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S. Pietro ad centum muros
S. Pietro ad centum muros (ad Muricentum), Romanesque church at Montebuono, Rieti, Lazio, built over the Roman 'Terme di Agrippa' villa; first noticed 1105, frescoed by Iacopo da Roccantica in 1451.
S. R. Bommai v. Union of India
S. R. Bommai v. Union of India (1994), (1994) 3 SCC 1, is a nine-judge Supreme Court of India ruling holding Article 356 proclamations subject to judicial review, federalism and secularism basic features, and the floor test the way to prove majority.
S. R. Jangid
S. R. Jangid (Sangram Jangid), 1985-batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre from Barmer, Rajasthan; retired as Tamil Nadu DGP in 2019. Known for the Bawaria gang operation after the 2005 MLA Sudarsanam murder, inspiration for the film Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru, and a 2023 University of Madras doctorate on police performance measurement.
S. R. Nathan
S. R. Nathan (Sellapan Ramanathan), sixth President of Singapore 1999-2011, its longest-serving; civil servant, SID intelligence director, ambassador to the US; approved first draw on past reserves in 2009; died 2016.
S. R. Prabhu (எஸ். ஆர். பிரபு)
S. R. Prabhu (எஸ். ஆர். பிரபு), Tamil film producer, partner in Dream Warrior Pictures, Potential Studios and formerly Studio Green; National Award winner for Joker (2016), cousin of Suriya and Karthi, TFPC treasurer 2017-2019.
S. R. Ranganathan
S. R. Ranganathan (1892–1972), Indian librarian and former mathematician, father of library science in India; creator of the Five Laws of Library Science (1931) and the faceted Colon Classification (1933).
S. R. Sivalingam
S. R. Sivalingam is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu, a longtime DMK leader from Salem who was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the 2025 to 2031 term.
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, known as S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, is an Indian-born American probabilist at New York University who won the 2007 Abel Prize.
S. Radha Krishna
S. Radha Krishna (born Suryadevara Radhakrishna), known in Telugu cinema as Chinna Babu, is an Indian film producer who runs Haarika & Hassine Creations and produced Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo and Guntur Kaaram.
S. Rajaratnam
S. Rajaratnam, born Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (1915–2006), was a Singaporean journalist and politician, a founding member of the People's Action Party who became Singapore's first Foreign Minister in 1965 and wrote the National Pledge.
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is a graduate school of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, begun in 1996 as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies.
S. Rajeshkumar
S. Rajeshkumar is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Killiyoor in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly since 2016 and serves as the state's tourism minister.
S. Ramadorai
S. Ramadorai (Subramaniam Ramadorai, எஸ். ராமதொரை) is an Indian business executive who was CEO of Tata Consultancy Services from 1996 to 2009, growing it into a $6 billion firm.
S. Ramakrishnan
S. Ramakrishnan (எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 1966), known in Tamil literary circles as S.Ra, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, and essays who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018.
S. Ramesan Nair
S. Ramesan Nair (Malayalam: എസ്. രമേശന് നായര്; 1948 – 2021) was an Indian Malayalam-language poet and film lyricist who won the 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gurupournami, and wrote some 650 film songs.
S. Ramesh (TVK politician)
S. Ramesh (TVK politician), Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam leader, is Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Tamil Nadu, and MLA for Srirangam, elected 2026 with 103,235 votes and a 33,590 margin; formerly a content writer and Vijay fan-movement worker.
S. Rao Kosaraju
S. Rao Kosaraju, born 1943, is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist who spent 50 years at Johns Hopkins University and is known for Kosaraju's algorithm.
S. Ravi P. Silva
S. Ravi P. Silva is a materials scientist who directs the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey and works on carbon nanomaterials and solar cells.
S. Richardson Hill Jr.
S. Richardson Hill Jr. (1923–2003) was an American endocrinologist who served as the second president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1977 to 1987.
S. Rocco
S. Rocco (San Rocco) is a Roman villa at Francolise, Caserta, Campania, on Monte Telefono at the edge of the Ager Falernus; excavated 1962-1966 by M. A. Cotton, with phases from 100/90 BC to the mid 2nd century AD, a 12-column Ionic peristyle, aqueduct-fed cisterns, and olive oil vats. Distinct from the Neoclassical Villa S. Rocco at San Martino Buon Albergo, Verona.
S. S. Kanchi
S. S. Kanchi (Siva Sri Kanchi), Telugu film and television writer, actor, and director; known for Amrutham's Ambhujam, Maryada Ramanna and Eega, and a story credit on Rajamouli's Varanasi.
S. S. Rajamouli
S. S. Rajamouli (Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli) is an Indian Telugu-cinema director of Baahubali (2015/2017) and RRR (2022), pioneer of the pan-India blockbuster; RRR won the Oscar for 'Naatu Naatu'; Varanasi is due 2027.
S. S. Rajendran
S. S. Rajendran (SSR, Latchiya Nadigar), Tamil film actor-director and politician (1928-2014); first Indian film actor elected MLA (Theni, DMK, 1962) and first Tamil actor in the Rajya Sabha (1970-1976), later AIADMK.
S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine, pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), American art critic turned detective novelist, creator of Philo Vance and author of the 1928 Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories.
S. Savitha
S. Savitha (Sanjeevareddygari Savitha), TDP politician, MLA for Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh since June 2024 and state minister for BC Welfare, EWS Welfare, and Handlooms and Textiles; won 2024 with 113,832 votes.
S. Sebastianus (Italy)
S. Sebastianus (San Sebastiano fuori le mura), the Basilica Apostolorum on the third mile of Rome's Via Appia Antica: a 4th-century Constantinian circiform funerary basilica, later dedicated to the martyr Sebastian, with catacombs that gave the word "catacomb" its name.
S. Selvaganabathy
S. Selvaganabathy is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Puducherry in the Rajya Sabha since 2021 and serves as president of the party's Puducherry unit.
S. Shankar (சங்கர் சண்முகம்)
S. Shankar (சங்கர் சண்முகம்), also Shankar Shanmugam, is an Indian Tamil film director and producer born 1963 in Kumbakonam, debut Gentleman (1993), known for big-budget corruption-themed blockbusters Indian, Sivaji, Enthiran, 2.0, and the S Pictures banner.
S. Somanath
Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the tenth Chairman of ISRO from 2022 to 2025, overseeing the Chandrayaan-3 lunar landing.
S. Sreesanth
S. Sreesanth (എസ്. ശ്രീശാന്ത്), Indian fast-medium bowler born 1983, played 27 Tests and 53 ODIs, won the 2007 T20 and 2011 ODI World Cups, was banned for life in 2013 (reduced to seven years), retired in 2022, and had a KCA ban lifted in 2026.