Sam
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 and fictional characters
- Sam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
- 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
- Samwise Gamgee, usually referred to as Sam, a character in The Lord of the Rings.
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), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
- Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
- Sam (2021 film), a 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), a US crime drama
- Sam (Goodman novel), a 2023 novel by Allegra Goodman
- SAM Awards, for South Australian Music Awards
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 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
- Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts
- Society of American Magicians
Science and technology
Biology, chemistry and medicine
- Phytelephas seemannii, known in Cuna as 'sam'
- 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
- 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 Color Computer § SAM
- 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
- Scanning acoustic microscope
- Sample Analysis at Mars, on the Curiosity rover
- 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
- Stop action magnet in a pipe organ
- Surface-to-air missile, a type of missile
- Split attraction model, a psychology model about sexual orientation
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
- 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
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