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Salim Hatubou
Salim Hatubou (1972–2015) was a Franco-Comorian writer and storyteller, a pioneer of Comorian literature in French whose work drew on oral tradition and the ties between the Comoros and Marseille.
Salim ibn Abdallah
Salim ibn Abdallah (سالم بن عبد الله) was an Umayyad chancery secretary who headed the diwan al-rasa'il under caliphs Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and al-Walid ibn Yazid.
Salim Khan
Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 24 November 1935, Indore), Indian screenwriter of the Salim-Javed duo behind Zanjeer, Deewaar, Sholay, Don; father of Salman Khan; Padma Shri 2014.
Salim Khan family
Salim Khan family, also called the Khan family or Khan clan of Bollywood: the Indian film dynasty of screenwriter Salim Khan (born 1935, Indore), of Salim–Javed fame, his wives Salma Khan and Helen, and children Salman, Arbaaz, Sohail, Alvira, and Arpita, spanning five generations in Hindi cinema.
Salim Kumar (സലീം കുമാർ)
Salim Kumar (സലീം കുമാർ), also Saleem Kumar, Malayalam film actor and comedian; National Film Award for Best Actor for Adaminte Makan Abu (2010); died 2026 at 56.
Salim Merchant
Salim Merchant (सलीम मर्चेंट) is an Indian composer, singer, and producer, born 1974 in Mumbai, one half of the duo Salim-Sulaiman, known for Chak De! India.
Salim S. Abdool Karim
Salim S. Abdool Karim is a South African clinical epidemiologist, director of CAPRISA since 2002, known for HIV prevention trials and leading South Africa's COVID-19 response.
Salim S. Hayek
Salim S. Hayek, also published as Salim Hayek, is a cardiologist whose research on suPAR and kidney injury led UTMB to name him Chair of Internal Medicine in 2025.
Salim Sherwani
Salim Sherwani, born in 1951, is a Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper who won Olympic silver at Munich 1972 and bronze at Montreal 1976, plus the 1971 World Cup.
Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf is an Indian-born Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University, founder of PHRI, whose trials of beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and the polypill shaped global heart disease guidelines.
Salim–Javed
Salim–Javed: Hindi cinema screenwriting duo of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, writers of Zanjeer, Deewaar, Sholay, Don and Mr India, creators of the Angry Young Man archetype and the highest-paid writers of 1970s Bollywood.
Salim–Sulaiman
Salim–Sulaiman: Indian composing duo of brothers Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, over 100 Hindi film scores (Chak De! India, Kurbaan, Band Baaja Baaraat), Daytime Emmy-nominated, FIFA World Cup 2010 performers, owners of Merchant Records and the Bhoomi project.
Salima District
Salima District is a district in Malawi's Central Region on Lake Malawi, capital Salima town. 2,196 sq km, 478,346 people (2018), economy based on agriculture and fisheries, with Senga Bay tourism and the Chipoka port.
Salima Hacein‐Bey‐Abina
Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina is a French professor of immunology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Bicêtre who led the first gene therapy trial treating children with SCID-X1 in Paris.
Salima Murad
Salima Murad (سليمة مراد), also known as Salima Pasha, was an Iraqi singer of Baghdadi Jewish origin who dominated Iraqi song from the 1920s to the late 1960s.
Salima Sultan Begum
Salima Sultan Begum (1539-1613), Mughal princess, granddaughter of Babur, third wife of Emperor Akbar and widow of regent Bairam Khan; influential adviser who mediated Prince Salim's 1603 pardon.
Salimah Aga Khan
Salimah Aga Khan, born Sarah Frances Croker-Poole in 1940 in New Delhi, is a British-born former model and the first wife of Aga Khan IV; after their 1995 divorce she became the first SOS Children's Villages International Ambassador for Children.
Salina
Salina: a landform term for salt-crusted areas such as salt flats and saline playas, or saline water bodies like salt marshes; also a saltworks. From Latin salinae; related to playas, sabkhas, and saline lakes.
Salina Cruz
Salina Cruz is a city and port on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, inaugurated as a planned port in 1907 under President Porfirio Díaz.
Salina Kosgei
Salina Jebet Kosgei, Kenyan long-distance runner born 1976, 2002 Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion (31:27.83) and 2009 Boston Marathon winner by one second; marathon best 2:23:22 (Berlin 2006), 10th at Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Salina Turda
Salina Turda is a historic salt mine at Turda, Transylvania, Romania, worked from Roman times until 1932 and reopened in 1992 as an underground museum, amusement, and spa complex with Rudolf, Terezia, and Iosif chambers.
Salina, Kansas
Salina, Kansas: county seat of Saline County, founded 1858 on the Smoky Hill River; about 46,000 residents at the I-70/I-135 junction, a regional manufacturing, healthcare, and education hub.
Salinae (United Kingdom)
Salinae (Latin "saltworks") is the Roman name for British salt-producing settlements, applied to Middlewich (Cheshire), possibly Condate, and Droitwich (Worcestershire); both had brine springs, forts, and industrial occupation from the 1st to 4th centuries AD.
Salinar culture
The Salinar culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture of Peru's north coast, transitional between the Cupisnique and the Moche, known for white-on-red pottery and gold nose ornaments.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a National Park Service unit near Mountainair, New Mexico, preserving three 17th-century Franciscan missions and pueblos at Abó, Quarai, and Gran Quivira, created from Gran Quivira National Monument (1909) and renamed in 1988.
Salinas River (California)
The Salinas River is the longest river of California's central coast, flowing about 152 miles through the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay and recharging the aquifer beneath one of America's most productive farm regions.
Salinas Valley
The Salinas Valley is an 80-mile agricultural valley in Monterey County, California, between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia ranges, drained by the 170-mile Salinas River; a major vegetable-producing region facing seawater intrusion managed under SGMA.
Salinas, California
Salinas, California: Monterey County seat (1872, incorporated 1874) in the Salinas Valley, population about 159,000 (2025 estimate), 80.9% Hispanic, hub of a $2 billion lettuce and artichoke agriculture industry and birthplace of John Steinbeck.
Saline (medicine)
Saline (medicine): 0.9% sodium chloride injection, also called normal saline, an intravenous crystalloid with 154 mEq/L each of sodium and chloride; introduced in the 1832 cholera epidemic, causes hyperchloremic acidosis in large volumes, increasingly replaced by balanced crystalloids.
Saline County, Arkansas, United States
Saline County, Arkansas: central Arkansas county, county seat Benton, formed November 2, 1835 and named for early salt works. Population 123,416 (2020); once produced over 90% of US aluminum ore via bauxite mining.