtown Jets NSW Cup premiership player, Warriors debut 2025.
Samuel Hellman
Samuel Hellman is an American radiation oncologist, A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, who with Ralph Weichselbaum originated the oligometastases concept.
Samuel Hill
Samuel Hill (1857–1931) was an American Quaker businessman and road builder of the Pacific Northwest who built the Peace Arch and founded the Maryhill Museum of Art.
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, was a British Conservative politician who held seven major offices, including Foreign Secretary, and is chiefly remembered for the Hoare–Laval Pact of 1935.
Samuel Honrubia
Samuel Honrubia, French handball left wing born 1986 in Béziers; Olympic champion 2012, world champion 2011 and 2015, European champion 2014 with France; clubs Montpellier, Paris-SG, PAUC, Istres.
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724 to 1816) was a British admiral who fought the French in the American Revolutionary War, took Toulon in 1793, and patronized Nelson.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803) was a New England Congregational minister, student of Jonathan Edwards, and theologian whose doctrine of disinterested benevolence founded Hopkinsianism and shaped New England theology for over half a century.
Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley (1733–1806) was an Anglican bishop and classical mathematician who served as Bishop of St David's, Rochester, and St Asaph, and edited Newton's works.
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911) was an American entomologist and paleontologist, considered the founder of insect paleontology in the United States and a leading figure in American entomology.
Samuel I
Samuel I, also known as Samuel Chatzeris or Handjeris (Σαμουὴλ ὁ Χαντζερῆς), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, in 1763–1768 and 1773–1774, remembered for the gerontismos reform and for abolishing the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.
Samuel I. Miller
Samuel Irving Miller is an American microbiologist and infectious-disease physician who studies bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity at the University of Washington, known for work on Salmonella's PhoP/PhoQ system.
Samuel I. Rapaport
Samuel I. Rapaport (1921–2011) was an American hematologist who created the kaolin-activated partial thromboplastin time, the APTT clotting screening test, and later reported tissue factor pathway inhibitor from his UC San Diego laboratory in 1985.
Samuel I. Stupp
Samuel I. Stupp, also known as Samuel Stupp, is a materials scientist and chemist at Northwestern University known for peptide amphiphiles, self-assembling materials for regenerative medicine.
Samuel ibn Naghrillah
Samuel ibn Naghrillah, known in Hebrew as Samuel ha-Nagid (שמואל הנגיד), was a Jewish scholar, poet, and statesman who served as vizier and army commander of Granada in eleventh-century Spain.