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Shanti Devi
A Delhi girl who in the 1930s remembered being Lugdi, a young wife in Mathura who died after childbirth; she recognized her former husband, and a committee formed on Gandhi's advice took her to Mathura, making hers perhaps the most famous case in India.
Signs of Reincarnation
James G Matlock's 2019 survey of reincarnation research for students and general readers, covering beliefs around the world, the evidence from children and adults, and his own 'processual soul' theory of how reincarnation might work.
Sujith Lakmal Jayaratne
A Sri Lankan boy whose statements about being 'Gorakana Sammy' were written down by a monk before any checking and matched Sammy Fernando, an arrack distiller killed by a lorry in 1969; as a toddler Sujith asked for arrack and acted out a drunkard's habits.
Süleyman Andary
A Lebanese Druze boy whose memories surfaced mainly from about eleven; he said he had been Abdallah Abu Hamdan, mukhtar of Gharife, 30 kilometres away, who died around 1942, and on his first visit there at thirteen gave the names of seven of Abdallah's children in birth order.
Sumitra Singh
A young village wife in northern India who in 1985 seemed to die, revived, and said she was Shiva, an educated Brahmin woman found dead on a railway line two months earlier; she recognised many of Shiva's relatives and took on her manners, in what her investigators called a case of the possession type.
Sunil Dutt Saxena
The son of a struggling shopkeeper in a small Indian town, who before the age of two began to speak of Budaun and later described the life of a rich man who had founded a college there; his statements fitted Seth Sri Krishna, who died in 1951, though some Budaun witnesses later gave conflicting accounts.
Sunita Chandak
An Indian girl who from the age of four asked to be taken to 'Belgaon'; of 28 villages with that name, a newspaper story led to the one where Shanta Kalmegh, a girl who died in about 1950, had lived, and there Sunita pointed out several things that had changed since Shanta's death.
Sunita Khandelwal
An Indian girl born in 1969 with a bleeding mark on the right side of her head who from about two asked to be taken to Kota; her statements, which gave no names, matched Sakuntala Maheshwari, the eight-year-old daughter of a Kota jeweller, who died after falling from a balcony in 1968.
Surviving Death (TV series)
A 2021 Netflix documentary series based on Leslie Kean's book, whose final episode is devoted to children who remember previous lives.
Swarnlata Mishra
An Indian girl who from the age of three described the life of Biya Pathak of Katni, who died in 1939; she later recognised many of Biya's relatives, some of whom tried to mislead her, and sang Bengali songs she linked to a second, unidentified life.