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Samuel Iling-Junior
Samuel Iling-Junior (born 2003), English winger from Clissold Rangers and Chelsea's academy; Juventus 2020-24 (45 apps, Coppa Italia 2024), then Aston Villa with loans to Bologna, Middlesbrough, West Brom, Pisa, Bolton; England U19 EURO 2022 and U21 EURO 2025 winner.
Samuel Insull
Samuel Insull (1859–1938) was an American utility executive who built Commonwealth Edison and the Middle West Utilities empire, whose 1932 collapse was the Great Depression's largest business failure.
Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.
Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., known as Sam Newhouse, was an American newspaper publisher who built Advance Publications from a 1922 Staten Island paper into one of America's largest private media companies.
Samuel Isaac Weissman
Samuel Isaac Weissman (1912–2007) was an American physical chemist who pioneered electron spin resonance in chemistry, worked on the Manhattan Project, and taught at Washington University in St. Louis.
Samuel Ives Curtiss
Samuel Ives Curtiss (1844–1904) was an American Congregationalist biblical scholar, professor of Old Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, known for fieldwork on modern Semitic religion published as Primitive Semitic Religion Today (1902).
Samuel J. Danishefsky
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) is an American organic chemist at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Columbia, known for the Danishefsky diene, taxol synthesis, and anticancer vaccines.
Samuel J. Seymour
Samuel James Seymour (1860-1956), also called the last witness to Lincoln's assassination, claimed he saw Booth shoot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in 1865 and told the story on I've Got a Secret in February 1956; his presence there is undocumented.
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden (Samuel Jones Tilden) was the 25th Governor of New York who won the 1876 popular vote but lost the presidency to Hayes.
Samuel Jackman Prescod
Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806–1871) was a Barbadian journalist, editor, and politician who in 1843 became the first non-white person elected to Barbados' House of Assembly.
Samuel Jackson Barnett
Samuel Jackson Barnett (1873–1956) was an American physicist who discovered the Barnett effect, the magnetization of a spinning ferromagnet, and was professor of physics at UCLA from 1926 to 1944.
Samuel James Meltzer
Samuel James Meltzer (1851–1920) was an American physiologist and pharmacologist who headed physiology and pharmacology at the Rockefeller Institute and pioneered artificial respiration by tracheal insufflation.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English lexicographer, poet, critic, and essayist, wrote A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), The Rambler, Rasselas, and Lives of the Poets; immortalized by Boswell's 1791 Life.
Samuel Johnson (actor)
Samuel Joseph Johnson OAM (born 1978), Australian actor of The Secret Life of Us and Molly, Gold Logie 2017 winner, and Love Your Sister charity co-founder with sister Connie Johnson.
Samuel Kamakau
Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876) was a Native Hawaiian historian, judge, and legislator who wrote nearly 300 articles in Hawaiian-language newspapers from 1842, later translated into works such as Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii.
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin (1924–2007) was a Polish-born American applied mathematician and Stanford professor whose Karlin–Altschul statistics underlie BLAST, the tool for comparing DNA sequences.
Samuel King Allison
Samuel King Allison (1900–1965) was an American physicist at the University of Chicago known for precision X-ray spectroscopy and for helping achieve the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist at Harvard's Peabody Museum, known for Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua (1926) and studies of Costa Rica's stone spheres.
Samuel Klein (physician)
Samuel Klein is an American physician and obesity researcher who directs the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with more than 500 papers.
Samuel Kortum
Samuel S. Kortum, born in 1960, is an American economist at Yale University best known for the Eaton–Kortum model of international trade and a search-theoretic model of innovation.
Samuel L. Braunstein
Samuel L. Braunstein is a quantum information scientist and Professor of Quantum Computing at the University of York since 2003, known for continuous-variable quantum teleportation and the no-deleting theorem.
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson (Samuel Leroy Jackson, born 1948) is an American actor of Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and Marvel's Nick Fury; over 150 films and the highest cumulative global box office of any actor.
Samuel L. Katz
Samuel L. Katz (1927–2022) was an American pediatrician and virologist who co-developed the attenuated measles vaccine, licensed in 1963, and chaired pediatrics at Duke University from 1968 to 1990.
Samuel L. Penfield
Samuel L. Penfield (1856–1906) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer, professor of mineralogy at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Samuel L. Pfaff
Samuel L. Pfaff, born 1961, is an American neurobiologist at the Salk Institute known for identifying genetic pathways that build motor neurons and their circuits.
Samuel L. Zelinka
Samuel L. Zelinka is an American materials research engineer at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, who studies wood-water interactions and received a PECASE award in 2011.
Samuel Langley
Samuel Langley (1834–1906) was an American astronomer and physicist, Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1887 to 1906, who invented the bolometer and flew the first sustained heavier-than-air machines.
Samuel Larsen
Samuel Larsen (Samuel Peter Acosta Larsen), American actor and singer born 1991 in San Francisco; co-won The Glee Project season 1 in 2011 with Damian McGinty, played Joe Hart on Glee, later Zed in After and roles in Shoulder Dance.
Samuel Lee Smithers
Samuel Lee Smithers (born 1953), the "Deacon of Death," a Florida Baptist deacon convicted in 1998 of the 1996 murders of sex workers Denise Roach and Christy Cowan in Plant City; executed October 14, 2025, Florida's record 14th execution that year.
Samuel Leeds
Samuel Luke Leeds, born 1991, is a British property investor and educator whose Samuel Leeds Academy mentorship costs £11,997 and has drawn criticism in the UK's landlord influencer scene.
Samuel Leutwyler
Samuel Leutwyler, born 1952, is a Swiss physical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern, known for laser spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters and proton transfer studies.