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Siarhei Martynau
Siarhei Martynau (Сяргей Анатолевіч Мартынаў), also Sergey Martynov, Belarusian rifle shooter born 1968; six Olympics 1988–2012; 2012 London 50 m prone gold with world record 705.5; two bronzes.
Siarmal Coal Mine
The Siarmal Coal Mine, formally the Siarmal Open Cast Project, is a large open-cast coal mine in Sundargarh district, Odisha, India, operated by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited.
Siaspiqa
Siaspiqa, also written Siaspiqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from 487 to 468 BC and buried in pyramid 4 at Nuri.
Siatum
Siatum was an ancient Egyptian prince of the Eighteenth Dynasty, probably a son of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, attested on a Vienna relief and his daughter's mummy-label.
Šiauliai
Šiauliai is a city in northern Lithuania and the country's fourth largest, dating its founding to the Battle of Saulė of 1236 and long known for leather making.
Šiauliai County
Šiauliai County (Šiaulių apskritis), northern Lithuania, borders Latvia; center Šiauliai. 8,537 km², 7 municipalities, about 267,000 residents, declining population, EU investment leader.
Siavash Ghomayshi
Siavash Ghomayshi (سیاوش قمیشی) is an Iranian singer, musician, and songwriter born in 1945 in Ahvaz, who composed for Ebi and Dariush before leaving Iran after the revolution.
Siavash Kasraei
Siavash Kasraei (سیاوش کسرایی) was an Iranian poet and Tudeh Party Marxist, best known for the 1959 narrative poem Arash the Archer, a landmark of modern Persian poetry.
Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
Siavouche Nemat-Nasser (1936–2021) was an Iranian-born American materials scientist, Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, founding editor of Mechanics of Materials, and a 2001 National Academy of Engineering member.
Sib Hashian
John "Sib" Hashian (1949–2017) was the original drummer of the rock band Boston, playing on the 1976 debut that sold over 17 million copies and on Don't Look Back (1978). He later drummed with Ernie and the Automatics and died performing on the Rock Legends cruise.
Siba
Siba is the stage name of Sérgio Roberto Veloso de Oliveira, a Brazilian singer and rabeca player from Recife who founded Mestre Ambrósio and Siba e a Fuloresta.
Sibabrata Das
Sibabrata (Shibam) Das is an Indian business executive who co-founded Atomberg Technologies, a Mumbai maker of energy-efficient ceiling fans, and became its CEO in April 2026.
Sibanye-Stillwater
Sibanye-Stillwater, formerly Sibanye Gold, is a South African mining company spun off from Gold Fields in 2013, producing gold and platinum group metals on five continents.
Sibawayh (سيبويه)
Sibawayh (سيبويه), ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān, Persian-born Basran grammarian of the 8th century, author of the Kitāb, the oldest extant systematic Arabic grammar, based on the Qur'an, poetry, and Bedouin speech; central figure of the Basra school against Kufa.
Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli, born in 1980, is a German actress whose debut in Fatih Akin's Head-On won the 2004 Golden Bear; she played Shae in Game of Thrones.
Sibelis Veranes
Sibelis Veranes (Sibelis Veranes Morell, born 1974, Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban judoka, 1999 World champion and 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medalist in women's middleweight (≤70 kg), beating Kate Howey in the final.
Sibelius (Mercurian crater)
Sibelius is a roughly 90 km diameter impact crater on Mercury at 49.6S, 144.7W, named for the composer, with off-center central peaks and extensive impact melt ponds mapped from MESSENGER data.
Siberia (2018 film)
Siberia (2018) is a romantic crime-thriller directed by Matthew Ross, written by Scott B. Smith, starring Keanu Reeves as diamond trader Lucas Hill and Ana Ularu as Katya; released by Saban Films in July 2018 to strongly negative reviews (12% Tomatometer, Metascore 34).
Siberia (Сибирь)
Siberia (Сибирь), Russia's Asian region of over 10 million sq km between the Urals and the Pacific, is Earth's largest continuous permafrost region, with extreme continental climate, vast oil, gas, and coal reserves, and rising wildfire-driven carbon and methane emissions.
Siberia Abyssal Plain
Siberia Abyssal Plain, also called Fletcher Abyssal Plain or Makarov Basin, is a GEBCO-named deep Arctic Ocean seafloor plain in the Makarov Basin off East Siberia, about 3,940 m deep, joined to the Wrangel Plain by the Arlis Gap.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a charter flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk shot down over the Black Sea by a Ukrainian missile in 2001, killing all 78 aboard.
Siberian cat
Siberian cat (Siberian forest cat): Russia's natural semi-longhaired forest cat breed, recorded since about 1000 AD, formally standardized in the late 1980s; triple-coated, slow-maturing, marketed as low-Fel d 1, with HCM and PKD known in the breed.
Siberian Chemical Combine
The Siberian Chemical Combine is a Russian nuclear fuel-cycle enterprise in the closed city of Seversk, Tomsk Oblast. Founded in 1953, it produced plutonium for Soviet weapons and is now Rosatom's principal uranium conversion plant.
Siberian Cossack Host
The Siberian Cossack Host (Сибирское казачье войско) was a Cossack host of the Russian Empire, established in 1808 to guard the Siberian border until 1918.
Siberian crane
The Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane, is a critically endangered white crane that breeds in arctic Russia and winters mainly at Poyang Lake in China.
Siberian Federal District (Сибирский федеральный округ)
Siberian Federal District (Сибирский федеральный округ), a Russian federal district created by decree of 13 May 2000, centered on Novosibirsk, comprising ten subjects including Krasnoyarsk Krai and the republics of Altai, Tyva, and Khakassia.
Siberian High
The Siberian High, also called the Asiatic High, is a semi-permanent anticyclone of cold air that forms each winter over Eurasia, centered near Lake Baikal and northern Mongolia.
Siberian Husky
Siberian Husky, or Sibe, a medium-sized spitz sled dog breed developed by the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia about 3,000 years ago; AKC-recognized since 1930, famous for the 1925 Nome serum run with Togo and Balto.
Siberian Ice Maiden
Siberian Ice Maiden, also Altai Princess or Princess of Ukok: a tattooed Pazyryk woman's mummy from a 5th-century BC frozen kurgan on the Ukok Plateau, found in 1993 by Natalia Polosmak, buried with six horses, and returned to Gorno-Altaisk in 2012 after a repatriation dispute.
Siberian Intervention
The Siberian Intervention (シベリア出兵) was Japan's dispatch of about 72,000 troops to Siberia and northern Manchuria from 1918 to 1922, part of the Allied intervention against the Russian Revolution.