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Scott David Kelly

Scott David Kelly is an American mechanical engineer and control theorist at UNC Charlotte who received a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for his work on robotic swimming.

Scott Derrickson

Scott Derrickson (born 1966, Denver) is an American director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, Doctor Strange, and The Black Phone; he left Multiverse of Madness over creative differences.

Scott DesJarlais

Scott DesJarlais is an American physician and Republican politician who has represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2011, first elected in 2010.

Scott Disick

Scott Disick (born 1983), American reality TV personality and entrepreneur, known from Keeping Up with the Kardashians, ex of Kourtney Kardashian, father of her three children, founder of Talentless.

Scott Dixon

Scott Ronald Dixon is a New Zealand racing driver who has won six INDYCAR SERIES championships and the 2008 Indianapolis 500 with Chip Ganassi Racing.

Scott Doody

Scott Doody is an American politician and Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives who has represented the 118th district, a seat based in Anna, since June 2026.

Scott Dozier

Scott Raymond Dozier, Nevada death-row inmate #1011685, convicted of the 2002 murder of Jeremiah Miller, waived appeals to demand execution, was blocked by drug-protocol litigation, and died by suicide at Ely State Prison on January 5, 2019.

Scott Drew

Scott Drew, Baylor Bears men's basketball head coach since 2003 after a decade at Valparaiso; rebuilt the program to the 2021 NCAA national championship, 13 tournament appearances, and 500 career wins.

Scott Durant

Scott Durant (Scott David Durant), British rower, MBE, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Rio 2016, his only Games; also 2015 European champion in the coxless four and world silver medallist in the coxed pair.

Scott E. Denmark

Scott E. Denmark (born 1953) is an American synthetic organic chemist and professor at the University of Illinois, known for asymmetric catalysis, the Hiyama–Denmark coupling, and machine-learning catalyst prediction.

Scott E. Fraser

Scott E. Fraser is an American biophysicist and inventor, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California, known for imaging embryonic development and inventing multispectral and 4D confocal microscopy.

Scott E. Hensley

Scott E. Hensley is a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies influenza, known for immune imprinting and a 2022 mRNA vaccine against all 20 flu subtypes.

Scott E. Kern

Scott E. Kern is a professor of oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins whose research established the molecular genetics of pancreatic cancer, including the SMAD4 discovery.

Scott Eastwood

Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves, 1986) is an American actor and model, son of Clint Eastwood; known for The Longest Ride, Suicide Squad, The Outpost, the Fast & Furious films, and 2026's Lucky Strike.

Scott Emmons

Scott Wilson Emmons is an American geneticist and neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who led completion of the first whole-animal connectome, of the roundworm C. elegans.

Scott Evans (actor)

Scott Evans (Scott Andrew Evans), American actor born 1983 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, younger brother of Chris Evans; played Oliver Fish on One Life to Live, Oliver on Grace and Frankie, and a Ken in Barbie (2023); openly gay, NYU Tisch drama graduate. Distinct from the Scott Evans TV host born in New Jersey.

Scott Farquhar

Scott Farquhar is an Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the software company Atlassian with Mike Cannon-Brookes in 2002, led it as co-CEO until stepping down in 2024.

Scott Fendorf

Scott Fendorf is an environmental chemist and Terry Huffington Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia explained how arsenic enters groundwater.

Scott Ferguson (hedge fund manager)

Scott Ferguson (born 1974) is an American hedge fund manager who founded Sachem Head Capital Management in New York in 2012 after nine years at Pershing Square.

Scott Fischer

Scott Eugene Fischer (1956–1996), American mountaineer, first American to climb Lhotse, K2 summiteer without oxygen, and co-founder of Mountain Madness; died on Everest in the May 10, 1996 storm.

Scott Fisher (basketball)

Scott Fisher (Scott Charles Fisher, born 1963, San Jose) is an American-Australian former NBL forward, 'The Fish', 3-time champion with North Melbourne and Perth, 2x NBL MVP, Wildcats No. 30 retired, and Perth head coach 2004-2008.

Scott Fitzgerald

Scott Fitzgerald, born 1963, is an American Republican who has represented Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2021, after serving in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1995 to 2021 as Majority Leader.

Scott Flint

Scott Flint is HR Operations Lead at Five Rings, a privately held New York proprietary trading firm, listed among its key executives and leading a nine-person HR function.

Scott Foley

Scott Foley (born 1972, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American actor known as Noel Crane on Felicity, Jake Ballard on Scandal, Bob Brown on The Unit, and Roman Bridger in Scream 3; also directed Let's Kill Ward's Wife.

Scott Forbush

Scott Forbush (1904–1984) was an American cosmic-ray physicist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., who discovered the Forbush decrease and cosmic rays' 11-year solar variation.

Scott Forstall

Scott Forstall is an American software engineer and Broadway producer. He led the original iPhone software team and served as Apple's Senior Vice President of iOS Software.

Scott Fortune

Scott Fortune (born 1966, Newport Beach, California) is an American volleyball player, three-time Olympian: 1988 Seoul gold with the match-point kill, 1992 Barcelona bronze as captain, 1996 Atlanta; later an investment analyst and USA Volleyball Foundation president.

Scott Frank

Scott Frank, born 1960 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of Out of Sight, Logan, The Queen's Gambit, Godless, Monsieur Spade, and Dept. Q, also Hollywood's leading script doctor.

Scott Franklin (Florida politician)

Scott Franklin is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 18th congressional district since 2023, after representing the 15th district from 2021 to 2023.

Scott Free Productions

Scott Free Productions, film and TV company of Ridley and Tony Scott, formed 1995, based in Los Angeles and London with RSA Films; producer of Gladiator, The Good Wife, Alien: Romulus, and Dope Thief.