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 Teton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,630. The county seat is Driggs, and the largest city is Victor. The county was established in 1915 and was named after the Teton Mount ...

, United States, a populated place

People and fictional characters

Sam (given name) Sam is a given name or nickname, often used by people named "Samuel," "Samson," and "Samantha". A *Sam Abbas (born 1993), Egyptian film producer and director * Sam Adams (disambiguation), multiple people *Sam Adekugbe (born 1995), Canadian socce ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Sam (surname), a list of people with the surname **

Cen (surname) Cen is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Ts'en in Wade–Giles, and variously as Sam, Sum, Sham, Shum in Cantonese, Gim, Khim, Chim in Taiwanese Hokkien and Ch ...

(岑), romanized "Sam" in Cantonese **

Shen (surname) __NOTOC__ Shen may refer to: * Shen (Chinese religion) (神), a central word in Chinese philosophy, religion, and traditional Chinese medicine; term for god or spirit * Shen (clam-monster) (蜃), a shapeshifting Chinese dragon believed to create mi ...

(沈), often romanized "Sam" in Cantonese and other languages

Religious or legendary figures

Sam (Book of Mormon) In the Book of Mormon, Sam was the third son of Lehi, and elder brother to the prophet Nephi. Early in the Book of Mormon, Nephi confided in Sam. Lehi saw Sam in his vision of the tree of life, noting that he ate the precious fruit, symbolizin ...

, elder brother of Nephi *

Sām Sām ( fa, سام), also (sam) transliterated Saam, is a mythical hero of ancient Persia, and an important character in the Shahnameh epic. He was the son of Nariman, grandson of Garshasp and father to Zāl. He was Iran's champion during the rul ...

, a Persian mythical folk hero * Sam Ziwa, an uthra (angel or celestial being) in Mandaeism

Animals

* Sam (army dog) (died 2000) *

Sam (horse) Sam (1815 – after 1827) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1818 to May 1819 he ran nine times and won three races. In May 1818 he defeated fifteen opponents to record his most important win ...

(b 1815), British Thoroughbred *

Sam (koala) Sam (2005–2007 – 6 August 2009), also known as Sam the Koala, was a female koala from the forests of Mirboo North, Victoria, Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia. She became publicly known when a video and photographs of her being rescued by a ...

(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 SAM (Spanish acronym: ''Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín'') was a Colombian airline. With its main hub at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, SAM operated domestic and international routes and was a subsidiary of Avianca. In 2004, its h ...

, a Colombian airline *

SAM Records SAM Records was a New York-based independent record company active between 1977–1983 and 1989–1991. The label was operated by Sam Weiss and Daniel Glass, who worked as a Vice President. In the late 1970s, Columbia, as a CBS subsidiary, had ...

, an American disco/post-disco record company * Società Aerea Mediterranea, an Italian airline 1926-1934 and 1959-1981

Business terminology

Serviceable available market Serviceable addressable market (SAM; also served available market) is the part of the total addressable market (TAM) that can actually be reached. Overview The serviceable available market or served addressable market is more clearly defined as th ...

* 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 The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Cap ...

Singapore Art Museum The Singapore Art Museum (Abbreviation: SAM) is an art museum is located in the Downtown Core district of Singapore. It is the first fully dedicated contemporary visual arts museum in Singapore with one of the world’s most important public co ...

* SAM, museum code for the

South Australian Museum The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultu ...

Organizations

* Sahabat Alam Malaysia, an environmental NGO based in Malaysia *

Scientific Advice Mechanism The Scientific Advice Mechanism is a service created by the European Commission which provides independent science advice directly to European Commissioners to inform their decision-making. The Mechanism consists of two parts: the Group of Chief ...

of the European Commission *

Serve America Movement The Serve America Movement (SAM) was a big tent political organization founded in 2017 by Morgan Stanley lawyer Eric Grossman. The party achieved its first state party in New York with ballot access, but as of November 4, 2021 it lost its ball ...

, an American political party * Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts *

Society of American Magicians The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) is the oldest fraternal magic organization in the world. Its purpose is "to advance, elevate, and preserve magic as a performing art, to promote harmonious fellowship throughout the world of magic, and ...

Science and technology

Biology, chemistry and medicine

* ''

Phytelephas seemannii ''Phytelephas seemannii'', commonly called Panama ivory palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is one of the plants used for vegetable ivory. Names The species epithet ''seemannii'' honors botanist Berthold Carl See ...

'', 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 SAMtools is a set of utilities for interacting with and post-processing short DNA sequence read alignments in the SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map), BAM (Binary Alignment/Map) and CRAM formats, written by Heng Li. These files are generated as output ...

(for Sequence Alignment Map), a data storage format for DNA sequencing *

Self-assembled monolayer Self-assembled monolayers (SAM) of organic molecules are molecular assemblies formed spontaneously on surfaces by adsorption and are organized into more or less large ordered domains. In some cases molecules that form the monolayer do not interact ...

of amphiphilic molecules *

Shoot apical meristem The meristem is a type of tissue found in plants. It consists of undifferentiated cells (meristematic cells) capable of cell division. Cells in the meristem can develop into all the other tissues and organs that occur in plants. These cells conti ...

, a plant tissue * Significance analysis of microarrays, in DNA microanalysis *

Spore photoproduct lyase Spore photoproduct lyase (''SP lyase'', ''SPL'', ''SplB'', ''SplG'') is a radical SAM enzyme that repairs DNA cross linking of thymine bases caused by UV-radiation. There are several types of thymine cross linking, but SPL specifically targets 5 ...

, an enzyme *

Sorting and assembly machinery The outer mitochondrial membrane is made up of two essential proteins, Tom40 and Sam50. Tom40 Tom40 is a protein import pore required for the import of precursor proteins across the outer mitochondrial membrane, and it makes up part of the trans ...

, 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) Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) is a text-based format originally for storing biological sequences aligned to a reference sequence developed by Heng Li and Bob Handsaker ''et al''. It was developed when the 1000 Genomes Project wanted to move aw ...

or Sequence Alignment Map, a data format used in bioinformatics *

Sam (text editor) Sam is a multi-file text editor based on structural regular expressions. It was originally designed in the early 1980s at Bell Labs by Rob Pike with the help of Ken Thompson and other Unix developers for the Blit windowing terminal running on U ...

SAM Coupé 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 ...

, an 8-bit British home computer *

Microsoft Sam The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are speech synthesizers provided for use with applications that use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-s ...

, 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 A chatbot or chatterbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would behav ...

that discuss politics * SAM Lock Tool, better known as

Syskey The SAM Lock Tool, better known as Syskey (the name of its executable file), is a discontinued component of Windows NT that encrypts the Security Account Manager (SAM) database using a 128-bit RC4 encryption key. First introduced in the Q143475 ...

Sequential access memory In computing, sequential access memory (SAM) is a class of data storage devices that read stored data in a sequence. This is in contrast to random access memory (RAM) where data can be accessed in any order. Sequential access devices are usually a ...

* Simple Anonymous Messaging, a protocol specification used in the

I2P The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a mix network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using ...

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 The Syriac Abbreviation Mark is a Unicode Control character (U+070F) that forms part of the Syriac script block. In Syriac, words are sometimes written in an abbreviated form, omitting some of the last letters. In such cases, a special overline is ...

, a Unicode control character

Security

SAM card 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 p ...

(Security Authentication Module card), holding cryptographic keys * Secure access module *

Security Account Manager The Security Account Manager (SAM) is a database file in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 that stores users' passwords. It can be used to authenticate local and remote users. Beginning with Windows 2000 SP4, Active Directory a ...

in Microsoft Windows

Other

* Scanning acoustic microscope *

Sample Analysis at Mars Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments on the Mars Science Laboratory ''Curiosity'' rover. The SAM instrument suite will analyze organics and gases from both atmospheric and solid samples. It was developed by the NASA Goddard S ...

, on the Curiosity rover * Scanning Auger microscope in Auger electron spectroscopy *

Scheduled Ancient Monument In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage and d ...

, 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 Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, pla ...

, gridiron football nickname *

Sam Maguire Cup The Sam Maguire Cup ( ga, Chorn Sam Mhic Uidhir), often referred to as Sam or The Sam , is a trophy awarded annually by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to the team that wins the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the main competiti ...

, 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

American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internationa ...