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Suboccipital nerve

The suboccipital nerve is the dorsal ramus of the C1 spinal nerve, a mainly motor nerve supplying the four suboccipital muscles and semispinalis capitis within the suboccipital triangle alongside the vertebral artery.

Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे)

Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे), born 1975 in Pune, is a Marathi actor, director, and producer known for Balgandharva, Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush, and directing Katyar Kaljat Ghusali (2015).

Subodh Ghosh

Subodh Ghosh (সুবোধ ঘোষ; 1909–1980) was a Bengali short-story writer, novelist, and journalist at Anandabazar Patrika, best known for "Ajantrik" and the 1944 novel Tilanjali.

Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta is an Indian contemporary artist, born 1964 in Bihar, whose monumental sculptures from stainless-steel utensils address migration, class, and social transformation in India.

Subodh Mhaisalkar

Subodh G. Mhaisalkar is a Singapore-based materials scientist and engineer at Nanyang Technological University known for perovskite solar cells, perovskite LEDs, and printable electronics, and executive director of its Energy Research Institute.

Subodh Uniyal

Subodh Uniyal is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a cabinet minister in Uttarakhand, holding the forest, election, and medical health portfolios.

Subodh Verma

Subodh Verma is a Canadian cardiac surgeon-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and a University of Toronto professor known for leadership in global heart failure and semaglutide trials.

Subor

Subor (小霸王, "Little Overlord") is a Chinese education-electronics brand founded in 1987 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, whose Famicom-clone learning machines held about 80% of China's domestic market in the mid-1990s.

Subordinator (mathematics)

A subordinator is a nondecreasing Lévy process taking values in [0, ∞), serving as a random clock; Bochner introduced subordination in 1949, first applied in finance by Clark in 1973.

Subotica (Суботица)

Subotica (Суботица, Szabadka) is a city in far northern Serbia on the Hungarian border, in Vojvodina, first mentioned in 1391 and famous for over 100 Art Nouveau buildings, including the 1908–1910 City Hall and 1902 Synagogue by Komor and Jakab.

Subperiosteal Dental Implantation

Subperiosteal dental implantation: custom metal frameworks placed on the jawbone surface beneath the periosteum (Dahl, 1943). Revived via CAD/CAM 3D printing for severe jaw atrophy; ~97.8% short-term survival, soft-tissue exposure the main complication.

Subpoena

Subpoena is a legally binding order issued under the authority of a court or government body, which compels a person to testify or produce evidence.

Subprime lending

Subprime lending is the practice of making loans to borrowers with weak credit histories or high debt, at rates and fees above prime borrowers' rates.

Subprime mortgage crisis

The subprime mortgage crisis, also called the subprime meltdown, was the 2006–2007 collapse of US mortgages to weaker borrowers that triggered the worldwide financial crisis of 2007–2009.

Subra Suresh

Subra Suresh is an engineer and materials scientist known for research on fatigue of materials and for leading the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Mellon, and Nanyang Technological University.

Subradiance

Subradiance is a cooperative quantum optics effect, predicted by Robert Dicke in 1954, in which destructive interference in an ensemble of emitters slows collective emission below the single-emitter decay rate.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), known as Chandra, was an Indian-born American astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Subramania Bharati (சி. சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி)

C. Subramania Bharati (சி. சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி), also Bharathiyar or Mahakavi Bharati (1882–1921), Tamil poet, journalist and nationalist from Ettayapuram; father of the modern Tamil literary style, editor of India, Pondicherry exile 1908–1918.

Subramanian Swamy (சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி)

Subramanian Swamy (சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி) is an Indian economist and politician, born 1939, who taught at Harvard and IIT Delhi, served in Parliament, and pursued the 2G spectrum case.

Subramaniapuram (சுப்ரமணியபுரம்)

Subramaniapuram (சுப்ரமணியபுரம்) is a 2008 Tamil period action film written, produced, directed by, and starring M. Sasikumar in his debut, set in 1980s Madurai, with Jai, Swathi, and Samuthirakani, music by James Vasanthan, and noted as a cult classic that inspired Gangs of Wasseypur.

Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Thiruvidaikazhi

Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Thiruvidaikazhi (Thiruvellaikadi), a Murugan temple in Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, called Cholanattu Thiruchendur, where Murugan and a Shiva lingam share one sanctum and the Vaikasi Sadayam festival is held.

Subrata K. Chakrabarti

Subrata K. Chakrabarti (1941–2009) was an offshore hydrodynamicist who founded Offshore Structure Analysis Inc. and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Subrata Mitra (সুব্রত মিত্র)

Subrata Mitra (সুব্রত মিত্র) is an Indian venture capitalist who helped launch Accel's India office in 2008 and was an early, often first, investor in Flipkart.

Subrata Paul (সুব্রত পাল)

Subrata Paul (সুব্রত পাল), born 1986, Indian goalkeeper nicknamed Spiderman; 67-68 India caps, 2011 Asian Cup, ISL Golden Glove 2017-18 with Jamshedpur FC, Arjuna Award 2016, retired December 2023.

Subregion

Subregion: an area nested within a larger region. In geocoding (ArcGIS, AWS) it is the division below a state or province, typically a county; in UN M49 statistics it is a grouping of countries within a continental region.

Subretinal injection

Subretinal injection is a surgical procedure delivering fluid, cell suspensions, or viral vectors between the retina and retinal pigment epithelium, used mainly for retinal gene therapy.

Subriel Matías

Subriel Matías, "El Orgullo de Maternillo", Puerto Rican light welterweight boxer from Fajardo; two-time world champion (IBF 2023–24, WBC 2025–26), 23-3 with 22 knockouts, pressure style, stopped by Dalton Smith in 2026.

SubRip

SubRip, known by its file extension SRT, is a plain-text subtitle format created in 2001 by a Windows program that extracted subtitles from DVDs using OCR.

Subrogation

Subrogation is the legal process by which one party assumes another's legal rights, such as when an insurer takes over a policyholder's claim against whoever caused the harm.

SubRosa

SubRosa is an American experimental doom metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2005 around guitarist Rebecca Vernon and known for its two electric violins.