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Samudera Pasai
Samudera Pasai was an Islamic sultanate and pepper port on Sumatra's north coast, founded in the thirteenth century and regarded as the first Islamic kingdom in the Malay archipelago.
Samudragupta
Samudragupta, second Gupta emperor (c. 335/350–370/380 CE), called the Napoleon of India; son of Chandragupta I, conqueror of Aryavarta and the south, known chiefly from the Allahabad Prasasti of Harisena.
Samudragupta's Aryavarta campaign
Samudragupta's Aryavarta campaign (आर्यावर्त विजय) was a series of wars in which Gupta emperor Samudragupta uprooted the kings of north India and annexed their kingdoms.
Samudragupta's defeat of Vishnugopa of Kanchi
Samudragupta's defeat of Vishnugopa of Kanchi (विष्णुगोप) was the Gupta emperor's capture and release of the Pallava king Vishnugopa at Kanchi, recorded in the Allahabad Pillar inscription.
Samudragupta's southern campaign (Dakshinapatha campaign)
Samudragupta's southern campaign, the Dakshinapatha campaign, was a Gupta expedition through the eastern Deccan that defeated twelve kings, then liberated and reinstated them for allegiance, recorded in the Prayag Prashasti.
Samuel (animated series)
Samuel: French black-and-white 2D animated series by Émilie Tronche, about a 10-year-old boy's diary in the early 2000s; 21×4' episodes on Arte, viral with 40+ million views, sold to Netflix.
Samuel (name)
Samuel (Hebrew Shemu'el, שְׁמוּאֵל), masculine given name meaning "name of God" or "God has heard"; borne by the biblical last judge and prophet who anointed Saul and David. A top-100 US boys' name since 1880, #18 in 2025.
Samuel (שְׁמוּאֵל)
Samuel (שְׁמוּאֵל, Shemu'el) is a prophet, seer, priest, judge, and military leader of ancient Israel, traditionally dated to the 11th century BCE, who anointed Saul and David as kings.
Samuel (사무엘) (singer)
Samuel (사무엘), Samuel Arredondo Kim, Korean-American singer born 2002 in Los Angeles; 1PUNCH member, Produce 101 Season 2 rank 18, solo debut SIXTEEN (2017), independent since winning 2021 lawsuit against Brave Entertainment.
Samuel A. Bowring
Samuel A. Bowring (1953–2019) was an American geologist and isotope geochronologist, the Robert R. Shrock Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for uranium-lead zircon dating, work on the Cambrian explosion, and the EARTHTIME initiative.
Samuel A. Bozzette
Samuel A. Bozzette is an American infectious diseases physician and health services researcher, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, known for national studies of HIV care in the United States.
Samuel A. Latt
Samuel A. Latt, also known as S A Latt, was an American physician and geneticist at Harvard Medical School who developed fluorescence-based methods for detecting chromosome damage.
Samuel A. Levine
Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966) was an American cardiologist and Harvard professor whose six-grade murmur scale, Levine sign, and early mobilization after heart attack remain part of medicine.
Samuel A. Wells
Samuel A. Wells is an American endocrine surgeon at the National Cancer Institute who pioneered prophylactic thyroidectomy for inherited RET mutations and led the ZETA trial of vandetanib.
Samuel Aba
Samuel Aba (Aba Sámuel), born around 990, was King of Hungary from 1041 to 1044, elected after Peter Orseolo fled, and killed after defeat at Ménfő.
Samuel Achilefu
Samuel Achilefu is a molecular imaging scientist and inaugural chair of Biomedical Engineering at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for Cancer Vision Goggles for image-guided cancer surgery.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (1722-1803), Boston revolutionary leader and cousin of John Adams, organized the first Committee of Correspondence (1772), helped plan the Boston Tea Party, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Samuel Adams (beer)
Samuel Adams (Sam Adams) is a craft beer brand of The Boston Beer Company, founded by Jim Koch in 1984. Flagship Boston Lager debuted in Boston on April 15, 1985; NYSE ticker SAM since 1995.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Samuel Ajayi Crowther, born Ajayi, was a Yoruba Anglican bishop and former slave who in 1864 became the first black bishop in the Anglican Communion, translating the Bible into Yoruba.
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1874 or 1878 to 1937) was a British neurologist, born in New Jersey, whose 1912 description of progressive lenticular degeneration gave medicine Wilson's disease.
Samuel Alfred Mitchell
Samuel Alfred Mitchell was a Canadian-born American astronomer who directed the University of Virginia's Leander McCormick Observatory from 1913 to 1945, led a major stellar parallax program, and observed ten total solar eclipses.
Samuel Alito
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (born 1950, Trenton, NJ) is a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice since 2006, nominated by George W. Bush; author of Dobbs (2022) overturning Roe v. Wade; a self-described practical originalist and consistent conservative voice.
Samuel Anderson (actor)
Samuel Anderson (born 1982, Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English actor, also credited as Sam Anderson, known for Crowther in The History Boys, Ross Kirk in Emmerdale, Danny Pink in Doctor Who (2014), and Mal in Amandaland; distinct from the American actor Sam Anderson of Lost.
Samuel Aparicio
Samuel Aparicio is a molecular pathologist and breast cancer genomicist at BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia, co-leading the METABRIC breast cancer taxonomy study.
Samuel Argall
Samuel Argall (bap. 1580–1626), English sea captain, admiral of Virginia, and deputy governor 1617–1619; abducted Pocahontas in 1613, destroyed French Acadian settlements, and later commanded an Anglo-Dutch fleet against Spain.
Samuel B. Guzé
Samuel B. Guze (1923–2000) was an American psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis who, with Eli Robins and George Winokur, built the medical model of reliable psychiatric diagnosis that shaped the Feighner criteria and DSM-III.
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (1840–1924), American Army general; Civil War cavalry officer, frontier veteran, first Army War College president, and first U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1903–1904).
Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber (1910–1981) was an American composer of tonal, lyrically expressive concert music, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, celebrated for the Adagio for Strings and two Pulitzer Prize-winning works.
Samuel Barnett (actor)
Samuel Barnett (born 1980, Whitby, England) is a British actor known as Posner in The History Boys (Tony and Olivier nominations, Drama Desk Award), the title role in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Twelfth Night on Broadway.
Samuel Baron
Samuel Baron (1928–2015) was an American physician-scientist and virologist who became the recognized leader of interferon research, after twenty years at NIH and chairing Microbiology at UTMB Galveston from 1975 to 1997.