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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)
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