Sam

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
  • Nickname common (Samantha Forshit)

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

Fictional characters

For fictional characters, see Sam (given name) § Fictional characters.

Film

• Sam (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
• Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
• Sam (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Nicholas Brooks

Music

Albums

• Sam (Osvajači album), 1995
• Sam (Škabo album), 2003

Songs

• "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977

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

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

Organizations

• Society of American Magicians
• Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts

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
• 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)
• Microsoft Sam, a voice for the screen reader in Windows 2000 and XP
• SAM Broadcaster, an Internet radio broadcasting application
• SAM Coupé, an 8-bit British home computer
• 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
• SAM (Synchronous Address Multiplexer), a chip in some 8-bit computers
• Syriac Abbreviation Mark, a Unicode control character
• SAM*, A semantic association model for corporate and scientific-statistical databases. Stanley Y.W.Su (1983).

Security

• SAM card (Security Authentication Module card), a smart card holding cryptographic keys
• Secure access module
• Security Account 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, gridiron football nickname for a strongside outer linebacker

Other uses

• Sam (Book of Mormon), elder brother of Nephi
• Sām, a Persian folk hero
• Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni, i.e., the Macro-Somali languages without Baiso
• Sandy Area Metro, a transit system in Sandy, Oregon, US
• Special administrative measures, in law
• Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government
• Società Aerea Mediterranea, former Italian airline
• Sam, (Angels Ascending Facebook group), originally used as God's new name, by Nathan Sanders, an American Playwright. He is able to communicate with Sam via Music played on Pandora Music App.

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