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Sahl ibn Harun
Sahl ibn Harun (سهل بن هارون) was a Persian-born poet, translator, and court secretary who served three Abbasid caliphs and headed the caliphal library in Baghdad under al-Ma'mun.
Sahl ibn Malik al-Azdi
Sahl ibn Malik al-Azdi (سهل بن محمد بن سهل الأزدي) was a 13th-century Andalusian hadith scholar and Qur'an reciter from Granada, exiled to Murcia, who died in 640 AH.
Sahl ibn Tammam al-Tafawi
Sahl ibn Tammam al-Tafawi was a tenth-generation Basran hadith transmitter who died around 840 CE, graded truthful but error-prone; among his students was Abu Dawud.
Sahle Selassie
Sahle Selassie (ሣህለ ሥላሴ, c. 1795–1847) was ruler of the Ethiopian kingdom of Shewa from 1813 to 1847, taking the title of Negus and declaring independence in the 1830s.
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam (born 1936) is an Ethiopian novelist who wrote in English, Amharic, and Chaha, and a founder of Ethiopia's literature in English.
Sahle-Work Zewde (ሳህለወርቅ ዘውዴ)
Sahle-Work Zewde (ሳህለወርቅ ዘውዴ), born 1950, Ethiopian career diplomat and UN official who served as Ethiopia's fifth president, the first woman in the office, from 25 October 2018 until her departure on 7 October 2024, succeeded by Taye Atskeselassie.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset), Sweden's largest hospital in Gothenburg and Mölndal, formed 1997 by merging Sahlgrenska, Östra, and Mölndal hospitals; founded on Niclas Sahlgren's 1772 donation, first opened 1782, about 17,000 staff.
Sahneh
Sahneh (صحنه, "Scene") is the second studio album by Iranian pop singer Siavash Shams, released on Caltex Records in the early 1990s and credited with introducing modern Iranian dance music.
Sahnun
Sahnun (سحنون) was a Maliki jurist of Qayrawan, chief qadi of Ifriqiya from 849, who compiled the Mudawwana, the foundational work of Maliki law in the Maghreb.
Sahnun ibn Sa'id
Sahnun ibn Sa'id (سحنون بن سعيد) was a Maliki jurist of Kairouan in Ifriqiya who died in 854; his Mudawwana became a foundational text of the Maliki school of law.
Sahra Wagenknecht
Sahra Wagenknecht, German economist and politician born 1969 in Jena; ex-Die Linke parliamentary co-leader, founder and former chair of the left-conservative BSW party, which narrowly missed Bundestag entry in 2025 before her late-2025 leadership withdrawal.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR, الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية), proclaimed by the Polisario Front on 27 February 1976 in Bir Lahlou, is a partially recognized government-in-exile claiming Western Sahara, an AU member based in Tindouf refugee camps.
Sahu Garapati
Sahu Garapati (సాహు గారపాటి), Telugu film producer and founder of Shine Screens (2017, with Harish Peddi); debut Krishnarjuna Yudham (2018); National Award for Bhagavanth Kesari (2023).
Sahuasiray (Nevado Colque Cruz)
Sahuasiray (Saguasiray, locally Colque Cruz), 5,818 m peak of Peru's Cordillera Urubamba near Cusco; first climbed 1963 by Italians (Carlo Pivano died in rockfall), second ascent 2015 via southwest face by Nathan Heald.
Sahure
Sahure, also written Sahura, was the second king of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, reigning c. 2487–2475 BCE; his pyramid at Abusir set the model for later royal monuments.
Sahurunuwa
Šaḫurunuwa was a king of Carchemish in the mid-13th century BC, the second viceroy of the Hittite cadet dynasty, known from the archives of Ugarit and Emar.
Saʽid (سَعِيد)
Saʽid (سَعِيد; Saeed, Said, Sa'id) is an Arabic masculine given name meaning "happy, fortunate", from the root س-ع-د, spread with Islam to Persian, Turkic, Urdu, and Malay, and distinct from the honorific Sayyid.
Sai (weapon)
Sai (釵) is a blunt Okinawan kobudo weapon: a steel shaft with two curved prongs (yoku), carried in pairs by Ufuchiku police to trap blades and strike; name means hairpin; distinct from the single-hooked jutte.
Sai Abhyankkar
Sai Abhyankkar (சாய் அபயங்கர்), born 2004 in Chennai, is an Indian composer, playback singer, and producer in Tamil cinema, son of singers Tippu and Harini, known for the viral singles Katchi Sera and Aasa Kooda and for scoring Balti, Dude, and Karuppu.
Sai Baba of Shirdi
Sai Baba of Shirdi, also known as Shirdi Sai Baba or Sai Nath, was an Indian saint who lived in Shirdi, Maharashtra, for about sixty years until his death in 1918.
Sai Dhanshika (சாய் தன்ஷிகா)
Sai Dhanshika (சாய் தன்ஷிகா), also credited as Dhanshika or Thanushika, is an Indian actress in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu cinema, known for Peranmai (2009), Paradesi (2013) and Kabali (2016) opposite Rajinikanth, with a 2024 web-series debut Aindham Vedham.
Sai Dharam Tej
Sai Dharam Tej (సాయి ధరమ్ తేజ్), born in 1986, is an Indian actor known since 2024 as Sai Durgha Tej; he is the nephew of Nagababu, Chiranjeevi, and Pawan Kalyan.
Sai Island
Sai Island (Saï) is a large Nile island in Upper Nubia, northern Sudan, a leading center of the Kerma kingdom and later the Egyptian headquarters in Kush.
Sai Kumar (സായ് കുമാർ) (Malayalam actor)
Saikumar (സായ് കുമാർ), also credited as Sai Kumar, is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Malayalam films and became known for villains and serious character roles.
Sai Lue Thai
Sai Lue Thai (ไสลือไทย), known as Maha Thammaracha III, was the eighth king of the Phra Ruang dynasty of Sukhothai, ruling as a vassal of Ayutthaya.
Sai Mai
Sai Mai (สายไหม) is Bangkok's district 42, a northern residential khet bordering Pathum Thani, created from Bang Khen in 1997, area 44.615 km², three khwaeng, about 213,000 residents, office on Sukhaphiban 5 Road.
Sai On
Sai On (蔡温, 1682–1761) was a Ryukyuan statesman and Confucian scholar who sat on the council of state from 1728 and directed King Shō Kei's Confucian and forest reforms.
Sai Pallavi
Sai Pallavi Senthamarai Kannan (born 1992, Coimbatore) is an Indian actress and dancer in Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema, lead debut Premam (2015), Telugu breakthrough Fidaa (2017), Rowdy Baby one-billion-view song, Hindi debut Ek Din (2026), and Sita in Ramayana.
Sai Reddy
Sai T. Reddy is a Swiss-based systems and synthetic immunologist, a Full Professor at ETH Zurich in Basel who heads its Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Immunology.
Sai Senthilkumar
Sai Senthilkumar is a venture capital investor who is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures, which he joined in 2019, focusing on growth-stage AI, cloud infrastructure, and security.