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People with S Initials

From SA to SZ, name the famous person with each set of initials.
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First submittedJanuary 4, 2012
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Clue
Person
SA
Former Japanese Prime Minister assassinated in 2022
Shinzo Abe
SB
Star of "Speed" and "Miss Congeniality"
Sandra Bullock
SC
"Shaken, not shtirred", he said
Sean Connery
SD
Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
SE
Deep-voiced, mustachioed actor who starred in "Tombstone"
Sam Elliott
SF
Inventor of psychotherapy
Sigmund Freud
SG
Singer/actress who is the most followed woman on Instagram
Selena Gomez
SH
Physicist with ALS disease who studied black holes
Stephen Hawking
SI
Hunter of crocodiles
Steve Irwin
SJ
Apple founder
Steve Jobs
SK
Author of "The Shining"
Stephen King
SL
Former Marvel Comics chairman
Stan Lee
SM
Starred in "The Great Escape" and "Bullitt"
Steve McQueen
SN
"Fleetwood Mac" singer
Stevie Nicks
SO
Kobe's one-time colleague
Shaquille O'Neal
SP
Actor who married Madonna and Robin Wright
Sean Penn
SR
"Satanic Verses" author who the ayatollah wants dead
Salman Rushdie
SS
He is Rocky and also Rambo
Sylvester Stallone
ST
1930s child actress who became an ambassador
Shirley Temple
SV
Sex Pistols bassist
Sid Vicious
SW
Starred in "Alien" and "Avatar"
Sigourney Weaver
SY
Former 49ers quarterback who is the great-great-great grandson of a famous Mormon pioneer
Steve Young
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47 Comments
ander217
+8
Level 73
Jun 29, 2014
Can't believe I missed Sam Elliot. The older he gets, the better he gets.
davemcarlson
+1
Level 54
Sep 1, 2015
I completely agree!
ctleng76
+2
Level 65
Aug 20, 2018
I am surprised only 20% got Sam Elliott.
duckwantbread
+2
Level 66
Oct 24, 2022
It's so obvious when you see the answer but I couldn't get a gruff Super Mario out of my head reading the clue, and the answer looks nothing like Mario.
jruland
+7
Level 37
Sep 10, 2014
Funny how many Stephen/Steven/Steve/Stevies there are on this list!
tshalla
+1
Level 78
Oct 13, 2021
Guess that's what happens when it's almost Americans with S Initials? (Not even the best Steve McQueen in film.)
PoetsCorner
+3
Level 87
Jun 25, 2022
With all respect in the world to the brilliant director of 12 Years a Slave, the star of the Great Escape is ABSOLUTELY the best Steve McQueen in film!!!
Terradraconum
+1
Level 32
Sep 12, 2014
I missed Steve Jobs. I was thinking of Johnny Appleseed, which, if you think of it, doesn't even make sense for the quiz. :P
chondrichthyess
+7
Level 60
Nov 17, 2017
RIP Steve Irwin. At least he died with animals in his heart
RobNobody
+7
Level 80
Aug 20, 2018
BOOOOOOO
CliveDexter
+2
Level 73
Dec 2, 2017
After "Author of "The Shining"", you should put "Director who made it better". Same initials! Coincidence? Not according to the movie "Room 237".
cornflakesfu
+8
Level 89
Jul 3, 2018
Too Steve-centric.
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Aug 20, 2018
LOL!
GalileoS
+1
Level 85
Aug 20, 2018
Yosemite Sam? Big mustache &; orders sarsaparilla from Bugs Bunny at saloons
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Aug 20, 2018
He's not an actor, though.
TheCrusher
+1
Level 70
Aug 20, 2018
Doesn't fit the SE initials.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Sep 29, 2021
Maybe his full name is Yosemite Samuel Estevez. Do you know that it's not?
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Oct 12, 2021
Just because I was curious if they ever gave him a last name, I looked it up. In the 1950 cartoon "Big House Bunny," where he's a prison guard, his name is Sam Schultz. In The Looney Tunes Show (2011-2014), his full name was Samuel Michelangelo Rosenbaum. In The New Looney Tunes cartoons (2015-2020), his name was Aloysius Barthomelew Sam.
Zupity
+1
Level 67
Oct 12, 2021
I thought of him too. Never heard of the guy who was the actual answer.
RobNobody
+5
Level 80
Aug 20, 2018
Not that this is a crucial addition, of course, but it would be funny if the clue right after "SJ - Apple founder" were "SW - The other Apple founder."
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Nov 24, 2019
Bassist should be in quotation marks.
FlickerP
+1
Level 79
Mar 31, 2021
His amp was often unplugged during performances
EricF
+3
Level 81
Jun 8, 2021
Kind of funny that the person who directed the movie for "The Shining" has the same initials as the person who wrote it. I tried Stanley Kubrick before I looked at the clue more closely.
WashingMachine
+3
Level 67
Sep 15, 2021
Sophie Xeon for SX maybe? She was an influential pop music producer known mononomously.
MLR824
+1
Level 83
Oct 12, 2021
Tried a million spellings for Salman Rushdie. Should have tried a million and one.
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 95
Jan 19, 2023
They’re still after him - failed murder attempt last year. For writing. A book.

Go Iran!

loganite
+1
Level 93
Aug 6, 2025
They'll never find him. I hear he's been hiding in the sauna of a New York City health club using the alias "Sal Bass". ;)
MindWax
+1
Level 87
Nov 26, 2024
You mean Salmon Rushing?
Feysand
+1
Level 35
Oct 13, 2021
I would have gotten Steven Hawking if it said MND. I have never heard of ALS
Andrew169
+1
Level 77
Feb 1, 2023
Wow, I scored all 22 in 1:16. I usually get stumped on a few questions. thanks for the quiz!
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Feb 20, 2025
21, just missed Elliott
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Aug 7, 2025
and again just now
Remster
+1
Level 81
Aug 6, 2025
F*cking hell, I missed Steve Hawking. I thought he had MND.
Algernon
+1
Level 74
Aug 6, 2025
Brits call it MND, Americans call it ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Freestatebear
+1
Level 88
Aug 6, 2025
Never knew the tidbit about Steve Young being the great (x3) grandson of Brigham.
InterAlia
+2
Level 83
Nov 22, 2025
TBF, there are a lot of people who can claim the same heritage. BY had 57 kids. Many of those probably had large families too. Four generations down, that could be quite a crowd.
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Aug 6, 2025
Steve Zahn called.
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 95
Aug 7, 2025
While I’ve heard the name Selena Gomez from quizzes on here, I couldn’t picture her, or think of anything she had actually done. Went to Wikipedia to educate myself. Now, I still can’t name anything of actual merit that she has ever done. Some kid’s TV and some awful music. And for that you get to be the most famous in the world? I’m so glad I’m old and don’t have to keep up with modern guff…
PantsLobbyist
+2
Level 99
Aug 18, 2025
Check out "Only Murders in the Building." She holds her own with Steve Martin and Martin Short. Not an easy task.
GlaucusExquisita
+4
Level 78
Sep 13, 2025
This is so funny to me. Plenty of actors on this list, and a football player, but you fixate on the young one. I can't say I've listened to her music, but it's certainly popular! She's in the top 100 streamed artists on Spotify. Oh what a terrible travesty, that what's famous does not align with Alexquiz17's personal artistic tastes!

(Might wanna reread her Wikipedia page too, particularly the "Philanthropy and Advocacy" section. While not really something that garners fame, I for one consider hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for medicine, food, water, and education to constitute something of "actual merit".)

Damangio
+2
Level 64
Aug 16, 2025
The star of Avatar is Sam Worthington. He is billed first. Sigourney Weaver is billed third and is not the star.
lucd13
+1
Level 70
Aug 24, 2025
Yeah, but he wasn't in Alien.
jamesdsylva
+1
Level 69
Nov 4, 2025
lol
lucd13
+2
Level 70
Aug 24, 2025
No Steve Zahn? Pretty well known American actor.
RobsPubQuiz
+1
Level 58
Jan 11, 2026
High preponderance of Steves on this list
PeaSweet
+1
Level 67
Jan 11, 2026
Please try to balance the number of men and women as answers. Women are half of the population
joez
+1
Level 77
Jan 12, 2026
For SZ how about "Laura Holt in TV show Remington Steele"
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