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Parvathy Omanakuttan
Parvathy Omanakuttan, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India World 2008 and first Malayali Miss India winner; first runner-up and Miss World Asia & Oceania at Miss World 2008 in Johannesburg; later films include Billa II and Pizza.
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathy Thiruvothu (പാർവ്വതി തിരുവോത്ത്, born 1988, Kozhikode) is a Malayalam film actress also active in Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Telugu; known for Poo, Bangalore Days, Ennu Ninte Moideen, Charlie, Take Off, and co-founding the Women in Cinema Collective.
Parvati (पार्वती)
Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma and Gauri, is the Hindu goddess, daughter of the mountain king Himavan, wife of Shiva, mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya, and in many traditions the supreme Goddess or Shakti.
Parvati Corona
Parvati Corona is a 173-km-diameter corona, a volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 36.0°S, 276.7°E, IAU-named in 2006 for the Hindu goddess Parvati.
Parvati Parvat
Parvati Parvat (Parvati Parbat, Parbati Parbat) names two Indian Himalayan peaks: a 6,257 m unclimbed summit on the Satopanth glacier, Garhwal, near Nilkanth, and a 6,633 m ultra-prominent peak in Himachal Pradesh, first ascended in 1968.
Parvati Shallow
Parvati Shallow, American reality TV personality and yoga instructor, two-time Survivor winner (Micronesia 2008, Australian Survivor: Australia v The World 2025), runner-up on Heroes vs. Villains, The Traitors season 2 and Deal or No Deal Island contestant, author of Nice Girls Don't Win.
Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani
Parvatiben Ramdas Thodani was an Indian cooperative founder, one of seven women who started the Lijjat Papad cooperative in Mumbai in 1959 with a borrowed Rs 80.
Parveen Babi (परवीन बाबी)
Parveen Babi (परवीन बाबी) was an Indian actress and model in Hindi cinema from 1973 to 1991, among the era's highest-paid, known for Deewaar and Amar Akbar Anthony.
Parveen Gupta
Parveen Gupta, also called Parvin Gupta, is an entrepreneur active in TiE's early years, later a founder of Mylex and a client-relationship executive at Mahindra Satyam.
Parveen Joshi
Parveen Joshi is an Indian BJP politician who has been Mayor of Faridabad since 2025, after serving as chairperson of the Haryana State Child Welfare Council.
Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir (پروین شاکر), 1952 to 1994, was a Pakistani Urdu poet known for a feminine voice in the traditionally male ghazal; her debut collection, Khushbu, won the Adamjee Literary Award.
Parvesh Verma
Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma (प्रवेश साहिब सिंह वर्मा), born 1977, is a BJP Delhi cabinet minister (PWD, water, legislative affairs), former West Delhi MP 2014–2024, and 2025 New Delhi MLA who defeated Arvind Kejriwal.
Parvin
Parvin: family of α-, β-, and γ-parvin CH-domain adaptor proteins in the ILK-PINCH-parvin (IPP) complex at focal adhesions, linking integrins to actin; roles in adhesion, spreading, survival, cancer, NAFLD, and cardiac disease.
Parvin Dabas
Parvin Dabas (born 1974, Delhi) is an Indian actor, director, and Pro Panja League co-founder known for Monsoon Wedding, Khosla Ka Ghosla, and My Name Is Khan, married to Preeti Jhangiani.
Parvin E'tesami
Parvin E'tesami (پروین اعتصامی), born Rakhshanda E'tesami, was an Iranian poet (1907–1941) best known for perfecting the monāẓara, a Persian poem cast as a debate between personified beings.
Parvinder Singh
Parvinder Singh (1943–1999) was an Indian pharmaceutical executive who led Ranbaxy Laboratories from 1982 and grew it into India's largest home-grown drug multinational before dying of cancer in 1999.
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is a Stanford mechanical engineering professor who pioneered direct numerical and large-eddy simulation of turbulence and founded the Center for Turbulence Research in 1987.
Parviz Natel Khanlari
Parviz Natel Khanlari (پرویز ناتل خانلری) was an Iranian scholar of Persian language and literature, poet, and founding editor of the monthly Sokhan, best known for his three-volume history of Persian.
Parvoviridae
Parvoviridae: family of small non-enveloped ssDNA viruses (4–6 kb, 23–28 nm T=1 capsids) in subfamilies Parvovirinae, Densovirinae, Hamaparvovirinae; includes parvovirus B19 and adeno-associated viruses; rolling hairpin replication.
Parvovirosis
Parvovirosis, also called infection with parvoviruses, is disease caused by non-enveloped single-stranded DNA viruses of Parvoviridae affecting mammals, crustaceans, and arthropods; a non WOAH-listed wildlife disease, with canine parvovirus 2 causing hemorrhagic enteritis in dogs.
Parvovirus
Parvovirus (family Parvoviridae): small non-enveloped single-stranded DNA viruses, 4–6 kb genomes, 23–28 nm capsids, infecting vertebrates and invertebrates; includes human B19V and canine parvovirus.
Parvovirus B19
Parvovirus B19 (B19V, erythema infectiosum virus, fifth disease) is a human-only single-stranded DNA parvovirus causing slapped-cheek rash, aplastic crisis in hemolytic anemia, fetal hydrops, and chronic anemia in immunodeficiency.
Parwa
Parwa is the Old Javanese term for prose renderings of sections of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, among the most ancient works of Old Javanese (Kawi) literature.
Parwarish (پرورش)
Parwarish (پرورش) is a 2025 Pakistani Urdu-language drama serial on ARY Digital, written by Kiran Siddiqui and directed by Meesam Naqvi, about a Pakistani-American family's return and parent-teen conflict, starring Samar Jafri and Aina Asif.
Parx Casino and Racing
Parx Casino and Racing, Bensalem, PA; formerly Keystone Racetrack and Philadelphia Park; thoroughbred track plus Category 1 casino under Greenwood Gaming; home of the $1 million Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion Stakes.
Parys Mountain
Parys Mountain (Mynydd Parys), Anglesey, Wales: a Bronze Age-to-1911 copper mine and volcanogenic massive sulphide zinc-lead-copper deposit; world's largest copper mine around 1800, now an Anglesey Mining plc project.
Parysatis
Parysatis (پاریساتیس) was an Achaemenid Persian queen, daughter of Artaxerxes I and wife of Darius II, mother of Artaxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger, who poisoned her rival Stateira.
Paryushana
Paryushana, or Paryushan Parva, is the most important festival of the Shvetambara Jains, eight days of fasting in Bhadrapada ending on Samvatsari, the day of confession and forgiveness; Digambaras keep the ten-day Das Lakshana.
Parzania
Parzania is a 2005 English-language Indian drama by Rahul Dholakia about a Parsi family whose son vanishes in the 2002 Gujarat riots; released 26 January 2007, banned unofficially in Gujarat.
Parzival
Parzival is Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse romance of nearly 25,000 verses, composed 1200–1210, expanding Chrétien's unfinished Perceval; hero heals Grail king Anfortas, basis of Wagner's Parsifal.