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Samie R. Jaffrey

Samie R. Jaffrey is an American pharmacologist and RNA biologist, the Greenberg-Starr Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, who founded epitranscriptomics and created fluorescent RNA aptamers.

Samih al-Qasim

Samih al-Qasim (سميح القاسم, 1939–2014) was a Palestinian Druze poet, journalist, and playwright who spent his life in Israel, publishing more than 60 books of resistance poetry.

Samih H. Nasr

Samih Nasr is a renal pathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on kidney disease caused by monoclonal immunoglobulins, including MGRS and PGNMID.

Samih Sawiris

Samih Sawiris, born in 1957, is an Egyptian businessman, the middle son of Orascom founder Onsi Sawiris, who founded Orascom Development Holding and built the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna.

Samiingok

Samiingok (사미인곡, 思美人曲) is a 1588 Korean gasa poem by the scholar-official Jeong Cheol, written in exile at Changpyeong and counted among the genre's highest achievements.

Samik Bhattacharya

Samik Bhattacharya is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who sits in the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and leads the party's state unit, appointed in 2025.

Samikon/Samia

Samikon (Σαμικόν), also Samia or Samos, an ancient fortified city of Triphylia in Elis on the western Peloponnese, site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon of the Triphylian cities, whose 6th-century BC temple was discovered at Kleidi in 2022.

Samim Kocagöz

Samim Kocagöz (1916–1993) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of the 1940 generation, best known for the War of Independence novels Kalpaklılar (1962) and Doludizgin (1963).

Samin Nosrat

Samin Nosrat (born 1979) is an Iranian-American chef and food writer, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2017) and host of the Netflix series adapted from it; also wrote Good Things (2025).

Samina Chowdhury

Samina Chowdhury (সামিনা চৌধুরী) is a Bangladeshi playback and adhunik singer, born in 1966, the daughter of singer Mahmudun Nabi and winner of the 2006 National Film Award.

Samina Hamied

Samina Hamied is an Indian business executive and third-generation member of the family that founded Cipla, its Executive Vice-Chairperson from 2016 to 2024, now founder of AYRA Ventures.

Samipaşazade Sezai

Samipaşazade Sezai (1859–1936) was an Ottoman and Turkish story writer, novelist, playwright, and diplomat of the Tanzimat era, remembered chiefly for the novel Sergüzeşt and the short-story collection Küçük Şeyler.

Samir Arora

Samir Arora is a fund manager who founded Helios Capital in Singapore in 2005 after leading Alliance Capital's Indian mutual fund business, and is a founder of Ashoka University.

Samir Bannout

Samir Bannout (سمير بنّوت), 'The Lion of Lebanon', born 1955 in Beirut, is a Lebanese IFBB professional bodybuilder who won the 1983 Mr. Olympia in Munich, the first Arab winner of the title, famous for his Christmas-tree back pose.

Samir Barac

Samir Barač (born 1973, Rijeka) is a Croatian water polo player and administrator; captain of Croatia's 2012 Olympic gold team, four-time LEN Cup winner, later president of VK Primorje EB and HVS board member.

Samir El Mourabet

Samir El Mourabet (سمير المرابط), born 2005 in Strasbourg, is a Moroccan defensive midfielder for RC Strasbourg in Ligue 1 and Morocco, a 2026 World Cup squad member known for elite tackling and passing volume.

Samir Geagea (سمير فريد جعجع)

Samir Geagea (سمير فريد جعجع), nicknamed al-Hakim, is a Lebanese politician and former militia commander who leads the Lebanese Forces, the largest bloc in parliament, and served 11 years in prison as the only warlord jailed for civil war crimes.

Samir Hanash

Samir Hanash is a cancer proteomics researcher and professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he directs the McCombs Institute for early cancer detection.

Samir Handanović

Samir Handanović, born 1984 in Ljubljana, Slovenian goalkeeper; Inter Milan's number one for eleven seasons from 2012, 455 appearances, 166 clean sheets, Serie A record 32 penalty saves, 2020/21 Scudetto-winning captain.

Samir Jaber

Samir Jaber, born 1967, is a French anesthesiologist and intensivist, full professor since 2007 and head of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Saint-Eloi University Hospital, Montpellier.

Samir Kapadia

Samir Kapadia is an American interventional cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic and led major trials of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, including PROTECTED TAVR.

Samir Kaul

Samir Kaul is an American venture capitalist, a Founding Partner at Khosla Ventures whose early investments include Guardant Health, Nutanix, Oscar Health, QuantumScape, and Impossible Foods.

Samir Kumar

Samir Kumar is a venture capital investor who co-founded Inventus Capital Partners with Kanwal Rekhi and John Dougery, later leading its India successor, Athera Venture Partners.

Samir Mitragotri

Samir Mitragotri is a drug-delivery scientist, Hiller Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard since 2017, known for transdermal delivery, cell-hitchhiking biomaterials, and co-founding 16 companies.

Samir N. Khleif

Samir N. Khleif is a medical oncologist and immunotherapy researcher who founded Georgiamune, a Gaithersburg, Maryland biotech, after two decades at the National Cancer Institute.

Samir Nasri

Samir Nasri, born 1987 in Marseille, French attacking midfielder of Olympique de Marseille, Arsenal, and Manchester City; 41 France caps, two Premier League titles, retired 2021, now a Canal+ pundit.

Samir Sharifov

Samir Sharifov is an Azerbaijani politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, appointed by President Ilham Aliyev after serving as Minister of Finance, and speaks on fiscal, tax, and investment policy.

Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي)

Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي; 1935–1986) was a Saudi novelist, publisher, and film producer who wrote under the name Samira bint Al-Jazira and pioneered the Saudi women's novel.

Samira Lui

Samira Lui (born 1998, Udine) is an Italian showgirl and co-presenter of La Ruota della Fortuna with Gerry Scotti; third at Miss Italia 2017, later L'Eredità, Tale e Quale Show, Grande Fratello.

Samira Marti

Samira Marti (born 1994) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party who has represented Basel-Landschaft in the National Council since 2018 and co-leads its Federal Assembly faction.