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672b4be0c71c75fd29f90abb3a716093 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sonal-Mansingh | Sonal Mansingh | Sonal Mansingh
Sonal Mansingh, (born April 30, 1944, Bombay [now Mumbai], India), dancer of odissi, a classical Indian dance form that originated in Orissa, and other Indian classical forms. Apart from being a dancer, she was also a teacher, researcher, choreographer, and social activist.
Mansingh’s initial lessons in... |
e284ab47c8cd58a6b5f971caf9cfa160 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sonia-Delaunay | Sonia Delaunay | Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay, original name Sofia Ilinitchna Terk, (born November 14, 1885, Gradizhsk, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]—died December 5, 1979, Paris, France), Russian painter, illustrator, and textile designer who was a pioneer of abstract art in the years before World War I.
Delaunay grew up in ... |
b9e3cc0d35dc4da4953fa711be0ac4f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sonny-Rollins | Sonny Rollins | Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, byname Newk, original name Theodore Walter Rollins, (born September 7, 1930, New York, New York, U.S.), American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who was among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s.
Rollins grew up in a neighbourhood where Thelonious Monk... |
61d4a3cf8ab24993a7d0587c06f469f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Soong-Mei-ling | Soong Mei-ling | Soong Mei-ling
Soong Mei-ling, Soong also spelled Sung, Mei-ling also spelled Mayling, also called Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Chiang Mei-ling, (born March 5, 1897, Shanghai, China—died Oct. 23, 2003, New York, N.Y., U.S.), notable Chinese political figure and second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-... |
2ce3197e3e1f5a153dabf727afde5803 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophia-Hayden | Sophia Hayden | Sophia Hayden
Sophia Hayden, (born October 17, 1868, Santiago, Chile—died February 3, 1953, Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S.), American architect who fought for the aesthetic integrity of her design for the Woman’s Building of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was the only design of Hayden’s ... |
9f680784129888a93f8b5b87f6d887c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophie-Gay | Sophie Gay | Sophie Gay
Sophie Gay, in full Marie-Françoise-Sophie Nichault de Lavalette Gay, (born July 1, 1776, Paris, Fr.—died March 5, 1852, Paris), French writer and grande dame who wrote romantic novels and plays about upper-class French society during the early 19th century.
Gay was the daughter of a bursar to the comte de... |
86b0a6d004064c3ca73dfb7aafac985c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles/The-plays | The plays | The plays
Only seven of Sophocles’ tragedies survive in their entirety, along with 400 lines of a satyr play, numerous fragments of plays now lost, and 90 titles. All seven of the complete plays are works of Sophocles’ maturity, but only two of them, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus, have fairly certain dates. Ajax i... |
dda8c849f39786de747d58d227c45d9c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophron-of-Syracuse | Sophron Of Syracuse | Sophron Of Syracuse
Sophron Of Syracuse, (flourished c. 430 bc), author of rhythmical prose mimes in the Doric dialect. Although the mimes survive mostly in fragments of only a few words, it can be seen from their titles—e.g., The Tunny-fisher, The Sempstress, etc.—that they depicted scenes from daily life. One longe... |
c8463df8fbf4370a49014c5fff3a2890 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophus-Claussen | Sophus Claussen | Sophus Claussen
Sophus Claussen, (born September 12, 1865, Helletoft, Island of Langeland, Denmark—died April 11, 1931, Gentofte), one of Scandinavia’s foremost lyric poets. He was influenced by the French Symbolists and in turn greatly influenced Danish modernist poets of the 1940s and 1960s.
Claussen’s family was de... |
631adfc08d7bfbfbc43314a0e5c564cd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophus-Lie | Sophus Lie | Sophus Lie
Sophus Lie, (born Dec. 17, 1842, Nordfjordeid, Norway—died Feb. 18, 1899, Kristiania), Norwegian mathematician who founded the theory of continuous groups and their applications to the theory of differential equations. His investigations led to one of the major branches of 20th-century mathematics, the theo... |
0d15c84fea5fb9f659d9d7371b9b7b0b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sou-Fujimoto | Sou Fujimoto | Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto, byname of Fujimoto Sōsuke, (born August 4, 1971, Hokkaido, Japan), Japanese architect whose innovative residential structures and institutional projects represented a fresh approach to the relationship between architectural space and the human body.
Fujimoto was raised on the northern Japane... |
603041ec35bc7be61a8e2ddb9fa155d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spencer-Abraham | Spencer Abraham | Spencer Abraham
…New York to work for Spencer Abraham, a Republican U.S. senator representing Michigan, in Washington, D.C.
…narrowly defeated the Republican incumbent Spencer Abraham. She entered the Senate in 2001.
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b05747c2b5255bb2271137a3b21369cb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stan-Barstow | Stan Barstow | Stan Barstow
Stan Barstow, byname of Stanley Barstow, (born June 28, 1928, Horbury, Yorkshire [now in West Yorkshire], England—died August 1, 2011, Port Talbot, Wales), English novelist who was noted for his unsentimental depiction of working-class life.
Barstow grew up in a working-class environment and held a job in... |
6aeb370136120bb1e2fd32fdd0cfac26 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stan-Kenton | Stan Kenton | Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton, byname of Stanley Newcomb Kenton, (born Feb. 19, 1912, Wichita, Kan., U.S.—died Aug. 25, 1979, Los Angeles), American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into wh... |
2002da1fc2e9962c2cd868a6c166c072 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanislas-Jean-chevalier-de-Boufflers | Stanislas-Jean, chevalier de Boufflers | Stanislas-Jean, chevalier de Boufflers
Stanislas-Jean, chevalier de Boufflers, (born May 31, 1738, Nancy, France—died January 18, 1815, Paris), French writer, soldier, and academician remembered chiefly for his picaresque romance, Aline, reine de Golconde (“Aline, Queen of Golconde”).
His mother, the Marquise de Bouff... |
daaa8e4c95ff5023b8026e50291ddce7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanislaw-Ignacy-Witkiewicz | Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz | Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, pseudonym Witkacy, (born February 24, 1885, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died September 18, 1939, Jeziory, Poland [now in Ukraine]), Polish painter, novelist, and playwright, well known as a dramatist in the period between the two world wars.
... |
9d3c80c50de57f99aa0a455724a40059 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanislaw-Wojciechowski | Stanisław Wojciechowski | Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski, (born March 15, 1869, Kalisz, Pol., Russian Empire—died April 9, 1953, Golabki, Pol.), one of the leaders in the struggle for Polish independence from Russia in the years before World War I. He later served as the second president of the Polish Republic (1922–26).
Whi... |
717c1fc37c958949413ba2a3a1e6ad3b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-B-Prusiner | Stanley B. Prusiner | Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner, in full Stanley Ben Prusiner, (born May 28, 1942, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.), American biochemist and neurologist whose discovery in 1982 of disease-causing proteins called prions won him the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Prusiner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and wa... |
f96e21667b4ac38cdc65a1dd7b2dc50c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Lloyd-Miller | Stanley Lloyd Miller | Stanley Lloyd Miller
Miller, under the guidance of his professor at the University of Chicago, chemist Harold C. Urey. A mixture of methane, ammonia, water vapour, and hydrogen was circulated through a liquid solution and continuously sparked by a corona discharge mounted higher in the apparatus. The discharge…
Urey an... |
abdd7a254dbccdc5990458afcd0238a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Matthews-British-soccer-player | Sir Stanley Matthews | Sir Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews, (born February 1, 1915, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England—died February 23, 2000, Newcastle-under-Lyme), football (soccer) player, an outside right forward considered by many to be one of the greatest dribblers in the history of the sport. In 1965 he became the first British fo... |
575ec5b8162b1a9020b085c52a6f01f7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Milgram | Stanley Milgram | Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram, (born August 15, 1933, New York City, New York, U.S.—died December 20, 1984, New York City), American social psychologist known for his controversial and groundbreaking experiments on obedience to authority. Milgram’s obedience experiments, in addition to other studies that he carried ... |
fe9c92654a1dae65c3f2c8b38dd26a4c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Spencer | Sir Stanley Spencer | Sir Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer, (born June 30, 1891, Cookham, Berkshire, England—died December 14, 1959, Taplow, Buckinghamshire), one of the leading painters in England between the World Wars. He used an expressively distorted style of drawing and often drew upon Christian subjects.
Spencer studied at the Sl... |
f31994199a5551646aca332508c630c3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stefan-Uros-III | Stefan Uroš III | Stefan Uroš III
…Dušan was the son of Stefan Uroš III, who was the eldest son of the reigning king, Stefan Uroš II Milutin. While Dušan was still a boy, his father, who governed the maritime provinces of the Serbian state, rebelled against his own father. Milutin took him prisoner, blinded him in…
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a5a18cfaf308aad6cd1bd9640fc9c677 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stefano-della-Bella | Stefano della Bella | Stefano della Bella
Stefano della Bella, French Étienne de la Belle, (born May 18, 1610, Florence [Italy]—died July 12, 1664, Florence), Baroque printmaker noted for his engravings of military events, in the manner of Jacques Callot.
Stefano was initially apprenticed to a goldsmith but turned to engraving, studying un... |
8649ff824d44dd2c544a816f9b179484 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stefano-Kaoze | Stefano Kaoze | Stefano Kaoze
…was inaugurated in 1910 by Stefano Kaoze, the first Congolese to gain substantial training in modern philosophy. In his essay titled “La Psychologie des Bantu” (“Bantu Psychology”), Kaoze articulated what he regarded as the Bantu way of thinking about knowledge, moral values, God, life, and the afterlife... |
9b250616e28e8a235a461584b54e91fc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stella-Adler | Stella Adler | Stella Adler
Stella Adler, (born Feb. 10, 1901, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1992, Los Angeles, Calif.), American actress, teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York City (1949), where she tutored performers in “the method” technique of acting (see Stanislavsky method).
Adler wa... |
c056547e44c0514a4de67babb05af9ba | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sten-Sture-the-Elder | Sten Sture, the Elder | Sten Sture, the Elder
Sten Sture, the Elder, Danish in full Sten Gustafsson Sture Den Äldre, (born c. 1440, Sweden—died 1503, Sweden), regent of Sweden (1470–97, 1501–03) who resisted Danish domination and built up a strong central administration.
Sten, a member of a powerful noble family, led forces that ended an a... |
1b25311308228fcd4f2bb4882ef489f9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stepan-Osipovich-Makarov | Stepan Osipovich Makarov | Stepan Osipovich Makarov
Stepan Osipovich Makarov, (born Dec. 27, 1848, [Jan. 8, 1849, New Style], Nikolayev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Mykolayiv, Ukraine]—died March 31 [April 13], 1904, at sea off Port Arthur, Manchuria [now Lü-shun, China]), Russian naval commander in charge of the Pacific fleet at the start o... |
def900a94a21e032646b8327d48ffc1f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephanus-Van-Cortlandt | Stephanus Van Cortlandt | Stephanus Van Cortlandt
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, (born May 7, 1643, New Amsterdam—died Nov. 25, 1700, New York City), Dutch-American colonial merchant and public official who was the first native-born mayor of New York City and chief justice of the Supreme Court of New York.
Van Cortlandt began a successful and profi... |
460680de6cd8d9b1904872b28fd8493f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Day | Stephen Day | Stephen Day
Stephen Day, Day also spelled Daye, (born c. 1594, London, Eng.—died Dec. 22, 1668, Cambridge, Mass.), founder of the first printing press in England’s North American colonies.
Day himself does not seem to have been a printer. He was a locksmith in Cambridge, Eng., and, in 1638, contracted with the Rever... |
6e1a234626c1138ac8612565a32619b7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Edelston-Toulmin | Stephen Edelston Toulmin | Stephen Edelston Toulmin
Stephen Edelston Toulmin, (born March 25, 1922, London, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 2009, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), English philosopher and educator noted for his study of the history of ideas. In his work on ethics, Toulmin was concerned with describing prescriptive language—that is, imperative sente... |
af69d43162b82bdbb6166274f6d896fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Gardiner | Stephen Gardiner | Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner, (born c. 1482, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Eng.—died Nov. 12, 1555, London), English bishop and statesman, a leading exponent of conservatism in the first generation of the English Reformation. Although he supported the antipapal policies of King Henry VIII (ruled 1509–47), Gardiner r... |
396ce1fa0af34f2445f02267911f16b8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Gary-Wozniak | Steve Wozniak | Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak, byname of Stephen Gary Wozniak, (born August 11, 1950, San Jose, California, U.S.), American electronics engineer, cofounder, with Steve Jobs, of Apple Computer, and designer of the first commercially successful personal computer.
Wozniak—or “Woz,” as he was commonly known—was the son of a... |
a3cb732fe7e74a95e5ca3166a561dc31 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-I-king-of-Hungary | Stephen I | Stephen I
Stephen I, also called Saint Stephen, Hungarian Szent István, original name Vajk, (born c. 970–975, Esztergom, Hungary—died August 15, 1038, Esztergom; canonized 1083; feast day August 16), first king of Hungary, who is considered to be the founder of the Hungarian state and one of the most-renowned figures ... |
a67a8e40045208b73fa68f9597e8d8a2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-II-unconsecrated-pope | Stephen (II) | Stephen (II)
Stephen (II), (born, Rome—died March 25, 752, Rome), unconsecrated pope from March 23 to March 25, 752. He was a priest when he was elected on March 23, 752, to succeed Pope St. Zacharias, but he died of apoplexy two days later without having been consecrated. Because consecration is the act considered n... |
976403fe06858d15878145643222e93d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-IV-or-V | Stephen IV (or V) | Stephen IV (or V)
Stephen IV (or V), (born, Rome—died Jan. 24, 817, Rome), pope from June 816 to January 817.
Of noble birth, he succeeded Pope St. Leo III in June 816. Immediately after his consecration he ordered the Romans to swear fidelity to the Carolingian emperor Louis I the Pious, whom he informed of his elec... |
d6dc7e31184892a27b7c661f9566a766 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Jay-Gould | Stephen Jay Gould | Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould, (born September 10, 1941, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 20, 2002, New York), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer.
Gould graduated from Antioch College in 1963 and received a Ph.D. in paleontology at Columbia University in 1967. He joined the facu... |
b1ce2abb415d54da047e408349885fc1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Leacock | Stephen Leacock | Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock, in full Stephen Butler Leacock, (born Dec. 30, 1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 28, 1944, Toronto, Ont., Can.), internationally popular Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author of more than 30 books of lighthearted sketches and essays.
Leacock immigrated to Canada wi... |
4d6a0c18f888079aed9d02d3b1556e5c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Malkmus | Stephen Malkmus | Stephen Malkmus
…singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter Stephen Malkmus (also known as S.M.; b. May 30, 1966, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) and guitarist Scott Kannberg (also known as Spiral Stairs; b. August 30, 1966, Stockton, California). Manic original drummer Gary Young (b. c. 1954, Marmaroneck, New York), ... |
e75c3a47a08317d381393c898eb68ed8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Marshall | Stephen Marshall | Stephen Marshall
Stephen Marshall, (born c. 1594, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, Eng.—died Nov. 19, 1655, London), Presbyterian minister and popular Puritan leader. He was an influential preacher to the English Parliament and a participant in the formulation of his church’s creed.
By 1629 Marshall had become a vicar... |
00c6fd8bd0c6677b488a61b5c5372086 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Rea | Stephen Rea | Stephen Rea
…1980 Friel cofounded (with actor-director Stephen Rea) the Field Day Theatre Company in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and in 1983 the company began publishing pamphlets, and later anthologies, aimed at the academic community on a wide variety of historical, cultural, and artistic topics. He was elected Sa... |
99e814cad1cf3e550467bc8e28425696 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Samuel-Wise | Stephen Samuel Wise | Stephen Samuel Wise
Stephen Samuel Wise, (born March 17, 1874, Budapest, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died April 19, 1949, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Reform rabbi, a leader of the Zionist movement in the United States, and a liberal activist who influenced the development of Reform Judaism in that country.
Wise earned his Ph.D... |
2a123cf898c3a3e914420402b03bb09b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Smale | Stephen Smale | Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale, (born July 15, 1930, Flint, Michigan, U.S.), American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work on topology in higher dimensions.
Smale grew up in a rural area near Flint. From 1948 to 1956 he attended the University of Michigan, obtaining B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. de... |
cb164adb1f83310cd815f61fac5d25b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Storace | Stephen Storace | Stephen Storace
Stephen Storace, in full Stephen John Seymour Storace, (born April 4, 1762, London, Eng.—died March 19, 1796, London), composer whose comic operas were highly popular in 18th-century England.
Storace was the son of an Italian double-bass player and an English mother. About 1776 he went to Naples in or... |
ac3e7adc54f3e6c6c91e67495acbbc71 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-V | Stephen V | Stephen V
Stephen V, (born 1239—died Aug. 6, 1272), king of Hungary (1270–72), the eldest son of Béla IV.
In 1262, as crown prince, he compelled his father, whom he had assisted in the Bohemian war, to surrender 29 counties to him, virtually dividing Hungary into two kingdoms; while afterward he seized the southern ... |
524495b62032115e84c5af33754bc6fe | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Watts-Kearny | Stephen Watts Kearny | Stephen Watts Kearny
Stephen Watts Kearny, (born Aug. 30, 1794, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died Oct. 31, 1848, St. Louis, Mo.), U.S. Army officer who conquered New Mexico and helped win California during the Mexican War (1846–48).
After serving in the War of 1812, Kearny spent most of the next 30 years on frontier duty. At ... |
0b7ff2f7e788babb7e7b26df2318b525 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Ditko | Steve Ditko | Steve Ditko
…writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. The character first appeared in a backup strip in Strange Tales no. 110 in July 1963 but soon blossomed into one of the cult characters of the decade and a staple in the Marvel pantheon.
…time, and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were the most important and influential ar... |
034bb83a5a4c6b684424bca69d1cdd20 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Forbes | Steve Forbes | Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes, in full Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Jr., (born July 18, 1947, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.), American publishing executive who twice sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination (1996, 2000).
Forbes graduated from Princeton University in 1970 with a B.A. degree in American history. He... |
9fbd38dba8a665893bbd77f008586ffd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Largent | Steve Largent | Steve Largent
Steve Largent, byname of Stephen Michael Largent, (born September 28, 1954, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American gridiron football player who is considered one of the greatest wide receivers of all time. He retired from the sport as the owner of all the major career National Football League (NFL) receiving r... |
ee2d3b5662623bfe095a8623ebdf5ef6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-McNair | Steve McNair | Steve McNair
Steve McNair, in full Steve LaTreal McNair, byname Air McNair, (born February 14, 1973, Mount Olive, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 4, 2009, Nashville, Tennessee), American gridiron football player who threw 174 touchdown passes during his 13 National Football League (NFL) seasons (1995–2008), primarily whil... |
85a5a95a835e75f2b8323d093282f394 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Reeves | Steve Reeves | Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves, in full Steven Reeves, (born January 21, 1926, Glasgow, Montana, U.S.—died May 1, 2000, Escondido, California), American bodybuilder and actor. He was one of the handsomest and best-built men of his era. By Reeves’s own account, at his bodybuilding peak he stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 metres) t... |
e6e79985d760bcf380bd1786b121d120 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Waugh | Steve Waugh | Steve Waugh
Steve Waugh, byname of Stephen Rodger Waugh, (born June 2, 1965, Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia), Australian cricketer who set the record for most international Test appearances (168; later broken by Sachin Tendulkar) and who, with his twin brother, Mark, helped lead the resurgence of the Australia... |
4184e5dfd5e53079d48d7c488d68b222 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Winwood | Steve Winwood | Steve Winwood
Principal members included singer-keyboardist Steve Winwood (b. May 12, 1948, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England), flautist-saxophonist Chris Wood (b. June 24, 1944, Birmingham—d. July 12, 1983, Birmingham), guitarist Dave Mason (b. May 10, 1946, Worcester, Worcestershire, England), and drummer Jim Capaldi... |
d1df07b3c839437dd22876f97afd4a18 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steven-Avery | Steven Avery | Steven Avery
Steven Avery, in full Steven Allen Avery, (born July 9, 1962, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, U.S.), American labourer who served 18 years in prison (1985–2003) for rape and attempted murder before his conviction was overturned because of DNA evidence. In 2005 he was charged with murder in a different case a... |
39ef0dcbff485e96628ed07d3ff74fb7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steven-Chu | Steven Chu | Steven Chu
Steven Chu, (born February 28, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), American physicist who, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for their independent pioneering research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. He later served as secretary o... |
3962387219b94c4e9593f7679342a18d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steven-Spielberg/The-1990s | The 1990s | The 1990s
Spielberg’s opening film of the 1990s was Hook (1991), a retelling of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. Despite a cast that included major stars Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, the movie was a critical and commercial failure. Spielberg, however, returned to form in dramatic fashion with not one but two enormously po... |
8ffb59b7927d016d900fda7bd99d73e2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steven-Tyler | Steven Tyler | Steven Tyler
Principal members were lead singer Steven Tyler (byname of Steven Tallarico; b. March 26, 1948, New York, New York, U.S.), lead guitarist Joe Perry (b. September 10, 1950, Boston, Massachusetts), guitarist Brad Whitford (b. February 23, 1952, Winchester, Massachusetts), bassist Tom Hamilton (b. December 31... |
b6e3f4454cd40818efbaae965def53a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stevie-Smith | Stevie Smith | Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith, pseudonym of Florence Margaret Smith, (born Sept. 20, 1902, Hull, Yorkshire, Eng.—died March 7, 1971, London), British poet who expressed an original and visionary personality in her work, combining a lively wit with penetrating honesty and an absence of sentiment.
For most of her life Smit... |
9ec154b455656a6693cbb1d703da200a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stigand | Stigand | Stigand
Stigand, (died Feb. 21/22, 1072), archbishop of Canterbury, probably the English king Canute’s priest of this name whom he placed over the minster of Ashingdon in Essex in 1020.
Stigand was consecrated bishop of Elmham in 1043 but was deposed later in the year when Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, f... |
7eb411cf786c9aeae26fbb93a2ec7f63 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stipe-Mesic | Stipe Mesić | Stipe Mesić
Stipe Mesić, byname of Stjepan Mesić, (born Dec. 24, 1934, Orahovica, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia), Croatian politician who served as president of Croatia (2000–10).
Mesić earned a degree in law from the University of Zagreb (1961), after which he returned to his hometown of Orahovica in eastern Croatia... |
352fa6a39f9ed79846a65a2f77ea8526 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stone-Gossard | Stone Gossard | Stone Gossard
), rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard (b. July 20, 1966, Seattle, Washington), bassist Jeff Ament (b. March 10, 1963, Havre, Montana), lead guitarist Mike McCready (b. April 5, 1966, Pensacola, Florida), and drummer Dave Krusen (b. March 10, 1966, Tacoma, Washington). Later members included Jack Irons (b. Jul... |
a233a0b84acb317f833407bf570d0a7a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Straton-of-Lampsacus | Straton Of Lampsacus | Straton Of Lampsacus
Straton Of Lampsacus, Straton also spelled Strato, Latin Strato Physicus, (died c. 270 bc), Greek philosopher and successor of Theophrastus as head of the Peripatetic school of philosophy (based on the teachings of Aristotle). Straton was famous for his doctrine of the void (asserting that all s... |
558b2db6063ecbc623d2b86f1db72aff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stringer-Lawrence | Stringer Lawrence | Stringer Lawrence
Stringer Lawrence, (born March 6, 1697, Hereford, Herefordshire, Eng.—died Jan. 10, 1775, London), British army captain whose transformation of irregular troops into an effective fighting force earned him credit as the real founder of the Indian army under British rule.
During 20 years of army servi... |
31515a997f31fd7c0b3b4283e6e428df | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stuart-Rosenberg | Stuart Rosenberg | Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg, (born August 11, 1927, New York City, New York, U.S.—died March 15, 2007, Beverly Hills, California), American television and film director who was best known for the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke.
Rosenberg studied Irish literature at New York University before working in television a... |
079caf8e65e11761fc5f6fa229e053ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suiko | Suiko | Suiko
Suiko, in full Suiko Tennō, (born 554, Yamato, Japan—died April 15, 628, Yamato), first reigning empress of Japan in recorded history, the wife of the emperor Bidatsu (reigned 572–585) and the daughter of the emperor Kimmei.
Bidatsu was succeeded on the throne by Emperor Yōmei, but when the latter died after a s... |
02ec592ee038a16a50f837ac5b9e51e6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sulayman-ibn-Abd-al-Malik | Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik | Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
…fleeing to the protection of Sulaymān, al-Walīd’s brother. When in 715 Sulaymān himself became caliph, Yazīd was named governor of Iraq and embarked on a persecution of the followers of al-Ḥajjāj, who had died in 714. Later he was also named governor of Khorāsān, while retaining supreme comm... |
ad959a702ce75cc9ac756be0f7cce77a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suleiman-Franjieh | Suleiman Franjieh | Suleiman Franjieh
Suleiman Franjieh, in full Sulaymān Qabalān Franjiyyah, (born June 15, 1910, Zgharta, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire—died July 23, 1992, Beirut, Lebanon), Lebanese politician who, as a leader of one of Lebanon’s powerful Maronite Christian clans and president of Lebanon (1970–76), was considered to be in la... |
f334a9ee227d5cdd39a0bc3efbb417b3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suliyavongsa | Suliyavongsa | Suliyavongsa
Suliyavongsa, also spelled Soulignavongsa, (born 1613—died 1694), Lao king of Lan Xang during its golden age of prosperity, who welcomed the first European visitors to Laos.
Suliyavongsa came to the throne in 1637 at a time of dynastic conflict and instability and authoritatively restored peace and delim... |
1e50ea875f5cb2f3e5711dce170be22c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sumuabum | Sumuabum | Sumuabum
bce by the Amorite king Sumuabum, whose successors consolidated its status. The sixth and best-known of the Amorite dynasts, Hammurabi (1792–50 bce), conquered the surrounding city-states and raised Babylon to the capital of a kingdom comprising all of southern Mesopotamia and part of Assyria (northern Iraq). ... |
665475bf1b1b128499240778faa0693f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Quan | Sun Quan | Sun Quan
Sun Quan, Wade-Giles romanization Sun Ch’üan, posthumous name (shi) Dadi, temple name (miaohao) Taizu, (born ad 181, China—died 252, China), founder and first emperor of the Wu dynasty, one of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo) into which China was divided at the end of the Han period (206 bc–ad 220). The Wu occupi... |
72eb572e999c33dd58753f992463dc9d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Ra | Sun Ra | Sun Ra
Sun Ra, byname of Le Sony’r Ra, original name Herman Blount ,byname Sonny, (born May 22, 1914, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.—died May 30, 1993, Birmingham), American jazz composer and keyboard player who led a free jazz big band known for its innovative instrumentation and the theatricality of its performances.
Sun R... |
f72f2bf30db69d0d9f6151a03f2c16ef | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sundar-Pichai | Sundar Pichai | Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai, in full Pichai Sundararajan, (born July 12, 1972, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India), Indian-born American executive who was CEO of both Google, Inc. (2015– ), and its holding company, Alphabet Inc. (2019– ).
As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai slept with his brother in the living ... |
795046ce4b811a4c8c79713bb0d02512 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suppiluliumas-I | Suppiluliumas I | Suppiluliumas I
Suppiluliumas I, also spelled Shuppiluliumash, or Subbiluliuma, (flourished 14th century bc), Hittite king (reigned c. 1380–c. 1346 bc), who dominated the history of the ancient Middle East for the greater part of four decades and raised the Hittite kingdom to Imperial power. The son and successor of ... |
7713c57db0978ade88c7d16cb483d6a2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Blow | Susan Blow | Susan Blow
Susan Blow, in full Susan Elizabeth Blow, (born June 7, 1843, Carondelet [now part of St. Louis], Missouri, U.S.—died March 27, 1916, New York, New York), American education reformer who was an ardent advocate of German educational ideas and who launched the first public kindergarten in the United States.
B... |
77174d9c2dbb3dd8f787b339b2ce8ec2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Bogert-Warner | Susan Bogert Warner | Susan Bogert Warner
In 1851 Susan published a novel entitled The Wide, Wide World under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. Sentimental and moralistic, the book proved highly popular; it was widely sold in several translations and was reputedly the first book by an American author to sell one million copies. Susan…
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786035688c30a72454ef40ae0b763372 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Catherine-Koerner-Wright | Susan Catherine Koerner Wright | Susan Catherine Koerner Wright
…United Brethren in Christ, and Susan Catherine Koerner Wright, whom Milton had met while he was training for the ministry and while Susan was a student at a United Brethren college in Hartsville, Indiana. Two boys, Reuchlin (1861–1920) and Lorin (1862–1939), were born to the couple befor... |
0c0574565fec1f24ae607feef4a02b12 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-L-Lindquist | Susan L. Lindquist | Susan L. Lindquist
Susan L. Lindquist, in full Susan Lee Lindquist, née Susan McKenzie, (born June 5, 1949, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died October 27, 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts), American molecular biologist who made key discoveries concerning protein folding and who was among the first to discover that in yeast in... |
db2a1ea9fd94bb24c03e40223cc84af6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-Polgar | Susan Polgar | Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar, original name Zsuzsanna Polgár, (born April 19, 1969, Budapest, Hung.), Hungarian-born American chess player who won the women’s world championship in 1996 from Xie Jun of China. In 1999 Polgar was stripped of her title by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; the international che... |
2efba77de22c939cd8d01270d8c08f03 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sutan-Sjahrir | Sutan Sjahrir | Sutan Sjahrir
Sutan Sjahrir, (born March 5, 1909, Padangpandjang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now in Indonesia]—died April 9, 1966, Zürich, Switz.), influential Indonesian nationalist and prime minister who favoured the adoption of Western constitutional democracy for Indonesia.
Sjahrir, son of a public prosecutor, re... |
5ad1acd289da339bf3ddf4a5ab9da59d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzanne-Bachelard | Suzanne Bachelard | Suzanne Bachelard
Suzanne Bachelard, who in 1957 translated Husserl’s Formale und transzendentale Logik: Versuch einer Kritik der logischen Vernunft (1929; Formal and Transcendental Logic), pointed to the significance of Husserl for modern logic; and Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, combined phenomenology... |
65958d88442c8dbf79c85ed0fe8ea0f2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Akira | Suzuki Akira | Suzuki Akira
Suzuki Akira, (born September 12, 1930, Mukawa-chō, Japan), Japanese chemist who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in using palladium as a catalyst in producing organic molecules. He shared the prize with fellow Japanese chemist Negishi Ei-ichi and American chemist Richard F. Hec... |
66c166d025251befe34e0a50cb04e259 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Kantaro | Danshaku Suzuki Kantarō | Danshaku Suzuki Kantarō
Danshaku Suzuki Kantarō, (born Jan. 18, 1868, Ōsaka, Japan—died April 17, 1948, Chiyō), the last premier (April–August 1945) of Japan during World War II, who was forced to surrender to the Allies.
A veteran of the Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) wars, Suzuki was promoted ... |
c7e8f3f58efbdaf318254b1d395cd0dc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suzuki-Zenko | Suzuki Zenkō | Suzuki Zenkō
Suzuki Zenkō, (born January 11, 1911, Yamada, Iwate prefecture, Japan—died July 19, 2004, Tokyo), prime minister of Japan (1980–82), who worked closely with the United States and other Western countries.
The son of a fisherman, Suzuki attended the former Imperial Fisheries Institute and joined the Japan F... |
33fd4636dc01a3fa924d654ee67a9245 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sverker | Sverker | Sverker
…Christian during the reign of Sverker (c. 1130–56). Sweden’s Eric IX controlled Finland and in 1155 required the Finns to be baptized, but only in 1291, with the appointment of Magnus, the first Finnish bishop, was evangelization completed.
About 1130 Sverker, a member of a magnate family from Östergötland, wa... |
51456525c2ccf7c2599186c5a135b934 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Svyatoslav-I | Svyatoslav I | Svyatoslav I
Svyatoslav I, also spelled Sviatoslav, Russian in full Svyatoslav Igorevich, (died 972), grand prince of Kiev from 945 and the greatest of the Varangian princes of early Russo-Ukrainian history.
He was the son of Grand Prince Igor, who was himself probably the grandson of Rurik, prince of Novgorod. Svyat... |
a1a0bdb51e7f978edc397251c2e8de07 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sy-Oliver | Sy Oliver | Sy Oliver
Sy Oliver, byname of Melvin James Oliver, (born Dec. 17, 1910, Battle Creek, Mich., U.S.—died May 28, 1988, New York, N.Y.), jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was one of the leading music arrangers of the 1930s and ’40s.
Both of Oliver’s parents were music teachers in Ohio, where he grew up. He p... |
8da5ed5d88a852cc9208d6b014bd3d74 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syagrius | Syagrius | Syagrius
…Salian Franks (reigned 481/482–511), expelled Syagrius, the last Roman, from Soissons, took Alsace and the Palatinate from the Alemanni (496), and killed Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, at Vouillé (507). His conversion to Catholicism assured him the support of the bishops, and Frankish domination was establ... |
b3aaf23099bb023f5ed4fb980a3e6b03 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syd-Barrett | Syd Barrett | Syd Barrett
Nick Drake, and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.
…principal members were lead guitarist Syd Barrett (original name Roger Keith Barrett; b. January 6, 1946, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England—d. July 7, 2006, Cambridge), bassist Roger Waters (b. September 6, 1943, Great Bookham, Surrey), drummer Nick Mason (b. Ja... |
826b9a00a802f7598adb55ae4a1e6d29 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvain-Levi | Sylvain Lévi | Sylvain Lévi
Sylvain Lévi, (born March 28, 1863, Paris—died Oct. 30, 1935, Paris), French Orientalist who wrote on Eastern religion, literature, and history and is particularly noted for his dictionary of Buddhism.
Appointed a lecturer at the school of higher studies in Paris (1886), he taught Sanskrit at the Sorbonn... |
15866758817a8928a87b8f32fa3d51ad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Townsend-Warner | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner, (born Dec. 6, 1893, Harrow, Middlesex, Eng.—died May 1, 1978, Maiden Newton, Dorset), English writer who began her self-proclaimed “accidental career” as a poet after she was given paper with a “particularly tempting surface” and who wrote her first novel, Lolly Willowes;... |
90134ebb8e7feb23f24bc2f614c8b14f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvie-Kinigi | Sylvie Kinigi | Sylvie Kinigi
Sylvie Kinigi, (born c. 1952, Burundi), economist and politician who served as prime minister of Burundi from July 1993 to February 1994.
Kinigi studied economics at the University of Burundi and held civil service jobs before becoming an adviser to the prime minister in 1991. After Melchior Ndadaye, a m... |
9458fa3bd9edb21834dc406f6c0ae40e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Synesius-of-Cyrene | Synesius of Cyrene | Synesius of Cyrene
…the pagan writer and philosopher Synesius. The people of Cyrene selected him as the most able man of the city to be their bishop, and he was able to accept the election without sacrificing his intellectual honesty. In his pagan period he wrote hymns that closely follow the fire theology…
The best-kn... |
b36f35a9974260429a243f2984abaaea | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syngman-Rhee | Syngman Rhee | Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee, (born March 26, 1875, P’yŏngsan, Hwanghae province, Korea [now in North Korea]—died July 19, 1965, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.), first president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
Rhee completed a traditional classical Confucian education and then entered a Methodist school, where he learne... |
057b3d17cd0a9552731a2148f2c90831 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Syphax | Syphax | Syphax
Syphax, (died 201 bc, Tibur [now Tivoli, Italy]), king of the Masaesyli, a Numidian tribe (in North Africa). Formerly a Carthaginian dependent, he rebelled in 214 bc in consultation with Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus, who were fighting Carthaginian forces in Spain at the time. In 206 Syphax ex... |
e8bc7d7d1203f3fe0ee428326538bbe6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-Bone-Burnett | T Bone Burnett | T Bone Burnett
T Bone Burnett, byname of Joseph Henry Burnett, (born January 14, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), American producer and musician, one of popular music’s most prolific and successful producers, known for his work in a wide range of genres including rock, country, and folk.
Burnett spent his childhood i... |
37b43261e20858f0d1907b998e1d6b5a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-E-Lawrence/Legacy | Legacy | Legacy
Lawrence became a mythic figure in his own lifetime even before he published his own version of his legend in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. His accomplishments themselves were solid enough for several lives. More than a military leader and inspirational force behind the Arab revolt against the Turks, he was a sup... |
1df052e649bd2564df4b44ec8f355897 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-H-Green | T.H. Green | T.H. Green
T.H. Green, in full Thomas Hill Green, (born April 7, 1836, Birkin, Yorkshire, England—died March 26, 1882, Oxford, Oxfordshire), English educator, political theorist, and Idealist philosopher of the so-called Neo-Kantian school. Through his teaching, Green exerted great influence on philosophy in late 19th... |
ece7476462b3b228d1002a79bbc2a011 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-H-White | T. H. White | T. H. White
T. H. White, (born May 29, 1906, Bombay, India—died Jan. 17, 1964, Piraeus, Greece), English novelist, social historian, and satirist who was best known for his brilliant adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th-century romance, Morte Darthur, into a quartet of novels called The Once and Future King.
White ... |
e2de497dabf03a0580b3f6b86e5169b4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-M-Aluko | T.M. Aluko | T.M. Aluko
T.M. Aluko, in full Timothy Mofolorunso Aluko, (born June 14, 1918, Ilesha, Nigeria—died May 1, 2010, Lagos), Nigerian writer whose short stories and novels deal with social change and the clash of cultures in modern Africa.
A civil engineer and town planner by profession, Aluko was educated in Ibadan, Lago... |
4bea4368c74f6396ef4f16d146a482c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-M-Marshall | T. M. Marshall | T. M. Marshall
Marshall on The Colonization of North America, 1492–1783, which emphasized non-English colonies and English colonies other than the original 13. His concept of the Americas was most fully expressed in his presidential speech to the American Historical Association in 1932, “The Epic of Greater America,”…
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