Sagan may refer to:
Places
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Żagań
Żagań ( French and german: Sagan, hsb, Zahań, la, Saganum) is a town in western Poland, on the Bóbr river, with 25,731 inhabitants (2019). The town is the capital of Żagań County in the historic region of Silesia. Previously in the Zielo ...
, Poland
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Duchy of Żagań
The Duchy of Żagań ( pl, Księstwo Żagańskie, cs, Zaháňské knížectví) or Duchy of Sagan (german: Herzogtum Sagan) was one of the duchies of Silesia ruled by the Silesian Piasts. Its capital was Żagań in Lower Silesia, the territory ...
(1274–1549), one of the duchies of Silesia
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Sagan, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
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Sagan, West Azerbaijan, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Sagan, Ethiopia
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Sagan River
The Sagan River is a seasonal river in southern Ethiopia.
Rising in the Ethiopian Highlands mountains east of Lake Chamo, it flows south then west to join the Weito River at .
It defines part of the boundary between the Southern Nations, Nat ...
, Ethiopia
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Şağan
Şağan (also, Shagan and Shagany) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinen ...
, Azerbaijan
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2709 Sagan, asteroid named after Carl Sagan
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Sagan (crater), impact crater on Mars named after Carl Sagan
People
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Segan
Two out of three most prominent Segans are noted on the Talmud and on Josephus Flavius' work: Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim, and Eleazar ben Hananiah ben Hezekiah, Eleazar ben Hanania (son of Hananiah b. Hezekiah b. Garon who served as High Priest).
Se ...
, an Aramaic term for the deputy of a civil or religious leader, rendered as ''sagan'' in Hebrew
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Anna of Sagan (died 1541), duchess by marriage to Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels
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Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, science writer, and advocate for rationalism and skepticism
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Dorion Sagan (born 1959), American writer, one of Carl Sagan's sons
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Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois chara ...
(1935–2004), French writer
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Ginetta Sagan
Ginetta Sagan (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
Born in Milan, Italy, Sagan lost her parents in her teen ...
(1925–2000), American human-rights activist
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Hedwig of Sagan
Hedwig of Sagan ( pl, Jadwiga żagańska; before 1350 – 27 March 1390) was Queen of Poland as the fourth wife of Casimir III. Casimir's lack of male heir spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland. After Casimir's death in 1 ...
(died 1390), Queen of Poland as wife of Casimir III
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Jacob Dungau Sagan (born 1946), Malaysian politician and Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia
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Jeanne Sagan
Jeanne Sagan (born January 11, 1979 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American musician. She is the bassist and backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Crossing Rubicon, but is best known as the former bassist and backing vocalist for the ...
(born 1979), American musician, bassist for All That Remains
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Juraj Sagan
Juraj Sagan (born 23 December 1988 in Žilina) is a Slovak former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2022, for the , , and teams. During his professional career, Sagan took four victories – all of whi ...
(born 1988), Slovak cyclist, Peter Sagan's brother
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Leontine Sagan (1889–1974), Austrian film director and actress
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Nick Sagan
Nicholas Julian Zapata Sagan (born September 16, 1970) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels '' Idlewild'', ''Edenborn'', and '' Everfree'', and has also written scripts for episodes of '' Star ...
(born 1970), American writer, one of Carl Sagan's sons
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Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 ...
(born 1990), Slovak cyclist, Juraj Sagan's brother
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Scott Sagan
Scott Douglas Sagan (born 1955) is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He is known for his research on nuclear weap ...
(born 1955), professor of political science at Stanford University
Engineering, science and technology
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Sagan (number)
Many languages have words expressing indefinite and fictitious numbers—inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. One technical term for such ...
, the number of stars in the observable universe
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Sagan (unit of measurement)
Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extr ...
, humorous unit of measurement named after Carl Sagan
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S.A.G.A.N., social and collaborative web-platform
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Sagan (software)
Sagan is an open source (GNU/GPLv2) multi-threaded, high performance, real-time log analysis & correlation engine developed by Quadrant Information Security that runs on Unix operating systems. It is written in C and uses a multi-threaded ar ...
, a high performance, multi-threaded log analysis engine
Other
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Sagan (ceremony)
Sagun ( ne, सगन) is a Nepalese ceremony which involves ritualized presentation of auspicious food to a person to invoke good fortune and show respect. It is a highly revered ceremony in Newar society of the Kathmandu Valley. The food items ...
, a Nepalese sacred ritual
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''Sagan'' (film), 2008 French film about the French writer Françoise Sagan
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Sagan Tosu
is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Tosu, Saga Prefecture.
''Sagan'' is a coined word with a couple of meanings behind it. One of its homophones is in Japanese. This symbolises ...
, Japanese professional football club based in Tosu, Saga Prefecture
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Sagen (disambiguation)
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