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Sumner Byron Myers
Sumner Byron Myers (1910–1955) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who proved the 1941 Bonnet–Myers theorem, showing that positive Ricci curvature makes a complete Riemannian manifold compact.
Sumner H. Slichter
Sumner H. Slichter (1892–1959) was an American labor economist at Harvard University, president of the American Economic Association in 1940–41 and the first Thomas W. Lamont University Professor.
Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kansas)
Sumner High School was a public high school in Kansas City, Kansas, that operated from 1905 to 1978 as the only legislated African American high school in Kansas.
Sumner High School (St. Louis)
Sumner High School is a St. Louis public high school founded in 1875, the first Black public high school west of the Mississippi River, whose alumni include Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, and Arthur Ashe.
Sumner Paine
Sumner Paine (1868-1904), American shooter and Harvard-trained physician, won 1896 Olympic gold in 30 m free pistol (442 points) and silver in 25 m military pistol (380), competing with brother John Paine.
Sumner Redstone
Sumner Redstone (Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), American media mogul who built National Amusements' drive-in theaters into control of Viacom, Paramount Pictures, and CBS; coined 'content is king'; succeeded by daughter Shari Redstone.
Sumner Tunnel
The Sumner Tunnel is a mile-long vehicular tunnel under Boston Harbor connecting East Boston with downtown Boston, opened on June 30, 1934, as Massachusetts' first traffic tunnel.
Sumner White
Sumner Wheeler White III (1929-1988), American sailor and investment banker; with twin brother Ed won 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold in the 5.5-metre class aboard Complex II, helmed by Britton Chance.
Sumnima
Sumnima (सुम्निमा) is a 1970 Nepali-language novel by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Nepal's first elected prime minister, following a Brahmin youth and a Kirat woman whose conflicting worldviews drive the story.
Sumo (film)
Sumo (சுமோ) is a 2025 Tamil sports comedy directed by S. P. Hosimin, starring Shiva, Priya Anand, and real retired sumo wrestler Yoshinori Tashiro. Shot in 2019, delayed five years, released 25 April 2025; a memory-lost sumo wrestler washes ashore near Chennai.
Sumo (相撲)
Sumo (相撲), Japan's national sport, is 1,500-year-old full-contact wrestling in a clay dohyo ring, governed by the Japan Sumo Association with six 15-day tournaments, about 700 rikishi, and the undemotable yokozuna rank.
Sumo Digital
Sumo Digital: British video game developer founded in Sheffield in 2003, Tencent-owned since 2022 ($1.3 billion Sumo Group deal). Known for Sackboy: A Big Adventure, LittleBigPlanet 3, Crackdown 3, and Sonic racing games; now a co-development services studio.
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a proprietary, SaaS-only log analytics and observability platform that collects, indexes, and analyzes logs, metrics, and telemetry for engineering and security teams.
SUMO1
SUMO1, the small ubiquitin-like modifier 1 gene, encodes an 11 kDa ubiquitin-like protein attached to target proteins in SUMOylation, which regulates nuclear transport, transcription, and DNA repair.
Sumona Chakravarti
Sumona Chakravarti (born 1988, Lucknow) is an Indian actress known as Natasha Kapoor in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain and for comic roles on Kapil Sharma's shows; films include Mann, Barfi!, and Kick.
SUMOylation enzymes
SUMOylation enzymes: the E1 SAE1/UBA2, E2 Ubc9, E3 ligases (PIAS, RanBP2/Nup358, Pc2/CBX4, ZNF451, TOPORS), and SENP proteases that attach and remove SUMO from proteins, regulating DNA repair, immunity, and cancer.
Sump
A sump is a pit or low space that collects liquid, usually water that drains in by gravity before being pumped out, as in a basement sump pump pit.
Sump (cave)
Sump (cave): a completely water-filled section of cave passage, also called a siphon. Passed by breath-hold free diving or cave diving; Pozo Azul Sump 2 (5,160 m) is the longest known.
Sump pump
A sump pump is an automatic water pump in a sump pit set into a basement or crawlspace floor, pumping collected groundwater away from the building.
Sump recirculation
Sump recirculation is the long-term phase of emergency core cooling in a nuclear power plant, in which pumps draw water collected in the containment sump and return it to the reactor core.
SUMPAC
SUMPAC, short for Southampton University Man Powered Aircraft, was a pedal-powered aircraft that made the first authenticated human-powered flight, piloted by Derek Piggott in November 1961.
Sumptuary law
Sumptuary laws regulate private expenditure, especially luxury dress, assigning consumption by rank. From ancient Sparta and Rome to medieval Italian and English statutes, enforcement was weak, and their legacy is luxury taxes.
Sumqayıt
Sumqayıt FK, Azerbaijani Premier League football club from Sumqayıt (Sumgayit). Runs a U-9 to U-19 academy under German director Hakan Sünal; 8th in 2024/25 with 33 points; venues SOCAR Polymer Arena and Mehdi Hüseynzadə City Stadium.
Sumra dynasty
The Sumra dynasty (سومرا خاندان) was the house that ruled Lower Sindh, in present-day Pakistan, for roughly three centuries from the eleventh century before the Sammas supplanted it.
Sums of powers
Sums of powers, also called power sums, are expressions writing a positive integer as a sum of k-th powers of integers, central to Waring's problem and Faulhaber's formula.
Sumska Oblast
Sumska Oblast (Сумська область, Sumy Oblast), Ukrainian province centered on Sumy, created 10 January 1939 from Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Poltava raions; borders Russia; population 1,034,364 (2022).
Sumskyi Raion
Sumskyi Raion, also known as Sumy Raion, is a district of Sumy Oblast in northeastern Ukraine with its center in Sumy; it borders Russia and is the oblast's most populous raion.
Sumter County, Florida, United States
Sumter County, Florida, a central Florida county established January 8, 1853 from Marion County, named for Gen. Thomas Sumter; county seat Bushnell since 1912; home to most of The Villages.
Sumter, South Carolina
Sumter, South Carolina: county seat of Sumter County, founded as Sumterville in 1800 and renamed Sumter in 1855. Home of Shaw Air Force Base (est. 1941), population 43,463 in 2020, first US city with council-manager government (1912).
Sumu-abum
Sumu-abum (Sûmû-abum) was an Amorite tribal and military leader who conquered northern Babylonia and the Lower Diyala region around 1890–1860 BCE, later counted as the first king of Babylon's First Dynasty.