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Penelope Ford
Penelope Ford (Olivia Hasler, born 1992), American professional wrestler in AEW; original women's division member, Kip Sabian's wife, MegaBad tag team with Megan Bayne, 56% AEW win rate.
Penélope Guerrero
Penélope Guerrero, born 1997 in Jerez de la Frontera, is a Spanish actress and former trans-visibility YouTuber (Penélope Tacones), known for Sky Rojo, Vestidas de azul, and the Cannes 2024 film Transmitzvah.
Penelope Keith
Penelope Keith (1940–2026), English actress and dame, famed as Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life and Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born; two BAFTAs, an Olivier, former High Sheriff of Surrey.
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (born 1953, née Eastwood), British aristocrat, wife of Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma; close confidante of Prince Philip, only non-family mourner at his 2021 funeral, runs Broadlands and the Leonora children's cancer charity.
Penelope Leprevost
Pénélope Leprévost, born 1980 in Rouen, French show jumping rider; Olympic team gold at Rio 2016 on Flora de Mariposa; three Olympics (2012, 2016, 2020); world and European team silver medals.
Penelope Pitstop
Penelope Pitstop: Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, the lone female Wacky Races driver of the Compact Pussycat, voiced by Janet Waldo, and heiress heroine of the 1969 CBS spin-off The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris (born 1945) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for The Decline of Western Civilization documentaries on Los Angeles punk and metal and for directing Wayne's World.
Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton (born 1946, Scarborough) is an English stage, film, and television actress, a dame since 2016, known for Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Ever Decreasing Circles, Pinter's Betrayal, and the 2015 Olivier-winning Taken at Midnight.
Penetrance
Penetrance: the probability that a carrier of a particular genotype shows the associated disease phenotype. Reduced/incomplete penetrance, age and sex dependence, ascertainment bias, and ACMG/ClinGen policy use distinguish it from expressivity.
Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer
A penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer is an ulcerated aortic atherosclerotic plaque that breaks through the internal elastic lamina into the aortic wall's media, one of three acute aortic syndromes.
Penetrating keratoplasty
Penetrating keratoplasty is a full-thickness corneal transplant operation replacing the central diseased cornea with a donor graft; once the mainstay of corneal transplantation, it has largely given way to lamellar techniques.
Penetration pricing
Penetration pricing is a marketing strategy in which a firm launches a new product at the lowest possible price, often below competitors', to gain market share.
Penetration test
A penetration test, also known as a pentest or ethical hack, is an authorized simulated attack on a computer system, network, or application that proves which weaknesses an attacker could exploit.
Penetration testing
Penetration testing, or pentesting, is an authorized simulation of a cyberattack against systems, networks, or applications to find exploitable weaknesses, producing a report on whether attack goals were achieved.
Penetrative convection
Penetrative convection is a form of turbulent convection in which surface cooling drives plumes that overshoot into stratified water below, entraining it and deepening a lake's mixed layer.
Peneus Palus
Peneus Palus, a plain (palus) on Mars in northwestern Hellas Planitia; 870 km wide, IAU-approved 2015, named from a classical albedo feature; the lowest, flattest plain in Hellas, wind-carved and hosting honeycomb terrain.
Peneus Patera
Peneus Patera is a large, caldera-like volcanic depression on Mars in the ridged plains of Malea Planum, on the southern rim of the Hellas basin.
Penflufen
Penflufen is a Bayer SDHI fungicide (FRAC group 7, pyrazole-carboxamide) used as a potato and cereal seed treatment; EU-approved 2014, approval expired January 2024 with no renewal application.
Peng (鹏) (mythology)
Peng (鵬) is the giant mythic bird of the Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou", into which the fish Kun of the Northern Ocean transforms before flying 90,000 li to the Southern Ocean; source of the idiom pengyan and later fu by Li Bai.
Peng Bo
Peng Bo (彭勃), Chinese diver born 1981 in Nanchang, Jiangxi; 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist in men's 3 m springboard (787.38 points) and 2001 world synchronized springboard champion with Wang Kenan.
Peng Chen (materials scientist)
Peng Chen (陈鹏) is a full professor of bioengineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for nanomaterial biosensors, carbon nanotube devices detecting cellular bioelectricity, and transdermal theranostics.
Peng Chen (molecular biologist)
Peng Chen is a chemist who holds the Peter J. W. Debye Professorship of Chemistry at Cornell University, known for single-molecule imaging of catalytic reactions on individual nanoparticles.
Peng Cheng
Peng Cheng (彭程) was a Ming dynasty censor from Poyang, a late Chenghua era jinshi, exiled for a memorial against wasteful imperial altar-vessel spending under the Hongzhi Emperor.
Peng Chong
Peng Chong (彭宠) was a Han official who served as Governor of Yuyang, helped Emperor Guangwu secure Hebei, then rebelled and was murdered by his slaves.
Peng Chong's rebellion
Peng Chong's rebellion (彭宠之乱) was a revolt by Peng Chong, governor of Yuyang commandery, against the Eastern Han government of Emperor Guangwu, beginning in Jianwu 2.
Peng Daxun (彭德顺)
Peng Daxun, also known as Peng Deren, was a Taiping general from Hunan who broke with Shi Dakai in 1860 and led an army back to the Taiping capital.
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀)
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀, 1898–1974), Chinese Communist marshal and defense minister, commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers throughout the Korean War (1950–53), was purged in 1959 for criticizing the Great Leap Forward at Lushan, died imprisoned in 1974, and was rehabilitated in 1978.
Peng Dehuai's Downfall
Peng Dehuai's Downfall (彭德怀罢官事件) was the 1959 removal of Marshal Peng Dehuai as defense minister after his letter to Mao Zedong criticizing the Great Leap Forward.
Peng Guinian
Peng Guinian (彭龟年, 1142–1206) was a Song dynasty official and Neo-Confucian scholar who served emperors Xiaozong, Guangzong, and Ningzong, and is remembered for blunt remonstrances, including against Han Tuozhou.
Peng Huang (molecular biologist)
Peng Huang (黄蓬) is a Chinese molecular biologist and cancer-metabolism researcher known for work on reactive oxygen species as a basis for selectively killing cancer cells.