Samba (disambiguation)

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Samba may have one of the following meanings:

[edit] Culture

• Samba, a genre of Afro-Brazilian music
• Samba (film), a 2004 Telugu-language Indian film
• Samba (book) a non-fiction book about favela life and samba music by Alma Guillermoprieto
• Samba Carnival, another name for the Brazilian Carnival celebration

[edit] Dance styles

• Samba (Brazilian dance), a genre of Afro-Brazilian folk dance
• Samba (ballroom dance), a ballroom dance
• Samba de Gafieira, Brazilian ballroom samba

[edit] Software

• Samba (software), a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between computers.
• Samba (web browser) (MacWWW), very early Web browser for the Macintosh written by Robert Cailliau at CERN, released 1993

[edit] People

• Martin-Paul Samba, German collaborator and later rebel from Cameroon
• Christopher Samba, Blackburn Rovers footballer

[edit] Places

• Samba, Jammu, a town in Jammu & Kashmir, India
• Samba, Burkina Faso, one of the 9 Departments of the Passoré Province of Burkina Faso
• Samba, Angola, a municipality in Luanda Province, Angola

[edit] Other

• Samba (shoe), a brand of indoor soccer shoe made by Adidas
• Samba (rice), a variety of rice found in Sri Lanka.
• Samba Financial Group, a banking firm in Saudi Arabia, formerly the Saudi American Bank
• Salinas Valley Samba, a soccer team in the National Premier Soccer League
• Samba spy scandal, a spy scandal in Samba, Jammu, India in the 1970s
• Samba, the son of Lord Krishna
• Samba, a spacecraft forming part of the Cluster mission
• Samba, a variant of the card game canasta
• Samba, a French mousse covered in ganache cake
• Samba, a name for the tropical tree Triplochiton scleroxylon in Ivory Coast
• Samba, a name for one variation of the Volkswagen Type 2