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Pamela Sklar
Pamela Sklar (1959–2017) was an American psychiatric geneticist whose 2009 Nature paper gave the first robust evidence that schizophrenia risk is polygenic, involving thousands of common variants.
Pamela Smart
Pamela Smart, American former school media coordinator serving life without parole for conspiring in the May 1, 1990 murder of her husband Gregory Smart in Derry, New Hampshire, by her teenage lover William Flynn; her 1991 trial was among the first fully televised in the US.
Pamela Springsteen
Pamela Springsteen (born 1962), American actress turned photographer, younger sister of Bruce Springsteen. Known for playing killer Angela Baker in Sleepaway Camp II and III (1988-89), then a second career shooting album covers and portraits for Ice Cube, Willie Nelson and others.
Pamela Stanley
Pamela Stanley is an Australian-American glycobiologist and Professor Emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for creating lectin-resistant CHO cell lines that revealed how cell-surface carbohydrates are built.
Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Stephenson (Pamela Stephenson Connolly, Lady Connolly), born 1949 in Takapuna, Auckland, is a New Zealand-born actress and comedian known for Not the Nine O'Clock News, History of the World: Part I, and Superman III, later a clinical psychologist, author of Billy, and wife of Billy Connolly.
Pamela Stevenson
Pamela Stevenson is an American Democratic politician representing District 43 in the Kentucky House of Representatives, where she serves as Minority Floor Leader; she previously served 27 years in the Air Force as a JAG attorney.
Pamela Sue Martin
Pamela Sue Martin (born 1953, Westport, Connecticut) is an American actress who played Nancy Drew in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-1978) and Fallon Carrington on Dynasty (1981-1984), winning a 1984 Bambi Award.
Pamela Talkin
Pamela Talkin, tenth Marshal of the United States Supreme Court (2001-2020) and its first female Marshal; former EEOC chief of staff and FLRA nominee; retired July 31, 2020.
Pamela Tiffin
Pamela Tiffin (Pamela Tiffin Wonso, 1942–2020), American actress of the 1960s known for Summer and Smoke, Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three with James Cagney, Harper with Paul Newman, and Italian comedies including Straziami ma di baci saziami; retired 1974.
Pamela Voorhees
Pamela Voorhees, also called Mrs. Voorhees, is the fictional mother of Jason Voorhees and the killer of the original Friday the 13th (1980), played by Betsy Palmer and later Linda Cardellini in the 2026 Peacock prequel series Crystal Lake.
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson's 1740 epistolary novel about maidservant Pamela Andrews and Mr. B, an instant bestseller that sparked the Pamela controversy and Fielding's Shamela.
Pamelyn Ferdin
Pamelyn Ferdin, born in 1959, is a former American child actress who voiced Lucy van Pelt in Peanuts and Fern in Charlotte's Web, later becoming an animal rights advocate.
Pamfil Yurkevych
Pamfil Yurkevych (Памфіл Юркевич, 1826–1874) was a Ukrainian philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Kyiv Theological Academy and Moscow University, known for his "philosophy of the heart".
Pamheiba
Pamheiba, also known as Garibniwaz, was a king of Manipur who reigned from 1709 to 1748, made Vaishnavism the state religion, and waged wars against Burma.
Pami
Pami, also known as Pamay, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period, ruling from Tanis about 785–774 BC and succeeded by his son Shoshenq V.
Pamidronic acid
Pamidronic acid, also called pamidronate, is a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate drug that binds to bone and inhibits osteoclasts, given intravenously for hypercalcemia of malignancy, Paget's disease, and bone metastases.
Pamilya Sagrado
Pamilya Sagrado ("Sacred Family") is a 2024 ABS-CBN Studios and Dreamscape Entertainment Philippine political action-drama teleserye starring Piolo Pascual as corrupt politician Rafael Sagrado, with Kyle Echarri and Grae Fernandez; it ran June 17 to November 15, 2024.
Pamiparib
Pamiparib (BGB-290) is BeiGene's oral PARP1/PARP2 inhibitor for HRD cancers; conditionally approved in China for germline BRCA ovarian cancer and studied with tislelizumab, temozolomide, and surufatinib.
Pamir (ship)
Pamir was a German four-masted steel barque built in 1905 for the Laeisz line's Flying P-Liners, and sank in 1957 in Hurricane Carrie, killing 80 of the 86 aboard.
Pamir Boundary Commission
The Pamir Boundary Commission was the joint Anglo-Russian commission of 1895, led by General Gerard and General Povalo-Scheikovski, that demarcated the Russian-Afghan boundary along the Panj and Pamir rivers.
Pamir Mountains
Pamir Mountains, the "Roof of the World" in Central Asia, mainly in Tajikistan, where the Himalaya, Karakoram, Tianshan, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush converge at the Pamir Knot; source of the Amu Darya, home to the Fedchenko Glacier, and site of the collapsing Pamir–Karakoram glacier anomaly.
Pamlico Sound
Pamlico Sound, North Carolina's large shallow lagoonal estuary behind the Outer Banks, largest lagoonal ecosystem in the US, 5,200 km², fed by the Tar-Pamlico and Neuse rivers, connected to the ocean by three inlets.
Pammachius
Pammachius (died 409 or 410) was a Roman senator and ascetic who built a hospice at Portus with Fabiola and served as Jerome's representative in Rome.
Pammi Bai
Pammi Bai (ਪੱਮੀ ਬਾਈ), born Paramjit Singh Sidhu, is a Punjabi folk singer and bhangra dancer from Sangrur, Punjab, known for the song "Nee Main Pani Bharenian".
Pampa
Pampa (André Felipe Falbo Ferreira, 1964–2024) was a Brazilian volleyball attacker, Barcelona 1992 Olympic gold medalist, 1991 Pan Am silver medalist, 1993 World League champion, and later a sports administrator in Brazilian government.
Pampa Award
The Pampa Award (ಪಂಪ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ), or Pampa Prashasti, is Karnataka's highest literary honor, given annually since 1987 for a lifetime of contribution to Kannada literature.
Pampa Energia
Pampa Energía is an Argentine integrated energy company producing about 9% of the country's gas and 15% of its electricity, and its largest producer of styrenics.
Pampa Independent School District
Pampa Independent School District (Pampa ISD) is a public PK-12 school district in Pampa, Gray County, Texas Panhandle; 3,141 students at 6 schools in 2024-25, down 18.2% from 2014; accredited, School FIRST A rating.
Pampa Sul
Pampa Sul, also known as Usina Termelétrica Pampa Sul, is a 345 MW coal-fired power station in Candiota, Brazil, built by Tractebel and sold to investment funds in 2023.
Pampanga
Pampanga is a province in Central Luzon, Philippines, capital City of San Fernando; 2,586,446 residents (2024, excluding Angeles City), 2 cities, 19 municipalities; fastest-growing Central Luzon province at 1.43 percent annual growth.