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Saugatuck River Bridge
The Saugatuck River Bridge, officially the William F. Cribari Memorial Bridge, is an 1884 wrought iron swing bridge carrying Route 136 over the Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut.
Sauk people
The Sauk, historically also called the Sac, are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people closely allied with the Fox, now organized in federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma, Iowa, and Kansas.
Saul (שָׁאוּל)
Saul (שָׁאוּל, shā'ūl, "asked"), first king of Israel, son of Kish of Benjamin, anointed by Samuel; biblical narrative of enthronement, wars, failures, death at Gilboa, and scholarly debate over his portrayal and historicity.
Saul A. Rosenberg
Saul A. Rosenberg was an American medical oncologist at Stanford University who, with radiologist Henry Kaplan, developed the first curative treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma and founded the nation's first Division of Medical Oncology.
Saul A. Teukolsky
Saul A. Teukolsky is a theoretical astrophysicist, Hans A. Bethe Professor at Cornell, known for the Teukolsky equation and for leading the SXS black-hole simulation collaboration.
Saul Alinsky
Saul David Alinsky (1909–1972), Chicago-born community organizer, founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation and the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, and author of Reveille for Radicals (1946) and Rules for Radicals (1971), regarded as the founder of modern community organizing.
Saul Bass
Saul Bass (1920–1996), American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker; created Vertigo, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Psycho title sequences and the AT&T, Bell System, United Airlines, and Quaker Oats logos.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (Solomon Bellows, 1915-2005), Canadian-born American novelist raised in Chicago; Nobel Prize in Literature 1976, three National Book Awards, Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift; author of Augie March and Herzog.
Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer, born Pavel Friedländer in Prague in 1932, is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust, a survivor of Nazi-occupied France, and a longtime UCLA professor.
Saul Gone
Saul Gone is the 2022 series finale of Better Call Saul, episode 6x13 written and directed by Peter Gould, in which Jimmy McGill renounces a 7-year plea deal, confesses in court, and takes an 86-year sentence.
Saul Goodman
Saul Goodman, real name Jimmy McGill, is the fictional criminal lawyer played by Bob Odenkirk in Breaking Bad and its prequel Better Call Saul, created by Peter Gould, later living as Gene Takovic.
Saúl Hernández
Saúl Hernández is a Mexican rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as lead vocalist of Caifanes and founder of Jaguares, described by 1999 as the poet laureate of Mexican rock.
Saul J. Farber
Saul J. Farber, also known as Saul Joseph Farber, was an American nephrologist who chaired NYU's Department of Medicine from 1966 to 2000 and served as its dean.
Saul Klein
Saul Klein is a venture capital investor and co-founder of Phoenix Court, the London firm behind LocalGlobe and Latitude, which he runs with his father Robin Klein.
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke, or Saul Aaron Kripke, was an American philosopher and logician, 1940 to 2022, whose Naming and Necessity and possible worlds semantics reshaped analytic philosophy.
Saul Krugman
Saul Krugman (1911–1995) was an American pediatrician at NYU and Bellevue Hospital who distinguished hepatitis A from B and created the first hepatitis B vaccine prototype.
Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter whose painterly color street photographs of New York City, made from the late 1940s, gained fame after 2006.
Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman (Hebrew: שאול ליברמן; 1898–1983) was a Belarusian-born American rabbi and talmudic scholar who spent four decades at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and edited the Tosefta.
Saul Nanni
Saul Nanni is an Italian actor from Bologna who rose to fame as Christian in Disney's Alex & Co, then played Rocco Siffredi and Tancredi Falconeri in Netflix series.
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at UC Berkeley who led the discovery of the universe's accelerating expansion, winning half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Saul Roseman
Saul Roseman (1921–2011) was an American biochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for establishing the structures of the sialic acids and co-discovering the bacterial sugar phosphotransferase system.
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek (born 1948, Föhrenwald DP camp, Germany) is a Canadian character actor, director, and playwright, child of Holocaust survivors; known for Unforgiven, True Romance, Warehouse 13, Hunters, and the book and documentary So Many Miracles.
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) was a Romanian-born American artist and draftsman who made nearly 90 covers and over 1,200 drawings for The New Yorker, including View of the World from 9th Avenue.
Saul Sternberg
Saul Sternberg is an American cognitive psychologist and University of Pennsylvania professor since 1985, formerly at Bell Labs, known for the 1966 memory-scanning study and the additive-factors method.
Saul Villeda
Saul Villeda is an American neuroscientist at UC San Francisco who studies how blood-borne factors change the aging brain, showing in mice that young blood can reverse cognitive decline.
Saul W. Brusilow
Saul W. Brusilow (1927–2020) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University whose diagnostic tests and ammonia-lowering drug therapies form the basis of treatment for urea cycle disorders.
Saul Williams
Saul Williams (born 1972, Newburgh, New York) is an American poet, musician, actor, and director; Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion, star of Slam, albums from Amethyst Rock Star to Leap Life, and director of Neptune Frost.
Saul Winstein
Saul Winstein was an American physical organic chemist who spent his career at UCLA, known for the Grunwald–Winstein equation and the bridged 2-norbornyl cation proposal.
Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz (1921–2013) was an American independent film producer who owned Fantasy Records and produced three Best Picture winners: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.
Saulė
Saulė (Lithuanian sáulė, Latvian saûle) is the solar goddess of Baltic mythology, mother figure in dainos, attested from the 1261 Malala Chronicle smith Teliavelis myth, honored at Rasos/Jāņi solstice rites.