# Sax

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**Sax** or **SAX** may refer to:

- [Saxophone](/source/Saxophone) (or sax), a family of woodwind instruments

## People

- [Adolphe Sax](/source/Adolphe_Sax), inventor of the saxophone
- Oett M. Mallard (1915–1986), also known as [Sax Mallard](/source/Sax_Mallard), Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader
- [Lincoln Thompson](/source/Lincoln_Thompson) (1949–1999), Jamaican reggae singer, musician and songwriter also known as Sax
- [Sax (surname)](/source/Sax_(surname))
- [Sax Rohmer](/source/Sax_Rohmer), pen name of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), English novelist best known for creating the villain Fu Manchu

## Places

- [3534 Sax](/source/3534_Sax), an asteroid
- Sax, a village in the [Sennwald](/source/Sennwald) municipality in Switzerland
- [Sax, Alicante](/source/Sax,_Alicante), a municipality in Spain
- [Sax, Minnesota](/source/Sax,_Minnesota), United States, an unincorporated community
- [Shanxi](/source/Shanxi), a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation SAX)

## Other

- [Sax (cigarette)](/source/Sax_(cigarette)), an Italian brand
- ["Sax" (song)](/source/Sax_(song)), a 2015 song released by English recording artist Fleur East
- [Seax](/source/Seax), also spelled sax, an ancient Germanic, single-edged knife
- [Simple API for XML](/source/Simple_API_for_XML), an event-driven parsing model for XML
- Baron of Sax, later Sax-Hohensax, a Swiss title; see [Hohensax Castle](/source/Hohensax_Castle)
- ISO 639 code for the [Saa language](/source/Saa_language), spoken in Vanuatu
- [SA-X](/source/SA-X), the main antagonist of the video game *[Metroid Fusion](/source/Metroid_Fusion)*
- SAX, the [Bratislava Stock Exchange stock index](/source/Bratislava_Stock_Exchange#Index)

## See also

- *[Doctor Sax](/source/Doctor_Sax)*, a novel by Jack Kerouac
- [Sachs](/source/Sachs), a surname
- [Sachse, Texas](/source/Sachse,_Texas)
- [Sacks (surname)](/source/Sacks_(surname))
- [Saks (disambiguation)](/source/Saks_(disambiguation))
- [Saxe (disambiguation)](/source/Saxe_(disambiguation))
- [Small-angle X-ray scattering](/source/Small-angle_X-ray_scattering) (SAXS)
- [Zaks (disambiguation)](/source/Zaks_(disambiguation))
- [Zax (disambiguation)](/source/Zax_(disambiguation))

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