Nouns starting with S

• sir — Noun – English ～ term of address for a man
• Sir Edwin Lutyens — Noun – English ～ English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
• Sir James Augustus Henry Murray — Noun – English ～ Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
• Sir John Everett Millais — Noun – English ～ Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896)
• Sir James Dewar — Noun – English ～ Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
• Sir Galahad — Noun – English ～ (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail
• Sir James Paul McCartney — Noun – English ～ English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
• Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge — Noun – English ～ English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
• Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell — Noun – English ～ English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
• Sir John Douglas Cockcroft — Noun – English ～ British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)
• Sir Francis Galton — Noun – English ～ English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)
• Sir Joseph Paxton — Noun – English ～ English architect (1801-1865)
• Sir Oliver Lodge — Noun – English ～ English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
• Sir Bernard Law Montgomery — Noun – English ～ English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)
• Sir Henry Bessemer — Noun – English ～ British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
• Sir Ronald Ross — Noun – English ～ British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
• Sir Ralph David Richardson — Noun – English ～ British stage and screen actor noted for playing classic roles (1902-1983)
• Sir Barton — Noun – English ～ thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1919
• Sir Rex Harrison — Noun – English ～ English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)
• Sir Patrick Manson — Noun – English ～ Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)

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