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Sam Maguire Cup
Sam Maguire Cup (Corn Mhig Uidhir), trophy of the GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship since 1928, named for Sam Maguire; modelled on the Ardagh Chalice; original retired 1987, replica in use; Kerry record 39 wins, Mayo champions 2026.
Sam Malone
Sam "Mayday" Malone is the fictional former Boston Red Sox relief pitcher and recovering alcoholic who owns the bar in NBC's Cheers (1982–1993), played by Ted Danson; he reappeared on Frasier in 1995.
Sam Manekshaw
Sam Manekshaw (Sam Bahadur), 1914–2008, Indian Army field marshal and eighth Chief of Army Staff; led India to victory in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and was the first Indian officer promoted to field marshal.
Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy (1911–1998), Russian-born American Marxist, founded Workers World Party in 1959 and wrote for Workers World; known for defending the USSR, supporting 1960s liberation movements, and works like Perestroika: A Marxist Critique.
Sam Marshall (footballer)
Sam Marshall (born 2006) is an Australian rules midfielder, Brisbane Lions 2024 draftee (pick 25), 2025 AFL premiership player in his debut season, who requested a 2026 trade to St Kilda after 13 games.
Sam Martin
Sam Martin (Stephen Alexander Martin, born 1959, Bangor, Northern Ireland) is a field hockey player who won Olympic gold at Seoul 1988 and bronze at Los Angeles 1984 for Great Britain, later Olympic Council of Ireland chief executive.
Sam Matlock
Sam Matlock is an English musician and vocalist, known as the guitarist for the UK rock band DEAD! and co-founder of the London nu-metal duo Wargasm.
Sam McCurdy
Sam McCurdy, ASC, BSC, is a British cinematographer known for The Descent, Doomsday, and Dog Soldiers, and for shooting five episodes of FX's Shōgun (2024), winning the 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography for a One-Hour Series for "Crimson Sky".
Sam McGuffie
Sam McGuffie, born 1989, is an American bobsledder and former football running back from Cypress, Texas, whose viral 2006 high school highlight tape made him an early internet recruiting star; he played at Michigan and Rice, briefly in the NFL and CFL, and finished 9th in four-man bobsled at PyeongChang 2018.
Sam McMurray
Sam McMurray (born 1952, New York City) is an American character actor known for Glen in Raising Arizona, The Tracey Ullman Show, voicing Roy on Dinosaurs, and Supervisor O'Boyle on The King of Queens.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (born 1965) is a British stage and film director, Oscar winner for American Beauty, former Donmar Warehouse artistic director, director of Skyfall, Spectre, 1917, and the four-film Beatles biopic project.
Sam Mennenga
Sam Mennenga (born 2001, Auckland) is a New Zealand basketball forward, 206 cm, for the NBL's New Zealand Breakers and the Tall Blacks; Davidson College product, 2025-26 NBL Next Generation Award winner.
Sam Mewis
Samantha (Sam) Mewis, born 1992, is an American retired soccer midfielder; 2019 World Cup winner and 2020 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year, retired January 2024.
Sam Mikulak
Sam Mikulak, American men's artistic gymnast (2012-2021), six-time U.S. all-around champion, three-time Olympian (London, Rio, Tokyo), 2018 world high bar bronze medalist; retired after Tokyo without an Olympic medal.
Sam Milby
Sam Milby (Samuel Lloyd Lacia Milby, born 1984, Troy, Ohio) is a Filipino-American actor and singer who rose to fame on Pinoy Big Brother (2005), starred in Maging Sino Ka Man and The Gifted, earned a Gawad Urian Best Actor nomination for Third World Happy, and has released four solo albums.
Sam Mills
Sam Mills (Samuel Davis Mills Jr.), NFL linebacker for the Saints and Panthers, 5x Pro Bowl, 'Dome Patrol' member, 'Keep Pounding' inspiration, died 2005, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
Sam Mirza
Sam Mirza (سام میرزا) was a Safavid prince of Iran, son of Shah Ismail I, and author of the Tuhfah-i Sami anthology of Persian poets.
Sam Mitchell (basketball)
Sam Mitchell (born 1963) is a former NBA forward and head coach who played 13 seasons, mainly with the Minnesota Timberwolves, coached the Toronto Raptors 2004-08, and won the 2006-07 NBA Coach of the Year Award.
Sam Mitchell (EastEnders)
Sam Mitchell (Samantha Mitchell, formerly Butcher and Hunter) is a fictional EastEnders character, Peggy Mitchell's daughter and Phil and Grant's sister, played by Danniella Westbrook then Kim Medcalf, appearing 1990–2026.
Sam Moore
Sam Moore (Samuel David Hicks, 1935–2025) was the high-tenor half of soul duo Sam & Dave, whose Stax hits "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'" were written and produced by Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
Sam Moran
Sam Moran (Samuel Alexander Moran, born 1978, Sydney) is an Australian singer and entertainer, the second Yellow Wiggle (2006-2012) after Greg Page, later host of Nick Jr.'s Play Along with Sam and a 2015 ARIA winner.
Sam Morelos
Sam Morelos (Samantha Morelos), Filipino-American actor, plays Nikki Velasco in Netflix's That '90s Show and stars as Abby Flores in Hulu's Summer of 69, their 2025 feature debut.
Sam Morril
Sam Morril (born 1986, Chelsea, Manhattan) is a New York stand-up comedian with seven specials including Same Time Tomorrow (Netflix, 2022) and You've Changed (2024), co-host of the podcast We Might Be Drunk with Mark Normand, and a cameo player in Joker (2019).
Sam Morsy (سامي سيد مرسي)
Sam Morsy (Samy Sayed Mekawy Said Morsy, سامي سيد مكاوي سعيد مرسي), born 1991 in Wolverhampton, is an Egyptian central midfielder with 9 caps who captained Ipswich Town to back-to-back promotions and later played for Kuwait SC, Bristol City, and Blackburn Rovers.
Sam Neill
Sam Neill, born Nigel John Dermot Neill, was a New Zealand actor known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (1993) across five decades of film.
Sam Nhlengethwa
Sam Nhlengethwa (Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa, born 1955) is a South African painter and collage artist in Johannesburg whose work depicts township life, jazz musicians, and miners.
Sam Nivola
Sam Nivola (Samuel John Nivola), born 2003 in London, is a British-American actor, son of Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, known for White Noise, Maestro, The Perfect Couple, and Lochlan Ratliff in The White Lotus season 3.
Sam Noakes
Sam Noakes is an English professional boxer from Maidstone, Kent, competing at lightweight and holding British, Commonwealth, and European titles, with a 19-1 record as of 2026.
Sam Nujoma
Sam Nujoma (Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma, 1929 to 2025) was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist and politician who led SWAPO for 47 years and served as the first President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn (Samuel Augustus Nunn, born 1938) is a retired Democratic U.S. Senator from Georgia (1972 to mid-1990s), Armed Services Committee chairman, co-author of Goldwater-Nichols and the Nunn-Lugar program, and NTI co-founder.