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
BJ Sam, Nigerian musician
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
Samwise Gamgee, usually referred to as Sam, a character in The Lord of the Rings.

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), a 1976 film directed by Larry Buchanan
Sam (1986 film), a 1986 documentary film
Sam (2021 film), a 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), a US 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
Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts
Society of American Magicians

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
Split attraction model, a psychology model about sexual orientation

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
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

See also
Uncle Sam, a personification of the US government
Samsø, earlier Samsey, literally "Sam's island"