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