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Sakura Motoki
Sakura Motoki (元木咲良, born 2002) is a Japanese women's freestyle wrestler, 62 kg, who won Olympic gold at Paris 2024 and world titles in 2025 at senior and U23 level.
Sakura Wars (サクラ大戦)
Sakura Wars (サクラ大戦, Shin Sakura Taisen) is Sega's 2019 PlayStation 4 soft reboot of the tactical dating sim series, set in alternate 1940s steam-powered Japan, with LIPS dialogue choices, action combat, Tite Kubo character designs, and 4 million series units shipped.
Sakura Yosozumi
Sakura Yosozumi (四十住さくら), Japanese park skateboarder born 2002 in Wakayama; first Olympic women's park champion (Tokyo 2020, 60.09), 2018 world and Asian Games champion, 10th at Paris 2024.
Sakuradamomon Incident
The Sakuradamomon Incident (桜田門外の変) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, the Tokugawa shogunate's tairō, by eighteen Mito and Satsuma swordsmen outside Edo Castle's Sakuradamon gate on 24 March 1860.
Sakurai's Object
Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sagittarii) is a star in Sagittarius that underwent a final helium shell flash in the 1990s, returning to the giant stage.
Sakurajima (桜島)
Sakurajima (桜島) is an active stratovolcano in Kagoshima Bay, Kyushu, Japan, post-caldera volcano of Aira caldera, 1,117 m, joined to Osumi Peninsula by 1914 Taisho eruption lava, continuously erupting since 1955.
Sakurakai
The Sakurakai (桜会, Cherry Blossom Society) was a clandestine society of mid-ranking Japanese army officers founded in 1930 by Lieutenant Colonel Hashimoto Kingorō, which plotted the failed March and October Incidents of 1931.
Sakurazaka46 (櫻坂46)
Sakurazaka46 (櫻坂46), formerly Keyakizaka46 (欅坂46), is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto, renamed in October 2020. Known for Silent Majority's Oricon debut record, 31 members, Buddies fandom, and the 2026 What's lonesome? arena tour.
Sakwap-mana Mons
Sakwap-mana Mons, a 500 km Venus mountain named for the Hopi blue corn maiden kachina, approved by the IAU in 1997 at 35°N 219.5°E; the name was dropped in December 2025 when no mons was found there.
Sakya Pandita
Sakya Pandita (Sa-skya Paṇḍita, 1182–1251) was a Tibetan Buddhist philosopher and translator, the fourth throneholder of Sakya Monastery, famed for epistemology and his debate victory over the Indian scholar Harinanda.
Sakya school
The Sakya school (萨迦派) is a Tibetan Buddhist order that ruled Tibet on behalf of the Mongol Yuan dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Sakya–Mongol patronage
Sakya-Mongol patronage: the 13th-century priest-patron (mchod yon, chöyön) alliance between Tibet's Sakya school and the Mongol Empire, begun at the 1247 Sakya Pandita-Godan Khan meeting at Liangzhou and continued by Phagpa with Kublai Khan, under which Sakya ruled Tibet until the mid-1350s.
Sakyamuni Descending the Mountain
Sakyamuni Descending the Mountain (Japanese: Shussan Shaka) is a Buddhist painting subject showing the emaciated Buddha leaving the mountains after six years of ascetic practice, favored in Zen art.
Sal Candido
Salvatore (Sal) Candido is an engineer who co-founded and was chief technology officer of EvolutionaryScale, an AI protein-design company founded in 2023, and is now a vice president at Biohub.
Sal de Vida
Sal de Vida is a lithium brine mining project in the Salar del Hombre Muerto in Catamarca Province, Argentina, owned by Rio Tinto since its 2025 acquisition of Arcadium Lithium.
Sal DiDomenico
Sal DiDomenico is an American Democratic politician who has represented the Middlesex and Suffolk district in the Massachusetts Senate since 2010, serving as Assistant Majority Leader.
Sal Iacono
Sal Iacono, "Cousin Sal" (born 1971), American comedian, Emmy-winning writer, and attorney; cousin of Jimmy Kimmel, writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host of Against All Odds podcast and FS1's Lock It In.
Sal Jenco
Sal Jenco is an American actor best known for playing Sal "Blowfish" Banducci, the maintenance engineer on 21 Jump Street, and for co-managing Johnny Depp's Viper Room nightclub.
Sal Khan
Sal Khan, also known as Salman Amin Khan, is an American educator and entrepreneur who founded Khan Academy, a nonprofit offering a free education for anyone, anywhere, and leads it as CEO.
Sal Magluta
Salvador "Sal" Magluta, with Willy Falcon of "Los Muchachos," ran a Miami cocaine empire accused of moving 75 tons worth $2 billion; acquitted in a bribed 1996 trial, he was later sentenced to 195 years for money laundering and obstruction.
Sal Maroni
Sal Maroni (Salvatore Vincent Maroni), created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, is DC Comics' Gotham mafia boss from Detective Comics #66 (1942) whose acid attack created Two-Face, later adapted by Eric Roberts, David Zayas, and Clancy Brown.
Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo (Salvatore Mineo Jr., 1939–1976), American actor, Oscar-nominated as Plato in Rebel Without a Cause and for Exodus; later came out publicly, directed Fortune and Men's Eyes, and was murdered in West Hollywood in 1976.
Sal Vulcano
Sal Vulcano, born Salvatore Edward Anthony Vulcano in 1976, is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Staten Island, best known as co-creator, executive producer, and star of truTV's Impractical Jokers.
Sal Walker
Sal Walker (Clarence Leonard Walker, 1898-1957) was a South African boxer who won bantamweight gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, then fought professionally 1922-1928, holding South African featherweight and bantamweight titles.
Sal(a)pia(i)/Salinae
Sal(a)pia(i)/Salinae, also Salapia, Salpia, Salpi: ancient Daunian and Roman city on the Salpi Lagoon, Apulia, Italy; refounded 1st c. BCE by Hostilius, a salt-trade port, later medieval civitas Salpi.
SAL003 (PCSK9 antibody)
SAL003, taikeximab (泰卡西单抗注射液), is Shenzhen Salubris's recombinant fully human anti-PCSK9 monoclonal antibody injection for hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia; NMPA accepted its Class 1 NDA in September 2025, dosed one subcutaneous injection every 4 weeks.
Sala
Sala, also Chellah and in its Roman phase Sala Colonia, was an ancient city of Mauretania Tingitana whose ruins stand on the Bou Regreg near Rabat, Morocco, visited by Phoenicians from the 7th century BC.
Sala Automate de Joc
Sala Automate de Joc, Romanian for slot machine hall, is the legal term for a licensed gambling venue of electronic gaming machines, used by several venues in Chișinău, Moldova.
Sala Baker
Sala Baker (Elisala Baker), New Zealand-born Samoan actor and stuntman born 1976 in Wellington, played Sauron in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Brute in The Killer (2023).
Salaam Bombay! (सलाम बॉम्बे!)
Salaam Bombay! (सलाम बॉम्बे!) is Mira Nair's 1988 Hindi drama debut about Bombay street children, starring real street kids including Shafiq Syed; it won the 1988 Cannes Caméra d'Or and was the second Indian film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.