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Sam DeStefano
Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano (1909-1973), Chicago Outfit gangster and juice-loan shark, notorious for torture, mentor of Tony Spilotro, linked to Leo Foreman's murder, slain in 1973.
Sam Dickinson (ice hockey)
Sam Dickinson (born 2006, Toronto) is a Canadian left-shot defenseman for the San Jose Sharks, drafted 11th overall in 2024 after starring for the London Knights, winning the 2024 OHL championship and 2023 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup gold.
Sam Divine
Sam Divine is a British house music DJ and producer, best known for her work with Defected Records. She hosts the Defected Radio Show and has residencies in Ibiza.
SAM domain
SAM domain (sterile alpha motif), a 65-70 residue eukaryotic protein interaction domain found in yeast, fly, and human signaling and chromatin proteins; mediates SAM-SAM binding, polymerization via ML/EH interfaces, and RNA, DNA, or lipid binding.
Sam Donaldson
Sam Donaldson (born 1934, El Paso, Texas) is an American broadcast journalist, ABC News chief White House correspondent 1977–1989 and 1998–1999 covering Carter, Reagan, and Clinton, co-anchor of PrimeTime Live and This Week, known for loud, aggressive presidential questioning.
Sam Eagle
Sam Eagle: name shared by two eagle characters, the stern patriotic Muppet of The Muppet Show (debuted 1975, performed by Frank Oz) and Sam the Olympic Eagle, Disney-designed mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Sam Eckholm
Sam Eckholm, former US Air Force public affairs officer with the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, creator of the Access Granted YouTube series and founder of SE Media; not a B-2 pilot.
Sam Edwards
Sam Edwards (1915-2004), American character actor; voice of adult Thumper in Bambi, Dexter Franklin on radio's Meet Corliss Archer, and banker Bill Anderson on Little House on the Prairie.
Sam Edwards (scientist)
Sam Edwards (1928–2015) was a Welsh theoretical physicist who founded the modern statistical mechanics of polymers and held the Cavendish Professorship at Cambridge from 1984 to 1995.
Sam Ehlinger
Sam Ehlinger (born 1998, Austin, Texas) is an NFL quarterback from Texas; drafted 218th overall by the Colts in 2021, he threw for 11,436 college yards, started three games in 2022, and is now with the Denver Broncos.
Sam Eletr (Applied Biosystems)
Sam Eletr, also known as Samuel Eletr (1939 to 2024), was an Egyptian-born engineer who founded Applied Biosystems in 1979 and later co-founded Lynx Therapeutics with Sydney Brenner.
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott (Samuel Pack Elliott), American actor born 1944 in Sacramento, California, known for his deep voice, horseshoe moustache, and Western roles in Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, 1883, and Oscar-nominated A Star Is Born.
Sam Elliott filmography
Sam Elliott filmography: over 100 credits by the American character actor born 1944, spanning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, A Star Is Born (Oscar nomination), 1883, and Landman.
Sam Endacott
Sam Endacott is a venture capitalist who joined Northzone as a Partner in London in 2026, known for leading firstminute capital's seed investment in n8n, later valued at $5.2bn.
Sam Erger
Sam Erger (Samantha Erger), American college volleyball coach, head coach of SMU Mustangs since February 2022; former Baylor associate head coach; led SMU to 2025 Sweet Sixteen; suspended two matches in September 2026.
Sam Esmail
Sam Esmail, American writer-director-producer and showrunner, creator of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Mr. Robot and director of Homecoming and Leave the World Behind; founder of Esmail Corp.
Sam Eyde
Sam Eyde (1866–1940) was a Norwegian engineer and industrial founder who, with scientist Kristian Birkeland, developed the Birkeland–Eyde process for making fertilizer from air and built Norsk Hydro using Norway's hydropower.
Sam Faiers
Sam Faiers (Samantha Elizabeth Faiers, born 1990) is an English reality TV personality and businesswoman, an original The Only Way Is Essex cast member, star of The Mummy Diaries, and co-founder of Revive Collagen.
Sam Fatu
Sam Fatu, also known as The Tonga Kid, Tama, and The Samoan Savage, is a retired American professional wrestler, born in San Francisco in 1966, and the father of WWE wrestler Jacob Fatu.
Sam Feldt
Sam Feldt, stage name of Sammy Renders (born 1993, Boxtel), is a Dutch tropical and melodic house DJ and producer based in Amsterdam, known for the 2015 UK number 4 hit "Show Me Love", "Post Malone", Heartfeldt Records, and the Heartfeldt Foundation.
Sam Fender
Sam Fender (born 1994, North Shields) is an English singer-songwriter and actor with three UK Number 1 albums, the 2025 Mercury Prize for People Watching, and the Proper Massive Stadium Tour '27.
Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)
Sam Fisher is Ubisoft's Splinter Cell stealth-game protagonist, debuting 2002; NSA Third Echelon then Fourth Echelon leader, voiced by Michael Ironside, later Eric Johnson and Liev Schreiber; remake announced 2021.
Sam Forstag
Sam Forstag (Samuel Kelley Forstag), Democratic 2026 nominee for U.S. House in Montana's 1st District, is a Forest Service smokejumper, NFFE union local vice president, and former Helena lobbyist running against Aaron Flint.
Sam Fort
Sam Fort is an American venture capital investor who has been a partner at DFJ Growth since 2010, known for investments in Armis, OpenAI, and Stripe.
Sam Frost (actress)
Sam Frost (born 1989) is an Australian actress and TV personality, winner of The Bachelor Australia 2014, first Bachelorette 2015, and Jasmine Delaney on Home and Away from December 2017; distinct from the AFL footballer Sam Frost.
Sam Gallucci
Sam Gallucci is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 26th District in 2026, based in Oxnard, California, with a background as a business/technology executive and pastor.
Sam Gandy
Sam Gandy, or Samuel E. Gandy, is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher who led the 1989 discovery of the first drugs that could lower amyloid formation in the brain.
Sam Gellaitry
Sam Gellaitry is a Scottish producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter from Stirling whose 2021 single "Assumptions" went viral and whose debut album arrived in 2025.
Sam Giancana
Sam Giancana (Salvatore "Momo" Giancana, 1908–1975), Chicago Outfit boss 1957–1966, known for ties to the Kennedys, Sinatra, and CIA Castro assassination plots; murdered unsolved in Oak Park in 1975.
Sam Gibbons
Sam Melville Gibbons (1920-2012), Tampa Democrat, D-Day paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, Florida legislator who founded USF, and 17-term U.S. House Ways and Means chairman who steered Head Start, NAFTA, and GATT.