Nouns starting with S

• Sir Henry Morgan — Noun – English ～ a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
• Sir Seretse Khama — Noun – English ～ Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980)
• Sir Edmund Hillary — Noun – English ～ New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919)
• Sir Richard Francis Burton — Noun – English ～ English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
• Sir Isaac Pitman — Noun – English ～ English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
• Sir Humphrey Davy — Noun – English ～ English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
• Sir Isaac Newton — Noun – English ～ English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
• Sir Peter Paul Rubens — Noun – English ～ prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)
• Sir Francis Bacon — Noun – English ～ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
• Sir Robert Peel — Noun – English ～ British politician (1788-1850)
• Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins — Noun – English ～ Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert — Noun – English ～ English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
• Sir Peter Brian Medawar — Noun – English ～ British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)
• Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder — Noun – English ～ Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)
• Sir Philip Sidney — Noun – English ～ English poet (1554-1586)
• Sir James Matthew Barrie — Noun – English ～ Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
• Sir Jack Hobbs — Noun – English ～ notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie — Noun – English ～ Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)
• Sir Frederick Ashton — Noun – English ～ British choreographer (1906-1988)
• Sir James George Frazer — Noun – English ～ English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)

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