Sam

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
 * Sam, Shem in Islam
 * Sam, best tarkov player

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), directed by Larry Buchanan
 * Sam (1986 film), a documentary
 * Sam (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), an American crime drama
 * Sam (Goodman novel), a 2023 novel by Allegra Goodman
 * SAM Awards, for South Australian Music Awards

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: )

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

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
 * Single Abstract Method, a programming structure, also known as a functional interface
 * 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 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
 * Split attraction model, a psychology model about sexual orientation
 * 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