Sage

Sage or SAGE may refer to:

People

• Sage (name), various people with the surname or given name
• Sage (photographer) (born 1963), a documentary photographer
• Sage (philosophy), someone who has attained wisdom; the aim of the ancient Greek schools of thought
• Sage the Gemini, an American rapper

Plants

• Salvia officinalis (common sage), a small evergreen subshrub used as a culinary herb
• Ornamental and medicinal plants of the mint family, Lamiaceae
  • Salvia, a large genus, containing the common sage
  • Perovskia, a genus of seven species, closely related to Salvia
    • Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage), a deciduous perennial grown as an ornamental
  • Phlomis, a genus of about 100 species of herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs
    • Phlomis fruticosa (Jerusalem Sage), a perennial herb
• Artemisia (genus), a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 and 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae
  • Artemisia tridentata, Sagebrush, Big Sagebrush, Common Sagebrush, Blue Sagebrush, or Black Sagebrush
• Eriogonum jamesii (Antelope Sage, James's Buckwheat), a perennial herb of the knotweed family Polygonaceae
• Krascheninnikovia lanata (Winterfat, informally called White Sage), a shrub of the goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae
• Leucophyllum, a genus of evergreen shrubs in the family Plantaginaceae
  • Leucophyllum frutescens (Texas Sage)
• Tetradymia canescens (Spineless Horsebrush, informally called Black Sage), a shrub of the sunflower family Asteraceae
• Coastal sage scrub, a low scrubland plant community

Businesses

• SAGE Computer Technology, a U.S. computer manufacturer, later named "Stride Computers"
• Sage Group, producers of software, especially accounting software
• SAGE Publications, an academic publishing company
• Sage SA, a software publishing company for banking and finance industries
• Sage Telecom, a U.S. telecommunications company

Organizations

• SAGE (organization), former name of a professional organization for IT system administrators now known as LISA
• SAGE-AU, an Australian professional association of system administrators
• Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders, an organization for improving the lives of LGBT older adults
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), a professional organization for surgeons
• Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), a group within the World Health Organization
• Swedish Agency for Government Employers, an employers' organization

Science

• Serial analysis of gene expression, a molecular biology technique for measuring mRNA levels
• SAGE (Soviet–American Gallium Experiment), a radiochemical experiment in solar neutrino physics
• Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment, satellites used to study the chemical composition of earth's atmosphere
• Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health, a study run by the World Health Organization
• Sage Bionetworks, a biotechnology research institute in Seattle, Washington

Education

• The Sage Colleges, an educational institution in New York
• The Sage School, an independent school in Foxboro, Massachusetts, serving children from Pre-K to grade 8

Places

United States

• Sage, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Sage, Kern County, California, a former settlement
• Sage, Riverside County, California, an unincorporated community
• Sage, Bethel, and Pleasant Hill, Texas, closely linked towns in Burnet County
• Sage River, a river on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States

Elsewhere

• Sage (North Bay), a neighbourhood in North Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Sage Nunataks, two ice-free nunataks at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica

Software

• Sage (mathematics software), free mathematics software
• Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension), news aggregator extension for the browser
• SAGE (game engine), an engine for real-time strategy games

Military equipment

• SAGE (computer), a computerized command and control system used in the USAF Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense network
• Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), a US air defense control system used during the Cold War
• USS Sage (AM-111), a World War II-era minesweeper

Fictional characters

• Sage (comics), a comic book superhero, X-Men member
• Sage (Dark Oracle), a character in the Canadian TV series Dark Oracle
• Sage (The Dark Oracle), IWF Wrestler
• Sage Kambhoja, a character in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, presented as a close friend of sage Agasti
• Sage, a Blue Sentient from the TV show Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
• Sage, a recurring character class in the Final Fantasy series
• Sage, a radio channel hostess from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Sage, a character in the Shuffle! series; see List of characters in the Shuffle! series
• Sage, a character class in the Fire Emblem series
• Sage, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore
• Sage, a vampire from The Vampire Diaries (season 3)
• Sage the Owl, a character in The Herbs
• The Sage, a supporting character in the Groo the Wanderer comics
• The Sages, a group of recurring characters in The Legend of Zelda series
• Toad Sage and the Sage of the Six Paths, both Naruto characters; see List of Naruto characters

Other uses

• Sage (color), a grey-green resembling that of dried sage leaves
• The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, England, a centre for musical education, performance and conferences
• Sage writing, a form of literary non-fiction popular in the Victorian era

See also

• List of people known as Sage
• Chazal (from Hebrew "Our Sages, may their memory be blessed"), a term that refers to all sages of rabbinic literature from the Second Temple period to the sixth century CE
• Rishi or Sage, a Hindu seer of Vedic hymns or divine human being
• Seven Sages (disambiguation)
• Salvia (disambiguation)
• Le Sage, a surname