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Shankar Mahadevan (शंकर महादेवन)
Shankar Mahadevan (शंकर महादेवन), born 1967 in Mumbai, is an Indian playback singer and composer of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, famous for Breathless and a 2024 Grammy.
Shankar Nag
Shankar Nag (Shankar Nagarakatte, ಶಂಕರ್ ನಾಗ್), 1954–1990, Kannada film actor, director and producer, debut Ondanondu Kaladalli, IFFI Silver Peacock winner, director of Malgudi Days and Minchina Ota, died in a 1990 car crash.
Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry, also known as S. Shankar Sastry, is a control theorist and roboticist at UC Berkeley, known for adaptive control, robotics, and hybrid systems.
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy is an Indian musical trio of film composers. Known for pioneering the three-member team in Bollywood, they worked on Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003).
Shankara Bharati
Shankara Bharati was the 16th Jagadguru of the Dakshinamnaya Sringeri Sharada Peetham, holding the pontifical seat from 1448 to 1455, between Puroshottama Bharati I and Chandrasekhara Bharati II.
Shankaracharya
Shankaracharya (Śaṅkarācārya) is the title borne by the heads of the four Hindu monasteries attributed to the 8th-century Advaita Vedanta teacher Adi Shankara, each called Jagadguru, or world teacher.
Shankaravarman
Shankaravarman (शङ्करवर्मन्) was a king of the Utpala dynasty of Kashmir who reigned from 883 to 902 CE, campaigned in the Punjab, and founded Shankarapattana.
Shankaravarman's campaigns
Shankaravarman's campaigns (शंकरवर्मन्) were the late-9th-century wars of expansion fought by Shankaravarman, Utpala king of Kashmir, who took Takka-land from Alakhana during his reign of c. 883–902 CE.
Shankersinh Vaghela (શંકરસિંહ વાઘેલા)
Shankersinh Vaghela (શંકરસિંહ વાઘેલા), "Bapu", born 1940, Gujarat politician; 12th Chief Minister 1996–97 via RJP after BJP rebellion, later Congress MP and Union Textile Minister.
Shankh Air
Shankh Air is a proposed Indian regional airline based in Uttar Pradesh that received a civil aviation ministry No Objection Certificate in 2024 but had not begun flying as of mid-2026.
Shankha (शङ्ख)
The Shankha (शङ्ख), known in Tibetan Buddhism as Dung-Dkar, is the sacred conch shell blown like a horn and used as a water vessel in Hindu puja.
Shankha Ghosh
Shankha Ghosh (শঙ্খ ঘোষ, 1932–2021) was an Indian Bengali poet, critic, and Tagore scholar who received India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, in 2016.
Shankill Butchers
The Shankill Butchers were a Belfast loyalist gang associated with the UVF. Eleven members received forty-two life sentences in1979 for offenses including nineteen murders.
Shankill Road
Shankill Road, Belfast: mainly Protestant/unionist west Belfast thoroughfare parallel to the Falls Road, separated by the Cupar Way peace wall (14 m high, 650 m long), known for murals, the 1993 Frizzell's bombing, and political taxi tours.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Shanksville is a small borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near which United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001; the 2,277-acre Flight 93 National Memorial preserves the crash site two miles north of town.
Shanlin Jinrong
Shanlin Jinrong (善林金融) was a Shanghai-based P2P lending platform controlled by Zhou Boyun that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors in a Ponzi scheme before collapsing in 2018.
Shanlyn A. S. Park
Shanlyn A. S. Park, born Shanlyn Alohakeao Souza Park, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Hawaii since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Shanmukha (షణ్ముఖ) (film)
Shanmukha (షణ్ముఖ), also listed as Shanmuka Chapter 1, is a 2025 Telugu devotional thriller directed by Shanmugam Sappani, starring Aadi Saikumar and Avika Gor, released 21 March 2025, streaming on Aha from 11 April 2025.
Shanna Besson
Shanna Besson (born 1993) is a French still photographer and film-poster photographer, daughter of directors Maïwenn and Luc Besson; credits include Mon roi, The Sisters Brothers, Dogman, Emilia Pérez, and Dracula.
Shanna Moakler
Shanna Moakler (Shanna Lynn Moakler, born 1975, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American model, actress, and reality TV personality; Miss USA 1995 (assumed crown), Playboy Playmate December 2001, star of Meet the Barkers with ex-husband Travis Barker, and director of Miss Nevada USA and Miss Utah USA.
Shanna Swan
Shanna H. Swan is an American environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Mount Sinai, known for research showing sperm counts have roughly halved in Western countries.
Shannan West Circuit
Shannan West Circuit (山南西道) was a Tang dynasty circuit seated at Liangzhou, later Xingyuan Prefecture, in present-day Hanzhong, Shaanxi, raised to a jiedushi command in 763.
Shannara
Shannara: Terry Brooks's epic fantasy series begun with The Sword of Shannara (1977), the first fantasy NYT bestseller; set on post-apocalyptic future Earth, 36 primary works, ended with The Last Druid (2020), adapted as MTV's The Shannara Chronicles.
Shanne Braspennincx
Shanne Braspennincx, Dutch track sprinter (born 1991, Turnhout, Belgium), won keirin gold at Tokyo 2020 by 0.061 s six years after a 2015 heart attack; also 2021 European sprint champion; retired February 2024.
Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty (1971-2024), American actress known as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and Prue Halliwell in Charmed, also starred in Heathers and Mallrats; died of breast cancer aged 53.
Shannen Doherty filmography
Shannen Doherty filmography: screen credits of the American actress (1971-2024), from Father Murphy and Little House on the Prairie to Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210, Prue Halliwell in Charmed, and the films Heathers and Mallrats.
Shannon (unit)
The shannon (symbol Sh) is the standard unit of information in the International System of Quantities, equal to the information content of one bit, or an event of probability 1/2.
Shannon Airport
Shannon Airport (Irish: Aerfort na Sionainne) is an international airport in County Clare, Ireland, opened in 1945 and best known for US border preclearance and inventing duty-free shopping in 1947.
Shannon Bennett
Shannon Bennett (born 1973) is an Australian chef and restaurateur, founder of Vue de Monde in Melbourne and The Belongil in Byron Bay; trained under Marco Pierre White and John Burton Race in the UK.
Shannon Boettcher
Shannon Boettcher is an American electrochemist known for water-splitting catalysts and bipolar membranes; a 2023 Blavatnik laureate, he moved from Oregon to UC Berkeley in 2024.