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Sacchidananda Bharati II
Sacchidananda Bharati II was the 27th Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1706 to 1741, remembered for beginning the Maratha ruling houses' association with the Mutt.
Sacchidananda Bharati III
Sacchidananda Bharati III was the 30th Jagadguru, or spiritual head, of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1770 to 1814, a 44-year pontificate overlapping the rule of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan in Mysore.
Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati
Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati, born Sivaswamy in Mysore in 1858, was the 33rd Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1879 to 1912, credited with reviving Sanskrit learning and identifying Kalady as Shankara's birthplace.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrant anarchists convicted in 1921 of the 1920 South Braintree payroll murders and executed August 23, 1927; guilt remains disputed while the trial's prejudice is broadly condemned.
Saccocoma
Saccocoma (Agassiz, 1836) is an extinct genus of small, stemless roveacrinid crinoids of the Jurassic to Cretaceous, most abundant in the Solnhofen Limestone, interpreted as free-swimming or benthic.
Saccopteryx
Saccopteryx (sac-winged bats) is a Neotropical genus of five insectivorous emballonurid bat species, white-striped, harem-forming S. bilineata, Colombian endemic S. antioquensis, and a 2024 revision proposing seven taxa.
Saccostreinae
Saccostreinae is a subfamily of true oysters, family Ostreidae, erected in 2016 by Salvi and Mariottini to contain the single genus Saccostrea, the Indo-Pacific rock oysters.
Saccular limited dorsal myeloschisis
Saccular limited dorsal myeloschisis (saccular LDM, ORPHA:645354) is a rare closed spinal dysraphism with a fibroneural stalk linking an epithelialized CSF sac to the cord; no Chiari II, treated by untethering.
Sacculina
Sacculina is a genus of parasitic barnacles, founded in 1836, that infects crabs, castrates them, and tricks them into caring for the parasite's eggs; it holds about 129 species.
SACE (export credit agency)
SACE is Italy's export credit agency, wholly owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, which supports Italian companies' exports through insurance and guarantees.
Săcelu
Săcelu, a commune and balneoclimateric resort in Gorj County, Oltenia, Romania; attested 1480 under Țepeluș Vodă, with a Roman castrum, thermae, and highly mineralized therapeutic springs.
Sacha (singer)
Sacha (Sacha Visagie), Canadian country singer-songwriter from Warkworth, Ontario, born in Montreal; CMT Next Women of Country 2021, platinum "What the Truck" with The Reklaws, Sony Music Canada signee, 2025 album Woman In The Mirror.
Sacha B. Nelson
Sacha B. Nelson, also published as Sacha Nelson, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Brandeis University who discovered synaptic scaling, a form of homeostatic plasticity, in 1998.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971, Hammersmith, London), also known as Ali G, Borat, Bruno, and Aladeen, is a British comedian and actor famous for undercover satirical characters, two Golden Globes, three Oscar nominations, Who Is America?, and the 2026 directorial debut Ali G: Who Iz I?
Sacha Dhawan
Sacha Dhawan, born 1984, is a British actor who originated Akthar in The History Boys and played the Master in Doctor Who from 2020 to 2022.
Sacha field
The Sacha field is an oil field in Ecuador's Oriente Basin, discovered in 1969 and operated by EP Petroecuador; it is the most productive oil field in Ecuador.
Sacha Gervasi
Sacha Gervasi (born 1966, London) is a British-American screenwriter and director of Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) and Hitchcock (2012), and writer of Spielberg's The Terminal (2004).
Sacha inchi oil
Sacha inchi oil (Plukenetia volubilis, Inca peanut oil), a Peruvian Amazon seed oil with ~48% omega-3 ALA, GRAS notice GRN 506, UK novel food NOVEL-124, and preliminary cardiometabolic clinical evidence.
Sacha Poignonnec
Sacha Poignonnec is a business executive who co-founded Jumia, the pan-African e-commerce company, and led it as co-CEO with Jeremy Hodara from 2012 until November 2022.
Sacha Robotti
Sacha Robotti is a German-Italian house and techno DJ and producer who rose to prominence in Berlin as half of Robosonic and rebuilt his career in the US.
Sacha Valleau
Sacha Valleau, French rugby sevens player (France 7, 177 caps), 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic gold medalist and Rio 2016 Olympian, later RC Vannes center, retired 2024, now Canal+ consultant.
Sachal Jo Risalo
Sachal Jo Risalo (سچل جو رسالو) is the collected poetry of Sachal Sarmast (1739–1827), the Sindhi Sufi poet ranked after Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in classical Sindhi verse.
Sachal Sarmast
Sachal Sarmast (سچل سرمست), born Abdul Wahab, was a Sufi poet of Sindh, born in 1739 at Daraza near Ranipur, known as the poet of seven languages and the second Mansoor Hallaj.
Sacheen Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather (Marie Louise Cruz, 1946-2022), American actress and activist who declined Marlon Brando's 1973 best actor Oscar in a Native American rights protest; later accused by her sisters of fabricating Apache and Yaqui identity.
Sachein
Sachein (சச்சின்) is a 2005 Tamil romantic comedy directed by John Mahendran, starring Vijay, Genelia D'Souza, and Bipasha Basu; a remake of the Telugu film Nee Tho, released 14 April 2005 against Chandramukhi and re-released in 2025.
Sachem Head Capital Management
Sachem Head Capital Management is an SEC-registered activist hedge fund founded in 2012 by Scott Ferguson after nine years at Pershing Square, running a concentrated, value-oriented equity strategy.
Sacheon (사천)
Sacheon (사천, 泗川市) is a rural-urban city in southwestern South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, formed in 1995 by merging Samcheonpo City and Sacheon County; Sacheon Bay splits it, with fisheries, aerospace industry, and 108,504 residents in 2024.
Sachertorte
Sachertorte: Viennese chocolate torte created in 1832 by Franz Sacher for Prince Metternich; apricot jam and chocolate glaze; subject of the 1950s-60s Sacher-Demel cake war over the 'Original Sacher-Torte' name.
Sachet Tandon
Sachet Tandon (सचेत टंडन) is an Indian singer and Bollywood film composer from Lucknow, one-half of the duo Sachet-Parampara with his wife Parampara Tandon, best known for "Bekhayali" from Kabir Singh (2019).
Sacheverell Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) was an English poet, art and architectural historian, and music critic, the youngest of the Sitwell siblings, known for Southern Baroque Art (1924).