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Shen Yixiu
Shen Yixiu (沈宜修, courtesy name Wanjun, 1590–1635) was a late Ming Chinese poet and anthology editor from Wujiang, Suzhou, remembered as the Ming's Li Qingzhao.
Shen Yourong
Shen Yourong (沈有容), courtesy name Shihong, was a Ming dynasty naval commander from Xuancheng known for driving Japanese pirates from Taiwan and persuading the Dutch to leave the Pescadores.
Shen Youzhi
Shen Youzhi (沈攸之) was a Liu Song general who rose from conscript to regent and led a failed rising against Xiao Daocheng, dying in 478.
Shen Youzhi's rebellion
Shen Youzhi's rebellion (沈攸之举兵) was the rising of Jingzhou governor Shen Youzhi against the regent Xiao Daocheng in the final years of the Liu Song dynasty.
Shen Yue (actress)
Shen Yue (沈月), Chinese actress born 1997 in Wugang, Hunan, known as Chen Xiaoxi in A Love So Beautiful (2017) and Dong Shancai in Meteor Garden (2018); left agency Gongfu Zhenyan in 2026 for her own studio.
Shen Yujie (沈羽洁)
Shen Yujie (沈羽洁), born 2001 in Jinhua, Zhejiang, is a mainland Chinese actress and Beijing Film Academy 2019 experimental-class graduate. Known for Checkmate (2022), The Fearless and Only for Love (2023), Coroner's Diary (2025); 2025 iQIYI Scream Night Year's Potential Actor.
Shen Zhou
Shen Zhou (沈周, 1427–1509) was a Ming dynasty painter, poet, and recluse of Suzhou who never held office, judged the first painter of the Ming age.
Shen Zongqian
Shen Zongqian (沈宗骞, c. 1736–1820), courtesy name Xiyuan and art name Jiezhou, was a Qing dynasty literati painter and theorist from Huzhou, Zhejiang, known for his 1781 treatise Jiezhou Xuehuabian.
Shen‐Ying Zhang
Shen-Ying Zhang (born 1971) is a physician-scientist in immunology who studies the human genetics of severe viral brain infections, best known for linking childhood herpes simplex encephalitis to single-gene defects.
Shenandoah (film)
Shenandoah is a 1965 American Civil War drama directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart as a neutral Virginia farmer whose son is taken prisoner.
Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Blue Ridge park established 1935; 198,754 acres, 105-mile Skyline Drive, 101 miles of Appalachian Trail, 1.7 million 2024 visitors, Old Rag Granite about 1.1 billion years old.
Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is a Potomac tributary formed at Front Royal, Virginia, by the North and South Forks, flowing 57 miles to Harpers Ferry; a top eastern smallmouth bass river with fish kills and harmful algal blooms.
Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley: fertile Appalachian valley of western Virginia between Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains, drained by the Shenandoah River; karst limestone terrain, Great Warrior Path, Jost Hite's first homestead, wheat economy, 1862 Stonewall Jackson campaign, and $52 billion Virginia agriculture.
Shenaz Treasury
Shenaz Treasury (Shenaz Treasurywala), born 1981 in Mumbai, is an Indian actress, MTV VJ, writer, and travel vlogger known for Ishq Vishk, Delhi Belly, One Life to Live, The Big Sick, and her 2022 book All He Left Me Was a Recipe.
Shence Army
The Shence Army (神策軍) was the principal palace guard army of the Tang dynasty from Emperor Daizong's reign until 903, commanded for most of that period by eunuch officers.
Shence Army Commandants (Zhongwei)
The Shence Army Commandants (中尉) headed the Tang dynasty's Shence Army. Held only by eunuchs from 796 to 903, the office let them depose emperors and coerce the court.
Shence Army Commissionership
The Shence Army Commissionership (神策軍中尉) was the pair of offices, created by Emperor Dezong, through which palace eunuchs commanded the Shence Army and made emperors until 903.
Shenda M. Baker
Shenda M. Baker is an American chemist who was a professor at Harvey Mudd College from 1991 to 2014 and co-founded Synedgen, a glycopolymer therapeutics company.
Sheneh (pharaoh)
Sheneh was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, a Delta king known only from king lists, with no monuments or inscriptions of his own.
Shenergy
Shenergy (申能) is a wholly state-owned energy conglomerate based in Shanghai, China, founded in 1987 and supervised by Shanghai SASAC. It supplies roughly one-third of the city's electricity.
Sheng
Sheng is a Swahili-based urban youth slang that originated in Nairobi's Eastlands estates, first recorded in 1965, and is now spoken across Kenya and heard in genge and gengetone music.
Sheng Dai
Sheng Dai is a chemist who leads separations and polymer chemistry research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is known for ionic liquids and mesoporous carbon materials.
Sheng Ding
Sheng Ding is a chemist and stem cell biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF known for using small molecules to induce pluripotent and totipotent stem cells.
Sheng Keyi
Sheng Keyi (盛可以) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1973 in Yiyang, Hunan, whose fierce fiction centers on rural and migrant women; her debut novel is Bei Mei.
Sheng Lihao
Sheng Lihao (盛李豪), born 2004, Chinese 10m air rifle shooter; double Olympic champion at Paris 2024, Tokyo silver medalist, former world record holder 254.5, and Asian Games gold medallist.
Sheng Luan
Sheng Luan is a plant biologist and professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley, known for Nature papers on how plants encode and decode calcium signals.
Sheng Meng
Sheng Meng (孟胜) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for simulations of water at surfaces and 2D materials.
Sheng Shicai
Sheng Shicai (盛世才) was a Chinese military officer and warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944, aligning with the Soviets before turning to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942.
Sheng Siong Group
Sheng Siong Group (升菘集团) is a Singaporean supermarket chain founded by the Lim brothers in 1985 and listed on the Singapore Exchange since 2011, the country's second-largest behind NTUC FairPrice.
Sheng Xu
Sheng Xu is a biomedical engineer who develops soft, stretchable wearable ultrasound devices for health monitoring, and joined Stanford University as a tenured professor in 2025.