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Features
- Sacagawea
- Saffian, Sarah Ruth
- Saigo Siro
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Sajjan Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Salter, Shane
- Samuel
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Sanderson, Teresa Ione
- Sardar Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Sargon I
- Savage, Dan
- Sawant Singh (under India - Princely States: 8)
- Schad, Brenda
- Schramm, Leo Paul
- Schreiber, Lorna
- Schuon, Frithjof (under Honorific Adoption)
- Schweig, Eric
- Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
- Scipio Africanus Minor (under Roman Empire)
- Scott, George
- Scott, Todd M.
- Scully, Julia
- Seal
- Seed, Michael
- Seki Takakazu Kowa
- Semiramis
- Sennacherib
- Senser, Joe
- Seymour, Alan
- Shabazz, Betty Jean Sanders
- Shabbona
- Shahaji II Bhonsle (under India- Princely States: 2)
- Shahaji III (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shahu Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shahu II Raje (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shahu Pratapsinhji Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shahu Shivaji II Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shahu Shivaji Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shakers
- Shambhu Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Shelton Kenneth
- Shelton, Fincourt
- Shenandoah
- Shepenwepe II (under God's Wife)
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Sherrin, Scott
- Shin, Paull H.
- Shivaji IV Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shivaji V Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shoah
- Short, William
- Simon, Ella
- Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
- Sissay, Lemn
- Skanudharova
- Slaves
- Slocum, Frances
- Smith, John Walter
- Smith, Joseph Fielding
- Smith, Robyn
- Smith, Venture
- Soll, Joe
- Soseki Natsume
- Spain, 1936-75
- Spalding, Henry Harmon
- Spencer, Percy LaBaron
- Stands In Timber, John
- Stanhope, Albert
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- Stewart, Albert Oliphant
- Stokes, Richard
- Stradling, John
- Strozzi, Barbara
- Sudbury, Julia
- Sun Kewang
- Svein Ulfson (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Swaroop Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Swift, Jonathan
- Sykes, Annette
Shoah
The Shoah, also known as the Holocaust , is the name given to the attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate not only the Jews of Europe, their primary target, but also the mentally and physic... [more]
Short, William
Short was the adopted son (or possibly protégé) of President Thomas Jefferson. He was born into a well-to-do planter family in Virginia. He helped found the US academic honor society Phi... [more]
Simon, Ella
Simon was born on a mission at Taree, New South Wales, to a part Aboriginal mother and a white father, but was brought up by her grandparents. She became the first Aboriginal woman justi... [more]
Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
Pratap was born the son of the King of Daiya in northern India. In 1936 his father gave him to the childless ruler of a neighboring state, Ram Gopal Singh of Manda, to be adopted, and he wa... [more]
Sissay, Lemn
Sissay was born to an unmarried Ethiopian student in England, who put him into voluntary temporary care so that she could continue her studies. The social worker illegally placed him in ... [more]
Skanudharova
Skanudharova was the daughter of a leading Huron chief. He was one of the first Huron converts to Christianity, and sent his daughter to an Ursuline convent to be raised. She became a nun u... [more]
Slaves
Slavery is one of the most pervasive of human institutions. Until two hundred years ago hardly anyone had any doubts but that slavery was divinely ordained and a perfectly acceptable practi... [more]
Slocum, Frances
Slocum was a white child captured by Delaware Indians in Pennsylvania in 1778. A Delaware couple adopted her to replace a dead daughter (see also Shenandoah ) and renamed her Weletawash, l... [more]
Smith, John Walter
Smith was the adoptive son of Ephraim King Wilson. He was a member of the Maryland state Senate from 1890 to 1898, US Congress Representative from Maryland, 1899-1900, governor of Maryland,... [more]
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Smith was born the son of Hyrum and Mary Smith in Missouri. His uncle was Joseph Smith, the prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). His father and un... [more]
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