Top Celebrity Names Starting With Samuel

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   Samuel L. Jackson

   Age 63 Male
   

   Actor

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   Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor, Morgan Freeman, and the director Spike Lee.… read more

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   Samuel Adams

   1722 - 1803 Male
   

   Boston Politician, Leader In the American Revolution,

   
   

   Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to President John Adams.… read more

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   Samuel Johnson

   1709 - 1784 Male
   

   Poet, Biographer,, Essayist, Lexicographer

   
   

   Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".… read more

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   Samuel Alito

   1950 - 4712 BC Male
   

   Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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   Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006. Raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court.… read more

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   Samuel Brady

   1756 - 1795 Male
   

   
   

   Captain Samuel Brady was a frontier scout and the subject of many legends in the history of western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. He is best known for jumping across a gorge over the Cuyahoga River to escape pursuing Indians in what is present day Kent, Ohio. This jump is still remembered as "Brady's leap".… read more

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   Samuel Eto'o

   1981 - 4712 BC Male
   

   Cameroonian Footballer

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   Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team. Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy. He also holds a Spanish passport, enabling him not to count among the "foreign players" working in the European Union. Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga.… read more

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   Samuel V. Wilson

   Age 88 Male
   

   United States Army General

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   Lieutenant General Samuel Vaughan Wilson, aka "General Sam", completed his active military career in the fall of 1977, having divided his service almost equally between special operations and intelligence assignments.… read more

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   Samuel David Moore

   Age 76 Male
   

   Singer, Musician, Tenor

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   Samuel David Moore is an American Southern Soul and Rhythm & Blues (R&B) singer who was the tenor vocalist for the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 through 1981. Sam Moore is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame (for "Soul Man"), The Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and a Grammy Award and a multi-Gold Record award winning recording artist. Sam & Dave were the most successful and critically acclaimed duo in Soul Music history.… read more

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   Samuel Fuller

   1912 - 1997 Male
   

   Film Director

   
   

   Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.

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    Samuel Beckett

    1906 - 1989 Male
    

    Novelist, Playwright and Poet

    
    
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    Samuel of Bulgaria

    958 AD - 1014 Male
    

    Emperor, General

    
    

    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal authority.… read more

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    Samuel Colt

    1814 - 1872 Male
    

    Inventor of the Colt Revolver; Founder of Colt Firearms

    
    

    Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company), and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time. Colt's first two business ventures ended in disappointment.… read more

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    Samuel Pepys

    1633 - 1703 Male
    

    Administrator, Politician, Diarist

    
    

    Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II.… read more

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    Samuel West

    Age 45 Male
    

    Actor and Theatre Director

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    Samuel Alexander Joseph West, also known as Sam West is an English actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Howards End and his work on stage (including the the award-winning play ENRON).… read more

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    Samuel Peter

    Age 31 Male
    

    Heavyweight, Wrestler, Boxer

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    Samuel Okon Peter, nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion. Peter rose to prominence as a professional fighter following a string of spectacular knockout wins in his early career, at a time when the division was fragmented. He has won a portion of the heavyweight crown and scored notable wins over: James Toney and Oleg Maskaev.… read more

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    Samuel Johnson

    Age 34 Male
    

    Actor

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    Samuel Johnson is an Australian actor, radio presenter and voiceover artist. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and is best known for his role as Evan Wylde in the television series The Secret Life of Us.… read more

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    Samuel de Champlain

    1567 - 1635 Male
    

    Navigator, Cartographer, Draughtsman, Soldier, Explorer

    
    

    Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608. Born into a family of master mariners, Champlain, while still a young man, began exploring North America in 1603 under the guidance of François Gravé Du Pont.… read more

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    Samuel Morse

    1791 - 1872 Male
    

    United States Painter and Inventor

    
    
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    Samuel T. Francis

    1947 - 2005 Male
    

    Journalist; Historian

    
    

    Samuel Todd Francis, known as Sam Francis, was an iconoclastic anti-capitalist paleoconservative columnist, nationally syndicated in America, known for his controversial views on immigration, multiculturalism, miscegenation, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. His supporters characterized him as a conservative and a realist, while to his critics he was a reactionary and a racist.… read more

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    1772 - 1834 Male
    

    Poet, Critic, and Philosopher

    
    

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria.… read more

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    Samuel Budgett

    1794 - 1851 Male
    

    Grocer, Merchant, Missionary

    
    

    Samuel Budgett was an English merchant. Rising from humble origins, Budgett built up a wholesale grocery business called H.H. & S. Budgett, based in Kingswood Bristol, covering a large area of Southern and Western England and South Wales, which outlasted him by over a century. He was a devoted Wesleyan Methodist, who came close to offering himself as a missionary.… read more

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    Samuel Richardson

    1689 - 1761 Male
    

    Writer

    
    

    Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, with journals and magazines.… read more

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    Samuel Elbert

    1740 - 1788 Male
    

    Military Officer, Governor of Georgia

    
    

    Samuel Elbert was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Savannah, Georgia. Elbert fought in the Revolutionary War, commanding the victorious American colonial forces in a naval battle near St. Simons Island, Georgia on April 19, 1778. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Brier Creek the following year, though he regained his freedom in a prisoner exchange. He rose to the rank of major general in the Georgia militia and colonel in the Continental Army.… read more

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    Samuel Doe

    1951 - 1990 Male
    

    Politician, Military Person, President

    
    

    Samuel Kanyon Doe was the 21st President of Liberia, serving from 1986 until his assassination in 1990. He had previously served as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council from 1980 to 1986. He was the first indigenous head of state in Liberian history. Doe was a part of a rural tribe in inland Liberia. The Krahn are a minority ethnic group but part of the large majority of the Liberian population that are of indigenous descent.… read more

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    Samuel H. Starr

    1810 - 1891 Male
    

    War of 1848, American Civil War, Indian Wars

    
    

    Samuel Henry Starr was a career United States Army Officer, regimental commander and prisoner of war. A collection of his letters provide a rare view of military life, the War with Mexico, Indian conflicts, the Civil War, his fall from grace, recovery and post Civil War service. Despite his rough demeanor he was a religious man and reflective of the times he served.… read more