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Walter S. Burrage
Walter S. Burrage was an American allergist who directed the Allergy Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the American Academy of Allergy in 1952.
Walter S. Leal
Walter S. Leal is a Brazilian-born chemical ecologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis who studies insect olfaction and is known for elucidating the mode of action of DEET.
Walter Samuel
Walter Samuel (Wálter Adrián Samuel, born 1978, Firmat), Argentine centre-back nicknamed 'The Wall' (Il Muro); played for Boca, Roma, Real Madrid, Inter (2009-10 treble) and Basel; 57 Argentina caps; now Scaloni's assistant coach.
Walter Samuel Hunter
Walter Samuel Hunter (1889–1954) was an American experimental psychologist whose delayed-response task dominated animal memory research for fifty years; he also founded Psychological Abstracts and led the American Psychological Association.
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) was an English poet and prose writer, best known for the Imaginary Conversations (1824–1829), dialogues between historical figures, and for classical poems, many written in Latin.
Walter Savitch
Walter Savitch (1943–2021) was an American computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for Savitch's theorem, his 1970 result on deterministic simulation of nondeterministic machines, and introductory programming textbooks.
Walter Schaffner
Walter Schaffner, born 1944 in Aarau, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Zurich whose laboratory discovered the first viral and cellular transcription enhancers.
Walter Scheidel
Walter Scheidel is a Stanford historian and the world's most cited active Roman historian, author of The Great Leveler and Escape from Rome and creator of the ORBIS travel model.
Walter Schellenberg
Walter Schellenberg (1910-1952) was a German SS-Brigadefuehrer who headed RSHA Office VI, Nazi Germany's foreign intelligence service, staged the 1939 Venlo Incident abduction, absorbed the Abwehr in 1944, testified for the prosecution at the IMT, and drew six years in the 1949 Ministries Case.
Walter Schloss
Walter Schloss (1916–2012) was an American value investor in New York City who ran his own investment partnership from 1955 to 2002, compounding at 15.7% a year.
Walter Schmidt (Austrian geologist)
Walter Schmidt (1885–1945) was an Austrian geologist, mineralogist, and petrographer who co-founded the discipline of structural petrology with Bruno Sander and introduced the equal-area projection known as the Schmidt net.
Walter Schottky
Walter Schottky, also known as Walter Hans Schottky, was a German physicist (1886–1976) known for shot noise, the Schottky defect, the Schottky barrier and diode, and the superheterodyne receiver.
Walter Schroder
Walter Schroder (Walter Wilhelm Ludwig Schröder; 1932–2022) was a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights at Rome 1960 with the Ratzeburg crew.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish poet and novelist, popularized the historical novel with Waverley (1814) and Ivanhoe (1820); anonymous 'Author of Waverley' until 1827, ruined by 1826 publishing collapse, model for Cooper and Hawthorne.
Walter Scott Jr. power station
The Walter Scott Jr. power station, formally the Walter Scott Jr. Energy Center, is a coal-fired plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy.
Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942), German-born English painter, pupil of Whistler and friend of Degas; founder of the Camden Town Group, painter of music halls, Camden nudes and Dieppe townscapes; subject of a discredited Jack the Ripper claim.
Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (1912–2003), South African anti-apartheid leader, ANC Secretary-General 1949–1954, co-founder of the ANC Youth League and Umkhonto we Sizwe, Rivonia life prisoner, later ANC Deputy President and Mandela's mentor.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner (Walter Sergei Skinner), fictional FBI assistant director in The X-Files, played by Mitch Pileggi; superior and reluctant ally of Mulder and Scully, first appearing in "Tooms".
Walter Slezak
Walter Slezak, Austrian-born character actor and bass-baritone (May 3, 1902 Vienna – April 21, 1983 Flower Hill, NY). Father Leo Slezak; Broadway Fanny 1955 Tony; Hitchcock's Lifeboat 1944; daughter Erika Slezak.
Walter Smith
Walter Smith (1948-2021), Scottish football manager; won 21 trophies including 10 league titles across two Rangers spells (second only to Bill Struth), managed Everton 1998-2002 and Scotland 2004-2007, and reached the 2008 UEFA Cup final.
Walter Spence
Walter Percy Spence (1901-1958), Guyanese-born swimmer who competed for Canada at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics, won 1928 relay bronze, set the 100 m breaststroke world record in 1927, and won three straight NCAA 100 free titles.
Walter Spies
Walter Spies (1895–1942) was a Moscow-born German painter, musician, and curator who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1927, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association, and helped create the Kecak dance.
Walter Stadnick
Walter Stadnick (Wolodumyr Stadnick), nicknamed "Nurget", is a Canadian outlaw biker, former national president of the Hells Angels in Canada and founding member of the Nomads chapter, convicted in 2004 of gangsterism, murder conspiracy and drug conspiracy after Operation Springtime.
Walter Steffens
Walter Steffens (Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens), German gymnast, 1908–2006, won 1936 Berlin Olympic team all-around gold; 17th individual, fifth on pommel horse; later a gymnastics teacher.
Walter Stokes
Walter Raymond Stokes (1898–1996) was an American sport shooter who won gold and bronze at the 1924 Paris Olympics and 11 World Championship golds, later becoming a psychiatrist and Planned Parenthood leader.
Walter Sumetzberger
Walter Sumetzberger is an Austrian business executive, managing director and sole shareholder of Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH, a Vienna family firm and leading maker of pneumatic tube systems, since 2023.
Walter Sutton
Walter Stanborough Sutton (1877–1916) was an American cytologist and surgeon who, in papers of 1902 and 1903 on grasshopper chromosomes, first argued that chromosomes obey Mendel's rules, the Sutton–Boveri theory of heredity.
Walter Sydney Adams
Walter Sydney Adams was an American astronomer who directed the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1923 to 1946 and developed the spectroscopic method of determining stellar distances.
Walter T. Hughes
Walter T. Hughes was an American pediatrician and infectious-disease physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital whose 1977 trial established TMP-SMX as prophylaxis against Pneumocystis pneumonia in children with cancer.
Walter T. Mosley
Walter T. Mosley is an American Democratic politician who has served as New York's 69th Secretary of State since 2024, after serving in the State Assembly.