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Seethakaathi (சீதகாதி)

Seethakaathi (சீதகாதி) is a 2018 Tamil comedy-drama directed by Balaji Tharaneetharan, Vijay Sethupathi's 25th film, about a stage actor who dies on stage and whose spirit acts through other performers; not a biopic of the 1650-born philosopher Seethakathi.

Seethakka

Seethakka, born Dansari Anasuya, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as a Telangana cabinet minister for Panchayat Raj, Rural Development, and Women and Child Welfare.

Seethakoka Chiluka (సీతాకోకచిలుక)

Seethakoka Chiluka (సీతాకోకచిలుక) is a 1981 Telugu romantic drama by Bharathiraja, produced by Edida Nageswara Rao, with music by Ilaiyaraaja, starring debutants Karthik and Aruna Mucherla; it won the 1981 National Film Award for Best Telugu Film. Not to be confused with the unrelated 2006 film of the same name.

Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (సీతమ్మ వాకిట్లో సిరిమల్లె చెట్టు)

Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (SVSC, సీతమ్మ వాకిట్లో సిరిమల్లె చెట్టు) is a 2013 Telugu family drama directed by Srikanth Addala, starring Venkatesh and Mahesh Babu as brothers; 2013's second-highest-grossing Telugu film, re-released in 2025.

Seether

Seether is a South African hard rock/post-grunge band formed 1999 in Pretoria as Saron Gas; also known by that original name. Known for "Fine Again", "Broken" with Amy Lee, "Fake It", and Top Five U.S. albums Isolate and Medicate (2014) and Holding Onto Strings (2011).

Seetimaarr (సీతిమార్)

Seetimaarr (సీటీమార్, "Blow the whistle") is a 2021 Telugu sports masala film by Sampath Nandi starring Gopichand and Tamannaah Bhatia as rival women's kabaddi coaches; released 10 September 2021.

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (SSR, Chacha), 1900–1985, Mauritian physician and Labour Party leader; first Prime Minister of independent Mauritius 1968–1982, later Governor-General; Father of the Nation.

Sef Gonzales

Sef Gonzales, Filipino Australian triple murderer, killed his parents Teddy and Mary and sister Clodine at North Ryde, Sydney on 10 July 2001, staging a fake hate crime, and received three concurrent life sentences in 2004; a sentence appeal was referred in 2025.

Sefa

Sefa, full name Sefa Jeroen Vlaarkamp, is a Dutch frenchcore producer and DJ from Alkmaar, born in 2000, who made the first frenchcore anthem in Defqon.1 history at 19.

Sefaattin Tongay

Sefaattin Tongay, who publishes as Seth Ariel Tongay, is a materials scientist and professor at Arizona State University known for work on 2D materials and Janus semiconductors.

Sefanaia Sukanaivalu

Sefanaia Sukanaivalu (1918–1944) was a Fijian soldier, a corporal in the Fiji Infantry Regiment posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Mawaraka, Bougainville, in June 1944, the only Fijian recipient.

Sefaretname

Sefaretname is the written report an Ottoman ambassador submitted to the sultan, grand vizier, or reisülküttab on his return, describing his journey, negotiations, and observations of the visited country.

Sefer HaMinhagim

Sefer HaMinhagim (ספר המנהגים, "Book of Customs") is the shared title of several Hebrew and Yiddish works on Jewish customs, including Isaac Tyrnau's late medieval Ashkenazi customs book and a modern Chabad manual.

Sefer Hasidim

Sefer Hasidim (ספר חסידים, "Book of the Pious") is a Hebrew book of ethics and piety from the Rhineland, attributed to Judah he-Hasid of Regensburg, who died in 1217.

Sefer HaYashar

Sefer HaYashar (Book of the Upright) is the title of several Hebrew works, including a lost biblical book and a medieval midrashic retelling of Genesis through Joshua.

Sefer Torah (ספר תורה)

A Sefer Torah (ספר תורה) is a handwritten parchment scroll of the five books of Moses, written by a trained scribe and used for Torah reading in synagogues.

Sefer Yetzirah (ספר יצירה)

Sefer Yetzirah (ספר יצירה, Book of Formation/Creation): a short Hebrew cosmological treatise describing creation through 10 numbers, 22 Hebrew letters, the 32 paths of wisdom and 231 gates; first attested 10th century, foundational to Kabbalah.

Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta, born 1964, is a Nigerian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose debut novel Everything Good Will Come won the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize in 2006.

SeFi-Image

SeFi-Image is a text-to-image model family released in June 2026, built on Semantic-First Diffusion, a two-stream latent diffusion design that denoises semantic structure ahead of texture detail.

Sefire Steles

The Sefire Steles are three basalt stelae from Sefire near Aleppo, Syria, inscribed in Old Aramaic with a mid-8th-century BC vassal treaty between Bar-ga'yah of KTK and Mati'el of Arpad.

Sefirot (סְפִירוֹת)

Sefirot, also known as Sephirot, are the ten divine emanations of Kabbalah, from Keter to Malkhut, forming the Tree of Life through which God relates to creation.

SEFOR

SEFOR, the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, was a 20 MW experimental sodium-cooled fast reactor near Strickler, Arkansas, operated from 1969 to 1972 to measure the Doppler reactivity effect.

Sefton

Sefton is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, running 22 miles along the northwest coast and home to nearly 280,000 people.

Sefton Delmer

Sefton Delmer (1904–1979), British journalist born in Berlin and Daily Express correspondent, headed PWE black propaganda in WWII, running fake German stations Gustav Siegfried Eins and Soldatensender Calais.

Sefton Hill

Sefton Hill is a British video game director who co-founded Rocksteady Studios in London in 2004, directed the Batman: Arkham games, and co-founded Hundred Star Games in 2023.

Sefwi

Sefwi is an Akan people and region in Ghana's Western Region, comprising three traditional states and long a refuge for people fleeing wars to the north and east.

Sefwi Kingdom

The Sefwi Kingdom, also spelled Sehwi, is a group of Akan traditional states in Ghana's Western North Region comprising the three paramountcies of Anhwiaso, Bekwai, and Wiawso.

Sega (セガ)

Sega (セガ), SEGA CORPORATION, Japanese game company named for Service Games, established June 3, 1960; maker of Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast, Sonic, Yakuza, and Persona (via Atlus), now under Sega Sammy Holdings.

Sega CD

Sega CD, also known as Mega-CD, is a CD-ROM add-on for the Sega Genesis sold from 1991, adding FMV games and prompting the 1993 Senate hearings behind the ESRB.

Sega Genesis (メガドライブ)

Sega Genesis (メガドライブ, Mega Drive): Sega's 16-bit home console, launched Japan October 29, 1988 and US August 14, 1989; dual 68000/Z80 CPUs, YM2612 audio, 29-40 million units sold, 'Genesis does what Nintendon't'.