Category: Biography
Adam Smith Adam Smith, (1723-90). Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. He became professor of logic at Glasgow University in 1751 and in 1776 he wrote The Wealth of …
Bedrich Smetana Bedrich Smetana, (1824-84). Czech composer. Smetana studied music against his father’s wishes and worked as a conductor in Sweden from 1856 to 1861. On his return to …
Dame Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964). British poet. From 1916 to 1921 she edited Wheels, an annual anthology of modern poetry. Façade, a sequence of her nonsense poems …
Sitting Bull Sitting Bull, Indian name Tatanka Iyotake (c. 1834-90). Native American warrior, chief of the Dakota Sioux. Born near Grand River in South Dakota, Sitting Bull became a …
Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra, full name Francis Albert Sinatra (1915— ). US singer and film actor. He began his singing career on the radio and with bands such as …
O.J. Simpson Simpson, O(renthal) J(ames) (1947— ). Black US foot-ball player; his sensational trial for murder in 1995 was widely hailed as the ‘trial of the century’. Simpson was …
Paul Simon Paul Simon, (1941— ). US folk singer and songwriter. He rose to fame with his former school friend Art Garfunkel (1942 ), with whom he recorded songs …
Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius, (1865-1957). Finnish composer. Although Sibelius studied in Berlin and Vienna, the main influence on his music was the national epic poem of Fin-land, the Kalevala. …
