Sapir, American anthropologist – Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Sappho, Greek poet – sapphism (lesbianism), Sapphic stanza. Pierre-Auguste Sarrus, French inventor – Sarrusophone. Satan, Biblical character – Satanism, Satan's bolete Satyr, Greek mythological characters – satire. Muhammad bin Saud, Saudi royal – Saudi Arabia. Sigurd Johannes Savonius, Finnish inventor and architect – Savonius wind turbine Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor – saxophone. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Spanish jurist – Bartolism. Gerald G. Schaber, American geologist - Schaber hill (also known as the North Complex, north of the landing site of Apollo 15). Wilhelm Schlenk, German chemist – Schlenk flask, Schlenk line. Alfred von Schlieffen, German general – Schlieffen Plan Bernhard Schmidt, German optician and inventor – Schmidt camera, aka "Schmidt telescope". Walter H. Schottky, German physicist – Schottky diode. Johann Schrammel and Josef Schrammel, Austrian violinists – Schrammelmusik. Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist – Schrödinger equation, Schrödinger's cat, Schrödinger's Kittens – a book. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian botanist and biologist – scopolamine. Edward W. Scott, American businessman – The second letter of the company name BEA Systems, is taken from his first name. Robert Scott, British explorer – Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station Ebenezer Scrooge, British literary character – scrooge (a stingy miser) Glenn T. Seaborg, American physicist and chemist – seaborgium. Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck, American businessmen – Sears, Roebuck; stores bear only the Sears name Chief Seattle, Native American tribal leader – City of Seattle Laura Secord, Canadian national heroine – Laura Secord Chocolates Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist – Seebeck effect Josef Sekanina, Czech mineralogist – mineral Sekaninaite. Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor – Rastafari (which is derived from his real name: Ras Tafari Makonnen). Harry Gordon Selfridge, American business man – Selfridges Edgar Selwyn and Archibald Selwyn, American film producers who used the last three letters of their name along with the first four of Samuel Goldfish to create Goldwyn Picture Corporation, which later merged into Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer (or MGM) Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician – Semmelweis reflex. Claude de la Sengle, Maltese knight – Senglea The Serendip princes, Indian fairy tale characters – serendipity Sequoyah, American–Cherokee silversmith – Sequoia (genus), Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Carl Keenan Seyfert, American astronomer - Seyfert's Sextet. Max Shachtman, American politician – Shachtmanism. William Shakespeare, British playwright – Shakespearean, Shakespearean actor, Shakespearean age, Shakespeare quadrangle, Shakespeare (programming language), Adi Shamir, Israeli computer scientist – the second letter of the name RSA, an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken