French writer, essayist, brother of Renaud (singer). Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
Canadian artist and writer; the author of “I Ching Clarified: A Practical Guide,” 1993. In addition to his innovative commentary on the I Ching, Secter…
American poet and educator, a creative writer and professor of English at prestigious eastern universities. Eve Sedgwick’s strikingly original work on male homosocial desire has…
Mexican singer-songwriter who wrote more than 1,000 songs including compositions for Vicente Fernández, Lucero, Pepe Aguilar, and Rocío Dúrcal. His music is a mixture of…
Biography of Louis Scutenaire: A Surrealist Poet with a Unique Human Design Louis Scutenaire, affectionately known as ‘Scut,’ was a distinguished Belgian poet, anarchist, surrealist,…
American country-western singer and songwriter who put out a string of hit singles in the ‘70s as part of the duo “England Dan and John…
American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay twice, for Miracle on 34th Street…
American singer-songwriter, who is the co-lead vocalist of Lady Antebellum, a country music group formed in 2006 and signed to Capitol Nashville. With her family,…
American singer-songwriter, model, poet and actress. Her 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum, and the follow-ups Beautifully Human:…
American musician, a singer-songwriter best known as the former lead vocalist of the rock band Saliva. In addition to Saliva, Scott co-wrote and performed “Hero”…
Theodore Scott-Dabo: A Tonalist Landscape Visionary Theodore Scott-Dabo, born on November 16, 1865, in Saverne, France, was a distinguished French-American tonalist landscape artist. Known for…
Italian screenwriter and director of TV and film. Scola began as a journalist in a humorous magazine in 1954, entering the film world as a…
Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean…
French Jewish writer. He was the brother of Maurice Schwob and uncle of Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob). He was a true symbolist, with a…
American author and speaker and a former instructor of history and gender studies. Schwyzer was a prolific writer and wrote on topics both public and…
Italian writer, teacher and civil servant. His first book was published in 1956, “The Parishes of Regalpetra,” after which he put out a book a…
Most prominent contemporary German feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA. As the daughter of a single mother she spent…
German writer who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1930 for his most important work, Matthias Grünewald. He had been a teacher in Mainz, Neckarsteinach…
Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting education for girls in Austria. She was one of the most lettered women of her time. She…
American ceramic artist, painter, historian, writer, publisher, and teacher. He was also the co-founder of the South Bear School (1970–present) by which he imparted to…
German writer, actor and television director. He died on 7 May 1994 in Anterskofen, Bavaria. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler. Her father, Alfred, was a wealthy businessman in the silk industry; her mother, Renée, the daughter of Swiss general…
French writer, author of “The Great Initiates. ” He died April 7, 1929 in paris. Link to Wikipedia biography
Dutch and Frisian writer, poet, translator, journalist and politician who made ground breaking contributions to the Frisian culture. Schurer was born in a Frisian speaking…
Prussian statesman and political reformer, an orator and writer as well as a lawyer. Schurz died 5/14/1906 in New York. Link to Wikipedia biography
German-Jewish writer, pianist, cabaret artist, composer and singer, whose 2,000 printed titles make him one of the most successful hit lyricists of the German-speaking entertainment…
German pop singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and radio host who achieved great fame in the 1980s and 1990s with songs such as “Sehnsucht”, “Verliebte Jungs” and…
German economist. He was responsible for the organizing of the world’s first credit unions. He studied law at Leipzig and Halle universities and, when thirty,…
French politician and writer, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister under President Georges Pompidou from 1969-1973. He wrote novels, and penned essays on Peguy, Simone…
American politician, a Congresswoman from Colorado from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected from…
German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter has been cited by his friend Rainer Werner Fassbinder as a personal…
Belgian cartoonist and screenwriter, born to Robert Schuiten, famous architect. he received the “Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême” in 2002 (France). He has been…
Norwegian author, radio personality, and theatre director. He was known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the city of Oslo. Schulerud was the brother of children’s…
American author & playwright, co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers political group. Her first novel “The Sophie Horowitz Story” was published in 1984, and it was…
German writer, translator, poet, architect and painter. Much of his work is Christian lyrical verse. He was a member of the Confessing Church which resisted…
Austrian historian and writer. Schreiber studied German literature, philosophy and aesthetics in Vienna and in 1944 got his PhD. After the end of World War…
German artist, writer, editor, stage designer and gallery owner, who was the first Master of the stagecraft workshop at the Bauhaus art school. From 1911…
Dutch journalist, writer, television maker and presenter. Link to Wikipedia (Dutch)
German communist politician and writer, who served as editor of Rote Fahn (Red Flag), the central magazine of the Communist Party (KPD), from 1918 to…
German journalist and writer. He is the current head of the comital branch of the noble House of Schönburg. Since 2009 he is member of…
Austrian writer of Austrian Heimat themes. Schönherr began studying philosophy in Innsbruck, then switched to medicine in Vienna, becoming a doctor in 1896. He worked…
Norwegian writer, archaeologist, free speech fighter, and government scholar. Schoulgin relates that he has spent much of his life travelling, especially in South of Europe,…
French film director, screenwriter, writer, war reporter, war cameraman, renowned First Indochina War veteran, and cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts…
Australian-British astrodata collector, researcher, editor, publisher and blogger. Mentored by Lois Rodden for several years before her death, he has researched and contributed hundreds of…
American television producer, screenwriter, and actor who won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kids’ Choice Awards in 2014. After appearing in mostly supporting roles…
German physician and medical writer, whose many works include Versuch einer medicinischen Topographie der Residenzstadt Fulda [A medicinal topography of Fulda] (1806); Handbuch über die…
French writer, musicologist, énarque, senior official, and psychoanalyst. He was the father of journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider and the maternal uncle of actress Maria…
American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live,” he went on to a…