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Phyllis Francis
Phyllis Francis (Phyllis Chanez Francis, born 1992, New York) is an American 400 m sprinter: 2017 world 400 m champion (49.92), Rio 2016 Olympic 4x400 m relay gold medalist, and world relay champion in 2017 and 2019.
Phyllis Gates
Phyllis Lucille Gates (1925-2006), American secretary and interior designer, was Rock Hudson's wife from 1955 to 1958 and wrote the 1987 memoir My Husband, Rock Hudson.
Phyllis George
Phyllis George (1949-2020), Miss America 1971, was the first female sportscaster at a major TV network, co-hosting CBS's The NFL Today from 1975, and first lady of Kentucky.
Phyllis Green
Phyllis Green (1908-1999), English high jumper of the London Olympiades club, first woman to clear five feet (1.524m, 11 July 1925), WAAA champion 1925-1927, ratified world records 1.524m and 1.552m; distinct from 1950s runner Phyllis Green-Perkins.
Phyllis Harding
Phyllis Harding (Phyllis May Harding, later Turner, 1907-1992), English backstroke swimmer: 1924 Olympic 100m backstroke silver, first woman in four Olympics, 1932 world records at 100m and 200m backstroke, Empire Games golds, ISHOF 1995.
Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), also Phyllis Linda Hyman, American soul, jazz, and R&B contralto singer and actress; hits "You Know How to Love Me," "Living All Alone," "Don't Wanna Change The World"; Tony-nominated for Sophisticated Ladies; died June 30, 1995.
Phyllis J. Hamilton
Phyllis J. Hamilton, born Phyllis Jean Hamilton in 1952, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Northern California since 2021.
Phyllis J. Kanki
Phyllis J. Kanki is a virologist and Mary Woodard Lasker Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for characterizing HIV-2 in Senegal.
Phyllis Jean Kanki
Phyllis Jean Kanki is a virologist and Harvard School of Public Health professor known for her Senegal research on HIV-2 and for building HIV treatment capacity in Nigeria.
Phyllis Logan
Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress, born in 1956 in Paisley, best known as Mrs. Hughes in Downton Abbey and for roles in Lovejoy and Secrets & Lies.
Phyllis Perkins
Phyllis Perkins (Phyllis Else Maureen Perkins, née Green, later Winger), British middle-distance runner (1934-2023) of Ilford AC; set four 1950s world records (1500m, 3000m twice, 3x880y relay), won AAA and English cross-country titles, and ran the 800m at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly (Phyllis McAlpin Stewart, 1924-2016), American conservative activist, lawyer, and author; founder of Eagle Forum and STOP ERA, author of A Choice Not an Echo; led the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, which fell three states short in 1982.
Phyllis Smith
Phyllis Smith (born Lemay, Missouri; birth year reported as 1949 or 1951) is an American actress and former casting associate, known for Phyllis Vance on The Office and as the voice of Sadness in Pixar's Inside Out films.
Phyllis Somerville
Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020), American character actress of Broadway's Over Here! and To Kill a Mockingbird and TV's The Big C; not the Australian novelist Phyllis Somerville (1904–1991) of Not Only in Stone.
Phyllis Speiser
Phyllis Speiser is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Northwell Health known for her research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia and for chairing the 2018 Endocrine Society guideline.
Phyllis Summers
Phyllis Summers, also Phyllis Romalotti, Newman, and Abbott, is a fictional schemer on CBS's The Young and the Restless, created in October 1994 and played mainly by Michelle Stafford, mother of Daniel and Summer.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter (Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter, 1919–2012), American actress from Portland, Maine, known for 1940s–50s wife roles and as Martha Kent in Superman (1978), opposite Glenn Ford.
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, American actress, comedian, playwright, and poet from Little Rock, Arkansas, known for The Women of Brewster Place, New Attitude, Malcolm X, and two AUDELCO awards.
Phyllite
Phyllite is a fine-grained, foliated metamorphic rock intermediate in grade between slate and schist, whose tiny mica crystals give its cleavage surfaces a silky sheen.
Phyllobates
Phyllobates is a genus of poison frogs restricted to humid tropical America. These dendrobatids are the only ones known to secrete Batrachotoxin, famously used on hunting darts.
Phylloceras
Phylloceras (Suess, 1865) is an extinct Jurassic–Cretaceous ammonoid genus, type species Ammonites heterophyllus, family Phylloceratidae, with involute smooth shells, phylloid sutures, and a Triassic-to-Late-Cretaceous range.
Phyllocladus
Phyllocladus (celery pines), a genus of Podocarpaceae conifers from Malesia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and New Zealand, with flattened leaf-like branchlets (phylloclades), four to five species, and a Gondwanan fossil record.
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, the celery-top pine, is a conifer of Tasmania's rainforests named for celery-like branchlets, growing to 20 m with wood used for furniture and ship masts.
Phyllodactylus
Phyllodactylus (American leaf-toed geckos), genus of Phyllodactylidae geckos established by Gray in 1828, type species P. pulcher; Eocene origins, 33 cryptic species in Mexico, Galápagos and Caribbean island species.
Phyllodes tumor of the breast
Phyllodes tumor of the breast, also called cystosarcoma phyllodes, is a rare fibroepithelial breast tumor graded benign, borderline, or malignant by WHO histological criteria, treated mainly by surgical excision with local recurrence rates of 8 to 18 percent.
Phyllodes tumor of the prostate
Phyllodes tumor of the prostate, also called cystic epithelial-stromal tumor or cystosarcoma phyllodes, is a rare biphasic prostatic neoplasm resembling breast phyllodes tumor; fewer than 100 cases reported, recurring after TURP, metastasizing to lung, bone, liver.
Phyllodoce (annelid)
Phyllodoce (Phyllodoce Lamarck, 1818) is a genus of marine paddle worms, family Phyllodocidae, phylum Annelida, with leaf-like dorsal cirri, an eversible jawless proboscis, species up to 300 mm and 600 segments, worldwide on sea bottoms; distinct from the plant genus Phyllodoce Salisb.
Phyllodoce mucosa
Phyllodoce mucosa (Anaitides mucosa) is an accepted marine paddleworm (Phyllodocidae) described by Örsted in 1843, up to 150 mm long, common on intertidal sand and mud in northern Europe, and easily confused with Phyllodoce maculata.
Phyllodocidae
Phyllodocidae is a family of marine polychaete worms called paddleworms, erected by Ørsted in 1843 and recognized by flattened, leaf-like dorsal cirri giving the body a fringed, leafy appearance.
Phyllomedusa
Phyllomedusa (leaf frogs, monkey frogs) is a Neotropical tree frog genus in Phyllomedusidae, type species P. bicolor, with 16 species from Panama to northern Argentina, known for lipid waterproofing and bioactive skin peptides.