Sam

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Sam is a forename or nickname, often used by people named "Samuel" or "Samantha".

Sam, SAm, SAM or "'SaM'" may refer to:

Surnames

• Cen (surname) (岑), romanized "Sam" in Cantonese
• Shen (surname) (沈), often romanized "Sam" in Cantonese

Animals

• Sam (army dog) (died 2000), former army dog that was awarded the Dickin Medal
• Sam (koala) (died 2009), koala rescued after the 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia
• Sam (orangutan), an orangutan that starred in the movie Dunston Checks In
• Sam (ugly dog) (1990–2005), dog voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005
• Unsinkable Sam (died 1955), cat who survived the sinkings of three military ships during World War Two
• Sam (horse) (1815–?), British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire

In business

Businesses and organisations

• SAM (vehicles), a Greek truck manufacturer
• SAM Records, an American disco/post-disco record company
• Boston Beer Company (stock ticker SAM), the brewers of Samuel Adams beer
• Seattle Art Museum
• Sigma Alpha Mu, a fraternity founded at the City College of New York
• S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network
• SAM Colombia, a Colombian airline
• Società Aerea Mediterranea, an Italian airline active from 1926 to 1934 and from 1959 to 1981
• Society of American Magicians
• South Australian Museum, a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia
• Sustainable Asset Management, an investment company

Business terminology

• Serviceable available market, those customers that can actually be reached, out of the total addressable market
• Shared appreciation mortgage
• Social accounting matrix, a matrix representation of the national accounts
• System for Award Management (SAM), U.S. Government supplier database

In arts and entertainment

Characters

• Samantha Carter, a fictional character in the TV show Stargate SG-1
• Sam (Trick 'r Treat), the main character in the horror movie Trick 'r Treat
• Sam Winchester, a fictional character and one of the two protagonists of the American drama television series Supernatural
• Sam Puckett (iCarly), a fictional character in the TV show iCarly
• Sam Puckett (Sam & Cat), a fictional character in the TV show Sam & Cat
• Fireman Sam, a Welsh animated children's television series
• Sam Eagle, a character from The Muppet Show
• Yosemite Sam, a Looney Tunes character
• Samwise Gamgee, a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
• Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government
• Sam, onion farmer in the novel Holes and its film adaption
• Sam, of the American comic character duo Sam & Max
• Sam-I-Am, a character in the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham
• Sam Flynn, protagonist of the film Tron: Legacy
• Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell), protagonist of the Splinter Cell video game series
• Sam Witwicky, protagonist of the first three Transformers films

Film and television

• Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
• Sam (1973 TV series), a 1973 British television drama series
• Sam (1978 TV series), an American crime drama television series
• Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film

Music

• "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977
• Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
• Sam (Škabo album), 2003

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• S.A.M., a French comic book created by Richard Marazano and Shang Xiao
• San Andreas Multiplayer, a feature of the game GTA: San Andreas

People

• Sām, a Persian folk hero, whose name means "very dark"
• Sam (Book of Mormon), the third son of Lehi and elder brother to the prophet Nephi
• Michael Sam (born 1990), American football player
• Eliza Sam or Cen Lixiang (born 1984), Chinese-Canadian actress

Places

• American Samoa, IOC and FIFA country code
• Sam, Benin
• Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
• Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso
• Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso
• Sam, Iran
• Sam, Teton County, Idaho, a populated place located in Idaho
• Salamo Airport in Papua New Guinea, IATA airport code SAM

In science and technology

Biology, chemistry and medicine

• S-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
• SAMtools (for Sequence Alignment Map), a data storage format for DNA sequencing
• Self-assembled monolayer, an organised layer of amphiphilic molecules
• Shoot apical meristem, a tissue in plant cells
• Significance analysis of microarrays, a permutation-based method to estimate the false discovery rate in microarray analysis
• Spore photoproduct lyase, an enzyme
• Sustained Acoustic Medicine, a medical procedure to reduce chronic pain and accelerate healing

Physics and astronomy

• Southern Annular Mode, a mode of atmospheric variability of the southern hemisphere
• Swinging Atwood's machine, a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine
• SAm, in astrophysics, the de Vaucouleurs code for an unbarred one-armed Magellanic spiral galaxy

Software and computing

• Microsoft Sam, the default voice for the screen reader program in Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike
• SAM Broadcaster, an Internet radio broadcasting application
• SAM Coupé, an 8-bit British home computer
• Sequential access memory, a class of storage devices that are read sequentially
• Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers
• SlideME Application Manager, the native Android Application for the SlideME alternative Android application market
• Software asset management
• Software Automatic Mouth, a computer program for speech synthesis
• Synchronous Address Multiplexer, a Motorola-produced Integrated_circuit (IC)-chip used for mediating RAM access in certain 8-bit computers
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character in the Syriac language block
• Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the I2P network layer

Security

• SAM card (Security Authentication Module card), a small smart card used to hold cryptographic keys
• Secure access module
• Security Accounts Manager, an accounts database used by Microsoft Windows
• Symantec Anti-Virus for Macintosh

Other uses in science and technology

• Sample Analysis at Mars, an instrument aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars
• Scanning acoustic microscope, a device using focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object
• Scanning Auger microscope, a device to image the surface using Auger electron spectroscopy
• Small article monitor, a monitoring device designed to screen small items for radioactive contamination
• Sparse Anti-Magic square, in mathematics
• Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile
• Stop action magnet, a device used in a pipe organs

Other uses

• Sam (mascot), mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Sandy Area Metro, a transit system in Sandy, Oregon
• South Atlantic Medal, a British campaign medal for the Falklands War
• Special administrative measures, in law
• The Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni, i.e., the Macro-Somali languages without Baiso
• Sports Association Management, in sport management

See also

• Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"
• Samantha, Samhita, Samskruthi, female given names often shortened to "Sam"
• Sammy (disambiguation), an informal variation on the name "Sam"
• Samuel (name), includes a list of people known as "Sam"