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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948–2003), Brazilian UN diplomat, led UNHCR operations, UNTAC repatriation, and East Timor's UNTAET transition, then served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative for Iraq, killed in the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad.
Sergio Zardini
Sergio Zardini (1931–1966), Italian bobsleigh pilot, 1964 Olympic two-man silver medalist with Romano Bonagura, 1963 four-man world champion, died in a Lake Placid crash.
Sergipe
Sergipe: smallest Brazilian state by area (21,938 km²), Northeast region, capital Aracaju, about 2.2 million people, lowest GDP in the Northeast, governor Fábio Mitidieri.
Sergipe FSRU
The Sergipe FSRU, a floating storage and regasification unit moored off Barra dos Coqueiros, Sergipe, Brazil, supplies the 1.6 GW Porto de Sergipe I power plant and, since 2024, Brazil's national gas pipeline network.
Sergiu Klainerman
Sergiu Klainerman is Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, known for proving the global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space and, in 2023, of Kerr black holes.
Sergiu P. Pașca
Sergiu P. Pașca, also published as Sergiu Pasca, is a Romanian-born Stanford physician-scientist who pioneered assembloids, human neural circuits built from stem cells to study brain development and disease.
Sergius I
Sergius I (Greek: Σέργιος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638, a Syrian who defended the city against the Avar siege of 626 and wrote the Ekthesis, condemned as heresy in 680.
Sergius II (Patriarch of Constantinople)
Sergius II, who died in 1019, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1001 under Emperor Basil II, resisting his allelengyon tax and venerating him as a saint.
Sergius II (Pope)
Sergius II was pope from 844 to 847, consecrated without imperial ratification, whose pontificate saw the Saracen sack of St Peter's and St Paul's in 846.
Sergius IV
Sergius IV, born Pietro and nicknamed Boccapecora, was the bishop of Rome from 1009 to 1012, the 142nd pope, elevated by the Crescentii family and suspected of being murdered.
Sergius of Radonezh (Сергий Радонежский)
Sergius of Radonezh (Сергий Радонежский) was a Russian monk, born in 1314, who founded the Trinity Monastery, now the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad.
Sergiy Grygorovych
Sergiy Grygorovych is a Ukrainian game designer and businessman who founded GSC Game World in Kyiv in 1995 and led the studio behind the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.
Sergiy Minko
Sergiy Minko is a Ukrainian-born polymer and materials scientist, Georgia Power Professor at the University of Georgia since 2020, known for his work on stimuli-responsive polymer materials.
Serglycin
Serglycin (SRGN) is the only known intracellular proteoglycan, a 158-aa core protein with Ser-Gly repeats on chromosome 10q22.1 that packages heparin- or chondroitin sulfate-bound mediators in immune cell granules and marks aggressive cancers.
Sergo Chakhoyan
Sergo Chakhoyan (Սէրգո Չախոյան), born 1969 in Gyumri, Armenian-Australian weightlifter; three Olympics (1996 ARM, 2000/2004 AUS), 1994 and 2001 snatch world records, 2003 world bronze, later jeweler.
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Ordzhonikidze, born Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, was a Georgian-born Bolshevik and Soviet leader, People's Commissar of Heavy Industry from 1932 to 1937 and a Politburo member from 1930.
Şerh
Şerh (Arabic شرح) is a genre of Islamic scholarship that explains a well-known, usually abridged text in expanded form, clarifying obscure expressions and adding examples.
Serhan Cevik
Serhan Cevik is an IMF economist who was chief economist for global emerging markets at Morgan Stanley and Nomura, researching fiscal policy, climate shocks, and fintech.
Serhii Koretskyi (Сергій Федорович Корецький)
Serhii Koretskyi (Сергій Федорович Корецький), born 1978 in Lutsk, is a Ukrainian businessman and prime minister from 16 July 2026, succeeding Yuliia Svyrydenko; formerly CEO of WOG, Ukrnafta, and Naftogaz.
Serhii Kyslytsia
Serhii Kyslytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat serving as First Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, a key figure in talks with Russia, and formerly First Deputy Foreign Minister.
Serhii Marchenko
Serhii Marchenko (born 1981) is a Ukrainian politician who has served as Minister of Finance of Ukraine since 2020, after serving as Deputy Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2018.
Serhii Morhunov
Serhii Anatoliiovych Morhunov, born 1968 in Vinnytsia, is a Ukrainian politician serving as Mayor of Vinnytsia since 2015, reelected in 2020 with 65.93 percent of the vote.
Serhii Podolynsky
Serhii Podolynsky (Сергій Подолінський, 1850–1891) was a Ukrainian physician, economist, and revolutionary socialist whose 1880 work reconciling Marx's labor theory of value with thermodynamics made him a pioneer of ecological economics.
Serhii Tiurin
Serhii Tiurin (Сергій Тюрін), born 1977, is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer who became head of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast State Administration in May 2024 after 20 years practicing law in Kyiv.
Serhiy Cherevko
Serhiy Cherevko (Сергій Черевко) is a Ukrainian-born electrochemist who studies how electrocatalysts dissolve during water electrolysis and fuel-cell operation, and who introduced the stability number in 2018.
Serhiy Tkach
Serhiy Tkach (Сергій Ткач, 1952–2018), the "Polohy maniac", was a former Soviet police criminalist who raped and murdered girls and young women across Ukraine from 1980 to 2005; convicted of 37 murders, sentenced to life, while nine innocent people were wrongly convicted for his crimes.
Serhiy Yefremov
Serhiy Yefremov (Сергій Єфремов, 1876–1939) was a Ukrainian literary historian and political leader, deputy head of the Central Rada in 1917 and vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан), born 1974 in Starobilsk and based in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian poet and novelist whose books include Voroshilovgrad, Mesopotamia, and The Orphanage.
Serhou Guirassy
Serhou Yadaly Guirassy (born 1996, Arles) is a Guinean striker for Borussia Dortmund; former Amiens, Rennes and Stuttgart forward who scored 28 goals in 28 Bundesliga games in 2023/24 and 10 Champions League goals in 11 matches in 2024/25.
Seri oral literature
Seri oral literature is the stories, songs, and legends of the Comcaac (Seri) people of the Sonora coast in northwestern Mexico, composed in their isolate language, cmiique iitom.