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Phoebe & Jay
Phoebe & Jay is a 2026 PBS KIDS animated preschool series by Genie Deez and Thy Than about 6-year-old twins in Tobsy Towers learning functional literacy from everyday texts, premiering February 2, 2026.
Phoebe A. Rice
Phoebe A. Rice is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Chicago known for structures of the Mu transposase and DNA-bending protein IHF.
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers (born 1994) is an American indie folk singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. Solo albums: Stranger in the Alps (2017), Punisher (2020), Lost Weekend (2026); bands boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center; four Grammys at the 2024 ceremony.
Phoebe Buffay
Phoebe Buffay is the eccentric masseuse-musician of the sitcom Friends (1994-2004), played by Lisa Kudrow, who won a 1998 Emmy for the role; known for "Smelly Cat", twin Ursula, and the triplets surrogacy arc.
Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born 1963, New York City), also Phoebe Belle Cates Kline, American actress of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins; retired from film after Princess Caraboo (1994) and The Anniversary Party (2001), married to Kevin Kline, founder of the Blue Tree boutique.
Phoebe Dahl
Phoebe Dahl, American fashion designer, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; founder of Faircloth & Supply (Los Angeles, 2013), a one-for-one linen label donating school uniforms to Nepali girls; later Gen Art creative director and Sometime Never travel club founder.
Phoebe Dynevor
Phoebe Dynevor (born 1995, Manchester) is a British actress known as Daphne Bridgerton in Netflix's Bridgerton and as Emily in Fair Play; also The Colour Room, Anniversary, Thrash, and upcoming Remain and Beach Read.
Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox (Phoebe Mercedes Fox), English actress born 1987 in Hammersmith, London; RADA-trained stage and screen actor known for A View from the Bridge, The Hollow Crown, The Great (Marial), Task, and War, distinct from the American Breakup Doctor author of the same name.
Phoebe Gates
Phoebe Gates, youngest daughter of Bill and Melinda French Gates, co-founded the AI shopping assistant Phia with Sophia Kianni in April 2025; it raised $35M at a $185M valuation, then faced 2026 cookie-stuffing and privacy controversies.
Phoebe Halliwell
Phoebe Halliwell is a fictional character from the supernatural drama series Charmed (The WB, 1998–2006), played by Alyssa Milano, whose power of premonition grows into levitation and empathy.
Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919), American philanthropist and first female regent of the University of California; wife of Senator George Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst; founded UC's anthropology museum in 1901.
Phoebe Nicholls
Phoebe Nicholls (born 1957, London) is an English actress known for Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (1981) and Merrick's mother in The Elephant Man; wife of director Charles Sturridge, mother of Tom Sturridge.
Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo: British designer, Central Saint Martins graduate, creative director of Chloé (2001–2006) and Céline (2008–2017), creator of the Paddington and Luggage bags, and founder since 2023 of her own LVMH-backed eponymous label.
Phoebe Plummer
Phoebe Plummer, British Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 2022, jailed two years in 2024, later given suspended M25 conspiracy sentence.
Phoebe Regio
Phoebe Regio (Venus regio, also called Phoebe Rise) is a 2,852 km-wide tessera-covered Venusian highland south of Beta Regio, with thickened crust, hot mantle, Devana Chasma rifts, and a 2,700 km bolide airburst chain.
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress best known as co-creator and co-star of 2 Dope Queens with Jessica Williams, a podcast turned HBO series.
Phoebe Snetsinger
Phoebe Snetsinger (1931–1999), American birder of Webster Groves, Missouri; first person to list over 8,000 bird species after a 1981 terminal melanoma diagnosis; died in a Madagascar van crash; memoir Birding on Borrowed Time.
Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow (Phoebe Ann Laub, 1950 or 1952-2011) was an American singer-songwriter whose gold 1974 debut and hit 'Poetry Man' showcased her elastic contralto across pop, jazz, and folk.
Phoebe Tonkin
Phoebe Tonkin (Phoebe Jane Elizabeth Tonkin, born 1989) is an Australian actress known as Cleo in H2O: Just Add Water, Hayley Marshall in The Originals, and AACTA-winning lead of Boy Swallows Universe.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an English actress, writer, and producer, best known as the creator, writer, and star of the BBC tragicomedy Fleabag (2016–2019) and head writer of Killing Eve's first series.
Phoebus cartel
Phoebus cartel, or Lightbulb Conspiracy: international cartel of Osram, Philips, GE and others formed in Geneva in December 1924 that capped incandescent bulb life at 1,000 hours with Swiss-lab testing and fines, the founding case of planned obsolescence; nullified in 1940.
Phoebus Levene
Phoebus Levene (born Fishel Aaronovich Levin) was a Russian-born American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute studying nucleic acids, identifying ribose and deoxyribose and proposing the tetranucleotide hypothesis.
Phoenicia
Phoenicia, also known as Phoinikia, was an ancient Levantine coastal region whose seafaring city-states like Tyre and Sidon created Mediterranean trade networks famed for purple dye.
Phoenicia under Assyrian rule
Phoenicia under Assyrian rule was the period from the 9th to the late 7th century BC when cities like Tyre and Sidon paid tribute to Assyria.
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule was the period when Nebuchadnezzar II's Neo-Babylonian Empire governed the Phoenician coastal cities through vassal kings and tribute, ending with the Persian conquest of 539 BC.
Phoenician adoration steles
Phoenician adoration steles are votive limestone slabs carved with a raised-hand gesture, dedicated in Phoenician and Punic sanctuaries chiefly between the fourth and second centuries BC.
Phoenician alphabet
Phoenician alphabet, also called the Early Linear script, a 22-letter consonantal abjad written right to left from the twelfth century BC; ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac scripts, spread by Phoenician trade across the Mediterranean.
Phoenician and Punic literature
Phoenician and Punic literature, also called Phoenician literature, is the body of writing in the Phoenician and Punic languages, surviving mainly as more than 10,000 short inscriptions.
Phoenician and Punic Sardinia
Phoenician and Punic Sardinia is the Phoenician and Carthaginian presence on Sardinia from the 8th century BC until Roman conquest, based on coastal colonies like Tharros, Nora, and Karalis.
Phoenician arrowheads
Phoenician arrowheads are bronze arrowheads of the 11th and 10th centuries BC bearing short owner inscriptions in an early Phoenician alphabet, with 68 known by 2020.