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Saima Wazed
Saima Wazed (সায়মা ওয়াজেদ), Bangladeshi school psychologist and autism advocate, daughter of Sheikh Hasina; WHO South-East Asia Regional Director February 2024 to September 2026, ending in fraud allegations, leave, and resignation.
Saimaa
Saimaa (Saimen) is Finland's largest lake and Europe's fourth largest, a 4,400 km² labyrinth of about 14,000 islands in South Karelia and South Savo, home of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal and drained by the Vuoksi River into Lake Ladoga.
Saimaa Canal
The Saimaa Canal (Saimaan kanava) connects Lake Saimaa in Finland with the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg; first completed in 1856, it runs partly through leased Russian territory.
Saimaa UNESCO Global Geopark
Saimaa UNESCO Global Geopark, in South Karelia and South Savo, Finland, designated 2021; 6,063 km² around Lake Saimaa with Paleoproterozoic bedrock, rapakivi granite, Salpausselkä ridges, and 65 geosites.
Saimin
Saimin is Hawaii's own noodle soup, created in the plantation era from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and other immigrant foodways. Thin egg noodles in light dashi broth with char siu, kamaboko, and Spam distinguish it from ramen.
Saimiri boliviensis
Saimiri boliviensis, the Bolivian or black-capped squirrel monkey (d'Orbigny, 1834), is a Roman-arch squirrel monkey of the upper Amazon in Peru, SW Brazil, and Bolivia, with two subspecies and IUCN status Least Concern.
Saïmon Bouabré
Saïmon Bouabré (Saïmon Nadélia Bouabré), born 2006 in Saint-Étienne, is a French attacking midfielder for Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League, signed from Neom SC for €23M in February 2026 after Monaco sold him to Neom for €10M; Monaco Academy product, Coupe Gambardella 2023 winner, France youth international.
Sain
Sain (सैन) was a bhakti saint and barber at a royal court in central India, a disciple of Ramanand, remembered for one hymn in the Guru Granth Sahib.
Sain Zahoor
Sain Zahoor (سائیں ظہور), also written Sain Zahoor Ahmed, is a Pakistani Sufi folk singer from Punjab who won the BBC World Music Award in 2006.
Saina (film)
Saina (साइना) is a 2021 Hindi biographical sports film directed by Amole Gupte, starring Parineeti Chopra as badminton world No. 1 Saina Nehwal; released 26 March 2021, it flopped at the box office and drew mixed reviews.
Saina Nehwal (साइना नेहवाल)
Saina Nehwal (साइना नेहवाल), Indian women's singles badminton player born 1990 in Hisar; 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, first Indian woman world No. 1 (2015), retired January 2026.
Sainapati
Sainapati (ਸੈਨਾਪਤਿ) was a poet at the court of Guru Gobind Singh and author of the Sri Gur Sobha, a rare eyewitness verse account of the Guru's life composed 1701 to 1708.
Saindhav (సైంధవ్)
Saindhav (సైంధవ్) is a 2024 Telugu action thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Venkatesh Daggubati in his 75th film as a former hitman saving his daughter, released 13 January 2024 to largely negative reviews.
Saindhavadi taila
Saindhavadi taila is a classical Ayurvedic medicated oil built around rock salt cooked into castor oil, used for joint and sinus conditions; its larger version is listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India.
Sainete
The sainete is a short, comic Spanish theatrical piece, usually one act with popular characters and settings, given shape by Ramón de la Cruz in eighteenth-century Madrid.
Sainete criollo
The sainete criollo is a short, one-act musical theater genre from Buenos Aires and Montevideo that portrays immigrant life in conventillo tenements from the late 19th century.
Saini
Saini (सैनी/ਸੈਣੀ), a northern Indian community of Punjab and adjoining regions claiming Yaduvanshi Rajput (Shoorsaini/Surasena of Mathura) descent; OBC-listed in Haryana, Delhi, and Rajasthan; distinct from Mali-Saini groups elsewhere; Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini is a prominent member.
Sainikudu (సైనికుడు)
Sainikudu (సైనికుడు, "Soldier") is a 2006 Telugu political action drama directed by Gunasekhar, starring Mahesh Babu, Trisha, and Irrfan Khan (his only Telugu film), music by Harris Jayaraj; a ₹25-crore Vyjayanthi Movies production that flopped despite its technical scale.
Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's (J Sainsbury plc) is the UK's second largest grocer, founded in 1869 by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury in Drury Lane, London. It runs 600+ supermarkets, 885 convenience stores, and brands including Argos, Habitat, Tu, Nectar, and Sainsbury's Bank, with a 15.2% grocery market share behind Tesco.
Saint
A saint, in Catholic teaching, is a person whose holiness the Church has formally recognized through canonization, the papal act inscribing them for universal veneration.
Saint Andrew, Jamaica
Saint Andrew, Jamaica: most populous of Jamaica's 14 parishes (573,369 in 2011), capital Half-Way Tree, area 434.5 km2, formerly Liguanea, established 1867, administered with Kingston by the KSAC since 1923.
Saint Andrew's Day
Saint Andrew's Day, also known as the Feast of Saint Andrew, is the feast day of Andrew the Apostle, kept on 30 November and a bank holiday in Scotland.
Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)
Saint Ann's School is a non-sectarian independent day school in Brooklyn Heights, founded 1965 by Canon Melville Harcourt with headmaster Stanley Bosworth. About 1,100 students, preschool-12, no grades or rankings, narrative reports, six buildings on Pierrepont Street.
Saint Anne
Saint Anne, also known as Saint Anna, is the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus in Christian tradition, though unnamed in the New Testament.
Saint Anselm College
Saint Anselm College: private Catholic Benedictine liberal arts college in Manchester, New Hampshire, founded 1889; about 2,200 undergraduates, known for nursing, the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, and tuition-free NH access program.
Saint Asonia (ΔINT ΔSONIΔ)
Saint Asonia (SΔINT ΔSONIΔ) is a Canadian-American post-grunge supergroup formed in Toronto in 2015 by ex-Three Days Grace singer Adam Gontier and Staind guitarist Mike Mushok; debut hit number 29 on the Billboard 200.
Saint Avangeline
Saint Avangeline is the stage name of Adeline Troutman, an Atlanta-based lesbian indie screamo and gothic metal artist known for "Lilith", the albums Gardener of Eden (2022) and Inferno (2024), chromesthesia-driven visuals, and early WLW Lana Del Rey covers.
Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara (Feast 4 December) is a legendary Christian virgin martyr, daughter of Dioscorus, beheaded for her faith; patroness against lightning and sudden death, of artillerymen and miners; removed from the Roman calendar in 1969.
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemy, St Barts), French overseas collectivity in the Lesser Antilles, capital Gustavia; 21 km², ~10,000 people; COM under article 74 since 2007, formerly Swedish 1785–1878, tourism-driven economy with the highest overseas GDP per capita.
Saint Basil's Cathedral (Собор Василия Блаженного)
Saint Basil's Cathedral (Собор Василия Блаженного) is the ten-domed church on Red Square in Moscow, built by order of Ivan the Terrible from 1555 to 1561.