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Sebastian Padó
Sebastian Padó is a computational linguist who leads the Theoretical Computational Linguistics group at the University of Stuttgart, researching how computers process meaning in text.
Sebastián Piñera
Sebastián Piñera Echenique, Chilean businessman-economist and two-term president (2010–2014, 2018–2022), first post-dictatorship right-wing president; led 2010 mine rescue, faced 2019 uprising, died 2024 in helicopter crash.
Sebastian Pokutta
Sebastian Pokutta is a German mathematician who is Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin and won the 2023 Gödel Prize for work on optimization.
Sebastian Polarz
Sebastian Polarz (born 1974) is a German inorganic and materials chemist, professor at Konstanz from 2007 to 2020 and since 2020 chairholder at Leibniz University Hannover, known for porous solids and metal oxide nanoparticles.
Sebastian Reineke
Sebastian Reineke (born 1979) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Organic Semiconductors at TU Dresden and led the 2009 white OLED efficiency record.
Sebastian Riedel
Sebastian Riedel, full name Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel, is a German inorganic and fluorine chemist, born in 1975 and a full professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2013.
Sebastian Robertson
Sebastian Robertson (Sebastian Barnaby Robertson) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and children's author, son of the Band's Robbie Robertson. He founded Sonic Beat Records in 2015, scored The Irishman and Sitting Bull (2026 Clio Award), and wrote Cyberpunk 2077 radio tracks.
Sebastian Roché
Sebastian Roché (born 1964, Paris) is a French-Scottish actor known for Odyssey 5, Fringe, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries/The Originals, The Man in the High Castle, and 1923; distinct from the Grenoble criminologist of the same name.
Sebastian Rudy
Sebastian Rudy (born 1990) is a German retired central midfielder; TSG Hoffenheim record appearance list (328 games), Bayern 2017/18 champion, 2017 Confederations Cup winner, 29 Germany caps, retired September 2023.
Sebastián Rulli
Sebastián Rulli (Sebastián Óscar Rulli) is an Argentine actor and former model, born in Buenos Aires in 1975, who rose to fame in Mexican telenovelas such as Rubí (2004) and Teresa (2010).
Sebastián Salazar Bondy
Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924–1965) was a Peruvian writer from Lima of the Generación del 50, best known for the essay Lima la horrible (1964) and for plays including Rodil.
Sebastian Samuelsson
Sebastian Samuelsson (Nils Sebastian Samuelsson, born 1997) is a Swedish biathlete from Östersund: 2018 Olympic pursuit silver and relay gold, 2026 relay bronze, and ten-plus World Championship medals including Oberhof 2023 mass start gold.
Sebastian Schneeweiß
Sebastian Schneeweiß is a German-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist who is Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Sebastian Seung
Sebastian Seung, also known as H. Sebastian Seung, is a computational neuroscientist at Princeton University known for connectomics and for creating the crowd-sourced brain-mapping platforms EyeWire and FlyWire.
Sebastian Shaw (actor)
Sebastian Shaw (1905–1994), English stage and screen actor, director, novelist, and playwright; played the unmasked Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker and the Force ghost in Return of the Jedi (1983).
Sebastian Stan
Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor born 1982 in Constanța, plays Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in the MCU and won a 2025 Golden Globe for A Different Man, with an Oscar nomination for The Apprentice.
Sebastian Telfair
Sebastian Telfair, "Bassy," Brooklyn point guard and Stephon Marbury's cousin, drafted 13th overall in 2004 by Portland straight from Lincoln High School; 10 NBA seasons, 564 games, 7.4 points per game.
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is a German-born computer scientist and Stanford professor, called the father of the modern self-driving car, who founded Google X and co-founded Udacity after building Stanley.
Sebastian Valdez
Sebastian Valdez, defensive lineman (DL #55) for the San Francisco 49ers; born 2002 in Spring Valley, CA; played at Montana State (All-Big Sky) and Washington before joining the 49ers as a 2025 undrafted free agent.
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel, German F1 driver born 1987, four consecutive world champion with Red Bull 2010-2013, later Ferrari and Aston Martin; retired 2022 with 53 wins, 57 poles, 300 starts.
Sebastián Vizcaíno
Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1628) was a Spanish explorer serving Habsburg Spain who charted the California coast in 1602–1603, named Monterey Bay, and led a 1611 embassy to Japan.
Sebastian von Rostock
Sebastian von Rostock (1607–1671) was a Catholic bishop of Breslau who governed the Silesian prince-bishopric from 1665, reclaimed hundreds of Protestant churches, and was probably the last burgher's son to reach a principality through the church.
Sebastian Wheldon
Sebastian Wheldon (born 2009) is an American junior single-seater racing driver, eldest son of Dan Wheldon; 2023 Skip Barber champion, 2024 USF Juniors third, 2025 Prema Italian F4, 2026 FREC with MP Motorsport.
Sebastián Yatra
Sebastián Yatra (Sebastián Obando Giraldo, born 1994, Medellín) is a Colombian Latin pop singer. Known for Traicionera, Mantra, Fantasía, Dharma, Milagro, and Disney's Dos Oruguitas; 2 Latin Grammy wins, 14 nominations.
Sebastian Z. Oener
Sebastian Z. Oener is a German-born electrochemist who has led a research group at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin since 2022.
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864–1930) was a British electrical engineer who designed Deptford power station, the first in the world to supply electricity at 10,000 volts.
Sebastianism
Sebastianism (Sebastianismo) is a Portuguese messianic belief that King Sebastian (1554–1578), who vanished at Alcácer Quibir in 1578, will return on a foggy morning to save Portugal; it inspired false claimants, the 1640 Restoration, Brazilian movements such as Canudos, and Pessoa's Mensagem.
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo, born Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian painter who trained in Venice and moved to Rome in 1511, fusing Venetian color with Michelangelo's style.
Sebastião da Rocha Pita
Sebastião da Rocha Pita (1660–1738) was a Bahian historian, poet, lawyer, and colonial official, best known for the História da América Portugueza of 1730, the first printed general history of Brazil.
Sebastião de Magalhães Lima
Sebastião de Magalhães Lima (1850–1928) was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist, and republican politician who founded the newspaper O Século and served as Grand Master of Portuguese Freemasonry.