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- Sa'adat (nawab of Oudh)
- Saarinen, Eliel (artist)
- Saigyō (Buddhist monk)
- Saitō Shūho (artist)
- Sakai Dōitsu (artist)
- Sakaida Kakiemon XIV (potter)
- Saladin (military commander, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty)
- Salin, Bernhard (archaeologist)
- Salt, Henry (collector)
- Samantabhadra (Buddhist bodhisattva)
- Samson (Old Testament figure)
- Sanakht (king of Egypt)
- Sancho I (king of Portugal)
- Sandby, Paul (artist)
- Sandys, Frederick (artist)
- Sarasvati (Hindu goddess)
- Sardanapalus (legendary king of Assyria)
- Sargent, John Singer (artist)
- Sargon I (king of Agade)
- Sargon II (king of Assyria)
- Sarto, Andrea del (artist)
- Sasobek (vizier of northern Egypt)
- Satakarni, Gautamiputra (Satavahana king of India)
- Satomi Nakajirō (potter)
- Saturn (Roman god)
- Saulini, Luigi (gem engraver)
- Saunders, George (architect)
- Savery, Roelandt (artist)
- Sayf al-Din Shaykhu al-Nasiri (Mamluk sultan)
- Scharf, George (artist)
- Schliemann, Heinrich (archaeologist)
- Schlottheim, Hans (clockmaker)
- Schmidt, Georg Frederic (artist)
- Schniep, Hans (watchmaker)
- Schön, Erhard (artist)
- Schongauer, Martin (artist)
- Schrattenbach, Sigismund III von (archbishop of Salzburg)
- Schwegger, Georg (artist)
- Schwerdgeburth, Carl August (artist)
- Scorel, Jan van (artist)
- Searle, Ronald (cartoonist, illustrator and medalist)
- Sebekhetepi (Egyptian tomb owner)
- Sebekhotep (Egyptian treasury official and tomb owner)
- Seeburg, Wichmann von (archbishop of Magdeburg)
- Segawa Ronosuke (Kabuki actor)
- Seghers, Hercules (artist)
- Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa (Etruscan woman)
- Sekhmet (Egyptian goddess)
- Sekino Jun'ichirō (artist)
- Seleucus I Nicator (founder of the Seleucid kingdom)
- Seleucus II Callinicus (Seleucid king)
- Semerkhet (king of Egypt)
- Semon Master (gem-carver)
- Senmut (official of Hatshepsut, 'king' of Egypt)
- Sennacherib (king of Assyria)
- Senwosret I (king of Egypt)
- Senwosret II (king of Egypt)
- Senwosret III (king of Egypt)
- Sesshū Tōyō (artist)
- Seth (Egyptian god)
- Sety I (king of Egypt)
- Sety II (king of Egypt)
- Seurat, Georges Pierre (artist)
- Severus, Septimius (Roman emperor)
- Seymour, Elizabeth (Countess of Ailesbury)
- Seymour, Horatio (U.S. presidential election candidate)
- Sforza, Francesco (duke of Milan)
- Shabako (king of Egypt)
- Shadrafa (Phoenician god)
- Shah Jahan (Mughal emperor of India)
- Shakespeare, William (writer)
- Shalabhanjika Yakshi (Buddhist tree spirit)
- Shalmaneser III (king of Assyria)
- Shamash (Sumerian god)
- Shamshi-Adad V (king of Assyria)
- Shamsi al-Ghuri, Muhammad ibn (craftsman)
- Shapur I (Sasanian ruler)
- Shapur II (Sasanian ruler)
- Shar-kali-sharri (king of Agade)
- Sharp, William (artist)
- Sharples, James (artist)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (poet)
- Shen Nampin (artist)
- Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (artist)
- Sheshonq (Egyptian official)
- Shiba Kōkan (artist)
- Shield Jaguar II (Maya ruler)
- Shikibu Terutada (artist)
- Shimomura Kanzan (artist)
- Shintogō Kunimitsu (swordsmith)
- Shiokawa Bunrin (artist)
- Shiva (Hindu god)
- Shiva Simha (ruler of Kathmandu)
- Shōami Katsuyoshi (swordsmith)
- Shōtoku (empress of Japan)
- Shōtoku Taishi (Prince Regent of Japan)
- Shri (Hindu goddess)
- Shu (Egyptian god)
- Shuddhodhana (king, father of the historical Buddha)
- Shulgi (king of Ur)
- Shuten Dōji (legendary ogre)
- Shyaam aMbul aNgoong (Bushoong king)
- Siegen, Ludvig von (artist)
- Sigebert (king of the East Angles)
- Sihtric III 'Silkbeard' (king of Dublin)
- Silenus (leader of the satyrs)
- Simon, Thomas (coin engraver)
- Sin (Sumerian god)
- Sin-muballit (king of Babylonia)
- Siren Painter (vase painter)
- Skanda (Hindu god)
- Skopas (sculptor)
- Slimane, Khaled Ben (artist)
- Sloan, John (artist)
- Sloan, Nicholas (artist)
- Sloane, Sir Hans (founder of the British Museum)
- Smirke, Sir Robert (architect)
- Smirke, Sydney (architect)
- Smith, George (Assyriologist)
- Smith, John (artist)
- Smith, John Raphael
- Sneferu (king of Egypt)
- Snell, Hannah (the 'Female Soldier')
- Sobek (Egyptian god)
- Sobekemzaf I (king of Egypt)
- Sobekneferu (king of Egypt)
- Socrates (Greek philosopher)
- Sokar (Egyptian god)
- Sol (Roman god)
- Soldani, Massimiliano (medallist)
- Sophia (electress of Hanover)
- Sophilos (vase painter)
- Sophokles (playwright)
- Sotades (potter)
- Sotades Painter (vase painter)
- Soter (archon of Thebes)
- Spencer, Stanley (artist)
- Spitzmacher, Salomon II (goldsmith)
- Springinklee, Hans (artist)
- Stanhope, Philip Dormer (4th Earl of Chesterfield)
- Stein, Sir Marc Aurel (archaeologist)
- Stephanoff, James (artist)
- Stephen (count of Schlik)
- Stevens, Alfred (sculptor)
- Stoker, Bram (writer)
- Stone, George (archbishop of Armagh)
- Storr, Paul (goldsmith)
- Strickland, Sir William (collector)
- Stuart, James Francis Edward (The Old Pretender, James III)
- Stuart, Mary (queen of Scotland)
- Stuart, Prince Charles Edward (The Young Pretender)
- Stubbs, George (artist)
- Sugawara no Michizane (scholar and politician)
- Sugimura Jihei (artist)
- Sukesada (swordsmith)
- Süleyman the Magnificent (Ottoman sultan)
- Suminoe Buzen (artist)
- Sumiyoshi Hirosada (artist)
- Sumiyoshi Jokei (artist)
- Sundarananda (the Buddha's half brother)
- Sunqur, Mahmud ibn (artist)
- Surya (Hindu god)
- Susano-o No Mikoto (Shintō god)
- Suzuki Harunobu (artist)
- Suzuki Hyakunen (artist)
- Suzuki Kason (artist)
- Suzuki Nanrei (painter)
- Suzuki Shōnen (artist)
- Suzuki Shuitsu (artist)
- Svend Estridssen (king of Denmark)
- Swain, Joseph (artist)
- Swebach-Desfontaines, Jacques-François (artist)
- Sybilla Ursula (duchess of Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg)
- Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius (prefect of Rome)