Sama or SAMA may refer to:

Places

  • Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso
  • Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China
  • Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
  • Sama, Nowshahr, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
  • Sama, South Khorasan, a village in Iran
  • Sama (Harstad), a part of Harstad city in northern Norway
  • Sama District, one of ten districts of Tacna province, Peru
  • Sama, Asturias, a parish in the municipality of Langreo in northern Spain
  • Sama River, a river in Peru

People

  • Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of the Philippines and Malaysia whose members commonly refer to themselves as Sama
  • Sama (surname), a list of people
  • Sama Lukonde (born 1977), Democratic Republic of the Congo politician
  • Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

Arts and entertainment

  • Sama (film), a 1988 Tunisian film directed by Néjia Ben Mabrouk
  • Sama (Dragana Mirković album), a 2000 studio album by Serbian singer Dragana Mirković
  • Sama (Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen album), jazz album by Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen
  • "Sama" (song), the Polish entry in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Justyna
  • Sama, a character of the Mahabharata

Businesses

  • Saudi Central Bank, formerly Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority and still using the acronym SAMA, the central bank of Saudi Arabia
  • Sama (airline), a defunct Saudi low-cost airline
  • Sama (company), an artificial-intelligence company
  • Sama Dubai, a property company based in Dubai
  • Sama TV, a television station based in Damascus, Syria

Religion

  • Sama (Sufism), form of Sufi ritual ceremony
  • Sama, the indigenous religion of the Munda people of India
  • Sama Veda, Veda of melodies and chants in Hinduism

SAMA

  • Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan, a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan
  • San Antonio Museum of Art, an art museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Scottish Alternative Music Awards
  • Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, former name of the Saudi Central Bank, the central bank of Saudi Arabia which still uses the acronym SAMA
  • Short-acting muscarinic antagonist, a group of medicines used in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • South African Medical Association
  • South African Music Awards, an annual award ceremony
  • South African Musicians' Alliance, an artists' collective that resisted the strictures of apartheid
  • South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly, an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface
  • South Australian Mining Association, a company that in the late 19th century operated one of the world's largest copper mines
  • Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, an art museum with four locations in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States
  • Student American Medical Association, a precursor of the American Medical Student Association

Other uses

  • , various motor ships
  • Racing de Sama, a Spanish football club based in the parish of Sama, Langreo, Asturias
  • Sama Beirut, an upcoming residential, commercial and office tower in the Sodeco region of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Sama Tower, a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • -sama (様), a Japanese honorific suffix
  • Sama language, the language of the Sama people of Southeast Asia
  • Sama language (Angola), a Bantu language of Angola

See also

  • Samma tribe, a Rajput tribe in Pakistan and India