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Said Amir Shah

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Silk merchant and anti-colonialist who campaigned for workers' rights and for a mosque to serve Muslims in the East End of London

Saint Nihal Singh

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Journalist who lived in London in the 1910s

Sajjad Zaheer

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Writer, editor, radical anti-colonialist and socialist campaigner

Sake Dean Mahomed

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Entrepreneur behind the Hindoostane Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London, and Mahomed’s Baths in Brighton, famous for their shampooing and vapour treatments

Salman Rushdie

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Advertising copywriter, cultural commentator and novelist, renowned for winning the Booker Prize

Sam Selvon

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Trinidad-born novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist of South Asian heritage famous for chronicling migrant lives in mid-twentieth-century Britain

Samuel Fyzee Rahamin

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Artist and writer whose work was exhibited at the 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition

Samuel Satthianadhan

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Writer and educator who was educated at Cambridge

Sanjeev Bhaskar

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Actor, comedian and radio and television presenter known for the pioneering sketch show Goodness Gracious Me

Sankaran Nair

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Lawyer and jurist who held high-profile government positions during the British Raj

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