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PetroVietnam Power Corporation
PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) is a Vietnamese power generation company, part of Petrovietnam, operating plants including Nhon Trach, Ca Mau, Vung Ang 1, and Hua Na.
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk (Петрозаводск), capital of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, a port on Lake Onega founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as an iron and cannon factory; town from 1777, occupied by Finland 1941–1944, population about 236,000.
Petru Groza
Petru Groza was a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1945 to 1952 and then as nominal head of state until his death in 1958.
Petru Iosub
Petru Iosub, Romanian rower born 1961 in Fălticeni; with Valer Toma won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic men's coxless pair (6:45.39), Romania's first men's rowing gold, after a 1980 coxless four.
Petru Rareș
Petru Rareș, known to Poles as Petryła, was Voivode of Moldavia from 1527 to 1538 and again from 1541 until his death in 1546, an illegitimate son of Stephen III the Great.
Pétrus (restaurant)
Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay is a one-Michelin-star French restaurant at 1 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, named after Château Pétrus wine. Opened 1999 with Marcus Wareing, split 2008, current site starred since 2011.
Petrus Brovka
Petrus Brovka, born Pyotr Ustinavich Brouka (1905–1980), was a Belarusian Soviet poet who won the Lenin Prize and twice the Stalin Prize, and edited the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia.
Petrus Christus
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1425–1475/76) was a Flemish painter who settled in Bruges in 1444 and became its leading painter between Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling.
Petrus Hofstede
Petrus Hofstede, who wrote as Irencus Reformatus, was a Dutch Reformed theologian, preacher, and professor at Rotterdam from 1770, known for his 1769 attack on Marmontel's Bélisaire.
Petrushka (ballet)
Petrushka (Петрушка) is Stravinsky's 1911 burlesque ballet in four scenes, choreographed by Fokine with libretto and designs by Benois for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, premiered 13 June 1911 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, with Nijinsky as the lovesick puppet killed by the Moor.
Petrushka theater
Petrushka theater (театр Петрушки) was the Russian folk puppet theater of the pre-revolutionary era, a street show around a comic glove puppet performed by an itinerant puppeteer behind a screen.
Petrykivka painting
Petrykivka painting (Петриківський розпис) is a Ukrainian folk art of ornamental floral painting that arose in the 19th century in the village of Petrykivka, painted freehand without a preliminary sketch.
Petržalka
Petržalka, a Bratislava municipal district on the Danube's right bank, is the largest prefabricated housing estate in Slovakia and Central Europe, with over 110,000 residents, about 50,000 flats, construction begun in 1973, and a new tram line opened in 2025.
Pets of Vladimir Putin
Pets of Vladimir Putin: the dogs and other animals owned by or gifted to Russia's president, also called puppy diplomacy. Key animals are the Labrador Koni, Buffy, the Akita Yume, Verny, and Pasha.
Pets.com
Pets.com was an American online pet retailer, backed by Amazon.com and known for its sock puppet mascot, that went public in 2000 and shut down nine months later.
PETSc
PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, is a library for the scalable, parallel solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations, running from laptops to GPU-based supercomputers.
Petscop
Petscop is a 2017-2019 YouTube horror web series by Tony Domenico, presented as let's play recordings of a fictional unfinished 1997 PlayStation game by Garalina, following player Paul through a hidden underworld tied to the real Candace Newmaker case.
PetSmart
PetSmart Inc. is the largest pet specialty retailer in North America, operating nearly 1,700 stores in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico with grooming, boarding, training, and veterinary services.
Petta (film)
Petta (பேட்ட), 2019 Tamil action drama by Karthik Subbaraj, Sun Pictures; Rajinikanth as hostel warden Kaali versus Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vijay Sethupathi; released 10 January 2019, grossed ₹232.92 crore worldwide.
Petta Rap
Petta Rap (பேட்ட ராப்), a 2024 Tamil musical action comedy directed by SJ Sinu, starring Prabhu Deva and Vedhika; titled after the Kadhalan song, released 27 September 2024, rated 3.4/10 on IMDb, grossing $1,400 worldwide.
Pettaikaali
Pettaikaali (பேட்டைக்காளி) is a 2022 Tamil action drama web series on Aha Tamil, the first based on Jallikattu, directed by La. Rajkumar, produced by Vetri Maaran, starring Kalaiyarasan and Kishore in 8 episodes.
Pettengill Dorsum
Pettengill Dorsum is an 804-km-long wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in Mercury's high northern latitudes, centered at 79.00°N, 9.96°, in quadrangle H-01. Adopted by the IAU on August 18, 2026, it honors radio astronomer Gordon Pettengill (1926–2021), who measured Mercury's spin rate by radar.
Petter Brodin
Petter Brodin (born 1982) is a Swedish pediatric immunologist, professor of pediatric immunology at Karolinska Institutet and Garfield Weston Chair of Neonatology at Imperial College London.
Petter Hugsted
Petter Hugsted (Alf Petter Hugsted, 1921–2000), Norwegian ski jumper from Kongsberg who won gold in the large hill at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics with 228.1 points; also played football for Norway's B-team.
Petter Larsen
Petter Larsen (Petter Andreas Larsen, 1890-1946) was a Norwegian sailor who won 12-metre class gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics aboard Magda IX, owned by his father Alfred Larsen; other namesakes include a Swedish hockey player and neurologist Jan Petter Larsen.
Petter Martinsen
Petter (Peter-) Marentius Martinsen (1887-1972), Norwegian gymnast from Sarpsborg, club Turn- og Idrettslaget National; won Olympic gold in the men's team all-around Free System event at Stockholm 1912; worked as a paper cutter.
Petter Minnhagen
Petter Minnhagen is a theoretical physicist known for work on the Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in two-dimensional superconductors; his theory appears in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics background.
Petter Northug
Petter Northug is a Norwegian cross-country skier who won two Olympic titles and multiple World Cup championships, retiring in 2018 to pursue a comeback.
Petteri Koponen
Petteri Koponen is a Finnish venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur who co-founded Lifeline Ventures in 2009 and earlier founded Jaiku, which Google acquired in 2007.
Petteri Lahtela
Petteri Lahtela is a Finnish technology founder from Oulu who co-founded Oura Health, maker of the Oura Ring, serving as its first CEO from 2013 to 2018.