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Shakuntala Devi (शकुंतला देवी) (film)
Shakuntala Devi (शकुंतला देवी), 2020 Hindi biographical comedy-drama directed by Anu Menon, starring Vidya Balan as the Human Computer; released 31 July 2020 on Amazon Prime Video, told through daughter Anupama Banerji's eyes.
Shakuntala Devi (ಶಕುಂತಲಾ ದೇವಿ)
Shakuntala Devi (ಶಕುಂತಲಾ ದೇವಿ, 1929–2013) was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer known as the "Human Computer". In 1980 she multiplied two random 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds, a Guinness record for fastest human computation.
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted (born 1949) is a Trinidad-born, Danish nutrition scientist who won the 2021 World Food Prize for farming small fish such as mola with carp in Bangladesh ponds.
Shakur Stevenson
Shakur Stevenson, American southpaw boxer born 1997 in Newark, NJ; 2016 Olympic silver medalist; undefeated 25-0 (11 KOs); four-division world champion; quickest ever to four-division titles after beating Teofimo Lopez, January 2026.
Shakura-Sunyaev disk
The Shakura-Sunyaev disk, also called the standard thin disk, is a 1973 model of accretion disks around black holes, still the basis of accretion theory.
Shakuru Patera
Shakuru Patera is a 110.22 km volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 24.00N, 265.90W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Pawnee sun god of the East; it lies at the trailing edge of a westward-moving thrust sheet.
Shakushain
Shakushain (シャクシャイン) was an Ainu chief of the Saru region in Hokkaido who in 1669 led a broad uprising against the Matsumae domain's monopoly on trade with the Ainu.
Shakushain's revolt
Shakushain's revolt (シャクシャインの戦い) was a 1669 Ainu uprising against the Matsumae domain and Japanese settlers in Ezo (present-day Hokkaido), suppressed after Shakushain was murdered at a peace banquet in October 1669.
Shaky Knees
Shaky Knees, also known as the Shaky Knees Music Festival, is an annual three-day rock and indie festival in Atlanta, founded in 2013 by Tim Sweetwood.
Shakya
The Shakya (Śākya) were the ancient gana-sangha clan of Kapilavastu on the India–Nepal border, the clan of the Buddha (Shakyamuni), ruled by an assembly, and destroyed by Kosala under Virudhaka.
Shal Marshall
Shal Marshall, born Stephenson Marshall, is a Trinidadian soca artist and DJ who began as a sound-system DJ and radio host, best known for "Splinters", the fete anthem of Trinidad's Carnival 2018 season.
Shala
Shala (O'a, Shalla) is a silicic caldera volcano in the central Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia, whose caldera holds Lake Shala, the rift's deepest lake. Caldera formed 240±30 ka; no Holocene eruptions known; fumaroles and geothermal springs persist.
Shala Mons
Shala Mons, a former IAU-named 90 km volcanic edifice on Venus at 39.4°N 208.0°E in Ganiki Planitia (V-14), named for a Canaanite storm goddess in 2006; the name was dropped in December 2025 when topographic analysis found no mons there.
Shalamar
Shalamar, American R&B and dance group formed in Los Angeles in 1976 by Don Cornelius and Dick Griffey; classic lineup Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniel; hits "The Second Time Around" and "A Night to Remember"; over 25 million records sold; Jeffrey Daniel's backslide became the moonwalk.
Shalamar Gardens, Lahore
Shalamar Gardens (شالیمار باغ), also Shalimar Gardens, a 16-hectare Mughal garden in Lahore built by Shah Jahan 1641–1642 on three terraces with 410 fountains; UNESCO World Heritage Site 1981, in Danger 2000–2012.
Shalane Flanagan
Shalane Flanagan (b. 1981), American distance runner, four-time Olympian, 2008 Olympic 10,000 m silver medalist, and 2017 New York City Marathon champion (2:26:53), the first American woman to win it in 40 years; marathon best 2:21:14.
Shalankayana dynasty
The Shalankayana dynasty (शालंकायन वंश) was a royal lineage of early Andhradesa that ruled from Vengi in coastal Andhra, documented by ten charters dating ca. 300–450 CE.
Shalbatana Vallis
Shalbatana Vallis, an outflow channel on Mars, Akkadian for "Mars", runs over 1,300 km from Xanthe Terra to Chryse Planitia; carved by catastrophic groundwater floods about 3.5 billion years ago from Orson Welles crater's chaotic terrain.
Shale
Shale, also known as shale rock, is a fine-grained laminated sedimentary rock that splits along bedding planes and makes up two thirds of the sedimentary record.
Shale gas
Shale gas is natural gas, predominantly methane, held in fine-grained, low-permeability shale that serves as its source, reservoir, and trap, extracted by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Shale oil
Shale oil, also called kerogen oil, is a liquid made by heating oil shale above 300 °C; since the early 2000s it also covers tight oil from fracking.
Shalender Bhasin
Shalender Bhasin (S. Bhasin) is a physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for research on testosterone therapy, muscle loss with aging, and men's health.
Shalev Itzkovitz
Shalev Itzkovitz is an Israeli systems biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science who pioneered single-molecule transcript imaging, building spatial cell atlases of the liver and intestine.
Shalfak
Shalfak is the smallest of the Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortresses of the Second Cataract in Lower Nubia, built under Senusret III and now an island in Lake Nubia.
Shaligram
Shaligram, also called Salagram, is a fossil ammonite stone from Nepal's Kali Gandaki river worshipped as a self-manifested form of Vishnu for over 2,000 years by Hindus, Buddhists, and Bon practitioners.
Shalim-ahum
Shalim-ahum, also known as Šalim-aḫum, was an early ruler of the city-state of Assur around 2000 BC, known from a single stone-block inscription recording a temple he built for the god Assur.
Shalimar Seiuli
Shalimar Seiuli (Saoaumaga Atisone Seiuli), Samoan fa'afafine dancer and 1993 Miss Island Queen, was arrested in 1997 after being picked up by Eddie Murphy's SUV in West Hollywood; she died in a fall in Los Angeles on 22 April 1998, ruled accidental but doubted by her community, and her life inspired the play Girl on a Corner.
Shalin Bhanot
Shalin Bhanot (शालीन भनोट), Indian Hindi TV actor from Jabalpur, born 1983; MTV Roadies 2 (2004) contestant, Nach Baliye 4 winner, Bigg Boss 16 fifth-place finalist, Bekaboo's Ranav, Inspector Avinash's Baljeet Singh, Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 finalist.
Shalina D. Kumar
Shalina D. Kumar, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Shalini Pandey
Shalini Pandey is an Indian actress from Jabalpur, known for her 2017 Telugu debut Arjun Reddy as Preeti Shetty, Hindi debut Jayeshbhai Jordaar (2022), Maharaj (2024), Dabba Cartel (2025), and Rahu Ketu (2026).