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Percy Deift
Percy Deift is a South African-born mathematician, Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute, known for integrable systems, random matrix theory, and the nonlinear steepest descent method.
Percy Easte
Percy Easte (1868-1930), British trap shooter and Ealing Gun Club member; won team trap gold for Great Britain at the 1908 London Olympics, placed =17 in the individual trap.
Percy Edward Kent
Percy Edward Kent, known from early life as Peter, was a British petroleum exploration geologist who rose to Chief Geologist at BP, helped find the Forties field, and was knighted in 1973.
Percy Fawcett
Percy Harrison Fawcett (1867–disappeared 1925), British Royal Artillery officer and Royal Geographical Society surveyor of the Bolivia–Brazil border, made seven Amazon expeditions and vanished in 1925 searching Mato Grosso for the lost city Z with son Jack and Raleigh Rimell.
Percy French
Percy French (William Percy French, 1854–1920), Irish songwriter, entertainer and watercolourist from Cloonyquin, Roscommon; wrote "The Mountains o' Mourne" words, "Phil the Fluther's Ball", "Are Ye Right There Michael?"; former civil engineer, toured with Collisson.
Percy Grainger
Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian-born composer, virtuoso pianist, and folk-song collector; known for Country Gardens, Lincolnshire Posy, the Grainger Museum in Melbourne, and Free Music experiments.
Percy Harvin
Percy Harvin, NFL wide receiver and kickoff returner (Vikings, Seahawks, Jets, Bills, 2009-2016); 2009 Offensive Rookie of the Year, 87-yard kick return TD in Super Bowl XLVIII; retired 2016 with hip injuries, briefly returned with Buffalo.
Percy Hodge
Percy Hodge (1890-1967), Guernsey-born British steeplechaser, Surrey AC; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic 3000m steeplechase gold in 10:00.4 Olympic record, first at that distance, and four AAA two-mile titles (1919-21, 1923).
Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) is Rick Riordan's fictional demigod son of Poseidon, narrator of Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005–2009) and lead of The Heroes of Olympus; over 150 million books sold, adapted into films, a Broadway musical, and the Disney+ series.
Percy Jackson (film series)
Percy Jackson (film series): two 20th Century Fox fantasy films, The Lightning Thief (2010, Chris Columbus) and Sea of Monsters (2013, Thor Freudenthal), starring Logan Lerman; criticized for deviating from Rick Riordan's books and canceled after two films.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a fantasy series by Rick Riordan in which twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of Poseidon and trains at Camp Half-Blood.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, also known as Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, is a 2010 American fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a Disney+ live-action fantasy series adapting Rick Riordan's five-book Percy Jackson novels, one book per season, created by Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, starring Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri, premiering December 20, 2023.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Thor Freudenthal, adapted from Rick Riordan's 2006 novel and the sequel to The Lightning Thief.
Percy John Daniell
Percy John Daniell (1889–1946) was a British mathematician, Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1909, who created the Daniell integral and anticipated Kolmogorov's extension theorem by a decade.
Percy John Heawood
Percy John Heawood (1861–1955) was a British mathematician at Durham who exposed the flaw in Kempe's 1879 four-color proof, proved the five-color theorem, and gave the Heawood number bound.
Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian, also known as Percy Julian, was an American organic chemist who synthesized physostigmine and low-cost cortisone from soybeans and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Percy Liang
Percy Shuo Liang is an American computer scientist and Stanford professor working on machine learning and natural language processing, known for the CRFM and the HELM benchmark.
Percy Pilcher's gliders
Percy Pilcher's gliders were four hang-gliders, the Bat, the Beetle, the Gull, and the Hawk, built and flown by British engineer Percy Pilcher between 1894 and 1897.
Percy Rees
Percy Montague Rees (1883–1970), English field hockey outside-right for Barnes Hockey Club who won gold with England at hockey's 1908 Olympic début, later Unilever's chief accountant and a Military Cross recipient.
Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge (1940 or 1941 to April 14, 2015) was an American Southern soul and country-soul singer from Leighton, Alabama whose 1966 debut "When a Man Loves a Woman" hit No. 1, was Atlantic's first gold record, and earned him a 2005 Rock Hall induction.
Percy Tau
Percy Tau (born 1994, Witbank) is a South African forward; three-time CAF Champions League winner (Sundowns 2016, Al Ahly 2023, 2024), first South African CAF Interclub Player of the Year (2023), 47 Bafana caps, 15 goals, now at Thep Xanh Nam Định.
Percy Theodore Herring
Percy Theodore Herring was a British physician and physiologist, Chandos Professor at St Andrews for forty years, remembered for first describing the pituitary Herring bodies in 1908.
Percy W. Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961) was an American experimental physicist at Harvard who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for high-pressure research, and wrote The Logic of Modern Physics.
Percy W. Clutterbuck
Percy W. Clutterbuck, born Percival Walter Clutterbuck (1897–1938), was an English biochemist at the University of London who made the first published attempt to isolate penicillin.
Percy William Pilcher
Percy William Pilcher, usually recorded as Percy Sinclair Pilcher, was a British engineer who flew hang gliders in the 1890s and set a world gliding distance record of 250 m.
Percy Williams
Percy Alfred Williams (1908–1982), Canadian sprinter from Vancouver; won the 100m and 200m at Amsterdam 1928, first non-American Olympic sprint double, and set a 10.30 world 100m record in 1930.
Perdiccas's invasion of Egypt
Perdiccas's invasion of Egypt, also called Perdiccas's Nile campaign, was a failed 320 BC campaign by the regent Perdiccas against Ptolemy, satrap of Egypt, ending with Perdiccas's murder.
Perdido (oil field)
Perdido is a deepwater oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico operated by Shell, which began production in 2010 through the world's deepest spar platform.
Perdido Development
The Perdido Development is a Shell-operated deepwater oil and gas complex in the US Gulf of Mexico using the world's deepest spar platform, with first production in 2010.