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Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci is an Italian hematologist and professor emeritus at the University of Milan, known for hemophilia research and the first clinical use of desmopressin.
Pier Paolo Di Fiore
Pier Paolo Di Fiore is an Italian molecular oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan known for showing how endocytosis regulates cancer signaling.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Pier Paolo Pandolfi is an Italian-born cancer geneticist, born in Rome, known for his work on the tumor suppressors PTEN and PML and on acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian poet, novelist, essayist, and film director of Accattone, Il vangelo secondo Matteo, and Salò; Friulian-language poet, polemicist against consumerism, murdered at Ostia in an officially contested case.
Pier Vincenzo Piazza
Pier Vincenzo Piazza, born 1961 in Palermo, is a Franco-Italian psychiatrist and Inserm research director who demonstrated individual vulnerability to addiction and developed AEF0117 for cannabis use disorder.
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, known as Cardinal Pizzaballa, is an Italian Franciscan friar who has served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 2020 and became the first cardinal of Jerusalem in 2023.
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan (OBE), Irish-American actor born 1953, rose to fame in Remington Steele (1982-87) and played James Bond in four films 1995-2002. Also known for Mrs. Doubtfire, Mamma Mia!, Irish DreamTime productions, and marine-mammal environmentalism.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, also called Westwood Memorial Park, is a Los Angeles cemetery and funeral home known for celebrity graves, especially Marilyn Monroe's.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown, American science fiction author of the Red Rising Saga (Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, Dark Age, Light Bringer), the Sons of Ares prequel comics, and the announced Book of Lorn; debut published 2014.
Pierce Butler (judge)
Pierce Butler (1866–1939), first Minnesotan on the U.S. Supreme Court, associate justice 1923–1939; Harding nominee, Four Horsemen member, lone Buck v. Bell dissenter.
Pierce Charles
Pierce Joseph Charles, known as Pierce Charles, is a Northern Irish goalkeeper who plays for Queens Park Rangers, on loan from Manchester City, and for Northern Ireland.
Pierce County, Washington
Pierce County, Washington: county created December 22, 1852 from Thurston County, named for President Franklin Pierce; seat Tacoma; second most populous Washington county (921,130 in 2020), home to Mount Rainier, JBLM, and the Port of Tacoma.
Pierce Gagnon
Pierce Gagnon (born 2005, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American child actor known as Cid in Looper (2012), Ethan Woods in Extant, and Logan Evans in One Tree Hill, later voicing Tiago in Rio 2 and Timmy Templeton in The Boss Baby series.
Pierce Oil and Gas Field
The Pierce Oil and Gas Field is an oil and gas field in the UK Central North Sea, discovered in 1975 and producing first oil in 1999.
Pierce the Veil
Pierce the Veil is a San Diego post-hardcore band formed in 2006 by brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes after Before Today; five albums, the Gold single King for a Day, and the 2025 I Can't Hear You Tour distinguish it from namesakes.
Piercebridge
Piercebridge is a County Durham village on the River Tees, known for the remains of a Roman bridge and fort where Dere Street crossed the river.
Piercebridge Roman Bridge
Piercebridge Roman Bridge: remains of a Roman bridge carrying Dere Street over the River Tees at Piercebridge, County Durham/North Yorkshire. Two bridges existed; the stone-piered second, built early 3rd century, was found in 1972 and is a scheduled monument.
Piercing
Piercing is a 2018 American psychological horror film by Nicolas Pesce, adapted from Ryū Murakami's 1994 novel, starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska; premiered at Sundance 2018, released in the US in 2019.
Piercing the corporate veil
Piercing the corporate veil, also called the alter ego doctrine, lets courts set aside limited liability and hold shareholders personally liable for corporate debts, typically after commingling of assets, undercapitalization, or fraud, with differing US and English approaches.
Pierfrancesco Favino
Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor born in Rome in 1969, star of Romanzo criminale, Il traditore, Hammamet, and Padrenostro; Coppa Volpi 2020 winner with three David di Donatello awards.
Pierfrancesco Maran
Pierfrancesco Maran is an Italian Democratic Party politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2024 who chairs the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety.
PierFranco Conte
PierFranco Conte is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Padova, known for the OlympiAD olaparib trial in BRCA-mutated breast cancer.
Pierfranco Vianelli
Pierfranco Vianelli (1946–2026), Italian road cyclist; Olympic road race gold and 100 km team time trial bronze at Mexico City 1968; pro 1969–73 with Molteni, Dreher, Brooklyn; won 1971 Giro Grossglockner stage.
Pieridae
Pieridae, the whites, yellows, and sulphurs, is a worldwide butterfly family of about 1,183 species in 118 genera, with pterin-pigment wing colors, crucifer- and legume-feeding caterpillars, and diversification linked to temperature.
Pierino Gabetti
Pierino Gabetti (Pierino Paolo Gabetti), Italian weightlifter (1904-1971) from Sestri Ponente, Genova; featherweight Olympic gold at Paris 1924 (402.5 kg), silver at Amsterdam 1928, fourth at Los Angeles 1932; seven Italian titles and later national coach.
Pieris
Pieris names two genera: Pieris D.Don (1834), about nine Ericaceae shrub species from Himalaya to East Asia and eastern North America, and Pieris Schrank, 1801, the Pieridae white butterflies including Pieris napi.
Pieris brassicae
Pieris brassicae, the large white or large cabbage white butterfly, is a Palearctic Pieridae pest of brassicas; gregarious larvae, egg clusters of 40-100, 260 Mb genome, eradicated from New Zealand in 2016.
Pieris rapae
Pieris rapae, the small cabbage white or cabbage white butterfly, is a European butterfly whose caterpillars are a major pest of cruciferous crops, now on every continent except South America.
Pierius
Pierius (Πιέριος) was a presbyter of the church of Alexandria under Bishop Theonas, during the reigns of Carus and Diocletian, whom Jerome called "Origen the Younger" for his elegant teaching.
Pierluigi Collina
Pierluigi Collina, born 1960 in Bologna, is an Italian former football referee who took the 1999 Champions League and 2002 World Cup finals, was IFFHS World's Best Referee 1998-2003, and now leads FIFA refereeing.