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Samira Mohan
Samira Mohan, nicknamed "Slow Mo", is a fictional emergency medicine resident at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in HBO Max's The Pitt, played by Supriya Ganesh across seasons 1-2, known for high patient satisfaction, racial-disparity research, and a season 2 panic attack before her exit.
Samira Nawa
Samira Nawa is a Danish politician of the Social Liberal Party, elected to the Folketinget in 2019 and Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities since 2026.
Samira Shahbandar (سميرة الشابندر)
Samira Shahbandar (سميرة الشابندر), born 1946 in Baghdad, is the second wife of Saddam Hussein and mother of his son Ali Saddam Hussein; she is listed as UN entry IQi.060 and on OFAC's SDN list, and became publicly known after Uday Hussein's 1988 murder of Kamal Hana Jajjo.
Samira Wiley
Samira Wiley (born 1987, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress, Juilliard graduate, known as Poussey in Orange Is the New Black and Emmy-winning Moira in The Handmaid's Tale.
Samirapannaga Rasa
Samirapannaga Rasa (Sameera Pannaga Rasa) is a classical Ayurvedic Kupipakwa Rasayana of purified mercury, sulphur, and arsenic minerals, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000376, dose 62.5–125 mg) and used mainly for respiratory conditions such as Tamaka Shwasa (bronchial asthma).
Samirul Islam
Samirul Islam is an Indian politician who joined the Trinamool Congress in 2023 and represents West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, also chairing the West Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board.
Samisoni Viriviri
Samisoni Viriviri (Nasagavesi), Fijian rugby sevens outside centre and wing born 1988 in Nadi; first Fijian World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year (2014, 52 tries), 2016 Rio Olympic gold medallist, later Montpellier and Montauban in France.
Samitigutta
Samitigutta (समितिगुत्त) is an arahant elder of Sāvatthī in the Theravada tradition, a brahmin's son who attained liberation while lying in the infirmary with leprosy, commemorated by one Theragāthā verse.
Samium
Samium (Sāmium) was the third ruler of the Amorite dynasty of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, reigning 35 years, c. 1976–1942 BC, and father of Zabaia and Gungunum.
Samizdat (самиздат)
Samizdat (самиздат), Russian for "self-publishing," was the uncensored typewriter-based production and circulation of banned texts in the post-Stalin Soviet Union, spreading to other Communist bloc countries; related to tamizdat and magnitizdat.
Samjeong
Samjeong (삼정) is the collective term for the three tax systems that formed the financial base of late Joseon Korea: the land tax, military cloth tax, and grain loan system.
Samjhauta Express
The Samjhauta Express, named after the Hindi word for understanding, was a passenger train between Delhi and Lahore, launched in 1976 and suspended since August 2019.
Samkaleen Kavita
Samkaleen Kavita (समकालीन कविता) is the Hindi literary term for the broad current of Hindi poetry after the Nai Kavita movement, taking present-day social reality as its subject.
Śaṃkara
Śaṃkara (शङ्कर) was an Indian philosopher, traditionally of the 8th century, who taught Advaita Vedanta, holding that liberation comes from recognizing the unity of the Self and Brahman.
Samkhya (सांख्य)
Samkhya (सांख्य, Sāṃkhya), also Sankya, is one of six orthodox Hindu philosophy schools: a non-theistic dualism of puruṣa and prakṛti with 25 tattvas, foundational text the Sāṅkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa, liberation through discriminative knowledge.
Samkhya school
Samkhya school (सांख्य दर्शन) is one of the six systems of Indian philosophy, a dualism of matter (prakriti) and spirit (purusha); tradition credits Kapila as its founder.
Samkshobha
Samkshobha (संक्षोभ) was a Maharaja of the Parivrajaka dynasty in Central India, son and successor of Maharaja Hastin, known from copper-plate grants dated 518 to 528 CE.
SAML 2.0
SAML 2.0, or Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0, is an XML-based OASIS standard, published in 2005, for exchanging authentication and authorization data between organizations, chiefly for web single sign-on.
Samlah of Masrekah
Samlah of Masrekah is a king of Edom known only from the list of Edomite kings in Genesis 36:36, where he succeeds Hadad and is succeeded by Shaul of Rehoboth.
Samlyn Capital
Samlyn Capital is a New York hedge fund founded by Robert Pohly in 2007, running equity long/short and related strategies with about $9.7 billion under management.
Samm Levine
Samm Levine (Samuel Franklin Levine, born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor and comedian known for Neal Schweiber on Freaks and Geeks, Pfc. Hirschberg in Inglourious Basterds, and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.
Samma dynasty
The Samma dynasty (سما خاندان) was a Sindhi ruling house of Rajput origin, founded by Jam Unar, that governed Sindh from about 1350 until the Arghun conquest of 1520.
Sammakka Saralamma Jatara (సమ్మక్క)
Sammakka Saralamma Jatara, also called the Medaram Jatara, is a biennial four-day festival at Medaram village in Telangana, India, honoring the Koya tribal goddesses Sammakka and her daughter Saralamma.
Sammaniyya
The Sammaniyya (السمانية) is a Sufi order founded at Medina in the late 18th century by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Samman and brought to Sudan by Ahmad al-Tayyib al-Bashir.
Sammarinese Armed Forces
Sammarinese Armed Forces (Forze Armate Sammarinesi, Corpi Militari Sammarinesi): San Marino's four ceremonial and security corps, Guard of the Great and General Council, Uniformed Militia, Fortress Guard, Gendarmerie; voluntary service, no conscription, defense delegated to Italy, zero military expenditure reported to the UN.
Sammarinese Communist Party
Partito Comunista Sammarinese (PCS), Sammarinese Communist Party, Marxist party in San Marino; founded underground 1921/refounded 1941, governed with Socialists 1945–1957, returned 1978, became PPDS in 1990.
Sammarinese dialect
Sammarinese is the endangered Romagnol variety spoken in the Republic of San Marino; a borderline Romagnol dialect with 12 vowels, Northeastern and Southwestern groups, and a 2021 first dictionary.
Sammetar
Sammētar was a high official and advisor of Zimri-Lim, king of Mari in the early 18th century BC, known from the Mari royal archives, where he governed Ashnakkum.
Sammi Cheng
Sammi Cheng (鄭秀文), born 1972, is the Hong Kong Cantopop Queen and actress who rose via the 1988 New Talent Singing Awards, released over 80 albums, starred in nearly 40 films including Needing You and Infernal Affairs, and won the 2023 Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress for Lost Love.
Sammi Cohen
Sammi Cohen is an American film director known for directing the Netflix comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, starring Adam Sandler, and the Hulu teen comedy Crush.