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Petra Dallmann
Petra Dallmann (born 1978, Freiburg im Breisgau), German freestyle swimmer; 2004 Olympic bronze in 4x200 m relay, 2001 world champion, five European titles, world-record relay legs; now a sport psychiatrist and co-founder of Athletes in Mind.
Petra drnovice
FC Petra Drnovice, the 1993–2000 sponsored name of 1. FK Drnovice, a Czech village football club founded 1932; Czech First League third place 1999/2000, two Czech Cup finals, dissolved 2006, revived as amateur FKD.
Petra E. de Jongh
Petra E. de Jongh is a Dutch materials chemist, professor of catalysts and energy materials at Utrecht University, known for nanoparticle catalysts and hydrogen storage research.
Petra Ecclestone
Petra Ecclestone (born 1988), British heiress, fashion designer, and real-estate investor; daughter of Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone and Slavica Ecclestone. Founded menswear label Form and handbag line Stark; bought and sold the $85m Spelling Manor in Los Angeles; married James Stunt then Sam Palmer.
Petra Elisabeth Todd
Petra Elisabeth Todd is an American economist and econometrician who chairs economics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for matching estimators and Mexico's PROGRESA experiment.
Petra Ericsson
Petra Ericsson (Petra Sofie Ericsson), Swedish archer born 1973 in Mölndal, Lindome BK; Sydney 2000 Olympian in recurve (31st individual, 10th team) and compound world record holder with twelve records.
PETRA III
PETRA III is a high-brilliance synchrotron X-ray source at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, converted from the PETRA storage ring and opened to users in 2010.
Petra Kronberger
Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier (born 1969), triple overall World Cup champion 1990-1992, 1991 downhill world champion, double 1992 Albertville Olympic gold medalist in slalom and combined, retired at 23.
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová, Czech left-handed tennis player, two-time Wimbledon champion (2011, 2014), 31 WTA titles, career-high No. 2, 2016 Rio bronze, retired at the 2025 US Open after a comeback from a 2016 knife attack.
Petra Mede
Petra Mede (Petra Maria Mede), Swedish comedian and TV presenter born 1970 or 1971 in Stockholm; hosted Eurovision Song Contest 2013, 2016, and 2024, more broadcasts than any host, plus Melodifestivalen and TV4 shows.
Petra Meier Felke
Petra Meier Felke (née Felke, born 1959) is a German javelin thrower who won 1988 Olympic gold for East Germany and set four world records, ending with 80.00 m in 1988, the only 80-meter throw with the old javelin, standing until 1999.
Petra Němcová
Petra Němcová (born 1979, Karviná) is a Czech model, TV presenter, and philanthropist, Sports Illustrated 2003 face of the year and 2004 tsunami survivor who founded the Happy Hearts Fund and hosted TLC's A Model Life.
Petra Nova
Petra Nova is a carbon capture project that removes CO2 from the flue gas of NRG Energy's W.A. Parish coal plant near Houston, Texas, operating since 2017.
Petra Pool and Garden Complex
The Petra Pool and Garden Complex is a monumental Nabataean garden and pool at the heart of Petra, Jordan, built early in the reign of Aretas IV.
Petra Roßner
Petra Roßner (Rossner), German cyclist born 1966 in Leipzig; 1992 Olympic pursuit gold, 1991 world pursuit champion, record 10 Women's Road World Cup wins, 2002 World Cup overall, seven-time Philadelphia Liberty Classic winner.
Petra Schaaf Behle
Petra Schaaf Behle, also known as Petra Behle (née Schaaf), German biathlete born 1969; nine world titles and three Olympic relay medals including 1998 Nagano gold; pioneer of German women's biathlon.
Petra Schwille
Petra Schwille, born 1968, is a German biophysicist directing the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, known for reconstituting E. coli's Min proteins.
Petra Theater
The Petra Theater, also called the Main Theater, is a large rock-cut theater at Petra, Jordan, built by the Nabataeans under King Aretas IV and seating up to 8,000.
Petra Thumer
Petra Thümer (Petra Thumer), East German swimmer born 1961, won 1976 Olympic gold in 400 and 800 m freestyle over Shirley Babashoff, set five world records, and later admitted GDR doping recipient.
Petra van Staveren
Petra van Staveren (Petronella Grietje van Staveren, born 1966, Kampen) is a Dutch breaststroke swimmer, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic champion in the 100 m breaststroke in an Olympic record 1:09.88, the first Dutch swimming gold since 1968.
Petra Vlhová
Petra Vlhová (born 1995, Liptovský Mikuláš) is a Slovak alpine skier, 2021 World Cup overall champion, Beijing 2022 slalom gold medalist, and 2019 giant slalom world champion, returning from a 2024 knee injury.
Petra/Fundus Petrensis
Petra (Fundus Petrensis), a fortified Roman-era Berber estate in the Soummam valley, Algeria, built by Sammac, brother of Firmus; known from Ammianus Marcellinus and a 1900 Latin verse inscription at Mlakou.
Petraeus scandal
The Petraeus scandal: CIA director David Petraeus resigned in November 2012 after an FBI email investigation exposed his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell; he pleaded guilty in 2015 to a misdemeanor for keeping classified notebooks and got probation and a $100,000 fine.
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Italian poet and scholar (1304–1374), first great humanist of the Renaissance; author of the Canzoniere's 366 poems on Laura, the unfinished Triumphi, and Latin works; openly dissenting from Dante's literary authority.
Petrarchan sonnet
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet: 14-line poem with octave ABBAABBA, sestet CDECDE or CDCDCD, volta at line 9; named for Petrarch, whose Canzoniere has 317 sonnets to Laura.
Petrarchism
Petrarchism (Italian: petrarchismo) is the literary tradition of imitating Petrarch's Canzoniere love poetry, theorized by Pietro Bembo and dominant in Europe from 1400 to 1600.
Petras Cvirka
Petras Cvirka (1909–1947) was a Lithuanian writer of novels, short stories, and children's books, later the most canonized prose writer of Soviet Lithuania and a contested figure.
Petras Klimas
Petras Klimas was a Lithuanian lawyer, historian, and diplomat who signed the 1918 Act of Independence and served as Lithuania's envoy in Paris from 1925 to 1940.
Petras Megas
Petras Megas (Πέτρας μεγάλης, Petras Maior) was an ancient port settlement in eastern Libya, identified with modern Bardia; attested 330 BC to AD 640 on Barrington Atlas map 73.
Petras Mikros
Petras Mikros (Petras Minor, Mikros Petreuon), ancient small port and settlement at Marsa Tarfaia on the Marmarican coast of Libya, attested by Scylax, Ptolemy, and the Stadiasmus; distinct from nearby Petras Megas (Bardia).