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Salute (സല്യൂട്ട്) (2022 Indian film)
Salute (സല്യൂട്ട്) is a 2022 Malayalam crime thriller directed by Rosshan Andrrews, written by Bobby-Sanjay, and produced by Dulquer Salmaan, who stars as SI Aravind Karunakaran; released direct-to-OTT on Sony LIV on 17 March 2022.
Salute state
Salute state: a princely state under the British Raj whose ruler was granted a gun salute (3 to 21 guns, in steps of two) by the British Crown as a status honor, distinct from the general 21-gun salute tradition.
Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts: 1991-1992 Nickelodeon sitcom at fictional Camp Anawanna, created by Steve Slavkin from his 1986 book; campers prank counselor Ug; 26 episodes, two seasons, Emmy-nominated.
Saluva dynasty
The Saluva dynasty (सालुव वंश) was a ruling house of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1485 to 1505, founded by Saluva Narasimha after deposing the last Sangama ruler.
Saluva Narasimha
Saluva Narasimha (ಸಾಳುವ ನರಸಿಂಹ) was a Vijayanagara general who founded the Saluva dynasty, becoming king around 1485 or 1490 and extending rule over the Tamil plain.
Saluva Narasimha's usurpation of the Vijayanagara throne
Saluva Narasimha's usurpation of the Vijayanagara throne (सालुव नरसिंह) was his seizure of the imperial crown around 1485, ending the Sangama dynasty and beginning the Saluva dynasty.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Salva Kiir Mayardit (born 1951, Akon) is South Sudan's first president since independence on 9 July 2011, a former SPLA commander who succeeded John Garang in 2005; his rivalry with Riek Machar caused the 2013 civil war and the 2018 peace deal's erosion.
Salvable
Salvable is a 2025 British crime drama, the debut feature of directors Bjorn Franklin and Johnny Marchetta, starring Toby Kebbell as an ageing boxer drawn into underground fighting by Shia LaBeouf's ex-convict friend; released May 2, 2025 by Lionsgate, Metascore 54.
Salvador (film)
Salvador (1986) is Oliver Stone's drama, co-written with photojournalist Richard Boyle, about a burned-out American reporter (James Woods) in El Salvador's civil war; two Oscar nominations, $4.5M budget, Hemdale production.
Salvador (TV series)
Salvador is a 2026 Spanish Netflix drama thriller, 8 episodes, created by Aitor Gabilondo, directed by Daniel Calparsoro, starring Luis Tosar as ambulance driver Salvador Aguirre whose daughter Milena joins the neo-Nazi ultra group White Souls.
Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende Gossens (1908–1973), Chilean physician, Socialist Party founder, and president 1970–1973 under Popular Unity; first Marxist to reach Chile's presidency by popular vote; nationalized copper, pursued land reform, died by suicide in the 1973 Pinochet coup.
Salvador Aznar Benitah
Salvador Aznar Benitah, born 1975 in Montreal, is a Spanish-Canadian stem-cell biologist who leads a lab at IRB Barcelona, studying circadian clocks, aging, and metastasis.
Salvador Cisneros Betancourt
Salvador Cisneros Betancourt (1828–1914) was a Cuban aristocrat and revolutionary who twice served as president of the Republic in Arms during Cuba's independence wars, the only Cuban to do so.
Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides
Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides was a Portuguese colonial administrator and naval commander, born in Cádiz in 1602, who served as governor of Rio de Janeiro and of Angola.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Catalan painter from Figueres and leading Surrealist, creator of The Persistence of Memory and the paranoiac-critical method; expelled from Surrealism in 1934, famed for Un Chien Andalou with Buñuel.
Salvador de Madariaga
Salvador de Madariaga, also known as Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, was a Spanish diplomat. He founded the College of Europe in 1949 and chaired the 1948 Hague Congress.
Salvador Díaz Mirón
Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928) was a Mexican poet and journalist from Veracruz, a precursor of Modernismo whose only authorized book of verse, Lascas, appeared in 1901.
Salvador E. Luria
Salvador E. Luria was an Italian-American microbiologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for work on bacterial viruses, known for the 1943 fluctuation experiment and his later career at MIT.
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu, full name Salvador Espriu i Castelló (1913–1985), was a Catalan poet, playwright, and novelist, a central figure of twentieth-century Catalan literature known for Cementiri de Sinera and La pell de brau.
Salvador García Muñoz
Salvador García Muñoz is a Mexican chemical engineer at Eli Lilly who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for advancing Quality by Design.
Salvador Garmendia
Salvador Garmendia (1928, Barquisimeto – 2001, Caracas) was a Venezuelan novelist and short-story writer known for urban narratives like Los pequeños seres and for winning the National Literature Prize.
Salvador Gomez
Salvador Gómez (Salva Gómez, Chava), born 1968 in Santander, is a Spanish water polo player who played 530 caps, won Olympic gold 1996 and silver 1992, and two world titles.
Salvador Illa
Salvador Illa (Salvador Illa i Roca, born 1966) is a Spanish Socialist politician serving as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, after leading Spain's COVID-19 health response.
Salvador Mendoza, Jr.
Salvador Mendoza, Jr. (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada, born in Honduras in 1944, is a pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and thromboxane synthase and showed that endothelium-derived relaxing factor is nitric oxide.
Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a Mexican poet, essayist, playwright, and chronicler of the Contemporáneos generation, remembered as a pioneer in making homosexuality visible in Mexican letters.
Salvador Pané
Salvador Pané i Vidal is a Spanish materials scientist at ETH Zurich who works on magnetically driven microrobots for drug delivery and other biomedical uses.
Salvador Pérez
Salvador Pérez (Salvador Johan Perez), Venezuelan catcher for the Kansas City Royals since 2011; 2015 World Series MVP, record 48 HR by a primary catcher in 2021, Royals captain, and a Hall of Fame case shaped by negative framing metrics.
Salvador Rueda
Salvador Rueda (Salvador Rueda Santos, 1857–1933) was a Spanish poet from a peasant family in Málaga who renewed Spanish verse meters and joined the Real Academia Española in 1926.
Salvador Sánchez
Salvador Sánchez (Salvador Sánchez Narváez), Mexican boxer, WBC featherweight champion 1980-1982, 44-1-1 with 32 KOs, nine title defenses, beat Wilfredo Gómez and Azumah Nelson, died in a car accident at 23.