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Sinyu Persecution
The Sinyu Persecution (신유박해) was a large-scale 1801 suppression of Roman Catholics in Joseon Korea, ordered by Queen Dowager Jeongsun and killing about 100 believers.
Siobhan
Siobhan (Irish: Siobhán) is a feminine given name meaning "God is gracious", the Irish form of Jehanne/Jeanne brought to Ireland by the Anglo-Normans; peaked at #15 in Ireland in 1971, now rare, with 9,193 Irish bearers.
Siobhan Brady
Siobhan Brady is a plant biologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for mapping gene regulatory networks that control root cell development, and an HHMI Investigator since 2024.
Siobhán Donaghy
Siobhán Donaghy (born 1984, London) is a British pop singer, founding member of Sugababes ('Overload'), solo artist of Revolution in Me (2003) and Ghosts (2007), later reunited with the original line-up.
Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey (born 1958, Dublin), Irish singer, founding member of Bananarama (44 UK hits, US No. 1 "Venus") who left in 1988 to form Shakespears Sister, whose "Stay" spent eight weeks at UK No. 1; reunited with Marcella Detroit in 2019.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Siobhan Fallon Hogan (born 1961, Syracuse, New York) is an American character actress and comedian, an SNL 1991-92 cast member, Seinfeld's Tina, and star of Forrest Gump, Men in Black, and three Lars von Trier films; she wrote and produced Rushed (2021) and Shelter in Solitude (2023).
Siobhan Finneran
Siobhan Finneran (born 1966, Oldham) is an English actress known for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Benidorm, Downton Abbey's Sarah O'Brien, Happy Valley's Clare Cartwright, and her first lead role in ITV's Protection.
Siobhan Haughey
Siobhan Haughey (Siobhán Bernadette Haughey, 詩蓓•何), Hong Kong swimmer born 1997; four Olympic medals (Tokyo 2020 silvers, Paris 2024 bronzes in 100m/200m freestyle), 200m short-course world record 1:50.31, Doha 2024 world champion.
Siobhán McSweeney
Siobhán McSweeney (Siobhán Nic Suibhne, born 1979) is an Irish actress from County Cork known for Sister Michael in Derry Girls (BAFTA 2023), hosting The Great Pottery Throw Down and The Traitors Ireland.
Siobhan Redmond
Siobhan Redmond (born 1959, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and RSC Associate Artist known for DS Maureen Connell in Between the Lines, Shona Spurtle in The High Life, and stage roles from Mary Stuart to Happy Days; not to be confused with games executive Siobhan Reddy.
Siobhan Williams
Siobhan Williams is a British-born Canadian actress and musician (artist name SIØBHAN) known for Hell on Wheels, Black Box, UnREAL, Deadly Class, and as Laura Kearney in The Quarry (2022), which earned a BAFTA nomination.
Siofok
Siófok, a Lake Balaton town in Hungary, and its football club BFC Siófok (Siófoki Bányász SE), founded 1921, Hungarian Cup winner 1984, NB I fourth place 1991–92, now in NB III.
Siôn Daniel Young
Siôn Daniel Young (born 1989, Cardiff) is a Welsh actor, fluent in Welsh, trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; known for Lost Boys and Fairies (BAFTA Cymru Best Actor 2025), Deceit, Slow Horses, and War Horse.
Sion James
Sion James (born 2002) is an American NBA guard-forward for the Charlotte Hornets, drafted 33rd overall in 2025 after four seasons at Tulane and one at Duke, known for defense and improved three-point shooting.
Sion Oppong
Sion Oppong (Sion Uno Kobi Oppong), Swedish left winger born 2007; IF Brommapojkarna graduate, 2026 Allsvenskan 14 apps 2 goals, sold to Toulouse FC in August 2026 for 40 million SEK.
Sion Power
Sion Power Corporation is a privately held battery developer in Tucson, Arizona, founded in 1989, that makes Licerion lithium-metal cells, now aimed mainly at defense and aerospace.
Sion Sono (園 子温)
Sion Sono (園 子温) is a Japanese filmmaker born in 1961 in Toyokawa, known for Suicide Circle and Love Exposure, which won awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
Sion Treasure
The Sion Treasure is a hoard of 57 sixth-century Byzantine silver liturgical vessels found illegally in 1963 near Kumluca, Turkey, and now split across five collections.
Sion, Switzerland
Sion (Sitten) is the capital of Valais canton, Switzerland, in the sunny Rhone Valley. Settled since around 6200 BC, it is known for the Valere and Tourbillon castle hills, its old town, vineyards, airport, and about 37,800 residents.
Sionascaig Lacus
Sionascaig Lacus, named for Loch Sionascaig, Scotland, is a 143-km candidate hydrocarbon lake at 41.5S on Titan, identified in Cassini VIMS T66 data as a rare temperate-latitude lake.
Sioni
FC Sioni Bolnisi (სკ სიონი ბოლნისი), founded 1936 in Bolnisi, Georgia, is a football club in Erovnuli Liga 2, Georgian champion 2005/06, playing at Bolnisi Central Stadium.
Sionna
Sionna is an open-source, GPU-accelerated library built on TensorFlow and developed by NVIDIA for link-level simulation of wireless systems, introduced in 2022 for 5G and 6G research.
Sionna Therapeutics
Sionna Therapeutics is a Waltham, Massachusetts biotechnology company, founded in 2019 by Greg Hurlbut and Mark Munson, developing small molecules that stabilize CFTR to treat cystic fibrosis.
Sioux
The Sioux (Oceti Sakowin, Seven Council Fires) are Northern Plains Native peoples in Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota divisions; "Sioux" is a French adaptation of an Ojibwe word meaning enemy, still used in treaties and tribal legal names.
Sioux Act of 1889
The Sioux Act of 1889 is a United States federal statute that broke up the Great Sioux Reservation and opened nine million acres to homesteading.
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa: fourth-largest Iowa city (85,797 in 2020) at the Big Sioux–Missouri River confluence in Woodbury County; founded 1854, Stockyards hub, home of the 185th Air Refueling Wing and Flight 232 rescue.
Sioux Falls Skyforce
Sioux Falls Skyforce, NBA G League affiliate of the Miami HEAT based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; founded 1989 in the CBA, three-time league champion (1996, 2005, 2016), plays at the Sanford Pentagon.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls, founded in 1856-57, is the largest city in South Dakota, built around falls on the Big Sioux River; Citibank's 1981 arrival made it a banking center.
Sioux language
Sioux is a cover term for the Dakotan dialects of the Siouan family, including Dakota and Lakota, spoken in the Dakotas and classified as endangered.
Sioux Lookout
Sioux Lookout, Ontario, the Hub of the North: a municipality of about 5,600 in northwestern Ontario serving 29-31 remote First Nation communities, incorporated 1912 as a railway divisional point, with a major regional airport and the Meno Ya Win Health Centre.