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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (French: Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel, August 19, 1883 - January 10, 1971), French businessman, fashion designer, and founder of the Chanel brand. Her views on modernism, masculine style, and simple designs combined with elegance made her one of the important figures in the 20th century fashion industry. Her influence on haute couture women's clothing led to her being named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine.

Tai Jinnong (November 23, 1902 - November 9, 1990), whose surname was Tantai, was originally named Jinnu, and given the nickname Mengwei. His original name was Chuanyan, his nickname was Songzi, and his scientific name was Jingliu. When he entered Peking University, he changed his name to Jinnong, his given name was Bojian, and his later nickname was Jingzhe. Born in Yejiaji Town, Huoqiu County, Anhui Province, he has been writing for a long time and is good at calligraphy. His pen names include: Qingqu, Wenchao, Kong Jia, Shi Lei, Bai Jian, Longpo Resident, etc.

Shi Dongshan (December 29, 1902 - February 23, 1955), formerly known as Shi Kuangshao, pen names Kong Jia and Jinnong, male, Haining, Zhejiang, born in Hangzhou, Chinese film director. Representative to the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy to the first National People's Congress.

Shi Jiuao (1888-1979), also known as Haifeng, was a banker, financier, and industrialist in the Republic of China. He was one of the elders of the Bank of China and the founder of the Hong Kong business of the Central Bank of China. A native of Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province. The main initiator of the famous Star Five Dinner Party.

Shi Mukang (1918-1963), male, was born in Chuansha County, Shanghai. Chinese entrepreneur. Representative to the Second National People's Congress.

Stevland Hardaway Morris (English: Stevland Hardaway Morris, May 13, 1950 -), stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American blind singer, composer, music producer, and social activist. An artist under Motown Records. He is good at a variety of musical instruments, such as keyboard instruments, harmonica, drums, guitar, etc. He is an all-round musician who is good at singing and music.

Stephen Glenn Martin (English: Stephen Glenn Martin, August 14, 1945 -), American comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician. Martin is good at ventriloquism and can imitate the sounds of different animals to speak and sing, with hilarious effects. He once acted in the comedy "Pinachu" with puppets, and his most recent film is the 2006 comedy "Pink Panther". He hosted the Academy Awards in 2001 and 2003 respectively, and also hosted the 82nd Academy Awards together with Eric Bowen in March 2010. In 2015, he was awarded the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Shi Jinsheng (1863-1934), named Zhirong, courtesy name Jinsheng, was born in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province, and was a banker and industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Spike Lee (English: Spike Lee, March 20, 1957-), formerly known as Shelton Jackson Lee, is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He has won an Emmy Award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His films discuss many political and social issues, and he often appears in his films. He also teaches film at Columbia University and New York University. His film production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. In 2015, he was awarded the Honorary Award, the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, by the Oscar Organizing Committee. In 2019, he won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 91st Academy Awards for "BlacKkKlansman".

Shi Yuzhu (September 15, 1962 - ), a native of Huaiyuan, Anhui, is a Chinese private entrepreneur, chairman of Giant Network, and a member of the China Zhi Gong Party.

Shi Zhifu (June 15, 1907 - June 27, 1962), also known as Shi Derun, was born in Yin County, Zhejiang Province. He was one of the major pioneers in the pharmaceutical industry in modern China and Taiwan. He was the first to successfully trial-produce machine-made sugar-coated tablets in China. Shi Zhifu first initiated China's "Father's Day".

Steve Pemberton (September 1, 1967 -, English: Steve James Pemberton) is a British actor and screenwriter. He co-wrote and co-wrote the sitcom "The League of Gentlemen" with actors Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and screenwriter Jeremy Dezon. He and Shear Smith later created, wrote, and starred in another award-winning sitcom, "City."

Stephen Gary Wozniak (English: Stephen Gary Wozniak, August 11, 1950 -), a Polish-American technology entrepreneur, computer engineer, philanthropist and inventor, is regarded as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution. In 1976, Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, and developed the first and second generation Apple computers in the late 1970s. The second-generation computer became popular across the United States as soon as it was released, becoming the best-selling personal computer at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Wozniak has many nicknames, such as The Woz, the Wonderful Wizard of Woz, and iWoz (borrowed from the name of Apple's product iPod). WoZ's name is also the abbreviation of "Wheels of Zeus", the company founded by Wozniak. He is reserved and does not take pride in his celebrity status. He has written a personal biography "iWoz: Technology Urchin Wozniak".

James Stephen Fossett (English: James Stephen Fossett, April 22, 1944 - September 3, 2007) was an American entrepreneur and explorer. He was the first person in the world to travel non-stop around the world in a hot air balloon. He has traveled around the world five times non-stop, by boat, hot air balloon and airplane. On September 3, 2007, the plane piloted by Fossett disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and subsequent search and rescue operations found no trace of him. On February 15, 2008, Fawcett was pronounced dead. In September of the same year, his remains were discovered and confirmed by DNA testing in October.

Steve Hooker (English: Steve Hooker, July 16, 1982 -), Australian male track and field athlete. He represented Australia in track and field competitions at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.

Steven Richard Wright, MBE (English: Steven Richard Wright, August 26, 1954 – February 12, 2024) , British radio announcer. In the 1980s, he was the host of the afternoon program on BBC Radio 1. He currently hosts the national afternoon program on BBC Radio 2.

Steven Anthony Ballmer (English: Steven Anthony Ballmer, March 24, 1956 -), is an American businessman. He served as the CEO of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball League (NBA). In 2014, his assets were US$20.7 billion, ranking 32nd on the Forbes rich list. He ranked 19th on the Forbes billionaire list in 2019, with assets reaching US$41.2 billion. In the 2019 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 9th with assets of US$51.7 billion. He ranked 6th on the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States published by Forbes in September 2020, with assets of US$69 billion. On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft, with Ballmer retaining his position on the board of directors.

Steve McQueen, a famous Hollywood action movie star and double award-winning racer (car and motorcycle), was active in the film industry for 20 years from the 1960s to the 1970s. He later died of lung cancer.

Steven Weinberg (English: Steven Weinberg, May 3, 1933 - July 23, 2021), born in New York, was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.

Steven Mackintosh (April 30, 1967 -) is a British actor. Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England and starred in films such as Two Barrels.

Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE (English: Stephen Gordon Hendry, January 13, 1969 -), former professional snooker legend. He is deeply loved by snooker fans around the world. After his retirement, he actively participated in the commentary of major tournaments with Steve Davis, another top and great snooker legend, and created "cue tips" on his personal Instagram to provide batting and positioning instruction. Even after retiring, he still spared no effort in the snooker field. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won the Snooker World Championship 7 times, the British Snooker Championship 5 times, and the Snooker Wembley Masters 6 times, winning a total of 5 Snooker Grand Slam records. His seven World Championship wins are the most in the world since there are official video records (in the 1960s). He is recognized as the greatest player in the history of billiards and is known as the "Snooker Emperor". The creation of his "offensive style of play" had a profound impact on the football world. At his peak, he had excellent ball control and defensive abilities, as well as strong psychological quality and error correction ability. His tough style and steady style are deeply loved by fans, and he also has extremely accurate middle pocket/side pocket scoring ability, which helped him almost dominate the entire snooker world in the 1990s. In his career, he has broken 100 strokes in 776 strokes (as of the 2021 Snooker World Championship), including 11 single strokes with a perfect score of 147.

Stephen C. Harrison (English: Stephen C. Harrison, June 4, 1943 -) is an American biochemist. He is a researcher at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He won the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1990, the Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2006, was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014, and won the Welch Prize in Chemistry in 2015.

Steven Seagal (English: Steven Frederic Seagal, April 10, 1952 -) is a Russian-American actor, producer, playwright, director, martial arts coach and singer. He has a seventh-degree black belt in Aikido. Seagal was originally a martial arts instructor who taught Aikido in Japan. Later, he moved to Los Angeles and was noticed for his martial arts abilities. His first performance was in 1988. Since then, Seagal has become a world-famous martial arts star. The total box office of his movies exceeds 700 million US dollars. Seagal was mainly known for his action martial arts in the past, but he also released albums and founded "Stephen Seagal Enterprises". Sigurd is also an environmental activist, aikido martial arts instructor, and animal rights activist. He is also known as "Chungdrag Dorje." Because of his devout belief in Lamaism, he got acquainted with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and served as the Dalai Lama's bodyguard when he visited many times. In 2015, Sigurd was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the honorary consul of Russia in the United States. In 2016, he became a Serbian and Russian citizen.

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and popular science writer. He served as the Research Director of the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge during his lifetime. His many scientific contributions include his collaboration with Roger Penrose on the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorem within the framework of general relativity, and his theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation (now called Hawking radiation). Hawking was the first to propose a cosmological theory jointly explained by general relativity and quantum mechanics. He is an active supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.