Mikhail Davidovich Romm was a football player in the Soviet Union. He wrote the book I Support Spartak (1965), which contained memoirs of his life as a footballer.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sadovsky was a Soviet physicist, academician (1966), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1949). Awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1985.
Mikhail Rachyanovich Sagatelyan was a Soviet journalist, author and KGB agent. He was head of the TASS news agency's United States bureau from 1959 to 1965, making him an important conduit of information between the United States and the Soviet Union during that period of the Cold War.
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until the Tsarist government banned it in 1884. In his works Saltykov mastered both stark realism and satirical grotesque merged with fantasy. His most famous works, the family chronicle novel The Golovlyov Family (1880) and the political novel The History of a Town (1870) became important works of 19th-century fiction, and Saltykov is regarded as a major figure of Russian literary Realism.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Salye was a Soviet Arabist scholar and translator. Salye was the first to translate One Thousand and One Nights into Russian directly from the Arabic source. Additionally, he translated into Russian seven tales not contained in the Calcutta II edition of One Thousand and One Nights.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Samarsky is a Russian writer, blogger and public figure. He is an honorary member of the Union of Russian-speaking writers of Bulgaria and president of the charitable foundation "Living Hearts"
