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Parker Brailsford
Parker Brailsford, NFL center (Cleveland Browns, 2026 draft pick No. 146), ex-Washington and Alabama; undersized 6'2", 289-lb mobility-first center, 2025 Alabama captain, Joe Moore Award winner (2023).
Parker Brothers
Parker Brothers, American game publisher founded by George Parker in 1883 in Salem, Massachusetts; published Monopoly from 1935, plus Clue, Sorry!, Risk, Boggle; merged into Kenner, Tonka, then Hasbro in 1991; brand retired 2009.
Parker County
Parker County, Texas: county west of Fort Worth, created December 12, 1855 from Navarro and Bosque counties, named for Isaac Parker; seat Weatherford; 148,222 people in 2020, fast-growing DFW exurb.
Parker family murders
The Parker family murders were the 1990 killings of a family of four in Quitman County, Mississippi, by Anthony Carr and Robert Simon Jr., both sentenced to death.
Parker H. "Pete" Petit
Parker H. "Pete" Petit is an American engineer and medical-device entrepreneur, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011, who developed the first home SIDS monitor and founded Healthdyne and MiMedx Group.
Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin Corporation, formerly Parker Appliance Company, is an American manufacturer of motion and control technologies, founded in 1917 in Cleveland and known for hydraulic, pneumatic, filtration, and aerospace systems.
Parker Harris
Parker Harris is a software engineer who co-founded Salesforce in San Francisco in 1999 and has been the company's technical leader, including seven years as chief technology officer.
Parker Kingston
Parker Kingston, BYU Cougars wide receiver (2022-2025), Layton, Utah; only BYU player with passing, rushing, receiving, and punt-return TDs; 2025: 67 catches, 928 yards; left BYU February 2026 after a rape charge dismissed without prejudice in June 2026.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Parker Lewis Can't Lose (Spanish title Parker Lewis nunca pierde) is a Fox teen sitcom, 1990–1993, 73 episodes, created by Clyde Phillips and Lon Diamond, starring Corin Nemec, known for fourth-wall breaks and its Ferris Bueller rivalry.
Parker Livingstone
Parker Livingstone, Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver (No. 3), formerly Texas Longhorns; 6-3, 202-lb consensus four-star 2024 recruit from Lucas, Texas; 29 catches, 516 yards, 6 TDs in 2025 before a January 2026 SEC transfer.
Parker McCollum
Parker McCollum, born in 1992, is an American country singer and songwriter from Conroe, Texas, who signed with MCA Nashville and earned four consecutive country radio number one hits.
Parker Pen Company
Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury pens, founded by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1888 and now owned by Newell Brands.
Parker Posey
Parker Posey is an American film, television, and stage actress born in Baltimore, best known for 1990s independent cinema roles that earned her the nickname "Queen of the Indies".
Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe, formerly Solar Probe Plus, is a NASA spacecraft launched in 2018 to fly through the Sun's corona and study its heating and the solar wind.
Parker Space
Parker Space is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 24th district in the state Senate since 2024, after serving in the General Assembly from 2014 to 2024.
Parker spiral
The Parker spiral is the spiral shape the Sun's magnetic field lines take in interplanetary space, predicted by Eugene Parker in 1958 and confirmed by spacecraft in 1962.
Parker Wolfe
Parker Wolfe (born 2003, Denver) is an American distance runner, 2024 NCAA 5000m champion for North Carolina, Nike Swoosh TC professional, US runner-up marks at 3000m/5000m, and world #3 at 5000m.
Parker–Hulme murder case
The Parker–Hulme murder case: 1954 Christchurch matricide in which Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, killed Honora Parker with a brick in a stocking; insanity plea rejected, five years' detention, later Anne Perry and Heavenly Creatures.
ParkerGale Capital
ParkerGale Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm, founded in 2014 by the former Chicago Growth Partners technology team, that buys majority stakes in founder-owned B2B software companies.
Parkersburg High School
Parkersburg High School is a public high school serving grades 9 through 12 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, tracing its founding to 1867 and enrolling about 1,491 students in 2024–25.
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Parkersburg, West Virginia: county seat of Wood County at the Ohio and Little Kanawha river confluence; 2020 population 29,738, 2025 estimate 28,593; river town founded on Alexander Parker's 1783 land purchase, oil-boom and railroad history, Blennerhassett Island state park.
ParkerVision, Inc.
ParkerVision, Inc. is a Jacksonville, Florida company founded in 1980 that develops and licenses its Direct to Data RF receiver technology and has spent over a decade in patent litigation with Qualcomm.
Parkes Observatory
Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory near Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, opened in 1961 and known for the Apollo 11 Moon landing broadcast and pulsar research.
Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, formed in 2004, is an Australian project using the Parkes telescope to time millisecond pulsars in search of nanohertz gravitational waves.
Parkes Weber syndrome
Parkes Weber syndrome (PKWS), a rare congenital vascular malformation disorder with limb overgrowth, port-wine stain capillary malformations, and high-flow arteriovenous fistulas; caused by RASA1 or EPHB4 variants, distinct from Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome.
Parkhurst (lunar crater)
Parkhurst is an impact crater on the Moon, 93.08 km in diameter and centered at 33.29° S, 103.69° E, named for John Adelbert Parkhurst, an American astronomer known for photometry.
Parkia
Parkia R.Br. is a pantropical genus of about 37 leguminous tree species (Fabaceae), including petai (Parkia speciosa) and African locust bean (P. biglobosa), bat-pollinated trees with edible seeds, timber, and medicinal uses.
Parkia biglobosa
Parkia biglobosa, the African locust bean or néré, is a Fabaceae savanna tree from Senegal to South Sudan whose fermented seeds (soumbala, dawadawa, iru) are a staple West African condiment; IUCN least concern.
Parking (பார்க்கிங்) (2023 film)
Parking (பார்க்கிங்) is a 2023 Tamil drama thriller, the debut of director Ramkumar Balakrishnan, starring Harish Kalyan and M.S. Bhaskar as neighbors fighting over a parking space; it won three 71st National Film Awards.
Parking brake
The parking brake, also called the hand brake or park brake, is a mechanism that holds a stationary vehicle, typically on the rear wheels by lever, pedal, or electric switch.