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Sergeant
Sergeant (from Latin serviens, via Old French sergant) is a noncommissioned officer rank above corporal in armies and police services; US Army E-5, first line of the NCO support channel, leading squads of 7-10 soldiers.
Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
House Sergeant at Arms: elected chief law enforcement and protocol officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, created April 14, 1789, custodian of the Mace, member of the Capitol Police Board, office in Room H-124 of the U.S. Capitol.
Sergeant first class
Sergeant first class (SFC) is the U.S. Army E-7 enlisted rank, first senior NCO grade; typically the platoon sergeant advising a lieutenant, with 10 to 15 years of Army experience, equivalent to gunnery sergeant or chief petty officer.
Sergeant major
Sergeant major: senior NCO rank (E-9 in the US Army, WO2 in the British Army). Distinguished from command sergeant major and from the Sergeant Major of the Army, created 1966, first held by William O. Wooldridge.
Sergeant Major of the Army
Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA), E-9S, is the U.S. Army's senior enlisted adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Army; created 4 July 1966, first held by William O. Wooldridge, 17 holders to date.
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (SgtMajMC): the senior enlisted advisor to the Commandant, established 1957, first held by Wilbur Bestwick; E-9 with three-star protocol equivalency, four-year term, selected via board.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (TV series)
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American TV series on CBS from 1955 to 1958, starring Richard Simmons as a Mountie in the Klondike Gold Rush.
Sergeant Reckless
Sergeant Reckless (Ah-Chim-Hai, Flame of the Morning), a Mongolian mare bought for $250 in 1952, served as a Marine pack horse in Korea, made 51 ammo trips at Outpost Vegas, earned two Purple Hearts, and retired as a staff sergeant.
Sergeant Rutledge
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) is John Ford's courtroom Western, also titled Captain Buffalo, starring Woody Strode as a Ninth Cavalry Buffalo Soldier tried for rape and murder; the first Hollywood Western with a Black hero.
Sergeant Siwash
Sergeant Siwash (Sgt. Siwash) was a domesticated duck and unofficial mascot of the 1st Battalion, 10th Marines through the Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian campaigns of World War II.
Sergeant Stubby
Sergeant Stubby, brindle stray Boston terrier-type dog and mascot of the 102nd Infantry, 26th Yankee Division in World War I; served 17 battles, wounded by gas and shrapnel, honorary sergeant, Smithsonian mount AF.58280M.
Sergeant York (film)
Sergeant York (1941) is a Warner Bros biographical war film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper as WWI Medal of Honor recipient Alvin C. York; Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar and the film joined the National Film Registry in 2008.
Sergeants' Revolt
The Sergeants' Revolt (Revolución de los sargentos) was a mutiny of Cuban army sergeants at Camp Columbia in Havana on 4 September 1933, overthrowing the provisional government of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
Sergei Adian
Sergei Adian, fully Sergei Ivanovich Adian, was a Soviet and Russian group theorist who solved the bounded Burnside problem negatively with Pyotr Novikov in 1968.
Sergei Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Сергей Натанович Бернштейн, 1880–1968) was a Soviet mathematician who founded the constructive theory of functions and solved two of Hilbert's problems.
Sergei Bobrovsky (Сергей Андреевич Бобровский)
Sergei Bobrovsky (Сергей Андреевич Бобровский), born 1988 in Novokuznetsk, is a Russian NHL goaltender, two-time Vezina winner (2013, 2017) and back-to-back Stanley Cup champion (2024, 2025) with Florida, now with Toronto; seventh all-time with 456 wins.
Sergei Bulgakov
Sergei Bulgakov (Сергей Николаевич Булгаков) was a Russian economist, religious philosopher, and Orthodox priest who moved from Marxism to Christian theology and died in Paris in 1944.
Sergei D. Odintsov
Sergei D. Odintsov, born 1959, is a Spanish cosmologist at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona who works on modified gravity as an alternative to dark energy.
Sergei Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев)
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев, 1872–1929), Russian impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes in Paris (1909), who commissioned Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring and united Picasso, Bakst, and Nijinsky.
Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Dovlatov (Сергей Довлатов) was a Russian writer and journalist who emigrated to New York in 1978 and wrote twelve books, including The Compromise and The Zone.
Sergei Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн)
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898–1948), Soviet film director and theorist, father of montage; directed Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible; five methods of montage; two Stalin Prizes.
Sergei Evdokimov
Sergei Alekseevich Evdokimov (1950–2016) was a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute in St. Petersburg, known for polynomial-time circulant graph isomorphism and Schur ring theory.
Sergei Fedorov (Сергей Викторович Фёдоров)
Sergei Fedorov (Сергей Викторович Фёдоров), born 1969 in Pskov, Russian NHL center, 1990-2009; three Stanley Cups with Detroit, first Russian-born player to 1,000 NHL points, Hart and two Selke trophies, Hockey Hall of Fame 2015, No. 91 retired by Red Wings in 2026.
Sergei Godunov
Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov (Сергей Годунов; 1929–2023) was a Russian mathematician who worked on differential equations and is best known for the Godunov scheme for computing compressible gas flows and for Godunov's theorem.
Sergei Gorshkov
Sergei Gorshkov, born Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov, was a Soviet naval officer who commanded the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985, building an oceangoing nuclear fleet.
Sergei Grinkov (Сергей Михайлович Гриньков)
Sergei Grinkov (Сергей Михайлович Гриньков), Soviet-Russian pair skater with wife Ekaterina Gordeeva; two Olympic golds (1988, 1994), four world titles; died of a heart attack practicing at Lake Placid in 1995, aged 28.
Sergei Grivennikov
Sergei I. Grivennikov is a cancer biologist and immunologist, a professor at Cedars-Sinai since 2021, known for establishing IL-6 and STAT3 signaling as required for intestinal tumor development.
Sergei Ivanov
Sergei Borisovich Ivanov (Сергей Борисович Иванов), Russian KGB officer and politician, defense minister 2001–2007, Kremlin chief of staff 2011–2016, once Putin's leading succession rival; died 2026.
Sergei Ivanov (Russian mathematician)
Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov is a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute in St. Petersburg, known for metric geometry and boundary rigidity, and coauthor of A Course in Metric Geometry.
Sergei K. Turitsyn
Sergei K. Turitsyn is a researcher in nonlinear photonics, soliton theory, and optical communications, Professor at Aston University since 2005 and director of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies.