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Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा)

Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा, 1927–2021), Gandhian environmentalist of Uttarakhand, Chipko movement leader and anti-Tehri Dam campaigner; slogan "Ecology is permanent economy," 4,870 km Himalayan march, 15-year logging moratorium, Padma Vibhushan.

Sunderland

Sunderland: coastal city and metropolitan borough on the River Wear, Tyne and Wear, England; former world shipbuilding capital (Mackem identity), city status 1992, now built around Nissan's plant, AESC gigafactory and Riverside Sunderland regeneration.

Sunderland 'Til I Die

Sunderland 'Til I Die is a Netflix documentary series by Fulwell 73 following Sunderland AFC's 2017-18 relegation season and later campaigns across three seasons, 17 episodes, 2018-2024.

Sunderland A.F.C.

Sunderland A.F.C. (Black Cats), English club founded 1879, six league titles and two FA Cups, Stadium of Light home, promoted 2025, seventh in 2025-26 and Europa League qualifier.

Sundial

A sundial, also called a shadow clock, is a device that measures time by the Sun's position, as a rod called a gnomon casts a shadow onto marked hour lines.

Sundial (weapon)

Sundial, also known as Project Sundial, was a proposed American thermonuclear weapon with a yield of 10,000 megatons, put forward by Edward Teller in 1954 and never built.

Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay

The Sundial Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, California, designed by Santiago Calatrava and opened in 2004 as one of the world's largest working sundials.

Sundiata Keita

Sundiata Keita, also known as Sunjata Keita, was a thirteenth-century West African ruler who founded the Mali Empire by defeating the Sosso kingdom around 1235.

Sundiata's war against the Soso

Sundiata's war against the Soso was the campaign of the Malinke prince Sundiata Keita against the Sosso king Sumanguru Kante, decided at the battle of Kirina in about 1235.

Sundiver

Sundiver is David Brin's 1980 debut novel, published by Bantam Books, and the first book of the Uplift saga, describing a human expedition from Mercury into the Sun and the 'wolfling' mystery of who uplifted humanity.

Sundo

Sundo (순도; 順道, Chinese Shundao) was a monk sent by Fu Jian of Former Qin to the Goguryeo court in 372, carrying a Buddha statue and sutras, in the mission that introduced Buddhism to Korea.

Sundoro

Sundoro (Gunung Sundoro, also Sindoro or Sindara) is a symmetrical active stratovolcano, 3,149 m, in Central Java, Indonesia, between the Dieng complex and Sumbing; last erupted 1971, with twelve eruptive groups since 34 ka.

Sundown town

Sundown town, also called sunset town: a US community that deliberately kept itself all white by expelling or excluding Black people and other minorities, mainly 1890–1970, concentrated in the Midwest and West rather than the South.

Sundowning

Sundowning (sundown syndrome, late-day confusion): emergence or worsening of confusion, agitation, aggression, and wandering in dementia patients in late afternoon and evening; prevalence 1.6-66%, circadian mechanisms, non-drug management first.

Sune Andersson

Sune Isidor "Mona-Lisa" Andersson (1921-2002), Swedish footballer for AIK and AS Roma; Olympic gold 1948 London, World Cup bronze 1950, 28 Sweden caps, AIK captain 1948-50.

Sune K. Bergström

Sune K. Bergström (1916–2004) was a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating prostaglandins and determining their chemical structures.

Sune Kvist

Sune Kvist is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for his 1985 Cell paper showing that an adenovirus type 2 glycoprotein blocks MHC class I expression at the cell surface.

Sune Theodorsen

Sune Theodorsen, born 1980, is a Danish entrepreneur who co-founded LifeX, a Copenhagen coliving company renting furnished rooms across European cities, in 2017 with Ritu Jain.

Suneeta Krishnan

Suneeta Krishnan is a social epidemiologist whose research shows how poverty and gender inequity drive domestic violence and HIV risk among women in India; she received the 2004 PECASE award.

Sunehade

Sunehade ("Messages") is a 1955 Punjabi poetry anthology by Amrita Pritam, dominated by love poetry, that won her the Sahitya Akademi Award of India for 1956.

Suneil Setiya

Suneil Setiya is a British quantitative trader who co-founded the London systematic trading firm Quadrature Capital and funds climate philanthropy through the Quadrature Climate Foundation.

Sunet Mound

Sunet Mound, an ancient settlement mound at Sunet village, Ludhiana district, Punjab, India; a centrally protected ASI site occupied from Late Harappan (c. 1800 BC) to early Medieval times, excavated 1983-84 with coins, seals, and figurines.

Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta is a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, known for modeling pathogen strains and for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration.

Sunetra Pawar

Sunetra Pawar, born 1963, is an Indian Nationalist Congress Party politician serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the first woman to hold the office, and the party's national president.

Sunetra Sarker

Sunetra Sarker (born 1973), British actress from Liverpool, not the IIT Madras aerospace professor Sunetra Sarkar. Known for Nisha Batra in Brookside, Anji Mittel in No Angels, Zoe Hanna in Casualty (339 episodes), and RTS-award-winning Kaneez Paracha in Ackley Bridge; Loose Women panellist.

Suneva Medical

Suneva Medical was a San Diego, California medical technology company known for the Bellafill dermal filler, whose select product assets were acquired by Tiger Aesthetics Medical in 2024.

SUNeVision

SUNeVision (新意网集团, stock code 1686) is a Hong Kong data center operator and the city's largest carrier-neutral provider, operating as the technology arm of Sun Hung Kai Properties since 2000.

SunExpress

SunExpress, legally Güneş Ekspres Havacılık A.Ş., is a Turkish leisure airline headquartered in Antalya and owned equally by Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, flying European routes to Türkiye since 1990.

Sunfeast

Sunfeast is ITC Limited's Indian packaged-food brand, launched July 2003 with glucose, Marie, and cream biscuits; now a Rs.2,500+ crore brand spanning biscuits, Dark Fantasy cookies, YiPPee! noodles (No. 2 in India), pasta, and cakes.

Sunfire (character)

Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida), Marvel Comics Japanese mutant hero created by Roy Thomas and Don Heck, debuting in X-Men #64 (1970); plasma powers, Hiroshima-linked origin, X-Men, Big Hero 6, and Famine.