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People's Party of Panama
The People's Party of Panama (Partido del Pueblo de Panamá) is a Panamanian Marxist political party, founded as the Communist Party of Panama on 4 April 1930.
People's Progressive Party (Guyana)
The People's Progressive Party (PPP, PPP/Civic) is Guyana's oldest active political party, founded January 1, 1950 by Cheddi Jagan; its 1953 government was removed by Britain after 133 days, and it has governed 1992–2015 and since 2020.
People's Radical Party
The People's Radical Party (Народна радикална странка) was a Serbian political party founded in 1881 and led by Nikola Pašić, dominating Serbian politics into the 1920s.
People's Rally for Progress
The People's Rally for Progress (Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès, RPP) is Djibouti's ruling political party, founded in 1979 and the sole legal party from 1981 to 1992.
People's Republic of Angola
People's Republic of Angola (República Popular de Angola), 1975–1992 one-party socialist state ruled by the Marxist-Leninist MPLA under Agostinho Neto and dos Santos, ended by the 1991 Peace Accords and 1992 multiparty elections.
People's Republic of Benin
People's Republic of Benin (République populaire du Bénin), 1975–1990, the Marxist-Leninist single-party state renamed from Dahomey under Mathieu Kérékou, ruled through the PRPB and 1977 Fundamental Law until the 1990 National Conference.
People's Republic of Bulgaria (Народна република България)
People's Republic of Bulgaria (Народна република България), 1946–1990: Soviet-bloc one-party socialist state under the Bulgarian Communist Party and Todor Zhivkov, proclaimed after the September 1946 referendum, with a centrally planned economy, ended January 1990.
People's Republic of Kampuchea (សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិតកម្ពុជា)
People's Republic of Kampuchea (សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិតកម្ពុជា, PRK), the Heng Samrin regime: Vietnamese-backed Cambodian state, 1979–1989, renamed State of Cambodia in 1989; unrecognized at the UN, where Democratic Kampuchea held the seat.
People's Republic of Korea (조선인민공화국)
People's Republic of Korea (조선인민공화국, PRK), also called Korean People's Republic: short-lived provisional government proclaimed September 6, 1945 by the CPKI, based on people's committees; outlawed by the US military government in December 1945, its committees became the basis of North Korea's administration.
People's Republic of Mozambique
The People's Republic of Mozambique (República Popular de Moçambique) was a one-party socialist state founded by FRELIMO under President Samora Machel in 1975, lasting until 1990.
People's Republic of the Congo
People's Republic of the Congo (République populaire du Congo), 1969–1992: socialist Congo-Brazzaville state founded by Marien Ngouabi under the Marxist-Leninist PCT, ruled 1979–1992 by Sassou-Nguesso, ended by the 1990–1991 multiparty transition.
People's Republic of Zanzibar
The People's Republic of Zanzibar (Jamhuri ya Watu wa Unguja na Pemba) was the state proclaimed on 12 January 1964 after the Zanzibar Revolution, led by Abeid Karume.
People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)
The People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP) was the armed wing of Argentina's Marxist PRT, one of two principal guerrilla groups of the 1970s.
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
People's Socialist Republic of Albania (Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë), 1976–1992 renaming of Hoxha's Stalinist People's Republic; Party of Labour rule, atheist state from 1967, breaks with Yugoslavia, USSR, and China, autarkic economy, ended by March 1992 elections.
People's Supreme Assembly
People's Supreme Assembly, also called Supreme People's Assembly, the national legislature of the Lao PDR from 2 December 1975 to 1992; a 45-member first legislature under Prince Souphanouvong, a 1989-elected second legislature that adopted the 1991 Constitution, then renamed National Assembly.
People's Television Network
People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI, brand PTV) is the Philippines' government television network, founded 1974 as GTV-4, rebranded MBS (1980), PTV (1986), NBN (2001/2002), PTV again (2011); chartered by RA 7306 (1992), amended by RA 10390 (2013).
People's United Party
The People's United Party (PUP) is a centrist political party in Belize, founded in 1950, that led Belize to independence in 1981 and won the 2025 general election under John Briceño.
People's Volunteer Army (中国人民志愿军)
People's Volunteer Army (中国人民志愿军, Chinese People's Volunteers, CPV/PVA): the force under which China fought in the Korean War, formed 8 October 1950 from the Northeast Border Defense Army, commanded by Peng Dehuai, entering Korea 19 October 1950 until the 1953 armistice.
PeopleBot
PeopleBot is a human-scaled mobile robot platform built by ActivMedia Robotics, first shipped in 2000, sharing the Pioneer 2 architecture and widely used in human-robot interaction research.
Peoplebox.ai
Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent-management software company founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu Muthuraman, offering OKRs, performance reviews, and AI hiring to over 500 companies.
Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria's main opposition party, founded 1998 from the G-34 group; governed federally 1999-2015, lost power in 2015, and has been fractured by defections and a voided 2025 Ibadan convention.
Peoples Natural Gas
Peoples Natural Gas is a rate-regulated natural gas utility serving about 700,000 customers in Pittsburgh and 18 counties of southwestern Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities since 2020.
Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple was an American new religious movement founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis in 1954, ending in 1978 when 918 people died in Jonestown, Guyana.
Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)
The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP, Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan) is a left-wing, pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey founded in 2012, winning 80 seats in the June 2015 election.
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft is a family of web-based enterprise business applications covering human resources, finance, supply chain, and campus operations, developed and supported by Oracle since its acquisition in 2004.
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong is an Indian human capital management software company headquartered in Gurugram, founded in 2005 by Pankaj Bansal and Shelly Singh, with Goldman Sachs acquiring a majority stake in 2025.
Peoria County
Peoria County, Illinois: county established January 13, 1825, named for the Peoria tribe of the Illinois confederacy; county seat Peoria; once included Chicago; 181,830 residents (2020); 618.73 square miles along the Illinois River.
Peoria people
Peoria people, or Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, a confederated Algonquian tribe of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea (Illini peoples) united in 1854, removed through Missouri and Kansas to Miami, Oklahoma; terminated 1950, restored 1972; Miami-Illinois language revival program.
Peoria, Illinois
Peoria, Illinois: city on the Illinois River, county seat of Peoria County, oldest European settlement in Illinois (French outpost, 1691, Henri de Tonti). Whiskey capital until 1920; Caterpillar hub; 2020 population 113,150.
Pep (dog)
Pep was a black Labrador retriever entered as inmate C-2559 at Eastern State Penitentiary in 1924, officially sentenced to life for "murder" of Governor Pinchot's wife's cat; the charge was a joke, and he was sent to boost prisoner morale.