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Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field
The Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field is an onshore field in Colombia's Llanos basin, Casanare, discovered in 1995 and described as the country's largest gas producer.
Pavagadh (પાવાગઢ)
Pavagadh (પાવાગઢ) is a volcanic hill in Gujarat's Panchmahal district, site of the Kalika Mata Temple pilgrimage shrine and, with Champaner at its foot, the UNESCO Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, inscribed in 2004.
Pavan Malhotra (पवन मल्होत्रा)
Pavan Malhotra (पवन मल्होत्रा), born 1958 in Panipat, is an Indian character actor active since 1984 across Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu and Haryanvi film and television, known for Nukkad, Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, Black Friday and Tabbar, and a two-time National Award winner.
Pavan P Ramdya
Pavan P Ramdya, also published as Pavan Ramdya, is an American neuroscientist and Associate Professor at EPFL whose laboratory reverse-engineers the fruit fly to study motor behavior.
Pavan Reddy
Pavan Reddy is an Indian-born American hematologist-oncologist directing the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, known for research on graft-versus-host disease.
Pavan Sadineni
Pavan Sadineni (Telugu director, born 1987, Vijayawada) directed Prema Ishq Kaadhal (2013), Savitri (2016), Senapathi, and the Hotstar series Dayaa, adapted from Taqdeer; Aakasamlo Oka Tara with Dulquer Salmaan is slated for November 2026.
Pavananti
Pavananti (Tamil: பவணந்தி), also Pavaṇantiyār or Pavaṇanti Munivar, was a 13th-century Jain monk and Tamil grammarian who wrote the Nannūl, the most influential Tamil grammar after the Tolkāppiyam.
Pavane
Pavane (also pavan, paduana): a slow, stately duple-meter processional court dance of the 16th and early 17th centuries, usually paired with the quicker galliard; revived as a concert form by Fauré (1887) and Ravel (1899).
Pavane (film)
Pavane (파반느) is a 2026 South Korean youth melodrama on Netflix, directed by Lee Jong-pil, starring Ko A-sung, Byun Yo-han, and Moon Sang-min, adapted from Park Min-gyu's 2009 novel Pavane for a Dead Princess.
Pavani Reddy
Pavani Reddy (பவனி ரெட்டி; also spelled Pavni Reddy) is an Indian Tamil and Telugu actress and model, lead of Chinna Thambi, second runner-up on Bigg Boss Tamil 5, and cast member of Thunivu (2023).
Pavao Jurina
Pavao Jurina (Pavle Jurina, Павле Јурина), Croatian handball right back for Yugoslavia, born 1955, died 2011; 1984 Olympic gold medalist, 1982 world silver medalist, 140 caps, later coach in Italy.
PAVE PAWS
PAVE PAWS, the Phased Array Warning System, is a US Space Force early-warning radar network detecting submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks and conducting space surveillance, first operational in 1980.
PAVE Space
PAVE Space is a Swiss space startup founded in 2024 in Lausanne by Julie Böhning and Jérémy Marciacq, developing orbital transfer vehicles that move satellites in hours.
Pavel A. Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990) was a Soviet experimental physicist at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow who discovered Cherenkov radiation in 1934 and shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Pavel A. Levkin
Pavel A. Levkin is a German-based chemist and materials scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for droplet microarray surfaces where droplets act as miniaturized test tubes.
Pavel Aleksandrov
Pavel Aleksandrov (1896–1982) was a Soviet mathematician, a founder of the Soviet school of topology, and a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Pavel Baranov
Pavel Baranov (Павел Баранов) is an RNA biologist and Professor of Biomolecular Informatics at University College Cork who studies genetic decoding, translation termination, and ribosome stalling.
Pavel Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий)
Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий), Soviet Marshal (1968) and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965); WWII rifle corps commander, Commander-in-Chief of Air Defence Forces 1966–1978, and the officer who personally executed Lavrentiy Beria in December 1953.
Pavel Bure (Павел Владимирович Буре)
Pavel Bure, nicknamed the Russian Rocket, is a Russian retired right winger who starred for the Vancouver Canucks and Florida Panthers, scoring 437 goals in 702 NHL games.
Pavel Chekov
Pavel Chekov is the fictional Russian navigator and weapons officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, added in season two and played by Walter Koenig, later Anton Yelchin; famous for the 'invented in Russia' gag and the 'nuclear wessels' line.
Pavel Datsyuk (Павел Валерьевич Дацюк)
Pavel Datsyuk (Павел Дацюк), "The Magic Man," Russian center born 1978 in Sverdlovsk; Detroit Red Wings 2001-2016, 918 points, two Stanley Cups, three Selke and four Lady Byng trophies; Hockey Hall of Fame 2024.
Pavel Dolukhanov
Pavel Dolukhanov (1937-2009), Soviet-born archaeologist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle upon Tyne, studied Eastern European prehistory and Neolithic dispersal, modeling the spread of farming with reaction-diffusion equations and reconstructing colonization waves of northern Eurasia from radiocarbon data.
Pavel Durov (Павел Валерьевич Дуров)
Pavel Durov (Павел Дуров) is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur who founded VKontakte in 2006 and Telegram in 2013, and left Russia in 2014 after refusing to hand over user data.
Pavel Dybenko
Pavel Dybenko (Павел Ефимович Дыбенко) was a Baltic Fleet sailor who chaired Tsentrobalt in 1917 and became the RSFSR's first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs.
Pavel Filonov
Pavel Filonov (Павел Филонов, 1883–1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter and art theorist who founded analytical art and taught that a painting should be built up atom by atom like a living organism.
Pavel Florensky
Pavel Florensky (Павел Флоренский) was a Russian Orthodox priest, philosopher, and engineer who worked in Soviet institutions while remaining a clergyman and was shot in Stalin's purges in 1937.
Pavel Gubarev
Pavel Gubarev (Pavel Yuryevich Gubarev) is a Ukrainian-born pro-Russian activist who proclaimed himself "people's governor" of Ukraine's Donetsk region in March 2014, was arrested and exchanged, and leads the pro-war Club of Angry Patriots.
Pavel Hlava film
The Pavel Hlava film (Pavel Hlava video) is the only known videotape capturing both 9/11 plane impacts, filmed by a Czech immigrant commuting through Brooklyn in 2001 and made public in 2003 via ABC and the New York Times.
Pavel Hobza
Pavel Hobza is a Czech computational chemist who leads the Non-Covalent Interactions group at IOCB Prague, known for discovering the improper hydrogen bond and creating the S66 benchmark.
Pavel Jelínek
Pavel Jelínek (Pavel Jelinek; born 1972) is a Czech condensed-matter physicist at the Institute of Physics in Prague, best known for the first real-space imaging of a σ-hole in 2021.