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Sebastiao Goncalves Tibau
Sebastiao Goncalves Tibau (Sebastião Gonçalves Tibau) was a Portuguese salt merchant who seized the island of Sandwip in 1609 and ruled it until the king of Arakan defeated him in 1617.
Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025), Brazilian documentary photographer of labor, migration, and nature; series Workers, Migrations, Genesis, Amazônia; co-founded Instituto Terra; died of leukemia in Paris.
Sébastien Bourdais
Sébastien Bourdais, born 1979 in Le Mans, French racing driver; four consecutive Champ Car titles 2004-2007 with Newman/Haas, Toro Rosso F1 2008-09, 37 Indy car wins, Le Mans GTE Pro winner 2016, Cadillac WEC driver.
Sébastien Buemi
Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver born 1988 in Aigle; ex-Toro Rosso F1 driver, four-time WEC champion and four-time Le Mans winner with Toyota, and 2015/16 Formula E champion; left Formula E in 2026 after 160 starts and 14 wins.
Sebastien Candel
Sébastien Candel is a French combustion and aeroacoustics specialist and professor emeritus at CentraleSupélec, known for research on combustion instability and cryogenic rocket propulsion and for presiding the Académie des sciences from 2017 to 2018.
Sébastien Chabal
Sébastien Chabal (born 1977), nicknamed l'Homme des Cavernes or the Caveman, is a French former rugby union forward, 62 caps for France 2000-2011, Sale Sharks Premiership winner, famous for his beard, tackling, and 2025 concussion memory-loss disclosure.
Sébastien Charnoz
Sébastien Charnoz is a French planetary scientist and professor at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, known for his Cassini mission work and research on Saturn's rings and moons.
Sébastien Chenu
Sébastien Chenu, born 1973, in Beauvais, is a French Rassemblement national politician serving as Vice-President of the National Assembly and deputy for Nord's 19th constituency.
Sebastien Dockier
Sébastien Dockier, Belgian field hockey forward born 1989 in Bonheiden; won Olympic silver 2016 and gold 2020 with Belgium, 243 caps and 135 goals, played for Den Bosch, Pinoké, and Braxgata.
Sébastien Gagneux
Sébastien Gagneux is a Swiss infectious-disease researcher who leads the Tuberculosis Ecology and Evolution group at Swiss TPH and is a professor at the University of Basel.
Sébastien Gleyzes
Sébastien Gleyzes, born 1980, is a French quantum physicist at CNRS's Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, first author of the 2007 Nature paper recording photon quantum jumps.
Sébastien Grosjean
Sébastien Grosjean, born 1978 in Marseille, French tennis player, former world No. 4, 2001 Paris-Bercy Masters champion, four-time Grand Slam semifinalist, 2001 Davis Cup winner, later France's Davis Cup captain and coach of Gasquet, Kyrgios, and Arthur Fils.
Sébastien Haller
Sébastien Haller (born 1994, Ris-Orangis) is an Ivorian striker, ex-France youth international, at Sanfrecce Hiroshima since 2026 after Utrecht, Frankfurt, West Ham (£45m record), Ajax, Dortmund, and Leganés; 2023 AFCON winner after cancer recovery.
Sebastien Lareau
Sébastien Lareau, Canadian tennis player born 1973 in Montréal; doubles specialist, 1999 US Open doubles champion with Alex O'Brien, and Sydney 2000 Olympic men's doubles gold medallist with Daniel Nestor, Canada's first Olympic tennis medal.
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707) was a French military engineer who served Louis XIV for over fifty years, directing sieges and fortifying France's frontiers.
Sébastien Lecornu
Sébastien Lecornu is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since September 2025, after years as a minister in Emmanuel Macron's governments.
Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb (born 1974), French rally driver; nine consecutive WRC titles 2004–2012 with co-driver Daniel Elena and Citroën; records of 80 WRC wins, 120 podiums, 939 stage wins; later Dakar, Extreme E champion, Pikes Peak record.
Sébastien Martin
Sébastien Martin, born 1977, in Vichy, is a French politician serving as Minister delegate for Industry, previously deputy for Saône-et-Loire's fifth constituency and leader of the Grand Chalon metropolitan area.
Sébastien Ogier
Sébastien Ogier, born 1983 in Gap, France, is a French rally driver with nine WRC world titles (2013-2018, 2020-2021, 2025), tying Sébastien Loeb's record, 69 wins, and titles with Volkswagen, M-Sport, and Toyota.
Sébastien Perrier
Sébastien Perrier is a polymer chemist who holds the Monash-Warwick Chair at the University of Warwick and works on polymer therapeutics, including drug delivery and antibacterial nanomaterials.
Sébastien Rasle
Sébastien Rasle, also spelled Rale or Rasles, was a French Jesuit missionary to the Abenaki of Maine for thirty years, killed in an English raid at Norridgewock in 1724; his Abenaki-French dictionary survives at Harvard.
Sebastien Stella
Sébastien Stella (Seb), French choreographer and director (born 1971), creator of P!nk's Funhouse Tour aerial routines and circus choreography for Water for Elephants; ex-Cirque du Soleil 'O' performer and founder of Espace Cirque Moorea.
Sebastien Toutant
Sebastien Toutant, aka Seb Toots, Canadian snowboarder born 1992 in Repentigny, Quebec; first ever Olympic men's big air champion (PyeongChang 2018), 7-time X Games medalist, 2021 world slopestyle silver medalist; retired from competition.
Sébastien Vaniček
Sébastien Vaniček (born 1989) is a French director and screenwriter from Noisy-le-Grand, self-taught through about fifty shorts, whose debut feature Vermines/Infested (2023) won Fantastic Fest awards and led to Evil Dead Burn (2026).
Sebastien Vieilledent
Sebastien Vieilledent (Sébastien Vieilledent), French rower born 1976 in Cannes, Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls at Athens 2004 with Adrien Hardy, 2003 world champion, later DTN and CEO of the French Rowing Federation.
Sebastopol
Sebastopol, also called Maltese Cross, is a four-player (or three-player) domino game of the Cyprus family using a double-six set; the [6-6] opens as a four-armed spinner, and players score opponents' remaining pips.
Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol, California: small incorporated city (1902) in western Sonoma County, about 50 miles north of San Francisco; Gravenstein apple heritage, Luther Burbank Experiment Farm, The Barlow market district, population about 7,800.
Šebastovce
Šebastovce (formerly Žebeš) is a borough of Košice, Slovakia, in Košice IV district, 7.5 km south of the center. Independent village until 1976; site of Slovakia's only completely excavated Avar-period cemetery, 370 graves.
Sebei 1 Gas Field
Sebei 1 Gas Field (涩北一号气田) is a Quaternary biogenic natural gas field in the eastern Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, discovered in 1964 and part of China's largest biogas producing area.
Sebei 2 Gas Field
Sebei 2 Gas Field (涩北二号气田) is a shallow Quaternary biogenetic natural gas field in the eastern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China, operated by PetroChina Qinghai Oilfield Company.