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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English naval administrator, wrote the famous diary 1660–1669 in Shelton shorthand, recording the Restoration, plague, and Great Fire of London; first published 1825, complete 1970–83.
Samuel Peter
Samuel Peter (born Samuel Okon Peter, 1980), known as "The Nigerian Nightmare", is a Nigerian former heavyweight boxer who held the WBC heavyweight championship in 2008.
Samuel Prescott
Samuel Prescott (1751-1777?) was a Concord, Massachusetts physician and Patriot who joined Paul Revere and William Dawes on the midnight ride of April 18-19, 1775 and was the only rider to reach Concord with the alarm.
Samuel R. Cummings
Samuel R. Cummings, born 1944, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987.
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany (Chip Delany, born 1942), African American gay science fiction writer, critic, and Temple University professor; author of Babel-17, Nova, Dhalgren, and Return to Nevèrÿon; four Nebulas, two Hugos, SFWA Grand Master.
Samuel Randall Detwiler
Samuel Randall Detwiler (1890–1957) was an American experimental embryologist, professor of anatomy at Columbia University, who worked out how the vertebrate nervous system and eye develop through transplantation experiments on salamander embryos.
Samuel Rea
Samuel Rea (1855–1929) was an American civil engineer and railroad executive who rose from chainman to president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving from 1913 to 1925.
Samuel Reed (software engineer)
Samuel Reed, known as Sam Reed, is an American software engineer who co-founded the crypto exchange BitMEX in 2014 and served as its Chief Technology Officer.
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff is a Bulgarian-born, Belgian-raised physician-scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for discovering resistance to thyroid hormone, called Refetoff syndrome, in 1967.
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevsky (Szmul Rzeszewski, 1911-1992), Polish-born American chess grandmaster, eight-time U.S. champion, 1948 World Championship and 1953 Candidates contender, who beat seven world champions from Lasker to Fischer.
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), English printer and novelist, pioneer of the epistolary novel; wrote Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1747–48), and Sir Charles Grandison (1753–54), and rivaled Henry Fielding as a founder of the modern English novel.
Samuel Roberts (mathematician)
Samuel Roberts (1827–1913) was a British mathematician who worked as a solicitor and never held a mathematical post; he proved in 1875 that every four-bar linkage coupler curve is generated by three distinct linkages.
Samuel Roffey Maitland
Samuel Roffey Maitland (1792–1866) was an Anglican clergyman who served as librarian at Lambeth Palace from 1838 to 1848 and wrote on prophecy and medieval history.
Samuel Rosa
Samuel Rosa is a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer, frontman of the band Skank from 1991 to 2023, who began a solo career in 2024.
Samuel Roukin
Samuel Roukin (born 1980, Southport, England) is an English actor known as John Graves Simcoe in AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies, the voice of Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator.
Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–1661) was a Scottish Covenanter theologian, minister of Anwoth, professor of divinity at St Andrews, Scottish commissioner to the Westminster Assembly, and author of Lex, Rex.
Samuel S. Epstein
Samuel S. Epstein (1926–2018) was a British-born American physician, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for work on preventable environmental causes of cancer.
Samuel S. Gidding
Samuel S. Gidding is an American pediatric and preventive cardiologist known for familial hypercholesterolemia research, who chaired the American Heart Association's 2015 FH statement and joined Geisinger in 2020.
Samuel S. Myers
Samuel S. Myers, also known as Samuel Myers, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and studies how environmental change affects human health.
Samuel S. Wilks
Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician who built the discipline of statistics at Princeton University and proved Wilks' theorem.
Samuel S.‐H. Wang
Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang, born 1967, is a neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies the cerebellum and autism, and is also known for election forecasting and directing the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
Samuel S.C. Yen
Samuel S.C. Yen (1927–2006) was a reproductive endocrinologist and neuroendocrine researcher at UC San Diego who led NIH-funded studies of DHEA, PCOS, athletic amenorrhea, and the menstrual cycle.
Samuel Sanchez
Samuel Sánchez, also known as Samuel Sánchez Ordóñez, is a Spanish nanoscientist at IBEC in Barcelona who builds self-propelled nanobots for drug delivery and bladder cancer therapy.
Samuel Saslaw
Samuel Saslaw was an American infectious diseases researcher and physician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, known for volunteer challenge studies of tularemia vaccines.
Samuel Schacher
Samuel Schacher is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on long-term synaptic plasticity in Aplysia, showing how short-term and long-term memory differ at a single synapse.
Samuel Schelwig
Samuel Schelwig (1643–1715) was a Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and polemicist who served as professor, rector, and pastor at Danzig, becoming one of the fiercest polemicists against Spener's Pietism.
Samuel Seabury
Samuel Seabury (1729–1796) was an American Anglican priest who became the first bishop of the Episcopal Church, consecrated in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1784 after English bishops could not do so.
Samuel Shapiro (epidemiologist)
Samuel Shapiro is a Boston-based physician-epidemiologist who moved from clinical medicine to drug-safety surveillance after arriving in the United States in 1967, co-founding Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center.
Samuel Sharpe
Samuel Sharpe (Daddy Sharpe, c. 1801-1832) was an enslaved Jamaican Baptist deacon who organized the 1831-32 Christmas Rebellion or Baptist War, a general strike for wages and freedom across western Jamaica; hanged in Montego Bay, later a Jamaican National Hero.
Samuel Shepard
Samuel S. Shepard is an American computational biologist who has worked at the CDC in Atlanta since 2013, known for the IRMA viral genome assembler and genomic surveillance of influenza and SARS-CoV-2.