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Famine of 1454
The Famine of 1454 was a catastrophic food crisis in Aztec central Mexico, caused by multi-year drought and remembered as the worst famine in Aztec history.
Famine of 1785–1786 in New Spain
The famine of 1785–1786 in New Spain, called El Año del Hambre (the Year of Hunger), was caused by drought and frost that destroyed the maize harvest, killing about 300,000 people.
Famine of 1896–97
The Famine of 1896–97 (1896–97 का अकाल) was a famine in British India caused by failed monsoon rains, beginning in Bundelkhand in 1896 and killing over one million people.
Famine of 1896–97 and 1899–1900
The Famine of 1896–97 and 1899–1900 (१८९६–९७ और १८९९–१९०० के अकाल) refers to two successive drought famines in British India that together affected tens of millions of people.
Famine of Egypt (1200–1202)
The Famine of Egypt (مجاعة مصر) was a food crisis from 1200 to 1202, caused by a low Nile flood, with over 111,000 deaths recorded in Cairo.
Famine of Mount Lebanon in World War I
The Famine of Mount Lebanon (مجاعة جبل لبنان) was a World War I famine that killed an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 people between 1915 and 1918.
Famine Stela
The Famine Stela, or Sehel famine inscription, is a rock inscription on Sehel Island near Aswan in which King Djoser ends a seven-year famine through Khnum's favor.
Famines and locust plagues of Emperor Wu's reign
The famines and locust plagues of Emperor Wu's reign (武帝末年饥馑) were floods, droughts, locust outbreaks, and famines in Han China's Guandong plains, with two recorded years of cannibalism.
Famitinib
Famitinib (SHR1020, Abit), a HengRui sunitinib-analogue multi-targeted TKI inhibiting c-Kit, VEGFR-2/3, PDGFR, FLT3, Ret; approved in China May 2025 with camrelizumab for cervical cancer.
Famitsu
Famitsu (ファミ通, formerly Famicom Tsūshin) is Japan's weekly video game magazine, founded 1986 by ASCII, now published by KADOKAWA Game Linkage, known for its four-reviewer 40-point Cross Review and 2026 40th anniversary.
Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen (born 1964, Amstelveen, Netherlands) is a Dutch actress and former model known for Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey in the X-Men trilogy, Lenore in Taken, and Netflix's Amsterdam Empire (2025).
Famotidine
Famotidine (Pepcid, Gaster) is a guanidinothiazole histamine H2 receptor antagonist developed by Yamanouchi and Merck, FDA-approved 1986, about 20 times more potent than cimetidine, used for ulcers, GERD, and hypersecretory conditions.
Famous (film)
Famous (film): upcoming A24 thriller directed by Jody Hill, written by Chad Hodge from Blake Crouch's 2010 novel, starring Zac Efron in dual roles as Lance Dunkquist and James Jansen; filmed in Los Angeles 2024, release date not announced.
Famous (Kanye West song)
"Famous" is a 2016 Kanye West song from The Life of Pablo, featuring Rihanna and Swizz Beatz, sampling Nina Simone and Sister Nancy, known for its controversial Taylor Swift lyric and celebrity music video.
Famous Amos
Famous Amos is an American bite-size chocolate chip cookie brand founded in 1975 by talent agent Wally Amos on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. He lost control in 1985; the brand passed through Keebler and Kellogg and is now owned by Ferrero.
Famous Dex
Famous Dex (Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr., born 1993) is a Chicago rapper of the drill-era South Side known for "Pick It Up" and "Japan", albums Dex Meets Dexter (2018) and Diana (2020), and Rich Forever Music.
Famous for being famous
Famous for being famous: pejorative phrase for celebrity without identifiable accomplishment, traced to Charles Godfrey Leland (1896) and Daniel Boorstin's 1962 'well-known for his well-knownness,' now applied to reality-TV and social-media celebrities.
Famous in Love
Famous in Love is a Freeform drama series (2017–2018) created by I. Marlene King and Rebecca Serle, adapted from Serle's 2014 YA novel, starring Bella Thorne as college student Paige Townsen, who becomes a movie star; canceled after 20 episodes in two seasons.
Famous Last Words (TV series)
Famous Last Words is a Netflix documentary series adapting the Danish format Det Sidste Ord. It features cultural figures recording final interviews that air only after their death.
Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces
Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujūyoshū Meisho Zue) is a series of about 70 Japanese landscape woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, depicting one famous place in each old province from 1853 to 1856.
Famous Pluto
Famous Pluto (Osahon Uzama) is a Nigerian street-pop and Amapiano singer from Benin City, youngest brother of Shallipopi and Zerry DL, signed to Plutomania Records, known for "Na Scra", EP Uzama The 3rd, and 2026 album Street Therapist.
Famous Studios
Famous Studios, later Paramount Cartoon Studios, was Paramount Pictures' animation division from 1942 to 1967, formed from the foreclosed Fleischer Studios and known for Casper, Baby Huey, Little Audrey, and Popeye cartoons.
Famously Single
Famously Single is an American reality series that aired on E! from 2016 to 2017, in which eight single celebrities live together in a Los Angeles loft with a relationship therapist.
Famoxadone
Famoxadone (Famoxate, Tanos) is a DuPont oxazolidinedione agricultural fungicide, CAS 131807-57-3, inhibiting fungal mitochondrial complex III (FRAC 11 QoI); EU-banned in 2021 but still registered in the US, Canada, and Australia.
FAMPISEP trial
FAMPISEP (NCT02849782) is a completed phase 4, single-center, open-label trial at the University Hospital of Besançon (2014-2019, 89 participants) testing fampridine 10 mg twice daily in multiple sclerosis, assessing cognitive and gait outcomes.
Famulok Michael
Michael Famulok is a German biochemist and chemical biologist at the University of Bonn, professor at the LIMES Institute since 2002, known for aptamers and DNA nanomachines.
Fan (machine)
A fan, also called an electric or mechanical fan, is a rotary bladed machine that moves air for ventilation, cooling, exhaust, drying, and dust collection.
Fan (person)
Fan (person): an individual with strong interest and emotional attachment to a celebrity, team, work, or character; word from 1889 baseball slang for fanatic; fandoms form communities, create fanworks, and shape identity.
Fan (फ़ैन) (2016 film)
Fan (फैन) is a 2016 Hindi psychological thriller by Maneesh Sharma for Yash Raj Films, starring Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as obsessive fan Gaurav and superstar Aryan Khanna; a songless, VFX-heavy flop that earned ₹84.10 crore net in India.
Fan Bingbing (范冰冰)
Fan Bingbing (范冰冰), Chinese actress born 1981 in Qingdao, rose to fame in My Fair Princess (1998), won a San Sebastián Silver Shell for I Am Not Madame Bovary, played Blink in X-Men, and was fined about 800 million yuan in the 2018 tax case before her festival comeback.