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Shamil Basayev
Shamil Basayev (Shamil Basaev), Chechen field commander and terrorist leader of the 1994–96 and 1999 wars; led Budyonnovsk 1995, Dagestan 1999, Beslan 2004; killed by Russian forces July 2006.
Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum (born 1999) is a British-born woman stripped of UK citizenship in 2019 by Home Secretary Sajid Javid after joining Islamic State in Syria at 15; all UK courts, ending at the Supreme Court in 2024, upheld the deprivation.
Sheikh Hassan Barsane
Sheikh Hassan Barsane (Somali: Sheekh Xasan Barsane), born in 1853, was a Somali Salihiyya cleric who led armed resistance against Italian colonial rule in southern Somalia in the early 1920s.
Sher Singh Rana (शेर सिंह राणा)
Sher Singh Rana (शेर सिंह राणा), alias Pankaj, of Roorkee, convicted in 2014 of murdering MP Phoolan Devi (2001), escaped Tihar Jail in 2004, travelled to Kabul and Kandahar claiming to recover Prithviraj Chauhan's remains, wrote Jail Diary, and is the subject of announced biopics.
Shi Bi
Shi Bi (史弼), courtesy name Junzuo and Mongol name Talahun, was a Yuan dynasty general from Hebei who led Kublai Khan's failed invasion of Java in 1292–1293.
Shigetarō Shimada (島田繁太郎)
Shigetarō Shimada (嶋田繁太郎, 1883–1976) was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral, Navy Minister under Tōjō from 1941 who approved the Pearl Harbor attack, briefly concurrently Chief of the Navy General Staff in 1944, and a convicted Class A war criminal released in 1955. Distinct from namesake Tanida Shigetarō.
Shigeyoshi Inoue (井上成美)
Shigeyoshi Inoue (井上成美, 1889–1975), the "last admiral" of the Imperial Japanese Navy: anti-Tripartite Pact air-power advocate, Fourth Fleet commander at the Coral Sea, Vice Minister of the Navy 1944–45, postwar English teacher in Yokosuka.
Shima Sakon
Shima Sakon, formally Shima Kiyooki (嶋清興), was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period who served as chief retainer of Ishida Mitsunari and commanded troops at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.
Shirkuh
Shirkuh, also known as Asad ad-Din Shirkuh, was a Kurdish commander and statesman who served Nur al-Din. He was the uncle of Saladin and led three Egyptian expeditions.
Shivaji
Shivaji (1630–1680) Bhonsle, founder of the Maratha kingdom and Chhatrapati crowned in 1674; built an independent state from the Pune jagir against Bijapur and the Mughals, with chauth and sardeshmukhi levies and the Ashtapradhan administration.
Shivaram Rajguru (शिवराम हरी राजगुरु)
Shivaram Hari Rajguru (शिवराम हरी राजगुरु), alias Raghunath, HSRA marksman born 1908 at Khed (Rajgurunagar), fired first at Saunders in Lahore 1928, hanged with Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev on 23 March 1931.
Shoichi Yokoi (横井庄一)
Shoichi Yokoi (横井庄一, 1915–1997), Imperial Japanese Army sergeant, hid in Guam's jungles for 28 years after the 1944 US recapture, was found in January 1972 near Talo'fo'fo, returned to Japan saying he returned with embarrassment, and became a national figure.
Shon Barnes
Shon Fitzgerald Barnes, American police chief, served as Madison, Wisconsin's 30th chief (2021-2025) and Seattle's 38th chief (February 2025-July 2026), resigning after criticism of the Bite of Seattle shooting response; evidence-based policing Hall of Fame inductee.
Shote Galica
Shote Galica, born Qerime, was a Kosovo Albanian woman fighter who fought for roughly twelve years against Serbian and Yugoslav rule in Kosovo alongside her husband Azem Galica.
Shrinjay Pratap Singh
Lieutenant General Shrinjay Pratap Singh, AVSM, YSM, Indian Army Kumaon Regiment infantry officer commissioned 10 June 1989; former DG Defence Intelligence Agency and Southern Command Chief of Staff; GOC-in-C ARTRAC Shimla since 1 October 2026; son of Vir Chakra awardee Major Dhirendra Nath Singh.
Shuja-ud-Daula (شجاع الدولہ)
Shuja-ud-Daula (شجاع الدولہ), 1732–1775, third Nawab of Awadh (r. 1754–75), son of Safdar Jang; defeated at Buxar 1764, restored by the Treaty of Allahabad 1765; tomb at Gulab Bari, Faizabad.
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六)
Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, 1879–1962), Japanese field marshal and artillerist; War Minister 1939–40, commander of the China Expeditionary Army 1941–44 during Operation Ichigō; sentenced to life imprisonment at the Tokyo trial, paroled 1954.
Si Votha
Si Votha (also Votha, Sivotha; 1841–1891) was a Cambodian prince, son of King Ang Duong, who spent roughly 25 years in revolt against King Norodom and the French.
Sicarii
Sicarii, first-century CE Jewish dagger-assassins named from the Latin sicarius and the curved sica dagger; active before and during the First Jewish–Roman War, killed the high priest Jonathan, held Masada; known almost solely through Josephus.
Siddi Johar
Siddi Johar (सिद्दी जौहर), titled Salabat Khan, was a general of African (Habshi) descent serving the Bijapur Sultanate who commanded the siege of Shivaji at Panhala fort in 1660.
Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb (1918-1999), American biochemist and head of the CIA's Technical Services Division, ran the MKULTRA mind-control and LSD experimentation program (authorized 1953), later destroyed its records in 1973 and testified to the Church Committee.
Sidney Phillips
Sidney Clarke Phillips Jr. (born September 2, 1924), Mobile, Alabama Marine, 81mm mortarman in H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines at Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester; childhood friend of Eugene Sledge, later family physician, memoirist of You'll Be Sor-ree, and a figure in The War and The Pacific.
Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly, born Sigmund Rosenblum, the "Ace of Spies," was a British MI6 agent against Bolshevik Russia, inspiration for James Bond, executed by the OGPU in Moscow in 1925.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi (司馬懿, Zhongda, 179–251) was a Cao Wei statesman and general who seized power in the Gaoping Tombs coup of 249, executed co-regent Cao Shuang, and founded his family's dominance that led to the Jin dynasty.
Simo Häyhä
Simo Häyhä (Valkoinen kuolema, White Death), Finnish Winter War sniper at Kollaa with 6/JR 34; credited with 542 kills in 98 days using an iron-sighted M/28-30 rifle, a figure his own memoir puts at about 500.
Simon bar Kokhba
Simon bar Kokhba (Simeon bar Kosevah), leader of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome, 132–135 CE; titled nasi of Israel, hailed as messiah by Rabbi Akiva, died at the fall of Betar in 135; his state minted overstruck coins before Rome devastated Judea.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886-1945), American Army general, son of the Confederate general and Kentucky governor of the same name; built Alaska's WWII defenses, commanded Tenth Army at Okinawa, and was the highest-ranking U.S. officer killed by enemy action in the war.
Simon Hamilton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Simon Peter Hamilton, KBE, is a British Army officer and Deputy Chief of the General Staff since April 2026, formerly interim CEO and Director General Land at Defence Equipment & Support.
Simon Mann
Simon Mann (1952-2025), British ex-SAS officer and mercenary, co-founder of Executive Outcomes and Sandline, led the failed 2004 Wonga Coup against Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang, was jailed in Zimbabwe and Malabo, pardoned in 2009.
Simon Weston
Simon Weston (born 1961, Caerphilly) is a Welsh Falklands War veteran, Welsh Guardsman, and CBE who survived the 1982 bombing of RFA Sir Galahad with 46% burns, later becoming a charity founder, author, and motivational speaker.