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Saiseikai
Saiseikai (済生会), formally the Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, is a Japanese social welfare corporation founded by Emperor Meiji in 1911 to bring medical care to the poor.
Saka
Saka (Old Persian Sakā; Chinese Sai; Greek Sacae): Iranian-speaking nomadic peoples of the first millennium BCE, the Persians' name for the Scythians, with branches from the Black Sea to Khotan and Indo-Scythian kingdoms in India.
Sakhalin Koreans
Sakhalin Koreans (사할린 한인) are ethnic Koreans, mostly coal miners, brought to Sakhalin under Japanese rule and stranded there after Japan's 1945 defeat for over four decades.
Sama-Bajau
Sama-Bajau (Bajau, Bajo, Badjao): Austronesian maritime people of the Philippines, Borneo, and eastern Indonesia, historically boat-dwelling sea nomads, now largely settled and many stateless.
Sambo (racial term)
Sambo is a racial term with two English senses: a 1748 term for mixed African, European, and Indigenous ancestry (from Spanish zambo), and an 1818 derogatory name for a Black man tied to the submissive Sambo stereotype of slavery and Jim Crow, spread by Bannerman's 1898 book and the Sambo's restaurant chain.
Samburu people
The Samburu (also Burkeneji, Sampur) are a Maa-speaking Nilotic pastoral people of Samburu County, north-central Kenya, closely related to the Maasai, numbering about 250,000, with gerontocratic age-set (moran) society and cattle-based livelihood.
Sámi people
Sámi people, Indigenous people of Sápmi across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula, numbering about 75,000–100,000, speaking nine Finno-Ugric languages, with reindeer herding as the defining traditional livelihood and Sámi Parliaments in three Nordic states.
Samoans
Samoans: Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan islands (Samoa and American Samoa). Fa'a Samoa, their 3,000-year-old culture, centers on aiga, matai chiefs, alofa, tautua, and fa'aaloalo; largest Pacific group in New Zealand.
San people
The San are the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, also once called Bushmen, known for click languages, ancient rock art, and marginalized modern livelihoods across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Sanctuary city
Sanctuary city: US state or local jurisdiction limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, via detainer refusals and information-sharing limits; no federal legal definition; targeted by 2025 executive orders, DOJ lawsuits largely dismissed, and crime research showing no crime increase.
Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Bahia
Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Bahia is a lay Catholic brotherhood in Salvador, Brazil, founded in 1549, that runs the Hospital da Caridade, among Brazil's oldest charities.
Santal people
Santal people (Santhal, self-designation Hor): Austroasiatic-speaking Adivasi community of eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Munda-language Santali in Ol Chiki script (1925); 1855 Santal Hul rebellion led by Sido and Kanhu Murmu; Scheduled Tribe in India.
Sara Bronfman
Sara Bronfman (Bronfman-Igtet), Seagram heiress, daughter of Edgar Bronfman Sr.; senior NXIVM member, Minister of Humanities, who with sister Clare funneled over $100 million into Raniere's group, was never criminally charged, and remains a civil RICO defendant.
Sarah Baartman
Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman, c. 1789–1815, Khoikhoi woman exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus" in London and Paris; remains repatriated from the Musée de l'Homme by French law 2002-323 and buried at Hankey, South Africa.
Sarah Langa
Sarah Langa (born 1993, Soweto) is a South African content creator, model and entrepreneur behind the HeatOnTheLine fashion blog (2013), founder of Luvant and Sarah Langa Interiors, and a GQ South Africa honoree, distinct from other namesakes.
Sarmatians
Sarmatians: a confederation of nomadic Iranian tribes (Aorsians, Alans, Roxolani, Siraces, Iazyges) related to the Scythians; by c. 200 BC they controlled land west of the Don, spoke Iranian dialects ancestral to Ossetian, and spread to the Carpathian Basin.
Saudia Flight 163
Saudia Flight 163, Saudia Arabian Airlines L-1011 HZ-AHK, caught fire after Riyadh takeoff on 19 August 1980, landed safely, then burned on a taxiway; all 301 died of smoke inhalation, doors unopenable due to cabin overpressure.
Sauk people
The Sauk, historically also called the Sac, are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people closely allied with the Fox, now organized in federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma, Iowa, and Kansas.
Saurabh Dwivedi (सौरभ द्विवेदी)
Saurabh Dwivedi (सौरभ द्विवेदी), born 1983, Indian journalist; founding editor of The Lallantop (2016) and editor of India Today Hindi; left India Today Group January 2026, now Editor of Indian Express Hindi.
Savannah Sellers
Savannah Sellers (born 1995) is an American NBC News anchor and correspondent, co-anchor of Morning News NOW and co-host of Stay Tuned, NBC's Snapchat show; Emmy and 2022 Gracie Award winner, CU Boulder journalism graduate, Paris 2024 and Milan Cortina Olympics correspondent.
Save the Children
Save the Children, also called the Save the Children Fund, is an international charity founded in London in 1919 that protects children in more than 100 countries.
Sayyid (سيد)
Sayyid (السيد, plural sādāt), Arabic honorific 'master' for descendants of Prophet Muhammad through Fāṭima and ʿAlī; also called sharīf in some regions; covers etymology, genealogy, Ottoman privileges, dynasties, and the 1901 India census figure.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, also known as Dalits and Adivasis, are constitutionally designated disadvantaged groups in India, beneficiaries of legislative, employment, and education quotas since 1950.
Scheduled castes in Karnataka
Scheduled castes in Karnataka are 101 communities listed in the 1950 Constitution, representing 17.15 percent of the population, and hold 18 percent of Gram Panchayat positions.
Scheduled castes in Punjab
Scheduled castes in Punjab: 37 constitutionally listed Dalit communities, India's highest SC population share (31.9% in 2011), including Ad-Dharmis, Mazhabhis, Valmikis and Ravidasis, with Punjab-specific sub-categorised reservation and cultural assertion through deras.
Scientific racism
Scientific racism, also called race science, uses the authority of science to argue that races form a hierarchy; it flourished from the 1800s and is now discredited.
Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans, also called Ulster Scots Americans, are Americans descended from Protestant settlers, mostly of Scottish origin, who settled in Ulster and migrated to colonial America in the eighteenth century.
Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander is the pen name of Scott Siskind, a Bay Area psychiatrist and rationalist blogger who wrote Slate Star Codex (2013-2020), deleted it during a New York Times naming dispute, and relaunched as Astral Codex Ten.
Scott MacFarlane (journalist)
Scott MacFarlane is an American broadcast journalist, a CBS News correspondent from 2021 to 2026 known for January 6 Capitol riot coverage, now chief Washington correspondent at MeidasTouch and an independent Substack journalist.
Scottish Americans
Scottish Americans are Americans claiming Scottish or Scots-Irish ancestry; 5.3 million reported Scottish ancestry in the 2020 US Census (1.6%), with colonial-era settlement, 19th-century peak immigration, and wide diaspora estimates of 40 to 80 million.