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Samvrutha Sunil

Samvrutha Sunil (സംവൃത സുനിൽ), also credited as Samvritha, is a Malayalam film actress from Kannur, Kerala, born 1986. Debut Rasikan (2004) with Dileep; award-winning roles in Arabikatha, Cocktail; comeback Sathyam Paranja Viswasikkuvo (2019); new 2026 Shahid Arafath film.

Samwell Tarly

Samwell Tarly (Sam) is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by John Bradley. Eldest son of Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill, Night's Watch steward, killer of an Other with dragonglass, and Citadel novice sent by Jon Snow to become Maester Aemon's successor.

Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee is Frodo Baggins's gardener and loyal companion in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the only Fellowship member to reach Mount Doom and back, later Mayor of the Shire, and Tolkien's stated 'chief hero'.

Samy & Sandra Sandoval

Samy & Sandra Sandoval are a brother-and-sister musical duo from Chitré, Panama, known as "Los Patrones de la Cumbia" who perform típico, or pindín, music.

Samy Burch

Samy Burch is an American screenwriter and former casting director whose first produced screenplay, May December (2023), earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Samy Naceri

Samy Naceri (Saïd Naceri, born 1961, Paris) is a French actor famous as taxi driver Daniel Morales in the Taxi saga (1998–2007) and a 2006 Cannes collective acting prize winner for Indigènes, with a career marked by prison terms.

Samy Rivers

Samy Rivers (Rivers), real name Samantha Rivera Treviño, born 1998 in Monterrey, is a Mexican Twitch streamer who started on Facebook Gaming in 2020, won Esports Awards Streamer of the Year 2023 and 2024, and presides over PIO FC in the Kings League.

Samy Suissa

Samy Suissa is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist at McGill University who heads CNODES, a national drug safety network, and is known for studies showing inhaled corticosteroids prevent asthma deaths.

Samyaza

Samyaza, also called Shemhazai or Shemyaza, is the leader of the Watchers in the Book of Enoch, the angel who led 200 angels to father the giants.

Samye Monastery

Samye Monastery (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་, Chinese: 桑耶寺) was the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet, founded in the late 8th century by King Trisong Detsen in the Chimpu Valley of central Tibet.

Samyukta (संयुक्ता)

Samyukta, also known as Sanyogita or Samyogita, is the princess of Kannauj whom the bardic epic Prithviraj Raso presents as King Jaichand's daughter, won by Prithviraj Chauhan at her swayamvara.

Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (संयुक्त महाराष्ट्र समिती)

Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (संयुक्त महाराष्ट्र समिती), founded in Pune on 6 February 1956 under S.M. Joshi, was the multi-party coalition that led the movement for a Marathi-speaking Maharashtra with Mumbai, achieved on 1 May 1960.

Samyuktha Hegde

Samyuktha Hegde (ಸಂಯುಕ್ತ ಹೆಗ್ಡೆ), born 1998 in Bangalore, is an Indian actress who debuted in Kirik Party (2016) and works in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil films including Comali and Kreem.

Samyuktha Varma (സമ്യുക്ത വർമ്മ)

Samyuktha Varma (സമ്യുക്ത വർമ്മ) is an Indian former Malayalam film actress, active 1999–2002, debutant of Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal, winner of two Kerala State Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards South, wife of actor Biju Menon.

San (singer)

San (산, Choi San, 최산), born 1999, is the lead vocalist of the KQ Entertainment boy group ATEEZ, debuting October 2018; known as the group's representative performer despite not being in the official dance line.

San Agustín Archaeological Park

San Agustín Archaeological Park, Huila, Colombia: South America's largest group of megalithic funerary monuments and statues, made 1st-8th century AD, UNESCO World Heritage 1995, ICANH-managed since its 1931 creation.

San Agustin Church (Manila)

San Agustin Church is a Roman Catholic church in Intramuros, Manila, completed in 1607 and the oldest stone church in the Philippines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

San Agustín culture

The San Agustín culture was a pre-Columbian society of chiefdoms in the upper Magdalena River valley in southern Colombia, flourishing from about the 1st to the 9th century AD.

San Agustín stone sculpture

San Agustín stone sculpture is the monumental funerary statuary carved by prehispanic chiefdoms of the upper Magdalena valley in Huila, Colombia, chiefly between 1 and 900 AD.

San Agustinillo

San Agustinillo is a small Pacific beach village in Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico, between Mazunte and Zipolite; a 1.3 km bay beach known for calm swimming, snorkeling with sea turtles, surfing, and nearby olive ridley nesting grounds.

San Alberto Gas Field

San Alberto is a giant onshore natural gas field in the Gran Chaco, Tarija, southern Bolivia, operated by Petrobras Bolivia since commercial production began in 2001.

San Andreas (film)

San Andreas (2015) is a Brad Peyton disaster film starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, and Alexandra Daddario, released May 29, 2015 by Warner Bros., grossing $473 million worldwide; seismologists criticized its magnitude 9.6 quake and tsunami as impossible for the strike-slip San Andreas fault.

San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is the roughly 1,200-kilometer boundary in California where the Pacific Plate slides northwest past the North American Plate, from the Salton Sea to Cape Mendocino.

San Andrés (island)

San Andrés, Colombian coral island in the western Caribbean, largest island of the San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina department; free port since 1953, Raizal Creole-speaking people, Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, over 1.1 million tourists in 2025.

San Angelo Independent School District

San Angelo Independent School District (San Angelo ISD) is a public school district based in San Angelo, Texas, serving Tom Green County in West Texas.

San Angelo, Texas

San Angelo, Texas: county seat of Tom Green County in West Central Texas, founded across the Concho River from Fort Concho (1867). About 100,000 residents; home to Goodfellow Air Force Base and Angelo State University.

San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas: city founded in 1718 as Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, Mission San Antonio de Valero, and Villa de Béxar; five Spanish colonial missions (UNESCO 2015); 2025 population 1,548,422, seventh-largest US city.

San Antonio (1945 film)

San Antonio (1945) is a Warner Bros. Technicolor Western directed by David Butler, starring Errol Flynn as cattleman Clay Hardin and Alexis Smith, with two Oscar nominations and top-twenty 1945 box office.

San Antonio Brahmas

San Antonio Brahmas, a spring football team at the Alamodome; XFL 2023, UFL 2024-2025; 2024 XFL Conference champions and UFL runners-up under Wade Phillips; withdrawn by the UFL after a 1-9 2025 season, with a possible 2028 return.

San Antonio Commanders

San Antonio Commanders, 2019 AAF professional football team at the Alamodome coached by Mike Riley; went 5-3, second in the Western Conference, led the league in attendance, and folded with the AAF in April 2019.