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Scott Reid (actor)

Scott Reid (born 1993, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor, not to be confused with American actor Reid Scott. Known for Methadone Mick in Still Game, DC Mick Clark in White House Farm, Ian Huntley in Maxine, and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland training.

Scott Reid (Ontario politician)

Scott Reid is a Canadian politician and member of Parliament in the House of Commons who serves as Conservative Caucus Chair, presiding over the party's parliamentary caucus meetings.

Scott Rickard

Scott Rickard is an applied mathematician known for blind source separation, sparsity measures, and Costas arrays; he was a professor at University College Dublin from 2003 to 2014.

Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter (born 1960) is a former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq (1991–1998) who resigned in 1998, opposed the 2003 Iraq War, and is now a pro-Russia commentator.

Scott Robert Manalis

Scott Robert Manalis is an MIT bioengineer and David H. Koch Professor of Engineering who invented the suspended microchannel resonator, a device that weighs single living cells in fluid.

Scott Rolen

Scott Rolen (born 1975, Evansville, Indiana) is a Hall of Fame third baseman (Phillies, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Reds, 1996–2012), eight-time Gold Glove winner, 1997 NL Rookie of the Year, elected to Cooperstown in 2023 with 76.3% of the BBWAA vote.

Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg (born 1963, Needham, Massachusetts) is an American screenwriter and producer, writer of Con Air, Beautiful Girls, High Fidelity, Gone in 60 Seconds, the Jumanji sequels and Venom, distinct from comics producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and tech writer Scott Rosenberg.

Scott Rozelle

Scott Rozelle (罗斯高), born 1955, is an American development economist at Stanford University who studies rural education, health, and human capital in China, directing the Rural Education Action Program.

Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin (born 1958, Baldwin, New York) is an American film, television, and Broadway producer, an EGOT winner and 18-time Tony winner known for No Country for Old Men and The Book of Mormon, who stepped back in 2021 amid abuse allegations and returned to Broadway in 2025.

Scott Russell linkage

The Scott Russell linkage is a mechanism that converts rotation or sliding input into an exact straight-line output, patented in 1803 and named for John Scott Russell.

Scott S. Zamvil

Scott S. Zamvil is an American neurologist and immunologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF since 1998, known for research on immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis.

Scott Sandell

Scott Sandell is a venture capitalist who serves as Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with investments including Salesforce and Cloudflare.

Scott Satterfield

Scott Satterfield, American college football coach and former Appalachian State quarterback; head coach at Cincinnati since 2023, previously Louisville (2019-22) and App State (2013-18, 51-24, three Sun Belt titles).

Scott Schwab

Scott Schwab is an American Republican politician who has served as Kansas Secretary of State since being elected in 2018, after serving in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Scott Schwartz

Scott Schwartz (born 1968, Sacramento) is an American actor, also credited as Scotty Schwartz, known as Flick in A Christmas Story (1983) and Eric Bates in The Toy (1982); later worked in adult films, led A Minor Consideration, and reprised Flick in 2022.

Scott Shay

Scott Shay is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank in New York, serving as executive chairman for 22 years until regulators seized the bank in March 2023.

Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker is a computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered software-defined networking and fair queueing, founded Nicira Networks and Databricks, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Scott Shleifer

Scott Shleifer is an American investor who co-founded Tiger Global Management's private equity arm in 2003, leading large bets on JD.com, Didi Chuxing, and Meituan.

Scott Shriner

Scott Shriner (born 1965, Toledo, Ohio) is an American bassist and vocalist, Weezer's third and longest-serving bass player since 2001, debuting on Maladroit (2002), known for pick-and-fingers playing, vintage Fender gear, and lead vocals on Red Album tracks.

Scott Silverman

Scott K. Silverman, born in 1972, is an American chemist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies deoxyribozymes, DNA molecules that catalyze chemical reactions.

Scott Sinclair

Scott Andrew Sinclair (born 1989, Bath) is an English winger and forward who starred for Swansea City, won Scottish honors with Celtic, played for Chelsea and Manchester City, and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics.

Scott Singer

Scott Singer is an American politician and the Republican nominee for Florida's 25th congressional district in the 2026 election, after serving three terms as mayor of Boca Raton.

Scott Skiles

Scott Skiles (born 1964) is a former NBA point guard and head coach who holds the NBA single-game assist record of 30 (Dec 30, 1990, Orlando vs Denver) and coached the Suns, Bulls, Bucks, and Magic, going 478-480.

Scott Snyder

Scott Snyder, American comics writer of American Vampire, DC's Batman with Greg Capullo, and Absolute Batman with Nick Dragotta; also author of Voodoo Heart and teacher at Sarah Lawrence and Columbia.

Scott Spann

Scott Spann (Scott Spann, Jr.), American breaststroke swimmer born 1988, sixth in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2007 Pan Am bronze medalist; son of 1979 Pan Am medalist Scott Spann Sr., brother of Alexis Spann.

Scott Speed

Scott Speed (born 1983, Manteca, California), American racing driver; 28 F1 Grands Prix for Toro Rosso 2006-2007, first American in F1 since Michael Andretti; later four straight US rallycross titles (2015-2018).

Scott Speedman

Scott Speedman (born Robert Scott Speedman, 1975) is a British-born Canadian actor known for Ben Covington on Felicity, Michael Corvin in Underworld, Baz on Animal Kingdom, Grey's Anatomy, and ABC's R.J. Decker.

Scott Speicher

Scott Speicher was the US Navy F/A-18 pilot shot down the first night of the 1991 Gulf War, reclassified MIA in 2001 and Missing/Captured in 2002, whose remains were found and identified in Iraq in 2009.

Scott Sperling

Scott Sperling is Co-Chief Executive Officer of THL, a Boston-based private equity firm he joined in 1994 after more than a decade leading Harvard University's alternative-asset investment affiliate.

Scott Spiezio

Scott Spiezio (born 1972, Joliet, IL) is a former MLB switch-hitting utility infielder who played 12 seasons with Oakland, Anaheim, Seattle, and St. Louis, won World Series with the 2002 Angels and 2006 Cardinals, and tied the postseason RBI record with 19 in 2002.