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Faxun
Faxun (法薰), dharma name Shitian and honorific Fohai, was a Southern Song Chan Buddhist monk, abbot, and poet who led Jingde Lingyin Temple from 1235.
Fay
Fay is a former gold-mining camp and ghost town in Lincoln County, Nevada, named for Sarah Fay McCune, active from about 1900, centered on the Horseshoe Mine, with production ending between 1911 and 1915.
Fay Ripley
Fay Ripley (born 1966, Merton, Surrey) is an English actress and cookbook author, best known as Jenny Gifford in ITV's Cold Feet (1997–2020), also Suspects, Reggie Perrin, and three family cookbooks.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon (Franklin Birkinshaw, 1931–2023), British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Booker-shortlisted Praxis; wrote Upstairs Downstairs pilot, BBC Pride and Prejudice, and The Bulgari Connection; CBE 2001.
Fay Wray
Fay Wray (Vina Fay Wray, 1907-2004), Canadian-born American actress of silent and early sound film; best known as Ann Darrow in King Kong (1933), also Doctor X, The Most Dangerous Game, The Wedding March.
Faya Palaeolandscape
Faya Palaeolandscape (Jebel Faya, جبل الفاية), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2025 in Sharjah, UAE, preserving Stone Age occupation evidence from 210,000 to 6,000 years ago across 18 archaeological layers, including FAY-NE1 and Buhais Rockshelter.
Faya Tess
Faya Tess is the stage name of Thérèse Kishila Ngoyi, a Congolese rumba and soukous singer born in Kinshasa in 1966, known as the freshwater mermaid.
Fayalite
Fayalite is the iron-rich end-member of the olivine group of nesosilicate minerals, with formula Fe₂SiO₄, forming a solid-solution series with forsterite that defines natural olivine.
Fayan
Fayan (法演), also known as Wuzu Fayan, was a Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the Linji school, best known as the teacher of Yuanwu Keqin.
Fayan (Model Sayings)
Fayan (法言), also called Yangzi fayan, is a philosophical work in thirteen chapters by the Western Han scholar Yang Xiong, defending the Confucian classics in the style of the Analects.
Fayd al-Qadir
Fayd al-Qadir (فيض القدير) is a lengthy Arabic commentary by the Cairo scholar Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi (died 1031 AH) on al-Suyuti's hadith collection al-Jami al-Saghir.
Faydee
Faydee (Fady Fatrouni, born 1987) is a Sydney-based Australian-Lebanese singer, songwriter and producer on Buckle Up Entertainment, best known for "Habibi (I Need Your Love)" with Shaggy, Mohombi and Costi, and for "Can't Let Go".
Faye (film)
Faye (2024) is Laurent Bouzereau's 91-minute HBO documentary, the first feature documentary on actress Faye Dunaway. Premiered at Cannes 2024, released July 13, 2024 on HBO/Max, covering her career, bipolar diagnosis, and difficult reputation.
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway (Dorothy Faye Dunaway, born 1941) is an American actress, Oscar winner for Network (1976), known for Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, and Mommie Dearest, subject of the 2024 documentary FAYE.
Faye Grant
Faye Grant (Faye Elizabeth Yoe, born 1957) is an American actress known as Dr. Julie Parrish in the NBC miniseries V (1983), V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series, and for Rhonda Blake on The Greatest American Hero.
Faye Marsay
Faye Marsay (born 1986, Middlesbrough) is an English actress trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Anne Neville in The White Queen, the Waif in Game of Thrones, Vel Sartha in Andor, and leads in Ten Pound Poms and Adolescence.
Faye Resnick
Faye Resnick (born 1957), American interior designer and TV personality; Nicole Brown Simpson's confidante and author of a 1994 tell-all; recurring 'Friend' on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and head of Faye Resnick Design.
Faye Tozer
Faye Tozer (Faye Louise Tozer Smith), English singer and stage actress born 1975 in Northampton; one fifth of pop group Steps (formed 1997, 22 million records, four UK number-one albums) and a musical theatre performer in Tell Me On A Sunday, Singin' in the Rain, 42nd Street, and Strictly 2018 runner-up.
Faye Wong (王菲)
Faye Wong (王菲, also Shirley Wong 王靖雯), born 1969 in Beijing, is a Chinese Cantopop and Mandopop diva and actress; Hong Kong-based since 1987, Time cover 1996, Guinness best-selling Cantonese female artist, singer of 'Eyes on Me' from Final Fantasy VIII.
Fayette County, Kentucky, United States
Fayette County, Kentucky, a Bluegrass region county with Lexington as seat; one of three original Kentucky counties formed in 1780 from Kentucky County, Virginia, named for the Marquis de Lafayette, and home to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government since 1974.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
Fayette County is a county in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States, with Uniontown as its seat. Formed in 1783, it was named for the Marquis de Lafayette.
Fayette Power Project
The Fayette Power Project is a coal-fired power plant east of La Grange, Texas, co-owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority and Austin Energy, which holds half of two of its three units.
Fayetteville Express Gas Pipeline
The Fayetteville Express Gas Pipeline is a 185-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in Arkansas and Mississippi, carrying Fayetteville Shale gas, that entered service in 2011.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas: second-largest city in the state and county seat of Washington County, home of the University of Arkansas (founded 1871). Settled 1828, renamed from Washington Courthouse in 1829; fast-growing Ozark city of about 101,858 residents.
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Fayetteville, North Carolina, or Fayetteville, NC, is a city in southeastern North Carolina and the seat of Cumberland County, with 208,501 people, beside Fort Bragg.
Fayez al-Sarraj
Fayez al-Sarraj (also Serraj), Libyan politician, prime minister and head of the nine-member Presidency Council of the UN-backed Government of National Accord formed by the December 2015 Skhirat Agreement; rival of Khalifa Haftar, backed by Turkey and Qatar.
Fayez Banihammad
Fayez Banihammad (Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad), Emirati al Qaeda operative and one of five hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 on 9/11; the only non-Saudi muscle hijacker and the one who channeled plot funds through UAE bank accounts with facilitator Mustafa al Hawsawi.
Fayfa
Fayfa, also spelled Fifa or Feifa, is an archaeological site near the southeastern Dead Sea shore in Jordan, home to a large Early Bronze Age cemetery.
Faygo
Faygo, the One True Pop, is a Detroit soft drink brand founded in 1907 by bakers Ben and Perry Feigenson, with over 50 flavors like Redpop and Rock & Rye, now owned by National Beverage Corp.
Fayi
Fayi (法一) was a Chan Buddhist monk whom the Daming gaoseng zhuan associates with Wannian Temple on Mount Tiantai; the entry records his early life and teachers.