Sam
Sam or SAM may have one of the following meanings:
- Sam, a short for the names 'Samuel', 'Samantha', 'Samson' or 'Samwise'.
- Uncle Sam, a personification of the United States government.
- Sam (text editor), a text editor by Rob Pike.
- Sam (dog), a dog voted the world's ugliest dog for three years running.
- Sam (orangutan), from the movie Dunston Checks In.
- Sam, a sequel to the novel Jack Weyland's Charly.
- saṃ, a copulative or collectivizing prefix in Sanskrit
- Sam, an episode of Power Rangers: SPD.
- Sam, a hero in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh .
Acronyms and abbreviations
- SAM (Screen Activated Machine) - a self-service wagering terminal developed by Scientific Games Corporation
- SAM a series by Pro 7
- SAM a Greek truck manufacturer
- Sam., a reference to the Book of Samuel
- S.A.M. a Swedish automotive company
- SAM, a common reference to Single Asian Males
- SAM, the IOC and FIFA country code for the American Samoa
- S-adenosyl methionine
- Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
- Seattle Art Museum
- Secure Access Module
- Security Account Manager, the accounts database used by Microsoft Windows NT
- Self-assembled monolayer
- Sequential Access Memory
- Small article monitor
- Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín, a Colombian airline
- Society of American Magicians
- Software Automatic Mouth
- Student Association of Missouri
- Surface-to-air missile
- System Administration Manager HP-UX System Administration Manager
- Sympathetic adrenal medullary system, related to the sympathetic nervous system
Fictional Characters
- Sam (Retroville) The owner the Candy Bar in the Nickelodeon TV Series-The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Sam (Totally Spies), a character from the series Totally Spies.
- Sam Fisher, the main character in the Splinter Cell video game series.
- Sam the Eagle, a character on The Muppet Show
- Samwise Gamgee, an important character in Tolkien's novel, The Lord of the Rings.
- Secret Asian Man is an Asian American comic strip character.
- Sam, counterpart to Max in Steve Purcell's comic Sam & Max.