Sam, SAM or variants may refer to:

Places

Sam, Benin Sam is a town and arrondissement in the Alibori Department of northeastern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Kandi. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statist ...

Sam, Boulkiemdé Sam, Boulkiemdé is a town in the Kokologho Department of Boulkiemdé Province in central western Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an ...

, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso *

Sam, Kongoussi Sam, Kongoussi is a village in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bor ...

, Burkina Faso *

Sam, Iran Sham ( fa, شم; also known as Sam) is a village in Negur Rural District, Dashtiari District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a coun ...

* 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) Sam is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Alfred Sam (c.1880–1930s), Gold Coast trader and Back-to-Africa pioneer * Christian Sam (born 1996), American football player * Eliza Sam or Cen Lixiang (born 1984), Chinese-Canadian actres ...

, 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) Sam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serb ...

(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) Sam (November 7, 1990 – November 18, 2005) was a blind pure-bred Chinese Crested dog, and three-time champion of the annual Sonoma-Marin Fair World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Northern California in 2003–2005. His ugliness earned him internat ...

(1990–2005), voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005 *

Unsinkable Sam Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oskar or Oscar) is, according to a probably exaggerated story, the nickname of a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of thre ...

(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 The South Australian Music Awards, also known as SA Music Awards, commonly SAM Awards, formerly Fowler's Live Music Awards (FLMA), are annual awards that exist to recognise, promote and celebrate excellence in the South Australian contemporary mu ...

Business

Brands and enterprises

SAM (vehicles) The name SAM (not to be confused with ''S.A.M.'', a Swedish automotive company) stands for Stephanos A. Mbaltas (badge 'ΣΑΜ', in Greek, appearing in the logo), the founder of this Greek company, one of several that produced three-wheeler trucks ...

, a Greek truck manufacturer * S.A.M.: Simply About Music, a satellite-driven radio network * SAM, stock ticker of

Boston Beer Company The Boston Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1984. Boston Beer Company's first brand of beer was named Samuel Adams after Founding Father Samuel Adams, an American revolutionary patriot. Since its founding, Boston Beer has started se ...

, 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 The System for Award Management (SAM) e-procurement system collects data from suppliers, validated and stored this data, and disseminated it to various government acquisition agencies. Users and registrants Users of SAM include contracting officia ...

(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 A snowmobile, also known as a Ski-Doo, snowmachine, sled, motor sled, motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. It is designed to be operated on snow and ice and does not ...

* Society of American Magicians

Science and technology

Biology, chemistry and medicine

* '' Phytelephas seemannii'', known in Cuna as '' * ''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 Microarray analysis techniques are used in interpreting the data generated from experiments on DNA (Gene chip analysis), RNA, and protein microarrays, which allow researchers to investigate the expression state of a large number of genes - in many ...

, 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 The Antarctic oscillation (AAO, to distinguish it from the Arctic oscillation or AO), also known as the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), is a low-frequency mode of atmospheric variability of the southern hemisphere that is defined as a belt of stron ...

of southern hemisphere atmospheric variability *

Swinging Atwood's machine The swinging Atwood's machine (SAM) is a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine except that one of the masses is allowed to swing in a two-dimensional plane, producing a dynamical system that is chaotic for some system parameters an ...

* 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 Self-service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when making purchases. Aside from Automated Teller Machines, which are not limited to banks, and customer-operated supermarket check-out, labor-saving of which has been described as self- ...

, A Machine used by people living in Singapore to quench their postal needs * 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 Software Automatic Mouth, or S.A.M. (sometimes abbreviated as SAM), is a speech synthesis program developed by Mark Barton and sold by Don't Ask Software. The program was released for the Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, and Commodore 64. Released ...

, 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 A secure access module or secure application module (SAM) is a piece of cryptographic hardware typically used by smart card card readers to perform mutual key authentication. SAMs can be used to manage access in a variety of contexts, such as pub ...

* Security Account Manager in Microsoft Windows

Other

Scanning acoustic microscope A scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) is a device which uses focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object (a process called scanning acoustic tomography). It is commonly used in failure analysis and non-destructive evaluation. It als ...

* Sample Analysis at Mars, on the Curiosity rover * Scanning Auger microscope in

Auger electron spectroscopy file:HD.6C.037 (11856519893).jpg, A Hanford Site, Hanford scientist uses an Auger electron spectrometer to determine the elemental composition of surfaces. Auger electron spectroscopy (AES; pronounced in French) is a common analytical technique us ...

* Scheduled Ancient Monument, commonly used name for British archaeological designation *

Small article monitor A Small Article Monitor or SAM is a monitoring device designed to screen small items of up to 50 pounds weight for radioactive contamination. It uses six plastic scintillation detectors, one each on the top, bottom, back, left and right sides of t ...

, screening for radioactive contamination * Sparse

antimagic square An antimagic square of order ''n'' is an arrangement of the numbers 1 to ''n''2 in a square, such that the sums of the ''n'' rows, the ''n'' columns and the two diagonals form a sequence of 2''n'' + 2 consecutive integers. The smallest an ...

, in mathematics *

Stop action magnet The stop action magnet, usually abbreviated to SAM, is an electromagnetic device used for the control of pipe organs and virtual pipe organs, and forms part of the organ's combination action. On a classical organ the device may be referred to as a ...

in a pipe organ *

Surface-to-air missile A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-aircraft syst ...

, 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 Sandy Area Metro (called SAM) is a public transit system operated by the city government of Sandy, Oregon. SAM was created after the city successfully petitioned to be removed from the TriMet district in the late 1990s.Briggs, Kara (December 29, 1 ...

, 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 Tala may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Tala (comics), a fictional character in DC comics *''Tala'', a 1938 volume of poetry by Gabriela Mistral *Tala (music), a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music * "Tala" (song), by Sarah Geronimo ...

'' * SAM, IATA airport code for

Salamo Airport Salamo Airport is an airfield serving Salamo, in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, In ...

in Papua, New Guinea * SAM, IOC and FIFA country code for American Samoa