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Paanch Minar

Paanch Minar (పాంచ్ మినార్, Five Minarets) is a 2025 Telugu crime comedy directed by Ram Kadumula, starring Raj Tarun and Rashi Singh, released 21 November 2025 and streaming on Prime Video and Aha.

Paap (पाप)

Paap (पाप) is a 2003 Hindi crime thriller, Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut, starring John Abraham and Udita Goswami; first Hindi film to premiere at the Karachi International Film Festival.

Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu (born 1990) is a British-Ghanaian actor, first Black Hamlet for the RSC (2016), Emmy-nominated as Kwame in I May Destroy You, Olivier winner, and HBO's Snape.

Paappan (പാപ്പാൻ)

Paappan (പാപ്പാൻ) is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller directed by Joshiy, starring Suresh Gopi as a retired cop investigating murders with his estranged daughter.

Paarl

Paarl, Western Cape city in South Africa's Cape Winelands, main town of Drakenstein Municipality about 60 km from Cape Town. Named 'pearl' in 1657; known for Paarl Rock, KWV wine headquarters, the Afrikaans Taalmonument, and Berg River vineyards.

Paata Salia

Paata Salia is a Georgian politician who serves as Minister of Justice of Georgia, having previously been a member of the Parliament of Georgia whose mandate ended on his appointment.

Paatal Lok (पाताल लोक)

Paatal Lok (पाताल लोक) is an Indian Hindi-language neo-noir crime thriller on Prime Video, created by Sudip Sharma, produced by Anushka Sharma's Clean Slate Filmz, starring Jaideep Ahlawat as Delhi inspector Hathi Ram Chaudhary; season 1 premiered 15 May 2020, season 2 on 17 January 2025.

Paatenemheb

Paatenemheb (Pa-Aten-em-hab) was an Egyptian general and court official of Dynasty 18 who commanded Akhenaten's army and owned rock tomb TA24 at Amarna, dated c. 1340 BC.

Paathirathri (പാതിരാത്രി)

Paathirathri (പാതിരാത്രി, also Pathirathri) is a 2025 Malayalam crime drama-thriller directed by Ratheena, starring Navya Nair as SI Jancy and Soubin Shahir as Constable Hareesh at Anakkara Police Station, Idukki; released 17 October 2025, streamed on ZEE5 from 20 February 2026.

Paathshaala (पाठशाला)

Paath'sha'ala (Get Educated: Paath'ala) is a 2010 Hindi drama directed by Milind Ukey. The film stars Shahid Kapoor and Nana Patekar, addressing commercialization within the Indian education system.

Paava Kadhaigal

Paava Kadhaigal (பாவக் கதைகள், Sin Stories) is a 2020 Tamil Netflix anthology of four short films by Sudha Kongara, Vignesh Shivan, Gautham Menon, and Vetri Maaran on love, pride, honour killing, and caste, released December 18, 2020.

Paava Mannippu (soundtrack)

Paava Mannippu (பாவ மன்னிப்பு) is the soundtrack of the 1961 Tamil film directed by Bhimsingh, with music by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy and lyrics by Kannadasan; almost every song became a hit.

Paavada

Paavada (പാവാട), also spelled Pavada, is a 2016 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by G. Marthandan, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Anoop Menon as two alcoholics who fight the re-release of a film to protect a woman's reputation.

Paavan Nanda

Paavan Nanda is an Indian internet entrepreneur who co-founded the gaming platform WinZO in 2018, after earlier building the hostel chain Zostel and ZO Rooms.

Paavo Aaltonen

Paavo Johannes Aaltonen (1919–1962), Finnish artistic gymnast; three-time Olympic champion at London 1948 (team, vault, pommel horse tie) plus all-around bronze, 1950 world horizontal bar champion, Helsinki 1952 team bronze.

Paavo Haavikko

Paavo Haavikko (1931–2008) was a Finnish poet, writer, and publisher, a central figure of the 1950s modernist breakthrough in Finnish poetry who won the Neustadt International Prize in 1984.

Paavo Lonkila

Paavo Lonkila (Paavo Olavi Lonkila, 1923–2017), Finnish cross-country skier and Kiuruvesi farmer; 1952 Oslo Olympic gold in the 4×10 km relay and bronze at 18 km, 1950 world relay silver, 1951 Holmenkollen 18 km winner.

Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Nurmi (1897-1973), the Flying Finn, Finnish distance runner; nine Olympic golds and three silvers (1920-1928), five golds at Paris 1924, 22 official world records from 1500 m to 20 km, suspended before the 1932 marathon.

Paavo Rintala

Paavo Rintala (1930–1999) was a Finnish novelist and playwright regarded as a moral conscience of Finnish literature, whose war novels and Mannerheim trilogy stirred strong public controversy.

Paavo Siljamäki

Paavo Siljamäki (born 1977) is a Finnish trance producer and DJ, member of Above & Beyond with Jono Grant and Tony McGuinness, co-founder of Anjunabeats, and solo artist as P.O.S. with the 2023 album Deeper Tales.

Paayum Puli (பாயும் புலி) (2015 film)

Paayum Puli (பாயும் புலி), also known as Jayasurya in Telugu, is a 2015 Tamil action thriller by Suseenthiran starring Vishal as undercover cop ACP Jayaseelan, with Kajal Aggarwal, Soori, and Samuthirakani; music by D. Imman, released 4 September 2015.

Paband nazm

Paband nazm (پابند نظm, "bound nazm") is a form of the Urdu nazm in which the poet observes fixed meter, rhyme, and refrain, unlike azad nazm.

Pabasa

Pabasa was great steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I at Thebes under Psamtik I, known from his rock-cut tomb TT279 at the Asasif.

Pabi Cooper

Pabi Cooper, born Paballo Basetsana Mothapo in 2001, is a South African amapiano singer and dancer from Soshanguve, Pretoria, known for the 2021 platinum single "Isiphithiphithi".

Pabinafusp alfa

Pabinafusp alfa (JR-141, IZCARGO) is a blood-brain barrier-penetrating enzyme replacement therapy, human iduronate-2-sulfatase fused to an anti-transferrin receptor antibody, approved in Japan in 2021 for MPS II (Hunter syndrome).

Pábitelé

Pábitelé ("The Palaverers") is a collection of twelve short stories by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, first published in Prague in 1964 and the source of the word pábitel, a byword for Hrabal's poetics.

Pabitra Margherita

Pabitra Margherita is an Indian BJP politician who serves as Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles and represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha.

Pablita Velarde

Pablita Velarde, whose Tewa name Tse Tsan means "Golden Dawn," was a Tewa painter from Santa Clara Pueblo known for paintings of Pueblo life made with hand-ground earth pigments.

Pabllo Vittar

Pabllo Vittar (Phabullo Rodrigues da Silva), Brazilian drag queen and pop singer from São Luís, Maranhão; viral 2015 hit "Open Bar", seven albums through LOST IN LUST (2026), Halloween da Pabllo and Club Vittar projects.

Pablo (robot)

Pablo is a wireless, sensor-based rehabilitation device made by Tyromotion of Graz, Austria, used mainly for stroke rehabilitation, providing assessment and gamified therapy rather than motorized assistance.