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Sam, SAM or variants may refer to:

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

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

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
* ''S.A.M.'' (comics), a French comic book
* 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

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 ''
* S-Adenosyl methionine, ''S''-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
* SAM, a Bacterial phyla#Uncultivated Phyla and metagenomics, 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
* Self-Service Automated Machine, A Machine used by people living in Singapore to quench their postal needs
* SAM, a New Zealand Chatbot#Politics, 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
* 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 monument, 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

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 (music), tala''
* SAM, IATA airport code for Salamo Airport in Papua, New Guinea
* SAM, IOC and FIFA country code for American Samoa

See also

* Uncle Sam, a personification of the US government
* Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"

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