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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
Sacagawea
Sacagawea was probably born a Shoshone. When she was about 10-12 years old and probably living in Idaho, she was one of a group of boys and girls, including her brother and sister, who were... [more]
Saffian, Sarah Ruth
Saffian was born Susan Morgan, adopted as a baby of two months by an affluent family. She knew from the age of seven that she was adopted. Her adoptive mother died when she was six. Her fat... [more]
Saigo Siro
Saigo was the extramarital birth son of Saigo Tanomo (1830-1905), lord of the Aizu samurai clan of Japan and master of the Daito-Ryu aikijujutsu martial art, hereditary in the clan. In 1885... [more]
Sainte-Marie, Buffy
Sainte-Marie is part Cree and was born on the Piapot Reserve in Canada. She was adopted by a white family from Maine, USA, and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. Her family encouraged her i... [more]
Sajjan Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
Salter, Shane
Salter's unmarried mother was 15 when he was born in New York. She became a drug addict, and when he was four he and his younger brother were placed in care after being found wandering the ... [more]
Samuel
According to the Bible (1 Samuel 1-2) Samuel was the son of Elkanah and Hannah and was sent to live with the priest Eli in the Temple in Jerusalem when he was a toddler (see Oblates ). He ... [more]
Sancho, Ignatius
Sancho was born on a slave ship bound for Colombia. His mother died soon after arriving and his father killed himself soon afterwards rather than live as a slave. When he was two he was bro... [more]
Sanderson, Teresa Ione
Sanderson's father emigrated to England before she was born, and her mother followed him before she was a year old, leaving her and her sister to be raised by their grandmother in rural Jam... [more]
Sardar Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
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