Famous Sams

Can you identify these famous people named Sam or Samuel?
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American action star who played Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction and is known for dropping the F-bomb A LOT.
Samuel L. Jackson
Rat Pack singer who starred in the Broadway production Mr. Wonderful.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Actor who starred as Captain Klenzendorf in Jojo Rabbit, Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and George W. Bush in Vice.
Sam Rockwell
Political philosopher and Founding Father who was one of the central signatories of the US Declaration of Independence.
Samuel Adams
New Zealand actor who starred as Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies.
Sam Neill
Soul singer who famously sang about how he "don't know much about history / don't know much biology".
Sam Cooke
English diarist who recorded an account of the Great Fire of London, the Plague and the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Samuel Pepys
Australian actor who voiced the protagonist Alex Mason in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Sam Worthington
Moustachioed American actor whose numerous on-screen credits include Tombstone, Gettysburg and The Big Lebowski.
Sam Elliott
American inventor widely credited with inventing the telegraph.
Samuel Morse
Non-binary English singer who performed "Writing's On The Wall", the theme song for the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre.
Sam Smith
Irish playwright who wrote "Waiting for Godot".
Samuel Beckett
FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder who was convicted of fraud in November 2023.
Sam Bankman-Fried
TV producer best known as one of the creators of The Simpsons.
Sam Simon
British filmmaker who directed the movies Skyfall and 1917.
Sam Mendes
18th century lexicographer credited with creating among the first comprehensive dictionaries of the English language.
Samuel Johnson
American philosopher who, alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett, is known as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism".
Sam Harris
Polish-American filmmaker whose namesake production company eventually merged with Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form MGM.
Samuel Goldwyn
American composer and conductor perhaps best known for his sombre 1936 composition Adagio for Strings.
Samuel Barber
English football manager who recently managed Leeds United during their period in the Premier League in 2023.
Sam Allardyce
American actor who played the title role in the 1980 movie Flash Gordon.
Sam Jones
Judge appointed by George W. Bush in 2005 to the US Supreme Court. After Antonin Scalia, this man was the second Italian-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
Samuel Alito
Politician who served as 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990.
Samuel Doe
Tech billionaire who currently serves as CEO of OpenAI.
Sam Altman
Romantic poet who wrote "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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