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Shoaib Akhtar (شعیب اختر)
Shoaib Akhtar (شعیب اختر), the Rawalpindi Express, Pakistani right-arm fast bowler 1997-2011; 178 Test and 247 ODI wickets; holds the fastest recorded delivery, 161.3 km/h, from the 2003 World Cup.
Shoaib Ibrahim
Shoaib Ibrahim (शोएब इब्राहिम), born 1987, Indian TV actor known as Prem in Sasural Simar Ka, lead in Ajooni, Nach Baliye 8 and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 11 runner-up; not the IMDb-credited producer of OK Computer and Tanaav.
Shoaib Malik (شعیب ملک)
Shoaib Malik (شعیب ملک), born 1982 in Sialkot, is a Pakistani batting all-rounder and off-spinner who played for Pakistan 1999-2021, captained the ODI side, won the 2009 T20 World Cup, and retired from Tests in 2015, ODIs in 2019, and the PSL in 2026.
Shoaiba II power station
Shoaiba II power station is a 1,200 MW combined cycle plant on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast near Jeddah, owned by the Saudi Electricity Company and commissioned in 2014.
Shoaiba power plant
The Shoaiba power plant is an oil-fired power and desalination complex on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, owned by the Saudi Electricity Company.
Shoal
Shoal: a natural underwater sand ridge, bank, or bar shallower than surrounding water, and a hazard to navigation charted by hydrographic surveys; also a fish group.
Shoaling and schooling
Shoaling and schooling: shoals are social fish aggregations, schools are aligned, coordinated swimming groups. Benefits include predator defense, feeding, and 10–25% measured energy savings via hydrodynamic vortex interactions.
Shoals Technologies Group
Shoals Technologies Group is an American design-engineering company that makes the wiring, connectors, and power-distribution components carrying electricity from solar panels and batteries, founded in 1996 in Portland, Tennessee.
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area, Ramsar site 792 (listed 1 March 1996), a 202,023-hectare wetland of international importance over ~330 km of central Queensland coast near Rockhampton, spanning Broome Head, Shoalwater Bay, and Corio Bay, meeting 8 of 9 Ramsar criteria.
Shoba
Shoba (ശോഭ), born Mahalakshmi Menon (1962–1980), was an Indian actress of Malayalam and Tamil films who won the National Film Award for Best Actress at 17 for Pasi (1979), married director Balu Mahendra, and died by suicide weeks later.
Shoba Chandrasekhar
Shoba Chandrasekhar (ஷோபா சந்திரசேகர்), born 1948 in Chennai, is a Tamil playback singer, story writer, producer and director, wife of S.A. Chandrasekhar and mother of actor-politician Vijay; first film song in Iru Malargal (1967), devotional albums including Vinayagar Agaval (2025).
Shoba Narayan (actress)
Shoba Narayan is an American actress, singer, and Bharatanatyam dancer on Broadway: Great Comet (2016), Eliza Hamilton on tour, Nessarose in Wicked, Jasmine in Aladdin, and the voice of Emily in Hazbin Hotel. Distinct from the Indian author of the same name.
Shobana (ശോഭന)
Shobana (ശോഭന), Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai, Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer of Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu cinema; two National Film Awards for Best Actress (Manichitrathazhu, Mitr My Friend), Padma Shri 2006, Padma Bhushan 2025, and founder of the Kalarpana dance school in Chennai.
Shobha Karandlaje
Shobha Karandlaje is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, a Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Labour and Employment since 2024.
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष)
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष; born Shobha Rajadhyaksha, 1948) is an Indian novelist, columnist, and former editor of Stardust, Society, and Celebrity, known for pioneering Hinglish in English fiction and for Socialite Evenings (1989) through The Sensual Self (2025).
Shobhanaben Baraiya
Shobhanaben Mahendrasinh Baraiya, born 1973, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Sabarkantha constituency of Gujarat in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Shobhna Samarth (शोभना समर्थ)
Shobhna Samarth (शोभना समर्थ), born Saroj Shilotri (1916–2000), Indian actress, director, and producer of early Hindi talkies; famed as Sita in Ram Rajya (1943), mother of Nutan and Tanuja, grandmother of Kajol.
Shobna Gulati
Shobna Gulati, born 1966 in Oldham, is a British actress, writer, and dancer known as Anita in Dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in Coronation Street (2001-2006, 2009-2013); MBE 2024, memoir Remember Me?.
Shōbō
Shōbō (聖宝) was a Japanese Shingon Buddhist monk who founded Daigo-ji in Kyoto in 874 and is honored as patriarch of the Tōzan branch of Shugendō.
Shōbōgenzō
Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") is the principal written work of Dōgen, founder of Japanese Sōtō Zen, delivered from 1231 to 1253.
Shobu
Shobu (SHŌBU) is a 2019 two-player abstract strategy board game by Manolis Vranas and Jamie Sajdak, published by Smirk & Dagger. Four 4x4 boards, paired passive and aggressive moves, win by pushing opponent's stones off one board.
Shōchō tokuseirei
The Shōchō tokuseirei (正長の徳政令) were debt-cancellation edicts issued in 1428 by Kōfuku-ji in Nara and provincial powers, not the Muromachi bakufu, amid the Shōchō uprising.
Shōchō Uprising
The Shōchō Uprising (正長の土一揆), also called the Shōchō debt-cancellation uprising, was a wave of peasant revolts demanding debt remission that began in Ōmi province, Japan, in 1428.
Shōchū (焼酎)
Shōchū (焼酎) is a Japanese distilled alcoholic beverage made from ingredients like sweet potato, barley, and rice, traditionally distilled only once and typically 20 to 30% ABV.
Shock (circulatory)
Circulatory shock: life-threatening acute circulatory failure with inadequate cellular oxygen utilization and dysoxia, not synonymous with hypotension. Four types (hypovolemic, cardiogenic, obstructive, distributive); septic shock most common; ICU mortality about 38%.
Shock (music)
"Shock" (쇼크) is a 2010 song by the South Korean boy group Beast, released as the lead track of their EP Shock of the New Era and their breakthrough hit.
Shock absorber
A shock absorber, also called a damper, is a hydraulic or electromechanical suspension device that controls how quickly springs and wheels settle after a road impact.
Shock and awe
Shock and awe, or Rapid Dominance, is a military strategy of overwhelming rapid force to paralyze an adversary's will, introduced by Ullman and Wade in a 1996 NDU study and popularized by the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Shock and Awe (film)
Shock and Awe is Rob Reiner's 2017 drama about Knight Ridder journalists Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who questioned the Bush administration's Iraq WMD claims before the 2003 invasion.
Shock breakout
Shock breakout is the first electromagnetic flash of a stellar explosion, released when the supernova shock wave emerges from the star's opaque envelope; it lasts seconds to days.