Authors by S

Tupac Shakur 154

rapper and actor 1971–1996

William Shakespeare 699

English playwright and poet 1564–1616

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 120

Russian writer 1918–2008

Socrates 168

classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BC

Joseph Stalin 95

General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

Albert Schweitzer 126

French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

José Saramago 138

Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in … 1922–2010

Friedrich Schiller 111

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

Charles Spurgeon 49

British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834–1892

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 38

French writer and aviator 1900–1944

Jeff Sessions	Former United States Attorney…	1946
Vikram Seth	Indian writer	1952
Anya Seton	American writer	1904–1990
Ernest Thompson Seton	British/ American author, art…	1860–1946
Diane Setterfield	English novelist	1964
Mary Lee Settle	Novelist, biographer, academic	1918–2005
Settlemania	Settlemania Is in Indian Vide…	1999
Michel Seuphor	designer, draughtsman, painter	1901–1999
Georges Seurat	French painter	1859–1891
Dr. Seuss	American children's writer an…	1904–1991
Eric Sevareid	American journalist	1912–1992
Gino Severini	Italian painter	1883–1966
Septimius Severus	Emperor of Ancient Rome	145–211
Sulpicius Severus	Christian writer and historia…	360–420
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné	French noble	1626–1696
Chloë Sevigny	American film actress	1974
Isidore of Seville	bishop, confessor and doctor …	560–636
Harriet Winslow Sewall	American poet	1819–1889
Jonathan M. Sewall	American poet	1748–1808
William H. Seward	American lawyer and politician	1801–1872
Anna Sewell	English novelist	1820–1878
Quintus Sextius	Roman philosopher
Anne Sexton	poet from the United States	1928–1974
Jared Yates Sexton		1981
Tokyo Sexwale	South African politician	1953
Léa Seydoux	French actress	1985
Ed Seykota	American commodities trader	1946
Jane Seymour	English-American actress	1951
Jill Seymour	British politician	1958
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	austrian chancellor and polit…	1892–1946
Elio Sgreccia	Catholic cardinal	1928–2019
Jeff Shaara	American writer	1952
Michael Shaara	American writer	1928–1988
Oksana Shachko	Ukrainian artist and activist…	1987–2018
Max Shachtman	American Marxist theorist	1904–1972
G. L. S. Shackle	British economist	1903–1992
Ernest Shackleton	Anglo-Irish polar explorer	1874–1922
Tim Shadbolt	New Zealand politician	1947
John Shadegg	American politician	1949
DJ Shadow	American trip-hop musician	1972
Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach		1995
Thomas Shadwell	English poet and playwright	1642–1692
Tom Shadyac	American film director	1958
Elif Shafak	Turkish writer	1971
Jim G. Shaffer	American archaeologist	1944
Peter Shaffer	English playwright and screen…	1926–2016
Mian Muhammad Shafi	Member of Imperial Legislativ…	1869–1932
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury	English politician and Earl	1621–1683
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury	English politician and Earl	1671–1713
Ethan H. Shagan	American historian	1971
Alauddin Husain Shah	Sultan of Bengal
Amit Shah	Indian politician	1964
Bulleh Shah	Punjabi poet	1680–1757
Idries Shah	writer and Sufi teacher	1924–1996
Nader Shah	ruled as Shah of Iran	1688–1747
Nathar Shah	Muslim missionary	969–1039
Owais Shah
Prithvi Narayan Shah	far-sighted king/unifier of N…	1722–1775
Wajid Ali Shah	Nawab of Awadh	1822–1887
Rezā Shāh	Shah of the Imperial State of…	1878–1944
Syed Shahabuddin	Indian politician	1935–2017
Jennifer Shahade	chess player	1980
Israel Shahak	Israeli academic	1933–2001
Liu Shahe	Chinese writer and poet	1931–2019
Jeanne Shaheen	American politician	1947
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi	Pakistani Sufi spiritual lead…	1941–2001
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi	Iranian politician and cleric	1948–2018
Anwar Shaikh	British Pakistani writer	1928–2006
Merle Shain	Canadian writer	1935–1989
John Campbell Shairp	British writer	1819–1885
Shaka	leader of the Zulu Kingdom	1787–1828
Alex Shakar	American writer	1968
William Shakespeare	English playwright and poet	1564–1616
Parveen Shakir	Pakistani writer and poet	1952–1994
Shakira	Colombian singer	1977
Assata Shakur	American activist who was a m…	1947
Tupac Shakur	rapper and actor	1971–1996
Emanuel Hana Shaleta	prelate of the Chaldean Catho…	1956
Wendy Shalit	American writer	1975
Willa Shalit	American artist	1955
Jill Shalvis	American writer	1963
Yitzhak Shamir	prime minister of Israel	1915–2012
Ahmad Shamlou	Iranian Persian poet, writer,…	1925–2000
Shammai
Kamila Shamsie	Pakistani writer	1973
Darren Shan	Irish writer of English-langu…	1972
John Hung Shan-chuan	Archbishop of the Roman Catho…	1943
Sara Shane	American actress	1928–2022
Ntozake Shange	Contemporary African American…	1948–2018
Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin	Chinese poet and writer	813–858
Ravi Shankar	Indian musician and sitar pla…	1920–2012
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar	spiritual leader	1956
Adi Shankara	Hindu philosopher monk of 8th…	788–820
Edward A. Shanken	American art historian	1964
Bill Shankly	Scottish footballer and manag…	1913–1981
Claude Elwood Shannon	American mathematician and in…	1916–2001
Molly Shannon	American actress	1964
Yuan Shao	Han Dynasty warlord	154–202
Liu Shaoqi	2nd President of the People's…	1898–1969