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Philippe Roland Spalart
Philippe Roland Spalart is an aerodynamicist trained in Paris and at Stanford who created the Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model and worked as a Senior Technical Fellow at Boeing.
Philippe Rozier
Philippe Rozier, French show jumper born 1963 in Melun, son of Olympic champion Marcel Rozier; three Olympics, team gold at Rio 2016 on Rahotep de Toscane, world and European team silver.
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands (Philippe Joseph Sands, born 1960) is a Franco-British international lawyer, UCL Professor of the Public Understanding of Law, and author of East West Street, Lawless World, and 38 Londres Street.
Philippe Sansonetti
Philippe J. Sansonetti (born 1949) is a French microbiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Institut Pasteur and the Collège de France, known for his work on Shigella pathogenesis.
Philippe Sautet
Philippe Sautet, born 1961, is a French theoretical chemist who studies heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis by computer simulation, a UCLA professor since 2016 and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Philippe Senderos
Philippe Senderos, born 1985 in Geneva, Swiss centre-back; Arsenal 2003-2010 (117 games, 2005 FA Cup), 57 Switzerland caps, three World Cups, later Servette sporting director.
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers, pen name of Philippe Joyaux (1936-2023), French novelist, critic, and founder-leader of the avant-garde review Tel Quel (1960-1982) and L'Infini (1983); experimental novels like Paradis, then the 1983 bestseller Femmes; husband of Julia Kristeva.
Philippe Soriano
Philippe Soriano is a developmental biologist and mouse geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, best known for discovering the ROSA26 locus and creating the R26R Cre reporter mouse strain.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (born 1949, Paris) is a French designer and architect of hotels (Royalton, Delano), the Juicy Salif squeezer, democratic design, YOO residences, and ISS interiors.
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave was a Haitian lawyer and senator who served as president of Haiti from 1915 to 1922, during the first years of the American occupation.
Philippe Tabarot
Philippe Tabarot is a French politician of Les Républicains who has served as Minister of Transport since 2025, having been appointed minister delegate for transport in December 2024.
Philippe the Original
Philippe the Original is a 1908 Los Angeles deli, founded by Philippe Mathieu, claiming to have invented the French dip sandwich in 1918; it competes with Cole's over that claim and is run by the Martin and Binder families.
Philippe Van Cappellen
Philippe Van Cappellen is a Belgian-trained environmental biogeochemist at the University of Waterloo since 2011, known for the 1996 phosphorus–oxygen theory of ocean–atmosphere redox stability.
Philippe Van de Perre
Philippe Van de Perre, born 1955, is a French physician-scientist in bacteriology and virology who in 1991 first demonstrated that HIV is transmitted from mother to child through breastfeeding.
Philippeville massacre
The Philippeville massacre, or insurrection of 20 August 1955, was an FLN-coordinated attack on about forty towns and villages in Constantinois, French Algeria, followed by French reprisals that killed thousands of Algerians.
Philippi (Φίλιπποι)
Philippi (Φίλιπποι), ancient city in eastern Macedonia on the Via Egnatia; founded 356 BCE by Philip II on the Thasian colony Krenides, refounded as a Roman colony after 42 BCE, visited by Paul in 49/50 CE, UNESCO-listed 2016.
Philippine adobo
Philippine adobo is the Filipino braise of meat, seafood, or vegetables in vinegar, garlic, bay leaf, and usually soy sauce. The name is Spanish (adobar, to marinate); the technique predates colonization and the first record is the 1613 Vocabulario de la lengua tagala.
Philippine Air Force
The Philippine Air Force (PAF, Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas) is the air branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, established July 1, 1947 by Executive Order No. 94; headquartered at Villamor Air Base, it rebuilt its fighter force with FA-50PH jets after a 2005–2015 fighter gap.
Philippine Airlines
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is the Philippines' flag carrier, founded in 1941 and described as Asia's first commercial airline, operating from Manila, Cebu, Clark, and Davao.
Philippine Airlines fleet
The Philippine Airlines fleet is the aircraft fleet of Philippine Airlines, Asia's first commercial airline, operating 82 Airbus and Boeing aircraft from hubs in Manila and Cebu.
Philippine Airlines Flight 434
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 (PR434), Manila–Cebu–Tokyo Boeing 747 bombed 11 December 1994 by Ramzi Yousef as a Bojinka plot test; device under seat 26K killed Haruki Ikegami; crew landed at Naha, Okinawa.
Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation
PAGCOR (Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation), state gaming regulator-operator under the Philippine Office of the President; created 1977, chartered by PD 1869; record Php112 billion 2024 revenues; banned all POGOs effective December 15, 2024.
Philippine Arena
The Philippine Arena is a 55,000-seat indoor arena in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines, commissioned by the Iglesia ni Cristo and opened in 2014 as the world's largest mixed-use indoor theater.
Philippine Army
The Philippine Army, also known as the Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas, is the ground forces branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, celebrating its 129th anniversary in 2026.
Philippine Assembly
The Philippine Assembly was the elected lower house of the Philippine Islands legislature under American rule, sitting from 1907 to 1916 with Sergio Osmena as its first speaker.
Philippine banking crisis (1983–1986)
The Philippine banking crisis of 1983 to 1986 brought bank runs, the failure of three commercial and over 100 rural banks, and insolvency at state banks PNB and DBP.
Philippine Basketball Association
Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), Asia's first professional basketball league, founded April 9, 1975 at Araneta Coliseum by MICAA teams. Three-conference season (Commissioner's, Philippine, Governor's Cups), annual draft, Grand Slam title.
Philippine Coast Guard
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the Philippines' armed uniformed maritime law enforcement service under the Department of Transportation; primary enforcer of Philippine rights in the South China Sea since the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff, known for its transparency strategy against Chinese gray-zone actions.
Philippine Commission
The Philippine Commission was the body through which the United States governed the Philippine Islands, headed by William Howard Taft from 1900 and abolished in 1916.
Philippine criminal law
Philippine criminal law, chiefly the Revised Penal Code (Act No. 3815, effective January 1, 1932), defines crimes and penalties in the Philippines, descends from the Spanish Penal Code of 1870, and is being consolidated into a proposed new Criminal Code.