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Sara Takanashi (高梨沙羅)
Sara Takanashi (高梨沙羅, born 1996) is a Japanese ski jumper with a record 63 World Cup wins, four overall titles, and Olympic bronzes at PyeongChang 2018 and Milan-Cortina 2026, but no individual Olympic gold.
Sara Tavares
Sara Tavares (1978–2023) was a Portuguese singer, songwriter, and guitarist of Cape Verdean descent who rose to fame at Eurovision 1994, aged 16, and later found international success with her 2005 album Balancê.
Sara van de Geer
Sara van de Geer (born 1958) is a Dutch mathematical statistician, the first woman mathematics professor at ETH Zurich, known for empirical process theory and high-dimensional statistics.
Sara Vickers
Sara Vickers (born 1985, Strathaven, Scotland) is a Scottish actress trained at RADA, known as Joan Thursday in Endeavour (2013-2023), Ms. Crookshanks in Watchmen, Erin in Guilt, and Davina Porter in Outlander: Blood of My Blood.
Sara Waisglass
Sara Waisglass (born 1998, Toronto) is a Canadian actress and screenwriter known as Maxine Baker in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia and Frankie Hollingsworth in Degrassi: The Next Generation and Next Class, with films Suze and Cascade.
Sara Wickström
Sara A. Wickström, born 1976, is a Finnish physician and cell biologist at Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute in Münster who won the 2026 Körber Prize.
Sara Wiseman
Sara Wiseman, New Zealand actress born 1972 in Auckland, known for Mercy Peak's Dr Nicky Sommerville, Carolyn Bligh in A Place to Call Home, Dar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and High Country; co-founded The Actors' Program.
Sara Zaafarani (سارة زعفراني زنزري)
Sara Zaafarani, also spelled Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri, is a Tunisian civil engineer and politician serving as Prime Minister of Tunisia since March 2025, the second woman to hold the post.
Sara-Jane Dunn
Sara-Jane Dunn is a computational biologist who models living cells as programs, known for a 2014 Science model of mouse embryonic stem cell self-renewal built with Microsoft's Z3 theorem prover.
Sara: Woman in the Shadows
Sara: Woman in the Shadows (Sara. La donna nell'ombra) is a 2025 Italian Netflix crime thriller, six episodes directed by Carmine Elia, adapted from Maurizio De Giovanni's novels about ex-secret agent Sara Morozzi investigating her son's death in Naples.
Saraband
Saraband (2003) is Ingmar Bergman's final film, a Swedish television drama sequel to Scenes from a Marriage, reuniting Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as Marianne and Johan, structured as ten duets around Bach's Cello Suite No. 5.
Sarabande
Sarabande (Spanish zarabanda): a slow triple-time dance of Latin American and Spanish origin, banned by Philip II in 1583, restyled stately in 17th-century France, a standard Baroque suite movement, revived by Satie, Debussy, and others.
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is an Indian Hindi sitcom (Star One, 2004-2006) about an upper-class Gujarati Mumbai family, created by Aatish Kapadia with Satish Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah; a ratings failure that became a cult classic, revived as Hotstar's Take 2 in 2017.
Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa
Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of Indira Gandhi's assassin Beant Singh, is an Independent MP from Faridkot (SC), Punjab, elected in 2024 by 70,053 votes over AAP's Karamjit Singh Anmol; born 1978 in Delhi, first term 18th Lok Sabha.
Sarabjit Singh
Sarabjit Singh, Indian farmer from Bhikhiwind, Punjab; held 22 years on death row in Pakistan as suspected spy 'Manjit Singh'; died May 2, 2013 after a Lahore jail assault.
Saraca
Saraca L. (ashoka, Jonesia) is a genus of about 12 Asian legume trees and shrubs in Fabaceae subfamily Detarioideae, petal-less flowers with petaloid yellow-to-red calyx, ranging from India to Sulawesi; S. asoca is a vulnerable Ayurvedic medicinal tree.
Saraca asoca (सरका अशोक)
Saraca asoca (सरका अशोक), the ashoka tree, Fabaceae, is a vulnerable evergreen medicinal tree of South Asia whose bark is used in Ayurveda for gynecological disorders; wild Western Ghats populations are fragmented and overexploited.
Saracatinib
Saracatinib (AZD0530) is AstraZeneca's oral dual Src/Abl kinase inhibitor (Src IC50 2.7 nM), never approved; tested unsuccessfully in cancer and repurposed for Alzheimer's, FOP, and IPF.
Saracen
Saracen (Latin Saracenus, Greek Sarakenoi) was the medieval European term for Arabs and then all Muslims, with disputed etymology, biblical Ishmaelite genealogies, and pejorative polemical use before yielding to "Turk".
Saracens F.C.
Saracens F.C., north London rugby union club founded 1876, playing at StoneX Stadium in the Gallagher Premiership; six Premiership titles, three European Cups, and the 2019-20 salary cap scandal that brought a 35-point deduction, £5.36m fine, and relegation.
Sarada
Sarada is a genus of large fan-throated agamid lizards endemic to Maharashtra and Karnataka, India, split from Sitana in 2016; type species S. deccanensis, with S. darwini and S. superba.
Sarada Devi (সারদা দেবী)
Sarada Devi (সারদা দেবী), born Saradamani Mukhopadhyay in 1853, was the wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna, revered as the Holy Mother of the Ramakrishna Order.
Sarada Uchiha (うちはサラダ)
Sarada Uchiha (うちはサラダ) is a fictional kunoichi of Konohagakure's Uchiha clan in Naruto and Boruto, daughter of Sasuke and Sakura, captain of the new Team 7, aspiring Hokage, and wielder of the Mangekyo Sharingan ability Ohirume, which manipulates gravity.
Saradassi
Saradassi (सरदस्सि) is the name of one or more Burmese Theravada monks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, credited with Pali works on the Abhidhamma.
Saradha Group financial scandal
The Saradha Group financial scandal, or Saradha scam, was the 2013 collapse of a Ponzi-style deposit scheme in Kolkata that cheated millions of small Indian depositors.
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay (শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, 1899–1970) was a Bengali writer best known as the creator of detective Byomkesh Bakshi, and also a novelist of historical fiction and ghost stories.
Sarafina! (film)
Sarafina! is a 1992 musical drama film directed by Darrell James Roodt, starring Leleti Khumalo and Whoopi Goldberg, adapted from Mbongeni Ngema's stage musical about the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Saraghrar
Saraghrar (7,338 m, also cited 7,340 m) is the fourth-highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, above Chitral; first climbed 24 August 1959 by Italians, with Saraghrar SE first ascended in 2005.
Saragossa Terra
Saragossa Terra is a bright, heavily cratered region on the southern trailing hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus, IAU-approved in 2008, named for the Song of Roland town of Marsilion, diameter 2,300 km, slightly reddish versus Roncevaux Terra.
Saragwala Mound
Saragwala Mound, also called Lothal ("mound of the dead"), is the Harappan port-town mound at Saragwala village, Dholka Taluka, Ahmedabad district, Gujarat; discovered 1954, excavated by S.R. Rao 1955-1960, a centrally protected ASI monument.