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Sigurd Jørgensen
Sigurd Jørgensen (full name Sigurd Gersdorf Jørgensen) was a Norwegian artistic gymnast, born and died in Bergen, who won Olympic gold in the team free system event in 1912.
Sigurd Ring
Sigurd Ring (Sigurðr hringr) is a legendary Scandinavian king of the lost Skjöldunga saga, victor of the Battle of Bråvalla over Harald Wartooth and, in Icelandic tradition, father of Ragnar Lodbrok.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (Sigurðr ormr í auga, Sigurd Orm-i-øje), legendary Danish son of Ragnar Lothbrok and Kraka/Áslaug, born with a snake or ouroboros mark in his eye, ancestor of Harald Fairhair.
Sigurd the Crusader
Sigurd the Crusader (Sigurðr Jórsalafari, c. 1090–1130), king of Norway 1103–1130, sailed in 1107 with 60 ships to Jerusalem, helped Baldwin I take Sidon in 1110, and received a relic of the True Cross.
Sigurður Helgason
Sigurður Helgason (1927–2023) was an Icelandic mathematician at MIT who created the modern theory of the Radon transform, the mathematics behind CT scans, and wrote the classic 1962 book Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces.
Sigurður R. Gíslason
Sigurður R. Gíslason is an Icelandic geochemist at the University of Iceland who co-founded CarbFix, storing CO2 as carbonate minerals in basalt, and joined the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Sigurður Þórarinsson
Sigurður Þórarinsson (1912–1983) was an Icelandic volcanologist who founded tephrochronology, the dating of geological and archaeological sequences by volcanic ash layers, coined "tephra", and identified the Landnám settlement layer.
Sigvard Bernadotte
Sigvard Bernadotte, born in 1907 as Prince Sigvard of Sweden, was a Swedish count and designer who lost his royal title through marriage and became a pioneer of Scandinavian industrial design.
Sigvard Ericsson
Sigvard "Sigge" Ericsson (1930–2019), Swedish speed skater, first Swede to win the world allround title (Moscow 1955), European champion 1955, and 1956 Olympic gold medalist at 10,000 m with silver at 5,000 m.
Sigvard Sivertsen
Sigvard Jakob Sivertsen (1881–1963), Norwegian artistic gymnast from Bergen, club Bergens TF; won Olympic silver in the 1908 team event and gold in the 1912 free system team event.
Sigve Lie
Sigve Lie (1906–1958), Norwegian sailor with KNS Oslo; won two Olympic gold medals in the Dragon three-person keelboat aboard Pan with Thor Thorvaldsen and Håkon Barfod at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952.
Sigvotatug vedotin
Sigvotatug vedotin (PF-08046047, SGN-B6A) is Pfizer/Seagen's investigational integrin beta-6-directed antibody-drug conjugate with MMAE payload for NSCLC; its phase 3 SigVie-002 trial missed overall survival versus docetaxel, while frontline combination trials with pembrolizumab continue.
Sigyn
Sigyn (Old Norse Sigyn) is the Norse goddess wife of Loki, mother of Narfi, attested in the Poetic and Prose Eddas and skaldic poetry. Her defining myth is holding a bowl to catch snake venom dripping on the bound Loki, whose writhing causes earthquakes.
SiHa
SiHa (CVCL_0032, ATCC HTB-35) is an HPV16-positive human cervical squamous cell carcinoma cell line established in 1970 from a 55-year-old Japanese patient, widely used in cervical cancer research.
Sihai Chongming (四海重明)
Sihai Chongming (四海重明, Love's Rebellion) is a 2024 Chinese xianxia romance drama adapted from Yi Daixue's novel, starring Jing Tian and Zhang Linghe, 36 episodes, aired on Mango TV and iQIYI.
Sihai Yang⧫
Sihai Yang (杨四海) is a Chinese inorganic chemist, Chair Professor at Peking University since 2023, known for neutron-scattering studies of gas binding in metal–organic frameworks.
Sihâm-ı Kazâ
Sihâm-ı Kazâ (Arrows of Destiny) is the anthology of satirical verse by the Ottoman poet Nef'î, regarded as the most famous satire in classical Turkish literature.
Sihanouk Trail
The Sihanouk Trail was a supply network in Cambodia used by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces during the Vietnam War, closed after the 1970 coup.
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (Khmer: កំពង់ផែស្វយ័តក្រុងព្រះសីហនុ), commonly abbreviated PAS, is Cambodia's only deep-sea commercial port, opened in 1960 and handling roughly three-quarters of national seaborne trade.
Sihanoukville CIIDG power station 2
Sihanoukville CIIDG power station 2 (西哈努克港2×350MW燃煤电站项目) is a 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia, jointly owned by China Huadian and CIIDG; fully operational since December 2022, it is Cambodia's largest power station.
Sihasak Phuangketkeow
Sihasak Phuangketkeow is a Thai career diplomat serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2025, after serving as Vice Minister and ambassador to Japan, France, and the UN in Geneva.
Sihathor
Sihathor, also Menwadjre Sihathor or Sahathor, was a short-reigning Thirteenth Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt, recorded in the Turin Canon between Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV.
Siheung-si
Siheung-si (시흥시, 始興市) is a coastal city in mid-western Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, created January 1, 1989 from Siheung-gun's Sora-eup, Gunja-myeon, and Suam-myeon; it grew from 93,000 residents in 1989 to about 473,000 by 2018 through Sihwa industrial complex and new town development.
Siheyuan zhi Shazhu Chongsheng
Siheyuan zhi Shazhu Chongsheng (四合院之傻柱重生) is a rebirth-genre title shared by web novels and micro-dramas spun off from the TV series Qingman Siheyuan, in which the exploited cook He Yuzhu (Shazhu) dies and returns to his youth for revenge; one version ranked 13th among micro-dramas with 6.79 hundred million play increments.
Sihil Oil and Gas Field
Sihil is an offshore oil and gas field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, part of Pemex's Cantarell Project. Discovered in 2002, it lies beneath the original Cantarell reservoirs.
Sihong Wang
Sihong Wang is a materials scientist and associate professor at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory who develops stretchable polymer semiconductors for wearable and implantable bioelectronics.
Sihor Mound
The Sihor Mound is an ancient archaeological mound in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India, protected as a monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Sihtu Planitia
Sihtu Planitia: 565-km-wide lava-flooded smooth plains (planitia) near Mercury's equator, centered at 2.82°S, 55.57°; IAU named it in 2017 from the Babylonian word for Mercury.
Sihwa
Sihwa (시화) is a genre of prose writing, in Classical Chinese in Korea, that records commentary on poems together with anecdotes about the poets who wrote them.
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station
The Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station (시화호조력발전소) is a 254 MW tidal barrage power plant on South Korea's west coast, the largest tidal power plant in operation.