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• Carl Sagan was a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
• Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book, Orientalism. One of his last books was called, Humanism and Democratic Criticism.
• Jonas Salk, American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1976 by the American Humanist Association.
• Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1980 by the American Humanist Association.
• Margaret Sanger, American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1957 by the American Humanist Association.
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist and Marxist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, biographer, activist, and critic; author of Existentialism is a Humanism.
• John Ralston Saul, Canadian essayist and novelist who supported humanism over corporatism in Voltaire's Bastards - The Dictatorship of Reason in the West and The Unconscious Civilization.
• Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller was an early coiner of the term "humanism."
• William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, the U.S. division of Amnesty International, from March 1994 to 2006. He is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1985 to 1993. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 2000 by the American Humanist Association.
• Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist who created the comic strip, Peanuts. From the late 1980s, he described himself in interviews as a "Secular Humanist".
• Rod Serling, creator and narrator of The Twilight Zone.
• Peter Singer is a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism.
• Marc Sinden, English theatre producer and actor. Supporter of the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society.
• B.F. Skinner, American behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher and poet. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1972 by the American Humanist Association.
• Linda Smith (comedian), former president of British Humanist Association
• Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. In addition to his pediatric work, Spock was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1968 by the American Humanist Association.
• Pete Stark, U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district, serving since 1973. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 2008 by the American Humanist Association.
• Christer Sturmark, chairman of the Swedish Humanist Organisation.
• Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic. Since 1990, he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1973 by the American Humanist Association.
• Leó Szilárd, Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor. Given the title, "Humanist of the Year" in 1960 by the American Humanist Association.