S.Sa. Stanley Sadie. Editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London. Editor, The Musical Times, 1967-87. Music Critic, The Times (London), 1964-81.
S.S.A. Stanislas Spero Adotevi. Director, Institute of Applied Research, Porto-Novo, Benin. Author of Demain la veille.
S.S.C. S.S. Chern. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Complex Manifolds Without Potential Theory.
S.S.Ch. Sukhdev Singh Chib. Reader and Head, Geography Department, Directorate of Correspondence Courses, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Author of Nineteen Fateful Months: A Socio-economic Study and others.
S.S.D.J. S.S.D. Jones (d. 1990). Navigation consultant. Former Head, Navigation and Guidance Division, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England. Author of "Recent Developments in Radio Navigation" in Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics.
S.S.F. Sheppard Sunderland Frere. Emeritus Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford. Author of Britannia: A History of Roman Britain and others.
S.S.H. Syed Sajjad Husain. Professor of English, Umm al-Qurah University, Mecca, 1975-85. Vice-Chancellor, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 1969-71. Author of Descriptive Catalogue of Bengali Manuscripts.
S.Si. Sinnathurai Sivasubramaniam. Senior Lecturer in Agronomy, Eastern University, Chenkaladi, Sri Lanka. Project Coordinator, Agricultural Research Project, Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka, Talawakelle, 1988.
S.Sk. Stephan Skalweit. Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn. Author of Frankreich und Friedrich der Grosse and others.
S.Sm. Stephen Smale. Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. Coeditor of Global Analysis.
S.Sp. The Rev. Sidney Spencer (deceased). Minister, Bath and Trowbridge Unitarian Churches, England. Principal of Manchester College, University of Oxford, 1951-56. Author of Mysticism in World Religion.
S.S.R. Susanne S. Renner. Associate Professor of Botany, Botanical Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Editor of The Role of Scent Glands in Pollination.
S.St. Sewell Stokes (d. 1979). Author and dramatist. Author of Isadora: An Intimate Portrait and others.
S.Su. Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Reader in Economics, University of Delhi, India. Author of The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650 and others.
S.S.Z. Steven S. Zumdahl. Professor and Associate Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of Chemical Principles and many others.