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Phillip Schofield
Phillip Schofield (born 1962) is an English TV presenter, first in-vision Children's BBC announcer and This Morning host from 2002 with Holly Willoughby from 2009, who resigned from ITV in 2023 after admitting an affair with a younger male colleague.
Phillip T. Hawkins
Phillip Hawkins is a British biochemist who studies PI3K signaling enzymes at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.
Phillip V. Tobias
Phillip V. Tobias (1925–2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and anatomist who held the anatomy chair at the University of the Witwatersrand, led the Sterkfontein excavations, and helped name Homo habilis in 1964.
Phillip W. Berman
Phillip W. Berman is an American virologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, best known for inventing the AIDSVAX HIV vaccine used in the RV144 trial.
Phillip Wheeler
Phillip Wheeler is an American politician and Republican member of the Kentucky Senate from the 31st district, chairing the Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee.
Phillip Wilcher
Phillip Wilcher (born 1958, Sydney) is an Australian composer of piano music and art song, and the original fifth member of The Wiggles on their 1991 debut album; youngest published Australian composer at 14 with "Daybreak".
Phillip Wilson
Phillip Wilson (born 1996, Wellington) is a New Zealand rower, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, and seventh-place finisher in the coxless pair with Dan Williamson at Paris 2024.
Phillipa Soo
Phillipa Soo (born 1990) is an American actress and singer who originated Eliza Hamilton in Broadway's Hamilton, winning a Grammy and earning Tony and Emmy nominations; also known for Amelie, Into the Woods, Camelot, Doctor Odyssey, and the children's book Piper Chen Sings.
Phillips (lunar crater)
Phillips is a 104.21-km-wide complex impact crater on the Moon's southern near side at 26.57°S, 75.67°E, IAU-named in 1935 for British geologist-astronomer John Phillips (1800-1874), with satellite craters Phillips A through H and W.
Phillips (Martian crater)
Phillips is a 190.20 km IAU-approved impact crater at 66.45°S on Mars, named in 1973 for John Phillips (1800–1874), British geologist; distinct from the 104.21 km lunar crater Phillips.
Phillips 66
Phillips 66 is an American integrated downstream energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas, spun off from ConocoPhillips as an independent company in 2012, with refining, midstream, and chemicals operations.
Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy Andover, founded 1778 in Andover, Massachusetts, is America's oldest incorporated academy, a coeducational grades 9-12 boarding and day prep school of about 1,170 students, need-blind with 100% of demonstrated need met.
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman, longtime rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Bishop of Massachusetts from 1891, and author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
Phillips curve
The Phillips curve is the relationship between unemployment and inflation, first drawn by A. W. Phillips in 1958 from UK wage data and later applied to prices.
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy, also known as Phillips Exeter, is a coeducational independent residential high school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded by John and Elizabeth Phillips in 1781.
Phillips Petroleum
Phillips Petroleum was an American integrated oil and gas company incorporated at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1917, which made the first economic oil discovery off Norway before merging with Conoco in 2002.
Phillips W. Robbins
Phillips W. Robbins (1930–2026) was an American biochemist and glycobiologist, a National Academy of Sciences member who worked at MIT for nearly 40 years and later at Boston University.
Phillipsia
Phillipsia (Portlock, 1843) is a Carboniferous trilobite genus of the family Phillipsiidae, order Proetida, once a broad catch-all taxon, now restricted to Europe, with tuberculate pygidia in 4-8 axial rows.
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Wheatley Peters, c. 1753-1784), enslaved in Boston, published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773), the first book of poetry by an African American; first published at 14, patronized by the Countess of Huntingdon.
Phillyrea
Phillyrea (mock privet) is a Mediterranean genus of evergreen Oleaceae shrubs with two accepted species, P. angustifolia and P. latifolia, known for diallelic self-incompatibility, androdioecy, and strong drought tolerance.
Philmont Scout Ranch
Philmont Scout Ranch, also Philturn Rocky Mountain Scout Camp, is Scouting America's largest national high-adventure base: a 140,177-acre New Mexico wilderness donated by Waite Phillips, offering backpacking treks, cavalcades, and training since 1939.
Philo
Philo of Alexandria, also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of Alexandria who read the Torah through Greek philosophy and led a Jewish embassy to Caligula.
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–1971) was an American inventor who conceived electronic television at 14, transmitted his first image in 1927, and defeated RCA over his 1930 patent.
Philo Vance
Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective created by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine). His novels ran from 1926 to 1939, solving twelve murder puzzles.
Philocles
Philocles, also transliterated Philokles, was a Phoenician by birth and Greek by culture who ruled as King of the Sidonians, serving the first two Ptolemies until about 279 BC.
Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης)
Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης), son of Poeas, is the Greek archer hero of the Trojan War who held Heracles' bow, was abandoned with a snake-bitten wound on Lemnos for ten years, and was recalled to Troy by prophecy, chiefly through Sophocles' 409 BC tragedy.
Philodendron
Philodendron, also known as Arosma, is a genus of several hundred evergreen flowering plants in the arum family, native from Mexico to tropical America and widely grown as houseplants.
Philodendron hederaceum
Philodendron hederaceum (heartleaf philodendron, formerly P. scandens) is a hemiepiphytic Araceae vine native from Mexico to tropical South America, a popular low-light houseplant with toxic sap, invasive in Hawaii, Florida, and Singapore.
Philodromidae
Philodromidae, the running crab spiders, is a spider family of 31 genera and 533 species, sister to Salticidae, elevated from Thomisidae by Homann 1975, with Philodromus as its largest genus.
Philodryas
Philodryas (South American green racers, bush racers) is a Wagler 1830 genus of rear-fanged Dipsadidae snakes endemic to South America, with roughly 17 species, unstable taxonomy, and SVMP-rich venom; P. olfersii bites cause serious envenomation.