Free Biography Index - S
- S. J. Perelman
- Sa'di
- Saad Zaghlul Pasha
- Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi
- Sabbatai Zevi
- Sacajawea
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Sadako Ogata
- Saddam Hussein
- Sadiq Hidayat
- Safi Faye
- Saicho
- Saint Columba
- Saint David
- Saint Jerome
- Saints Cyril and Methodius
- Saladin
- Sali Berisha
- Sallust
- Sally Ride
- Salman Rushdie
- Salomon August Andrée
- Salvador Allende Gossens
- Salvador Dali
- Salvador H. Laurel
- Salvator Rosa
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Sam Gilliam
- Sam Moore Walton
- Sam Nunn
- Sam Shepard
- Sam Snead
- Sammy Davis Jr
- Samora Moises Machel
- Samory Touré
- Samudragupta
- Samuel
- Samuel A. Stouffer
- Samuel Adams
- Samuel Adjai Crowther
- Samuel Alexander
- Samuel Barber
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Bowles
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting
- Samuel Chase
- Samuel Clarke
- Samuel Colt
- Samuel David Gross
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Samuel Gompers
- Samuel Gridley Howe
- Samuel Hahnemann
- Samuel Hearne
- Samuel Hopkins
- Samuel Houston
- Samuel Insull
- Samuel Irving Newhouse
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Jones Tilden
- Samuel Kanyon Doe
- Samuel Kirkland
- Samuel McIntire
- Samuel Milton Jones
- Samuel Pepys
- Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Samuel Richardson
- Samuel Romilly
- Samuel Seabury
- Samuel Sewall
- Samuel Sidney McClure
- Samuel Slater
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Samuel Zemurray
- Samuel de Champlain
- Samuell Gorton
- Sanapia
- Sanctorius
- Sandra Cisneros
- Sandro Botticelli
- Sandy Koufax
- Sanford Ballard Dole
- Sappho
- Sara Josephine Baker
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Sarah Caldwell
- Sarah Gibson Blanding
- Sarah Josepha Hale
- Sarah Lois Vaughan
- Sarah Margaret Fuller
- Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily Grimké
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Sarah Winnemucca
- Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari
- Sargon II
- Sargon of Agade
- Sarit Thanarat
- Sarojini Naidu
- Sartre
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Sassetta
- Satanta
- Satyajit Ray
- Satyendranath Bose
- Saul
- Saul Bass
- Saul Bellow
- Saul David Alinsky
- Saul Tschernichowsky
- Saw Maung
- Sayyid Abdullah Khalil
- Sayyid Ismail al-Azhari
- Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah
- Sayyid Qutb
- Schack August Steenberg Krogh
- Schubert
- Seaman Asahel Knapp
- Seamus Justin Heaney
- Sean Connery
- Sean MacBride
- Sean O'Casey
- Seattle
- Sebastian Brant
- Sebastian Cabot
- Sebastian Coe
- Sebastien LePrestre de Vauban
- Sebastián de Benalcázar
- Seiji Ozawa
- Sejo
- Sejong
- Selena
- Seleucus I
- Selim I
- Selim III
- Selma Burke
- Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf
- Selman Abraham Waksman
- Sembene Ousmane
- Sen Katayama
- Seneca
- Sennacherib
- Sequoyah
- Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov
- Sergio Osmeña
- Seth Low
- Severo Ochoa
- Sextus Julius Frontinus
- Seymour Cray
- Seyyid Said
- Shaaban Robert
- Shabaka
- Shafiihuna Nujoma
- Shah Jahan
- Shahpur II
- Shaikh Muslih-al-Din Sadi
- Shaka
- Shammai
- Shams al-Din Hafiz
- Shang Yang
- Shankara
- Shannon Lucid
- Shaykh 'Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah
- Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Al-Nahyan
- Sheik Mujibur Rahman
- Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume
- Sheila E. Widnall
- Shel Silverstein
- Shelby Foote
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
- Sherman Alexie
- Sherwood Anderson
- Shigenobu Okuma
- Shigeru Yoshida
- Shih Ko-fa
- Shih Le
- Shimon Peres
- Shinichiro Imaoka
- Shinran
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Shirley Caesar
- Shirley Muldowney
- Shirley Temple (Black)
- Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams
- Shivaji
- Shmuel Yoseph Agnon
- Sholem Aleichem
- Sholom Aleichem
- Shotoku Taishi
- Shridath Surendranath Ramphal
- Sidney Altman
- Sidney Bechet
- Sidney Godolphin
- Sidney Hillman
- Sidney Hook
- Sidney James Webb
- Sidney Kidman
- Sidney Lanier
- Sidney Lumet
- Sidney Robert Nolan
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Sieur d'Iberville
- Sieur de Bienville
- Sieur de Maisoneuve
- Sieur de la Verendrye
- Sigismund
- Silas Deane
- Simeon Bar Kochba
- Simon Cameron
- Simon Denis Rattle
- Simon Fraser
- Simon Girty
- Simon J. Ortiz
- Simon Kuznets
- Simon Nelson Patten
- Simon Newcomb
- Simon Stevin
- Simon de Montfort
- Simone Martini
- Simone Weil
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Simón Bolívar
- Simón Iturri Patiño
- Sin-itiro Tomonaga
- Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
- Sir Alexander Mackenzie
- Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders
- Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
- Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
- Sir Anthony Hopkins
- Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton
- Sir Arthur John Evans
- Sir Arthur Keith
- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Sir Arthur William Currie
- Sir Banastre Tarleton
- Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman
- Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
- Sir Charles Edward Saunders
- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
- Sir Charles Lyell
- Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
- Sir Charles Tupper
- Sir Christopher Wren
- Sir Colin Rex Davis
- Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- Sir Dauda Kairaba Jawara
- Sir David Lyndsay
- Sir Dennis Holme Robertson
- Sir Donald George Bradman
- Sir Douglas Mawson
- Sir Edmund Andros
- Sir Edmund Barton
- Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
- Sir Edward Coke
- Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
- Sir Edward Victor Appleton
- Sir Edwin Chadwick
- Sir Edwin Sandys
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
- Sir Ferdinando Gorges
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Sir Francis Drake
- Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
- Sir Francis Galton
- Sir Francis Leopold McClintock
- Sir Francis Nicholson
- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Sir Geoffrey Howe
- Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie
- Sir George Grey
- Sir George Hubert Wilkins
- Sir George Paget Thomson
- Sir George Russell Drysdale
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier
- Sir Harold Jeffreys
- Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere
- Sir Henry Bessemer
- Sir Henry Clinton
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale
- Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley
- Sir Henry Parkes
- Sir Henry Vane
- Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- Sir Humphry Davy
- Sir Isaac Brock
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Jacob Epstein
- Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
- Sir James Brooke
- Sir James Chadwick
- Sir James Clark Ross
- Sir James Douglas
- Sir James George Frazer
- Sir James Hopwood Jeans
- Sir James Matthew Barrie
- Sir John Alexander Macdonald
- Sir John Bagot Glubb
- Sir John Beverley Robinson
- Sir John Carew Eccles
- Sir John Everett Millais
- Sir John Franklin
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel
- Sir John Harold Clapham
- Sir John Hawkins
- Sir John Johnson
- Sir John Mandeville
- Sir John Ross
- Sir John Soane
- Sir John Suckling
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
- Sir Joseph Banks
- Sir Joseph John Thomson
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Sir Julius Vogel
- Sir Karl Raimund Popper
- Sir Leander Starr Jameson
- Sir Leslie Stephen
- Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
- Sir Martin Frobisher
- Sir Milton Augustus Striery Margai
- Sir Patrick Geddes
- Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff
- Sir Peter Fredrick Strawson
- Sir Peter Lely
- Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Richard Arkwright
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Sir Richard Owen
- Sir Richard Steele
- Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
- Sir Robert Filmer
- Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
- Sir Robert Laird Borden
- Sir Robert McClure
- Sir Robert Peel
- Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
- Sir Roy Welensky
- Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Sir Samuel Walker Griffith
- Sir Samuel White Baker
- Sir Sandford Fleming
- Sir Seretse M. Khama
- Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Sir Thomas More
- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Sir Vivian Fuchs
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Sir William Berkeley
- Sir William Blackstone
- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
- Sir William Crookes
- Sir William Dobell
- Sir William Edmond Logan
- Sir William Henry Bragg
- Sir William Herschel
- Sir William Huggins
- Sir William Johnson
- Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Pepperell
- Sir William Phips
- Sir William Ramsay
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton
- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
- Sir William Turner Walton
- Sir William Wallace
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- Sissela Ann Bok
- Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Sitting Bull
- Sivaji
- Sixtus V
- Smohalla
- Smokey Robinson
- Snorri Sturluson
- Socrates
- Sofonisba Anguissola
- Soichiro Honda
- Sol Ch'ong
- Sol LeWitt
- Solomon
- Solomon Schechter
- Solomon Schindler
- Solomon Stoddard
- Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
- Solomon ben Judah ibn Gabirol
- Solon
- Sonny Bono
- Sophia Jex-Blake
- Sophia Loren
- Sophie Germain
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Sophocles
- Sordello
- Soseki Natsume
- Souleymane Cissé
- Sourou Migan Apithy
- Souvanna Phouma
- Spark M. Matsunaga
- Spartacus
- Spencer Tracy
- Spike Lee
- Spiro Theodore Agnew
- Spyros Kyprianou
- Squanto
- Sri Ramakrishna
- Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
- Ssu-ma Ch'ien
- Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju
- Ssu-ma Kuang
- St. Albertus Magnus
- St. Ambrose
- St. Anselm of Canterbury
- St. Athanasius
- St. Augustine
- St. Augustine of Canterbury
- St. Basil the Great
- St. Bede
- St. Benedict
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux
- St. Bonaventure
- St. Boniface
- St. Brendan
- St. Cajetan
- St. Catherine of Siena
- St. Charles Borromeo
- St. Columban
- St. Cyril
- St. Dominic
- St. Dunstan
- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
- St. Francis Xavier
- St. Francis of Assisi
- St. Francis of Sales
- St. Gregory of Tours
- St. Ignatius of Antioch
- St. Ignatius of Loyola
- St. Isaac Jogues
- St. Isidore of Seville
- St. Jean Baptiste Vianney
- St. John
- St. John Chrysostom
- St. John de Crèvecoeur
- St. John of Damascus
- St. John of the Cross
- St. John the Baptist
- St. Justin Martyr
- St. Leo I
- St. Leo IX
- St. Luke
- St. Margaret of Scotland
- St. Mark
- St. Matthew
- St. Nicholas
- St. Patrick
- St. Paul
- St. Peter
- St. Peter Canisius
- St. Philip Neri
- St. Robert Bellarmine
- St. Stephen Harding
- St. Theresa
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- St. Thomas Becket
- St. Vincent de Paul
- Stanford White
- Stanley Ben Prusiner
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stanley Marcus
- Starhawk
- Stark Young
- Staughton Lynd
- Stella Maraia Sarah Miles Franklin
- Stendhal
- Stephan Lochner
- Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
- Stephen
- Stephen Collins Foster
- Stephen Davison Bechtel
- Stephen DeLancey
- Stephen Decatur
- Stephen Edelston Toulmin
- Stephen Fuller Austin
- Stephen Girard
- Stephen Grover Cleveland
- Stephen Hales
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen I
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Stephen Johnson Field
- Stephen King
- Stephen Langton
- Stephen Moulton Babcock
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Stephen Watts Kearny
- Steve Allen
- Steve Biko
- Steve Case
- Steve Reich
- Steve Wozniak
- Steve Yzerman
- Steven Jobs
- Steven Spielberg
- Steven Weinberg
- Stevie Wonder
- Stokely Carmichael
- Strabo
- Stuart Davis
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Su Shih
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Suharto
- Sui Wen-ti
- Sukarno
- Suleiman I
- Sumner Murray Redstone
- Sumner Welles
- Sun Myung Moon
- Sun Yat-sen
- Sundiata Keita
- Sung T'ai-tsu
- Sunni Ali
- Surendranath Banerjee
- Susan B. Anthony
- Susan Brownmiller
- Susan Eloise Hinton
- Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Susan M. Love
- Susan Sarandon
- Susan Sontag
- Susanna Moodie
- Susette La Flesche (Tibbles)
- Suzan Shown Harjo
- Suzanne Farrell
- Suzanne Lenglen
- Suzuki Harunobu
- Svante August Arrhenius
- Sven Anders Hedin
- Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- Sydney Chapman
- Syed Ahmed Khan
- Sylvano Bussotti
- Sylvanus E. Olympio
- Sylvanus Thayer
- Sylvester Graham
- Sylvia A. Earle
- Syngman Rhee
- Sándor Petöfi
- Sékou Touré
- Sónjo
- Süleyman Demirel