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Siva (శివ) (1989 Telugu film)

Siva (శివ), also Shiva, is Ram Gopal Varma's 1989 Telugu directorial debut starring Nagarjuna, Amala, and Raghuvaran, a college-politics mafia action film that became an all-time industry hit and redefined Telugu cinema technique.

Siva gutika (shiva gutika, afi-sivagutikalagu)

Siva Gutika (Śivā guṭikā, AFI000426) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill built on shilajit, described in Ashtanga Sangraha Uttarasthana 49, dosed 12 g (Laghu variant 6 g), used for liver, spleen, metabolic and respiratory disorders.

Siva Kaneswaran

Siva Kaneswaran, Irish singer, model, and actor born 1988 in Dublin, member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted ("All Time Low", "Glad You Came"); now performs with Max George as The Wanted 2.0.

Siva Manasula Sakthi (சிவ மனசுல சக்தி)

Siva Manasula Sakthi (SMS, சிவ மனசுல சக்தி) is a 2009 Tamil romantic comedy, M. Rajesh's directorial debut, starring Jiiva and Anuya Bhagwat with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; a hit that gained cult status and was remade in Telugu in 2012.

Siva Reddy

Siva Reddy is an Indian-born computer scientist working in natural language processing, an assistant professor at Mila and McGill University who created the CoQA question answering benchmark.

Siva S. Banda

Siva S. Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer who spent decades in flight control research for military aircraft at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Siva Singha

Siva Singha (স্বৰ্গদেউ শিৱ সিংহ) was king of the Ahom kingdom in Assam from 1714 to 1744, known for temple building and rule by his chief queens.

Siva-like

Siva-like (InterPro IPR022773, Pfam PF05458) is the protein family of SIVA1/Siva, a 189-aa proapoptotic CD27-binding protein on chromosome 14q32-33 with SAH, death-domain-homology, and zinc-finger domains, splice forms Siva-1 and Siva-2.

Sivaangi Krishnakumar (சிவாங்கி கிருஷ்ணகுமார்)

Sivaangi Krishnakumar (சிவாங்கி கிருஷ்ணகுமார்), known as Sivaangi, is a Tamil playback singer and actress, daughter of singers K. Krishnakumar and Binni Krishnakumar, who rose via Super Singer 7 and Cooku with Comali and debuted in film with Don.

Sivabharata of Paramananda

The Sivabharata (शिवभारत) is a Sanskrit epic poem on the life and deeds of the Maratha king Shivaji, composed by his court poet Kavindra Paramananda during Shivaji's lifetime.

Sivagamiyin Sabatham

Sivagamiyin Sabatham (சிவகாமியின் சபதம், "Sivakami's Vow") is a Tamil historical novel by Kalki R. Krishnamurthy, serialised from 1944 to 1946 and set in the 7th-century Pallava kingdom of Kanchipuram.

Sivagnana Siddhiyar

Sivagnana Siddhiyar (சிவஞான சித்தியார்) is a 13th-century Tamil philosophical treatise of Śaiva Siddhānta by Aruḷnandi Śivācārya, the second of the fourteen Meykaṇḍa Śāstras and the principal elaboration of Meykaṇḍār's Śivajñānabodham.

Sivaji

Sivaji Raja, also known as Shivaji Raja (శివాజీ రాజా), is a Telugu comedian and character actor, born in 1962, best known for the sitcom Amrutham and a film career since the late 1980s.

Sivaji Ganesan (சிவாஜி கணேசன்)

Sivaji Ganesan (சிவாஜி கணேசன்), born Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy (1928–2001), was a Tamil film and stage actor, Nadigar Thilagam, star of Parasakthi (1952), with over 300 Tamil films, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Chevalier, and the 1996 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Sivaji: The Boss

Sivaji: The Boss (சிவாஜி) is a 2007 Tamil action drama directed by Shankar, starring Rajinikanth as a US-returned engineer fighting corruption; AVM Productions production with A.R. Rahman music, about Rs 60 crore budget, and several Tamil-cinema distribution firsts.

Sivakaivalya

Sivakaivalya was a Brahmin priest who became guru to Jayavarman II after the king came from Java to Indrapura, and whose family alone furnished the priests of the Devaraja.

Sivakarthikeyan (சிவகார்த்திகேயன்)

Sivakarthikeyan (சிவகார்த்திகேயன்) is an Indian actor, producer, and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema, born in 1985 in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu; he won a Filmfare Award for Amaran.

Sivakasi (film)

Sivakasi (சிவகாசி) is a 2005 Tamil action drama by Perarasu starring Vijay, Asin, and Prakash Raj, a Deepavali release about a welder saving his mother from his evil brother; not the unrelated Telugu Arjun film.

Sivakasi (சிவகாசி)

Sivakasi (சிவகாசி), nicknamed Kutty Japan, is a town in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India, producing about 90 percent of India's fireworks in a ₹60 billion (₹6,000 crore) industry.

Sivakumar (சிவகுமார்)

Sivakumar (சிவகுமார்), born Palaniswamy in 1941, is a Tamil film actor (1965–2005, about 190–200 films), painter and orator, father of actors Suriya and Karthi.

Sivalik Hills

Sivalik Hills (Churia/Chure Hills), southernmost and lowest Himalayan range, about 1,700 km long through Pakistan, India, and Nepal, built of up to 6,000 m of Neogene Siwalik Group molasse and uplifted along the active Main Frontal Thrust.

Sivamani (percussionist)

Anandan Sivamani, known as Drums Sivamani, is an Indian percussionist and film composer from Chennai, a signature player on A.R. Rahman's recordings for over three decades.

Sivananda Saraswati (शिवानन्द सरस्वती)

Sivananda Saraswati (शिवानन्द सरस्वती), also known as Swami Sivananda, was a Hindu monk who founded the Divine Life Society at Rishikesh in 1936 and wrote over 300 books.

Sivanath Sastri

Sivanath Sastri (শিবনাথ শাস্ত্রী, 1847–1919) was a Bengali writer, educationist, and social reformer who co-founded the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj and chronicled the Bengal Renaissance.

Sivand

Sivand (Fars province, Iran): a mountain, ancient Achaemenid limestone quarry near Persepolis and Pasargadae, the Pulvar/Sivand River, and the Sivand Dam whose 2000s reservoir prompted major salvage excavations at Tang-e Bolaghi.

Sivapithecus

Sivapithecus, extinct Miocene hominoid ape (~12–7 Ma) from the Siwaliks of India and Pakistan; Ramapithecus is its synonym; orangutan-like face (skull GSP 15000) places it on the orangutan lineage, with arboreal quadrupedal locomotion.

Sivappu Manjal Pachai (சிவப்பு மஞ்சள் பச்சை)

Sivappu Manjal Pachai (சிவப்பு மஞ்சள் பச்சை) is a 2019 Tamil family drama by director Sasi, starring Siddharth as a traffic cop and G. V. Prakash Kumar as a street racer who become brothers-in-law; Telugu dub Orey Baammardhi, 2020 Ananda Vikatan debut actress award.

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004) was an Indian physicist who discovered discotic liquid crystals in 1977 and built a leading liquid-crystal school at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.

Sivarapalli

Sivarapalli (సివరపల్లి) is a Telugu comedy-drama web series released on Prime Video in 2025. It is an official remake of Panchayat and focuses on life in rural Telangana.

Sivas

Sivas is a province and city in central Turkey, second largest by area at 28,488 km², with 631,401 people (2025). Known for the UNESCO-listed Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (1985) and the 1919 National Struggle congress.