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Sherwood Washburn

Sherwood Washburn (1911–2000) was an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at Berkeley, called the father of modern primatology, who reshaped the study of human origins.

Sheryl Cole

Sheryl Cole is an American Democratic politician serving in the Texas House of Representatives since 2019, after three terms on the Austin City Council, where she was Austin's first African American female Mayor Pro Tempore.

Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter from Kennett, Missouri; nine-time Grammy winner whose 1993 debut Tuesday Night Music Club and hits like All I Wanna Do defined 1990s pop-rock; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 2023.

Sheryl Crow discography

Sheryl Crow discography: studio, live, and compilation albums by the nine-time Grammy winner from Kennett, Missouri, from 1993's Tuesday Night Music Club through 2026's Pick You Up.

Sheryl H. Lipman

Sheryl H. Lipman, born in 1963, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Tennessee since 2014 and chief judge since 2023.

Sheryl Handler

Sheryl Handler is an American technology executive who co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1983, led the parallel-supercomputer maker as CEO until 1993, and later founded Ab Initio Software.

Sheryl Lee

Sheryl Lee (Sheryl Lynn Lee, born 1967, Augsburg, Germany) is an American actress, Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me; also Maddy Ferguson, Backbeat, Winter's Bone, Twin Peaks: The Return; distinct from Sheryl Lee Ralph.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer, original Deena Jones in Broadway's Dreamgirls (1981), Dee on Moesha, and Emmy-winning Barbara Howard on Abbott Elementary; DIVA Foundation HIV/AIDS activist.

Sheryl Lee Ralph filmography

Screen credits of American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (born 1956): A Piece of the Action (1977), Dreamgirls stage role, It's a Living, Moesha, Sister Act 2, and Emmy-winning Abbott Elementary, through 2024–2026 projects.

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is an American technology executive who served as chief operating officer of Facebook, later Meta, from 2008 to 2022, built its advertising business, and wrote the 2013 bestseller Lean In.

Sheryl Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes (born 1971, Brownfield, Texas), first player signed to the WNBA (1996), Texas Tech's 1993 NCAA champion with a record 47-point title game, four-time Houston Comets champion, three-time WNBA MVP, three-time Olympic gold medalist, Hall of Famer.

Sheryl Underwood

Sheryl Underwood (born 1963, Little Rock) is an American comedian, actress, and host; longest-running co-host of CBS's The Talk (2011–2024), 1989 Miller Lite Comedy Search finalist, radio host of Sheryl Underwood Radio, Zeta Phi Beta's 23rd International President, and 2026 guest co-host of The View.

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre is the throne name of a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, placed by most scholars near Arakamani's era; his personal name is unknown.

Shesh Lekha

Sesh Lekha (Bengali: শেষলেখা, "Last Writings") is the final poetry collection of Rabindranath Tagore: fifteen poems, mostly written or dictated on his deathbed and published posthumously in 1941.

Shesh Saptak

Shesh Saptak (শেষ সপ্তক, "Last Octave") is a collection of 45 Bengali prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore, published in Calcutta by Visva-Bharati in 1935 on the poet's seventy-fourth birthday.

Shesha (शेष)

Shesha (शेष), also Ananta or Adishesha, is the thousand-headed serpent of Hindu mythology, king of the Nagas, couch of Vishnu on the cosmic ocean, and bearer of the earth, incarnate in Balarama.

Shesha 2016

Shesha 2016 (ಶೇಷ 2016) is a 2026 Kannada-Malayalam bilingual crime thriller, the directorial debut of Pradeep Arasikere, starring John Kaippallil and Pramod Shetty, about police corruption over one night, released 6 March 2026.

Sheshbazzar

Sheshbazzar was a Judean leader of the early Persian period, appointed governor by Cyrus, who led the first returnees from the Babylonian Exile around 538 BC.

Shesher Kabita

Shesher Kabita (শেষের কবিতা, "The Last Poem") is a 1929 novel by Rabindranath Tagore, a landmark of Bengali literature telling of lovers who part by their own will.

Sheshi

Sheshi, also spelled Sheshy and with the throne name Maaibre, was a king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, dated by Kim Ryholt to 1745–1705 BC.

Sheshnaag-150

Sheshnaag-150 is an Indian long-range loitering munition developed by Bengaluru-based NewSpace Research and Technologies, designed to fly over 1,000 km and strike with a 25–40 kg warhead as part of a swarm.

Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine

Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine, also known as Shishak's campaign, was an Egyptian military expedition into Judah and Israel around 925 BCE, recorded at Karnak and in the Bible.

Shetal Tushar Desai

Shetal Tushar Desai is an Indian fetal-medicine physician and diagnostics entrepreneur who co-founded Infocus Diagnostics in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and is described as the pioneer of fetal brain MRI in Gujarat.

Shetkar Suresh Kumar

Shetkar Suresh Kumar is an Indian National Congress politician and member of the Lok Sabha for Zahirabad, Telangana, first elected in 2009 and again in 2024.

Shetkaryacha Asud

Shetkaryacha Asud (शेतकऱ्याचा असूड; "The Cultivator's Whipcord") is an extended Marathi polemic on agriculture and the condition of peasants, written by the anti-caste reformer Jotirao Phule in 1883.

Shetland

Shetland, also known as the Shetland Isles, is a subarctic archipelago of about 100 islands off northern Scotland, mortgaged by Denmark to Scotland in 1469.

Shetland (TV series)

Shetland is a British crime drama series, first broadcast on BBC One in 2013, following Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team investigating crimes on the Shetland Islands.

Shetland Island Regional Gas Export Pipeline

The Shetland Island Regional Gas Export Pipeline (SIRGE) is a 234 km subsea gas pipeline from the Shetland Gas Plant to the FUKA pipeline, commissioned in 2016.

Shetland knitting

Shetland knitting is the wool-based knitwear tradition of the Shetland Islands, known for fine lace and Fair Isle colourwork; at its 1980s peak it employed up to 2,000 home knitters.

Shetland pony

Shetland pony, smallest UK native pony breed from the Shetland Isles, Scotland; under 42 inches, 180-210 kg, pit-pony history, Stud-Book Society founded 1890, prone to EMS and laminitis.