Words in english starting with S

• 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)
• Sir John Hawkins — Noun – English ～ English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
• Sir Fred Hoyle — Noun – English ～ an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
• Sir Alexander Korda — Noun – English ～ British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)
• Sir Gawain — Noun – English ～ (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table
• Sir Martin Frobisher — Noun – English ～ English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)
• Sir James Clark Ross — Noun – English ～ British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
• Sir John Hawkyns — Noun – English ～ English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
• Sir James Paget — Noun – English ～ English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899)
• Sir Edward Elgar — Noun – English ～ British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
• Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister — Noun – English ～ English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
• Sir Noel Pierce Coward — Noun – English ～ English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
• Sir Alexander Fleming — Noun – English ～ Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
• Sir James Augustus Murray — Noun – English ～ Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
• Sir John Herschel — Noun – English ～ English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
• Sir Harold George Nicolson — Noun – English ～ English diplomat and author (1886-1968)
• Sir Leonard Hutton — Noun – English ～ English cricketer (1916-1990)
• Sir Robert Robinson — Noun – English ～ English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

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