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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Pram, 1925-2006), Indonesian novelist from Blora, author of the Buru Quartet (Bumi Manusia and sequels), imprisoned by the Dutch, Sukarno, and Suharto regimes; 50+ works in 42 languages.
Pramono Anung
Pramono Anung (Pramono Anung Wibowo, born 1963) is an Indonesian PDI-P politician, former Cabinet Secretary (2015-2024) and DPR deputy speaker, who won the 2024 Jakarta election with 50.07% and has been Governor of Jakarta since 20 February 2025.
Pramoxine
Pramoxine (pramocaine), a morpholine-ether topical anesthetic and antipruritic sold as pramoxine hydrochloride, blocks sodium channels to relieve itching and pain from hemorrhoids, insect bites, and minor skin irritation.
Pramukh Swami Maharaj (પ્રમુખ સ્વામી મહારાજ)
Pramukh Swami Maharaj (પ્રમુખ સ્વામી મહારાજ), also known as Pramukh Swami, was an Indian guru who led the BAPS Swaminarayan organization from 1950 until his death in 2016.
Pran (प्राण कृष्ण सिकंद अहलूवालिया) (actor)
Pran (प्राण कृष्ण सिकंद अहलूवालिया), born Pran Krishan Sikand (1920–2013), was an Indian actor in over 350 Hindi films, Hindi cinema's most iconic villain and later a celebrated character actor.
PRAN-RFL Group
PRAN-RFL Group is a family-owned Bangladeshi conglomerate of 28 companies, founded by Amjad Khan Chowdhury in 1981, pairing the PRAN food brand with RFL plastics.
Prana (group)
Prana is a Goa trance project founded by Japanese DJ Tsuyoshi Suzuki, active in London's 1990s Goa scene and known for the albums Cyclone and Geomantik.
Prana (प्राण)
Prana (प्राण, prāṇa) is the Sanskrit term for breath of life and vital energy in Indian philosophy, yoga, and Ayurveda; from the root pran, "to breathe"; classical doctrine divides it into five winds (prana, apana, samana, udana, vyana) governing respiration, elimination, digestion, speech, and circulation.
Pranab K. Sen
Pranab Kumar Sen (1937–2023) was an Indian-born American statistician who spent five decades at UNC Chapel Hill and was known for nonparametric statistics, rank tests, and the Sen–Theil estimator.
Pranab Mukherjee (প্রণব মুখার্জি)
Pranab Mukherjee (প্রণব মুখার্জি), 1935–2020, Indian National Congress leader and 13th President of India (2012–2017); five-time Rajya Sabha member, Finance, Defence, External Affairs and Commerce Minister, Bharat Ratna 2019.
Pranada Gutika
Pranada Gutika (प्राणदागुटिका), also spelled Pranda Gutika, is a classical Ayurvedic jaggery-bound herbal tablet from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, indicated mainly for Arsha (hemorrhoids) and studied in CCRAS clinical trials.
Pranav Anand
Pranav Anand is a linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for stance classification in online debate, the POLITICAL-ADS corpus, and formal semantics.
Pranav Goel
Pranav Goel is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Porter, an intra-city logistics marketplace, in 2014, led it as CEO until 2023, and took it to unicorn status in 2025.
Pranav Mistry (પ્રણવ મિસ્ત્રી)
Pranav Mistry (પ્રણવ મિસ્ત્રી) is an Indian computer scientist and inventor, born in 1981, best known for creating the SixthSense wearable gestural interface at MIT.
Pranav Mohanlal (പ്രണവ് മോഹൻലാൽ)
Pranav Mohanlal (പ്രണവ് മോഹൻലാൽ), son of actor Mohanlal, is a Malayalam film actor. Child artist in Onnaman and Punarjani (Kerala State Award), lead debut Aadhi (2018), breakthrough Hridayam (2022), acclaimed in Dies Irae (2025).
Pranav Pai
Pranav Pai is an Indian venture capital investor who co-founded 3one4 Capital in Bengaluru in 2016 with his brother Siddarth Pai, and leads more than 100 investments as Chief Investment Officer.
Pranav Rajpurkar
Pranav Rajpurkar is a medical AI researcher and associate professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, known for creating the SQuAD and CheXpert datasets.
Pranay Mathur
Pranay Mathur is an Indian technology entrepreneur and angel investor, founder and chief executive of the startup fundraising platform Backrr and founder of Wedigtech in Jaipur.
Pranayaballari
Pranayaballari (ପ୍ରଣୟବଲ୍ଲରୀ), also rendered Pranaya Ballavi, is a kavya, a narrative poem, by the Odia poet Gangadhar Meher (1862–1924), the Swabhaba Kabi, whose Sanskrit-based kavyas helped shape modern Odia literature.
Pranayama (प्राणायाम)
Pranayama (प्राणायाम) is the breath-regulation limb of yoga, defined by Patañjali as stopping the breath's flow and developed in hatha yoga into named techniques built around retention.
Prancer (film)
Prancer is a 1989 American Christmas drama-fantasy film directed by John Hancock, in which a young girl finds an injured reindeer she believes is Santa's Prancer.
Prandtl (lunar crater)
Prandtl is an 87.53-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 59.62°S, 141.54°E, inside Planck basin in the South Pole–Aitken region; IAU-named in 1970 for German physicist Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953).
Prandtl number
The Prandtl number (Pr) is a dimensionless fluid property, the ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity, named after Ludwig Prandtl and central to heat transfer.
Prandtl-Tomlinson model
The Prandtl-Tomlinson model is a mechanical model of atomic-scale friction in which a point mass is dragged over a sinusoidal potential by a spring, reproducing stick-slip motion.
Praneet Bhat
Praneet Bhat (also spelled Bhatt), born 1980 in Srinagar, is an Indian television actor famous as Shakuni in Mahabharat (2013–2014), a 2014 Indian Telly Award winner, Bigg Boss 8 contestant, and later Porus and Shrimad Ramayan actor.
Pranit More
Pranit More (born 1991) is an Indian stand-up comedian and former radio jockey from Mumbai, also known as Maharashtrian Bhau, a Bigg Boss 19 second runner-up famous for crowd-work shows and the 2026 Rs 370 biryani controversy and FIR.
Pranitha Subhash
Pranitha Subhash (Kannada: ಪ್ರಣಿತಾ ಸುಭಾಷ್), born 1992 in Bengaluru, is an Indian actress in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and Malayalam cinema, known for Porki, Bheema Theeradalli, Attarintiki Daredi, and Masss.
Praniti Shinde
Praniti Shinde is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress who has been a member of the Lok Sabha for Solapur, Maharashtra, since 2024.
Pranjit Singha Roy
Pranjit Singha Roy is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as Tripura's finance minister and represents Radhakishorpur in the state assembly.
Prank Encounters
Prank Encounters is a Netflix hidden-camera prank show hosted by Gaten Matarazzo, where two strangers on fake one-day jobs meet in staged horror scenarios; 15 episodes, 2019–2021, Propagate.