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Scott Jasechko
Scott Jasechko is a Canadian-born hydrologist and professor of water resources at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School, known for measurement-based studies of global groundwater decline.
Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings (born 1977) is an American conservative strategist, CNN senior political commentator since 2017, founding partner of RunSwitch PR, former George W. Bush special assistant, McConnell adviser, and Salem Radio host.
Scott Johnson (biotechnology executive)
Scott Johnson is a physician and biotechnology executive who co-founded Comanche Biopharma, a clinical-stage Massachusetts company developing an RNA interference therapy for preeclampsia, and previously co-founded The Medicines Company.
Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin (c. 1868–1917) was an American composer and pianist known as the "King of Ragtime," who wrote "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer" and won a posthumous 1976 Pulitzer Prize.
Scott Jurek
Scott Jurek (born 1973) is an American vegan ultramarathon runner, seven-time consecutive Western States 100 champion (1999–2005), Badwater and Spartathlon winner, 2010 US 24-hour record holder (165.7 miles), and 2015 Appalachian Trail speed record setter.
Scott K. Fridkin
Scott K. Fridkin is an infectious disease physician-epidemiologist who spent more than 20 years at the CDC studying MRSA before joining Emory University as a professor of medicine.
Scott Keeney
Scott Keeney is an American molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, an HHMI Investigator from 2008 to 2025, known for identifying Spo11 as the protein that initiates meiotic recombination.
Scott Kelly (astronaut)
Scott Kelly, also known as Scott Joseph Kelly, is a retired American astronaut who set an American record with a 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station in 2015–2016.
Scott Kennedy (geneticist)
Scott G. Kennedy is the Philip and Aya Leder Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, studying small non-coding RNAs in gene regulation and epigenetic inheritance.
Scott Kirkpatrick
Scott Kirkpatrick is a physicist and computer scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2000 and lead author of the landmark 1983 simulated annealing paper in Science.
Scott Kleeb
Scott Michael Kleeb is an American rancher and historian with a Yale history doctorate who ran for the U.S. House in 2006 and Senate in 2008, losing both.
Scott Kopetz
Scott E. Kopetz is a medical oncologist and physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose BEACON and BREAKWATER trials established encorafenib combinations as standard treatment in BRAF V600E-mutated colorectal cancer.
Scott Kupor
Scott Kupor, venture capitalist and first employee of Andreessen Horowitz, is Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, sworn in July 14, 2025, leading federal workforce reduction, the Merit Hiring Plan, and Schedule Policy/Career.
Scott L. Anderson
Scott L. Anderson is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for size-selected cluster catalysis and for a 2009 Science paper linking catalyst particle size to reactivity.
Scott L. Friedman
Scott L. Friedman is an American hepatologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for isolating the hepatic stellate cell and founding liver fibrosis therapy.
Scott L. O’Neill
Scott L. O'Neill (S. L. O'Neill) is an Australian entomologist who founded and directs the World Mosquito Program at Monash University, using Wolbachia to block dengue transmission.
Scott L. Palk
Scott L. Palk is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since 2017, appointed by President Trump.
Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch is an American psychiatrist whose neuroimaging research delineated the brain circuitry of anxiety disorders; he has led McLean Hospital in Massachusetts since 2006.
Scott La Rock
DJ Scott La Rock, born Scott Monroe Sterling (1962 - August 1987), was a Bronx DJ, producer, and social worker who co-founded Boogie Down Productions with KRS-One and made Criminal Minded (1987) before being shot dead at 25.
Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Scott Lang is the MCU's Ant-Man, an ex-con thief played by Paul Rudd from Ant-Man (2015) through Quantumania, mentored by Hank Pym, trapped in the Quantum Realm during the Snap, and returning in Avengers: Doomsday.
Scott Lawrence
Scott Lawrence (born 1963, Los Angeles) is an American actor known as Cmdr. Sturgis Turner on JAG, the voice of Darth Vader in LucasArts Star Wars games, and roles in Avatar, Star Wars Resistance, and The Lincoln Lawyer; distinct from a 1980-born producer and a physicist of the same name.
Scott Lee Kimball
Scott Lee Kimball, also known as Scott Kimball, is an American serial killer from Colorado who murdered four people between 2003 and 2004 while an FBI informant.
Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell is an American writer who wrote Marvel's X-Men titles in the 1990s. He later worked for DC Comics and scripted the 2017 film Happy Death Day.
Scott Lowery
Scott Lowery is an American restaurant executive who co-founded Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck with Jim Disbrow in Columbus, Ohio, in September 1982, retiring in 2004.
Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch (born 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota), American fantasy author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), The Republic of Thieves (2013); World Fantasy nominee, awaiting The Thorn of Emberlain.
Scott M Sternson
Scott M. Sternson is a neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator, professor at UC San Diego after 14 years at Janelia, known for appetite circuit research and chemogenetic tools.
Scott M Steward-Tharp
Scott M Steward-Tharp is an American oral and maxillofacial pathologist and immunology researcher at Emory University School of Medicine, known for work on JAK/STAT signaling in T cells.
Scott M. Grundy
Scott M. Grundy (1933–2025) was an American physician-scientist in cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism who founded the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
Scott M. Hammer
Scott M. Hammer (died November 2021) was an American infectious diseases physician and HIV clinical trials researcher who was chief of infectious diseases at Columbia University.
Scott M. Hammond
Scott M. Hammond is an American microRNA biologist and cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for identifying the mir-17-92 microRNA cluster as a potential oncogene.