South Carolina People

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Alexander Samuel Salley

Alexander Samuel Salley was a historian whose work and dedication to preserving South Carolina's history led to the creation of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Eulalie Chafee Salley

Eulalie Chafee Salley from Aiken, SC fought for the right for women to vote.

Dori Sanders

Dori Sanders is a peach farmer and author from York County, who wrote the best-selling book Clover.

Mark Sanford

Real estate developer, congressman, governor

Valerie Sayers

Novelist. Sayers’s fiction is wholeheartedly unsentimental. Its narrative force is carried by the author’s strong display of comic irony.

William Harrison Scarborough

William Harrison Scarborough was a portraitist and miniaturist.

Black and white photograph of Robert Kinston Scott

Tim Scott

Tim Scott is a member of the U.S. Senate from South Carolina.

Edwin G. Seibels

Edwin Seibels was a businessman from Edgefield, SC, who invented a vertical filing system that revolutionized record-keeping.

James C. Self

James C. Self owned several textile mills in Greenwood, SC.

Color photograph of Mike Sharperson holding a bat in his right hand

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an African American civil rights activist who was the Secretary of the NAACP in South Carolina and helped write the court case for Briggs v. Elliott.

Philip Simmons

Philip Simmons was a nationally acclaimed Charleston blacksmith.

William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms was a poet, novelist, and historian who wrote History of South Carolina (1842), which became a standard school textbook on the state’s history.

Black and white photograph of William Simpson

James Marion Sims

James Marion Sims is credited as the "father of modern gynecology" for developing tools and surgical techniques related to women's reproductive health.

Photograph of George Singleton wearing blue polo-type shrt and baseball cap

Jerome Singleton, Jr.

Jerome Singleton, Jr. is a Paralympic gold medalist from South Carolina.

Drink Small

American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter

Robert Smalls wearing a dark suit and bow tie.

Robert Smalls was a Beaufort slave who hijacked a Confederate steamship, disguised himself as a white captain, and sailed to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area safety.

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor was a culinary anthropologist, griot, food writer, and broadcaster on public media.

Lithograph Illustrating A Revival Or Camp Meeting

Josiah Smith

Josiah Smith was a clergyman who championed the causes of the Great Awakening and later the American independence.

Louise Smith

Louise Smith was known as “the first lady of racing.” Louise Smith was the first professional woman race car driver.

Gregory White Smith

Writer, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith was an artist during the Charleston Renaissance known for her watercolors and woodblock prints.

Ellison DuRant Smith

Ellison DuRant Smith was a Democratic politician in South Carolina who was widely known for his racist and segregationist views and advocacy of white supremacy.