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AuthorProfessionNationalityCenturyQuotesRating
Saint AugustineTheologianTheologianRoman4th century53.2
Saint Thomas AquinasForemost philosopher and theologian of the Roman CTheologianRoman13th century193.1
Salman RushdieAnglo-Indian novelistNovelistIndian20th century133.5
Salvador DalíSpanish surrealist painterPainterSpanish20th century154.0
Samuel BeckettIrish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]WriterIrish20th century843.6
Samuel ButlerNovelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English authorNovelistBritish19th century03.3
Samuel JohnsonBritish authorAuthorBritish18th century2303.0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBritish poet, critic, and philosopherPoetBritish18th century484.8
SenecaRoman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of NeroPhilosopherRoman1st century BC1665.0
Shimon PeresIsraeli PoliticianPoliticianIsraeli20th century223.1
Shinzo AbeJapanese PoliticianPoliticianJapanese20th century144.1
Sigmund FreudAustrian physician Founder of PsychoanalysisPhysicistAustrian19th century133.4
Silvio BerlusconiItalian PoliticianPoliticianItalian20th century103.2
Simone de BeauvoirFrench novelist and essayistNovelistFrench20th century633.3
Simone WeilFrench PhilosopherPhilosopherFrench20th century13.3
Sir John EliotBritish StatesmanPoliticianBritish16th century164.5
Sir Thomas BrowneEnglish author And polymathAuthorEnglish17th century573.1
SocratesClassical Greek philosopher of AthensPhilosopherGreek5th century BC274.5
SophoclesGreek tragidian ['Oedipus the King', 'Antigone']PoetGreek—404.5
Soren KierkegaardDanish philosopher and writerPhilosopherDanish19th century344.0
Spanish proverb—Spanish—14.3
StendhalFrench novelistNovelistFrench18th century453.9
Stephen HawkingEnglish PhysicistPhysicistEnglish20th century1913.5
Steve JobsAmerican BusinessmanBusinessmanAmerican20th century1003.6
Storm JamesonEnglish journalist and authorJournalistBritish19th century13.5
Susan SontagAmerican Writerand filmakerAuthorAmerican20th century404.0

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