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- Hans Sachs (1976, 1994)
- Nelly Sachs (1991, 2001)
- Alice Salomon (1989)
- Auguste von Sartorius (1995), catholic activist, founder of the "Kindermissionswerk"
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1992)
- Walter Scheel (1983)
- Wilhelm Schickard (1973)
- Friedrich von Schiller (1926, 1934, 1955, 1961)
- Johann Conrad Schlaun (1995), architect
- Heinrich Schliemann (1990)
- Carlo Schmid (1996)
- Paul Schneider (1989)
- Reinhold Schneider (2003)
- Romy Schneider (2000)
- Sophie Scholl (1964, 1991)
- Martin Schongauer (1991)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1988)
- Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1978), writer, poet, architect and painter
- Sophie Schröder (1976)
- Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1958)
- Franz Schubert (1997)
- Kurt Schumacher (1972, 1995)
- Robert Schuman (French politician) (1968)
- Clara Schumann (1986)
- Robert Schumann (German composer) (1956)
- Carl Schurz (1952, 1976)
- Heinrich Schütz (1935, 1972)
- Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1997)
- Albert Schweitzer (1975, 2000)
- Kurt Schwitters (1987)
- Elisabeth Selbert (1987)
- Ignaz Semmelweis (1956)
- Gottfried Semper (2003)
- Johann Christian Senckenberg (1953), physican, scientist and benefactor
- Alois Senefelder (1972)
- Philipp Franz von Siebold (1996)
- Werner von Siemens (1966, 1992)
- Amelie Sieveking (1955), social activist
- Friedrich Silcher (1989)
- Nathan Söderblom (1966)
- Carl Sonnenschein (1952, 1975)
- Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1990)
- Philipp Jakob Spener (1985)
- Carl Spitzweg (1985)
- Louis Spohr (1959)
- Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (1964)
- Charlotte von Stein (1992)
- Edith Stein (1983, 1988)
- Heinrich vom Stein (1957)
- Heinrich von Stephan (1924, 1947, 1949, 1956, 1984, 1997)
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1994)
- Adalbert Stifter (1955)
- Theodor Storm (1988)
- Johann Strauß (Sohn) (1999)
- Franz Josef Strauß (1995)
- Richard Strauss (1999)
- Gustav Stresemann (1975)
- Käte Strobel (2000)
- Bertha von Suttner (1991)
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