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Svartálfar
Svartálfar (svartálfr, "black elves"; also myrkálfar) are Norse mythological beings of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, dwelling in Svartálfaheimr; in every attestation they are dwarfs, so most scholars treat the term as a synonym for dvergar.
Svasakuthara rasa
Svasakuthara rasa (Shwasakuthara Rasa) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill of purified mercury, sulphur, borax, realgar, aconite, and pungent herbs, used for bronchial asthma and bronchitis; Bhaishajya Ratnavali source, 125 mg dose, mercury safety studied.
Svatopluk
Svatopluk is a heroic epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Hollý, published in 1833 and regarded as the first Slovak national epic about King Svatopluk of Great Moravia.
Svatopluk I
Svatopluk I was the ruler of Great Moravia from 870 or 871 until his death in 894, who defeated the Franks and expanded Moravia to its greatest extent.
Svava Jakobsdóttir
Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004) was an Icelandic author and politician, a pioneer of modernist fiction who wrote Leigjandinn and served in the Althingi from 1971 to 1979.
Svay Rieng
Svay Rieng (ស្វាយរៀង) is a province of far south-east Cambodia, bordered by Vietnam on three sides in the Parrot's Beak salient; it was created in 1922.
SVD (СВД) (rifle)
The SVD (СВД), also known as the SVD Dragunov or Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, is a Soviet semi-automatic sniper rifle designed by Yevgeny Dragunov, chambered in 7.62×54mmR, and adopted in 1963.
Svdden Death b2b Marauda
Svdden Death b2b Marauda is a back-to-back dubstep billing pairing producers SVDDEN DEATH and Marauda as one act, first billed at HARD Summer 2022 and revived at VOYDOME in 2025.
Svdden Death: VOYD
VOYD is the darker alias and art project of American dubstep producer SVDDEN DEATH (Danny Howland), introduced in 2018 with its own EP series, label, and theatrical performances.
Sveaborg rebellion
The Sveaborg rebellion (Свеаборгское восстание) was an armed uprising of about 2,000 soldiers and sailors at the Sveaborg fortress near Helsinki in July 1906, during the Revolution of 1905, ending in surrender after naval bombardment.
Svedberg
The svedberg (S) is a unit of time equal to 10^-13 seconds (100 femtoseconds), used to express sedimentation coefficients and named for Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg, a 1926 Nobel laureate.
Svein Erik Stiansen
Svein Erik Stiansen (Svein-Erik Stiansen), born 1942 in Oslo, is a Norwegian speed skater who set a 176.717-point Big Combination world record in 1968 and placed 7th in the 1,500 m at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics.
Sveinsdóttir (Mercurian crater)
Sveinsdóttir is a roughly 220 km impact crater on Mercury at about 2.6°S, 100°E, named for Icelandic painter Júlíana Sveinsdóttir and crossed by the lobate scarp Beagle Rupes.
Svelte
Svelte is a compiler-based JavaScript framework for building user interfaces, created by Rich Harris around 2016. It compiles components to small vanilla JavaScript instead of shipping a runtime.
Svelte Medical Systems
Svelte Medical Systems was a New Providence, New Jersey medical device company that developed stent-on-a-wire drug-eluting coronary stents, winning FDA approval in 2021 and acquired in 2026.
SvelteKit
SvelteKit is the official full-stack framework for building web applications with the Svelte user-interface library, adding file-based routing, server-side rendering, data loading, form handling, and adapter-based deployment.
Sven Bender
Sven Bender (born 1989), twin of Lars Bender, German defensive midfielder turned centre-back; Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winner with Borussia Dortmund, later Bayer Leverkusen, 7 Germany caps, now a coach.
Sven Cnattingius
Sven Cnattingius is a Swedish reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for large register-based studies of maternal smoking, snus, and obesity in pregnancy.
Sven Delblanc
Sven Delblanc (1931–1992) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and literary historian, known for the Hedeby and Samuel cycles and winner of the 1982 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sven Diederichs
Sven Diederichs is a German molecular biologist and professor at University Hospital Freiburg, known for discovering the long non-coding RNA MALAT1 and for work on microRNAs and FGFR mutations.
Sven Enerbäck
Sven Enerbäck is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for showing in 2009 that adults, like infants, carry active brown fat.
Sven Erik Jørgensen
Sven Erik Jørgensen was a Danish ecologist and chemist who founded the journal Ecological Modelling and won the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize for his work on ecosystems.
Sven Fischer
Sven Fischer (born 1971, Schmalkalden) is a retired German biathlete, Torino 2006 sprint Olympic champion, with 8 Olympic and 20 World Championship medals, two overall World Cup titles, and a long ZDF broadcasting career.
Sven Forssman
Sven Otto Forssman (1882-1919), Swedish artistic gymnast from Göteborg; won Olympic gold in the men's team event (Swedish system) at London 1908, Sweden scoring 438 of 480 points.
Sven H. Borho, CFA
Sven H. Borho is a German-trained investment manager who co-founded OrbiMed, a healthcare investment firm, serving as Managing Partner and head of public equity until his 2026 departure.
Sven Hannawald
Sven Hannawald (born Sven Pöhler, 1974), German ski jumper, first to win all four events of the Four Hills Tournament (Grand Slam 2001/02), 2002 Olympic team champion, two-time ski flying world champion, retired 2005 after burnout.
Sven Hedin
Sven Hedin (1865–1952) was a Swedish geographer and travel writer who spent nearly 20 years exploring Central Asia and Tibet, mapping unexplored regions and writing some 65 books.
Sven Holm
Sven Holm (1940–2019) was a Danish author and dramatist who wrote for over fifty years, best known internationally for the 1967 post-apocalyptic novel Termush, Atlanterhavskysten.
Sven Johansson
Sven Johansson names several Swedish Olympians: canoeist Sven Bertil Johansson (1936 folding kayak gold), ice hockey great Sven Tumba, cyclist Svängis Johansson, and shooter Sven Johansson (1980 bronze).
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer (born 1986, Heerenveen), Dutch long track speed skater, nine Olympic medals including three straight 5000 m golds (2010, 2014, 2018), nine World Allround and 21 World Single Distance titles; retired 2022.