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Sam, SAM or variants may refer to:
Places
- SAM, IATA airport code for Salamo Airport in Papua, New Guinea
- SAM, IOC and FIFA country code for American Samoa
- Sam, Benin
- Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
- Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso
- Sam, Iran
- Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso
- Sam, Teton County, Idaho, a populated place located in Idaho
People
- Sam (given name), a list of people with the given name
- Sam (surname), a list of people with the surname
- 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 (horse) (1815–?), British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
- 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
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictitious characters
- Sam (Trick 'r Treat), the main character in the horror movie Trick 'r Treat
- Sam, of the American comics character duo Sam & Max
Film
- Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
- Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
Games
- SAM, an acronym for San Andreas Multiplayer, a feature of the game GTA: San Andreas
- SAM, abbreviation of SAMAS in the role-playing game Rifts
Music
- Albums
- Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
- Sam (Škabo album), 2003
- Songs
Television
- Sam (1973 TV series), a 1973 British television drama series
- Sam (1978 TV series), an American crime drama television series
Other uses
- S.A.M., a French comic book created by Richard Marazano and Shang Xiao
Business
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 active from 1926 to 1934 and from 1959 to 1981
- 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
Museums
- Seattle Art Museum
- South Australian Museum, a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia
Organizations
- Sigma Alpha Mu, a fraternity founded at the City College of New York
- Society of American Magicians
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
- SAM (file format) or Sequence Alignment Map, a data format used in bioinformatics.
- Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike
- Microsoft Sam, the default voice for the screen reader program in Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- 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
- Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the I2P network layer
- 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
- SAM (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
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
- Scanning acoustic microscope, a device using focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object
- Sample Analysis at Mars, an instrument aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars
- 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 Antimagic square, in mathematics
- Stop action magnet, a device used in a pipe organs
- Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile
Sports
- Sam (mascot), mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics
- SAM (Sports Association Management), in sport management
Other uses
- Sam (Book of Mormon), the third son of Lehi and elder brother to the prophet Nephi
- Sām, a Persian folk hero, whose name means "very dark"
- Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni, i.e., the Macro-Somali languages without Baiso
- 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
- Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government
See also
- Samantha, Samhita, Samskruthi, female given names often shortened to "Sam"
- Sammy (disambiguation), an informal variation on the name "Sam"
- Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"
- Samuel (name)
- Son of Sam
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