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Shani Shingnapur (शनी शिंगणापूर)
Shani Shingnapur (शनी शिंगणापूर), a village in Nevasa taluka, Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, is famous for its open-air swayambhu black-stone temple of Shani (Saturn) and its doorless, lockless houses, banks included, attributed to the deity's protection.
Shani Wallis
Shani Wallis (born 14 April 1933, Tottenham, London) is an English actress and singer, RADA graduate, best known as Nancy in the 1968 Oscar-winning film Oliver!; West End and Broadway musical star, later US film and TV work.
Shania Twain
Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, 1965) is a Canadian country-pop singer-songwriter. Her Come On Over (1997) is the best-selling country album, roughly 40 million copies; five Grammys; seventh album Little Miss Twain released 2026.
Shania Twain discography
The Shania Twain discography covers the Canadian country-pop singer's seven studio albums from 1993 to 2026, including Come On Over, the best-selling country album ever at over 40 million copies.
Shanibarer Chithi
Shanibarer Chithi (শনিবারের চিঠি, "the Saturday letter") was a Bengali literary magazine founded in Calcutta in 1924, known as the satirical mouthpiece of Bengali literature's conservative wing under longtime editor Sajanikanta Das.
Shanice
Shanice (Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox, born 1973, Pittsburgh) is an American R&B singer, Grammy-nominated for "I Love Your Smile" (1991, No. 1 R&B, No. 2 Hot 100), with gold albums Inner Child and Shanice, Kids Incorporated and Flex & Shanice fame.
Shanice Craft
Shanice Craft (born 1993, Mannheim) is a German discus thrower; 2010 Youth Olympic champion, European bronze medallist 2014, 2016, 2018, European silver 2026 Birmingham, personal best 68.10 m.
Shanidar Cave
Shanidar Cave, in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, is a Palaeolithic site where Ralph Solecki excavated ten Neanderthals (1951–1960), including the famous but now doubted 'Flower Burial' of Shanidar 4; new excavations since 2014 found Shanidar Z.
Shaniera Akram
Shaniera Akram (Shaniera Thompson), Australian-born social worker from Melbourne, married cricketer Wasim Akram in 2013, embraced Islam, settled in Karachi, and leads The Akram Foundation, campaigns against blindness and child abuse, and cleans Clifton beach.
Shanimol Osman
Shanimol Osman is an Indian National Congress politician and member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Keralam Legislative Assembly.
Shanin Blake
Shanin Blake (Shannon B. Lowrey, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter and TikTok personality known for "affirmation music," the viral 2022 song "nature song," the 2024 album Divine Dopamine, and Slothy Records.
Shanina Shaik
Shanina Shaik (born 1991, Melbourne) is an Australian model of Saudi, Pakistani, and Lithuanian descent, a Victoria's Secret runway regular since 2011, IMG-represented, mother of Zai, and Save the Children Australia ambassador.
Shanipu
Shanipu, also rendered Sanipu, was king of Ammon, a kingdom on the Transjordanian plateau east of the Jordan River, who paid tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 734 BC.
Shanique Speight
Shanique Speight is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 29th district in the General Assembly since 2018, serving as Deputy Speaker since 2024.
Shaniwar Wada (शनिवार वाडा)
Shaniwar Wada (शनिवार वाडा), Pune palace-fort built by Peshwa Baji Rao I from 1730, seat of the Peshwas until 1818, gutted by the 1828 fire; walls, five gates, and Hazari Karanje fountain survive as an ASI-protected monument.
Shanji
Shanji (善继) was a Chinese Tiantai Buddhist monk of the late Yuan dynasty (1286–1357), known for transcribing the 81-fascicle Huayan jing in his own blood.
Shanjia–Shanwai controversy
The Shanjia–Shanwai controversy (天台宗山家山外之争) was a doctrinal dispute within the Tiantai school of Chinese Buddhism in the early Northern Song dynasty, ending with Siming Zhili's faction recognized as orthodox.
Shanjing
Shanjing (善静) was a Chan Buddhist master of late-Tang and Five Dynasties China who presided over Yong'an Chan Monastery in Chang'an, dying in 946 at age 89.
SHANK3
SHANK3 (PROSAP2, PSAP2, SPANK-2), gene at 22q13.33 encoding a postsynaptic density scaffold protein; its loss causes Phelan-McDermid syndrome and contributes to autism, intellectual disability, and schizophrenia.
Shankar (ശങ്കർ) (actor)
Shankar (Shankar Panicker, ശങ്കർ), Malayalam and Tamil actor of the 1980s; debuts Oru Thalai Ragam and Manjil Virinja Pookkal (1980), romantic chocolate hero, later director-producer; distinct from the Tamil filmmaker S. Shankar.
Shankar Balasubramanian
Shankar Balasubramanian is a Cambridge chemist who, with David Klenerman, invented the Solexa DNA sequencing chemistry, co-founded Solexa in 1998, and was knighted in 2017.
Shankar Chaudhary
Shankar Chaudhary is an Indian BJP politician who is the Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, elected unopposed in December 2022, and chairman of Banas Dairy.
Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. (శంకర్ దాదా ఎం.బి.బి.ఎస్.)
Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. (శంకర్ దాదా ఎం.బి.బి.ఎస్.) is a 2004 Telugu comedy-drama, a remake of Munna Bhai MBBS, starring Chiranjeevi as a goon who joins medical college; directed by Jayant C Paranji, music by Devi Sri Prasad.
Shankar Dada Zindabad (శంకర్ దాదా జిందాబాద్)
Shankar Dada Zindabad (శంకర్ దాదా జిందాబాద్) is a 2007 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Chiranjeevi and Srikanth; a remake of Lage Raho Munnabhai and sequel to Shankar Dada MBBS, released 27 July 2007 with music by Devi Sri Prasad.
Shankar Dayal Sharma (शंकर दयाल शर्मा)
Shankar Dayal Sharma (शंकर दयाल शर्मा), 1918–1999, Indian lawyer and Congress politician; ninth President of India 1992–1997, eighth Vice President 1987–1992, Chief Minister of Bhopal, Governor of three states, Cambridge-educated legal scholar.
Shankar Ghosh (West Bengal politician)
Shankar Ghosh, born 1974, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Siliguri in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2021 and serves as a state minister.
Shankar IPS
Shankar IPS (ಶಂಕರ್ ಐಪಿಎಸ್) is a 2010 Kannada action crime film directed by M. S. Ramesh, produced by K. Manju, starring Duniya Vijay, Catherine Tresa, and Ragini Dwivedi; released 21 May 2010, music by Gurukiran, briefly stayed by a Bangalore civil court over dialogues.
Shankar Lalwani
Shankar Lalwani, born in 1961 in Indore, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Indore in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after earlier serving as a corporator and civic chairman.
Shankar Lamichhane
Shankar Lamichhane (शंकर लामिछाने, 1928–1976) was a Nepali essayist and short-story writer who introduced the stream-of-consciousness style and won the Madan Puraskar for Abstract Chintan: Pyaj.
Shankar Laxman
Shankar Laxman (Shankar Lakshman, 1933–2006), Indian field hockey goalkeeper: Olympic gold 1956 and 1964, silver 1960; first goalkeeper to captain an international hockey team (1966 Asian Games).