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Shōkokumin bungaku

Shōkokumin bungaku (少国民文学) is the state-aligned children's literature of wartime Japan, produced from about 1931 to 1945 around the concept of the child as subject of the state.

Sep 24, 2026

Shoku Nihon Kōki

Shoku Nihon Kōki (続日本後紀) is an imperially commissioned Japanese chronicle completed in 869, the fourth of the Six National Histories, covering Emperor Ninmyō's 833 to 850 reign.

Sep 24, 2026

Shoku Nihongi

The Shoku Nihongi is an imperially commissioned Japanese chronicle in 40 scrolls, completed in 797, covering 697 to 791; it is the second of the Six National Histories and continues the Nihon Shoki.

Shokufeh

Shokufeh (Persian: شكوفه, "Blossom") was the second Persian-language women's periodical, published in Tehran from about 1912 to 1916, founded, edited, and largely written by Maryam Amid-Semnani.

Shola Ameobi (Foluwashola Ameobi, born 1981), Nigerian-born striker raised in Newcastle; 79 goals in 397 Newcastle United appearances (2000–2014), famed for seven Tyne-Wear derby goals, then Nigeria at the 2014 World Cup.

Shola Aur Shabnam (1992 film)

Shola Aur Shabnam (शोला और शबनम), 1992 Hindi action romantic comedy directed by David Dhawan, starring Govinda and Divya Bharti; NCC student Karan versus gangster Kali Baba's brother Bali; grossed about ₹10.7 crore, fourth highest-grossing Indian film of 1992.

Shola Shoretire

Shola Maxwell Shoretire (born 2004, Newcastle) is an English forward at PAOK Thessaloniki; ex-Manchester United academy record-breaker, youngest United player in European competition, with loans at Bolton and PEC Zwolle.

Sholay (शोले)

Sholay (शोले), 1975 Hindi action film by Ramesh Sippy, written by Salim-Javed, starring Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, and Amjad Khan as Gabbar; India's first 70mm film and its most successful.

Sholem Aleichem (Mercurian crater)

Sholem Aleichem is a 196-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 50.92°N, 90.48°W, named in 1979 for the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (Yakov Rabinowitz). It is known for hollows on its western rim and carbon-rich low-reflectance material.

Sholem Aleichem (שלום עליכם)

Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinovitz (1859–1916), was a founding father of modern Yiddish literature whose Tevye stories inspired the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch (שלום אש, 1880–1957), Yiddish novelist and playwright from Kutno, Poland; author of A shtetl, God of Vengeance, and the controversial Christian trilogy The Nazarene, The Apostle, and Mary.

Oct 10, 2026

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (Rashab)

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, known in Chabad tradition as the Rebbe Rashab, was the fifth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch from 1882 to 1920, founding the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in 1897.

Oct 10, 2026

Sholom Rokeach (Sar Shalom)

Sholom Rokeach (Hebrew: שלום רוקח), known as Sar Shalom, was the first Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, which he led from about 1817 until his death in 1855.

Sep 21, 2026

Sholom Wacholder

Sholom Wacholder (1955–2015) was an American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist who spent nearly 30 years at the National Cancer Institute, leading statistics for HPV vaccine trials including the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial.

Sholpan Vallis

Sholpan Vallis, a 590 km valley on Venus at 63.9S 150E, named for the Kazakh and Karakalpak word for Venus, IAU-approved in 2003, one of 72 Venusian valles.

Sholto Carnegie

Sholto Carnegie (Sholto Hector Hawkshaw Carnegie), British rower born 1995, Leander Club; Olympic gold in the men's eight at Paris 2024, world champion 2022 and 2023, Yale graduate, Crew Connection co-founder.

Sholto Marcon

Sholto Marcon (Charles Sholto Wyndham Marcon, 1890–1959), English field hockey inside-forward who won gold for Great Britain at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, earned 23 England caps, and later became an Anglican clergyman and RAF chaplain.

Shoma Anand

Shoma Anand (born 1958, Amritsar; birth name Neelam Arora) is an Indian actress who debuted opposite Rishi Kapoor in Barood (1976), led in Coolie and Jagir, and later starred on TV in Hum Paanch, Bhabhi, and Maayka.

Shoma Uno (宇野昌磨)

Shoma Uno (宇野昌磨), born 1997 in Nagoya, is a retired Japanese figure skater, two-time World champion (2022, 2023), 2018 Olympic silver and 2022 bronze medalist, first to land a quad flip in competition, now with esports org VARREL.

Shomari Figures

Shomari Figures (born 1985, Mobile, Alabama) is a Democratic U.S. Representative for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District since 2025, a former aide to AG Merrick Garland and President Obama who won the court-redrawn district in 2024 and faces Rhett Marques in 2026.

Shōmei Tōmatsu

Shōmei Tōmatsu (東松照明, 1930–2012) was a Japanese photographer, born in Nagoya, whose raw, grainy style documented postwar Japan for more than fifty years, including Nagasaki bomb survivors.

Shomin Sample

Shomin Sample (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」として拉致られた件) is a Japanese light novel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki, 11 volumes 2011–2015, adapted into manga, a 2015 anime by SILVER LINK., and a live-action film.

Shomrim (שומרים) (neighborhood watch group)

Shomrim (שומרים, "guardians") are volunteer neighborhood watch groups patrolling Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, London, Baltimore, and Toronto; first patrols founded in 1970s New York, with Williamsburg Shomrim founded 1977 by Rabbi Moshe Huffman.

Sep 24, 2026

Shōmu's Great Buddha vow

Shōmu's Great Buddha vow was the 743 edict in which Emperor Shōmu vowed to build a colossal bronze Vairocana, completed as the Great Buddha of Tōdaiji in Nara.

Shon Barnes

Shon Fitzgerald Barnes, American police chief, served as Madison, Wisconsin's 30th chief (2021-2025) and Seattle's 38th chief (February 2025-July 2026), resigning after criticism of the Bite of Seattle shooting response; evidence-based policing Hall of Fame inductee.

Shona Ferguson

Shona Ferguson (Aaron Arthur Ferguson), Botswana-born South African actor and producer, co-founder of Ferguson Films with Connie Ferguson; starred in Generations, Muvhango, The Queen, and Netflix's Kings of Jo'burg; died of COVID-19 complications in 2021.