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Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui, French-Moroccan actor and screenwriter born 1973 in Villepinte, France. Co-wrote and starred in La Haine (1995, Cannes Best Director, César nomination); known for Three Kings, G.I. Joe, Wonder Woman, Lost.
Said the actress to the bishop
Said the actress to the bishop, also as the actress said to the bishop, is a British catchphrase implying sexual innuendo in an innocent remark; Edwardian-era origins, RAF use c. 1944–7, popularized by Leslie Charteris's Saint novels and revived by The Office.
Saida Karoli
Saida Karoli, known in Uganda as Wanchekecha, is a Tanzanian singer, dancer, and drummer born in 1976 in Rwongwe, best known for the 2001 hit "Maria Salome".
Saidai-ji
Saidai-ji (西大寺, "Great Western Temple") is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, and head temple of the Shingon Risshū sect, founded in 765 by Empress Shōtoku.
SAIDI
SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) is an electric power reliability metric giving the average customer's total sustained outage minutes per year, defined in IEEE Standard 1366.
Saido Berahino
Saido Berahino, Burundi-born striker (born 1993, Bujumbura) who starred for West Bromwich Albion, was called up by England in 2014, later played for Burundi, and joined Stoke City for £12m in 2017.
Saidpur, Rangpur Division
Saidpur (Bengali: সৈয়দপুর), also spelled Syedpur, is a city in Nilphamari District of Rangpur Division in northern Bangladesh, founded in the 1870s around a British-era railway workshop.
Saiee Manjrekar
Saiee M. Manjrekar, Indian actress in Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu cinema, daughter of Mahesh Manjrekar; debuted in Dabangg 3 (2019), Telugu debut Ghani (2022), known for Major.
Saif A. Haque
Saif A. Haque, also published as Saif Haque, is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London, known for work on organic and perovskite solar cells.
Saif Ahmed Al Ghurair
Saif Ahmed Al Ghurair (1924–2019) was an Emirati business tycoon who founded Al Ghurair Group, a Dubai conglomerate spanning manufacturing, real estate, and banking, in 1960.
Saif al-Adel
Saif al-Adel (سيف العدل) is the nom de guerre of Mohammed Salahuddin Zeidan, an Egyptian ex-army officer who is al Qaeda's de facto leader, operating from Iran since 2002.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (also al-Qadhafi), second son of Muammar Gaddafi and one-time heir apparent, ICC-indicted 2011, death sentence in absentia 2015, freed 2017, 2021 presidential candidate, shot dead in Zintan 3 February 2026.
Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi, is an Indian actor and producer in Hindi cinema, son of Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Debut Parampara (1992); known for Dil Chahta Hai, Hum Tum (National Award), Omkara, seven Filmfare Awards, Padma Shri 2010.
Saif Ali Khan filmography
Saif Ali Khan filmography: Hindi films and series of the Indian actor born 1970, debut Parampara (1993), breakthrough Dil Chahta Hai (2001), National Award for Hum Tum (2004), Omkara, Sacred Games, Tanhaji.
Saif Amer
Saif Amer (سيف عامر) is an Iraqi singer, composer, pianist, and songwriter active since 2015, whose single 'Aybaah' ranked among Saudi Arabia's most-streamed Arabic songs of 2024.
Saif Group
Saif Group is a family-owned industrial and services conglomerate based in Islamabad, Pakistan, founded by Khan Faizullah Khan and operating across power generation, textiles, oil and gas, and healthcare.
Saif Nabil
Saif Nabil, also known as Saif Nabeel (سيف نبيل), is an Iraqi singer and composer whose 2015 song "Qabel Youmeen" made him famous across the Gulf.
Saif Partners India
Saif Partners India, also known as SoftBank Asia Infrastructure Fund, is an India-focused venture capital firm begun in 2001 and rebranded as Elevation Capital in October 2020.
Saif-ul-Maluk
Saif-ul-Maluk (سیف الملوک), also known as Safar-ul-Ishq, is a Punjabi Sufi masnavi by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907) recounting Prince Saif-ul-Maluk's quest for the fairy Badi-ul-Jamal, read as an allegory of the soul's pursuit of Divine Truth.
Saifai (सैफई)
Saifai (सैफई) is a village and tehsil in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, ancestral village of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, home to UPUMS medical university, Major Dhyan Chand Sports College, and the annual Saifai Mahotsav festival.
Saifedean Ammous (سيفدين عموس)
Saifedean Ammous (سيفدين عموس) is an Austrian-school economist trained at Columbia University, best known for The Bitcoin Standard (2018), and later an economic advisor to El Salvador's Bitcoin Office.
SAIFI
SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) counts the sustained, non-momentary power interruptions the average electric customer experiences per year, calculated as total customer interruptions divided by total customers under IEEE 1366.
Saifu
Saifu is a ruler dated around 577 AD who is conventionally, but disputedly, identified as a king of Aksum, based on one passage in a Chinese biography of Muhammad.
Saifu Pharma (北京赛赋医药研究院有限公司)
Saifu Pharma (赛赋医药), formally Beijing Saifu Pharmaceutical Research Institute Co., Ltd., is a Chinese one-stop contract research organization for innovative drugs, founded in 2016 and based in Beijing.
Saifu Yiyao (赛赋医药)
Saifu Yiyao (赛赋医药) is a Beijing-based contract research organization founded in 2016, offering one-stop drug evaluation from discovery consulting through nonclinical safety testing and Phase I clinical work.
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail is a Malaysian politician of the People's Justice Party (PKR) who serves as Minister of Home Affairs and Secretary-General of Pakatan Harapan.
Saiful Islam (materials chemist)
M. Saiful Islam is a materials chemist who holds the Statutory Chair in Materials Modelling at Oxford, known for atomistic modeling of battery and solar-cell materials.
Saifullah Khan
Saifullah Khan was the founding generation of the Saifullah family of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, whose early construction and power ventures grew into the Saif Group, an Islamabad-headquartered conglomerate.
Saiga antelope
Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), a migratory steppe antelope of Central Asia with a bulbous nose. Crashed 95% after 1991 from poaching for TCM horn, hit by 2015 die-off, then recovered to over 1.9 million; IUCN Near Threatened since 2023.
Saiga semi-automatic rifle
The Saiga semi-automatic rifle (Сайга) is a Kalashnikov-based civilian hunting carbine made by Izhmash in Izhevsk, Russia, chambered from .223 Remington to .308 Winchester; US imports ended in 2014.