AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-256d huggingface dataset:
samuel: (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
sand: French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
sandburg: United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967)
sanger: United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)
sanger: English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
santa anna: Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)
sapir: anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)
sappho: the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
sarah: (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac
sarazen: United States golfer who was first to win all four major golf tournaments (1902-1999)
sargent: United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925)
sarnoff: United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)
saroyan: United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981)
sartre: French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
satie: French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925)
saul: (Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines)
savonarola: Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)
sax: a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)
saxe: a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)
saxo grammaticus: Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)
sayers: English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)
scheele: Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
schiaparelli: fashion designer born in Italy who was noted for her use of synthetic materials and brilliant colors (1896-1973)
schiaparelli: Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910)
schiller: German romantic writer (1759-1805)
schleiden: German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881)
schlesinger: United States historian (1888-1965)
schlesinger: United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)
schliemann: German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890)
schmidt: German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)
schnabel: United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951)
schonbein: German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
schonberg: United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)
schoolcraft: United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
schopenhauer: German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860)
schrodinger: Austrian physicist who discovered the wave equation (1887-1961)
schubert: Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828)
schulz: United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000)
schumann: German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
schumann: German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896)
schumann-heink: United States operatic contralto (1861-1936)
schumpeter: United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)
schwann: German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882)
schweitzer: French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)
scipio: Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC)
scopes: Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
scorsese: United States filmmaker (born in 1942)
scott: United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
scott: British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
scott: United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866)
scott: English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
scott: award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)
scriabin: Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915)
scribe: French playwright (1791-1861)
scripps: United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)
scripps: United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)
seaborg: United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)
seaman: muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)
seeger: United States poet killed in World War I (1888-1916)
seeger: United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
segal: United States sculptor (born in 1924)
segovia: Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987)
seles: United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973)
seleucus: Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia; founded a line of kings who reigned in Asia Minor until 65 BC (358-281 BC)
selkirk: Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721)
sellers: English comic actor (1925-1980)
selznick: United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)
seneca: Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
senefelder: German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834)
sennacherib: king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)
sennett: United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960)
sequoya: Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)
serkin: United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991)
serra: Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784)
service: Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)
sessions: United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)
seton: United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821)
seurat: French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891)
seward: United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
sexton: United States poet (1928-1974)
seymour: Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)
shah jahan: Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666)
shahn: United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969)
shakespeare: English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
shankar: Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920)
shannon: United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)
shapley: United States astronomer (1885-1972)
shaw: British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
shaw: United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)
shaw: United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
shaw: United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
shawn: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972)
shearer: Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)
shelley: Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
shelley: English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
shepard: astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
shepard: United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
sheridan: Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)
sherman: American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793)
sherman: United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
sherrington: English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
sherwood: United States playwright (1896-1955)
shevchenko: Ukranian poet (1814-1861)
shirer: United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
shockley: United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)
shostakovich: Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975)
shute: English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960)
sibelius: Finnish composer (1865-1957)
siddons: English actress noted for her performances in Shakespearean roles (1755-1831)
sidney: English poet (1554-1586)
siemens: German electrical engineer (1816-1892)
siemens: engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
sikorsky: United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)
sills: United States operatic soprano (born in 1929)
silverstein: United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999)
simenon: French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989)
simon: United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)
simon: United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927)
simon: United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
simon: one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
simpson: Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
simpson: United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
sinatra: United States singer and film actor (1915-1998)
sinclair: English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
sinclair: United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968)
singer: United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)
singer: United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)
siqueiros: Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974)
siraj-ud-daula: Indian general and nawab of Bengal who opposed the colonization of India by England; he captured Calcutta in 1756 and many of his prisoners suffocated in a crowded room that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta; he was defeated at the battle of Plassey by a group of Indian nobles in alliance with Robert Clive (1728-1757)
sitter: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
sitting bull: a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890)
sitwell: English poet (1887-1964)
sixtus iv: Italian pope from 1471 to 1484 who consented to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and built the Sistine Chapel (1414-1484)
skeat: English philologist (1835-1912)
skinner: United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990)
skinner: United States actress noted for her one-woman shows (1901-1979)
skinner: United States actor (1858-1942)
smalley: American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
smetana: Czech composer (1824-1884)
smith: Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
smith: English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
smith: religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
smith: United States blues singer (1894-1937)
smith: United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886)
smith: United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)
smith: United States sculptor (1906-1965)
smith: Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)
smollett: Scottish writer of adventure novels (1721-1771)
smuts: South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
snead: United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002)
snellen: Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908)
snow: English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
socinus: Italian theologian who argued against Trinitarianism (1539-1604)
socrates: ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
soddy: English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)
solomon: (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)
solvay: Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
solzhenitsyn: Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
sondheim: United States composer of musicals (born in 1930)
sontag: United States writer (born in 1933)
sophocles: one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)
sorensen: Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939)
soufflot: French architect (1713-1780)
sousa: a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
southey: English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)
soutine: French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943)
spallanzani: Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
spark: Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)
spassky: Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937)
speer: German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981)
speke: English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)
spencer: English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
spender: English poet and critic (1909-1995)
spengler: German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936)
spenser: English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
sperry: United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
spielberg: United States filmmaker (born in 1947)
spillane: United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918)
spinoza: Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
spock: United States pediatrician whose many books on child care influenced the upbringing of children around the world (1903-1998)
spode: English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827)
stael: French romantic writer (1766-1817)
stalin: Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
standish: English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656)
stanford: United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
stanislavsky: Russian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938)
stanley: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
stanley: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
stanton: United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)
starr: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940)
st. denis: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ted Shawn (1877-1968)
steele: English writer (1672-1729)
steen: Dutch genre painter (1626-1679)
steffens: United States journalist whose exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
steichen: United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)
stein: experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)
steinbeck: United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)
steinberg: United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999)
steinem: United States feminist (born in 1934)
steiner: Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925)
steinman: United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960)
steinmetz: United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923)
steinway: United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
stella: United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
steller: German naturalist (1709-1746)
stendhal: French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)
stengel: United States baseball manager (1890-1975)
stephen: English writer (1832-1904)
stephenson: English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
stern: United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
sterne: English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
steuben: American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794)
stevens: United States filmmaker (1905-1975)
stevens: United States poet (1879-1955)
stevens: United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)
stevenson: United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968)
stevenson: Scottish author (1850-1894)
stewart: Scottish philosopher and follower of Thomas Reid (1753-1828)
stewart: United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)
stieglitz: United States photographer (1864-1946)
stilwell: United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)
stockton: United States writer (1834-1902)
stoker: Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
stokowski: United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)
stone: United States architect (1902-1978)
stone: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
stone: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
stone: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
stone: United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
stone: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
stopes: birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
stoppard: British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937)
stowe: United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
strachey: English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
stradivari: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)
strasberg: United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)
strauss: Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)
strauss: Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
strauss: German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949)
stravinsky: composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)
streep: United States film actress (born in 1949)
streisand: United States singer and actress (born in 1942)
strickland: United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854)
strindberg: Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)
stroheim: United States film actor (born in Austria) (1885-1957)
stuart: United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828)
stubbs: English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901)
stuyvesant: the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672)
styron: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925)
suckling: English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
sue: French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
suharto: Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921)
sukarno: Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970)
sulla: Roman general and dictator (138-78 BC)
sullivan: English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)
sullivan: United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)
sullivan: United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974)
sullivan: United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)
sullivan: United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
sully: French statesman (1560-1641)
sully: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
sumner: United States sociologist (1840-1910)
sunday: United States evangelist (1862-1935)
sun yat-sen: Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)
sutherland: Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)
sverdrup: Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)