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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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