Thracian resistance leader – Spartacus League. George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, British politician – Spencer (clothing) Thomas Spencer, British business people – Marks and Spencer Edmund Spenser, British playwright – Spenserian stanza. Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher – Spinozism. William Archibald Spooner, British teacher – spoonerism. Alexsei Grigoryevich Stakhanov, Soviet miner – Stakhanovite. Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian playwright – Stanislavski's system. Frederick Trent Stanley, American inventor – Stanley knife. Joseph Stalin, Russian head of state – Stalinism and neo-Stalinism (also see De-Stalinization), see List of places named after Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Stalinist architecture, Stalin Society, Stalin Prize, Stalin Peace Prize, Iosif Stalin tank Johannes Stark, German physicist – Stark spectroscopy, Stark effect Howard Staunton, British chess player – Staunton Gambit. Jozef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicists – Stefan–Boltzmann constant. Stendhal, French novelist – Stendhal syndrome. Édouard Stephan, French astronomer - Stephan's Quintet. George Stephenson, British inventor – Geordie lamp. Charles Stent, British dentist – a "stent" (tooth filling) Stentor, Greek mythological character – stentorian (being loud-voiced) John B. Stetson, American inventor – Stetson hat. John K. Stewart and Arthur P. Warner, American business people – Stewart–Warner Helmut Stief, German inventor – Stiefografie. Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician Riemann–Stieltjes integral. Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor – Stirling engine. George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist and mathematician – stokes, unit of viscosity Marshall Harvey Stone, American mathematician – Stone–von Neumann theorem, Stone–Čech compactification, Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras, Stone space, Stone–Weierstrass theorem, Stone's representation theorem for distributive lattices, Stone duality, Stone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groups, Banach–Stone theorem Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin builder – Stradivari. Gregor Strasser, German politician – Strasserism. Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher – Straussianism. Levi Strauss, American business man – Levi Strauss & Co. William Strauss, American historian – Strauss-Howe generational theory Barbra Streisand, American actress and singer – Streisand effect (censorship that has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely.) Count Stroganov (possibly Alexander Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov), Russian aristocrat – Stroganoff John McDouall Stuart, Scottish explorer – Stuart Highway, Central Mount Stuart Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zel'dovich, Russian physicists – Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect Michio Suzuki, Japanese business man – Suzuki. Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musicologist and violinist – Suzuki method. Sage Kambu Swayambhuva, Indian mythological character – Cambodia Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist – svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate) Svengali, British literary character – a svengali (one who manipulates or controls somebody), Svegali defense. Gordon Swann,