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Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American playwright and actor, Pulitzer Prize winner for Buried Child (1979), author of True West and Fool for Love, Oscar-nominated as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.
Sam Simon
Sam Simon (1955-2015), American TV writer, producer, and co-creator of The Simpsons with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks; its first showrunner, nine-time Emmy winner, later animal-welfare philanthropist.
Sam Sorbo
Sam Sorbo (Sandra Jenkins, born 1964 or 1966, Pittsburgh) is an American actress, producer, author, and radio host of The Sam Sorbo Show, known for Hercules, Chicago Hope, Let There Be Light, and homeschooling advocacy.
Sam Strike
Sam Strike (Samuel Harry Strike) is a British actor best known for originating Johnny Carter in EastEnders and roles in Mindhunter and The Boys in the Boat.
Sam Tallent
Sam Tallent is an American stand-up comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast, from Elizabeth, Colorado. Known for Running the Light, Brut, and the specials Waiting for Death to Claim Us and The Toad's Morale.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson (born 1967, formerly Sam Taylor-Wood) is a British artist and filmmaker, Turner-nominated YBA and Goldsmiths graduate, director of Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey, A Million Little Pieces, and Back to Black.
Sam Thompson (TV personality)
Sam Thompson (TV personality), full name Samuel Robert De Courcy Thompson, is a British reality-TV star turned presenter: Made in Chelsea 2013, I'm a Celebrity 2023 winner, Hits Radio host, and Staying Relevant podcaster with Pete Wicks.
Sam Trammell
Sam Trammell (born 1969, New Orleans) is an American actor, Tony nominee for Ah, Wilderness!, best known as shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on HBO's True Blood (2008–2014), later in The Fault in Our Stars, Homeland, and Euphoria season 3.
Sam Tripoli
Sam Tripoli (born 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from Cortland, New York, a Comedy Store paid regular, host of Tin Foil Hat since 2016 and Punch Drunk Sports with Ari Shaffir.
Sam Troughton
Sam (Sam John) Troughton, born 1977 in Hampstead, London, is an English actor, son of David Troughton and grandson of Second Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. RSC regular (Romeo, Brutus, Edmund); known for Much in Robin Hood, Akimov in Chernobyl, Mank, Napoleon.
Sam Underwood
Sam Lewis Underwood (born 1987, Woking, England) is an English actor known for twin killers Mark and Luke Gray in The Following, Jake Otto in Fear the Walking Dead, and Adam Carrington in Dynasty, plus New York theatre work.
Sam Vincent
Sam Vincent (Samuel Vincent Khouth, born 1971) is a Canadian voice actor from North Vancouver, BC, known as Edd in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Krypto the Superdog, Athrun Zala in Gundam SEED, and Lloyd Garmadon in Ninjago from Season 8 onward.
Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993), American actor, director, and producer, founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust in 1970 and campaigned for over two decades to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London; the site's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened in 2014 is named for him.
Sam Warner
Sam Warner (Szmuel Wonsal, 1887-1927), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Warner Bros. Pictures; as the studio's technical chief he drove adoption of Vitaphone sound-on-disc, producing Don Juan (1926) and The Jazz Singer (1927), and died the day before the latter's premiere.
Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stage, film, and television actor, also credited as Samuel Atkinson Waterston, known for Jack McCoy on Law & Order (1994–2024, 405 episodes), the Oscar-nominated The Killing Fields, and Shakespeare stage work.
Sam Wills
Sam Wills, aka Tape Face (formerly The Boy With Tape On His Face), is a New Zealand silent prop comic and former circus sideshow performer, a 2016 America's Got Talent finalist with a long Las Vegas residency.
Sam Wilson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, is the MCU's Falcon from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and the first Black Captain America, leading The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and Captain America: Brave New World (2025) without the super-soldier serum.
Sam Winchester
Sam Winchester (Samuel William Winchester) is a fictional hunter and co-protagonist of Supernatural (2005–2020), played by Jared Padalecki. Born 1983 in-universe, he is Dean's younger brother, a demon-blood Special Child, and Lucifer's true vessel.
Sam Witwer
Sam Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer, born 1977) is an American actor and musician, the voice of Darth Maul since 2012 and of Starkiller in The Force Unleashed, also known for Being Human, Smallville, and Battlestar Galactica.
Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington (born 1976) is an Australian actor, NIDA graduate, and star of Jake Sully in James Cameron's Avatar franchise, plus Terminator Salvation and Clash of the Titans.
Samaire Armstrong
Samaire Rhys Armstrong, American actress and fashion designer born 1980 in Tokyo; known as Anna Stern on The O.C., Emily on Entourage, Juliet Darling on Dirty Sexy Money, and creator of the NARU clothing line.
Samantha Barks
Samantha Jane Barks (born 1990, Laxey, Isle of Man) is a British actress and singer, third-place finisher in BBC's I'd Do Anything, best known as Éponine in Les Misérables on stage, in the 25th anniversary concert, and the 2012 film, later Elsa in Frozen.
Samantha Beckinsale
Samantha (Samantha-Jane) Beckinsale, born 1966, is an English actress and writer, daughter of Richard Beckinsale and half-sister of Kate Beckinsale, best known as firefighter Kate Stevens in ITV's London's Burning (1990–1992) and for 1990s British sitcom roles.
Samantha Bentley
Samantha Bentley (born 1987) is an English former pornographic actress and glamour model who appeared in Game of Thrones and won AVN Awards in 2013 and 2015.
Samantha Bond
Samantha Bond (born 1961, London) is an English actress who played Miss Moneypenny in the four Pierce Brosnan James Bond films (1995 to 2002), Lady Rosamund in Downton Abbey, and Judith Potts in The Marlow Murder Club.
Samantha Brown
Samantha Elizabeth Brown, born 1970 in Dallas, Texas, is an American television host who spent 15 years on Travel Channel and now hosts Places to Love on PBS.
Samantha Carpenter
Samantha "Sam" Carpenter, played by Melissa Barrera, is the protagonist of Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023), the fictional daughter of killer Billy Loomis, half-sister of Tara, and a Core Four survivor later written out of Scream 7.
Samantha Carter
Samantha Carter, also Sam Carter, is the fictional astrophysicist and US Air Force officer of Stargate SG-1, played by Amanda Tapping; SG-1's science lead, later Atlantis expedition leader, with 228 franchise appearances.
Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar (1939-2025), British actor born in Hampstead, London; Oscar-nominated Best Actress for The Collector (1965), also Cannes and Golden Globe winner, star of The Brood, Doctor Dolittle, and Anna and the King.
Samantha Futerman
Samantha Futerman, born 1987 in Busan, South Korea, is a Korean American actress (Memoirs of a Geisha, 21 & Over) who discovered her identical twin Anaïs Bordier via Facebook in 2013 and co-directed the documentary Twinsters (2015).