List of Famous people named Sam

Name Sam is among the most common names in England, Australia. Often it's a shorthand for Samuel. Similar names: Samuel, Sammy, Sami, Sammi, Samia, Samy, Sammie, Samm, Saiyami, Samoa, Samo, Sammo, Zamy. Here are some famous Sams:

Sam Mercer

First Name Sam
Last Name Mercer
Born on November 30, 1999 (age 26)

Sam Mercer is a producer of many Hollywood films, including several projects directed by M. Night Shyamalan such as Signs, Lady in the Water and Unbreakable, as well as other films like Van Helsing and Things We Lost in the Fire. His career started during the early 1980s as a location manager and later advanced to a producer and executive producer. He also produced the M. Night Shyamalan films The Happening and The Last Airbender.

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Sam Marin

First Name Sam
Last Name Marin
Born on March 4, 1984 (age 42)
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Sam Kutesa

First Name Sam
Last Name Kutesa
Born on February 1, 1949 (age 77)

Sam Kahamba Kutesa is a Ugandan politician and lawyer. He is the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of Uganda, a position he has held since 13 January 2005 and maintained through three cabinet reshuffles. He is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Mawogola County in Sembabule District. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly during its 69th session in 2014–2015.

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Sam Egan

First Name Sam
Last Name Egan
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)

Sam Egan is a journalist, and a screenwriter and producer for television.

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Sam Bloom

First Name Sam
Last Name Bloom
Born on November 30, 1970 (age 55)
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Sam Lee

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First Name Sam
Last Name Lee
Born on September 27, 1975 (age 50)

Sam Lee Chan-sam is a Hong Kong actor. He started his film career when he was first spotted by director Fruit Chan who cast him in Made in Hong Kong. Since his debut, Lee has been working hard on many films. In 1999, he made thirteen films in that year alone. He appeared in a Japanese film Ping Pong as one of the contestants in the movie. Lee is best known for his role as Sha Jang in the Hong Kong television series The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra (2002).

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Sam Lantinga

First Name Sam
Last Name Lantinga
Born on July 31, 1974 (age 51)

Sam Oscar Lantinga is a computer programmer. He used to be the lead software engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, where he was known to the community as Slouken. He is best known as the creator of the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a very popular open source multimedia programming library, and also developed the compatibility database for Executor, a proprietary Mac OS emulator.

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Sam Tsang

First Name Sam
Last Name Tsang
Born on April 29, 1964 (age 61)
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Sam Otto

First Name Sam
Last Name Otto
Born on June 13, 1992 (age 33)

Sam Otto is a British actor who gained popularity in 2017 after playing "Jalal" in Peter Kosminsky's Channel four Series The State. He is also known for starring in Collateral, The Flood, The Boy with the Topknot and Snowpiercer.

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Sam Winans

First Name Sam
Last Name Winans
Born on March 19, 1942 (age 84)

Sam Winans is an American film and television composer. He studied music theory in college and privately with Merv Kennedy, a jazz musician, and then studied orchestration with Spud Murphy, creator of the Equal Interval System (EIS). His music has appeared on TV shows such as Lizzie McGuire, Harts of the West, Flight 29 Down, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, and Kids Incorporated, and the 1988 animated feature Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw.

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