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Saadi - (died 1283), Persian poet
Saarinen, Eero - (1910-1961), Finnish architect
Saarinen, Eliel - (1873-1950), Finnish architect
Saba, Umberto - pseudonym of Italian poet Umberto Poli (1883-1957)
Saban, Haim - producer
Saberhagen, Fred - (born 1930), US science fiction writer
Sabine, Edward - (died 1883), astronomer
Sabinianus, Pope - (604-606)
Sabourin, Romeo - (1923-1944), SOE agent, World War II hero
Sabrina actress - American actress
Sac Kuk - (died 640) Queen of Palenque
Sacagawea - (c. 1787-1812), Native American guide
Sacco, Albert - astronaut
Sacco, Joe - comic creator
Sachar, Louis - Wayside School is Falling Down series
Sacher Masoch, Leopold von - (1836-1895), writer
Sachs, Curt - (1881-1959), musicologist
Sachs, Hans - dramatist, author
Sachs, Nelly - (1891-1970), dramatist, author
Sachs, Nelly - (1891-1970), dramatist, author
Sacks, Oliver - (born 1933), British-born US neurologist
Sackville West, Vita - (1892-1962), British landscape gardener
Sackville, George Lord Germain - (1716-1785), British Secretary for Armerica in Revolution
Sackville, Lionel - (1688-1765) British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Sadat, Anwar - (1918-1981), president of Egypt
Sade, Marquis de - (1740-1814), French erotic and philosophic author
Sadler, Marilyn - writer
Saebert of Essex - (604-616), King of Essex
Saez, Irene - 1981 Miss Universe, Venezuelan politician
Safdie, Moshe - architect
Safin, Marat - (Russia) Tennis player
Safire, William - (born 1929), linguist
Safka, Melanie - American singer
Saga - emperor of Japan
Sagan, Carl - (1934-1996), US astronomer
Sahara, Kenji - actor
Sahl, Mort - (born 1928), comedian, political commentator
Sailer, Toni - (born 1935), 1956 Olympic Games - Won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of alpine skiing; bo
Saimei - (594-661), empress of Japan
Saint Gelais, Melin de - (1487-1558), poet
Saint Laurent, Yves - (born 1936), fashion designer
Saint Phalle, Niki de - French sculptor
Sainte Marie, Buffy - (born 1941), singer, songwriter, artist, activist
Sakai Saburo - WW2 Japanese fighter ace
Sakai, Stan - Japanese-born cartoonist of Usagi Yojimbo fame
Sakamoto, Ryuichi - (born 1942), musician, pop composer
Sakharov, Andrei - (1921-1989), Soviet physicist, human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
Sakuma Shozan - Japanese politician and scholar
Sakuraba, Motoi - composer
Sakuramachi - emperor of Japan
Sakyamuni Buddha - (born 563 BC), founder of Buddhism
Salaberry, Charles de - (1778-1829), soldier
Saladin - (1137-1193), victor over Crusaders and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria
Salas, Marcelo - (born 1976), football player
Salcedo, Diego - (1575-1644), Spaniard bishop, killed by the Tainos
Salemi, Joseph - (1902-2003), jazz trombonist
Salesbury, William - (c. 1520-c.1584)
Salieri, Antonio - (1750-1825), Austrian composer
Salinas, Carlos - (born 1948)
Salinger, J. D. - (born 1919), US author
Salinger, Pierre - (born 1925), political operative
Salk, Jonas - (1914-1995), US scientist
Sallaberry, Fernando and Nefty - singers, former members of Menudo
Sallust - (86 BC-34 BC), historian
Salten, Felix - (1869-1945), author (Bambi)
Salter, James - author
Saltykov Shchedrin, Mikhail - (1826-1889), Russian novelist
Salutin, Rick - political writer, essayist editor
Samain, Albert - (1858-1900)
Samaranch, Juan Antonio - (born 1920), president of the IOC from 1980 to 2001
Sambora, Richie - (born 1959), singer/guitarist (Bon Jovi)
Sampras, Pete - (born 1971), (United States) Tennis player
Samuels, Giovonnie - (born 1985) American actress
Samuelson, Paul - (born 1915), economist
Samuil of Bulgaria - (died 1014), Tsar of Bulgaria
Samy - Cuban hair stylist, TV personality
Sanborn, David - (born 1945), musician, Grammy Award winner
Sanchez Vicario, Aranxta - (born 1971) Spain tennis player
Sanchez Vidal, Juan - (born 1958) Spain collector
Sanchez, Alex El Nene - (born 1973), world champion boxer
Sanchez, Antonio - actor and producer, known in Puerto Rico also as El Gangster
Sanchez, Cristina - (born 1972), Spain bullfighter
Sanchez, Hugo - (born 1958), soccer player
Sanchez, Javier - (born 12968), tennis player, Aranxta's brother
Sanchez, Mario Ernesto - actor, founder of Teatro Avante
Sanchez, Ricardo - U.S. General
Sanchez, Salvador - (1959-1982), featherweight world champion boxer
Sancho I of Portugal - (1185-1211), Portuguese monarch
Sancho II of Portugal - (1223-1248), Portuguese monarch
Sancho III of Navarre - (c. 985-1035), Castilian monarch
Sancho IV of Castile - (1257?-1295), Castilian monarch
Sancroft, William - (1616-1693), Archbishop of Canterbury
Sancta Maria, Alphonsus A - (1396-1456), 15th century Spanish historian
Sand, George - (1804-1876), feminist author
Sandage, Allan - (born 1926), astronomer
Sandberg, Ryne - (born 1959), baseball star
Sandburg, Carl - (1878-1967), poet
Sandels, Johan August - (1764-1831), Swedish soldier
Sanders, Barry - football player, Wichita, Kansas
Sanders, Corrie - (born 1967), world champion boxer
Sanders, George - (1906-1972), actor
Sanders, Otto Liman von - (1855-1929), General
Sandler, Adam - (born 1965), comedian
Sandoval, Arturo - (born 1949), Jazz prefromer
Sandoval, Richie - (born 1960), world champion boxer
Sandow, Eugene - (1867-1925), body builder, circus performer
Sanger, Frederick - (born 1918), molecular biologist
Sangharakshita - (born 1921), Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
Sanjo - emperor of Japan
Sankara, Adi - (c. 788-820), Indian composer
Sannazaro, Jacopo - (born 1458), Italian poet
Sansom Hallowes, Odette - (1912-1995), British SOE agent, WW II heroine
Sansovino, Jacopo - sculptor
Santana, Carlos - (born 1947), of the band Santana
Santayana, George - (1863-1952), US writer
Santi, Raffaello - (1483-1520), Italian painter
Santiago, Benito - (born 1965), baseball player
Santiago, Daniel - (born 1976), basketball player
Santiago, Eddie - Puerto Rican Salsa singer
Santiago, Maria De Lourdes - Puerto Rican politician, activist, journalist
Santillan, Jesica - (1985-2003), patient who received wrong heart and lungs during transplant
Santillana, Marques de - (died 1458), Spanish poet
Santisteban, Anna - (1914-2003), Puerto Rican beauty queen trainer
Santo, Ron - (born 1940), baseball player
Santos Dumont, Alberto - (1873-1932), non-rigid airship and airplane
Santos Febres, Mayra - Puerto Rican writer
Santos, Ahmed - (born 1974), former boxer, columnist
Sapir, Edward - (1884-1939), linguist
Sapkowski, Andrzej - (born 1948), author
Sapp, Bob - (born 1972), boxer, athlete
Sappho - ancient Greek poet
Saralegui, Cristina - (born 1948), journalist, show host and actress
Saramago, Jose - (born 1922), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998
Sarandon, Chris - (born 1942), actor
Sarandon, Susan - (born 1946), US actor
Sarasate, Pablo - (1844-1908), composer
Saraste, Jukka Pekka - Finnish conductor
Sarazen, Gene - (1902-1999), golfer
Sarebresole, Paul - (1875-1911), ragtime songwriter
Sarfatti, Margherita - (1880-1961), Italian art connoisseur
Sargent, Dick - (1930-1994), actor
Sargent, John Singer - (1856-1925), US painter
Sargent, Martin - comedian
Sargon II of Assyria - (reigned 721 BC-705 BC), Akkad
Saroyan, William - (1908-1981), dramatist
Sarraute, Nathalie - (1902-1999), writer
Sarto, Andrea del - (1487-1531), Italian painter
Sartre, Jean-Paul - (1905-1980), French author and philosopher
Sasaki Kojiro - famous samurai killed by Miyamoto Musashi
Sassoon, Siegfried - (1886-1967), British war poet
Satie, Erik - (1866-1925), composer of Musiques d'ameublement
Satir, Virginia - (1916-1988), psychologist, psychotherapist
Satow, Ernest Mason - (1843-1929), British scholar-diplomat in East Asia
Satrapi, Marjane - (born 1969), Iranian graphic novelist
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand - (1875-1951), surgeon
Saul, John Ralston - (1947-), businessman, essayist, diplomat
Saunders, Jennifer - (born 1958), British comedian
Sauser, Frederic Louis - (1887-1961), author known as Blaise Cendrars
Saussure, Ferdinand de - (1857-1913), linguist
Saussure, Horace Benedict de - (1740-1799), botanist
Savage, Ben - (born 1980), actor
Savage, Fred - (born 1976), actor
Savage, John - (1932-2003), former Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
Savage, Michael Joseph - (1872-1940), politician
Savalas, Telly - (1924-1994), US author
Savard, Serge - (1557-1578), Portuguese monarch
Saviola, Javier - (born 1981), athlete
Savitch, Jessica - (1947-1983), journalist
Savitskaya, Svetlana - astronaut
Savon, Felix - amateur boxer
Sawa, Devon - (born 1978), actor
Sawalha, Julia - (born 1968), (Absolutely Fabulous)
Sawalha, Nadia - actress
Sawalha, Nadim - (born 1935), actor
Sawyer, Diane - (born 1945), journalist
Sawyer, Robert J. - Canadian author
Sax, Adolphe - (1814-1894), Belgian inventor
Saxo Grammaticus - Danish historian
Saxon, John - (born 1935), actor
Say, Jean Baptiste - (1767-1832), economist
Say, Louis - (1774-1840), economist
Saycocie, Bounleut - politician in Laos
Sayer, Lady Sylvia - (1904-2000), British conservationist
Sayers, Dorothy L. - (1893-1957), writer of mystery novels
Sayles, John - (born 1950), film director
Saylor, Steven - author
Saywell, J.T. - Canadian historian
Seferis, George - (1900-1971), Nobel prize-winning poet
Shaw, George Bernard - (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
Sienkiewicz, Henryk - (1846-1916), Pole
Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil - (1888-1964), Finnish author (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1939)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
Steinbeck, John - (1902-1968), US author
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