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S. E. K. Mqhayi

S. E. K. Mqhayi, full name Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875–1945), was a Xhosa poet, historian, and journalist called "the Shakespeare of the Xhosa language" who added stanzas to "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika".

S. Edward Law

S. Edward Law is an American agricultural and biological engineer, D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

S. Edward Sulkin

S. Edward Sulkin (S. E. Sulkin, 1908–1972) was an American virologist who led microbiology at UT Southwestern for 27 years and established bats as a rabies reservoir.

S. Epatha Merkerson

S. Epatha Merkerson, born Sharon Epatha Merkerson in 1952, is an American actress best known as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on Law & Order from 1993 to 2010.

S. Erasmo di Cesi

S. Erasmo di Cesi (Sant'Erasmo), hilltop archaeological site above Cesi, Terni, Umbria, with polygonal walls about 400 m long enclosing ~7,000 sq m; possibly Pliny's Clusiulum; never excavated; later medieval Rocca and church.

S. Ermete

S. Ermete (Catacomba di S. Ermete o Bassilla, Catacomb of St. Hermes) is a third-century Christian catacomb on Rome's Salaria Vetus, on three levels, holding the martyrs Proto and Giacinto and a semi-hypogeal basilica over St. Hermes' tomb.

S. Eulalia de Bóveda

Santa Eulalia de Bóveda (Santalla de Bóveda), a late Roman semisubterranean monument near Lugo, Galicia, discovered in 1914, with frescoes, a piscina, disputed function, and 4th-century dating.

S. Fischer Verlag

S. Fischer Verlag is a German literary publishing house founded in Berlin in 1886 by Samuel Fischer and based in Frankfurt am Main as part of the Holtzbrinck group.

Oct 10, 2026

S. Francis Boys

S. Francis Boys, born Samuel Francis (Frank) Boys, was a British theoretical chemist at Cambridge who introduced Gaussian-type orbitals into quantum chemistry in 1950, a basis still used today.

Oct 20, 2026

S. Francisco

S. Francisco is a freshwater ecoregion in Brazil defined by the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World project, covering the entire drainage basin of the Rio São Francisco.

S. Fred Singer

S. Fred Singer, born Siegfried Fred Singer, was an Austrian-born American space physicist and first director of the National Weather Satellite Center, later known for challenging mainstream climate science.

S. George Bankoff

S. George Bankoff (1921–2011) was an American chemical engineer and Northwestern University professor known for two-phase flow and heat transfer research in nuclear reactor safety.

S. George Philander

S. George Philander, born 1942 in South Africa, is an American oceanographer and Princeton professor best known for advancing understanding of El Niño and coining the term La Niña.

S. Giovanni in Galdo

S. Giovanni in Galdo: Italic (Samnite) sanctuary, Tempio Italico, on Colle Rimontato near San Giovanni in Galdo, Molise; nearly square temple with two porticoes, monumentalized after 104 BC, abandoned 3rd century AD.

S. Goya Wannamethee

S. Goya Wannamethee, also known as Goya Wannamethee, is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and Study Director of the British Regional Heart Study since 1999.

S. Guptan Nair

S. Guptan Nair (ഗുപ്തൻ നായർ) was an Indian scholar and critic of Malayalam literature who published more than 35 books and won the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram.

S. H. Raza

S. H. Raza, born Sayed Haider Raza, was an Indian modernist painter known for geometric abstractions built around the bindu, a dot drawn from Indian spiritual traditions.

S. Harvey Mudd

S. Harvey Mudd is a medical genetics researcher who earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1953 and defined the enzymatic defects behind homocystinuria and sulfite oxidase deficiency.

S. I. Hayakawa

S. I. Hayakawa (Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, 1906–1992) was a Canadian-born Japanese American semanticist who wrote Language in Thought and Action, led San Francisco State College, and served as Republican Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.

S. I. Padmavati

S. I. Padmavati (Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati), India's first female cardiologist; founded the All India Heart Foundation (1962) and National Heart Institute (1981), set up North India's first cath lab, and received the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.

Oct 20, 2026

S. Ippolito

S. Ippolito (Catacomba di Sant'Ippolito) is a Roman catacomb on the Via Tiburtina centered on the tomb of martyr Hippolytus; 3rd-century origin, Damasus and Vigilius interventions, explored by Bosio.

S. Iswaran

S. Iswaran, Singapore's former transport minister (2021-2024) and long-serving PAP MP, first ex-Cabinet minister jailed; 12-month sentence in 2024 for obtaining gifts as a public servant and obstructing justice.

Sep 27, 2026

S. J. Plager

S. Jay Plager, born 1931, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2000.

S. J. Suryah (எஸ். ஜே. சூர்யா)

S. J. Suryah (எஸ். ஜே. சூர்யா; born S. Justin Selvaraj, 20 July 1968) is an Indian Tamil film director turned actor. Directed hits Vaalee (1999) and Kushi (2000), then became a top villain actor after Iraivi (2016), starring in Spyder, Maanaadu, and Jailer 2.

Sep 27, 2026

S. Jagathrakshakan

S. Jagathrakshakan, born in 1948, is an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam who represents Arakkonam in the Lok Sabha and served as a Union minister.

S. Jaishankar (सुब्रह्मण्यम जयशंकर)

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (सुब्रह्मण्यम जयशंकर) is India's External Affairs Minister since May 30, 2019 and a career Indian Foreign Service diplomat (joined 1977), former Foreign Secretary, ambassador to China and the US, and exponent of multi-alignment.