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Sundo
Sundo (순도; 順道, Chinese Shundao) was a monk sent by Fu Jian of Former Qin to the Goguryeo court in 372, carrying a Buddha statue and sutras, in the mission that introduced Buddhism to Korea.
Sundoro
Sundoro (Gunung Sundoro, also Sindoro or Sindara) is a symmetrical active stratovolcano, 3,149 m, in Central Java, Indonesia, between the Dieng complex and Sumbing; last erupted 1971, with twelve eruptive groups since 34 ka.
Sundown town
Sundown town, also called sunset town: a US community that deliberately kept itself all white by expelling or excluding Black people and other minorities, mainly 1890–1970, concentrated in the Midwest and West rather than the South.
Sundowning
Sundowning (sundown syndrome, late-day confusion): emergence or worsening of confusion, agitation, aggression, and wandering in dementia patients in late afternoon and evening; prevalence 1.6-66%, circadian mechanisms, non-drug management first.
Sune Andersson
Sune Isidor "Mona-Lisa" Andersson (1921-2002), Swedish footballer for AIK and AS Roma; Olympic gold 1948 London, World Cup bronze 1950, 28 Sweden caps, AIK captain 1948-50.
Sune K. Bergström
Sune K. Bergström (1916–2004) was a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating prostaglandins and determining their chemical structures.
Sune Kvist
Sune Kvist is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for his 1985 Cell paper showing that an adenovirus type 2 glycoprotein blocks MHC class I expression at the cell surface.
Sune Theodorsen
Sune Theodorsen, born 1980, is a Danish entrepreneur who co-founded LifeX, a Copenhagen coliving company renting furnished rooms across European cities, in 2017 with Ritu Jain.
Suneeta Krishnan
Suneeta Krishnan is a social epidemiologist whose research shows how poverty and gender inequity drive domestic violence and HIV risk among women in India; she received the 2004 PECASE award.
Sunehade
Sunehade ("Messages") is a 1955 Punjabi poetry anthology by Amrita Pritam, dominated by love poetry, that won her the Sahitya Akademi Award of India for 1956.
Suneil Setiya
Suneil Setiya is a British quantitative trader who co-founded the London systematic trading firm Quadrature Capital and funds climate philanthropy through the Quadrature Climate Foundation.
Sunet Mound
Sunet Mound, an ancient settlement mound at Sunet village, Ludhiana district, Punjab, India; a centrally protected ASI site occupied from Late Harappan (c. 1800 BC) to early Medieval times, excavated 1983-84 with coins, seals, and figurines.
Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta is a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, known for modeling pathogen strains and for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration.
Sunetra Pawar
Sunetra Pawar, born 1963, is an Indian Nationalist Congress Party politician serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the first woman to hold the office, and the party's national president.
Sunetra Sarker
Sunetra Sarker (born 1973), British actress from Liverpool, not the IIT Madras aerospace professor Sunetra Sarkar. Known for Nisha Batra in Brookside, Anji Mittel in No Angels, Zoe Hanna in Casualty (339 episodes), and RTS-award-winning Kaneez Paracha in Ackley Bridge; Loose Women panellist.
Suneva Medical
Suneva Medical was a San Diego, California medical technology company known for the Bellafill dermal filler, whose select product assets were acquired by Tiger Aesthetics Medical in 2024.
SUNeVision
SUNeVision (新意网集团, stock code 1686) is a Hong Kong data center operator and the city's largest carrier-neutral provider, operating as the technology arm of Sun Hung Kai Properties since 2000.
SunExpress
SunExpress, legally Güneş Ekspres Havacılık A.Ş., is a Turkish leisure airline headquartered in Antalya and owned equally by Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, flying European routes to Türkiye since 1990.
Sunfeast
Sunfeast is ITC Limited's Indian packaged-food brand, launched July 2003 with glucose, Marie, and cream biscuits; now a Rs.2,500+ crore brand spanning biscuits, Dark Fantasy cookies, YiPPee! noodles (No. 2 in India), pasta, and cakes.
Sunfire (character)
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida), Marvel Comics Japanese mutant hero created by Roy Thomas and Don Heck, debuting in X-Men #64 (1970); plasma powers, Hiroshima-linked origin, X-Men, Big Hero 6, and Famine.
Sunfish (ROV)
Sunfish, nicknamed Little Sunfish, is a small underwater ROV built by Toshiba that in July 2017 became the first robot deployed inside a flooded Fukushima Daiichi reactor containment vessel.
Sunflower (2005 film)
Sunflower (向日葵, Xiang ri kui) is Zhang Yang's 2005 Mandarin family drama about a Beijing father-son conflict across 1976, 1987, and 1999, starring Sun Haiying and Joan Chen, a San Sebastián Best Director winner.
Sunflower (Post Malone and Swae Lee song)
Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) is a 2018 Post Malone and Swae Lee single, a Billboard Hot 100 number one and the first RIAA Double-Diamond certified single.
Sunflower (The Beach Boys album)
Sunflower (1970) is the Beach Boys' 16th studio album, their first on Brother/Reprise. It flopped at No. 151 on Billboard but earned strong reviews and later ranked No. 66 in a 1997 critics' all-time list.
Sunflower (सनफ्लावर) (web series)
Sunflower (सनफ्लॉवर) is a ZEE5 Hindi crime-comedy web series created by Vikas Bahl, starring Sunil Grover as suspect Sonu Singh in a Mumbai housing-society murder case. Two seasons (2021, 2024), 16 episodes, IMDb 7.4/10; Season 3 unconfirmed.
Sunflower Capital
Sunflower Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm in West Hollywood, California, founded in 2022 by former Sequoia Capital partner Liu Jiang. Its second fund raised $150 million in April 2025.
Sunflower Garden
Sunflower Garden (百万葵园, Million Sunflower Garden), Guangzhou: China's first and largest sunflower-themed park, opened April 2002 in Nansha's Xinken, 26 hectares, about one million sunflowers; closed August 27, 2024 amid rent arrears and lost 4A rating.
Sunflower lecithin
Sunflower lecithin is a phospholipid emulsifier extracted from sunflower seeds, a non-GMO, soy-free alternative to soy lecithin; recognized as GRAS in FDA notices GRN 939 (2021) and GRN 1267 (2026).
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil, also called sunflower seed oil, is the vegetable oil pressed from sunflower seeds, making up about 9 percent of global vegetable oil production.
Sunflower sea star
Sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a 15-24-armed northeast Pacific kelp-forest predator from Alaska to Baja California; lost about 90% of its population to sea star wasting disease from 2013 and is IUCN Critically Endangered.