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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in English blank verse by Sri Aurobindo, retelling the Mahabharata legend of Savitri and Satyavan, composed from 1916 to 1950.

Savitribai Phule (सावित्रीबाई फुले)

Savitribai Phule (सावित्रीबाई फुले), 1831–1897, Indian social reformer regarded as India's first female school teacher; with Jyotirao Phule she opened Pune's 1848 girls' school, taught lower-caste children, and founded an 1863 infanticide-prevention home.

Savitribai Phule Pune University (सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठ)

Savitribai Phule Pune University (सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठ), formerly University of Pune, is a state public university established 10 February 1949 in Pune, with a 411-acre campus, NAAC A+ grade, and jurisdiction over Pune, Ahmednagar, and Nashik districts.

Saviṭṭha

Saviṭṭha (सविट्ठ) is a monk and disciple of the Buddha in the Pali Canon, known from the Aṅguttara Nikāya sutta bearing his name and from Saṃyutta dialogues at Kosambī.

Savitzky–Golay filter

The Savitzky–Golay filter is a digital smoothing filter that fits a polynomial to a moving window of data, introduced by Savitzky and Golay in 1964.

Savo Milošević (Саво Милошевић)

Savo Milošević (Саво Милошевић), born 1973 in Bijeljina, Serbian striker and manager; Partizan, Aston Villa, Zaragoza, Parma, Osasuna, Rubin Kazan; 102 caps, 37 goals; joint EURO 2000 top scorer; later coached Partizan and Bosnia.

Savo Minić

Savo Minić (Саво Минић), Bosnian Serb SNSD politician, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska since September 2025; former Šamac mayor and agriculture minister; elected entity president in October 2026.

Savoie

Savoie (73), French Alpine department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with 273 communes; 448,226 inhabitants in 2023, 6,028 km², 37.1% second homes, tourism-driven economy, unemployment 7.5%.

Savola Group

Savola Group is a Saudi food holding company founded in 1979 and listed on the Saudi Exchange, wholly owning Savola Foods and Panda Retail after distributing its Almarai stake in 2024.

Savolitinib

Savolitinib (volitinib, AZD6094, HMPL-504; Orpathys) is an oral, selective ATP-competitive MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved in China (2021) for MET exon 14-skipping NSCLC and developed with osimertinib for MET-amplified EGFR-mutant NSCLC and gastric cancer.

Savona

Savona, Ligurian port city and provincial capital on the Riviera di Ponente (58,581 inhabitants in 2024); ancient rival of Genoa, seat of the Priamar fortress, home of the Della Rovere popes, and port handling 16.3 Mt of cargo in 2024.

Savonette Gas Field

Savonette is an offshore natural gas field in the Columbus Basin, about 80 km off southeast Trinidad and Tobago, discovered in 2004 and operated by BP Trinidad and Tobago since 2009.

Savonnières-en-Perthois

Savonnières-en-Perthois, Meuse, France: village of about 460 inhabitants famed for the Pierre de Savonnières Jurassic limestone, 285 km of underground quarries, karst caves, and Natura 2000 bat hibernation sites.

Savoraim

The Savoraim, also called Saboraic, were Babylonian Jewish scholars of roughly 500 to 589 CE, between the Amoraim and Geonim, traditionally credited with completing and fixing the Babylonian Talmud.

Savoy

Savoy (Italian: Savoia) is a historical region in the northern French Alps, ruled by the House of Savoy and annexed by France after a plebiscite in 1860.

Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown (originally Savoy Brown Blues Band) was an English blues rock band formed in Battersea, London in 1965 by guitarist Kim Simmonds, its only constant member until his December 2022 death; over 40 albums, US hits like I'm Tired, and alumni who founded Foghat.

Savoy cabbage

Savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda, Savoy Cabbage Group), also called Milan or Lombard cabbage, is a cabbage with crinkled leaves and loose heads, grown mainly in Western Europe for autumn and winter harvest.

Savoy Hotel

The Savoy is a luxury hotel on the Strand in London, opened in 1889 by Richard D'Oyly Carte and widely called Britain's first purpose-built deluxe hotel.

Savoy Theatre, London

The Savoy Theatre is a West End theater in London, built in 1881 for Richard D'Oyly Carte and the first theater lit entirely by electricity.

Savoye

Savoye is a French warehouse automation and supply chain software company, founded in Beaune in the late 1950s and owned by the Chinese Noblelift group since 2018.

Savremenik

Savremenik ("the contemporary") is the name of two South Slavic literary journals: a Croatian monthly published in Zagreb from 1906, and a Serbian magazine published in Belgrade from 1955.

Savu Sea

The Savu Sea (also spelled Sawu Sea; Indonesian Laut Sawu) is an East Indian Archipelago sea in eastern Indonesia, enclosed by the islands of Flores, Sumba, and Timor.

Savukku

Savukku, Tamil for "whip," is an anti-corruption website run by A. Shankar, known as Savukku Shankar, a former Tamil Nadu vigilance official turned whistleblower blogger and YouTuber.

Savushun

Savushun, also published in English as A Persian Requiem, is a 1969 Persian novel by Simin Daneshvar, the first by an Iranian woman, set in Shiraz under British occupation in World War II.

Savva Mamontov

Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (Савва Иванович Мамонтов, 1841–1918) was a Russian railway entrepreneur and patron of the arts who headed the Moscow–Yaroslavl–Arkhangelsk Railway and founded the Moscow Private Russian Opera.

Savva Morozov

Savva Morozov (Савва Морозов), 1862 to 1905, was a Russian textile manufacturer and philanthropist who ran the Nikolskaya cotton manufactory and financed the Moscow Art Theatre.

Savvy Games Group

Savvy Games Group (مجموعة سافي للألعاب الإلكترونية) is a Riyadh-based games and esports holding company founded 2021, wholly owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF; it runs Scopely, ESL FACEIT Group, and Steer Studios and has deployed over $10bn of a $37.8bn plan.

Savy King

Savy King (Savannah Mckenzie King, born 2005) is an American NWSL defender for Angel City FC, drafted second overall by Bay FC in 2024, who survived an on-field cardiac arrest in May 2025 and returned to play in 2026.

Savyasachi (సవ్యసాచి) (2018 film)

Savyasachi (సవ్యసాచి), 2018 Telugu action thriller by Chandoo Mondeti starring Naga Chaitanya, Madhavan, and Nidhhi Agerwal; Mythri Movie Makers production built on vanishing twin syndrome, released 2 November 2018 to mixed-negative reviews.

Saw

A saw is a cutting tool with a toothed metal blade or disk used to divide materials such as wood, stone, or metal, dating back to flint versions used around 9500 BC.