Sydney Smith was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review, lecturing at the Royal Institution and remembered for his rhyming recipe for salad dressing.
Pierre Sylvain Maréchal, né le 15 août 1750 à Paris, et mort le 18 janvier 1803 à Montrouge, est un écrivain, poète et pamphlétaire français. Militant républicain, passionné par l’égalité sociale, c'est un précurseur de la grève générale et de l’anarchisme.
Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution and published several large compilations and treatises on Maya hieroglyphic writing. He also wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a general audience.
Sylvanus Stall was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels.
Sylvester Mowry was an American politician, miner, and land speculator. He is best remembered as an early advocate for establishing the Arizona Territory. He was also a West Point graduate and officer of the United States Army who was later arrested as a traitor during the American Civil War.
Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, The Corner That Held Them, and Kingdoms of Elfin.
Szymon Askenazy – polski historyk żydowskiego pochodzenia, zajmujący się głównie stosunkami międzynarodowymi w XVIII i XIX wieku. Profesor Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego i następnie Warszawskiego. W swoich poglądach politycznych zbliżony do obozu legionowo-piłsudczykowskiego. Askenazy nigdy nie zapisał się do żadnej partii politycznej. Twórca lwowskiej szkoły historycznej nazywanej też szkołą Askenazego.
Thomas Hill Green, known as T. H. Green, was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. Like all the British idealists, Green was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G. W. F. Hegel. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
