All articles starting with S

Samantha Stosur

Samantha (Sam) Stosur, Australian tennis player, 2011 US Open singles champion over Serena Williams, 2010 Roland Garros finalist, doubles world No. 1, eight Grand Slam titles, retired at 2023 Australian Open, now Billie Jean King Cup captain.

Samantha Taggart

Samantha "Sam" Taggart is the fictional ER nurse played by Linda Cardellini on NBC's ER, seasons 10-15 (2003-2009). County General R.N., single mother of Alex, partners Luka Kovac and Tony Gates, nurse anesthetist trainee.

Samantha Tan

Samantha Tan, Canadian GT racing driver and co-owner of ST Racing, races BMW M4 GT3 cars; first overall M4 GT3 win at 12H Mugello 2022, 2021 24H Series champion, BMW M Motorsport ambassador.

Samantha Who?

Samantha Who? is an ABC single-camera sitcom (2007–2009) created by Cecelia Ahern and Donald Todd, starring Christina Applegate as an amnesiac learning her old self was unkind; 35 episodes, Metascore 59, canceled May 2009.

Samantha Womack

Samantha Womack, née Janus (born 1972), English actress and singer; UK Eurovision 1991 entrant with 'A Message to Your Heart', Mandy in Game On, Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders 2007–2017, Michelle Unwin in the Kingsman films.

Samar

Samar: third-largest island of the Philippines (1,355,935 ha) in Eastern Visayas, divided into Samar, Eastern Samar, and Northern Samar provinces; home to Samar Island Natural Park, karst forests, and Rafflesia manillana.

Samar (province)

Samar (formerly Western Samar) is a province in Eastern Visayas, Philippines, capital Catbalogan City, created by RA 4221 in 1965; about 6,048 sq km, 793,183 people (2020), two cities, 24 municipalities.

Samar (சமர்) (2013 film)

Samar (சமர்), also known as Vetadu Ventadu in Telugu, is a 2013 Tamil action thriller directed by Thiru, starring Vishal, Trisha Krishnan, and Sunaina, released 13 January 2013 for Pongal with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

Samar Jafri

Samar Jafri (Samar Abbas Jafri, ثمر عباس جعفری), Pakistani actor-singer born 2003, in Islamabad; lead in Mayi Ri (2023) and Parwarish (2025), film Na Baligh Afraad, Lux Style Award winner, and Spotify RADAR Pakistan 2025 artist.

Samar Sea

Samar Sea, small semi-enclosed Philippine sea between southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, bordered by Samar, Leyte, Masbate; 3,870 sq km, overfished since the 1980s, site of first Philippine red tide in 1983.

Samara (Самара)

Samara (Самара), called Kuybyshev from 1935 to 1991, is a major city and industrial hub on the Volga in southeastern Russia and the administrative center of Samara Oblast.

Samara Cyn

Samara Cyn, born Samara Henderson in 1998, is an American rapper and singer from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, known for fusing hip-hop with neo-soul and spoken word.

Samara Joy

Samara Joy (Samara Joy McLendon), American jazz vocalist from the Bronx; six Grammy wins from seven nominations including 2023 Best New Artist for Linger Awhile; albums Samara Joy, Linger Awhile, A Joyful Holiday, Portrait.

Samara Martins

Samara Martins (Samara Martins da Silva Feitosa), Brazilian dentist and UP vice-president, 2026 presidential candidate with Raquel Brício; previously 2022 vice on Léo Péricles's ticket; socialist program including doubling the minimum wage.

Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast (Самарская область), formerly Kuibyshev, is a federal subject of Russia in the middle Volga region with its center in Samara, known for its automotive and aerospace industries.

Sep 21, 2026

Samara Reck-Peterson

Samara Reck-Peterson is an American cell biologist and HHMI Investigator, chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2025, known for single-molecule studies of the motor protein dynein.

Samara Tijori

Samara Tijori (born 1995, Mumbai), daughter of actor Deepak Tijori and designer Shivani Tijori, is a Hindi film and web series actor; debuted in Bob Biswas (2021), led Masoom (2022), and won acclaim and a 2026 Iconic Gold award as serial killer Anita/Anant Acharya in Daldal.

Samara Valles

Samara Valles is one of the longest ancient valley systems on Mars, an IAU-named (1976) valley network over 1,000 km long in the southern highlands, draining into the Chryse Basin and formed mainly in the late Noachian to early Hesperian.

Samara Weaving

Samara Weaving, Australian actress and niece of Hugo Weaving, is a horror-film star known as Grace in Ready or Not (2019) and its 2026 sequel, with credits including Scream VI, Babylon, and the upcoming X-Men film as Emma Frost.

Samara zoo

Samara Zoo (Самарский зоопарк), a state zoological park at Novo-Sadovaya 146 in Samara, Russia, founded 16 January 1992; holds about 1,500 animals of 236 species, 97 in Red Books, and is an EARAZA member.

Samaragrawira

Samaragrawira, also spelled Samarāgravīra, is a Javanese king of the Śailendra dynasty known from the mid-9th-century Nalanda inscription of Devapāladeva, which names him father of Bālaputradeva, ruler of Suvarṇadvīpa.

Samaraichchakaha

Samaraichchakaha (Samarāiccakahā, also called Samarādityakathā) is a Jain religious narrative in Prakrit prose composed by the Śvetāmbara monk Haribhadra Sūri in the late 8th century, following king Samarāditya of Ujjain and Agniśarmā through nine births.

Samarasimha Reddy

Samarasimha Reddy (సమరసింహా రెడ్డి), aka Rakhwala: One Man Army in Hindi, is a 1999 B. Gopal Telugu faction action drama starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, an industry hit that launched Telugu cinema's faction-film wave.

Samaratungga

Samaratungga, also written Samaratunga or Smaratungga, was the maharaja of the Śailendra dynasty in Central Java in the early 9th century, the king to whom the completion of Borobudur is traditionally attributed.

Oct 15, 2026

Samarco

Samarco is a privately held Brazilian mining company, owned equally by Vale and BHP, producing iron ore pellets from Minas Gerais to an Espírito Santo port since 1977.

Sep 19, 2026

Samareitikon

The Samareitikon (Samaritikon) is a disputed Greek version of the Pentateuch associated with the Samaritan recension, named from readings marked in Origen's Hexapla and known only from fragments.

Samaresh Majumdar

Samaresh Majumdar (সমরেশ মজুমদার; 1942–2023) was an Indian Bengali novelist from West Bengal, best known for the Naxalite-era trilogy Uttaradhikar, Kalbela, and Kalpurush and for Satkahon, featuring Dipabali.