All articles starting with P

Petition of Right

Petition of Right: parliamentary declaration forced on Charles I in 1628 (assent 7 June) banning taxation, imprisonment, martial law, and billeting without lawful or parliamentary authority; precursor to the Bill of Rights 1689.

Petko Karavelov

Petko Karavelov (Петко Каравелов, 1843–1903) was a Bulgarian statesman who served four times as prime minister, helped draft the Tarnovo Constitution, and founded the Democratic Party in 1896.

Petko Slaveykov

Petko Slaveykov (Петко Рачов Славейков, 1827–1895) was a Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist, and politician, a central figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and father of poet Pencho Slaveykov.

Petko Voyvoda

Petko Voyvoda (Капитан Петко войвода), born Petko Kirkov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who fought Ottoman rule in Western Thrace and the Rhodopes from 1861 to 1879.

Petlyakov Pe-8

The Petlyakov Pe-8, also designated TB-7 or ANT-42, was a Soviet four-engine heavy bomber that first flew in 1936, raided Berlin in 1941, and was built in small numbers at Kazan.

Petnic

Petnic is a village in Iablanița commune, Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Romania, known for a Roman-period stone quarry, Roman road and funerary finds, and the Petnic Formation named after it.

Oct 15, 2026

Petoi

Petoi is a United States robotics company founded in 2017 by Rongzhong Li that builds open-source, programmable quadruped robots, including the Bittle robot dog and Nybble robot cat.

Petol

Petol (Totonac lizla) is the Mexican Spanish name for a stick-dice race game in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, identified by Alfonso Caso as a surviving form of the Aztec game patolli, played with four split-reed dice on a swastika-like track.

Oct 15, 2026

Petoro

Petoro is a Norwegian state-owned company in Stavanger, established in 2001 to manage the State's Direct Financial Interest in petroleum, holding state shares in fields and pipelines without operating them.

Petosarapis

Dionysios Petosarapis was an Egyptian courtier and general of Ptolemy VI Philometor who, after the invasion of Antiochus IV ended in 168 BC, led a failed revolt in Alexandria.

Petosiris (High Priest of Thoth)

Petosiris was high priest of the temple of Thoth at Hermopolis in Middle Egypt around the Macedonian conquest of Egypt, known chiefly from his monumental family tomb at Tuna el-Gebel.

Petoskey stone

Petoskey stone: Michigan's official state stone (1965), a fossilized Devonian rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata, from the Traverse Group, scattered by glaciers across northern Michigan beaches; distinguished from the smaller-celled Charlevoix stone (Favosites).

Sep 21, 2026

Petr Broz

Petr Broz (Petr Brož) is an immunologist and Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, known for work on inflammasome activation and pyroptosis during bacterial infection.

Petr Čech

Petr Čech (born 1982, Plzeň) is a Czech former goalkeeper for Chelsea and Arsenal; record 202 Premier League clean sheets, 124 Czech caps, 2012 Champions League winner, Premier League Hall of Fame 2023.

Sep 21, 2026

Petr Cejka

Petr Cejka is a molecular biologist leading the Recombination Mechanisms group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland, studying DNA repair by homologous recombination.

Sep 24, 2026

Petr Chaadaev

Petr Chaadaev (Пётр Чаадаев), 1794–1856, was a Russian thinker and retired guards officer whose eight Philosophical Letters, published from 1836, split Russian intellectual life into Westernizers and Slavophiles.

Petr Chelčický

Petr Chelčický (c. 1390 – before c. 1460) was a Czech lay theologian of southern Bohemia known for his pacifism and rejection of social hierarchy, and admired by Tolstoy.

Petr Dědek

Petr Dědek (born 1974) is a Czech developer and entrepreneur, founder and sole owner of the real estate firm D+D REAL and majority owner of HC Dynamo Pardubice since 2020.

Petr Hrdlicka

Petr Hrdlička (born 1967, Brno), Czech trap shooter, won surprise Olympic gold at Barcelona 1992 with 219 points, beating Watanabe in a shootoff; later Czech national trap coach. Not the hockey player born 2004.

Petr Kellner

Petr Kellner was a Czech financier who founded PPF Group in 1991 and was the richest Czech, worth $17.5 billion when he died in 2021.

Petr Kellner mladší

Petr Kellner mladší (Petr Kellner Jr.) is a Czech investor, eldest son of the PPF Group founder, who sold his inherited stake for a reported €1.7–1.8 billion.

Petr Korda

Petr Korda (born 1968, Prague) is a Czech former left-handed tennis player, 1998 Australian Open champion over Marcelo Rios, 1992 French Open runner-up, career-high world No 2, father of Sebastian Korda.

Petr Macinka

Petr Macinka is a Czech politician and manager who leads the euroskeptic party Motoristé sobě. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2025.

Petr Pavel

Petr Pavel (born 1961, Planá u Mariánských Lázní) is a retired Czech army general and President of the Czech Republic since March 2023; former Chief of the General Staff (2012–2015) and NATO Military Committee chairman (2015–2018), elected in 2023 with 58.3% against Andrej Babiš.

Petr Píšek

Petr Píšek (Petr z Písku), late 14th-century Kutná Hora mintmaster and burgher, owner of Suchdol fortress from 1394, supporter of Wenceslas IV whose castle was besieged in 1402 by Markvart of Úlice; chapel founder, not the modern namesakes.

Petr Svoboda

Petr Svoboda: name of several Czech athletes, chiefly the ice hockey defenseman (born 1966, Most) who scored the winning goal for Czech Olympic gold at Nagano 1998 and won the 1986 Stanley Cup, and the hurdler (born 1984) who was 2011 European indoor 60 m hurdles champion.

Petr Yan (Пётр Евгеньевич Ян)

Petr Yan (Пётр Евгеньевич Ян), 'No Mercy', Russian UFC bantamweight fighter born 1993 in Dudinka; two-time UFC bantamweight champion (2020, 2025), former interim champion, ex-ACB champion, known for pressure boxing and the UFC 259 DQ loss to Sterling.