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Flavia Pennetta

Flavia Pennetta (born 1982, Brindisi) is an Italian former tennis player, 2015 US Open singles champion and first Italian woman to win it, retiring at the ceremony; 2011 Australian Open doubles winner, doubles No. 1, four Fed Cups.

Flávia Saraiva

Flávia Saraiva (Flavinha, born 1999, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast: 2014 Youth Olympic floor champion, 2023 world floor bronze and team silver medalist, and Paris 2024 Olympic team bronze medalist.

Flaviac

Flaviac, an ancient lead-mining site in Ardèche, France, recorded in the Barrington Atlas (map 17 D4) and Pleiades gazetteer; no ancient name attested, dated 30 BC to AD 640.

Flavian

Flavian (died 449) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 446 to 449, deposed at the Second Council of Ephesus and later honored as a saint.

Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli

Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli (Anfiteatro Flavio di Pozzuoli), Roman arena in Pozzuoli, Italy, built 1st century CE by the colony at its own expense; third largest in Italy after the Colosseum and Capua, 149x116 m, 40,000 seats, with an exceptionally preserved two-level hypogeum.

Flavian dynasty

Flavian dynasty, Roman imperial dynasty 69–96 CE of Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian of the Flavia gens; founded after the Year of the Four Emperors, known for the Colosseum, the destruction of Jerusalem in 70, and Domitian's assassination in 96.

Oct 22, 2026

Flavian epic

Flavian epic is the Latin epic poetry written at Rome during the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.

Flaviana

Flaviana, also Flaviana Castra, a Roman fort and fleet station in Scythia Minor (Dobrudja, Romania), usually identified with Rasova-Pescărie; Trajanic Classis Flavia Moesica statio of 106 AD, rebuilt under Constantine, garrisoned by milites nauclarii per Notitia Dignitatum.

Flavin

A flavin is a yellow, water-soluble organic compound built on 7,8-dimethylisoalloxazine, a class including the vitamin riboflavin and its cofactor derivatives FMN and FAD, which can accept electrons one or two at a time.

Flavin adenine dinucleotide

Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) is a riboflavin-derived redox cofactor and prosthetic group of flavoprotein enzymes, with four redox states including FADH2; distinct from diffusible NAD+, it drives beta-oxidation, complex II electron transfer, and FAD metabolism disorders such as MADD.

Flavin analogs and riboflavin antagonists

Flavin analogs are compounds structurally related to riboflavin (vitamin B2) that act as enzyme antagonists or engineered cofactors, ranging from the natural antibiotic roseoflavin to the archaeal cofactor F420.

Flavin cofactor biosynthesis

Flavin cofactor biosynthesis is the enzymatic pathway that builds riboflavin (vitamin B2) from GTP and ribulose 5-phosphate, then converts it into the cell's working cofactors FMN and FAD.

Flavin mononucleotide

Flavin mononucleotide (FMN), also known as riboflavin 5′-phosphate, is a phosphorylated form of the vitamin riboflavin that serves as a tightly bound redox cofactor in oxidoreductase enzymes.

Oct 22, 2026

Flavin photocatalysis

Flavin photocatalysis is the use of flavin molecules such as vitamin B2 (riboflavin) as inexpensive, metal-free photocatalysts that absorb visible light to drive redox transformations in organic synthesis.

Flavin redox chemistry

Flavin redox chemistry is the oxidation–reduction chemistry of the flavin cofactors FAD and FMN, derivatives of vitamin B2, which transfer electrons one or two at a time.

Sep 19, 2026

Flávio Augusto

Flávio Augusto da Silva is a Brazilian education entrepreneur who founded the English school chain Wise Up in Rio de Janeiro in 1995 and later led Wiser Educação.

Flávio Bolsonaro 2026 presidential campaign

Flávio Bolsonaro's 2026 Brazilian presidential campaign: the PL senator and Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son, designated in December 2025, formalized July 25, 2026, and took 47% to Lula's 45% in the October 4 first round, forcing an October 25 runoff.

Sep 27, 2026

Flavio Bravo

Flavio Bravo is an American Democratic politician representing Phoenix and Glendale in the Arizona Senate's 26th district, after being elected to the Arizona House in 2022.

Flavio Briatore

Flavio Briatore is an Italian businessman who led Formula One teams Benetton and Renault, winning seven world championships. He currently advises the BWT Alpine Formula One Team.

Flavio Chigi

Flavio Chigi (1810–1885) was an Italian cardinal and papal diplomat who served as nuncio to Bavaria and Paris and was created cardinal by Pius IX in 1873.

Flávio de Carvalho

Flávio de Carvalho, born Flávio de Rezende Carvalho, was a Brazilian engineer, architect, painter, and writer in São Paulo, a forerunner of performance art in Brazil.

Flávio Gonçalves

Flávio Ferreira Gonçalves (born 2007) is a Portuguese attacking midfielder or winger for Sporting CP. Born in France, a Rio Ave youth product, he signed to 2030, broke into the first team in 2026/27, and plays for Portugal U21.

Oct 22, 2026

Flavio Herrera

Flavio Herrera (1895–1968) was a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and lawyer of the Generation of 1920, credited with introducing the haikú into Guatemalan literature.

Sep 19, 2026

Flávio José

Flávio José is a Brazilian forró singer and accordionist, born in 1951 in Monteiro, Paraíba, who became a leading performer at Northeastern São João and festas juninas festivals in the 1990s.

Sep 21, 2026

Flavio Vincenti

Flavio Vincenti is a transplant nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco, on the faculty since 1976, known for clinical trials of belatacept and a past president of the American Society of Transplantation.

Flaviu Cristian

Flaviu Cristian (1951–1999) was a computer scientist who worked on fault-tolerant distributed systems at IBM and UC San Diego, best known for Cristian's algorithm for clock synchronization and for atomic broadcast.

Flaviviridae

Flaviviridae, family of enveloped positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses in four genera (Orthoflavivirus, Pestivirus, Hepacivirus, Pegivirus); includes dengue, Zika, yellow fever, West Nile, and hepatitis C viruses, mostly mosquito- or tick-borne.

Flavivirus

Flavivirus (Orthoflavivirus), a genus of Flaviviridae: enveloped ~40–60 nm positive-sense RNA arboviruses transmitted by mosquitoes or ticks, including yellow fever, dengue, Zika, and West Nile viruses.

Flavobacteriaceae

Flavobacteriaceae, the largest family of the phylum Bacteroidota (flavobacteria), are Gram-negative aerobic rods from soil, freshwater, and sea, marked by gliding motility via the T9SS, polysaccharide-degrading PULs, and fish pathogens such as F. columnare and F. psychrophilum.