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- Peter Alexandrovich Saburov (1835–1918)
- Peter Petrovich Saburov (1880–1932)
- Nikolai Sahzin (born 1988)
- Konstantin Sakaev (born 1974)
- Valery Salov (born 1964)
- Grigory Sanakoev (born 1935)
- Vladimir Savon (1940–2005)
- Emanuel Schiffers (1850–1904)
- Alexey Selezniev (1888–1967)
- Lidia Semenova (born 1951)
- Aleksandr Sergeyev (1897–1970)
- Gregory Serper (born 1969)
- Yuri Shabanov (1937–2010)
- Alexander Shakarov (born 1948)
- Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005)
- Andrey Shariyazdanov (born 1976)
- Sergei Shipov (born 1966)
- Ilya Shumov (1819–1981)
- Vladimir Simagin (1919–1968)
- Sergey Smagin (born 1958)
- Pavel Smirnov (born 1982)
- Vasily Smyslov (1921–2010)
- Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (1881–1943)
- Andrei Sokolov (born 1963)
- Alexander Solovtsov (1847–1923)
- Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born 1966)
- Maxim Sorokin (1968–2007)
- Genna Sosonko (born 1943)
- Victor Soultanbeieff (1895–1972)
- Vladimir Sournin (1875–1942)
- Boris Spassky (born 1937)
- Leonid Stein (1934–1973)
- Mark Stolberg (1922–1943)
- Alexey Suetin (1926–2001)
- Olga Sukhareva (born 1984)
- Emil Sutovsky (born 1977)
- Peter Svidler (born 1976)
- Evgeny Sveshnikov (born 1950)
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