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Samuel Beckett

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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Sangoulé Lamizana

Governed historical record

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Satyajit Ray

Bengali filmmaker, director, screenwriter, composer, illustrator, and writer

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Saul Bellow

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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Seamus Heaney

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Seán MacBride

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Severin Cecile Abega

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Shel Silverstein

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Shimon Peres

statesman

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Shirley Chisholm

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Simone de Beauvoir

French writer, philosopher, public intellectual, and activist

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Simone Weil

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Stan Lee

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Stanford Moore

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Ștefan Augustin Doinaș

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Stephanie Kwolek

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Stephen Hawking

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Steven Weinberg

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Sun Ra

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Taras Kermauner

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Ted Williams

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Tennessee Williams

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