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| sabin | Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), American physicist |
| Sabin vaccine | Albert Bruce Sabin (b.1906), Polish-born American microbiologist |
| sadism | Count Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814), French soldier and writer |
| St Bernard dog | St Bernard of Menthon (923-1008) Italian churchman |
| Salisbury Steak | James J. Salisburu, 19th century English physician |
| Salk vaccine | Jonas Edward Salk (b.1914), American microbiologist |
| salmonella | Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914), American veterinary surgeon |
| Sam Browne belt | Sir Samuel J. Browne (1824-1901), British army officer |
| samarskite | Colonel M. von Samarski, Russian mine official |
| sandwich | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), English diplomat |
| Sanforise | Sandford Lockwood Cluett (1840-1968), American inventor |
| Saturday | Saturn, Roman god of agriculture |
| savarin | Antheline Brillat-Savarin (d. 1826), French politician and gourmet |
| savart | Félix Savart (1791-1841), French physicist |
| saxhorn, saxophone | Adolphe Sax (1814-94), Belgian musical-instrument maker |
| sequoia | Sequoya (c.1770-1843), American Indian |
| Shakespearean | William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist and poet |
| Shavian | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and socialist |
| shrapnel | Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), English artillery officer |
| sideburns | Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-81), American general |
| siemens | Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-92), German electrical engineer |
| sievert | R. M. Sievert (1896-1966), Swedish physicist |
| silhouette | Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), French politician |
| silly-billy | William IV (1765-1837), English king |
| simony | Simon Magus, 1st century astrologer from Samaria |
| slave | Sclavus, Medieval Latin word for ‘a Slav’, a member of the Slavonic people of central Europe |
| smithsonite; Smithsonian Institution | James Smithson (original name James Lewes Macie; 1765-1829), English chemist |
| Snellen scale | Hermann Snellen (1834-1908), Dutch ophthalmologist |
| Socratic method/irony | Socrates (c.470-399BC), Greek philosopher |
| sophist; sophistry; sophism | The sophists, 5th & 4th century BC Greek itinerant teachers |
| soubise | Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise (1715-87), French nobleman |
| sousaphone | John Phillip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer and bandleader |
| spaniel | Espaigneul, Old French word meaning ‘Spanish’ |
| spencer | George John Spencer, 2nd Earl of Spencer (1758-1834), English politician |
| Spenserian stanza/sonnet | Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99), English poet |
| Spode | Josiah Spode (1754-1827), British potter |
| spoonerism | Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), English churchman |
| Stalinism | Joseph Stalin (original name Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; 1879-1953), Soviet leader |
| stentorian | Stentor, herald in Greek mythology |
| stetson | John Bauerson Stetson (1830-1906), American hat-maker |
| stoic | The Stoics, a school of ancient Greek philosophers |
| stokes | George G. Stokes (1819-1903) |
| stonewall | Stonewall Jackson, nickname of Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824-63), American general |
| Svedberg | Theodor S. Svedberg (1884-1971), Swedish chemist |
| Svengali | Character in Trilby, novel by English artist and writer George du Maurier (1834-96) |
| sverdrup | Harald Ulrich Sverdrup (1888-1957), Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer |
| Swedenborgian | Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish philosopher and mystic |
| Swiftian | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish clergyman, poet and satirist |
| syphilis | Syphilis, character in the poem Syphilis seve Morbus Gallicus by Girolamo Fracastro (1483-1553) |
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