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Samruk-Kazyna (Samruk Kazyna)
Samruk-Kazyna (Самұрық-Қазына) is Kazakhstan's state investment holding company, created in 2008 by merging two state funds, holding US$88.6 billion in assets across energy, transport, mining, and telecoms.
Sams'K Le Jah
Sams'K Le Jah, born Sama Karim in the early 1970s, is a Burkinabè reggae singer, radio host, and activist who co-founded Le Balai citoyen, a movement behind the 2014 uprising.
Samsam al-Dawla
Samsam al-Dawla (صمصام الدولة), personal name Abu Kalijar Marzuban, was a Buyid amir, son of Adud al-Dawla, who ruled Fars until his assassination in 998.
Samsamani Vati (afi afi-samsamanivati)
Samsamani Vati (Saṃśamanī vaṭī, Guduchi Ghana Vati) is an official Ayurvedic tablet of Tinospora cordifolia stem extract, introduced by Yadavji Trikamji in Siddhayoga Sangraha, used for fevers and weakness, AFI dose 250–500 mg, and distributed as COVID-19 prophylaxis by India's Ministry of AYUSH.
Saṃsāra
Saṃsāra (संसार), also samsara, is the beginningless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth driven by karma in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism; Buddhist rebirth involves no soul, and liberation is nirvāṇa.
Samsara (2011 film)
Samsara (2011) is a nonverbal documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, sequel to Baraka, shot on 70mm over five years in 25 countries, premiered at TIFF 2011, released 2012.
Samsara Biocapital
Samsara BioCapital is a Palo Alto, California life-science venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Srinivas Akkaraju, which has made more than 180 investments in private drug developers and public biotechs.
Samsari Volcanic Center
Samsari Volcanic Center (Abul-Samsari ridge) is a Quaternary volcanic field of over 20 volcanoes in the Javakheti Highland, southern Georgia, 90 km WSW of Tbilisi; youngest activity under 30 ka at Tavkvetili, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Samsenethai
Samsenethai (ສາມເສນໄທ), also known as Oun Huan, was king of Lan Xang from 1373 to 1417, remembered for a peaceful reign and a census of 300,000 men.
Samshayam (സംശയം)
Samshayam (സംശയം) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by debutant Rajesh Ravi, starring Vinay Forrt, Lijomol Jose, and Sharafudheen, about a wife suspecting her toddler was switched at birth; released 2025, U-certified, streaming on Manorama Max since 24 July 2025. Distinct from the 2025 Malayalam film Sahasam.
Samsi (queen of Qedar)
Samsi, also rendered Samsie, was an Arab queen defeated by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III around 733 BCE and the only Queen of the Arabs recorded by two Assyrian kings.
Samsing Corona
Samsing Corona is a 165-km-wide corona on Venus at 23.8°S, 229.5°E, in the Taussig quadrangle, named in 2003 after a Korean childcare deity, with radar-dark lava flows erupted from its rim.
Samskara (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ)
Samskara (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ) is a 1970 Kannada black-and-white film directed by Pattabhirama Reddy from U.R. Ananthamurthy's 1965 novel, scripted by and starring Girish Karnad; it won the National Award for Best Feature Film and launched Kannada's Navya movement.
Samson (2018 film)
Samson (2018 film) is an American biblical action-drama directed by Bruce Macdonald. It stars Taylor James and was released in 2018, though it received largely negative reviews.
Samson (28 Days Later)
Samson is the Alpha Infected leader in the 28 Days Later franchise, played by Chi Lewis-Parry in 28 Years Later (2025) and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026). Named by Dr. Kelson, he becomes the first known Infected to regain his mind after treatment.
Samson (video game)
Samson: A Tyndalston Story is a 2026 open-world action-adventure game by Liquid Swords, founded by Just Cause co-creator Christofer Sundberg, released on PC on April 8, 2026.
Samson (שמשון)
Samson (Hebrew: שמשון, Shimshon) was a sixth-century abbot and bishop from south Wales who crossed to Brittany and became the founding saint of Dol, where he died around 565.
Samson A. Jenekhe
Samson A. Jenekhe is a Nigerian-born chemical engineer and professor at the University of Washington, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for OLED materials.
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής)
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής), Milton's 1671 closet tragedy published with Paradise Regained, retells Judges 13–16 in Greek tragic form with a chorus, blind Samson in Gaza, and no stage performance until Poel's 1900 production.
Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
Samson and Delilah (1949) is Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount Technicolor biblical epic starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, based on Judges 13-16 and Jabotinsky's novel; it was 1950's biggest hit and won two color Oscars.
Samson and the Lion
Samson and the Lion is a bronze sculptural model showing Samson astride a lion, forcing its jaws apart with his bare hands; many casts survive, most used as inkwells.
Samson Dauda
Samson Dauda, the Nigerian Lion, is a British-Nigerian IFBB Pro bodybuilder, 2024 Mr. Olympia winner and 2023 Arnold Classic champion, who placed second at the 2026 Mr. Olympia.
Samson H. Chowdhury
Samson H. Chowdhury (স্যামসন এইচ চৌধুরী; 1925–2012) was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur who founded Square Pharmaceuticals in 1958 with three friends and built Square Group into one of Bangladesh's largest conglomerates, the country's leading drugmaker since 1985.
Samson I Solar Energy Center
Samson I Solar Energy Center is a 250 MW utility-scale solar farm in northeast Texas, the first phase of Invenergy's Samson Solar Energy Center, operating since 2023.
Samson Occom
Samson Occom (1723–1792), Mohegan Presbyterian minister and fund-raiser for Dartmouth College, author of A Short Narrative of My Life and the Moses Paul execution sermon, and founder of the Brothertown Indian community.
Samson Option
Samson Option: Israel's hypothesized last-resort doctrine of massive nuclear retaliation if the state faces destruction, tied to its amimut nuclear ambiguity policy; named for the biblical Samson and popularized by Seymour Hersh's 1991 book.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) was a German rabbi who founded Neo-Orthodoxy, combining strict Jewish law observance with engagement in European culture, and led Frankfurt's Orthodox congregation from 1851.
Samson Shatashvili
Samson Shatashvili is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who holds a chair at Trinity College Dublin and won the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
Samson Slaying a Philistine
Samson Slaying a Philistine is a monumental marble sculpture by Giambologna, carved in Florence around 1560 to 1562 and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Samson T. Jacob
Samson T. Jacob is a molecular biologist known for work on mammalian RNA polymerases, RNA processing, and transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in liver cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.