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Subculture
Subculture: a smaller cultural group within a larger culture, with distinct values, practices, and styles; traced from the Chicago School's deviance studies to the Birmingham CCCS's symbolic resistance, Hebdige, subcultural capital, and post-subcultural debates.
Sudeten Germans
Sudeten Germans (Sudetendeutsche), ethnic Germans of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia; about 3 million in interwar Czechoslovakia, annexed to Germany in 1938, and almost entirely expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945-46.
Sümeyye Erdoğan
Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar (born 1985, Istanbul), daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a Turkish activist and founding vice president of KADEM, the Women and Democracy Association, married to drone engineer Selçuk Bayraktar.
Sundanese people
Sundanese (orang Sunda), the second largest ethnic group of Indonesia at 15.5% in 2010, inhabit West Java and Banten (Pasundan/Tatar Sunda), speak the Sundanese language, are mostly Muslim, and farm wet rice traditionally timed by the pranata mangsa calendar.
Sunny von Bülow
Sunny von Bülow (Martha Sharp Crawford), American heiress whose 1980 irreversible coma led to two attempted-murder trials of husband Claus von Bülow, his 1985 televised-trial acquittal, and the film Reversal of Fortune.
Supreme Eiye Confraternity
Supreme Eiye Confraternity (National Association of Airlords), a Nigerian student confraternity founded at the University of Ibadan in 1965, later classed as a secret cult and organized crime group active in trafficking and fraud.
Suquamish people
The Suquamish (dxʷsəqʷəbš, "people of the clear salt water") are a Coast Salish, Lushootseed-speaking tribe on the Port Madison Reservation in Kitsap County, Washington, party to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, with 1,515 members led by Chairman Leonard Forsman.
Suraj Yengde
Suraj Milind Yengde, Indian Dalit scholar from Nanded, Maharashtra, author of Caste Matters (2019) and Caste: A Global Story (2025), co-editor of The Radical in Ambedkar, Harvard Kennedy School and University of Pennsylvania academic.
Surinamese people
Surinamese people are the inhabitants of Suriname and their diaspora, chiefly in the Netherlands. Main groups: Hindustani (27.4%), Maroon (21.7%), Creole, Javanese, Mixed; Dutch-speaking, multi-religious.
Susannah Mushatt Jones
Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899–2016), American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated living person from June 2015 to May 2016 at 116 years, 311 days; last surviving American born in the 1800s; GRG-validated.
Susquehannock
The Susquehannock, also called the Conestoga and Minquas, were an Iroquoian-speaking Native American people living along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.
Swahili people
Swahili people (Waswahili): coastal East Africans from Somalia to Mozambique defined by the Bantu language Kiswahili, Islam, and coastal town life; indigenous African origins with African and Asian admixture from about AD 1000.
Sway House
Sway House, also Sway LA, was a TikTok content house founded January 4, 2020 by TalentX Entertainment, housing six male influencers including Bryce Hall and Josh Richards in a Bel Air mansion; it disbanded in February 2021 after pandemic party controversies.
Swedes
Swedes, or svenskar, are the people identified with Sweden, whether as citizens, speakers of Swedish, or members of an ethnic group; the boundaries of Swedishness remain contested.
Swedish Order of Freemasons
Svenska Frimurare Orden, in English the Swedish Order of Freemasons, is Sweden's sovereign Masonic Grand Lodge, formed in 1780 and also operating in western Finland with about 14,000 members.
Swiss people
Swiss people are the citizens of Switzerland, a multilingual federal republic of 26 cantons whose identity rests on shared institutions rather than a common ethnicity or language.
Syrian-Lebanese diaspora in the Southern Cone
The Syrian-Lebanese diaspora in the Southern Cone is the population of immigrants from Ottoman Syria and Lebanon and their descendants, living mainly in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.
Syrians
Syrians (السوريون) are the people of the Syrian Arab Republic, ~27.43 million in January 2026, Arabic-speaking with Kurdish, Turkmen, Assyrian and other minorities; the 2011 conflict displaced half the pre-war population, and mass returns have followed the December 2024 government change.
Székelys
Székelys (Szeklers, Romanian Secui) are a Hungarian-speaking population of eastern Transylvania, Romania, historically frontier guards of the Kingdom of Hungary; 500,000–700,000 live in the Székely Land, with disputed origins and active autonomy movement.
Tadd Roosevelt
James "Tadd" Roosevelt (1879-1958), also called Taddy Roosevelt, nephew of Franklin D. Roosevelt and son of "Rosey" Roosevelt and Helen Astor, whose marriage to Sadie Messinger caused a 1900 scandal, estrangement from the Roosevelts, and a Salvation Army bequest.
Tagalog people
Tagalog people (Taga-ilog, "from the river") are the largest Philippine ethnolinguistic group, 28,273,666 people or 26.0% of the 2020 census household population, native to Luzon; their language underlies Filipino, the national language.
Tagore family (ঠাকুর পরিবার)
Tagore family (ঠাকুর পরিবার), Bengali Brahmin family of Kolkata's Jorasanko, anglicized from Thakur; central to the Bengal Renaissance and Brahmo Samaj, producing Rabindranath Tagore, first Asian Nobel laureate, and the Bengal School of Art founders.
Tai peoples
Tai peoples: ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia and southern China speaking Tai languages of the Kra-Dai family; called Dai in China, Shan in Myanmar, Lao in Laos; southern-China origin, nearly 100 million Kra-Dai speakers.
Taíno
The Taíno, also known as the Taino people or Island Arawaks, were an Arawakan-speaking Caribbean people inhabiting Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico at the time of Columbus.
Taira clan (平氏)
Taira clan (平氏, Heike): imperial-descended warrior house of Heian Japan; under Kiyomori dominated the court 1156–1185, then destroyed by the Minamoto in the Genpei War at Dannoura (1185).
Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples (原住民族) are Austronesian peoples of Taiwan; 16 groups were long recognized, and the Siraya became the 17th in July 2026 under the 2025 Pingpu (Plains Indigenous) Status Act following Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 17.
Taiwanese people (台湾人)
Taiwanese people (台湾人) are the inhabitants of Taiwan, descended from Indigenous Austronesian peoples, Han immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, and post-1945 mainland migrants; key facts include the Austronesian homeland in Taiwan and shifting identity under successive governments.
Tajiks
Tajiks (тоҷик, tojik): an Iranian people of Persian speech in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and the Pamirs; ethnonym from Middle Persian tāzīk 'Arab'; about five million; Sunni Hanafi with Ismaili Pamir minority.
Talahon
Talahon (Arabic ta'al lahon, "come here") is German youth slang for a subculture of young men, often of migrant background, marked by tracksuits, fake luxury accessories, and shadowboxing videos; popularized by rapper Hassan's 2022 song and second in the 2024 Youth Word vote.
Tamil Brahmin
Tamil Brahmins, also called Tamil Brahmans, are the Brahmin community of Tamil Nadu, India. Historically the apex caste with colonial-era educational dominance, they became an urban middle-class caste prominent in IT, medicine, and law amid anti-Brahmin Dravidian politics.