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Sun Temple, Modhera

The Sun Temple at Modhera is a Hindu temple dedicated to Surya at Modhera, Gujarat, India, built in 1026–27 CE under Chaulukya king Bhima I, with a large stepped tank.

Sun Tiantian

Sun Tiantian (孙甜甜, b. 1981, Zhengzhou) is a retired Chinese tennis player; with Li Ting she won women's doubles gold at Athens 2004, China's first Olympic tennis medal, and the 2008 Australian Open mixed doubles title.

Sun TV (சன் டிவி) (India)

Sun TV (சன் டிவி) is the flagship Tamil general entertainment channel of Sun TV Network, launched April 14, 1993 by Kalanithi Maran, becoming 24-hour in 1995 and, per company reports, India's most watched channel.

Sun TV Network

Sun TV Network Limited (சன் டிவி நெட்வொர்க் லிமிடெட்), Chennai-based Indian media conglomerate founded by Kalanithi Maran; Sun TV launched April 14, 1993; 37 channels in 7 languages, 69 FM stations, SunRisers Hyderabad IPL franchise.

Sun Tzu (孙子)

Sun Tzu (孙子, Sun Wu), legendary Chinese general of Wu, name attached to The Art of War, a thirteen-chapter Warring States military classic; authorship disputed, earliest witness the 1972 Yinqueshan bamboo slips.

Sun Valley, Idaho

Sun Valley, Idaho is a resort city in the Wood River Valley adjoining Sun Valley Resort, North America's first destination ski resort, opened by Union Pacific in December 1936 with the world's first chairlift on Proctor Mountain.

Sun Wanrong

Sun Wanrong (孙万荣) was a Khitan leader who rebelled at Yingzhou against Empress Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, defeating a 170,000-strong army before being killed by his own slave.

Sun Wei

Sun Wei (孙玮) was a Ming dynasty official from Weinan who rose to Minister of Revenue and head of the censorate under the Wanli and Tianqi emperors.

Sun Weishi

Sun Weishi (孙维世, 1921–1968), adopted daughter of Zhou Enlai, was China's first female stage director and the leading Chinese exponent of the Stanislavski system, directing Paul Korchagin, The Government Inspector, and Uncle Vanya before dying in detention during the Cultural Revolution.

Sun Weiyong

Sun Weiyong (孙伟勇, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Entive, an integrated-stove maker in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, that listed on the Shenzhen ChiNext board in December 2020.

Sun Wen

Sun Wen (孙文), also known as Zhongshan, was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as provisional president of the Republic of China in 1912.

Sun Xingyan

Sun Xingyan (孙星衍, 1753–1818) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official from Yanghu, Jiangsu, who served the Qianlong and Jiaqing emperors and is remembered as a book collector and bibliographer.

Sun Xinran

Sun Xinran (孙心然), born 2010 in Shenzhen, is a Chinese tennis player, 2026 US Open girls' singles champion, junior world No. 1, and WTA-ranked 418 after her 2026 China Open debut.

Sun Xiu

Sun Xiu (孙休), courtesy name Zilie, was the sixth son of Sun Quan and emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, posthumously titled Emperor Jing.

Sun Yang (孙杨)

Sun Yang (孙杨), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1991 in Hangzhou; three Olympic golds, 1500 m world record 14:31.02 from 2012, and doping bans in 2014 and 2018-2021.

Sun Yansheng

Sun Yansheng (孫燕生), also known as Edmund Sun, is a Chinese-American semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Weitek and C-Cube and co-founded Wanyan, maker of the first commercial VCD player.

Sun Yat-sen (孙中山)

Sun Yat-sen (孙中山, Sun Zhongshan, 1866–1925), Chinese revolutionary and physician, founder of the Revive China Society and Tongmenghui leader, first Provisional President of the Republic of China (1912), author of the Three Principles of the People.

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (中山大学肿瘤防治中心, SYSUCC) is a specialized cancer hospital and research institute in Guangzhou, China, affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University; founded in 1964, it is one of China's earliest tumor hospitals.

Sun Yee On (新义安)

Sun Yee On (新義安) is one of Hong Kong's largest triad societies, alongside 14K and Wo Shing Wo. Founded from a Chiu Chow workers' trade association, it is linked to drug trafficking, the Sinaloa cartel, and major 2025 police crackdowns.

Sun Yingsha

Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎), born 2000 in Shijiazhuang, is a Chinese table tennis player, world no. 1, with 3 Olympic golds and 2 silvers (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and three consecutive Women's World Cup titles.

Sun Yiwen

Sun Yiwen (孙一文), born 1992 in Yantai, Chinese left-handed épée fencer; Tokyo 2020 Olympic individual épée champion, Rio 2016 bronze and team silver, three-time Olympian.

Sun Yong

Sun Yong (孙永, 1020–1087) was a Northern Song dynasty official who served Emperor Shenzong as Minister of Works and advised on taxation, border policy, and criminal law.

Sun Yuanbo

Sun Yuanbo (孙元波) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who ran fruit group buys through QQ groups from 2011, co-founded 你我您 in 2016, and became COO of Nicetuan after their 2019 merger.

Sun Yujie

Sun Yujie (孙玉洁), born 1992 in Anshan, China, is an épée fencer with three Olympic medals: 2012 team gold and individual bronze, 2016 team silver, plus world and Asian Games titles.

Sun Zhiwei

Sun Zhiwei (孙智伟, born 1965) is a Chinese number theorist and professor at Nanjing University who has posed 820 open conjectures, including one linking primes and Fibonacci numbers.

Sun Zhu

Sun Zhu (孙洙) was a Song dynasty official and essayist from Guangling who passed the jinshi examination young and rose to Hanlin Academician under Emperor Shenzong.

SUN-1334H

SUN-1334H (SUN 1334H) was a potent, selective H1 antihistamine from India's SPARC (Sun Pharma), developed for allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis; it reached Phase 2 in the US and was abandoned in 2013 as not viable.

Sun-Liu Treaty over Jing Province

The Sun-Liu Treaty over Jing Province (湘水之盟), also called the Xiang River partition, was the 215 agreement dividing Jing Province between Sun Quan and Liu Bei along the Xiang River.

Sun-synchronous orbit

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called heliosynchronous, is a nearly polar low Earth orbit where satellites cross each latitude at the same local solar time daily.

Sun-Yung Alice Chang

Sun-Yung Alice Chang (张圣容) is a Chinese-born American mathematician, Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton University since 2010, known for geometric analysis, conformal geometry, and nonlinear partial differential equations.