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Shirakami Fubuki (白上フブキ)

Shirakami Fubuki (白上フブキ) is a Japanese VTuber and senior member of hololive production's first generation who streams game commentary and singing and released the FBKINGDOM "Blessing" album in 2025.

Shirakawa (白川村) is a mountain village in Ono District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan; its Ogimachi settlement is the Shirakawa-go component of the 1995 UNESCO World Heritage gassho-zukuri villages, with about 59 thatched farmhouses and community-run preservation.

Shiran Shalev

Shiran Shalev is an Israeli venture capital investor and partner at Battery Ventures, based in Tel Aviv since 2013, known for investments in Affirm, Gong.io, and HoneyBook.

Sep 24, 2026

Shirando

Shirando (芝蘭堂) was a private academy of Dutch learning in Edo, founded in 1786 by the physician Otsuki Gentaku, teaching Dutch language and European medicine.

Shirataki noodles

Shirataki (しらたき, 白滝), also called ito-konnyaku in Kansai, are thin Japanese noodles of konjac glucomannan and water: about 97% water, roughly 10 calories per 112 g serving, all carbohydrate as fiber, used in sukiyaki and oden and marketed abroad as a low-calorie, gluten-free pasta substitute.

Shiray Kaka

Shiray Kaka (née Tane), born 1995 in Hamilton, is a New Zealand Black Ferns Sevens rugby player of Ngāti Maniapoto and Samoan descent: Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold, Birmingham 2022 bronze, Cape Town 2022 World Cup silver; wife of Gillies Kaka.

Shiraz (شیراز)

Shiraz (شیراز), capital of Fars province in southwestern Iran, sixth-largest city (~1.5 million), famed for gardens, wine, poets Sa'di and Hafez, Zand-era monuments, and nearby Persepolis.

Shiraz school (literature)

The Shiraz school (مکتب شیراز) is the lyric tradition of classical Persian poetry centered on Shiraz in the 13th and 14th centuries, defined by Saʿdi and Hafez.

Shiraz Sulcus

Shiraz Sulcus, a sulcus (groove-and-ridge system) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 80 km across, centered at 57.2S, 39.4W; IAU-approved 2010, named from Burton's Arabian Nights tale "Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri Banu", distinct from the four tiger-stripe sulci.

Shiraz wine

Shiraz wine, the Australian name for Syrah, is a medium to full-bodied red from the same grape variety; styles range from lean Northern Rhône Syrah to ripe Barossa Shiraz, with rotundone giving pepper aroma and Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace as icons.

Shirdi

Shirdi is a town of about 45,000 people in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, built around the samadhi of Sai Baba of Shirdi, who died in 1918.

Oct 3, 2026

Shirdi Sai (శిరిడి సాయి)

Shirdi Sai (శిరిడి సాయి) is a 2012 Telugu devotional biographical film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, starring Nagarjuna as Shirdi Sai Baba, with music by M.M. Keeravani, released 6 September 2012.

Shire

Shire, from Old English scir, is the historic English term for a county, the principal unit of local government since Anglo-Saxon times, presided over by the sheriff (shire-reeve); distinct from Tolkien's Shire and Australian shire councils.

Shire (pharmaceutical company)

Shire plc, also known as Shire Pharmaceuticals, was a Jersey-registered, Dublin-headquartered biopharmaceutical company founded in the UK in 1986, acquired by Takeda for roughly $62 billion in 2019.

Shire Hall

Shire Hall: traditional name for a county courthouse and civic building in English and Welsh county towns, covering notable examples at Hertford, Hereford, Woodbridge, Chelmsford, Monmouth, and Shrewsbury.

Shire Highlands slave raids

The Shire Highlands slave raids were nineteenth-century expeditions by armed Yao chiefs in what is now southern Malawi, depopulating the plains and driving the Mang'anja onto hilltops.

Shire horse

Shire horse: English heavy draught breed from the Midlands, largest of heavy horses at about 18 hands and 900 kg, descended from the medieval Great Horse, registered by the Shire Horse Society since 1878.

Shirebrook

Shirebrook is a former colliery town in Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England, transformed by the 1896 Shirebrook Colliery (closed 1993) and now known for the Sports Direct warehouse on the old pit site.

Shireen Abu Akleh (شيرين أبو عاقلة)

Shireen Abu Akleh (شيرين أبو عاقلة), Palestinian-American Al Jazeera correspondent born in Jerusalem in 1971, killed by likely Israeli gunfire on 11 May 2022 in Jenin while covering an Israeli raid; investigations implicated IDF fire, no one was held accountable.

Shirei ha-Hol

Shirei ha-Hol (שירי החול, "Songs of the Secular") is the collected secular Hebrew poetry of Solomon ibn Gabirol, an eleventh-century Andalusian Jewish poet and philosopher.

Shirei Tiferet

Shirei Tiferet (שירי תפארת, "Songs of Glory"), also known as the Moseide, is a Hebrew epic poem on the life of Moses by Haskalah poet Naphtali Herz Wessely, first published in Berlin in 1789.

Shirei Yehudah

Shirei Yehudah (שירי יהודה) is the collected Hebrew poetry of Yehuda Leib Gordon (Yalag), a central figure of the Jewish Enlightenment, first published in St. Petersburg in 1883–1884.

Shiretoko

Shiretoko (知床), a peninsula in northeastern Hokkaido, Japan, and its surrounding Sea of Okhotsk waters; a 71,100 ha UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2005 under criteria (ix) and (x), defined by seasonal sea ice at the lowest latitude in the northern hemisphere.

Shiri (쉬리) (film)

Shiri (쉬리; also romanized Swiri) is a 1999 South Korean espionage action film directed by Kang Je-gyu about agents pursuing a North Korean sniper, and the highest-grossing Korean film of the 1990s.