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- 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
Smith, Robyn
Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her father deserted her and her mother (who was 17 when she was born), and her mother was declared mentally unstable by the courts, who placed Melody in a... [more]
Smith, Venture
Smith was born in Guinea, West Africa, but captured and sent to Rhode Island as a slave when he was about eight. He bought his own freedom when he was 37 and spent most of the rest of hi... [more]
Soll, Joe
Soll is an adoptee, psychotherapist specializing in abuse- and adoption-related issues, director of the Council for Equal Rights in Adoption and of Adoption Crossroads (an organization for ... [more]
Soseki Natsume
Born to a large family in modern-day Tokyo, Soseki was fostered for the first nine years of his life, before returning to his birth family. At college he studied first Chinese and then Engl... [more]
Spain, 1936-75
During and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) the Falangists (the Fascists, under General Franco) practiced child theft. Children of Republicans, their political opponents, were stolen f... [more]
Spalding, Henry Harmon
Spalding was sent away as a baby of 14 months to be fostered. When he grew up he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He translated St. Matthew's gospel into Nez Perce and worked with the ... [more]
Spencer, Percy LaBaron
Spencer's father died when he was 18 months old and his mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in Maine. His uncle died when he was seve... [more]
Stands In Timber, John
Stands In Timber was born the son of Stands Different and Buffalo Cow, but his father died in 1887 and his mother in 1892, and he was then raised by his grandparents. First, he and his y... [more]
Stanhope, Albert
Stanhope was a Child Migrant to Australia. Born to an unmarried woman in England, he was placed in an orphanage because she was unable to work and care for him, having no family back-up. ... [more]
Stanley, Henry Morton
Stanley was born John Rowland in Denbigh, North Wales. His family was extremely poor. His father died when he was very young and his mother left him with her father while she went to find w... [more]
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