====================================================================== = Sam = ====================================================================== Introduction ====================================================================== Sam, SAM or variants may refer to: Places ====================================================================== * Sam, Benin * Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso * Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso * Sam, Iran * Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place People ====================================================================== * Sam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname ** Samantha Ruth Prabhu (born 1987), known mononymously as Sam, Indian actress * Sam (surname), a list of people with the surname ** Cen (surname) (岑), romanized "Sam" in Cantonese ** Shen (surname) (沈), often romanized "Sam" in Cantonese and other languages Religious or legendary figures ====================================================================== * Sam (Book of Mormon), elder brother of Nephi * Sām, a Persian mythical folk hero * Sam Ziwa, an uthra (angel or celestial being) in Mandaeism * Sam, Shem in Islam Animals ====================================================================== * Sam (army dog) (died 2000) * Sam (horse) (b 1815), British Thoroughbred * Sam (koala) (died 2009), rescued after 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia * Sam (orangutan), in the movie 'Dunston Checks In' * Sam (ugly dog) (1990-2005), voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005 * Unsinkable Sam (died 1955), a cat which survived the sinking of three ships during World War II Arts and entertainment ====================================================================== * 'Sam' (1967 film), directed by Larry Buchanan * 'Sam' (1986 film), a documentary * 'Sam' (2021 film), directed by Yan England * 'Sam' (Osvajači album), 1995 * 'Sam' (Škabo album), 2003 * "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977 * 'Sam' (1973 TV series), a British drama * 'Sam' (1978 TV series), an American crime drama * 'Sam' (novel), a 2023 novel by Allegra Goodman * SAM Awards, for South Australian Music Awards Brands and enterprises ======================== * SAM (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer * S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network * SAM, stock ticker of Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams beer * SAM Colombia, a Colombian airline * SAM Records, an American disco/post-disco record company * Società Aerea Mediterranea, an Italian airline 1926-1934 and 1959-1981 Business terminology ====================== * Serviceable available market * Shared appreciation mortgage * Social accounting matrix of transactions in an economy * System for Award Management (SAM), U.S. Government supplier database Languages ====================================================================== * Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni * Sam language of New Guinea * Samaritan Aramaic language, an extinct liturgical language (ISO 639-2, 639-3 code: sam) Museums ====================================================================== * Seattle Art Museum * Singapore Art Museum * SAM, museum code for the South Australian Museum Organizations ====================================================================== * Sahabat Alam Malaysia, an environmental NGO based in Malaysia * Scientific Advice Mechanism of the European Commission * Serve America Movement, an American political party * Society of American Magicians * Swimming Association of Maldives Biology, chemistry and medicine ================================= * 'Phytelephas seemannii', known in Guna as ' * 'S'-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers * SAM, a candidate phylum of bacteria * Sustained Acoustic Medicine, a medical treatment for arthritis * SAMtools (for Sequence Alignment Map), a data storage format for DNA sequencing * Self-assembled monolayer of amphiphilic molecules * Shoot apical meristem, a plant tissue * Significance analysis of microarrays, in DNA microanalysis * Spore photoproduct lyase, an enzyme * Sorting and assembly machinery, a protein complex in the outer mitochondrial membrane * Segmental arterial mediolysis, a medical condition affecting the arteries Physics and astronomy ======================= * Southern Annular Mode of southern hemisphere atmospheric variability * Swinging Atwood's machine * SAm, an unbarred Magellanic spiral galaxy Software and computing ======================== * SAM (file format) or Sequence Alignment Map, a data format used in bioinformatics * Sam (text editor) * SAM Coupé, an 8-bit British home computer * Microsoft Sam, a voice for the screen reader in Windows 2000 and XP * SAM, a New Zealand chatbot that discuss politics * SAM Lock Tool, better known as Syskey * Scene Apparatus manager, a fully automatic pump control system by IDEX Corporation * Sequential access memory * Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the I2P network layer * Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers * Software asset management * Software Automatic Mouth, speech synthesis program * Synchronous Address Multiplexer, a chip in some 8-bit computers; see * Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character Security ========== * SAM card (Security Authentication Module card), holding cryptographic keys * Secure access module * Security Account Manager in Microsoft Windows Other ======= * Sample Analysis at Mars, on the Curiosity rover * Scanning acoustic microscope * Scanning Auger microscope in Auger electron spectroscopy * Scheduled Ancient Monument, commonly used name for British archaeological designation * Small article monitor, screening for radioactive contamination * Sparse antimagic square, in mathematics * Special Air Mission * Stop action magnet in a pipe organ * Surface-to-air missile Sports ====================================================================== * Sam (mascot), 1984 Summer Olympics * Strongside linebacker, gridiron football nickname * Sam Maguire Cup, often known as "Sam", of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in gaelic football Other uses ====================================================================== * Tropical Storm Sam, various storms named Sam * Sandy Area Metro, Oregon, US * Sam FM (disambiguation) * Schule am Meer (S.a.M. or SaM), a former boarding school in Juist, East Frisian islands, Free State of Prussia, German Reich * Special administrative measures, in US law * Split attraction model, a psychology model about sexual orientation * 'Sam', in Indian classical music, the first count of a 'tala' * SAM, IATA airport code for Salamo Airport in Papua, New Guinea * SAM, IOC and FIFA country code for Samoa See also ====================================================================== * Uncle Sam, a personification of the US government * Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island" * Sam. 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