# 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

## 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

## 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
* Samaritan Aramaic language, an extinct liturgical language (ISO 639-2, 639-3 code: sam)

## 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
* Society of American Magicians
* Swimming Association of Maldives

## 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
* 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
* Software asset management
* Software Automatic Mouth, speech synthesis program
* Synchronous Address Multiplexer, a chip in some 8-bit computers; see Color Computer § SAM
* 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