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Shine Tom Chacko (ഷൈൻ ടോം ചാക്കോ)

Shine Tom Chacko (ഷൈൻ ടോം ചാക്കോ), born 1983, is a Malayalam cinema actor and former assistant director to Kamal; known for Gaddama, Ishq, Kurup, and Bheeshma Parvam.

SHINE trial (NCT01824940)

The SHINE trial (Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy) was a cluster-randomized trial in rural Zimbabwe testing whether water, sanitation, hygiene, and infant feeding interventions improved child growth.

Shinedown

Shinedown, American hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed 2001 by Brent Smith and Barry Kerch. Eight Atlantic albums from Leave a Whisper (2003) to EI8HT (2026); record 20-plus Billboard Mainstream Rock number ones.

Shinee

Shinee (샤이니, シャイニー) is an SM Entertainment South Korean boy band that debuted May 25, 2008 with "Replay"; members Onew, Key, Minho, Taemin (Jonghyun died 2017), known for "Lucifer," "View," Japanese Oricon records, and the 2026 album Atmos.

Shinee discography

Shinee discography: releases by the SM Entertainment group Shinee (샤이니), from the Korean debut single "Replay" (May 22, 2008) and eight studio albums through HARD (2023) to the mini album Atmos (2026), plus Japanese albums The First, Boys Meet U, I'm Your Boy, D×D×D, and Five, singles, concert albums, and member solo records.

Shiney Ahuja

Shiney Ahuja, Bollywood actor, debut Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005), Filmfare Best Male Debut 2006, films Gangster and Bhool Bhulaiyaa; convicted of rape in 2011, sentenced to seven years, appeal pending, last film Welcome Back (2015).

Shinfield Studios

Shinfield Studios, rebranded Shadowbox Studios Shinfield in 2025, is a film and television studio complex in Shinfield, Berkshire, opened between 2021 and 2024 with 18 sound stages.

Shing Mun Reservoir (城门水塘)

Shing Mun Reservoir, also known as Jubilee Reservoir (城门水塘), is an impounding reservoir in Hong Kong's New Territories, built from 1923 to 1937 to supply Kowloon.

Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐)

Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐, Qiu Chengtong) is a Chinese-American mathematician, the first Chinese-born Fields Medalist, who proved the Calabi conjecture in 1976 and gave his name to Calabi–Yau manifolds.

Shingeki

Shingeki (新劇, "new drama") is a form of Japanese theater consisting of spoken drama staged in a Western style, developed from the late Meiji period onward in opposition to kabuki, nō, kyōgen, and shinpa.

Shingeki theatre companies

Shingeki theater companies, typically called gekidan, are Japanese membership theater companies staging modern realist drama, including Gekidan Mingei, the Shiki Theatre Company, and Seinen Gekijo.

Shingeki undō

Shingeki undō (新劇運動) was the Japanese "new drama" movement creating modern Western-style spoken theater opposed to kabuki and shimpa, begun in the late Meiji period and consolidated by the Tsukiji Little Theatre in 1924.

Shingle style architecture

The Shingle style is an American architectural style of the 1880s in which wood shingles cover both walls and roof, developed on the New England coast.

Shingled magnetic recording

Shingled magnetic recording (SMR), also called shingled recording, is an HDD technology that overlaps tracks like roof shingles, boosting capacity by 10 to 25% but forcing sequential writes.

Shingles

Shingles (herpes zoster): painful dermatomal rash from reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus in sensory ganglia. Lifetime risk 32–50%; Shingrix two-dose vaccine ~97% effective; Zostavax discontinued 2020.

Shingo Kajimura

Shingo Kajimura is a cell biologist studying brown and beige fat and energy metabolism, a Harvard Medical School professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2022.

Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾)

Shingo Kunieda (國枝慎吾), Japanese wheelchair tennis player, born 1984; most decorated men's player with 50 Grand Slam titles, 582 weeks at No. 1, four Paralympic golds across five Games; retired January 2023.

Shingon Buddhism (真言宗)

Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is a Japanese school of esoteric, Vajrayāna Buddhism founded by the monk Kūkai, who brought it from Tang China in the ninth century.

Shingon school

The Shingon school (真言宗) is a Japanese school of esoteric Buddhism founded by the monk Kūkai (774–835), who transmitted the teaching from Tang China and organized it around Tōji in Kyoto and Mt. Kōya.

Shinhama Imperial Wild Duck Preserve

Shinhama Kamoba (新浜鴨場), an Imperial Household Agency duck preserve in Ichikawa, Chiba, opened 1893; 12,000 m2 Motodamari pond, over 2,000 wintering ducks, harmless traditional duck netting, banding research, and guest reception.

Shinhan Financial Group

Shinhan Financial Group (신한금융그룹) is a South Korean financial holding company, created in 2001 as the country's first private financial holding company, integrating Shinhan Bank and other units.

Shinhwa

Shinhwa (신화, Korean for "mythology") is a South Korean boy group that debuted in 1998 under SM Entertainment and has continued for over two decades without a member change.

Shinichi Aizawa

Shinichi Aizawa is a Japanese developmental biologist known for genetic studies of vertebrate head development at RIKEN, where his group identified the head-formation factor Shisa.

Shinichi Fukuda (福田晋一)

Shinichi Fukuda (福田晋一) is a Japanese female manga artist under a masculine pen name; winner of the 23rd Ace Newcomer Manga Awards Encouragement Award (2006), creator of Shibaraku, Momoiro Meloic, and My Dress-Up Darling (Young Gangan, 2018–2025, 15 volumes, about 13–14 million copies, anime 2022 and 2025).

Shinichi Komaba

Shinichi Komaba (駒場 慎一) is a Japanese electrochemist and professor of applied chemistry at Tokyo University of Science, known for foundational work on sodium-ion battery electrodes.

Shinichi Mochizuki (望月新一)

Shinichi Mochizuki (望月新一) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University's RIMS, known for anabelian geometry and for his disputed claimed proof of the abc conjecture.

Shinichi Osawa

Shinichi Osawa (大沢伸一), born 1967, is a Japanese musician, DJ, and producer who led the acid-jazz band Mondo Grosso and later pursued electro house under his own name.

Shinichi Suzuki (鈴木鎮一)

Shinichi Suzuki (鈴木鎮一, 1898-1998), Japanese violinist and founder of the Suzuki Method of Talent Education, taught music to young children by the mother-tongue approach from Matsumoto; about 400,000 students in 74 countries now study it.

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺信一郎)

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺信一郎) is a Japanese anime director born 1965, known for Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Carole & Tuesday, and the 2025 MAPPA-produced LAZARUS, distinguished by music-driven, genre-crossing work.

Shinigami (死神)

Shinigami (死神) are Japanese death gods that lure people to death, attested in a 1709 jōruri play and in Edo-period folk belief, and best known through Sanyūtei Enchō's rakugo Shinigami, adapted from Grimm's Godfather Death.