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Phil Wickham
Phil Wickham (Philip David Wickham), born 1984, is an American contemporary worship singer-songwriter from California whose songs include "This Is Amazing Grace," "Living Hope," and "Hymn of Heaven."
Phil Wizard
Phil Wizard is the competitive name of Philip Kim, a Canadian b-boy based in Vancouver who won gold in breaking at the 2024 Paris Olympics, its first Games.
Phil Woods
Phil Woods (1931–2015), American bebop alto saxophonist and clarinetist, four-time Grammy winner, NEA Jazz Master 2007, leader of the Phil Woods Quintet, and soloist on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are."
Phil X
Phil X (Philip Eric Xenidis) is a Greek-born Canadian guitarist and Bon Jovi lead guitarist since 2013, replacing Richie Sambora; also Triumph's Edge of Excess guitarist, session player, and Fretted Americana YouTube star.
Phil Zimmermann
Phil Zimmermann (Philip R. Zimmermann) is an American cryptographer who created PGP in 1991, faced a US criminal investigation over its export, and later founded PGP Inc. and Silent Circle.
Philadelphi Corridor
Philadelphi Corridor (Philadelphi Route): narrow 14 km buffer strip on Gaza's border with Egypt, created under the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, held by Israel until 2005, later a smuggling-tunnel zone and a central dispute in the Gaza war and ceasefire talks.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's largest city (1,574,281 residents, 2025), founded by William Penn in 1682; a postindustrial hub of eds-and-meds economy, strong-mayor government, SEPTA funding crisis, and 19.7% poverty rate.
Philadelphia (Amman)
Philadelphia (Amman) was the Hellenistic and Roman name of Rabbath Ammon, the Ammonite capital renamed by Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283–246 BC), a southernmost Decapolis city, now Amman, Jordan's capital.
Philadelphia (film)
Philadelphia (1993), Jonathan Demme's legal drama written by Ron Nyswaner, stars Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS suing his firm, with Denzel Washington; first major Hollywood AIDS film, two Oscars, National Film Registry 2025.
Philadelphia 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers, NBA team founded 1946 as the Syracuse Nationals, relocated to Philadelphia 1963. Three championships (1955, 1967, 1983), nine Finals appearances, all-time record 3170-2935, home at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Philadelphia Badlands
Philadelphia Badlands: informal name for the Fairhill and West Kensington area of North Philadelphia, coined by narcotics police in the late 1980s for its open-air drug markets, later a Google Maps label controversy.
Philadelphia Bell
Philadelphia Bell, WFL franchise 1974-1975, Philadelphia pro football team known for the Papergate attendance scandal and for hiring Willie Wood, the first Black pro football head coach since 1925; folded October 22, 1975.
Philadelphia Big 5
Philadelphia Big 5 (Big Five), an intracity college basketball association founded in 1955-56 among La Salle, Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, and Villanova, with Drexel joining women's play in 2024; Palestra-based round-robin, City Series champion, later Big 5 Classic.
Philadelphia chromosome
The Philadelphia chromosome, or Philadelphia translocation, is a shortened chromosome 22 with the BCR::ABL1 fusion gene, found in almost all cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia and some acute leukemias.
Philadelphia City Hall
Philadelphia City Hall, the seat of Philadelphia's municipal government, was built from 1871 to 1901 and remains the largest city hall in the United States.
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), founded 1899 as PCIO, the nation's third osteopathic college; private non-profit medical school with campuses in Philadelphia, Suwanee (PCOM Georgia), and Moultrie (PCOM South Georgia), granting DO and health-professions degrees.
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, one of the three original counties William Penn created in 1682, has been coterminous with the City of Philadelphia since 1854 and has no county government.
Philadelphia crime family
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Philadelphia Mafia or Philly mob, is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Philadelphia and active since the early 1900s.
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles, NFL team in the NFC East founded July 8, 1933 from the Frankford Yellowjackets; three pre-Super Bowl NFL titles (1948, 1949, 1960) and Super Bowl wins LII and LIX, home at Lincoln Financial Field.
Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment, also called the Philadelphia Project, is an alleged secret United States Navy experiment said to have rendered the destroyer escort USS Eldridge invisible in 1943.
Philadelphia Flyers
Philadelphia Flyers: NHL expansion team (1967) in the Metropolitan Division, first expansion club to win the Stanley Cup (1974, 1975) as the Broad Street Bullies; rebuilding under GM Danny Brière after a playoff drought from 2020.
Philadelphia Folk Festival
The Philadelphia Folk Festival is an outdoor folk music festival founded in 1962 and held on Old Pool Farm near Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, presented by the Philadelphia Folksong Society.
Philadelphia Freedom (song)
Philadelphia Freedom: 1975 Elton John/Bernie Taupin single by the Elton John Band, written for Billie Jean King's World TeamTennis Philadelphia Freedoms; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 April 12, 1975 for two weeks, produced by Gus Dudgeon with Gene Page orchestration.
Philadelphia International Airport
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is the major airport serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located about 7 miles from downtown and serving as a connecting hub and leading transatlantic gateway for American Airlines.
Philadelphia International Cycling Classic
Philadelphia International Cycling Classic, also run as the CoreStates USPRO Championship and today the Philadelphia Cycling Classic, is a one-day UCI road race in Philadelphia first held in 1985, defined by the 17-percent Manayunk Wall climb, cancelled after 2016, and revived in 2026.
Philadelphia Main Line
The Philadelphia Main Line is a string of affluent suburban communities northwest of Philadelphia that grew up around Pennsylvania Railroad stations from Overbrook to Paoli, starting in the 1870s.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), formerly Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, a Philadelphia art museum founded 1876 from the Centennial Exhibition; 240,000+ objects, 1928 Beaux-Arts building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Frank Gehry Core Project, and 2026 A Nation of Artists exhibition.
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra, founded 1900, is a Big Five American symphony orchestra of about 100 full-time musicians, known for the Philadelphia Sound, recording and broadcast firsts, the 1973 China tour, and its 2011-12 bankruptcy and recovery.
Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies is an MLB team founded in 1883, recognized as the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise. They won World Series titles in 1980 and 2008.
Philadelphia Soul
The Philadelphia Soul was a professional arena football team based in Philadelphia, competing in the Arena Football League from 2004 to 2019 and winning three championships.