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Sayantani Ghosh
Sayantani Ghosh (সায়ন্তনী ঘোষ), born 1984 in Kolkata, is an Indian television actress known for Kumkum, Naaginn (the first TV naagin), Naamkaran, Sanjivani, and Zee TV's Jagadhatri.
Sayari
Sayari is an American commercial risk intelligence company founded in Washington, D.C., in 2015, whose flagship product, Sayari Graph, maps global corporate ownership for investigators and compliance teams.
Sayat-Nova (Mercurian crater)
Sayat-Nova is a 158-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury, centered at 28.4°S, 122.1°E, IAU-approved and named under the Mercurian convention of naming craters after artists.
Sayat-Nova (Սայաթ-Նովա)
Sayat-Nova (Սայաթ-Նովա), born Harutyun Sayadyan (1722 or c. 1712, Tiflis; died 1795), was an Armenian ashugh and court poet of Georgian king Erekle II, writing songs in Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani and Persian, later a priest as Ter Stepanos.
SayCan (affordance-grounded agents)
SayCan is a robot-planning method introduced in April 2022 by Google Robotics with Stanford and Princeton collaborators, which grounds a language model's task plans in what a physical robot can actually do.
Sayed Abu Farchi
Sayed Abu Farchi (Saied Abu Farchi, Sayed Abu Farkhi; סייד אבו פרחי), Israeli forward born 2006, Maccabi Tel Aviv academy graduate, transferred to Colorado Rapids in 2026, sent off for a snooker-cue goal celebration vs Austria.
Sayed Jaffar
Sayed Jaffar, also known as Jaffar Shah, was an Indian field hockey left winger who won Olympic gold medals with British India at Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936.
Sayed Nosseir
Sayed Nosseir (السيد محمد نصير), Egyptian weightlifter (1905–1974), won light-heavyweight gold with 355 kg at Amsterdam 1928, Egypt's first Olympic gold, set nine world records, later coached Egypt.
Sayed Yusuf
Sayed Yusuf, properly Shahzada Muhammad Yusuf or S. M. Yusuf, was a field hockey player who won gold with British India at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and later played for and coached Afghanistan.
Sayeed Quadri
Sayeed Quadri, also known as Saeed Quadri, is a Hindi film lyricist and poet from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, whose breakthrough came with Jism (2003); he wrote "Bheegey Hont Tere" for Vishesh Films.
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi (سعیده حسین وارثی; born 1971), is a British lawyer and politician who was the first Muslim woman to serve in the UK cabinet.
Sayeef Salahuddin
Sayeef Salahuddin is an electrical engineer at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for proposing negative capacitance in ferroelectrics, now used in memory and processor technologies.
Sayeret Matkal (סיירת מטכ"ל)
Sayeret Matkal (סיירת מטכ"ל), General Staff Reconnaissance Unit 269, is the IDF's tier-one special forces unit for deep reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, and hostage rescue, famous for the 1976 Entebbe raid.
Sayers (Venusian crater)
Sayers is a 98-km-diameter impact crater on Venus at 67.5°S, 229.8°E, IAU-named in 1994 for English novelist Dorothy L. Sayers; listed among Venus's ringed craters.
Sayf al-Dawla
Sayf al-Dawla (سيف الدولة), personal name Ali ibn Abd Allah, was the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo from 944 to 967, whose court made the city a center of Arabic letters.
Sayf al-Dawla's campaigns against Byzantium
Sayf al-Dawla's campaigns against Byzantium (حملات سيف الدولة على الروم) were the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo's raids along the Taurus frontier, ending in Byzantine conquest.
Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
Sayf al-Din al-Amidi (سيف الدين الآمدي) was a Sunni jurist, theologian, and logician born in Amid (modern Diyarbakır) in 1156, known for al-Ihkam fi usul al-ahkam.
Sayf al-Din Ghazi I
Sayf al-Din Ghazi I (سیفالدین غازی) was the Zangid atabeg of Mosul from 1146 to 1149, eldest son of Imad al-Din Zangi and brother of Nur al-Din of Aleppo.
Sayf al-Din Inal
Sayf al-Din Inal (إينال) was sultan of Mamluk Egypt and Syria from 1453 to 1461, deposing al-Mansur Uthman, son of his former master Sultan Jaqmaq.
Sayf al-Din Tatar
Sayf al-Din Tatar (الظاهر ططر) was a Circassian Mamluk who ruled the Mamluk Sultanate as sultan of Egypt and Syria in 1421, deposing the child sultan al-Muzaffar Ahmad.
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, also rendered Saif ibn Dhi Yazan, was a sixth-century Himyarite king of Yemen who persuaded Khosrow I to send a Persian expedition that expelled the Ethiopian occupiers.
Sayf ibn Umar
Sayf ibn Umar (سيف بن عمر) was a Kufan historian of the early Abbasid caliphate whose accounts of the early caliphate reached readers through al-Tabari.
Sayfawa dynasty
The Sayfawa dynasty (Saifawa) was the Muslim royal house of the mais who ruled Kanem and then Bornu around Lake Chad from about 1075 to 1846.
Sayfawa dynasty seizure of power in Kanem
The Sayfawa seizure of power in Kanem was Humai's overthrow of the Zaghawa rulers around 1075, founding a Muslim dynasty that ruled Kanem and Bornu for 771 years.
Sayfawa dynasty's conversion to Islam
The Sayfawa dynasty's conversion to Islam was the adoption of Islam by the royal house of Kanem, east of Lake Chad, under King Hummay around 1085.
Saygrace
Saygrace (Grace Sewell, born 1997, Brisbane) is an Australian R&B singer formerly known as Grace, famous for the 2015 Quincy Jones-produced cover "You Don't Own Me" with G-Eazy, which topped the Australian chart, plus albums FMA (2016), Deep Rest, and New Age (2024).
Sayid Abdullah Khan
Sayid Abdullah Khan, also known as Said Abdulla Khan, was the last khan of Khiva, reigning from 1918 to 1920 while real power lay with Junayd Khan.
Sayid Jarrah
Sayid Jarrah, fictional Lost (2004-2010) character played by Naveen Andrews; Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer and torturer, Oceanic 815 survivor, dies carrying a bomb off Widmore's submarine in season 6.
Sayil
Sayil: ancient Maya city in the Puuc region, Oxkutzcab, Yucatán, Mexico; Terminal Classic (800–1000 AD), about 5 km² and 10,000 people; known for the three-story Great Palace, chultune cisterns, and UNESCO listing with Uxmal.
Saying Grace
Saying grace is a short prayer of thanksgiving said before a meal, common in religious households and the subject of Norman Rockwell's 1951 painting that sold for $46 million.