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Survivor: Vanuatu

Survivor: Vanuatu (Islands of Fire) is the ninth season of CBS's Survivor, aired September 16 to December 12, 2004. Eighteen castaways on Efate, Vanuatu began in men-vs-women tribes; Chris Daugherty won the $1 million prize.

Survivor: Winners at War

Survivor: Winners at War (season 40, 2020) was the CBS reality series' first all-winners season: 20 former champions in Fiji playing 39 days for a doubled $2 million prize with fire tokens and the Edge of Extinction; Tony Vlachos won 12-4-0.

Survivor: Worlds Apart

Survivor: Worlds Apart (White Collar vs. Blue Collar vs. No Collar) is the 30th US Survivor season, filmed in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, airing 2015; Mike Holloway won $1 million over Carolyn Rivera and Will Sims II.

Survivor's Remorse

Survivor's Remorse is an American comedy series that aired on Starz from 2014 to 2017, following basketball star Cam Calloway after he signs a multimillion-dollar contract.

Survivorman

Survivorman is a Canadian survival TV series created, produced, and starring Les Stroud, who survives alone for a week in remote locations with minimal gear, filming himself with about 50 pounds of camera equipment and no crew.

Survivors (1975 TV series)

Survivors (1975 TV series): BBC One post-apocalyptic drama created by Terry Nation, produced by Terence Dudley, broadcast 1975–1977 in three series and 38 episodes about survivors of a lab-released pandemic; distinct from the 2008 remake and Big Finish audio continuation.

Survivors' Staircase

Survivors' Staircase, also called the Vesey Street Stairs or Survivor Stairs, is a preserved exterior World Trade Center plaza staircase used by hundreds fleeing on 9/11, the last above-ground remnant of the original complex, now displayed in the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Survivorship bias

Survivorship bias, also called survival bias, is a selection bias in which analysis covers only cases that survived a filter, inflating apparent success. Known from Abraham Wald's 1943 WWII bomber analysis and mutual fund return studies.

Survodutide

Survodutide (BI 456906) is an investigational once-weekly injectable drug by Boehringer Ingelheim that acts on glucagon and GLP-1 receptors for obesity, type 2 diabetes, and MASH.

Surxondaryo Region

Surxondaryo Region (Surxondaryo viloyati), also called Surkhandarya, is Uzbekistan's southernmost region, centered on Termiz, bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, with about 3.02 million people and a 2024 GRP of 54,354.1 billion UZS.

Surya (सूर्य)

Surya (सूर्य), also known as Suryadeva, is the Hindu sun god worshipped since the Rigveda around 1500 BCE, once honored with major temples like Konark and still worshipped through Chhath Puja.

Surya Bonaly

Surya Bonaly (Surya Varuna Claudine Bonaly), French figure skater born 1973 in Nice; five-time European champion, three-time World silver medalist, three-time Olympian, famous for the illegal one-blade backflip at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

Surya Dighal Bari

Surya Dighal Bari (সূর্য-দীঘল বাড়ী, "The Ominous House") is a Bengali novel by Abu Ishaque, published in 1955, centered on a rural woman's survival struggle around the 1943 Bengal famine.

Surya from Konark

Surya from Konark is a 13th-century stone sculpture of the Hindu sun god Surya, carved under the Eastern Ganga dynasty and now held in the National Museum, New Delhi.

Surya Kiran

Surya Kiran is the aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force. Formed in 1996, it flies nine BAE/HAL Hawk jets and has given more than 800 displays.

Surya missile

The Surya missile (Surya ICBM) is a speculated Indian intercontinental ballistic missile reported since 1994, with claimed ranges of 12,000 to 16,000 km, never confirmed by the Indian government.

Surya P. Bhatt

Surya P. Bhatt is an Indian-trained pulmonologist and clinical researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for the BOREAS and NOTUS phase 3 dupilumab trials in COPD.

Surya Pratap Shahi

Surya Pratap Shahi, born 1952, in Deoria, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Uttar Pradesh's cabinet minister for agriculture and a five-term legislator.

Surya R. Kalidindi

Surya R. Kalidindi, also known as S. R. Kalidindi, is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist, Regents Professor at Georgia Tech, known for crystal plasticity and materials knowledge systems.

Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন)

Surya Sen (সূর্য সেন), Masterda, Bengali revolutionary and schoolteacher who led the 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid with the Indian Republican Army; arrested 1933, hanged 12 January 1934.

Surya Siddhanta

The Surya Siddhanta (सूर्यसिद्धान्त) is a Sanskrit treatise on Hindu astronomy in about 500 verses, whose disputed date ranges from the 6th century BCE to AD 1000.

Suryakant Tripathi

Suryakant Tripathi (सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी), known as Nirala, was a Hindi poet, novelist, and essayist counted among the four pillars of the Chhayavad movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Suryakumar Yadav (सूर्यकुमार यादव)

Suryakumar Yadav (सूर्यकुमार यादव), born 1990, Indian right-hand batter for Mumbai and Mumbai Indians, nicknamed Mr 360; ICC T20I Cricketer of the Year 2022-23, India T20I captain who won the 2026 T20 World Cup before being removed in June 2026.

Suryamal Misran

Suryamal Misran (सूर्यमल्ल मिश्रण, 1815–1868) was a Charan poet and historian of Bundi, Rajasthan, court poet to Rao Ramsingh and author of the epic Vansh Bhaskar and Veer Satsai.

Suryaputra Karn (सूर्यपुत्र कर्ण)

Suryaputra Karn (सूर्यपुत्र कर्ण), Sony TV Hindi mythological series 2015–2016, 307 episodes on Karna's life, produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary's Swastik Productions, digital-first on Sony LIV, IMDb 7.7/10.

Suryavamsam

Suryavamsam (சூர்யவம்சம்), also Surya Vamsam, is a 1997 Tamil family drama directed by Vikraman, starring Sarathkumar in a dual father-son role with Devayani; a 1997 blockbuster remade in Telugu, Hindi (Sooryavansham), and Kannada, distinct from the 2020 Zee Tamil TV series of the same name.

Suryavanshi (सूर्यवंशी) (film)

Suryavanshi (सूर्यवंशी) is a 1992 Hindi fantasy horror film directed by Rakesh Kumar, starring Salman Khan as Vicky/Vikram Singh, Amrita Singh as princess Suryalekha, and Sheeba; a reincarnation revenge story set at Sangramgarh, unrelated to Sooryavansham (1999) or Sooryavanshi (2021).

Suryavarman I

Suryavarman I was a king of the Khmer Empire who took Angkor after a nine-year war of succession and ruled from about 1002 until his death in 1050.

Suryavarman II (សូរ្យវរ្ម័នទី២)

Suryavarman II (សូរ្យវរ្ម័នទី២), Khmer king of Angkor 1113–1150, builder of Angkor Wat dedicated to Vishnu; waged wars against Đại Việt and Champa recorded in Vietnamese annals, sent missions to China in 1116 and 1120.

Surzebiclimab

Surzebiclimab (BGB-A425), BeiGene's humanized IgG1 anti-TIM-3 monoclonal antibody, blocks TIM-3 ligands PtdSer and galectin-9; tested with tislelizumab and alcestobart in Phase 1/2 trial NCT03744468 for advanced solid tumors, NSCLC and HNSCC.