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Sherman Firefly
The Sherman Firefly was a British conversion of the American M4 Sherman tank, rearmed with the 17-pounder gun to defeat German Tiger and Panther tanks in 1944.
Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley (1938–2012), American actor, played George Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons (1975–1985) and Deacon Ernest Frye on Amen (1986–1991); Emmy-nominated, NAACP Image Award winner.
Sherman James
Sherman James is an American social epidemiologist, emeritus professor at Duke University and originator of the John Henryism hypothesis, which links high-effort coping with adversity to hypertension among Black Americans.
Sherman Landers
Sherman George Landers (1898-1994), American track and field athlete, 1920 Antwerp Olympian, fifth in triple jump; AAU triple jump (1919-20) and pole vault (1916) champion; 1919 Penn relay world record holder.
Sherman M. Weissman
Sherman M. Weissman is a molecular biologist and Sterling Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, known for defining SV40 gene structure and showing beta-thalassemia involves abnormal RNA splicing.
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood in Los Angeles named for developer Moses Hazeltine Sherman, who subdivided 1,000 acres there in 1927; about 69,000 residents along Ventura Boulevard in Council District 4.
Sherman Packard
Sherman Packard is an American Republican politician who has represented Londonderry in the New Hampshire House since 1990 and was elected Speaker in 2020, re-elected in 2024.
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was an 1890 US federal law requiring the Treasury to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver monthly, draining gold reserves until its 1893 repeal.
Sherman's March (1985 film)
Sherman's March (1985/1986) is Ross McElwee's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning first-person documentary in which a breakup derails his planned film about Sherman's 1864 March to the Sea into a search for love across the South; added to the National Film Registry in 2000.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea, also called the Savannah Campaign, was a Union Civil War campaign in which William Tecumseh Sherman led 62,000 men from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864.
Shermy
Shermy is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles Schulz, debuting October 2, 1950 with Charlie Brown and Patty, speaking the strip's first line, and last appearing June 15, 1969.
Shernaz Patel
Shernaz Patel, Indian film, television and English-theatre actress from Mumbai, daughter of Ruby and Burjor Patel; founded Rage in 1993, starred in Black (2005), Guzaarish, Rockstar, voiced Sarabi in The Lion King, and is artistic director of Aadyam.
Sheroes
Sheroes (2023) is an action comedy and Jordan Gertner's directing debut, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Sasha Luss, Wallis Day, and Skai Jackson as friends rescuing a kidnapped friend in Thailand; released June 23, 2023 by Paramount, it earned poor reviews.
Sherone Simpson
Sherone Anmarica Simpson, Jamaican sprinter born 1984 in Manchester; Olympic 4x100m relay gold (Athens 2004) and 100m silver (Beijing 2008); PBs 10.82/22.00; retired 2020.
SHERPA (event generator)
Sherpa is a Monte Carlo event generator written in C++ that simulates particle collisions at high-energy colliders, heavily used for LHC Run 1 and Run 2 data.
Sherpa people
Sherpa people (Tibetan shar pa, 'eastern people'): a Tibetan-origin ethnic group of Nepal's Khumbu region near Everest, migrated from Kham about 400-600 years ago; Nyingmapa Buddhist, Tibeto-Burman language, famed high-altitude mountaineers, not a job title.
Sherpur District
Sherpur District (শেরপুর জেলা), a northern Bangladesh district in Mymensingh Division bordering Meghalaya, established 22 February 1984; five upazilas, 1,363.76 sq km, named after ruler Sher Ali Ghazi of Dashakhania.
Sherri A. Lydon
Sherri A. Lydon, born Sherri Allen Lydon in 1962 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is a United States district judge since 2019 who previously served as United States attorney.
Sherri Howard
Sherri Howard is an American sprinter, born in 1962, who won gold in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 1984 Olympics and silver in 1988.
Sherri Martel
Sherri Martel (Sensational Sherri, 1958-2007), American wrestler and manager; three-time AWA Women's Champion, WWF Women's Champion, manager of Savage, DiBiase, Michaels, Flair, Harlem Heat; 2006 WWE Hall of Famer.
Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax
Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax: 2016 staged disappearance of a Redding, California woman, also known as the Perfect Wife case. She hid with ex-boyfriend James Reyes for 22 days, claimed two Hispanic women abducted her, and was sentenced in 2022 to 18 months for mail fraud and false statements.
Sherri Saum
Sherri Saum (born 1974, Dayton, Ohio) is an American actress known for Lena Adams Foster on The Fosters, Vanessa Hart on Sunset Beach, Keri Reynolds on One Life to Live, In Treatment, Rescue Me, and Locke & Key, plus a 2024 Good Trouble directing debut.
Sherri Shepherd
Sherri Shepherd (Sherri Evonne Shepherd, born 1967, Chicago) is an American comedian, actress, and talk show host, formerly of The View and Less Than Perfect, now hosting the syndicated daytime show Sherri since 2022.
Sherri Tenpenny
Sherri Jane Tenpenny, Ohio osteopathic physician and anti-vaccine activist, author of Saying No to Vaccines, Disinformation Dozen member, known for 2021 magnetism testimony and 2023 license suspension.
Sherrié Austin
Sherrié Austin (Sherrie Veronica Krenn), Australian country singer-songwriter and actress, Pippa McKenna on The Facts of Life; albums Words, Love in the Real World, Streets of Heaven; wrote for Blake Shelton and George Strait.
Sherrie Hewson
Sherrie Hewson (Sherrie Lynn Hutchinson, born 1950) is an English actress and presenter known for Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street, Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm, and Loose Women panellist, later Martha Blake in Hollyoaks.
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American conceptual artist known for appropriation art, including rephotographing Walker Evans's Depression-era images in her 1981 After Walker Evans series.
Sherrie Silver
Sherrie Silver is a Rwandan-born, UK-based dancer, choreographer, and activist who choreographed Childish Gambino's "This Is America" (2018), winning the MTV VMA for Best Choreography as the first African winner.
Sherrill J. Slichter
Sherrill J. Slichter was an American hematologist and transfusion-medicine researcher who spent over four decades at the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, revolutionizing platelet transfusion therapy.
Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model
The Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model is a mean-field spin glass model in which every pair of Ising spins interacts through random infinite-range couplings, proposed in 1975 and later solved correctly by Giorgio Parisi.