Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Ivan Seidenberg
Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Born December 10, 1946, in New York, NY; married Phyllis Maisel, 1969; children: two. Education: City University o...
Haile Selassie
Born: July 23, 1892 Near Harar, Ethiopia Died: August 27, 1975 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie...
Selena
Born: April 16, 1971 Lake Jackson, Texas Died: March 31, 1995 Corpus Christi, Texas Hispanic American singer Often ca...
Terry Semel
February 24, 1943 • Brooklyn, New York CEO, Yahoo! Inc. Do you Yahoo? Millions of computer users Yahoo every single day, but when Terry...
John Sentamu
Archbishop of York Born June 10, 1949, in Kampala, Uganda; son of Rev. John (a preacher) and Ruth Walakira; married Margaret; children: Grace, Geoffrey. Religion: ...
Sequoyah
Born: c. 1770 Taskigi, Tennessee Died: August 1843 Tamaulipas, Mexico Native American scholar and linguist Sequoyah, ...
William Joseph Seymour
William Joseph Seymour (1870–1922) was a prominent African-American religious leader in the early twentieth century. An ordained minister and the son of freed slaves, he is regarde...
Gyanendra Shah
King of Nepal Born Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, July 7, 1947, in Kathmandu, Nepal; son of Mahendra (a king) and Indra Rajya Laxmi Devi; married Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi, 197...
Ron Shaich
Chief Executive Officer of Panera Bread Born Ronald Mark Shaich, December 30, 1953, in Boston, MA; son of Joseph (a certified public accountant) and Pearl R. Shaich; married Nancy...
William Shakespeare
Born: April 23, 1564 Stratford-upon-Avon, England Died: April 23, 1616 Stratford-upon-Avon, England English dramatist and poet ...
John Patrick Shanley
Playwright Born October 13, 1950, in New York, NY; son of a meatpacker; married and divorced first wife; married Jayne Haynes (an actress; divorced); children: Nick, Frank. ...
Maria Sharapova
April 19, 1987 • Nyagan, Siberia, Soviet Union Tennis player In the summer of 2004, seventeen-year-old Maria Sharapova became the first Russian player to win Wimbledon,...
Maria Sharapova
Professional tennis player Born April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Siberia, Russian Federation; daughter of Yuri and Yelena Sharapova. Addresses: Agent ...
Nisha Sharma
Social activist Born c. 1982, in India; daughter of Devdutt (a factory owner) and Vidya Sharma. Education: Studied software engineering at a Delhi co...
Nisha Sharma
c. 1982 • India Activist In any culture, a cancelled wedding can be a great embarrassment (particularly to the bride), but when Nisha S...
Artie Shaw
Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, May 23, 1910, in New York, NY; died December 30, 2004, at his home in Newbury Park, CA. Clarinetist and bandleader. Artie Shaw's "innovations, musical depth, a...
George Bernard Shaw
Born: July 26, 1856 Dublin, Ireland Died: November 2, 1950 Ayot St. Lawrence, England Irish playwright and critic Bri...
Percy Shelley
Born: September 4, 1792 Field Place, Sussex, England Died: July 8, 1822 Viareggio, Italy English poet The English rom...
Mary Shelley
Born: August 30, 1797 London, England Died: February 1, 1851 Bournemouth, England English novelist English novelist M...
William Sheppard
William Henry Sheppard (1865–1927), dubbed the "Black Livingstone" after the famed Scottish explorer of Central Africa, was among the first African-American missionaries sent to ...