Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, knight, and politician.
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Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Socrates
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy.
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19th-century Russian mathematician
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
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Athenian legislator
Solon
Solon was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet.
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Ancient Greek playwright
Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full.
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Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer.
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American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999)
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer.
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French writer (1783–1842)
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer.
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French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
Stéphane Mallarmé
Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic.
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