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Sunflower seed

Sunflower seed, the achene of Helianthus annuus, domesticated once in eastern North America ~4,000-5,000 years ago; eaten as snack and birdseed, pressed for oil high in linoleic acid; major producers Ukraine and Russia.

Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower Seeds (葵花籽, Kui Hua Zi) is Ai Weiwei's 2010 Tate Modern Turbine Hall installation of about 100 million handmade, hand-painted porcelain seeds, 150 tons, made by 1,600 Jingdezhen workers over two years.

Sunflower Student Movement (太阳花学运)

Sunflower Student Movement (太阳花学运), Taiwan's 24-day 2014 student occupation of the Legislative Yuan against the CSSTA trade pact with China; blocked ratification, preceded the Umbrella Movement, and reshaped Taiwan's politics.

Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)

Sunflowers (Van Gogh series): seven Arles vase paintings, 1888-1889, made for Paul Gauguin's visit; five in museums in London, Amsterdam, Munich, Philadelphia, Tokyo; chrome yellow degradation and conservation.

Sung Anh (안성재)

Sung Anh (안성재, Anh Sung-jae or Ahn Sung-jae) is a Korean-American chef, owner-chef of Mosu Seoul, three Michelin stars in 2023, and judge on Netflix's Culinary Class Wars.

Sung Cheng-Huan

Sung Cheng-Huan (宋政桓), known as Reiny Song, is a Taiwanese software engineer who co-founded the Taipei anti-fraud company Gogolook in 2012, serving as chief technology officer.

Sung Dong-il (성동일)

Sung Dong-il (성동일), born 1967, is a South Korean actor known for the Reply series, Pawn (2020), Dad Where Are We Going?, and House on Wheels, with upcoming roles in Star of Shanghai and Married Woman Killer.

Sung Gap Im

Sung Gap Im (임성갑) is a South Korean polymer engineer and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for initiated chemical vapor deposition of polymer films and synthetic stem-cell culture surfaces.

Sung Jin-woo (성진우)

Sung Jin-woo (성진우), Shun Mizushino in the Japanese anime, is the protagonist of Solo Leveling: an E-rank Hunter called humanity's weakest who gains the System, levels up alone, and becomes the Shadow Monarch.

Sung Joon

Sung Joon (성준), birth name Bang Sung-Joon (방성준), born 1990, is a South Korean model-turned-actor known for Shut Up Flower Boy Band, Discovery of Love, Pluto, The Villainess, and The Fiery Priest 2, with KBS 2012 and SBS 2024 drama awards.

Sung Kang

Sung Kang (성강, Kang Sung-Ho), born 1972, Korean-American actor known as Han Lue in the Fast & Furious films, Better Luck Tomorrow, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and director of Shaky Shivers and Drifter.

Sung Kyu Park

Sung Kyu Park (박성규) is a South Korean electrical engineer and professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, best known for the 2012 Nature paper on room-temperature flexible metal-oxide electronics.

Sung Wan Kim

Sung Wan Kim (1940–2020) was a Korean-born American pharmaceutics scientist at the University of Utah, a pioneer of controlled drug delivery elected to both national academies.

Sung Wng Kim

Sung Wng Kim is a South Korean materials chemist, professor of energy science at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, known for electride chemistry and record thermoelectric materials.

Sung Yu-ri

Sung Yu-ri (성유리), born 1981, is a South Korean actress and singer who debuted in 1998 with the girl group Fin.K.L, then built a two-decade acting career in Korean television dramas.

Sung-mun Song

Sung-mun Song (송성문), born 1996 in Seoul, is a South Korean infielder who played 2015-2025 for the Kiwoom Heroes in the KBO, won the 2025 KBO Player of the Year, then signed a four-year, $16 million deal with the San Diego Padres and debuted in MLB on April 26, 2026.

Sung‐Ho Jin

Sung-Ho Jin (진성호) is a South Korean polymer chemist and professor of chemistry education at Pusan National University, known for OLED light-emitting polymers and hole-transport materials for perovskite solar cells.

Sung‐Hou Kim

Sung-Hou Kim (김성호), born 1937, is a Korean-American structural biologist at UC Berkeley known for crystal structures of transfer RNA and the Ras cancer protein.

Sung‐Yeon Jang

Sung-Yeon Jang (장성연) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at UNIST since 2019, known for an 18.1% quantum-dot solar cell efficiency record and thermoelectric materials that turn body heat into electricity.

Sung‐Yoon Chung

Sung-Yoon Chung (정성윤) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for linking iridium oxide crystal structure to catalyst durability in acid.

Sungai Buloh

Sungai Buloh is a town and mukim in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. Known for the 1930 leprosy settlement (Valley of Hope), Hospital Sungai Buloh, KTM/MRT interchange, and industrial property market.

Sungai Petani

Sungai Petani (SP) is an industrial city in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia, the state's second largest city. Municipal population 545,053 (2020); grew from rubber plantations to industry via KSDC and Penang spillover.

Sungai Ujong

Sungai Ujong, also written Sungei Ujong, is one of the four customary luak of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, whose chief town is Seremban. It appears in the Javanese Nagarakartagama of 1365.

Sungai Ujong War

The Sungai Ujong War (Perang Sungai Ujong) was an 1875 conflict in Sungai Ujong, Malaysia, caused by opposition to the British Resident and ending in Yamtuan Antah's defeat.

Sungari Vallis

Sungari Vallis, a medium-sized fluvial channel on Mars between Dao and Harmakhis Valles near Hellas; shallow, narrow valley hundreds of km long, with last fluvial resurfacing dated 350-750 Ma (Amazonian).

Sungazer (album)

Sungazer (album) is the 2026 fourth studio album by Australian indie rock band The Temper Trap, released 10 July 2026 on Mushroom Music; 11 songs, 46 minutes; first album in a decade, distinct from the Sungazer jazz duo.

Sungchan

Sungchan (Jung Sungchan, 정성찬), born 2001 in Seoul, is a South Korean rapper in SM Entertainment's boy group RIIZE; he debuted in NCT in 2020 and re-debuted with RIIZE's 2023 "Get A Guitar."

SungEel HiTech

SungEel HiTech (성일하이텍) is a South Korean battery recycling company founded in 2000, recovering nickel, cobalt, and lithium from used batteries at facilities across six countries.

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is Singapore's first ASEAN Heritage Park, a 202-hectare wetland reserve in northwest Singapore with mangroves, mudflats and over 200 bird species, opened in 1993 and gazetted in 2002.

Sungevity

Sungevity was an American residential solar company founded in Oakland, California in 2007, a pioneer of pay-as-you-go solar leases that filed for bankruptcy in 2017.