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| Rat Pack singer who starred in the Broadway production Mr. Wonderful. | Sammy Davis Jr. | 94%
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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 | 94%
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| Non-binary English singer who performed "Writing's On The Wall", the theme song for the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre. | Sam Smith | 89%
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| Soul singer who famously sang about how he "don't know much about history / don't know much biology". | Sam Cooke | 67%
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| New Zealand actor who starred as Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies. | Sam Neill | 67%
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| Polish-American filmmaker whose namesake production company eventually merged with Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form MGM. | Samuel Goldwyn | 67%
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| American inventor widely credited with inventing the telegraph. | Samuel Morse | 67%
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| Irish playwright who wrote "Waiting for Godot". | Samuel Beckett | 61%
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| English diarist who recorded an account of the Great Fire of London, the Plague and the Anglo-Dutch Wars. | Samuel Pepys | 61%
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| Political philosopher and Founding Father who was one of the central signatories of the US Declaration of Independence. | Samuel Adams | 56%
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| British filmmaker who directed the movies Skyfall and 1917. | Sam Mendes | 50%
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| 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 | 50%
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| Romantic poet who wrote "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 50%
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| English football manager who recently managed Leeds United during their period in the Premier League in 2023. | Sam Allardyce | 44%
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| 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 | 44%
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| 18th century lexicographer credited with creating among the first comprehensive dictionaries of the English language. | Samuel Johnson | 44%
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| Moustachioed American actor whose numerous on-screen credits include Tombstone, Gettysburg and The Big Lebowski. | Sam Elliott | 39%
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| Tech billionaire who currently serves as CEO of OpenAI. | Sam Altman | 28%
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| American actor who played the title role in the 1980 movie Flash Gordon. | Sam Jones | 28%
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| FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder who was convicted of fraud in November 2023. | Sam Bankman-Fried | 22%
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| American composer and conductor perhaps best known for his sombre 1936 composition Adagio for Strings. | Samuel Barber | 22%
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| TV producer best known as one of the creators of The Simpsons. | Sam Simon | 17%
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| Australian actor who voiced the protagonist Alex Mason in Call of Duty: Black Ops. | Sam Worthington | 17%
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| American philosopher who, alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett, is known as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism". | Sam Harris | 11%
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| Politician who served as 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. | Samuel Doe | 11%
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