Sam

**Sam**, **SAM** or variants can 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 and language
* 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
* Sam languages, comprising Somali, Rendille and Boni
* Sam language of New Guinea
* Sam (Book of Mormon), elder brother of Nephi
* Sām, a Persian folk hero
* Shem, Noah's son

## 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), cat, survived the sinking of 3 ships during WWII

## Art, entertainment, and media
* *Sam* (1967 film), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
* *Sam* (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
* *Sam* (Osvajači album), 1995
* *Sam* (Škabo album), 2003
* "Sam" (Olivia Newton-John song), 1977
* *Sam* (1973 TV series), British drama
* *Sam* (1978 TV series), US crime drama
* *S.A.M.* (comics), a French comic book
* SAM Awards, for South Australian Music Awards given by Music SA

## 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

## Museums
* Seattle Art Museum
* SAM, museum code for the South Australian Museum

## Organizations
* Scientific Advice Mechanism of the European Commission
* Serve America Movement, an American political party
* Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts
* 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
* 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 (chatbot)
* 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
* 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
* SAM (Synchronous Address Multiplexer), a chip in some 8-bit computers
* 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
* Small article monitor, screening for radioactive contamination
* Sparse antimagic square, in mathematics
* Stop action magnet in a pipe organ
* Surface-to-air missile, an anti-aircraft missile

## Sports
* Sam (mascot), 1984 Summer Olympics
* Strongside linebacker, gridiron football nickname

## Other uses
* Sandy Area Metro, Oregon, US
* Special administrative measures, in US law
* Uncle Sam, a personification of the US government
* Synodically Authorized Minister, often used in parentheses after an officiator's name

## Related pages
* Sam and the Womp, a British band
* Sam FM (disambiguation)
* 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