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Sir (2024 film)
Sir (சார்) is a 2024 Tamil period action drama written and directed by Bose Venkat, starring Vemal as a rural schoolteacher. Released 18 October 2024 by SSS Pictures, presented by Vetrimaaran; streamed on Prime Video from 6 December 2024.
Sir (singer)
SiR (Sir Darryl Farris, born 1986) is an American R&B and neo-soul singer-songwriter from Inglewood, California, signed to Top Dawg Entertainment; albums Seven Sundays, November, Chasing Summer, and Heavy (2024), two Grammy nominations.
Sir (सर) (1993 film)
Sir is a 1993 Hindi-language Bollywood crime drama directed by Mahesh Bhatt for Vishesh Films, starring Naseeruddin Shah as a professor drawn into a Mumbai gang war.
Sir (सर) (2018 film)
Sir (सर), also released as Is Love Enough? Sir, is a 2018 Hindi drama by Rohena Gera, her fiction debut, starring Tillotama Shome and Vivek Gomber in a cross-class Mumbai romance; Cannes Critics' Week, Gan Foundation Award winner.
Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Baronet
Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Baronet, known as Algy, was an Anglo-Irish racing driver of the Guinness brewing family who won the 1922 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy for voiturettes.
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (1831–1915) was a Scottish physicist and gunnery expert, a founder of experimental internal ballistics who led Sir W. G. Armstrong's Elswick ordnance works.
Sir Arthur Lewis
Sir Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) was a development economist from Castries, Saint Lucia, who shared the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for pioneering research into economic development.
Sir Austen Chamberlain
Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929, sharing the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
Sir Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, also known as Bernard Katz, was a German-born British biophysicist at University College London who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for establishing how nerve signals pass to muscle.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 to 1970) was an Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Raman effect, the basis of Raman spectroscopy.
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Sherrington was an English physiologist, Waynflete Professor at Oxford, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons and coined the term "synapse" in 1897.
Sir Creek
Sir Creek: 96-km tidal estuary in the Rann of Kutch disputed between India and Pakistan; Pakistan claims the eastern bank under the 1914 Resolution Maps, India claims mid-channel (thalweg), blocking maritime boundary delimitation in the Arabian Sea.
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1897–1967) was a British chemist, Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Nikolai Semenov.
Sir Didymus
Sir Didymus is the fox-like canine knight puppet in Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth, guarding the Bog of Eternal Stench bridge; performed by Dave Goelz, voiced by David Shaughnessy, inspired by Terry Jones' dog.
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet (1822–1885), Irish lawyer and Liberal MP for Mallow; solicitor general and attorney general for Ireland under Palmerston and Gladstone, master of the rolls (1870), and lord chancellor of Ireland 1883–1885.
Sir Fantasy
Sir Fantasy (Zixu, "Sir Vacuous") is a fictional envoy of Chu invented by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru as the chief speaker of his Zixu fu.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize for acquired immunological tolerance and proposed clonal selection theory.
Sir Frederick Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947) was an English biochemist at Cambridge who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of vitamins, and became its first Professor of Biochemistry.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the anonymous Gawain/Pearl Poet, unique in MS Cotton Nero A.x; beheading game, Green Chapel quest, girdle test of chivalry and Christian faith.
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) was an Irish-born British mathematical physicist who held the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge from 1849, derived the Navier–Stokes equations, and named fluorescence.
Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet
Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, 1st Baronet (1858–1916) was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to Turkey from 1908 to 1913, spanning the Young Turk era.
Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal
Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal: FEBS award instituted 1990, endowed by the Lord Rank Centre, for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology; silver medal, plenary lecture in The FEBS Journal; distinct from Oxford's Krebs Prize Lecture and the RSC/GDCh Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship.
Sir Harold Kroto
Sir Harold Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was a British chemist at the University of Sussex who co-discovered C60 buckminsterfullerene and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Sir Henry Dale
Sir Henry Dale, also known as Henry Hallett Dale, was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for discovering chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
Sir Howard Florey
Sir Howard Florey was an Australian pathologist who, with Ernst Chain, purified penicillin for clinical use, sharing the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming and Chain.
Sir J. J. School of Art
Sir J. J. School of Art, now Sir J. J. School of Art, Architecture and Design, is a government art school in Mumbai founded in 1857 with a donation from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
Sir James W. Black
Sir James W. Black, also known as James Black, was a Scottish pharmacologist who developed beta-blockers and cimetidine and shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Sir Jinx
Sir Jinx (Anthony Desean Wheaton), Los Angeles hip-hop producer and rapper, cousin of Dr. Dre; C.I.A. and WC and the Maad Circle member; produced Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Kool G Rap's Live and Let Die.
Sir John Adams
Sir John Adams, born John Bertram Adams (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984), was a British accelerator engineer who, despite having no university degree, directed construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron.
Sir John B. Gurdon
Sir John B. Gurdon, known as John Gurdon, was a British developmental biologist at Cambridge who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for showing mature cells can be reprogrammed.