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Fendi

Fendi: Italian luxury fashion house founded in Rome in 1925 by Adele Casagrande and Edoardo Fendi as a fur and leather goods workshop; famous for the double-F logo, Baguette bag, 54-year Karl Lagerfeld collaboration, and LVMH majority ownership since 2001.

Fendoch

Fendoch (also Raenfhandoch) is a Flavian Roman auxiliary fort and annexe in Glen Almond, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, occupied c. AD 80-90, excavated by Richmond in 1936-7, and deliberately dismantled around AD 86-87.

Fendt

Fendt is a German agricultural machinery brand based in Marktoberdorf, Bavaria, best known for tractors with the stepless Vario transmission; it has belonged to the US group AGCO since 1997.

Fenebrutinib

Fenebrutinib (GDC-0853, RG7845) is Roche/Genentech's oral, non-covalent, reversible BTK inhibitor in Phase III for relapsing and primary progressive MS; FDA NDA accepted under priority review 30 September 2026; also trialed in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

FENECON GmbH

FENECON GmbH is a German manufacturer of battery energy storage systems for home, commercial, and grid-scale use, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Iggensbach, Lower Bavaria.

Fenella Fielding

Fenella Fielding (Fenella Feldman, 1927-2018), English actress and OBE, star of Carry On Screaming! (Valeria Watt) and voice of The Prisoner's Village announcer; career 1951-2018.

Fenella Woolgar

Fenella Woolgar, English actress (born London; sources give 1969 or 1971), RADA 1999; Sister Hilda in Call the Midwife, Margaret Thatcher in The Reckoning and Handbagged, Lady Brightlingsea in The Buccaneers, and films Bright Young Things and Judy.

Fenerbahçe S.K.

Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (Yellow Canaries), Istanbul football and multi-sport club founded 1907; 19 Süper Lig and 28 total Turkish titles, Borsa Istanbul-listed FENER, Chobani Stadium, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş rivalries, no UEFA trophy.

Fenerbahçe S.K. (football)

Fenerbahçe S.K. (Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü), Istanbul football club founded 1907 in Kadıköy; plays at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium; Süper Lig side, 2026/27 Champions League qualifier, no league title since 2014.

Fenergo

Fenergo is a Dublin-based fintech software company founded by Marc Murphy around 2008 that sells KYC and client lifecycle management software to banks and insurers.

Fenestella

Fenestella is an extinct fenestrate bryozoan genus named by Lonsdale in 1839, type species F. antiqua, forming netlike lace colonies from the Ordovician to the Permian; validated by ICZN Opinion 622 in 1962 after a bivalve homonym.

Fenestrated branched endovascular aortic repair

Fenestrated branched endovascular aortic repair (F/BEVAR) is an endovascular technique that treats complex aortic aneurysms involving renal, visceral, or arch vessels with stent grafts preserving branch blood flow.

Fenestrated endothelial cell

Fenestrated endothelial cell (window cell, CL:0000666): an endothelial cell with 50-80 nm transcellular pores (fenestrae), usually diaphragmed via PLVAP, lining filtration and secretion beds such as kidney glomeruli, choroid plexus, gut mucosa, and endocrine glands.

Fenethylline

Fenethylline (Captagon, Fitton) is a racemic amphetamine–theophylline codrug synthesized in 1961 by Degussa's Chemiewerk Homburg; 24.5% of an oral dose converts to amphetamine. Legally produced until 2009, it is now a Schedule II psychotropic, while illicit captagon tablets contain amphetamine and caffeine instead.

Fenfluramine

Fenfluramine is a serotonergic amphetamine derivative that releases serotonin, approved in 1973 as an appetite suppressant and withdrawn in 1997 over cardiac valvulopathy, then reapproved as Fintepla for Dravet syndrome seizures.

Fenfluramine/phentermine

Fenfluramine/phentermine, or fen-phen, an off-label 1990s US weight-loss drug combination; fenfluramine (Pondimin) withdrawn September 1997 for serotonin-mediated valvular heart disease and pulmonary hypertension; phentermine remains available.

Fenfuram

Fenfuram (fenfurame, 2-methyl-3-furanilide, CAS 24691-80-3) is a systemic furan-carboxamide SDHI seed-treatment fungicide for cereal bunts and smuts, trade name Pano-ram; not approved in the EU and considered obsolete.

Feng (rapper)

Feng (Travas Alan Feneley, born 2006) is a British-Filipino rapper and producer from Croydon, south London, known for short, nostalgic 2010s-style cloud rap; releases include What The Feng (2025) and Weekend Rockstar (2026).

Feng and Shan sacrifices at Mount Tai

The Feng and Shan sacrifices (封禅) were a paired imperial Chinese rite: feng to Heaven on Mount Tai's summit, shan to Earth below, first performed by the First Emperor in 219 BC.

Feng Ban

Feng Ban (冯班, 1602–1671), courtesy name Dingyuan, was a Chinese poet and poetry critic of the early Qing dynasty who championed late Tang poetry and opposed Yan Yu's poetics.

Feng Congwu

Feng Congwu (冯从吾, 1556–1627) was a Ming dynasty censor and Neo-Confucian philosopher from Chang'an, modern Xi'an, who rebuked the Wanli Emperor, lost office, and founded Guanzhong Academy.

Feng Dao

Feng Dao (馮道), courtesy name Kedao, was a Chinese statesman of the Five Dynasties period who served as chancellor under four dynasties and the Khitan, dying in 954.

Feng Dao's printing of the Confucian classics

Feng Dao's printing of the Confucian classics (冯道刻印九经) was a state-sponsored woodblock printing of the Nine Classics at the Later Tang Directorate of Education, begun in 932 and completed in 953.

Feng Depei

Feng Depei (Te-Pei Feng) was a Chinese neurophysiologist, 1907 to 1995, known for the Feng effect and for first describing post-tetanic potentiation at the neuromuscular junction in 1941.

Feng Ding

Feng Ding (丁峰) is a Chinese materials scientist who models how graphene and other 2D materials form and grow, formerly distinguished professor at UNIST in South Korea.

Feng Gao

Feng Gao is a materials scientist who has been a full professor at Linköping University since 2020, known for fullerene-free organic solar cells and perovskite solar cell stability and recycling.

Feng Gensheng

Feng Gensheng (冯根生, 1934–2017) was a Chinese pharmaceutical executive who led Hangzhou's Youthbao group for 38 years, the last apprentice of Hu Qing Yu Tang and a pioneer of enterprise reform.

Feng Guifen

Feng Guifen (冯桂芬, 1809–1874) was a Qing scholar-official from Suzhou whose 1861 book Jiaobinlu kangyi became a programmatic text of late Qing reform, influencing the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform.

Feng Heng Yu Da and the Bureau of Supply (Yingfeng ju)

Feng Heng Yu Da and the Bureau of Supply (Yingfeng ju) (丰亨豫大与应奉局) were linked extravagance policies of the late Northern Song court under Emperor Huizong, championed by Cai Jing.

Feng Ji

Feng Ji (冯骥, born 1982) is a Chinese game designer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Game Science in Shenzhen, producer of the hit action game Black Myth: Wukong.