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Sunda Trench

Sunda Trench, also called Java Trench: oceanic trench south and west of Sumatra and Java in the eastern Indian Ocean, over 3200 km long, maximum depth 7290 m, formed by Indo-Australian Plate subduction at 60–73 mm/yr.

Sundae

A sundae, also known as an ice cream sundae and written 圣代 in Chinese, is an ice cream dessert with syrup, whipped cream, nuts, or fruit, named after "Sunday".

Sundaland

Sundaland: Southeast Asian biogeographical subregion on the Sunda Shelf, covering the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Palawan; a biodiversity hotspot exposed as one landmass during glacial sea-level lowstands and bounded by Wallace's Line.

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is an annual January festival for independent film founded by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, held in Park City, Utah, and moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027.

Sundance Kid

Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh), American outlaw (1867-1908) and sidekick of Butch Cassidy in the Wild Bunch; named for Sundance, Wyoming jail term; fled to Argentina 1901; died in San Vicente, Bolivia, 1908.

Sundance Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort (Sundance Resort) is Robert Redford's ski resort and arts retreat in Provo Canyon, Utah, founded in 1969 on former Timp Haven land, birthplace of the Sundance Institute, sold in 2020, independent of Epic and Ikon passes.

Sundanese literature

Sundanese literature is the oral and written literature of the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia, spanning Old Sundanese manuscripts, oral pantun, Islamic verse, and modern print.

Sundanese people

Sundanese (orang Sunda), the second largest ethnic group of Indonesia at 15.5% in 2010, inhabit West Java and Banten (Pasundan/Tatar Sunda), speak the Sundanese language, are mostly Muslim, and farm wet rice traditionally timed by the pranata mangsa calendar.

Sundar C. (சுந்தர் சி.)

Sundar C. (சுந்தர் சி.), born 1968 in Erode, is a Tamil film director, actor, and producer with over 32 films including Arunachalam, Anbe Sivam, and the Aranmanai horror-comedy franchise; he lost the 2026 Madurai Central assembly race.

Sundar Jagannath

Sundar Jagannath is a hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma specialist who is Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and led the STORM trial of selinexor.

Sundar Pichai (சுந்தர் பிச்சை)

Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundararajan) is an Indian-American business executive who joined Google in 2004, led Chrome, and became CEO of Google in 2015 and Alphabet in 2019.

Sundar Raj (ಸುಂದರ್ ರಾಜ್)

Sundar Raj (ಸುಂದರ್ ರಾಜ್), also Sundara Rajan, is a veteran Kannada film actor who debuted in 1967 with Immadi Pulikeshi, has 100-plus films, and is the husband of Pramila Joshai and father of actress Meghana Raj.

Sundara Kanda (सुन्दरकाण्ड)

Sundara Kanda (सुन्दरकाण्ड), the fifth book of Valmiki's Ramayana, narrates Hanuman's leap to Lanka, his meeting with Sita, and the burning of Lanka; 68 sargas, about 2,885 verses, near the epic's midpoint, and widely recited devotionally.

Sundara Pandya IV

Sundara Pandya IV, also styled Jatavarman Sundara Pandya, was a Pandya co-ruler of southern India in the early 1300s, a son of Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I who fought a succession war against his brother Vira Pandya.

Sundarakanda (సుందరకాండ) (2025 film)

Sundarakanda (సుందరకాండ) is a 2025 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Venkatesh Nimmalapudi, starring Nara Rohith, Sridevi Vijaykumar, and Virti Vaghani; released 27 August 2025, streamed on JioHotstar from 23 September 2025, earning about ₹5.78 crore net in India.

Sundaram Industries

Sundaram Industries is an Indian manufacturer of rubber products, solid tires, and defense solutions, founded in 1943 by T V Sundram Iyengar and part of the TVS Mobility Group.

Sundaram Master (film)

Sundaram Master (సుందరం మాస్టర్) is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Kalyan Santhosh, starring Harsha Chemudu in his lead debut as an English teacher sent to the isolated village Miryalametta, produced by Ravi Teja, released 23 February 2024.

Sundarapandian

Sundarapandian (சுந்தரபாண்டியன்) is a 2012 Tamil comedy drama directed by debutant S. R. Prabhakaran, produced by and starring M. Sasikumar with Lakshmi Menon; released 14 September 2012, it won Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and was remade in Kannada with Yash.

Sundarar

Sundarar (சுந்தரர்), also called Sundaramurthi, was a Tamil Shaiva poet-saint of the 8th century who drew up the first known list of the 63 Nayanar saints.

Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar

Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar is a computer scientist who works on distributed sensor networks and digital forensics at Florida International University, best known as co-inventor of the Brooks–Iyengar algorithm, a fault-tolerant sensor fusion method.

Sundarban Wetland

Sundarban Wetland, Ramsar Site no. 2370, is India's 423,000 ha Ramsar wetland in West Bengal, designated 30 January 2019 within the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, home to Royal Bengal tigers and four million resource-dependent people.

Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান)

Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান), West Bengal, India: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 in the world's largest mangrove forest, core of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, home of swimming Bengal tigers.

Sundardas

Sundardas (सुंदरदास, 1596–1689) was a Hindi sant poet of the Dadu Panth, Dadu Dayal's foremost scholarly disciple, based at Fatehpur in Rajasthan and author of the Jnana-Samudra of 1653.

Sundaresh Menon

Sundaresh Menon, Singapore's fourth Chief Justice (6 November 2012 to 26 February 2027), former sixth Attorney-General, Rajah & Tann managing partner, and reformer of the Family Justice Courts, SICC, and Appellate Division.

Sundari (சுந்தரி) (Tamil TV series)

Sundari (சுந்தரி) is an Indian Tamil-language family drama series that aired on Sun TV from 2021, starring Gabriella Sellus as a village woman pursuing her ambition.

Sundarika-Bhāradvāja

Sundarika-Bhāradvāja (सुन्दरिकभारद्वाज) was a brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan in Kosala, named for the river Sundarikā where he performed fire rites, who questioned the Buddha about offerings, took ordination, and became an arahant.

Sundarīnandā

Sundarīnandā, Tibetan མཛེས་དགའ་མོ་, is an elder nun (therī) of early Buddhism, honored as foremost of nuns in meditative power and counted among the Buddha's female kin.

Sunday

Sunday, known in Hindi as Ravivar, is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday, named for the Sun and observed by Christians as the Lord's Day.

Sunday (2008 film)

Sunday (2008) is a Hindi comedy thriller directed by Rohit Shetty, a remake of the Telugu Anukokunda Oka Roju, starring Ajay Devgn, Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi, and Irrfan Khan; released 25 January 2008, it earned 20.30 crore net in India and flopped.

Sunday (Honkai: Star Rail)

Sunday (星期日) is a 5-star Imaginary Harmony support in Honkai: Star Rail, former Oak Family head and Robin's brother, who debuted in Version 2.7 (December 2024) on the Astral Express, granting 100% action advance, energy regeneration, and summon-targeted buffs.