Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003.
Read biography ↗5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.
Read biography ↗French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)
Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse, was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the condition
Read biography ↗American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist.
Read biography ↗Italian writer (1901-1968)
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".
Read biography ↗American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host.
Read biography ↗Irish writer (1906–1989)
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet.
Read biography ↗American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter.
Read biography ↗English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
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