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Pankaj Lal
Pankaj Lal is an American environmental and natural resource economist, professor at Montclair State University and founding director of its Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra, born 1969, is an Indian author, essayist, and literary critic known for the novel The Romantics and the histories From the Ruins of Empire and Age of Anger.
Pankaj Mitra
Pankaj Mitra is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore, leading India investments in enterprise tech, AI, and cybersecurity since June 2025 after seven years at Cisco.
Pankaj Sah
Pankaj Sah is an Australian neuroscientist who has directed the Queensland Brain Institute since 2015 and is known for work on the amygdala's role in learning and memory.
Pankaj Tripathi (पंकज त्रिपाठी)
Pankaj Tripathi (पंकज त्रिपाठी) is an Indian actor known for Sultan Qureshi in Gangs of Wasseypur, Kaleen Bhaiya in Mirzapur, and a National Film Award for Mimi (2021).
Pankaj Udhas (पंकज उधस)
Pankaj Udhas (पंकज उधस), 1951-2024, Indian ghazal and playback singer known as the Velvet Voice of India; breakthrough "Chitthi Aayi Hai" in Naam (1986); over 50 albums; Padma Shri 2006, posthumous Padma Bhushan 2025.
Pankaja Munde (पंकजा गोपीनाथराव मुंडे)
Pankaja Munde (पंकजा गोपीनाथराव मुंडे), born 1979, is a BJP politician from Beed, Maharashtra, daughter of Gopinath Munde; twice MLA from Parli (2009, 2014), rural development minister 2014-2019, MLC 2024, and now cabinet minister for Animal Husbandry, Environment and Climate Change.
Pankhuri Awasthy Rode
Pankhuri Awasthy Rode, also known as Pankhuri Awasthi, is an Indian actress born in 1991 who works mainly in Hindi television, playing Razia Sultan and Draupadi.
Pankration (παγκράτιον)
Pankration (παγκράτιον, pancratium) was the ancient Greek all-in combat sport combining boxing, wrestling, kicking, and strangling, introduced at Olympia in 648 BC; only biting and eye gouging were banned, and it is now a UWW-sanctioned modern sport.
Pankritio Stadium
Pankritio Stadium (Παγκρήτιο Στάδιο, Pan-Cretan Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Heraklion, Crete; built 1990–2004 for about €50 million, it hosted 2004 Olympic football and is Ergotelis's home ground.
Panlobular emphysema
Panlobular (panacinar) emphysema: emphysema subtype with diffuse destruction of the entire secondary pulmonary lobule, diffuse low attenuation on CT, lower-lobe predominance, classically linked to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and also seen in smokers.
Panlong hydroelectric plant
The Panlong hydroelectric plant, also known as the Panlong pumped storage power station, is a 1.2 GW plant in Qijiang District, Chongqing, first commissioned in December 2023.
Panlongcheng site
盘龙城遗址 (Panlongcheng site): early Shang walled city in Huangpi, Wuhan, Hubei, c. 3500-3200 BP; largest Xia-Shang urban site in the middle Yangtze, discovered 1954, with palaces, elite tombs, bronze-casting workshop, and 2024 top-ten discovery status.
Panmnesia
Panmnesia is a South Korean fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2022 by KAIST professor Myoungsoo Jung that develops CXL IP and switch chips for AI data-center memory.
Panmunjom (판문점)
Panmunjom (판문점) is the DMZ truce village where the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed July 27, 1953, home of the Joint Security Area, later summit site, closed to blue-building tours since 2023.
Panna Biosphere Reserve
Panna Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Madhya Pradesh, India (WNBR 2020, nationally notified 2011), covering 299,898 ha around Panna National Park and Tiger Reserve, known for tiger reintroduction and threatened by the Ken-Betwa river linking project.
Panna cotta
Panna cotta, Italian "cooked cream," is a Piedmont-origin chilled dessert of sweetened cream set with gelatin; texture controlled by gelatin percentage, Bloom strength, and serving format.
Panna Dhai
Panna Dhai (पन्ना धाय) was a 16th-century royal nurse of Mewar who saved the child heir Udai Singh II from Banvir's assassins by substituting her own son, Chandan.
Panna State
Panna State (पन्ना राज्य) was a Bundela Rajput princely state in Bundelkhand, Central India, founded by Hirde Sah, son of Chhatrasal, and known for its diamond mines.
Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (பண்ணையாரும் பத்மினியும்)
Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (பண்ணையாரும் பத்மினியும்) is a 2014 Tamil comedy-drama, S. U. Arun Kumar's debut feature expanded from his short film, about a landlord's love for a vintage Premier Padmini car, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Jayaprakash.
Pannalal Patel
Pannalal Patel (1912–1989) was a Gujarati novelist and playwright who won the 1985 Jnanpith Award for Manvini Bhavai, a leading figure of the Gujarati regional novel.
Paññāsa Jātaka
The Paññāsa Jātaka, meaning "50 Birth Tales," is an extra-canonical collection of stories of the Buddha's births, known across mainland Southeast Asia in varying recensions with no fixed set of fifty.
Pannenkoek
The pannenkoek (plural pannenkoeken) is the Dutch pancake, a large, thin pancake filling a whole plate, eaten for lunch or dinner with sweet or savoury toppings.
Panner disease
Panner disease (osteochondrosis of the humeral capitellum), described by Hans Jessen Panner in 1927, is a self-limiting elbow condition of children under 10, mostly boys, treated conservatively with rest.
Pannes
Pannes is a commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France, site of a Gallo-Roman vicus at a road junction near the Madine river, with finds from 1828 onward; distinct from Pannes in Loiret.
Pannexin
Pannexins (Panx1, Panx2, Panx3), vertebrate innexin homologs discovered in 2000, are single-membrane heptameric large-pore channels that release ATP and drive purinergic signaling, inflammation, and cell death.
Panniculectomy
Panniculectomy is a surgical operation that removes the pannus, an overhanging apron of excess abdominal skin and fat, usually after major weight loss, to relieve rashes and infections.
Panniculitis
Panniculitis, inflammation of subcutaneous fat, also called Weber-Christian disease historically; classified as septal or lobular with or without vasculitis; erythema nodosum is the most common form.
Pannier
A pannier is a bag or rigid case carried on either side of a bicycle or motorcycle, holding cargo low and to the sides rather than on the rider's back.
Pannonhalma Abbey
Pannonhalma Abbey (Pannonhalmi Szent Benedek Apátság) is a Benedictine monastery in western Hungary, founded by Prince Géza around 996 and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996.