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Sean Wang
Sean Wang is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker from Fremont, California, Oscar-nominated for the short Nai Nai & Wai Po (2023) and director of the Sundance-winning debut feature Dìdi (弟弟), released by Focus Features in 2024.
Sean Watkins
Sean Watkins (born 1977), American guitarist and songwriter, guitarist of the Grammy-winning progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek, which he co-founded in 1989; also of Fiction Family and Watkins Family Hour, with five solo albums.
Sean Whalen
Sean Whalen (born 1964, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Roach in The People Under the Stairs, the first Got Milk? commercial, Lost, Unfabulous, and directing Crust (2024); distinct from the LIONS NOT SHEEP founder of the same name.
Sean Wharton
Sean Wharton is a Canadian internal-medicine physician and researcher in weight management and diabetes, lead investigator of the 2025 ATTAIN-1 orforglipron trial and first author of the 2020 Canadian adult obesity guideline.
Sean Young
Sean Young (Mary Sean Young, born 1959, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actress known for Rachael in Blade Runner (1982), Chani in Dune (1984), No Way Out, Wall Street, and Ace Ventura, with later indie film work and Blade Runner 2049.
Sean Yseult
Sean Yseult (Shauna Reynolds, born 1966) is an American musician, photographer, and designer, co-founder and bassist of White Zombie for 11 years, later a New Orleans-based photographer, author of I'm in the Band, and founder of Yseult Designs.
Sean's Bar
Sean's Bar, Athlone, Ireland: pub claiming AD 900 founding by Luain Mac Luighdeach, certified Ireland's oldest pub by Guinness in 2004; building dated c.1725, first record 1738.
Seanad Éireann
Seanad Éireann, also called the Irish Senate, is the upper house of Ireland's parliament, with 60 Senators who are not directly elected by the public.
Séance
A séance, French for "sitting," is a meeting centered on a medium who seeks to communicate with spirits of the dead, usually held in darkness with participants in a circle holding hands.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Seance on a Wet Afternoon is Bryan Forbes' 1964 British psychological thriller starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough, based on Mark McShane's novel about a medium's kidnapping scheme.
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (upcoming film)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon, upcoming psychodrama directed by Tomas Alfredson, written by Jack Thorne, starring Rachel Weisz and Matthew Macfadyen; remakes the 1964 Bryan Forbes film based on Mark McShane's 1961 novel; filmed in England January–March 2026, no release date yet.
Seankhenre Mentuhotepi
Seankhenre Mentuhotepi, also written Sankhenra Mentuhotepi, was a pharaoh of the Theban 16th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1618 BC as the fifth king of a poorly documented dynasty.
Seankhibre
Seankhibre, also known as Amenemhat VI, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He reigned around 1780 BC, and his name appears on various seals and king lists.
Seankhibtawy Seankhibra
Seankhibtawy Seankhibra is a poorly attested Egyptian king of the Middle Kingdom, known from a single architrave from Heliopolis, dated variously to the Eleventh, Twelfth, or Thirteenth Dynasty.
Seann Walsh
Seann Walsh (born 1985) is an English stand-up comedian from Brighton, Chortle Best Newcomer 2009, known for observational comedy, the 2018 Strictly Come Dancing kissing scandal with Katya Jones, and I'm a Celebrity 2022.
Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott (born 1976), American actor, is best known as Steve Stifler in four American Pie films and for Dude Where's My Car, Role Models, Goon, Ice Age voice work, Lethal Weapon, and ABC's Shifting Gears.
SeaOtter-2 USV
SeaOtter-2 is the name of two unrelated marine robots: the Atlas SeaOtter Mk II, a German minehunting autonomous underwater vehicle, and a JW Fishers tethered inspection ROV.
SeaPerch
SeaPerch is a K-12 underwater robotics program created at MIT Sea Grant in 2003 and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, in which students build tethered ROVs and compete.
Seaplane
A seaplane, also called a hydro-aeroplane, is an airplane designed to take off from and land on water, either as a flying boat or a floatplane.
Seaplane landing area
A seaplane landing area is a defined area on water at an aerodrome used for seaplane takeoffs and landings; unlike a paved runway, its surface shifts with wind and current.
Seaport Therapeutics
Seaport Therapeutics is a Boston-based biopharmaceutical company developing neuropsychiatric medicines. It uses the Glyph platform and has programs in Phase 2b for major depressive disorder.
Seaport Village Carousel
The Seaport Village Carousel, also known as the Fair Park Looff, is a historic 1895 Looff carousel at the Seaport Village waterfront district in San Diego, California.
SeaQuest
SeaQuest (Fermilab experiment E-906) was a fixed-target Drell-Yan experiment at Fermilab that used 120 GeV protons to measure the antiquark structure of the proton and nuclei.
SeaQuest DSV
seaQuest DSV (1993-1996) is an NBC underwater science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Bridger; renamed seaQuest 2032 for its 13-episode third season with Michael Ironside.
Sear and trigger group
The sear and trigger group is the set of linked firearm components that holds the cocked hammer or striker and releases it when the trigger is pressed.
Seara Nova
Seara Nova is a Portuguese magazine of doctrine and criticism founded in Lisbon in 1921, whose first director was Raul Proença and which opposed the dictatorship for decades.
Search algorithm
A search algorithm is a procedure that finds a specified value in a collection of data, such as an array or tree, or determines it is absent.
Search and matching theory
Search and matching theory is the branch of economics that models trade as a time-consuming process, with its Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model honored by the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the coordinated use of personnel, vessels, aircraft, and communication systems to locate and assist people in distress, most often at sea.
Search Bloc
Search Bloc (Bloque de Búsqueda) was a Colombian National Police unit created to hunt Pablo Escobar and the Medellín cartel leadership. Distinguished by U.S. support (DEA, Centra Spike, Delta Force), heavy officer casualties from Escobar's bounty, and killing Escobar in Medellín on 2 December 1993.