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Samuel Lim
Samuel Lim (Samuel Lim Kok Eng) is a Singapore businessman who co-founded luxury e-commerce platform Reebonz in 2009 and was its chairman and CEO until its 2021 liquidation.
Samuel Little
Samuel Little (Samuel McDowell, 1940-2020), American serial killer; FBI-confirmed most prolific in U.S. history, confessed to 93 murders 1970-2005, at least 60 confirmed, convicted 2014 in Los Angeles.
Samuel Livingston
Samuel Livingston (1908–1984) was an American physician and epilepsy researcher who directed the Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Clinic from 1946 to 1973, supervising treatment of more than 33,000 patients with epilepsy.
Samuel Loomis
Samuel Loomis: Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers' psychiatrist in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) franchise, named after the Psycho character and played by Donald Pleasence 1978-1995, later Malcolm McDowell.
Samuel Lusale
Samuel Lusale (Samuel Malama Lusale), born 2007 in Guildford, is a Slovak youth international winger who joined Manchester United's academy from Crystal Palace in September 2024 and plays for the club's U21 side.
Samuel M. Kariuki
Samuel M. Kariuki is a Kenyan microbiologist, a Senior Principal Research Scientist at KEMRI and Continental Lead for Africa at DNDi, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine.
Samuel M. McElvain
Samuel M. McElvain (1897–1973) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, known for discovering the ketene acetals and for the local anesthetics Metycaine and Surfacaine.
Samuel M. Mencoff
Samuel M. Mencoff is a founding partner of Chicago private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners, its co-CEO from 2007 to 2023, and Brown University's 21st chancellor.
Samuel Maharero
Samuel Maharero was paramount chief of the Herero people in German Southwest Africa, leading the 1904 rising against German colonial rule before fleeing to Bechuanaland.
Samuel Marsden
Samuel Marsden (1765–1838) was an English-born Anglican clergyman who served as chaplain and magistrate in New South Wales from 1794 and founded the first Christian mission to Māori in New Zealand.
Samuel Martin Deutsch
Samuel Martin Deutsch (1837–1909) was a German Protestant church historian and theologian, Professor at the Königliches Luisen-Gymnasium in Berlin, who wrote studies of Abélard and Luther.
Samuel Martínez
Samuel Martínez Valencia (born 2009, Tuluá) is a Colombian attacking midfielder of Atlético Nacional who won the 2026 South American U-17 Championship and signed for Liverpool in July 2026, joining the LFC Academy in 2027-28 at age 18.
Samuel McDonald McCann
Samuel McDonald McCann (1925–2007) was an American neuroendocrinologist who demonstrated that the hypothalamus controls the pituitary gland through releasing hormones, and helped establish neuroimmunomodulation while chairing physiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire (1757–1811) was an American architect, woodcarver, and furniture maker who worked almost entirely in Salem, Massachusetts, and shaped its Federal-style houses and carved ornament.
Samuel Migaľ
Samuel Migaľ is a Slovak independent politician serving as Minister of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization in Robert Fico's cabinet, after serving in the National Council.
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse, full name Samuel Finley Breese Morse, was an American painter and inventor who developed the electromagnetic telegraph and sent the first message "What hath God wrought" in 1844.
Samuel Mudd
Samuel Alexander Mudd (1833-1883), Maryland physician and slaveholding tobacco farmer, set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after the Lincoln assassination, was convicted of conspiracy by military commission, imprisoned at Fort Jefferson, and pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1869.
Samuel N. Heyman
Samuel N. Heyman is an Israeli nephrologist and professor emeritus at Hebrew University whose work established renal medullary hypoxia as a central mechanism in contrast-induced nephropathy.
Samuel O. Freedman
Samuel O. Freedman is a Canadian clinical immunologist who co-discovered carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) at McGill in 1965 and later served as McGill's Dean of Medicine.
Samuel Oettli
Samuel Oettli (1846–1911) was a Swiss Reformed Old Testament scholar and pastor, a pietist-conservative professor at Bern from 1880 and Greifswald from 1895 who wrote commentaries on Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges.
Samuel of Ani
Samuel of Ani (Armenian: Սամվէլ Անեցի, Samuel Anetsi) was a twelfth-century Armenian priest and chronicler whose chronicle Hawakmunk runs from Adam to 1163, preserving many lost sources.
Samuel of Bulgaria
Samuel (Samuil) of Bulgaria, tsar 997–1014 of the First Bulgarian Empire, led decades of war against Basil II, was defeated at Kleidion (Klyuch) in 1014, and died that October; his successors ruled until Byzantium annexed Bulgaria in 1018.
Samuel Ogazi
Samuel Uchenna Ogazi (born 2006) is a Nigerian 400m sprinter from Kaduna, Alabama alumnus, Nigerian record holder (43.38), 2025 and 2026 NCAA champion, 2024 Olympic finalist, and 2026 Commonwealth Games 400m gold medallist.
Samuel Osgood
Samuel Osgood (1748-1813), Massachusetts statesman, first US Postmaster General under Washington 1789-1791, Treasury commissioner 1785-1789, Confederation Congress delegate; distinct from Rev. Samuel Osgood (1812-1880), Unitarian abolitionist.
Samuel P. Asper
Samuel P. Asper (1916–1999) was an American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins who introduced radioactive iodine thyroid treatment and led a Beirut hospital during the Lebanese civil war.
Samuel P. Bessman
Samuel P. Bessman was a physician-biochemist in intermediary metabolism known for hepatic coma ammonia studies, phenylketonuria research, and the 1981 Science paper on the muscle phosphorylcreatine energy shuttle.
Samuel P. Bush
Samuel Prescott Bush (1863-1948), Ohio railroad and steel executive, president of Buckeye Steel Castings 1908-1927, second president of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, War Industries Board ordnance section chief, patriarch of the Bush political family.
Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington (Samuel Phillips Huntington) was a Harvard political scientist best known for his "clash of civilizations" thesis, advanced in 1993 and expanded in his 1996 book.
Samuel Page
Samuel Page, born Samuel Elliott in 1976 in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, is an American actor and Princeton biology graduate known for All My Children's Trey, Greg on Mad Men, Connor Ellis on House of Cards, Richard Hunter on The Bold Type, and Hallmark Christmas films.
Samuel Parsons Scott
Samuel Parsons Scott (1846–1929) was an American attorney and banker of Hillsboro, Ohio, known for translating medieval and Roman law single-handedly and writing a history of the Moorish Empire.