Words in english starting with S

• Sir John Cockcroft — Noun – English ～ British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967)
• Sir Edmund Percival 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 John Ross — Noun – English ～ Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
• Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — Noun – English ～ Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian philosophy to the West (1888-1975)
• Sir David Alexander Cecil Low — Noun – English ～ British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
• Sir Jacob Epstein — Noun – English ～ British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)
• Sir Clive Marles Sinclair — Noun – English ～ English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
• Sir Frederick Grant Banting — Noun – English ～ Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds — Noun – English ～ English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
• Sir Bernard Lovell — Noun – English ～ English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
• Sir Francis Drake — Noun – English ～ English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
• Sir David Bruce — Noun – English ～ Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs — Noun – English ～ English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
• Sir Charles Scott Sherrington — Noun – English ～ English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
• Sir Alec Guinness — Noun – English ～ English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000)
• Sir Henry Rider Haggard — Noun – English ～ British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins — Noun – English ～ English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
• Sir Frederick Handley Page — Noun – English ～ English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
• Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens — Noun – English ～ English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
• Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm — Noun – English ～ English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)

Previous ·1 ··· 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 ··· 1193 ·Next