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P. V. Sindhu

P. V. Sindhu (Pusarla Venkata Sindhu), Indian badminton player, born 1995, Hyderabad. Two-time Olympic medallist (Rio 2016 silver, Tokyo 2020 bronze), 2019 world champion, career-high world No. 2.

P. V. Thampi

P. V. Thampi (പി.വി. തമ്പി) was a Malayalam novelist from Kerala, best known for the tantric horror novel Krishnapparunthu (1984), which was adapted into a film.

P. Valsala

P. Valsala (Malayalam: പി. വത്സല; 1938–2023) was an Indian Malayalam novelist and short story writer whose fiction centered on the Adivasi people of Wayanad, women, and nature.

P. van der Werf

Paul van der Werf is an astronomer and Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at Leiden University's Leiden Observatory, studying star formation, molecular gas, and the interstellar medium of galaxies.

P. Vasu (பி. வாசு)

P. Vasu (பி. வாசு), born Vasudevan, is a Tamil and Kannada film director, son of makeup artist Peethambaram, known for 1990s hits and Chandramukhi (2005) with Rajinikanth.

P. Venkata Satyanarayana

Paka Venkata Satyanarayana is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Member of the Rajya Sabha for Andhra Pradesh since his unopposed 2025 by-election.

P. Venkataramanan

P. Venkataramanan (born 1978) is Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's treasurer and Tamil Nadu minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Protection and Price Control from May 2026; first-time MLA for Mylapore, won by 28,972 votes, also chairs the Civil Supplies Corporation.

P. Viswanathan

P. Viswanathan is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Minister for Higher Education, including Technical Education, in the coalition government of Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister Vijay.

P. W. Botha

P. W. Botha (1916–2006), "PW" and "Die Ou Krokodil", South African National Party leader: defence minister 1966–1980, Prime Minister 1978–1984, executive State President 1984–1989; introduced "total strategy", the 1983 tricameral constitution, and "adapt or die" reform rhetoric before being succeeded by de Klerk after a January 1989 stroke.

P. W. Singer

P. W. Singer, also known as Peter Warren Singer, is an American political scientist and author who studies how technology, private contractors, and social media change war.

P. Wilson

P. Wilson is an Indian DMK politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Tamil Nadu and a senior advocate who served as Additional Solicitor General of India from 2012 to 2014.

P.A.Deepak

P.A. Deepak, also known as Deepak P.A., is an Indian mix and mastering engineer and record producer who worked on the Grammy-winning Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack and Winds of Samsara.

P.C. Hooft Award

The P.C. Hooft Award (Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs) is the principal Dutch literary prize for a complete body of work, awarded since 1947 and carrying 60,000 euros.

P.E. LaMoreaux

Philip E. LaMoreaux, Sr. (1921–2008) was an American hydrogeologist who led the USGS Ground Water Branch, served as Alabama's state geologist, founded the consulting firm PELA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

P.M. Dawn

P.M. Dawn, hip-hop/R&B duo formed 1988 in Jersey City by brothers Attrell Cordes (Prince Be) and Jarrett Cordes (DJ Minutemix); 1991 hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" sampled Spandau Ballet's "True" and topped the Hot 100; Prince Be died 2016.

P.N.R. Usherwood

P.N.R. Usherwood, also known as Peter N.R. Usherwood, is a neurophysiologist at the University of Nottingham who established L-glutamate as the excitatory transmitter at the insect neuromuscular junction.

P.O

P.O (피오), born Pyo Ji-hoon (표지훈) in 1993, is a South Korean rapper and actor, youngest member of Block B, Bastarz sub-unit, dramas Temperature of Love, Hotel del Luna, Good Partner, Netflix's Teach You a Lesson.

P.O.D.

P.O.D. (Payable on Death) is a San Diego rock band formed in 1992, blending nu metal, rap, reggae, and punk with Christian themes; best known for the triple-platinum 2001 album Satellite and hits "Alive" and "Youth of the Nation".

P.R.J. Burch

P.R.J. Burch (1920–1987) was a British medical physicist at the University of Leeds known for his autoaggressive disease theory and his denial that smoking causes lung cancer.

P.S. Eliot

P.S. Eliot, the DIY feminist pop punk band formed in Birmingham, Alabama by twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield (later Waxahatchee and Swearin'), released two Salinas Records albums before disbanding in 2011; the 2016 anthology 2007-2011 collected their recordings.

P.S. I Love You (film)

P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American-British romantic drama directed by Richard LaGravenese, starring Hilary Swank as a widow guided by letters from her late husband.

P.S. I Still Love You

P.S. I Still Love You is Jenny Han's 2015 YA novel, second in the To All the Boys trilogy, and its 2020 Netflix film directed by Michael Fimognari, starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, and Jordan Fisher.

P.T. (video game)

P.T. (Playable Teaser) is a 2014 free PS4 psychological horror demo by Kojima Productions under the pseudonym 7780s Studio, teasing the cancelled Silent Hills by Kojima and del Toro; a looping L-shaped hallway, no HUD, delisted April 2015.

P.V. Kokotović

P.V. Kokotović, also written Petar V. Kokotovic, born in Belgrade in 1934, is a control theorist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, creator of backstepping.

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) is a 1983 Michael Jackson single from Thriller, written by James Ingram and Quincy Jones, peaking at Billboard #10, famed for its ARP 2600 synth bass and Kanye West's 'Good Life' sample.

P'ent'ay

P'ent'ay is the Ethiopian vernacular term for Pentecostal and evangelical Christianity, introduced by Finnish and Swedish missions in the 1950s and reaching 18.6 percent of the population by 2007.

P(doom)

P(doom), short for probability of doom, is an informal term for one person's estimate that advanced AI causes an existential catastrophe, popular in AI-safety circles since around 2022.

P(VDF-TrFE-CTFE) electrostrictive terpolymer

P(VDF-TrFE-CTFE) is a relaxor ferroelectric terpolymer of vinylidene fluoride, trifluoroethylene, and chlorotrifluoroethylene whose electrostrictive strain, up to 9%, drives soft tactile, haptic, microfluidic, and printed actuators.

P(VDF-TrFE) ferroelectric memory

P(VDF-TrFE) ferroelectric memory is a non-volatile memory storing data in the switchable polarization of ferroelectric polymer films, promising for flexible low-cost devices like RFID tags.

P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) family

P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) family, or Gibbs cluster, a 9-body asteroid family in the outer main belt around active asteroid 331P/Gibbs, only 1.5 Myr old and likely the first family formed by rotational fission.