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Amy Sadao, Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art •
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), Beaux-Arts sculptor, numismatist, and educator •
Karen Sandler, lawyer •
Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band
Skeleton Key •
Alfred Sarant (1918–1979), engineer and Soviet spy •
Edward Sargent (1842–1914), architect •
Augusta Savage (Augusta Christine Fells) (1892-1962), sculptor and teacher •
Henry Scheffé (1907-1977), statistician; known for the
Lehmann-Scheffe theorem and
Scheffe's method •
Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter •
Mischa Schwartz, professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University •
Richard Schwartz, engineer, shared the 2019
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for design and development of the first GPS satellites. •
Sy Schulman (1926–2012), civil engineer and planner, Mayor of
White Plains, New York (1993–1997) •
Ricardo Scofidio, with
Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a
MacArthur Prize, co-founder of
Diller Scofidio + Renfro •
Samuel R. Scottron (1841–1908), engineer and inventor, grandfather of entertainer
Lena Horne •
Georgette Seabrooke (1916–2011), muralist, artist, art therapist and educator •
George Segal (1924–2000),
Pop Art sculptor and painter •
Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), painter, writer, poet, educator •
Joan Semmel (born 1932), feminist painter; winner of numerous awards including include the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) •
Nathan Silver (1936-2025), architect and architecture critic •
Redmond Simonsen (1942–2005), graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company
Simulations Publications, Inc. •
Neal Slavin, photographer •
John L. Smith (1889–1950), chemist, pharmaceutical executive, and co-owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers •
Zak Smith, artist •
Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and
Superintendent of School Buildings,
New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923 •
Edward Sorel, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios •
Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie (1854–1926), painter •
Mark A. Stamaty, cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator •
Edwin King Stodola (1914–1992), radio engineer; chief scientist on
Project Diana, which bounced radio waves off the moon for the first time in 1946 •
Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director •
William Sulzer (1863-1941), 39th governor of New York •
Eric E. Sumner (1923–1993), engineer, inventor, and scientist; contributor to the early development of switching systems ==T==