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Sam Treiman
Sam Treiman (1925–1999) was an American theoretical particle physicist who spent his career at Princeton, known for the 1958 Goldberger–Treiman relation linking strong and weak interactions.
Sam Tripoli
Sam Tripoli (born 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from Cortland, New York, a Comedy Store paid regular, host of Tin Foil Hat since 2016 and Punch Drunk Sports with Ari Shaffir.
Sam Troughton
Sam (Sam John) Troughton, born 1977 in Hampstead, London, is an English actor, son of David Troughton and grandson of Second Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. RSC regular (Romeo, Brutus, Edmund); known for Much in Robin Hood, Akimov in Chernobyl, Mank, Napoleon.
Sam Tsui
Sam Tsui (Samuel Tsui), American singer-songwriter and YouTube creator known with producer Kurt Schneider for viral medleys like the Michael Jackson Medley; albums Make It Up, Trust, Yearbook; 3.13 million YouTube subscribers.
Sam Underwood
Sam Lewis Underwood (born 1987, Woking, England) is an English actor known for twin killers Mark and Luke Gray in The Following, Jake Otto in Fear the Walking Dead, and Adam Carrington in Dynasty, plus New York theatre work.
Sam Van Aken
Sam Van Aken (born 1972) is an American artist and Syracuse University professor known for the Tree of 40 Fruit, a grafted tree bearing forty stone fruit varieties.
Sam Vimes
Sam Vimes is Terry Pratchett's Discworld City Watch commander, protagonist of the Watch novels from Guards! Guards! (1989) to Snuff (2011), famous for the Boots Theory of socio-economic unfairness.
Sam Vincent
Sam Vincent (Samuel Vincent Khouth, born 1971) is a Canadian voice actor from North Vancouver, BC, known as Edd in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Krypto the Superdog, Athrun Zala in Gundam SEED, and Lloyd Garmadon in Ninjago from Season 8 onward.
Sam Vokes
Sam Vokes (born 1989) is a Welsh retired striker; 64 Wales caps, 11 goals, Euro 2016 semi-finalist who scored the header against Belgium; played for Bournemouth, Wolves, Burnley, Stoke, Wycombe, Gillingham; retired 2026 with 751 appearances.
Sam W. Lee
Sam W. Lee is a molecular biologist known for his work on p53 cell-fate decisions and for selectively killing cancer cells by targeting their ROS stress response.
Sam Walton
Sam Walton (Samuel Moore Walton) was an American retail entrepreneur who built Walmart from a single Ben Franklin five-and-dime into the largest retailer in the United States.
Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993), American actor, director, and producer, founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust in 1970 and campaigned for over two decades to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London; the site's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened in 2014 is named for him.
Sam Warburton
Sam Warburton, Welsh openside flanker and dual captain of Wales (record 49 times) and the British & Irish Lions (2013 series win, 2017 drawn series), retired in 2018 at 29 with 79 Test caps.
Sam Warner
Sam Warner (Szmuel Wonsal, 1887-1927), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Warner Bros. Pictures; as the studio's technical chief he drove adoption of Vitaphone sound-on-disc, producing Don Juan (1926) and The Jazz Singer (1927), and died the day before the latter's premiere.
Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stage, film, and television actor, also credited as Samuel Atkinson Waterston, known for Jack McCoy on Law & Order (1994–2024, 405 episodes), the Oscar-nominated The Killing Fields, and Shakespeare stage work.
Sam Watson (Georgia politician)
Sam Watson is an American Republican politician serving in the Georgia State Senate from the 11th district since 2023, previously a state representative and a farmer from Moultrie, Georgia.
Sam Welsford
Sam Welsford (born 1996, Perth) is an Australian track and road cyclist, Olympic team pursuit gold medallist at Paris 2024 after Rio silver and Tokyo bronze, and a WorldTour sprinter with seven Tour Down Under stage wins, joining Jayco AlUla in 2027.
Sam Whitelock
Sam Whitelock (Samuel Laurence Whitelock), born 1988, New Zealand rugby lock; most-capped All Black with 153 Tests, two Rugby World Cups (2011, 2015), Crusaders and Pau player, retired 2024.
Sam Wilkes
Sam Wilkes is a Los Angeles-based bassist, composer, and producer of ambient-leaning experimental jazz; solo debut Wilkes (2018), Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar with Sam Gendel, KNOWER touring bassist, and 2025 trio album Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes. Distinct from WILKES, the singer from The Voice.
Sam Williams (singer)
Sam Williams (born 1997) is an American country singer-songwriter, son of Hank Williams Jr. and grandson of Hank Williams; albums Glasshouse Children (2021) and the Act I/Act II trilogy (2024-2025).
Sam Wills
Sam Wills, aka Tape Face (formerly The Boy With Tape On His Face), is a New Zealand silent prop comic and former circus sideshow performer, a 2016 America's Got Talent finalist with a long Las Vegas residency.
Sam Wilson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, is the MCU's Falcon from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and the first Black Captain America, leading The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and Captain America: Brave New World (2025) without the super-soldier serum.
Sam Winchester
Sam Winchester (Samuel William Winchester) is a fictional hunter and co-protagonist of Supernatural (2005–2020), played by Jared Padalecki. Born 1983 in-universe, he is Dean's younger brother, a demon-blood Special Child, and Lucifer's true vessel.
Sam Witwer
Sam Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer, born 1977) is an American actor and musician, the voice of Darth Maul since 2012 and of Starkiller in The Force Unleashed, also known for Being Human, Smallville, and Battlestar Galactica.
Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington (born 1976) is an Australian actor, NIDA graduate, and star of Jake Sully in James Cameron's Avatar franchise, plus Terminator Salvation and Clash of the Titans.
Sam Wyche
Sam Wyche (1949-2020), NFL head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals 1984-91 and Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1992-95, introduced the no-huddle offense and led the 1988 AFC champion Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII.
Sam Wyly
Sam Wyly, born Samuel Evans Wyly, was a Louisiana-born, Dallas-based serial entrepreneur who founded or acquired University Computing, Michaels Stores, and Sterling Software and became a billionaire.
Sam Zell
Sam Zell, also known as Samuel Zell, was an American real estate investor who built Equity Group Investments in Chicago and pioneered the REIT structure.
Sam'al lions
The Sam'al lions are monumental lion sculptures from Sam'al, modern Zincirli Höyük in Turkey, carved between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE and now held in Berlin and Istanbul.
Sam's Club
Sam's Club is Walmart's membership-only warehouse club chain, founded by Sam Walton April 7, 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, with about 600 U.S. and Puerto Rico clubs, $93.0 billion fiscal 2026 net sales, $50 Club and $110 Plus tiers, and Member's Mark private label.