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Sadhana Shivdasani (साधना शिवदासानी)
Sadhana Shivdasani (साधना), known simply as Sadhana, was a leading Indian actress of 1960s Hindi cinema, remembered for Woh Kaun Thi? and the "Sadhana cut" hairstyle.
Sadharanikarana
Sadharanikarana (साधारणीकरण), meaning "universalization," is a concept of classical Indian poetics describing how particular emotions in poetry and drama become a shared aesthetic experience, shaped by Bhatta Nayaka and Abhinavagupta.
Sadhguru (ಜಗದೀಶ್ ವಾಸುದೇವ್)
Sadhguru, also known as Jaggi Vasudev (ಜಗದೀಶ್ ವಾಸುದೇವ್), is an Indian yoga teacher born in 1957 who founded the Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Sadhna Singh
Sadhna Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving in the Rajya Sabha for Uttar Pradesh since 2024, after serving as MLA from Mughalsarai.
Sadhu (साधु)
A sadhu (feminine sādhvī) is a Hindu renunciant who leaves household life to pursue detachment, devotion, and liberation, in about sixty sects across India and Nepal.
Sadhu Kokila (ಸಾಧು ಕೋಕಿಲ)
Sadhu Kokila (Sahaya Sheelan Shadrach), Kannada cinema comedy actor, composer, and director, born 1966 in Bangalore. Renamed by Upendra for Shhh!, twice won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director.
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, or Sadhviji, is an American-born Vedic monk, Stanford PhD, and author at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh; ordained a sadhvi in 2000, she leads GIWA and the Divine Shakti Foundation.
Sadhvi Sail
Sadhvi Satish Sail (born 2001), Indian model and entrepreneur from Karwar, Karnataka; crowned Femina Miss India World 2026 on 18 April 2026 in Bhubaneswar representing Goa, daughter of MLA Satish Sail, UBC economics graduate, set for Miss World.
Sadi
Sadi (سعدی) was a Persian poet and prose writer of Shiraz who lived through the Mongol conquest and completed the Bustan in 1257 and the Golestan in 1258.
Sâdî Çelebi
Sâdî Çelebi was an Ottoman Hanafi scholar who served as the tenth şeyhülislâm, or grand mufti, under Süleyman I from 1534 until his death in office in 1539.
Sadibou Sané
Sadibou Sané, Senegalese centre-back born 2004 in Diouloulou; Génération Foot academy product who played for FC Metz (71 apps) before joining AS Monaco in July 2026 on a five-year contract, and received his first Senegal senior call-up in September 2026.
Sadie Frost
Sadie Frost (Sadie Liza Vaughan, born 1965) is an English actress, producer, fashion designer, and documentary director. Known for Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Natural Nylon, FrostFrench, and directing Quant and Twiggy.
Sadie Harris
Sadie Harris is a Grey's Anatomy season 5 character played by Melissa George, a post-college friend of Meredith Grey who briefly interns at Seattle Grace, joins interns practicing on each other, nearly dies in a botched appendectomy, and quits in "Before and After".
Sadie Hawkins Day
Sadie Hawkins Day, an invented holiday from Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip (first appearance November 15, 1937), in which Dogpatch women chase and marry bachelors; it spawned real girls-ask-boys Sadie Hawkins dances.
Sadie Robertson
Sadie Robertson (Sadie Robertson Huff), born 1997 in West Monroe, Louisiana, is a Duck Dynasty reality star, Dancing with the Stars runner-up, bestselling author, Live Original founder, and WOAH That's Good podcast host.
Sadie Sandler
Sadie Sandler (Sadie Madison Sandler), born 2006 in Los Angeles, is an American actress, eldest daughter of Adam and Jackie Sandler. She voiced Winnie in Hotel Transylvania, starred as Ronnie in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023), and leads Netflix's Roommates (2026) as Devon.
Sadie Sink
Sadie Elizabeth Sink (born 2002, Brenham, Texas) is an American actress known as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things, Ellie in The Whale, a Tony-nominated John Proctor Is the Villain lead, and Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson, 1928 silent drama directed by Raoul Walsh, produced by and starring Gloria Swanson from Maugham's 'Miss Thompson' and the play Rain; hit remake source, censored, partially restored 1987.
Sadik Rifat Pasha
Sadik Rifat Pasha (Mehmed Sadik Rifat, محمد صادق رفعت پاشا, 1807 to 1857) was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, and political writer whose treatise inspired the Tanzimat Ferman of 1839.
Sadiki College
Sadiki College (Collège Sadiki) is a secondary school in Tunis founded in 1875 by Grand Vizier Khaireddine Pasha, regarded as the first modern secondary institution in Tunisia.
Sadio Mané
Sadio Mané, born 1992 in Sedhiou, Senegal, is a forward for Saudi club Al-Nassr who starred for Liverpool and won the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations with Senegal.
Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan, British Labour politician, Mayor of London since 2016, first Muslim leader of a major Western capital; former Tooting MP, human rights solicitor, first Muslim and first Asian Cabinet attendee; re-elected 2021 and 2024.
Sadiq Muhammad Khan IV
Sadiq Muhammad Khan IV (صادق محمد خان چہارم) was Nawab of Bahawalpur, a princely state, from 1866 until his death in 1899, succeeding his father as a four-year-old.
Sadiq Muhammad Khan V
Sadiq Muhammad Khan V (صادق محمد خان پنجم) was the last Nawab of Bahawalpur, succeeding as a child in 1907 and ruling in his own right from 1924 until his death in 1966.
Sadism
Sadism is the personality trait of enjoying others' pain or suffering, named after the Marquis de Sade and introduced into psychiatry by Krafft-Ebing in 1886; studied as everyday sadism, the fourth Dark Tetrad trait, and as clinical sexual sadism disorder.
Sadistic personality disorder
Sadistic personality disorder, a proposed DSM-III-R appendix diagnosis (1987) of pervasive cruelty and lack of empathy, dropped from DSM-IV as insufficiently distinct from antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders; succeeded by trait sadism research in the Dark Tetrad.
Sadiya Khan
Sadiya Khan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for cardio-obstetrics and for chairing the American Heart Association working group behind the PREVENT risk equations.
Sadiya Khowa Gohain
Sadiya Khowa Gohain (শদিয়া খোৱা গোহাঁই) was the Ahom frontier governor of Sadiya in the eastern Brahmaputra Valley, created in 1524 and held by Tai Khamti chiefs from 1794.
Sadiya Siddiqui
Sadiya Siddiqui, also credited as Sadia Siddiqui, is an Indian actress from Mumbai born in 1972, known for Byomkesh Bakshi, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Shabd, Balika Vadhu (ITA Award-winning role as Sandhya), and the streaming series Pari-War.
Şadırvan
A şadırvan is a domed or canopied water structure built in a mosque courtyard for ritual ablution, with taps around a central pool; it forms an integral part of Ottoman mosque architecture.