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Shimon Peres (שמעון פרס)
Shimon Peres (שמעון פרס), born Szymon Perski (1923–2016), Israeli statesman, ninth president 2007–2014, architect of the Dimona nuclear program and the 1993 Oslo Accords, 1994 Nobel Peace laureate with Rabin and Arafat, and the only person to hold all four top Israeli government offices.
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi (坂口 志文, born 1951) is a Japanese immunologist at the University of Osaka who discovered regulatory T cells and won a third of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Shimon Schocken
Shimon Schocken is an Israeli computer scientist and educator best known for co-creating the Nand to Tetris course, where students build a complete computer from logic gates in one semester.
Shimon Weiss
Shimon Weiss is an Israeli-born biophysicist and UCLA professor known as a founder of single-molecule biophysics and bionanotechnology, whose lab introduced single-molecule FRET and quantum dots for biological imaging.
Shimoneta
Shimoneta (下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界), also Shimoseka, is a 2012 Japanese satirical comedy light novel series by Hirotaka Akagi, adapted into a 12-episode 2015 J.C.STAFF anime about dirty-joke terrorists in a censored Japan.
Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki (下関市) is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, at the westernmost end of Honshu on the Kanmon Straits. Largest city in Yamaguchi; Japan's top fugu handler; site of the 1185 Genji-Heike naval battle.
Shimonoseki Campaign
The Shimonoseki Campaign (下関戦争), also called the Bakan War, was an 1864 conflict in which Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States bombarded Chōshū's coastal batteries to reopen the Shimonoseki Strait.
Shimotsuki Incident
The Shimotsuki Incident (霜月騒動) was a 1285 coup in the Kamakura shogunate in which Taira no Yoritsuna attacked and destroyed the powerful vassal leader Adachi Yasumori and his faction, then seized control of the government.
Shimpūren Rebellion
The Shimpūren Rebellion (神風連の乱) was a failed samurai uprising in Kumamoto, Japan, on October 24, 1876, launched by about 170 former samurai against the Meiji government.
Shimr ibn Dhi'l-Jawshan
Shimr ibn Dhi'l-Jawshan (شمر بن ذي الجوشن) was a Kufan commander serving the Umayyad caliph Yazid who led part of the army that killed Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala in 680.
Shimron Hetmyer
Shimron Hetmyer, Guyanese left-hand middle-order batter born 1996; captained West Indies to the 2016 U19 World Cup title; Rajasthan Royals finisher with 1004 IPL runs at strike rate 150.29; unbeaten 125 vs India 2017.
Shimshon Amitsur
Shimshon Amitsur, born Shimshon Kaplan (1921–1994), was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who shaped ring theory and won the first Israel Prize for exact sciences.
Shimti Tessera
Shimti Tessera, a 1,275-km-wide tessera (deformed highland terrain) on Venus at 31.9N 97.7E, named by the IAU in 1985 from a Babylonian fate goddess epithet, quadrangle V-11.
Shimura variety
A Shimura variety is a higher-dimensional analog of a modular curve, introduced by Goro Shimura in the 1960s; examples include modular, Siegel, and Hilbert modular varieties.
Shimut-wartash I
Shimut-wartash I was an Elamite ruler of the early Sukkalmah dynasty who served as sukkal of Susa, deputy governing Susiana, under the sukkalmah Shilhaha in the early second millennium BC.
Shimza
Shimza (Kholofelo Ashley Raphala, born 1984) is a South African Afro house and Afro-tech DJ and producer from Tembisa, founder of One Man Show and the Kunye label, debut album Shimuzic (2015), hit "Fire Fire" (2025).
Shin (letter)
Shin (ש, also written sin when the dot sits on the left) is the twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet; its name means "tooth", and it represents either "sh" or "s".
Shin Arahan
Shin Arahan (ရှင်အရဟံ), born around 1034, was a Mon Theravada monk who converted Anawrahta and advised four kings of Bagan, making Buddhism Pagan's state religion.
Shin Bet
Shin Bet (Shabak, ISA, Sherut HaBitachon HaKlali) is Israel's domestic security and counterintelligence service, founded 30 June 1948 from the Haganah's Shai, under the Prime Minister's Office, regulated by the 2002 Shin Bet Law.
Shin Boryeong power station
Shin Boryeong power station (신보령발전본부), also called Shin-Boryeong Thermal Power Plant, is a 2,000 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power station in Boryeong, South Korea, owned by Korea Midland Power and operating since 2017.
Shin Chokusen Wakashū
Shin Chokusen Wakashū (新勅撰和歌集, New Imperial Collection) is a Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, ordered from Fujiwara no Teika in 1232 and completed in 1235.
Shin Choon-ho
Shin Choon-ho (신춘호) was a South Korean businessman who founded Nongshim in 1965 and built it into Korea's largest ramyeon maker, known for Shin Ramyun.
Shin Enoshima Aquarium
Shin Enoshima Aquarium (新江ノ島水族館, Enosui), Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; opened 2004 as successor to Japan's first modern aquarium (1954). Known for Sagami Bay main tank, jellyfish halls, JAMSTEC deep-sea research, and dolphin shows.
Shin Eun-kyung (신은경)
Shin Eun-kyung, also known as Shin Eun-gyeong (신은경), is a South Korean actress born in 1973, known for General Hospital (1994), Downfall (1997), and My Wife Is a Gangster (2001).
Shin Eun-soo (신은수)
Shin Eun-soo (신은수), born 2002 in Seoul, is a South Korean actress and former JYP idol trainee who debuted as the female lead of Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016) and later starred in Twinkling Watermelon and Love Untangled.
Shin Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō: Fukkatsu Shite Sokkō Chikyū Metsubō no Kiki de Arimasu!
Shin Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō: Fukkatsu Shite Sokkō Chikyū Metsubō no Kiki de Arimasu! (新劇場版☆ケロロ軍曹) is the 2026 sixth Sgt. Frog theatrical anime film, the first in 16 years, scripted and chief-directed by Yuuichi Fukuda, released June 26, 2026, and marked by a parody controversy and Bandai Namco apology.
Shin Godzilla (character)
Shin Godzilla, also known as ShinGoji, is the version of Godzilla in the 2016 Toho film Shin Godzilla, a mutating sea creature that evolves through several forms in Tokyo.
Shin Godzilla (シン・ゴジラ)
Shin Godzilla (シン・ゴジラ) is a 2016 Japanese kaiju disaster film written and chief-directed by Hideaki Anno, co-directed by Shinji Higuchi, starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara.
Shin Goi power station
Shin Goi power station (新五井火力発電所) is a 2.34 GW LNG-fired combined cycle power station in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan, replacing the 1960s Goi Thermal Power Station.
Shin Ha-kyun (신하균)
Shin Ha-kyun (신하균), born 1974 in Seoul, is a South Korean actor known for Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Save the Green Planet!, Brain, and the Baeksang-winning Beyond Evil, distinct from other Shins in Korean entertainment.