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Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus, c. 185–129 BC), Roman general and statesman who destroyed Carthage in 146 BC and took Numantia in 133 BC; opposed Tiberius Gracchus and died suddenly in 129 BC.
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, 237–183 BC), Roman general of the Second Punic War; conquered Carthaginian Spain (New Carthage, Ilipa) and defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC, earning the surname Africanus.
Scott O'Grady
Scott O'Grady, US Air Force F-16 pilot (call sign Basher 52), shot down by a Bosnian Serb SA-6 over Bosnia on June 2, 1995, evaded six days, rescued by Marines from USS Kearsarge; author of Return with Honor.
Scott Speicher
Scott Speicher was the US Navy F/A-18 pilot shot down the first night of the 1991 Gulf War, reclassified MIA in 2001 and Missing/Captured in 2002, whose remains were found and identified in Iraq in 2009.
Sean M. Curran
Sean M. Curran is the 28th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, appointed by Trump in January 2025. A Special Agent since 2001, he led Trump's protective detail and shielded him during the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt.
Sean Parnell (spokesperson)
Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson and Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs since February 2025; former Army Ranger, 10th Mountain platoon leader, author of Outlaw Platoon, and failed Pennsylvania Senate candidate.
Sebhat Aregawi
Sebhat Aregawi (ስብሐት አረጋዊ) was a Tigrayan nobleman and warrior prince who served as governor of Agamé in northern Ethiopia and fought at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Sefanaia Sukanaivalu
Sefanaia Sukanaivalu (1918–1944) was a Fijian soldier, a corporal in the Fiji Infantry Regiment posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Mawaraka, Bougainville, in June 1944, the only Fijian recipient.
Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu
Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu (born 1961, Artvin) is a Turkish army general and 32nd Chief of the General Staff, appointed 5 August 2025 after serving as Land Forces Commander and Deputy Chief of the General Staff.
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358–354–281 BC), Macedonian officer of Alexander and founder of the Seleucid Empire; won Babylonia in 312, traded eastern lands to Chandragupta for 500 elephants, won Ipsus (301) and Corupedium (281), founded Antioch and Seleucia, assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos.
Selim I
Selim I (Yavuz, "the Grim"; 1470–1520), ninth Ottoman sultan (r. 1512–1520), son of Bayezid II. Defeated Shah Ismail at Chaldiran (1514), conquered the Mamluk Sultanate (1516–17), annexed Syria, Egypt, and Hejaz, and brought the caliphate to the Ottomans.
Semyon Budyonny (Семён Михайлович Будённый)
Semyon Mikhaylovich Budyonny (Семён Михайлович Будённый), 1883–1973, Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander of the First Cavalry Army in the Russian Civil War; later a senior but largely unsuccessful World War II commander.
Semyon Timoshenko (Семён Константинович Тимошенко)
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Семён Константинович Тимошенко, 1895-1970) was a Soviet Marshal (1940), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar of Defense 1940-41, Winter War commander who broke the Mannerheim Line, and wartime front commander and Stavka coordinator.
Sentot Prawirodirjo
Sentot Prawirodirjo, also known as Sentot Ali Pasha, was a Javanese general who fought for Prince Diponegoro in the Java War and died in exile in 1855.
Sepp Dietrich
Sepp Dietrich (Josef Dietrich, 1892-1966), Hitler's favorite Waffen-SS commander, led the Leibstandarte, I SS Panzer Corps, and 6th SS Panzer Army; convicted in the Malmedy massacre trial, paroled 1955, later HIAG board member.
Serafín Sánchez
Serafín Sánchez, full name Serafín Gualberto Sánchez Valdivia, was a Cuban major general who fought in all three Cuban wars of independence, dying in combat in 1896.
Sergeant Siwash
Sergeant Siwash (Sgt. Siwash) was a domesticated duck and unofficial mascot of the 1st Battalion, 10th Marines through the Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian campaigns of World War II.
Sergeant Stubby
Sergeant Stubby, brindle stray Boston terrier-type dog and mascot of the 102nd Infantry, 26th Yankee Division in World War I; served 17 battles, wounded by gas and shrapnel, honorary sergeant, Smithsonian mount AF.58280M.
Sergei Korotkikh
Sergei Korotkikh (Malyuta, Botsman), born 1974 in Tolyatti, is a Belarusian-born neo-Nazi militant: RNE Belarus member, NSO co-founder in Russia, Azov Battalion head of reconnaissance, Ukrainian citizen from 2014.
Sergei Motorin (Сергей Михайлович Моторин)
Sergei Mikhailovich Motorin (Сергей Михайлович Моторин), KGB Line PR major in the Washington residency, was recruited by the FBI and executed after Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames betrayed his name in 1985.
Sergei Skripal (Сергей Викторович Скрипаль)
Sergei Skripal (Сергей Викторович Скрипаль), born 1951, is a former GRU colonel convicted of spying for MI6 in 2006, freed in the 2010 Vienna spy swap, and poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury, England, on 4 March 2018 with his daughter Yulia.
Sergey Surovikin (Сергей Владимирович Суровикин)
Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin (Сергей Владимирович Суровикин), "General Armageddon," Russian army general; Syria commander 2017 and 2019, Aerospace Forces chief 2017–2023, Ukraine theater commander October 2022 to January 2023, later posted to Algeria after the Wagner mutiny.
Seth Bullock
Seth Bullock (1847 or 1849–1919), Canadian-born Deadwood lawman, hardware merchant with Sol Star, first Black Hills Forest Reserve supervisor and U.S. marshal for South Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt's friend.
Seth Stone
Seth Stone was a U.S. Navy SEAL officer who received two Silver Stars for gallantry in Iraq. He died in a parachute training accident in Perris, California, in 2017.
Seung-Hui Cho (조승희)
Seung-Hui Cho (조승희), born 1984 in Seoul, was the Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 people and wounded 17 on April 16, 2007, before killing himself; he had a 2005 outpatient commitment order and passed gun background checks.
Shabeg Singh (ਸ਼ਬੇਗ ਸਿੰਘ)
Shabeg Singh (ਸ਼ਬੇਗ ਸਿੰਘ, born 1925), Indian Army major general, PVSM and AVSM, trained the Mukti Bahini in 1971, was dismissed without court-martial, then advised Bhindranwale's defense of the Golden Temple and died in Operation Blue Star, 6 June 1984.
Shadrack Sibiya
Shadrack Mongo Sibiya, former SAPS deputy national commissioner for crime detection, resigned 12 October 2026 with a dishonourable discharge amid Madlanga commission corruption allegations and rape and sexual-grooming charges, which he denies.
Shah Nawaz Khan (شاہ نواز خان) (general)
Shah Nawaz Khan (شاہ نواز خان), 1914–1983, INA major general who led forces at Imphal, faced the 1945 Red Fort trial, then served as Congress MP for Meerut and union minister.
Shahaji (शहाजी भोसले)
Shahaji Bhosale (शहाजी भोसले, 16 March 1599 (?) – 23 January 1664), father of Chhatrapati Shivaji, was a Maratha sardar serving the Nizam Shahi and Adil Shahi sultanates, holder of the Pune and Bangalore jagirs, and father of the Thanjavur Maratha founder Vyankoji.
Shaitan Singh (शैतान सिंह भाटी)
Major Shaitan Singh (शैतान सिंह भाटी), 1924–1962, Indian Army officer of 13 Kumaon who led Charlie Company's last stand at Rezang La, Ladakh, on 18 November 1962 and received a posthumous Param Vir Chakra.