This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "S". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-S, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.
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Sa/SäEdit
- Saint-Just, Louis Antoine de (1767–1794)
- Saalfield, Adah Louise Sutton (1860–1935)
- Sabatini, Rafael (1875–1950)
- Sabine, Edward (1788–1883)
- Sabines, Jaime (1926–1999)
- Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von (1836–1895)
- Sacheverell, Henry (1674–1724)
- Sachs, Edwin Otho (1870–1919)
- Sachs, Frank (1858–1923)
- Sachs, Julius von (1832–1897)
- Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, Charles (1638–1706)
- Sackville, Thomas (1536–1608)
- Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, Victoria Mary (1892–1962)
- Sade, Marquis de (1740–1814)
- Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest (1861–1943)
- Sadler, Michael Thomas (1780–1835)
- Sagan, Carl (1934–1996)
- Sage, Dean (1841–1902)
- Saha, Meghnad (1893–1956)
- Saint-Amant, Antoine Girard de (1594–1661)
- Saint-Évremond, Charles de (1610–1703)
- Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffery (1772–1844)
- de Saint-Hilaire, Augustin François César Prouvençal (1779–1853)
- St. John, James Augustus (1795–1875)
- Saint John, Molyneux (1838–1904)
- Saint-Laurent, Louis (1882–1973)
- Saint-Paul, Anthyme (1843–1911)
- Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de (1675–1755)
- Saintsbury, George (1845–1933)
- Saki (1870–1916)
- Salama, Paul
- Saleeby, Caleb Williams (1878–1940)
- Salinger, J. D. (1919–2010)
- Salisbury, Richard Anthony (1761–1829)
- Lord Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903)
- Salisbury, Rollin Daniel (1858–1922)
- King Salman (b. 1935)
- Salmon, George (1819–1904)
- Salmond, Stewart Dingwall Fordyce (1838–1905)
- Salomaa, Hiski (1891–1947)
- Salt, Henry (1780–1827)
- Salt, Henry Shakespear Stephens (1851–1939)
- Salter, John Henry (1862–1942)
- Salter, Samuel James Augustus (1825–1897)
- Salter, William Mackintire (1853–1931)
- Saltus, Adgar Everston (1858–1921)
- Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail (1826–1889)
- Salvado, Rosendo (1814–1900)
- Salvioni, Carlo (1858–1920)
- Sampson, Alden (1853–1925)
- Sampson, John (1862–1931)
- Sampson, Ralph Allen (1866–1939)
- Sampson, William Thomas (1840–1902)
- Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (1831–1917)
- Sanborn, Kate(1839–1917)
- Sand, George (1806–1874)
- Sand, Louis (fl. 1860s)
- Sandars, Mary Frances (1864–1934)
- Sanday, William (1843–1920)
- Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967)
- Sanders, Bernard (1941–)
- Sanders, Francis (1846–1912)
- Sanders, Lloyd Charles (1857–1927)
- Sandys, John Edwin (1844–1922)
- Sandys, William B. (1792–1874)
- Sanford, Edward Terry (1865–1930)
- Sanford, Fernando (1856–1948)
- Sanford, William Eli (1838–1899)
- Sänger, Eugen (1905–1964)
- Sanger, Larry (b. 1968)
- San Gimignano, Folgore da (1278?–1330?)
- Sanguinetti, Gianfranco (–)
- Sanjar, Ahmad (11th century – 1157)
- Sanjinés, José Ignacio de (1786–1864)
- Sanson, Charles-Henri (1739–1806)
- Sansovino, Francesco (1521–1586/1583)
- Santayana, George (1863–1952)
- Santos, Idelfonso (1896–1984)
- Sanvitale, Francesca (1928–2011)
- Sapir, Edward (1884–1939)
- de Saporta, Antoine (1855–1914)
- de Saporta, Gaston (1823–1895)
- Saranuprapan, Luang (1896–1954)
- Sarbiewski, Maciej Kazimierz (1595–1640)
- Sargent, Arthur John (1871–1947)
- Sargent, Epes (1813–1880)
- Sargent, Frederick Le Roy (1863–1928)
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1941–1995)
- Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967)
- Sastre Marínez, Jorge
- Satie, Erik (1866–1925)
- Satoh, Henry (1857–1934)
- Satoskar, Abhay R.
- Satow, Ernest Mason (1843–1929)
- Saunders, George (1859–1922)
- Saunders, Prince (1775–1839)
- Saunders, Thomas Bailey (1860–1928)
- Saunderson, Constance Albuera (1833–1915)
- Saurin, Jacques (1677–1730)
- de Saussure, Horace-Bénédict (1740–1799)
- Saussure, René de (1868–1943)
- Sauvage, George Michael Julius Louis (1873–1951)
- Sauvage, Henri Émile (1842–1917)
- Savage, Ernest Albert (1877–1966)
- Savart, Felix (1791–1841)
- Säve-Söderbergh, Gunnar (1910–1948)
- Savigny, Friedrich Carl von (1779–1861)
- Savonarola, Girolamo (1452–1498)
- Sawyer, Winona Branch (1847–1938)
- Saxe, John Godfrey (1816–1887)
- Sayce, Archibald
- Sayle, Charles Edward (1864–1924)
ScEdit
- Scales, Archibald Henderson (1868–1952)
- Scalia, Antonin (1936–2016)
- Scarlatti, Domenico (1685–1757)
- Scartazzini, Giovanni Andrea (1837–1901)
- Scarth, John (1826–1909)
- Scattergood, Thomas (1826–1900)
- Schaeffer, Nathan Christ (1849–1919)
- Schaeffer, Pierre (1910–1995)
- Schaff, Philip (1819–1893)
- Schaffner, Jakob (1875–1944)
- Schauffler, Robert Haven (1879–1964)
- Scheer, Reinhard (1863–1928)
- Schellen, Heinrich (1818–1884)
- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775–1854)
- Scherren, Henry (1842–1911)
- Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1672–1733)
- Schiaparelli, Ernesto (1856–1928)
- Schiavonetti, Luigi (1765–1810)
- Schidrowitz, Philip (1872–1960)
- Schiemann, Theodor (1847–1921)
- Schierbrand, Wolf von (1851–1920)
- Schiller, F. C. S. (1864–1937)
- Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)
- Schkuhr, Christian (1741–1811)
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst (1768–1834)
- Schlesinger, Kathleen (1862–1953)
- Schley, Winfield Scott (1839–1911)
- Schlich, Wilhelm (1840–1925)
- Schliemann, Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius (1822–1890)
- Schloss, David Frederick (1850–1912)
- Schmidt, Eduard Oscar (1823–1886)
- Schmidt, Friedrich (1832–1908)
- Schmidt, Nathaniel (1862–1939)
- Schmiedel, Paul Wilhelm (1851–1935)
- Schmitt, Joseph (1734–1791)
- Schmitz, Leonhard (1807–1890)
- Schmolke, B. (1731–?)
- Schmoller, Gustave Friedrich von (1838–1917)
- Schneider, Aime (1870–1879)
- Schneider, Elias (1820–1883)
- Schoenberg, Arnold (1874–1951)
- Schoetensack, Otto (1850–1912)
- Scholasticus, Evagrius (536/537–after 594)
- Scholefield, Clement Cotterill (1839–1904)
- Scholes, Percy Alfred (1877–1958)
- Scholz, Wilhelm von (1874–1969)
- Schonland, Selmar (1860–1940)
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860)
- Schreiber, Aloys (1761–1841)
- Schreiber, August (1839–1903)
- Schroeder, John Frederick (1800–1857)
- Schroeder, Seaton (1849–1922)
- Schucman, Helen (1909–1981)
- Schulenburg, Sergei Ivanovich (1875–1937)
- Schulthess, Rudolph (1802–1832)
- Schulze, Friedrich August (1770–1849)
- Schumacher, Hermann A. (1868–1952)
- Schumacher, Paul (1848–1891)
- Schürer, Emil (1844–1910)
- Schurz, Carl (1829–1906)
- Schuster, Franz Arthur Friedrich (1851–1934)
- Schütz, Heinrich (1585–1672)
- Schützenberger, Paul (1829–1897)
- Schuyler, George (1811–1890)
- Schuyler, Montgomery, Jr. (1877–1955)
- Schwab, John Christopher (1865–1915)
- Schwally, Friedrich (1863–1919)
- Schwartz, Jean (1878–1956)
- Schwarz, Harry (1924–2010)
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold A. (b. 1947)
- Schweinitz, Lewis David von (1780–1834)
- Schweitzer, Albert (1875–1965)
- Sclater, Philip Lutley (1829–1913)
- Sclater, William Lutley (1863–1944)
- Scoble, John (1799–1877)
- Scofield, Richard Henry (1898–1970)
- Scogan, Henry (1361–1407)
- Scoggin, Gilbert Campbell (d. 1945)
- Scott, Arthur P. (1884–1961)
- Scott, Austin (1848–1922)
- Scott, Charles Anderson (1859–1941)
- Scott, Dukinfield Henry (1854–1934)
- Scott, Edward John Long (1840–1918)
- Scott, Sir Ernest (1868–1939)
- Scott, Harold Spencer (?–?)
- Scott, Hugh Stowell (1862–1903)
- Scott, James (1885–1938)
- Scott, James George (1851–1935)
- Scott, James Moffat (1848–1910)
- Scott, John (1841–1904)
- Scott, John
- Scott, Leonard (1810–1895)
- Scott, Sir Leslie Frederic (1859–1950)
- Scott, Reginald Thomas Maitland (1882–1966)
- Scott, Robert (1757–1808)
- Scott, Robert (1811–1887)
- Scott, Walter (1771–1832)
- Scott, William Bell (1811–1890)
- Scott, William Berryman (1858–1947)
- Scott, William Robert (1868–1940)
- Scott Ferguson, William (1875–1954)
- Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth (1889–1930)
- Scowcroft, Brent (1925—)
- Scribner, Gilbert Hilton (1831–1910)
- Scriven, Joseph (1819–1886)
- Scriver, Christian (1629–1693)
- Scroggs, William Oscar (1879–1957)
- Scrope, George Julius Poulett (1797–1876)
- Scudder, Horace Elisha (1838–1902)
Se/SéEdit
- Seabury, Samuel (1729–1796)
- Seaman, Sir Owen (1861–1936)
- Searle, Arthur (1837–1920)
- Searle, George Frederick Charles (1864–1954)
- Sears, Blanche Burdin (1875–)
- Sears, Edmund Hamilton (1810–1876)
- Seccombe, Thomas (1866–1923)
- Secker, Thomas (1693–1768)
- Sedding, Edmund (1836–1868)
- Sedding, J. D. (1838–1891)
- Seddon, James (1815–1880)
- Sedgefield, Walter John (1866–1945)
- Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873)
- Sedgwick, Adam (1854–1913)
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789–1867)
- Sedgwick, Henry D. (1861–1957)
- Sedgwick, William Fellows (1872–1949)
- Sedgwick, William Thompson (1855–1921)
- Sée, Henri (1864–1936)
- Seebeck, Thomas Johann (1770–1831)
- Seebohm, Frederic (1833–1912)
- Seeger, Alan (1888–1916)
- Seeley, Sir John Robert (1834–1895)
- Séguin, Édouard (1812–1880)
- Ségur, Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de (1799–1874)
- Sejong (1397–1450)
- Selassie, Haile (1892–1975)
- Selden, Richard Ely (1797–1868)
- Sélincourt, Hugh de (1878–1951)
- Sellar, William Young (1825–1890)
- Sellars, Roy Wood (1880–1973)
- Sellers, George Escol (1808–1899)
- Sells, Cato (1859–1948)
- Sellye, Julius Hawley (1824–1895)
- Selous, Edmund (1857–1934)
- Selous, Frederick Courteney (1851–1917)
- Seltzer, Charles Alden (1875-1942)
- Seltzer, Thomas (1875–1943)
- Sempill, Robert (1590s–1660s)
- Sen, Keshub Chunder (1838–1884)
- Sen, Ramdas (1845–1887)
- de Sénancour, Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Ignace Pivert (1770–1846)
- Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485–c. 585)
- Seneca, L. Annaeus (4 BCE–65 CE)
- Senior, Nassau William (1790–1864)
- Senior, William (1838–1920)
- Senn, Charles Herman (1862–1934)
- Seong Hon (1535–1598)
- Sergieff, John Iliytch (1829–1908)
- Serenus of Antinouplis (c. 300–c. 360)
- Sergeant, Lewis (1841–1902)
- Service, Robert W. (1874–1958)
- Serviss, Garrett Putnam (1851–1929)
- Seth, Vikram (1952–present)
- Seth-Smith, David (1875–1963)
- Seton, Ernest Thompson (1860–1946)
- Seton-Karr, Henry (1853–1914)
- Seton-Watson, Robert William (1879–1951)
- Seuss Geisel, Dr. Theodor (1904–1991)
- Severin, Guillaume (1862–1938)
- Marquise de Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (1626–1696)
- Sewall, Samuel (1652–1730)
- Seward, Anna (1747–1809)
- Seward, Albert Charles (1863–1941)
- Seward, Mary Coggeshall (1839–1919)
- Seward, William Henry (1801–1872)
- Sewell, Anna (1820–1878)
- Sextus Empiricus (c. 200)
- Seymour, Ernest Richard (1823–1864)
- Seymour, Horatio (1810–1886)
- Seymour, Thomas Day (1848–1907)
- Seymour, Webb John (1777–1819)
ShEdit
- Shabini, ʿAbd al-Salam (fl. 1820)
- Shackford, John William (1839–1905)
- Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874–1922)
- ibn Shaddād, Bahā' ad-Dīn Yusuf ibn Rafi (1145–1234)
- Shadwell, Arthur (1854–1936)
- Shadwell, Lionel Lancelot (1845–1925)
- Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1857–1932)
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (1689–1752)
- bin Shāhrukh, Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay (1394–1449)
- Shakespear, John (1861–1942)
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
- Shakespeare, William G.
- Shanly, Charles Dawson (1811–1875)
- Shaw, John Begg (1828–1880)
- Shakir, Mohammed Habib (1866–1939)
- Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1841–1906)
- Rudrapatnam Shamasastry (1868–1944)
- Shamlou, Sepideh (1968–present)
- Shankara, Adi (8th c. CE)
- Shanks, Lewis Piaget (1878–1935)
- Shann, Edward (1884–1935)
- Sharon, Ariel (1928–2014)
- Sharp, Archibald (1862–1934)
- Sharp, Cecil James (1859–1924)
- Sharp, David (1840–1922)
- Sharp, Martha
- Sharp, Robert Farquharson (1864–1945)
- Sharp, William (1855–1905)
- Sharpe, John
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847–1909)
- Sharpey, William (1802–1880)
- Shats, Avner (1959–)
- Shaw, Bernard (b. 1940)
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)
- Shaw, George Kearsley (1779–1833)
- Shaw, Henry Wheeler (1818–1885)
- Shaw, Thomas (1850–1937)
- Shaw, Wilfred Byron (1881–1959)
- Shaw, William (1749–1831)
- Shaw, William Arthur (1865–1943)
- Shaw, William Napier (1854–1945)
- Shaw-Stewart, Patrick (d. 1917)
- Shaylor, Joseph (1844–1923)
- Shazar, Zalman (1889–1974)
- Shea, Christopher M.
- Shea, John Gilmary (1824–1892)
- Sheahan, James Washington (1824–1883)
- Shearman, Thomas Gaskell (1834–1900)
- Shedd, William Greenough Thayer (1820–1894)
- Sheehan, Daniel Desmond (1873–1948)
- Shehyn, Joseph (1829–1918)
- Shekhar, Chander (?–?)
- Sheldon, Addison Erwin (1861–1943)
- Sheldon, Charles Monroe (1857–1946)
- Shellabarger, Samuel (1888–1954)
- Shelley, George Ernest (1840–1910)
- Shelley née Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797–1851)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)
- Shenstone, William (1714–1763)
- Shepard, Edward Morse (1850–1911)
- Shepard, Elliott Fitch (1833–1893)
- Shepherd, Francis John (1851–1929)
- Shepherd, Richard Herne (1842–1895)
- Sheppard, Edgar (1819–1897)
- Sheppard, Henry Fleetwood (1824–1901)
- Sheppard, Thomas (1876–1945)
- Sheppard, William Fleetwood (1863–1936)
- Sherer, John Walter (1823–1911)
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816)
- Sheridan, Thomas (divine) (1687–1738)
- Sheridan, Thomas (1719–1788)
- Sheringham, Hugh (1876–1930)
- Sherlock, Thomas (1678–1761)
- Sherman, Charles Colebrook (1860–1927)
- Sherman, John (1823–1900)
- Sherman, Lucius Adelno (1847–1933)
- Sherman, Stuart P. (1881–1926)
- Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857–1952)
- John Filmore Sherry (1866–1894)
- Sherwin, William F. (1826–1888)
- Sherwood, Rosina Emmet (1854–1948)
- Sherzer, William Hittell (1860–1932)
- Shiel, Matthew (1865–1947)
- Shimmin, Thomas (1800–1879)
- Shin, Chaeho (1880–1936)
- Shipley, Arthur Everett (1861–1927)
- Shipman, Andrew Jackson (1857–1915)
- Shin Suk-ju (1417–1475)
- Shipton, Anna (1815–1901)
- Shipton, Mother (1488–1651)
- Shiras, Jr., George (1832–1924)
- Shirley, James (1596–1666)
- Shoberl, Frederic (1775–1853)
- Shorey, Paul (1857–1934)
- Short, John Thomas (1850–1883)
- Shorter, Clement King (1857–1926)
- Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1866–1918)
- Shower, John (1657–1715)
- Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834–1903)
- Shotwell, James Thomson (1874–1965)
- Showerman, Grant (1870–1935)
- Shōtoku, Prince (572–622)
- Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley (1843–1906)
- Shufeldt, Robert Wilson (1850–1934)
- Shuler, Ellis William (1881–1955)
SiEdit
- Sibree, James (1836–1929)
- Sibthorp, John (1758–1796)
- Sican, Elizabeth (fl. 18th century)
- Sican, John (fl. 18th century)
- Sidgwick, Arthur (1840–1920)
- Sidgwick, Alfred (1850–1943)
- Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (1845–1936)
- Sidgwick, Frank (1879–1939)
- Sidgwick, Henry (1838–1900)
- Sidis, Boris (1867–1923)
- Sidney, Adelaide Augusta Willhelmina (1826–1878/1904)
- Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586)
- Siebenhaar, Willem (1863–1936)
- Siegel, Eli (1902–1978)
- Siegfried, Andre (1875–1959)
- Siemens, Carl William (1823–1883)
- Sievers, Eduard (1850–1932)
- Sigourney, Lydia (1791–1865)
- Sigwart, Christoph von (1830–1904)
- Sikes, Edward Ernest (1867–1940)
- Silbertstein, Ludwik (1872–1948)
- Sills, Kenneth Charles Morton (1879–1954)
- Silva, José Asunción (1865–1896)
- Silver, Henry (1828–1910)
- Silvers, Earl Reed (1891–1948)
- Silvers, Louis (1889–1954)
- Silverstein, Shel (1930–1999)
- Sim, Dave (1956–)
- Sime, James (1843–1895)
- Simkins, William Stewart (1842–1929)
- Simmonds, Peter Lund (1814–1897)
- Simmons, Gene (1929–)
- Simms, Scott (1969–present)
- Simms, William Gilmore (1806–1870)
- Simon, Leon (1881–1965)
- Simonds, Guy (1903–1974)
- Simons, Menno (1496–1561)
- Simons, William(c. 490–c. 560)
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Simpson, Alexander Russell (1835–1916)
- Simpson, Benjamin Roy (b. 1877)
- Simpson, Bertram Lenox (1877–1930)
- Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre (1856–1920)
- Simpson, James Gilliland (1865–1948)
- Simpson, Sir James Young (1811–1870)
- Simpson, John Palgrave (1807–1887)
- Simpson, Matthew (1811–1884)
- Simpson, Percy (1865–1962)
- Simpson, Thomas (1808–1840)
- Simpson, William (1823–1899)
- Simpson, William Augustus (1854–1930)
- Simpson, William Henry Randolph (1830–1910)
- Sims, Charles N. (1835–1908)
- Sims, John (1749–1831)
- Simson, Robert (1687–1768)
- Sinclair, Angus (1841–1919)
- Sinclair, Upton (1878–1968)
- Sinding, Otto (1842–1909)
- Singer, Margaret Thaler (1921–2003)
- Singh, Bhagat (1907–1931)
- Singh, Nandini (?–?)
- Sinker, Robert (1869–1941)
- Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1840–1921)
- Singleton, Esther (1865–1930)
- Sirhan, Sirhan (b. 1944)
- Sissle, Noble (1889–1975)
- Sitter, Willem de (1872–1934)
- Sitwell, Edith (1887–1964)
- Sitwell, George Reresby (1860–1943)
- Sixtus V, Pope (1521–1590)
SkEdit
- Skeat, Walter William (1835–1912)
- Skelton, John (1460–1529)
- Skene, William Forbes (1809–1892)
- Sketchley, Richard Forster (1826–1911)
- Skey, Joseph (1779–1833)
- Skidelsky, Simon (?–?)
- Skinner, Aaron Nichols (1845–1918)
- Skinner, Carlton (1913–2004)
- Skinner, Harry Hall (1858–?)
- Skinner, John (1721–1807)
- Skirving, Adam (1719–1803)
- Skrine, John Huntley (1848–1923)
- Skottowe, Britiffe Constable (1857–1925)
SlEdit
- Slade, Adolphus (1804/1802–1877)
- Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1856–1947)
- Slahi, Mohamedou Ould (1970– )
- Slater, Francis Carey (1876–1958)
- Slater, John William (1820–1898)
- Slaveikov, Petko Rachov (1827–1895)
- Slingluff, Fielder Cross (1842–1918)
- Sloan, William (1867–1928)
- Sloane, Sir Hans (1660–1753)
- Sloane, T. O'Conor (1851–?)
- Sloane, William Milligan (1850–1928)
- Slocum, Joshua (1844–1909)
- Slosson, Anna Trumbull (1838–1926)
- Slosson, Edward (1814–1871)
- Slosson, Edwin Emery (1865–1929)
SmEdit
- Smail, James (1828–1905)
- Smalridge, George (1662–1719)
- Smart, Christopher (1722–1771)
- Smart, John Semple (1868–1925)
- Smedes, Susan Dabney (1840–1913)
- Smedley, Jonathan (1671–1729)
- Smedley, William Thomas (1858–1920)
- Smellie, William (1740–1795)
- Smetham, James (1821–1889)
- Smiles, Samuel (1812–1904)
- Smiley, Sarah Frances (1830–1917)
- Smillie, Thomas William (1843–1917)
- Smith, Adam (1723–1790)
- Smith, Alexander (1829–1867)
- Smith, Allan Corstorphin (1884–1962)
- Smith, Alyssa Whitall Pearsall (1867–1951)
- Smith, Ann Maria Carter (1835–1909)
- Smith, Arthur (1870–1929)
- Smith, Arthur Hamilton (1860–1941)
- Smith, Arthur Henderson (1845–1932)
- Smith, Benjamin Eli (1857–1913)
- Smith, Caroline Louisa Sprague (1827–1886)
- Smith, Cecil (1826–1890)
- Smith, Cecil Harcourt (1859–1944)
- Smith, Charles Alphonso (1864–1924)
- Smith, Charles Emory (1842–1908)
- Smith, Charles Stewart (1832–1909)
- Smith, Charlotte Fell (1851–1937)
- Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749–1806)
- Smith, Charlotte (1749–1806)
- Smith, Cicely Fox (1882–1954)
- Smith, Clark Ashton (1893–1961)
- Smith, Clifford P.
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- Smith, Edgar Fahs (1854–1928)
- Smith, Edward (1839–1919)
- Smith, Edward Elmer (1890–1965)
- Smith, Edward Shrapnell (1875–1952)
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- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) (1806–1893)
- Smith, Ethan (1762–1849)
- Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838–1915)
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- Smith, George Charles Moore (1858–1940)
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- Smith, Henry A. (1830–1915)
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- Smith, William (1816–1896)
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- Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819–1900)
- Smythe, Lewis S.C. (1901–)
- Smythers, Ruth
SnEdit
- Snagge, Thomas William (1837–1914)
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- Sosigenes of Alexandria (fl. 1st century B.C.E.)
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- le Souef, Dudley (1856–1923)
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SqEdit
- Squire, James (1754–1822)
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SrEdit
- Sridhara (870–930)
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StEdit
- St. John, Henry (1678–1751)
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- Stanley, Edward, Bishop of Norwich (1779–1849)
- Stanley, Edward Smith-, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869)
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- Stevens, Walter Barlow (1848–1939)
- Stevens, William Brook Bridges (1835–1876)
- Stevenson, Adlai (1900–1965)
- Stevenson, David Alan (1854–1938)
- Stevenson, John Horne (1855–1939)
- Stevenson, Morley (1851–1930)
- Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (1847–1900)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894)
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- Stoddard, Lothrop (1883–1950)
- Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825–1903)
- Stoker, Bram (1847–1912)
- Stokes, Anson Phelps (1834–1913)
- Stokes, Anson Phelps (1874–1958)
- Stokes, 1st Baronet, Sir George Gabriel (1819–1903)
- Stokes, George Thomas (1843–1898)
- Stokes, John Lort (1811–1885)
- Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps (1867–1944)
- Stokes, Whitley (1830–1909)
- Stoltenberg, Jens (1959–)
- Stone, Andrew Leete (1815–1892)
- Stone, Harlan Fiske (1872–1946)
- Stone, Henry (1830–1896)
- Stone, Samuel John (1839–1900)
- Stone, Sibyl Wilbur (1871–1946)
- Stone, William Henry (1830–1891)
- Stone, William Leete (1835–1908)
- Stoney, George Johnstone (1826–1911)
- Stoney, Henry Butler (1816–1894)
- Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael (1841–1929)
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael (1880–1958)
- Storey, Moorfield (1845–1929)
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- Storrs, Richard Salter (1821–1900)
- Story, Alfred Thomas (1842–1934)
- Story, Joseph (1779–1845)
- Story, Robert (1795–1860)
- Story, William Edward (1850–1930)
- Størmer, Leif (1905–1979)
- Stothard, Thomas (1755–1834)
- Stott, George (c. 1814 – 1911)
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- Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–1896)
- Stowell, William Averill (1882–1950)
- Strachan, John (1862–1907)
- Strachey, Giles Lytton (1880–1932)
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- Strahan, Alexander (1834–1918)
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- Strange, Charles (1815–1870)
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- Strassmaier, Father Johann Nepomuk (1846–1920)
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- Stribling, Thomas Sigismund (1881–1965)
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- Strindberg, Johan August (1849–1912)
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- Strong, Thomas Banks (1861–1944)
- Strong, William (1828–1902)
- Strunk Jr., William (1869–1946)
- Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, John William (1842–1919)
- Strutt, Joseph (1749–1802)
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- Strype, John (1643–1737)
- Strzelecki, Paweł Edmund (1797–1873)
- Stuart, Dorothy Margaret (1889–1963)
- Stuart, James Ewell Brown (1833–1864)
- Stuart, James Montgomery (1816–1889)
- Stuart, Jesse (1906–1984)
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- Stulginskis, Aleksandras (1885–1969)
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- Sturt, Charles (1795–1869)
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SuEdit
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
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- Śūdraka (??–??)
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- Sue, Joseph Marie Eugène (1804–1857)
- Le Sueur, William Dawson (1840–1917)
- Sugawara no Takasue no musume (1008–?)
- Sullivan, Alan (1868–1947)
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900)
- Sullivan, Edward (1822–1885)
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- Sumichrast, Frederic Cesar [de] (1845–1933)
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- Sumner, Charles (1811–1874)
- Sumner, Heywood (1853–1940)
- Sumner, John Bird (1780–1862)
- Sumner, William Graham (1840–1910)
- Suppiluliuma I (c. 1344 BCE–1322 BCE)
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SvEdit
- Svedenstierna, Erik Thomas (1765–1825)
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SwEdit
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SyEdit
- Sykes, Ernest William (1870–1958)
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- Symmons, Charles (1749–1826)
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- Syrianus (?–c. 437)
SzEdit
- Szymanowski, Karol (1882–1937)