Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
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Sweelinck, Jan Pieterzoon (Dutch musician & composer)
Sweet, Henry (English linguist)
Swift, Jonathan (English writer)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (English poet & critic)
Symonds, John Addington (English writer)
Symons, Arthur (English poet & critic)
Synge, John Millington (Irish poet & dramatist)
Szell, George (American musician)
Szent-Györgyi, Albert (American biologist & chemist)
Szigeti, Joseph (Hungarian-American musician)
Szilard, Leo (American-Hungarian physicist & biologist)
Szold, Henrietta (American Jewish editor & linguist)
Szymborska, Wislawa (Polish poet)