Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin (full name Sarah Lousie Heath) was born on February 11, 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her parents relocated to Alaska when she was a child. In high school, she was a member...

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi (Sonia Maino) was born on December 9, 1946, in Lusiana, Italy and she is a famous politician from India of Roman Catholic religion. Sonia is an influential person in Indian...

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and died on October 2, 1803 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA at age 81. Short Biography: Samuel Adams...

Sam Houston

Sam Houston (1793-1863) was an American general who won Texas' independence from Mexico in 1836 and was president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). Houston, Texas, is named after...

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000) was an Sri Lankan politician, who succeeded her husband Solomon Bandaranaike. Short Biography: She become the world's first woman prime minister...

Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew (full name Spiro Theodore Agnew) was born on November 9, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and died on September 17, 1996 in Berlin, Maryland, USA. Short Biography: Spiro...

Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres (born in 1923) was prime minister, then foreign minister, under a power-sharing agreement with the leader of the Consolidation Party (Likud), Yitzhak Shamir. Short...

Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) became chancellor of the Exchequer in 1807 and prime minister in 1809. Short Biography: He was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812...

Sir Henry Parkes

Henry Parkes (1815-1896) promoted education and the cause of federation, and suggested the official name "Commonwealth of Australia". He was five times premier of New South Wales...

Stafford Cripps

Stafford Richard Cripps (1889-1952) was a British Labour politician, expelled from the Labour party 1939-1945 for supporting a 'Popular Front' against Chamberlain's appeasement policy....

Sun Yat Sen

Sun Yat-sen, the trained physician, later became a nationalist. He is recognized as the founder of modern China. His dream of unification was not realized until after many more years...

Shirley Williams

Shirley Williams (born in 1930) was Labour minister for prices and consumer protection 1974-1976, and education and science 1976-1979. She became a founder member of the SDP in...

Suger

Suger (c.1081-1151) was elected abbot of St. Denis in 1122, Paris, and was counsellor to, and biographer of, Louis VI and Louis VII. He began the reconstruction of St Denis as the first...

Samuel Plimsoll

Samuel Pllmsoll (1824-1898) sat in Parliament as a Radical (1868-1880), and through his efforts the Merchant Shipping Act was passed in 1876, providing for Board of Trade inspection...

Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947) was a British Conservative politician, prime minister 1923-1924, 1924-1929, and 1935-1937; he weathered the general strike 1926...

Stjepan Radic

Stjepan Radic (1871-1928) led the Croat national movement within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and supported union with Serbia in 1919. Short Biography: His opposition to Serbian...

Sosuke Uno

Sosuke Uno (1923-1998) held various cabinet posts since 1976, he was designated prime minister in June 1989 in an attempt to restore the image of the Liberal Democrats after several...

Sitiveni Rabuka

Sitiveni Rabuka (born in 1948) when the 1987 elections in Fiji produced an Indian-dominated government, Rabuka staged two successive coups (the first shortlived). Short Biography...

Stanley Melbourne Bruce

Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883-1967) was a Australian National Party politician, prime minister 1923-1929. He was elected to parliament in 1918....

Simon de Montfort

Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (c. 1208-1265), from 1258 he led the baronial opposition to Henry III's misrule during the second Barons' War and in 1264 defeated and captured...

Spencer Cavendish

Hartington Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, and Marquess of Hartington (1833-1908) was a British politician, first leader of the Liberal Unionists (1886-1903). As...