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Shu Qi (林立慧)

Shu Qi (舒淇, real name Lin Li-hui 林立慧), Taiwanese actress and director born 1976, rose from Hong Kong Category III cinema to win Hong Kong Film and Golden Horse Awards, starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo, Three Times, and The Assassin, and directed the Venice-selected debut Girl (2025).

Shu Shien-Siu

Shu Shien-Siu, also romanized Hsu Hsien-hsiu (徐賢修), was a Taiwanese mathematician and science administrator who chaired the National Science Council and ITRI, and is honored as the "Father of the Hsinchu Science Park."

Shu Ting

Shu Ting (舒婷), original name Gong Peiyu, is a Chinese poet born in 1952, a leading Misty Poet famous for her 1977 poem To the Oak.

Shu Ting's Poems

Shu Ting's Poems is the body of poetry by Chinese poet Shu Ting, a leading Misty Poet known for "To the Oak" and "Motherland, My Dear Motherland".

Shu Yang (materials scientist)

Shu Yang is a materials scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on soft, stimulus-responsive materials and knotted soft robots that jump and fly.

Shu-Bing Qian

Shu-Bing Qian is a molecular biologist who studies translational control of gene expression, holding the James Jamison Professor of Nutrition chair at Cornell University since 2008.

Shu-ilishu

Shu-ilishu (Šu-ilīšu) was the second king of the First Dynasty of Isin and son of Išbi-Erra, reigning c. 1984–1975 BC and returning the statue of the god Nanna from Anshan to Ur.

Shu-ilishu interpreter seal

Shu-ilishu's cylinder seal is a small engraved stone cylinder seal in the Louvre whose Akkadian inscription names Shu-ilishu as interpreter of the land of Meluhha.

Shu-Ninua

Shu-Ninua (Šū-Ninua) was an Assyrian king, entry 54 of the Assyrian King List, who ruled 14 years and was succeeded by his sons Šarma-Adad II and Erišum III.

Shu-ou Shan

Shu-ou Shan is a biochemist at Caltech known for her work on molecular chaperones and protein folding, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Shu-Sin

Šu-Suen, also written Šu-Sin, was the fourth king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, reigning 2035–2027 BC and known for the Amorite wall and the oldest love poem.

Shu-Sin's campaign against Shimashki

Shu-Sin's campaign against Shimashki was a military operation by Shu-Sin, king of Ur, in the eastern Zagros–Elam zone in his 7th regnal year, recorded in year names and statue inscriptions.

Shu-Suen of Akshak

Shu-Suen of Akshak, also written Šu-Sin, is a legendary Early Dynastic Sumerian king of Akshak, listed as the son of Išu-Il and the last of six Akshak kings.

Shu-turul

Shu-turul, also written Šu-Durul or Shudurul, was the eleventh and final king of Akkad, son and successor of Dudu, reigning 15 years, 2168–2154 BC under the Middle Chronology.

Shu‐ichiro Inutsuka

Shu-ichiro Inutsuka (犬塚 修一郎) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Nagoya University since 2009, known for work on star and planet formation, molecular clouds, and solar wind simulations.

Shu'ayb ibn Abd Allah al-Misri

Shu'ayb ibn Abd Allah al-Misri (Abu Abd Allah) was an Egyptian hadith transmitter who died in 434 AH (1042/1043), titled musnid Misr, the hadith-chain authority of Egypt, by al-Dhahabi.

Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj

Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj (شعبة بن الحجاج) was a Basran hadith scholar, c. 701–777, regarded as the founder of narrator criticism and called commander of the faithful in hadith.

Shu'ub

Shu'ub (شعوب) is an Arabic plural of sha'b meaning large tribes or nations (Quran 49:13), root of the Shu'ubiyyah controversy, Shu'ub District and Bab Shu'ub gate in Sana'a, and Ras Shu'ub cape on Socotra.

Shuai Ke

Shuai Ke (帅科) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Yuanfudao, the online tutoring platform valued at $15.5 billion in 2020, and CEO of ClassUp.

Shuai Yuan

Shuai Yuan (袁帅) is a Chinese chemist and professor at Nanjing University since 2021, known for a widely cited 2018 review of stable metal–organic frameworks and for tunable metal hydroxide–organic frameworks that catalyze oxygen evolution.

Shuaib

Shuaib, also spelled Shuʿayb, is a prophet named in the Quran who preached honest weights and measures to the people of Madyan, and whom many exegetes identify with Jethro.

Shuaiba North power plant

Shuaiba North power plant is a Kuwaiti cogeneration power and water distillation station in Al Ahmadi governorate, whose 875.5 MW combined-cycle plant was commissioned in 2010.

Shuaiba SWCC power plant

The Shuaiba SWCC power plant is a power and desalination complex on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast about 120 km south of Jeddah, supplying water to Makkah, Jeddah, Taif, and Al-Baha.

Shuaibah IWPP

Shuaibah IWPP, also called Shuaibah 3, was Saudi Arabia's first independent water and power plant, generating 900 MW and 880,000 m³ of desalinated water daily.

Shuaike Pet

Shuaike Pet (Shandong Shuaike Pet Products Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese third-party pet food contract manufacturer founded in 2012 by Yuan Fang and headquartered in Shandong Province.

Shuaike Pet (山东帅克宠物用品股份有限公司)

Shuaike Pet (山东帅克宠物用品股份有限公司), formally Shandong Shuaike Pet Product Co., Ltd., is a Chinese pet food contract manufacturer founded in 2012 in Yinan County, Shandong.

Shuangdeng Group

Shuangdeng Group Co., Ltd. (双登集团), known by the brand name Shoto, is a Chinese manufacturer of energy storage batteries headquartered in Taizhou, Jiangsu, and listed in Hong Kong in 2025.

Shuanghui Development

Shuanghui Development is a Shenzhen-listed Chinese meat processing company based in Luohe, Henan, controlled by WH Group and known for buying the American pork producer Smithfield in 2013.

Shuanghui Group

Shuanghui Group (双汇集团), also known as Shineway Group, is a Chinese meat-processing company based in Luohe, Henan Province, best known for its Shuanghui-brand ham sausages and for acquiring Smithfield Foods in 2013.

Shuanghui International (company)

Shuanghui International is the former name of WH Group Limited, the pork-processing holding company led by chairman Wan Long that acquired Smithfield Foods for $7.1 billion in 2013.