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Shyamkumar Barve
Shyamkumar Barve, born in 1978, is an Indian National Congress politician who won the Ramtek constituency in Maharashtra in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, defeating Shiv Sena's Raju Parve.
Shyamnagar
Shyamnagar is the name of several places in Bengal: a town of about 442,000 people in West Bengal, India, and a coastal sub-district in Bangladesh.
Shyamtanu Chattoraj
Shyamtanu Chattoraj is an American life scientist who co-founded Acuity Spatial Genomics in 2021, a Harvard spin-out later renamed Bruker Spatial Genomics, and serves as its Chief Scientific Officer.
Shyheim
Shyheim (Shyheim Franklin, born 1977) is a Staten Island rapper and actor, the youngest Wu-Tang Clan affiliate, whose 1994 debut AKA the Rugged Child and single On and On defined his career; imprisoned 2014 to 2020.
Shyla Stylez
Shyla Stylez (Amanda Friedland, 1982-2017) was a Canadian adult film actress from Armstrong, British Columbia, active 2000-2016 with over 400 films, a Jill Kelly Productions contract, and 2016 AVN Hall of Fame induction.
Shylock
Shylock is the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who lends Antonio 3,000 ducats and demands a pound of his flesh as security for the loan.
Shylock (2020 film)
Shylock (ഷൈലോക്ക്), Tamil version Kuberan, is a 2020 Malayalam action drama by Ajai Vasudev starring Mammootty as Boss, a film-industry moneylender; released 23 January 2020, a box-office superhit with divided reviews.
Shymkent (city)
Shymkent (Шымкент, formerly Chimkent) is Kazakhstan's third-largest city and a city of republican significance since 2018, an industrial and transport hub of the south near Tashkent, with about 1.32 million residents in 2026.
Shymkent (district)
Districts of Shymkent (Шымкент), the five urban districts (Abai, Al-Farabi, Enbekshinsky, Karatau, Turan) of Kazakhstan's city of republican significance, created within the 17th region-level unit formed by the June 19, 2018 decree.
Shyne
Shyne is the stage name of Moses Michael Levi Barrow, a Belizean-American rapper on Bad Boy Records who was later deported to Belize and entered politics.
Shyness
Shyness: wariness or self-consciousness in social situations, distinct from social anxiety disorder (a clinical diagnosis) and introversion (a preference for solitude). Covers symptoms, child shyness taxonomy, school effects, and cross-cultural differences.
Shyroke Raion
Shyroke Raion (Широківський район) was a district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on the settlement of Shyroke (pop. 9,623); abolished 17 July 2020 by resolution 807-IX and merged into Kryvorizkyi Raion.
Shyster
Shyster: informal mainly US word for a dishonest person, especially an unscrupulous lawyer or politician. First recorded 1843 in New York's The Subterranean; etymology disputed, probably from German Scheisser, not Shylock.
Shyue Ping Ong
Shyue Ping Ong is a computational materials chemist who founded the pymatgen library, co-developed the Materials Project, and is a professor at the National University of Singapore.
Shyv-Amashe Corona
Shyv-Amashe Corona is a 410-km-wide corona on Venus at 57S, 63E, in the Fredegonde V-57 quadrangle, named in 1997 for the Chuvash main water goddess and associated with Geyaguga and Xaratanga Chasmata.
Si (สมเด็จพระอริยวงษญาณ สมเด็จพระสังฆราช (ศรี))
Si (ศรี) was a Thai Theravada monk who served as the first Supreme Patriarch of the Rattanakosin era, appointed by King Rama I in 1782.
Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido
Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido is Karol G's June 20, 2024 merengue single, first advance of Tropicoqueta; it topped Hot Latin Songs, Latin Airplay and Tropical Airplay and won 2025 Latin awards.
SI base unit
The SI base units are the seven units of the International System of Units, including the second, meter, kilogram, and mole, from which all other SI units are derived.
SI base units
The SI base units are the seven units of the International System of Units: the second, meter, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela, measuring time, length, mass, and more.
Si Inthrathit
Si Inthrathit, also known as Pho Khun Bang Klang Hao, was the first king of the Phra Ruang dynasty of the Sukhothai Kingdom, ruling from 1238 to 1270.
Si King
Si King (Simon James King, born 1966, Kibblesworth, County Durham), British chef and TV presenter, one half of the Hairy Bikers with Dave Myers; 33 books, 6 million copies; Myers died 2024; King now runs PROPA! pies and solo projects.
Si Prat
Si Prat (ศรีปราชญ์) was a Thai poet of the Ayutthaya period, famous for the nirat poem Kamsuan Sriprat and for his banishment and execution at Nakhon Si Thammarat.
SI prefix
An SI prefix is a name and symbol denoting a decimal multiple or submultiple of an SI unit, ranging from quetta (10^30) to quecto (10^-30).
Si Racha
Si Racha (ศรีราชา) is a coastal town and district in Chon Buri Province, Thailand, on the Eastern Seaboard between Chon Buri and Pattaya; namesake of sriracha sauce, home to Laem Chabang port industry and a large Japanese expatriate community.
Si Robertson
Si Robertson (Silas Robertson, "Uncle Si"), brother of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, is a Vietnam veteran who made duck-call reeds at Duck Commander after his 1993 Army retirement, starred on A&E's Duck Dynasty, and wrote the bestsellers Si-Cology 1 and Si-renity.
Si se pai
Si se pai (四色牌, Four Colour Cards; Vietnamese Tứ Sắc) is a Chinese rummy-style card game played with 112 narrow chess-character cards in four colors, melded into groups, with an odd-total scoring rule.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Si vis pacem, para bellum, "if you want peace, prepare for war": a Latin adage adapted from Vegetius' Epitoma rei militaris (Book III prologue), not attested in antiquity in this exact form; source of the name Parabellum and the basis of deterrence doctrine.
Si Votha
Si Votha (also Votha, Sivotha; 1841–1891) was a Cambodian prince, son of King Ang Duong, who spent roughly 25 years in revolt against King Norodom and the French.
Si-Te-Cah
Si-Te-Cah ("tule-eaters") are the legendary rivals of Northern Paiute oral tradition, tied to Lovelock Cave, Nevada, and distorted into red-haired giant myths contradicted by the 1912 and 1924 excavations.
Si‐Shen Feng
Si-Shen Feng (冯思慎) is a professor at the National University of Singapore working on nanomedicine and cancer nanotechnology, known for polymeric nanoparticles and vitamin E TPGS for drug delivery.