Samba (disambiguation) explained

Samba is a genre of Afro-Brazilian music and dance.

Samba may also refer to:

Dance

• Samba (Brazilian dance), a genre of Afro-Brazilian dance
• Samba (ballroom dance), a ballroom dance
• Samba de Gafieira, a Brazilian ballroom dance

Music

• Samba rock, a subgenre of samba
• Samba!, a 1962 album by Edmundo Ros
• Samba (album), a 2005 album by Twins
• "Samba" (song), a 2011 song by Ricky Martin from the album Música + Alma + Sexo

Places

• Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in Jammu and Kashmir, India
• Samba district, a district in Jammu and Kashmir, India
• Samba, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Samba, Luanda, a municipality in Luanda Province, Angola
• Samba Department including the town Samba, Burkina Faso

People

• Abderrahman Samba (born 1995), Qatari track athlete
• Bindi Hindowa Samba, Sierra Leonean paramount chief
• Martin-Paul Samba (1875–1914), Cameroonian collaborator with and later rebel against German rule
• Christopher Samba (born 1984), French football player
• Cherno Samba (born 1985), Gambian-British football player
• Brice Samba (born 1994), Congolese football player
• Simon Samba (1929-?), Central African politician
• Léopold Ismael Samba (1946-2022), Central African civil servant and diplomat

Games and sport

• Samba (shoe), a brand of indoor soccer shoe made by Adidas
• Samba (card game), a variant of canasta
• Salinas Valley Samba, a soccer team in the National Premier Soccer League

Films

• Samba (1965 film), a Brazilian-Spanish musical film
• Samba (1996 film), a Hungarian comedy film
• Samba (2004 film), a Telugu-language Indian film
• Samba (2014 film), a French comedy drama film

Brands, companies, technology and engineering

• Samba (software), cross-platform network file and printer sharing suite
• MacWWW, also known as Samba, an early Macintosh Web browser
• Samba, a Cluster II satellite
• Samba (bus), a name for one variation of the Volkswagen Type 2
• Talbot Samba, a car produced by PSA Group 1981-1986
• Cosmos Samba, ultralight trike aircraft
• Samba TV, a smart TV company
• Samba Financial Group, a banking firm in Saudi Arabia, formerly the Saudi American Bank

Other

• Samba (Krishna's son), a son of the Hindu god Krishna
• Samba (rice), a variety of rice grown in India and Sri Lanka

See also

• • • Sambar (disambiguation)
• Shamba (disambiguation)
• Shambu (disambiguation)
• Sambha (Sholay), a fictional sidekick of the dacoit Gabbar Singh, played by Mac Mohan in the 1975 classic Indian film Sholay