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Payton Gendron

Payton Gendron, white supremacist mass shooter who killed 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022; serving 11 life terms after a state guilty plea and facing a federal death penalty trial.

Payton Jordan

Payton Jordan (1917-2009), American sprinter and track coach; Stanford head coach 1957-79, led the 1968 U.S. Olympic track team to a record 24 medals and 12 golds, and set masters sprint world records as the Silver Streak.

Payton Koch

Payton Koch (born 1996) is an American picture editor, Emmy-nominated in 2024 for Only Murders in the Building's "Sitzprobe"; twin brother of actor Cooper Koch, grandson of producer Hawk Koch.

Payton Pritchard

Payton Pritchard, Boston Celtics guard (born 1998, Tualatin, Oregon), drafted 26th overall in 2020 out of Oregon; 2024 NBA champion and 2024-25 Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year.

Payton Talbott

Payton Talbott (born 1998) is an American UFC bantamweight from Las Vegas training at Reno Academy of Combat; 12-1 record, 8 KO wins, Contender Series graduate, ranked No. 7, with wins over Cejudo and Figueiredo.

Payton Tolle

Payton Tolle (born 2002, Stillwater, Oklahoma) is a Boston Red Sox left-handed pitcher, drafted 50th overall in 2024 from TCU; MLB debut August 29, 2025, 2026: 9-6, 3.03 ERA, 171 strikeouts.

Payun Matru

Payún Matrú (Payun Matru), a Quaternary shield volcano with an 8-10 km summit caldera in Mendoza, Argentina, center of the 5,200 km² Payún Matrú volcanic field, source of Earth's longest known Quaternary lava flow.

Payung Teduh

Payung Teduh is an Indonesian folk-pop band formed at the end of 2007 around Depok, blending keroncong, folk, and jazz; it became Parade Hujan in 2022.

Paywall

A paywall, also known as a fee wall, restricts access to digital content, most often online news, unless the visitor pays a fee or subscribes to the publisher.

Payyavula Keshav

Payyavula Keshav is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who has been a minister in the Andhra Pradesh government, holding the finance portfolio, and represents Uravakonda.

PayZen

PayZen is a United States healthcare fintech company, founded in 2019, that buys medical bills from hospitals and lets patients pay them in interest-free installments.

Paz de la Huerta

Paz de la Huerta, born 1984 in New York, is an American actress and painter known for Enter the Void, The Limits of Control, and HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and for her 2017 rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Paz Lenchantin

Paz Lenchantin, Argentine-American bassist and violinist born 1973 in Mar del Plata, played in A Perfect Circle, Zwan, and the Pixies (2014-2024), co-wrote "All I Think About Now," and released the solo album Triste in 2025.

Paz Vega

Paz Vega (Paz Campos Trigo), Spanish actress and director born 1976 in Seville; star of Sex and Lucía (Goya, Chopard Trophy), Spanglish, Kaleidoscope; directed Rita (2024).

Pazanan Oil and Gas Field

Pazanan Oil and Gas Field (پازنان) is a supergiant onshore field in the Zagros Fold Belt of southwest Iran, discovered in 1936 and proven as an oilfield in 1961.

Pazar-ana Corona

Pazar-ana Corona is a 300-km-wide corona on Venus at 3.2°S, 214.8°E, in the Taussig Quadrangle, named in 2003 for the Gagauzan "Sunday mother," protector of women.

Pazarcık Stele

The Pazarcık Stele (Pazarcik Stela) is an Assyrian cuneiform boundary stone found at Kızıkapanlı near Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, marking the border between Kummuh and Gurgum.

Pazardzhik

Pazardzhik (Пазарджик, historically Tatar Pazardzhik) is a city on the Maritsa River in southern Bulgaria, provincial capital, founded in the early 15th century as an Ottoman market town and Eastern Rumelia's second city in 1884.

Paze

Paze is an online checkout digital wallet from Early Warning Services, the company behind Zelle, letting shoppers pay with bank-held cards without sharing card numbers.

Pazhassi Raja

Pazhassi Raja (Kerala Varma), the Lion of Kerala, was a Kottayam prince of North Malabar who fought Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan, and then the East India Company through guerrilla warfare in Wayanad until killed 30 November 1805.

Pazhassi Raja's revolt

Pazhassi Raja's revolt (പഴശ്ശിരാജാവ്) was a guerrilla war in Wayanad and north Malabar led by Kerala Varma against Mysore and the British East India Company until his death in 1805.

Pazopanib

Pazopanib, sold as Votrient, is an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor developed by GlaxoSmithKline and marketed by Novartis for advanced renal cell carcinoma and soft tissue sarcoma.

Pazufloxacin

Pazufloxacin (T-3761), a synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic from Toyama Chemical, oral and injectable mesylate (T-3762) forms, launched in Japan in 2002, used for respiratory, urinary, and enteric bacterial infections.

Pazuzu

Pazuzu, ancient Mesopotamian wind demon, king of the wind demons and son of Hanbu; feared for destructive winds yet invoked on amulets to protect homes and pregnant women from Lamashtu; famous as the demon of The Exorcist.

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pazuzu is the demon that possesses twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil in Blatty's 1971 novel The Exorcist and the 1973 film, though the film never names it.

Pazyryk Carpet

The Pazyryk Carpet, also called the Pazyryk rug, is the oldest surviving knotted-pile carpet, excavated in 1949 from an ice-preserved Scythian burial mound in the Altai Mountains of Siberia.

Pazyryk culture

Pazyryk culture: Iron Age nomadic Scythian-world culture of the Altai Mountains, sixth to third century BC, known for frozen kurgans, tattooed mummies, the Ukok princess, and advanced surgery.

Pazzi

The Pazzi, or House of Pazzi, were a Florentine banking family older than the Medici, known for the failed 1478 conspiracy against Lorenzo de' Medici.

Pazzi conspiracy

The Pazzi conspiracy (1478): plot by the Pazzi banking family, Pope Sixtus IV, and Girolamo Riario to kill Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici during Mass in Florence Cathedral; Giuliano died, Lorenzo survived, and the reprisals destroyed the Pazzi.

PB Balaji

PB Balaji, full name Pathamadai Balachandran Balaji, is an Indian business executive who became CEO of Jaguar Land Rover in November 2025, the first Indian to lead the brand.