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Suzzanne Douglas
Suzzanne Douglas (1957–2021) was an American actress of film, television, and stage, best known as Jerri Peterson on The Parent 'Hood and for Tap (1989).
SV Angel
SV Angel is a San Francisco seed venture capital firm founded in 2009 by angel investor Ron Conway, with early positions in Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox.
Sv Angel Ascent
SV Angel Ascent is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded by Ronny Conway, whose first fund reported $430 million raised from 27 investors in December 2025.
SV Biotech Crossover Opportunities Fund
SV Biotech Crossover Opportunities Fund (SV BCOF) is a UK limited partnership formed in 2021 to make growth-stage biotechnology investments, managed by SV Health Managers LLP from London.
SV Darmstadt 98
SV Darmstadt 98, known as the Lilies, is a German football club from Darmstadt, Hesse, that has played five Bundesliga seasons and hosts matches at the Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor.
SV Vulpeculae
SV Vulpeculae is a classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Vulpecula, with a pulsation period of about 45 days and a distance of about 2.5 kpc.
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen, German Bundesliga club founded 1899 on Bremen's Stadtwerder; four league titles, six DFB-Pokal wins, 1992 Cup Winners' Cup; plays at the Weserstadion, coached by Daniel Thioune since February 2026.
SV-98 (СВ-98)
The SV-98 is a Russian 7.62 mm bolt-action sniper rifle developed at the Izhmash plant in Izhevsk by Vladimir Stronskiy and adopted in 2003 as a precision alternative to the SVD.
SV.League
SV.League (SVリーグ), Daido Life SV.League, Japan's top volleyball league launched October 2024 from the V.League; 10 men's clubs in 2025-26, targeting world's No.1 league by 2030.
SV2A
SV2A (synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A) is a 12-transmembrane synaptic vesicle protein, the only ubiquitous SV2 family paralog in adult brain, target of levetiracetam and brivaracetam, and a PET biomarker of synaptic density.
SV40
SV40 (simian virus 40), a monkey polyomavirus discovered in 1960, contaminated some 1955-1963 polio vaccines; it is oncogenic in rodents but IARC Group 3 for humans.
Svadhishthana (स्वाधिष्ठान)
Svadhishthana (स्वाधिष्ठान), also known as the sacral chakra, is the second of six chakras in Hindu tantra, a vermilion six-petalled lotus whose element is water.
Svakom
Svakom is an American sexual wellness device manufacturer founded in 2012 by David Yu, known for app-controlled vibrators and the Siime Eye, described as the first vibrator with an internal camera.
Sval Energi
Sval Energi was a privately owned Norwegian oil and gas exploration and production company based in Stavanger, backed by HitecVision from 2019 and acquired by DNO ASA in 2025.
Svalbard
Svalbard, historically Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian Arctic archipelago more than 800 km north of the mainland, placed under Norwegian sovereignty by the Svalbard Treaty of 1920.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Svalbard og Jan Mayen), ISO code SJ, are the two Norwegian territories outside the counties: Svalbard under the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, Jan Mayen an island north of Iceland not covered by it.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the Doomsday Vault: Norway's Arctic backup seed repository opened 26 February 2008, managed with NordGen and Crop Trust, holding 1,401,285 samples at −18 °C with a 4.5 million capacity.
Svalbard Treaty
Svalbard Treaty (Spitsbergen Treaty, Svalbardtraktaten), signed Paris 9 February 1920, in force 14 August 1925: recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard while granting signatory states equal economic rights and restricting military use.
Svanen (crane vessel)
Svanen is a Dutch-owned catamaran floating crane vessel built in 1990 for bridge construction and dedicated since 2005 to installing monopile foundations for offshore wind farms.
Svante
Svante, formerly Inventys Thermal Technologies, is a Canadian carbon capture company in Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 2007 to capture CO₂ from industrial flue gas and air.
Svante Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish physical chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic theory of dissociation, the first Swede to win a Nobel Prize.
Svante Ingelsson
Svante Ulf Ingel Ingelsson (born 1998, Kalmar) is a Swedish central midfielder at Stoke City. Formerly Kalmar FF, Udinese, Pescara, SC Paderborn, Hansa Rostock, and Sheffield Wednesday's 2025/26 Player of the Season; Sweden U17-U21 youth international.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and 2022 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, founder of paleogenomics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; sequenced the Neanderthal genome, discovered the Denisovans, and showed ~2% Neanderthal DNA in modern non-Africans.
Svante Thunberg
Svante Fritz Vilhelm Ernman Thunberg, born 1969, Swedish actor, producer, and author; son of actors Olof Thunberg and Mona Andersson, husband of opera singer Malena Ernman, and father of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Svapnavasavadatta
Svapnavasavadatta (स्वप्नवासवदत्तम्, "the dream of Vasavadatta"), also called Svapnanatakam, is a Sanskrit drama attributed to Bhasa about King Udayana, Vasavadatta, and Padmavati, published in 1912 among the thirteen Trivandrum plays.
Svara (स्वर)
Svara (स्वर) is the Indian classical music term for a musical note: one of seven named degrees, sa ri ga ma pa dha ni, defined relative to a movable tonic and shaped by raga-specific ornamentation, distinct from the 22 microtonal shrutis.
Svarna bhasma
Svarna bhasma (Swarna/Suvarna Bhasma), calcined gold ash of Ayurvedic Rasashastra, used for tuberculosis, diabetes, arthritis, and nervous diseases and in child Suvarnaprashana; nanoparticulate gold, doses 15–240 mg, variable gold content, contested pediatric safety.
Svarnamaksika bhasma
Svarnamaksika bhasma (Swarnamakshika bhasma), an Ayurvedic calcined preparation of chalcopyrite (copper pyrite, CuFeS2), a Maharasa mineral purified by shodhana and incinerated by marana, used classically for fever, anemia, diabetes, and insomnia.
Svarnavanga
Svarnavanga (Swarna Vanga, Svarṇa Vaṅga) is an Ayurvedic tin-sulfur-mercury medicine used since the 14th century for diabetes, urinary, and respiratory disorders; rat studies found no tissue toxicity at therapeutic doses.
Svarog Patera
Svarog Patera, a 124-km volcanic patera on Jupiter's moon Io at 48.66°S, 265.74°W; IAU-approved 1979, named for the Russian smith god; a recorded volcanic hot spot.