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Sayings of Jesus on the cross
The sayings of Jesus on the cross, traditionally called the Seven Last Words, are seven utterances the four Gospels, taken together, place on the crucified Jesus, though no single Gospel contains all seven.
Saykal Fossae
Saykal Fossae is a 300-km-long, narrow tectonic depression (fossa) on Venus at 73N, 139E, named by the IAU in 1997 for a Kyrgyz warrior maiden, one of 32 named Venusian fossae.
Sayling Wen
Sayling Wen (温世仁, 1948–2003) was a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973, led Inventec to become Taiwan's largest notebook maker, and funded rural digitization in China.
Saylor Curda
Saylor Bell Curda (born 2004) is an American actress and singer, sister of Piper Curda, known as Maddox in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Mayhem in Twisted Metal.
Saylor Poffenbarger
Saylor Poffenbarger, American basketball guard from Middletown, MD; played at UConn, Arkansas, and Maryland; SEC All-Freshman 2023; 2026 WNBA stints with Lynx, Sky, Mercury.
Sayonara
Sayonara (サヨナラ) is Joshua Logan's 1957 Warner Bros. romantic drama, adapted by Paul Osborn from James A. Michener's 1954 novel, starring Marlon Brando as an Air Force major in Korea-era Japan who falls for performer Miiko Taka; it won four Oscars from ten nominations.
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (さよなら絶望先生)
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (さよなら絶望先生), also called Zetsubou-Sensei, is Koji Kumeta's dark school-comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine 2005–2012, 30 volumes, 301 chapters, 2007 Kodansha Manga Award winner, adapted by Shaft into three anime seasons.
Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club!)
Sayori is a fictional character in Doki Doki Literature Club! (2017): the protagonist's childhood friend, Literature Club Vice President, and cheerful heroine whose hidden depression and Act One suicide drive the game's turn to psychological horror.
Sayornis
Sayornis (phoebes) is a genus of three American tyrant flycatcher species, Tyrannidae, established by Bonaparte in 1854: Black, Eastern, and Say's Phoebe, insect-eating tail-pumping birds that nest on buildings and bridges.
Saypulla Absaidov
Saypulla Absaidov (Сайпулла Абсаидов), born 1958 in Tarki, Dagestan, Soviet freestyle wrestler, 1980 Moscow Olympic lightweight (68 kg) champion, 1981 world and 1980 European champion, later Azerbaijan head coach.
Sayri Túpac
Sayri Túpac, Sayri Tupa in Quechua, was the second Inca ruler of the Neo-Inca state of Vilcabamba, who left it in 1557 for the Yucay encomienda.
Says Tuka
Says Tuka: Selected Poetry of Tukaram is Dilip Chitre's 1991 Penguin translation of devotional abhangs by the 17th-century Marathi poet-saint Tukaram, which won Chitre the 1994 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize.
Sayuki Ito (伊藤 さゆき)
Sayuki Ito (伊藤 さゆき), born 1999 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, is a Japanese freelance model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Japan 2026 as the Fukuoka delegate and represents Japan at Miss Universe 2026 in Puerto Rico.
Sayulita
Sayulita: Pacific surf town in Bahía de Banderas municipality, Nayarit, Mexico, 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta; Pueblo Mágico since 2015, known for beginner surf, water-quality monitoring, and tourism-driven gentrification.
Sayurghal
Sayurghal (سیورغال) was a revenue-free, tax-exempt land grant of the Persianate world, dating from the 14th century and used by the Delhi Sultans and Mughals, chiefly for religious grants.
Sayuri
Sayuri (さユり) was a Japanese singer-songwriter from Fukuoka Prefecture, born in 1996, who performed as the "Sanketsu Shōjo" and sang anime tie-in songs including "Mikazuki" and "Heikousen"; she died in 2024 at age 28.
Sayuri Ishikawa
Sayuri Ishikawa (石川さゆり) is a Japanese enka singer, born in 1958 in Kumamoto Prefecture, known for Tsugaru Kaikyō Fuyugeshiki and Amagi-goe and holding the Kohaku red-team appearance record.
Sayuri World
Sayuri World (サユリワールド) is an interactive zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, opened in 2011, where visitors enter the animals' enclosures to feed and touch free-roaming capybaras and kangaroos.
Sayyed Abdollah Behbahani
Sayyed Abdollah Behbahani (سید عبدالله بهبهانی) was a Shi'i mujtahed of Tehran who, with Sayyed Mohammad Tabataba'i, led the clerical opposition that forced Mozaffar al-Din Shah to grant a constitution in 1906.
Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody (1939-2009) was an Iranian-born, US-educated anesthesiologist, husband of Betty Mahmoody, whose 1987 memoir Not Without My Daughter and 1991 film accused him of trapping the family in Iran in 1984; he disputed the account and died in Tehran in 2009.
Sayyeshaa
Sayyeshaa (Sayyeshaa Saigal, சாயிஷா), born 1997 in Mumbai, is an Indian actress in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Kannada films; debut Akhil (2015), Shivaay (2016), Vanamagan (2017); married Arya in 2019.
Sayyid (سيد)
Sayyid (السيد, plural sādāt), Arabic honorific 'master' for descendants of Prophet Muhammad through Fāṭima and ʿAlī; also called sharīf in some regions; covers etymology, genealogy, Ottoman privileges, dynasties, and the 1901 India census figure.
Sayyid Alavi Thangal
Sayyid Alavi Thangal (സയ്യിദ് അലവി തങ്കൾ), also known as Mamburam Thangal, was a Hadhrami Muslim scholar who led Mappila resistance to British rule in Malabar.
Sayyid Ali Hamadani
Sayyid Ali Hamadani (سید علی ہمدانی), known in Kashmir as Shah-i Hamadan, was a Persian Kubrawi Sufi born in Hamadan in 1314 whose missions shaped the Kashmir valley.
Sayyid Ashraf Jahangir Semnani
Sayyid Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (سید اشرف جہانگیر سمنانی) was a Persian-born Sufi master who renounced rulership of Semnan, joined the Chishti order in India, and founded the Ashrafi order.
Sayyid Darwish
Sayyid Darwish (سيد درويش) was an Egyptian singer and composer, born in Alexandria in 1892 and died there in 1923, regarded as perhaps Egypt's greatest ever composer.
Sayyid dynasty
Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451), fourth dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, founded by Khizr Khan, Timur's appointee; four rulers, limited to Delhi, ended when Bahlul Lodi took power in 1451.
Sayyid Kazim Rashti
Sayyid Kazim Rashti (سید کاظم رشتی) was a Shia jurist of Qajar-era Iran who led the Shaykhi school from 1826 until his death in Karbala in 1843.
Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan
Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (Sayid Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan) was a Somali religious leader, poet, and guerrilla commander who led the Dervish movement against British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces from 1899 until his death in 1920.
Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpuri
Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpuri (سید محمد جونپوری) was a Muslim preacher and scholar born in Jaunpur in 1443 who proclaimed himself the promised Mahdi and founded the Mahdavi movement.