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Saman Kunan (สมาน กุนัน)
Saman Kunan (สมาน กุนัน), aka Ja Sam, was a former Thai Navy SEAL diver, 38, who died 6 July 2018 delivering oxygen tanks in the Tham Luang cave rescue, the operation's first and only fatality.
Samantha Sally
Samantha Sally (Samantha Marie Elhassani), American woman who lived in ISIS's Raqqa capital 2015-2017, funded her husband's joining via Hong Kong gold smuggling, and became the first American woman repatriated from Syria and convicted of terrorism financing.
Sameer Wankhede (समीर वानखडे)
Sameer Wankhede (समीर वानखडे), IRS officer of the 2008 batch and former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director, led the 2021 Cordelia cruise drug case against Aryan Khan; later faced an NCB SET report, a CBI corruption case, and disciplinary proceedings.
Sami Sadat (سمیع سادات)
Sami Sadat (سمیع سادات), Samiullah Sadat, former Afghan National Army lieutenant general who commanded the 215th Maiwand Corps in Helmand and the special operations command during the August 2021 fall of Kabul; now leads the Afghanistan United Front in exile and wrote The Last Commander (2024).
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (1933–1986), Mozambican revolutionary, first president of independent Mozambique from 1975, led FRELIMO from 1970 and died in the disputed 1986 Mbuzini Tupolev Tu-134 crash.
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (1840–1924), American Army general; Civil War cavalry officer, frontier veteran, first Army War College president, and first U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1903–1904).
Samuel Barrington
Samuel Barrington (1729–1800) was a British admiral of the Royal Navy, best known as commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands during the American War of Independence, where he captured St Lucia in 1778.
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont was a United States Navy rear admiral from Delaware's du Pont family, best known for leading the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Civil War.
Samuel Gibbs
Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770-1815) was an English British Army major-general who served in Corsica, Ostend, the West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Travancore, and Java, then died of wounds leading a column at the Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815.
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724 to 1816) was a British admiral who fought the French in the American Revolutionary War, took Toulon in 1793, and patronized Nelson.
Samuel Zborowski
Samuel Zborowski (died 1584) was a Polish magnate, cavalry captain, and Cossack hetman beheaded in Kraków on King Stephen Báthory's order in a contested execution.
Sanada Yukimura (真田 幸村)
Sanada Yukimura (真田幸村), historically Sanada Nobushige (1567–1615), was a Sengoku samurai, second son of Sanada Masayuki, who built the Sanada-maru outwork at the Siege of Osaka and died charging Tokugawa Ieyasu's headquarters in 1615.
Sandeep Jain
Lieutenant General Sandeep Jain, AVSM, SM, Indian Army officer commissioned into the Mahar Regiment in June 1988; commanded XVI Corps, the Indian Military Academy, and Southern Command before becoming Vice Chief of the Army Staff on 1 July 2026.
Sandeep Unnikrishnan (സന്ദീപ് ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണൻ)
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan (സന്ദീപ് ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണൻ), Indian Army officer of 7 Bihar on deputation to NSG 51 SAG, killed in the 2008 Taj Hotel Mumbai counter-terror operation Black Tornado and posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra.
Sandy Woodward
Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward (1932–2013), Royal Navy submariner and admiral who tactically commanded the Falklands task force TF 317 from HMS Hermes in 1982, wrote One Hundred Days, and never became First Sea Lord.
Sangolli Rayanna (ಸಂಗೊಳ್ಳಿ ರಾಯಣ್ಣ)
Sangolli Rayanna (ಸಂಗೊಳ್ಳಿ ರಾಯಣ್ಣ), Kittur warrior and lieutenant of Rani Chennamma, led an 1829–1830 guerrilla rising against the British in Belagavi and was hanged at Nandgad; execution date disputed (1830/1831).
Sani Abacha
General Sani Abacha was a Nigerian Army general who seized power in a 1993 coup and ruled Nigeria as military head of state until his death in 1998.
Sanjay Kumar (संजय कुमार) (soldier)
Sanjay Kumar (संजय कुमार), born 1976 in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, is a retired Indian Army Honorary Captain of 13 JAK Rifles awarded the Param Vir Chakra for his 4 July 1999 assault on Point 4875, Flat Top, in the Kargil War's Mushkoh Valley.
Sanjay Mitra (general)
Lieutenant General Sanjay Mitra, AVSM, is a serving Indian Army general of the Grenadiers, commissioned 1989; GOC of Strike 1 Corps 2023-2025, then GOC-in-C Central Command from October 2026. Distinct from the IAS officer Sanjay Mitra, former Defence Secretary.
Sanjiv Bhatt (સંજીવ ભટ્ટ)
Sanjiv Bhatt (સંજીવ ભટ્ટ), 1988-batch Gujarat IPS officer, filed a 2011 Supreme Court affidavit against Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots; dismissed in 2015, sentenced to life in a 1990 custodial death case and 20 years in a 1996 NDPS case.
Sasaki Hideyoshi
Sasaki Hideyoshi (佐々木秀義) was a samurai commander of the late Heian period who headed the Sasaki clan of Ōmi Province, born in 1112 and killed in battle in 1184.
Sasaki Kojirō (佐々木 小次郎)
Sasaki Kojirō (佐々木小次郎), also called Ganryū, was an early Edo Japanese swordsman killed by Miyamoto Musashi on Ganryū-jima on 13 April 1612; known for the long sword Monohoshi-zao and the Tsubame-gaeshi technique, though his biography is largely legend.
Sassa Narimasa
Sassa Narimasa (佐々成政, 1536–1588) was a Japanese Sengoku-period warlord who served Oda Nobunaga, ruled Etchū Province from Toyama Castle, and died by seppuku in 1588.
Satam al-Suqami
Satam al-Suqami (سطام السقامي), Saudi born 1976 in Riyadh, was a muscle hijacker on American Airlines Flight 11 in the 9/11 attacks; he trained at Khaldan camp, got his U.S. visa in November 2000, and arrived in April 2001.
Satank
Satank (Sitting Bear) was a noted Kiowa warrior and medicine man who died in 1871 resisting transfer to trial for the Warren Wagon Train Raid.
Satanta
Satanta, in Kiowa Set'tainte meaning White Bear, was a Kiowa war chief and orator born around 1820, known for signing the Little Arkansas and Medicine Lodge treaties.
Satoshi Kirishima (桐島聡)
Satoshi Kirishima (桐島聡), born 1954, East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front "Sasori" cell member wanted since May 1975 for the serial corporate bombings; identified himself in a Kamakura hospital in January 2024, died four days later, and was confirmed by DNA after 49 years fugitive.
Satwant Singh (ਸਤਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Satwant Singh (ਸਤਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ), Sikh police constable who with Beant Singh assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984 in retaliation for Operation Blue Star; survived guardroom shooting, sentenced to death 1986, hanged January 1989.
Saurabh Kalia (सौरभ कालिया)
Captain Saurabh Kalia (सौरभ कालिया), 4 Jat Regiment officer born 1976, captured with five sepoys at Bajrang Post, Kaksar, on 15 May 1999, tortured 22 days in Pakistani custody, died 9 June 1999; first martyr of the Kargil War.
Sava Kovačević
Sava Kovačević (Сава Ковачевић) was a Montenegrin Partisan commander killed at the Battle of the Sutjeska in 1943 and named a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.