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Shamillah Bankiya
Shamillah Bankiya is a partner at the UK venture capital firm Dawn Capital, leading its investments in AI, infrastructure, and automation, including early bets on Runware and Blackwall.
Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum (born 1999) is a British-born woman stripped of UK citizenship in 2019 by Home Secretary Sajid Javid after joining Islamic State in Syria at 15; all UK courts, ending at the Supreme Court in 2024, upheld the deprivation.
Shamir R. Mehta
Shamir R. Mehta is a Canadian interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, known for the COMPLETE trial of complete revascularization in myocardial infarction.
Shamir's Secret Sharing
Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) is a 1979 threshold scheme by Adi Shamir that splits a secret into n shares, any t of which reconstruct it while fewer reveal nothing.
Shamisen (三味線)
Shamisen (三味線), also called sangen, is a Japanese three-string fretless lute derived from the Chinese sanxian via the Okinawan sanshin. About 97 cm long, skin-covered, played with a large bachi plectrum; types hosozao, chuzao, futozao serve nagauta, jiuta, and Tsugaru genres.
Shamita Shetty (शमिता शेट्टी)
Shamita Shetty (शमिता शेट्टी), Indian actress born 1979 in Mangalore, younger sister of Shilpa Shetty; debuted in Mohabbatein (2000), won IIFA Star Debut Female 2001, known for Zeher, Bigg Boss 15 third runner-up, and The Tenant (2023).
Shamitabh (शमिताभ)
Shamitabh (शमिताभ) is a 2015 Hindi comedy-drama by R. Balki starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, and Akshara Haasan, in which a mute actor and a failed alcoholic performer combine via technology into one star; released 6 February 2015, it earned mixed reviews and flopped.
Shamkhalate of Tarki
The Shamkhalate of Tarki was a Kumyk polity in lowland Dagestan, centered on Tarki, ruled by a shamkhal dynasty from the 15th century until Russia abolished it in 1867.
Shamlu
The Shamlu (شاملو) were a Turkmen Qizilbash tribe that joined the Safavid order in Anatolia and Syria and became one of the most influential tribes of Safavid Iran.
Shammar Yuhar'ish
Shammar Yuhar'ish, also vocalized Shammar Yahri'sh (Arabic: شمر يهرعش), was a king of the Yemeni kingdom of Himyar around 300 CE, credited with completing the unification of ancient South Arabia.
Shammar Yuhar'ish's expedition to Central Arabia
Shammar Yuhar'ish's expedition to Central Arabia refers to the northern reach of the Himyarite king Shammar Yuhar'ish (شمر يهرعش), who reigned from about 286 to 311 CE.
Shammi (नरगिस रबादी) (actress)
Shammi (Nargis Rabadi, 1929-2018), Indian Hindi-film character actress famed as "Shammi Aunty"; over 200 films and TV shows, comic roles, Dekh Bhai Dekh's Chhoti Nani, renamed at debut to avoid clashing with star Nargis Dutt.
Shammi Kapoor (शम्मी कपूर)
Shammi Kapoor (शम्मी कपूर), born Shamsher Raj Kapoor (1931–2011), was a Hindi film actor and director, son of Prithviraj Kapoor, whose Junglee (1961) 'Yahoo' persona made him the Elvis Presley of India.
Shamnad Basheer
Shamnad Basheer (1976–2019), Indian IP law scholar, NUJS MHRD chair professor, founder of the SpicyIP blog and the IDIA legal-education access project, Novartis case amicus, Infosys Prize in Humanities winner.
Shamo (军鸡)
Shamo (军鸡, Japanese 軍鶏) is a 2007 Hong Kong-Japan action film directed by Soi Cheang, adapted from the Hashimoto Izo and Akio Tanaka manga about Ryo Narushima, a parent-killer who becomes a prison-trained karate fighter.
Shamoon
Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, is a wiper malware first used in August 2012 against Saudi Arabian energy firms, wiping about 30,000 Saudi Aramco workstations.
Shampoo
Shampoo is a hair care product, typically a viscous liquid, that cleans the scalp and hair by removing sebum, dandruff, and residues; modern formulas also condition and help manage dandruff.
Shampoo (film)
Shampoo (1975) is a Hal Ashby sex farce, written by Warren Beatty and Robert Towne, starring Beatty as Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy on election eve 1968, with Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant (Oscar winner), Jack Warden, and Carrie Fisher.
Shamrock
The shamrock, also known as the three-leaf clover, is a small three-leaved plant symbolizing Ireland, most often Trifolium dubium or Trifolium repens, and one of Ireland's official State emblems.
Shamrock Rovers F.C.
Shamrock Rovers F.C. (the Hoops), Dublin club founded in Ringsend (1899 or 1901), record 22 League of Ireland titles and 26 FAI Cups, first Irish club in Europe and in a European group stage, home at Tallaght Stadium since 2009, 50% member-owned.
Shams al-A'imma al-Sarakhsi
Shams al-A'imma al-Sarakhsi (السرخسي) was a Hanafi jurist, born in Sarakhs around 1009, who dictated major legal works from memory during fifteen years of imprisonment at Uzgend.
Shams al-Dawla
Shams al-Dawla (شمس الدولة), Abu Tahir, was a Buyid ruler of Hamadan in western Iran from 997, known for seizing Ray and employing Avicenna as his vizier.
Shams al-Din al-Asyuti
Shams al-Din al-Asyuti (شمس الدين المنهاجي الأسطي) was an Egyptian Shafii scholar who grew up in Asyut, settled in Cairo, and wrote works on law and legal documentation.
Shams al-Din al-Inbabi
Shams al-Din al-Inbabi was a Shafi'i jurist of Cairo who served twice as Grand Imam of al-Azhar, the 22nd holder of the office, from 1881 to 1895.
Shams al-Din Ali
Shams al-Din Ali (شمسالدین علی) was a ruler of the Sarbadar state of Sabzevar in Khorasan from 1347 to 1351, known for financial and moral reforms.
Shams al-Din Tabrizi
Shams al-Din Tabrizi (شمس تبریزی) was a wandering Persian Sufi from Tabriz whose meeting with Rumi in Konya in 1244 turned the jurist toward poetry and ecstasy.
Shams al-Ma'arif (شمس المعارف)
Shams al-Ma'arif (شمس المعارف), in full Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra, is an Arabic occult book attributed to the Sufi al-Būnī, teaching the magical use of Arabic letters and Qur'anic verses.
Shams El Arifeen
Shams El Arifeen, also published as Shams Arifeen, is a Bangladeshi epidemiologist and emeritus senior scientist at icddr,b in Dhaka, known for the Projahnmo and IMCI trials that cut newborn and child deaths.
Shams Langeroodi
Shams Langeroodi (شمس لنگرودی), born Mohammad-Taqi Javaheri Gilani, is an Iranian poet and literary researcher, a leading figure of prose poetry after the Islamic Revolution.
Shams Tabrizi (شمس تبریزی)
Shams Tabrizi, also known as Shams of Tabriz, was an itinerant mystic from Tabriz who arrived in Konya in 1244 and transformed Rumi's teaching and poetry.