Samuel Foote was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager. He was known for his comedic acting and writing, and for turning the loss of a leg in a riding accident in 1766 to comedic opportunity.
Samuel George Blythe was an American writer and newspaperman. In 1933 during the Great Depression he urged people to Buy American in The Saturday Evening Post.
Samuel Gilman Brown (1813–1885) was an American educator. He was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, the son of Francis Brown, president of Dartmouth College, graduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837. He was principal of Abbot Academy for girls, 1835–1838. He was professor of oratory and belles-lettres in Dartmouth from 1840 to 1863, and held the chair of intellectual philosophy and political economy from 1863 to 1867. From 1867 to 1881 he was president of Hamilton College. Among his published works are Biographies of Self-Taught Men (1847) and an excellent and authoritative Life of Rufus Choate.
Samuel Glasstone was a British-born American academic and writer of scientific books. He authored over 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry and electrochemistry, reaction rates, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, Mars, space sciences, the environmental effects of nuclear energy and nuclear testing.
