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Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot le fou, 1965 Jean-Luc Godard film (France-Italy) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, adapted from Lionel White's Obsession; a color New Wave lovers-on-the-run crime-essay ranked =85 in Sight & Sound 2022.
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, born 1934), American fantasy and science fiction author, creator of the pun-filled Xanth series beginning with A Spell for Chameleon, plus Incarnations of Immortality and Apprentice Adept.
Piers Coleman
Piers Coleman (born 1958) is a British-American theoretical condensed matter physicist at Rutgers University, known for work on strongly correlated electron systems, including magnetism, superconductivity, and topological insulators.
Piers Corbyn
Piers Corbyn (born 1947) is a British weather forecaster and astrophysicist who founded WeatherAction, a London company selling long-range forecasts based on solar activity and the Moon.
Piers Curran
Piers Curran, born 1977, is a British financial trader who co-founded Amplify Trading, known as AmplifyME, in London in 2009 with fellow trader Will de Lucy.
Piers Faccini
Piers Faccini is a British-Italian singer-songwriter and painter, born in 1970 and based in the Cévennes since 2004, who runs the label Beating Drum and won a Victoire du jazz.
Piers Forster
Piers Forster is a British climate scientist, Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds, and interim chair of the UK Climate Change Committee since 2023.
Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1284–1312), Gascon favourite of Edward II, granted the earldom by charter of 6 August 1307, thrice exiled, executed on Blacklow Hill in 1312.
Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan, English journalist and TV presenter; editor of the News of the World and Daily Mirror; Good Morning Britain host who quit in 2021 over Meghan Markle comments, later cleared by Ofcom; host of Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube.
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Piers Morgan Uncensored is Piers Morgan's interview show, launched 25 April 2022 on TalkTV with FOX Nation and Sky News Australia, moved online-only to YouTube in 2024, and spun off into The Royals Uncensored and World Cup Uncensored.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman, also called The Vision of Piers Plowman, is William Langland's late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative dream-vision poem, surviving in A, B, and C texts across more than fifty manuscripts, none identical.
Pierson Fodé
Pierson Fodé (born 1991, Moses Lake, Washington) is an American actor and model. Played Thomas Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful (2015-2018, two Daytime Emmy nominations), starred in The Wrong Paris, Swiped, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, and The Man from Toronto.
Pierson syndrome
Pierson syndrome (microcoria-congenital nephrosis syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive LAMB2 disorder causing congenital nephrotic syndrome, diffuse mesangial sclerosis, microcoria, and neurodevelopmental deficits; distinct from Posner-Schlossman and Pearson syndromes.
Pies Descalzos
Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet), third studio album by Colombian singer Shakira, released 6 October 1995; produced with Luis Fernando Ochoa, recorded in Bogotá and Miami, over a million copies sold in Colombia, her international breakthrough.
Pieśni
Pieśni (Songs) is the principal Polish-language lyric collection of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, published posthumously in Kraków in 1586; adapting Horace's Carmina, it is regarded as a central statement of Polish Renaissance philosophy.
Piet (programming language)
Piet is an esoteric, stack-based programming language created by David Morgan-Mar and named after Piet Mondrian, in which a program is an image of colored blocks and instructions depend on color changes between them.
Piet A. J. de Boer
Piet A. J. de Boer is a microbiologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University known for work on how Escherichia coli selects and builds its division site.
Piet Borst
Piet Borst, born 1934 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physician-biochemist who directed the Netherlands Cancer Institute and is known for mitochondrial DNA, trypanosome immune evasion, and P-glycoprotein knockout studies, winning the 2023 Lasker-Koshland Award.
Piet C. de Groen
Piet C. de Groen is a professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota Medical School, trained at Nijmegen and Mayo Clinic.
Piet Cronje
Piet Cronje (Piet Cronjé) was a Boer general of the South African Republic who fought in both Boer Wars and surrendered to the British at Paardeberg in 1900.
Piet de Brouwer
Piet de Brouwer (Petrus Godefridus de Brouwer, 1880–1953), Dutch archer from Gestel; won gold in the men's team target archery at 28 metres at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics with the Netherlands.
Piet Hein
Piet Hein (1905–1996) was a Danish poet, designer, and inventor who wrote nearly 10,000 short aphoristic grooks and created the superellipse curve used in furniture and city squares.
Piet Herdewijn
Piet Herdewijn is a Belgian chemist-bologist, born in Aalst in 1954, an emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at KU Leuven's Rega Institute known for antiviral nucleosides and xeno nucleic acids.
Piet Hut
Piet Hut, full name Pieter Hut, is an astrophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for the Barnes–Hut algorithm.
Piet Joubert
Piet Joubert, full name Petrus Jacobus Joubert, was a Boer soldier and statesman who led Transvaal forces to victory over Britain in the 1880 to 1881 war.
Piet Kleine
Piet Kleine, Dutch long-track speed skater born 1951 in Hollandscheveld; 1976 Olympic 10,000 m champion and world allround champion, silver 5,000 m 1976 and 10,000 m 1980; later cyclist and marathon skater.
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, 1872–1944), Dutch painter and De Stijl co-founder, creator of Neoplasticism: black horizontal-vertical grids with red, yellow, blue planes; late New York works Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie.
Piet Raijmakers
Piet Raijmakers (Petrus Josephus Raijmakers), Dutch show jumper born 1956 in Asten; won 1992 Barcelona Olympic team gold and individual silver on Ratina Z, 2006 world team gold, retired 2010, now trains at Team Piet Raijmakers.
Piet Retief
Piet Retief, also known as Pieter Retief, was a Boer farmer and governor of the Voortrekkers during the Great Trek, killed with his party by the Zulu king Dingane in 1838.
Piet Retief's Manifesto (1837)
Piet Retief's Manifesto (Piet Retief se Manifesto) is the January 1837 statement by Piet Retief setting out the grievances behind the Great Trek, published in the Grahamstown Journal.