Sam Donaldson (news anchor); Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. (entertainer); Sam Elliott (actor); Sam Houston (politician/ soldier); Sam Mendes (director); Sam Shepard (playwright/actor); Sam Walton (tycoon); Sam Warner (tycoon); Sam Waterston (actor); Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize winning author); Samuel Adams (Founding Father); Samuel Goldwyn (film producer); Samuel L. Jackson (actor); Samuel Alito (Supreme Court Justice); Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet); Samuel Clemens (genius)