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Primoz Kozmus

Primož Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower born 1979 in Novo Mesto, won Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 (82.02 m) and silver at London 2012 (79.36 m), plus full World Championships medal set; personal best 82.58 m national record.

Primož Roglič

Primož Roglič, Slovenian road cyclist (born 1989, Trbovlje), former ski jumper; first Slovenian Grand Tour winner with four Vueltas (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024) and 2023 Giro; Olympic TT champion; 2026 Vuelta runner-up.

Primrose (oil sands project)

Primrose is a thermal in situ oil sands project in the Cold Lake area of northeast Alberta, owned and operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited since 1984.

Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill is a 25-hectare Grade II listed public park in Camden, north of Regent's Park, with a 63-metre summit offering protected views of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster.

Primula

Primula (primroses), a genus of about 400-500 perennial herbs in Primulaceae, is the model taxon for heterostyly: pin and thrum flowers, a diallelic S locus, self-incompatibility, and repeated evolution of selfing homostyles.

Primula auricula

Primula auricula, commonly called auricula, bear's ear, or mountain cowslip, is a perennial primrose native to the Alps and other mountains of central and southern Europe, and a prized garden plant since the sixteenth century.

Primula elatior

Primula elatior (L.) Hill, the oxlip or true oxlip, is a distylous perennial woodland herb of Europe to Siberia, confined in Britain to East Anglian boulder-clay woods, hybridizing with P. vulgaris (P. × digenea) and P. veris (P. × media).

Primula meadia

Primula meadia (eastern shooting star, formerly Dodecatheon meadia) is a North American spring wildflower of prairies and open woods, moved into Primula in 2007, with buzz-pollinated nodding flowers and a G5 but edge-imperiled conservation profile.

Primula veris

Primula veris, the cowslip, is a yellow-flowered European perennial primrose with distylous pin and thrum flowers studied by Darwin, and flowers approved as a traditional EU expectorant for colds.

Primula vulgaris

Primula vulgaris (primrose), Primulaceae perennial herb native from Europe to W. Caucasus and Lebanon; pale-yellow winter-to-spring flowers, pin/thrum heterostyly controlled by an S-locus supergene, ant-dispersed seeds, not threatened in Britain but Vulnerable in Germany.

Primulaceae

Primulaceae, the primrose or myrsine family, is a eudicot family in Ericales. Formerly about 20 temperate herbaceous genera, it now includes Myrsinaceae, Theophrastaceae, and Maesaceae, with roughly 60-64 genera and 2,700 species in four subfamilies.

PRIMULTI trial

DANAMI-3-PRIMULTI (NCT01960933), a Danish open-label randomized trial of 627 STEMI patients with multivessel disease, showed FFR-guided staged complete revascularization before discharge reduced MACE versus culprit-only PCI (13% vs 22%, HR 0.56), driven by fewer repeat revascularizations.

Primum non nocere

Primum non nocere ("First, do no harm") is a Latin maxim of medical ethics expressing non-maleficence, the obligation not to harm patients; it does not appear in the Hippocratic Oath.

Primus

PRIMUS (the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey) is an astronomical redshift survey of faint galaxies covering 9.1 square degrees of sky, the largest faint-galaxy redshift survey completed at the time.

Primus (band)

Primus, formed 1984 in El Sobrante, California, is the American funk-metal/alt-rock trio led by bassist Les Claypool; hits include Jerry Was a Race Car Driver and Wynona's Big Brown Beaver; nine studio albums, drummer John Hoffman since 2024.

Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares, Latin for "first among equals", describes a leader of equal-ranked peers. Applied to Augustus as princeps, the British Prime Minister, and the United States among democratic allies.

Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church

The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, also called Primus of Scotland, is the bishop elected by fellow bishops to chair the College of Bishops, currently Mark Strange.

Primus Power

Primus Power is an American energy storage company founded in 2009 by Tom Stepien, based in Hayward, California, that develops zinc-bromine flow batteries for grid, commercial, and military applications.

Primus Truber

Primus Truber (Primož Trubar, c. 1508–1586) was a Lutheran reformer of Carniola, credited with founding the Slovene literary language through his first printed Slovene books of 1550.

Prin Suparat (ปริญ สุภารัตน์)

Prin Suparat (ปริญ สุภารัตน์), nicknamed Mark, born 1990 in Chiang Mai, is a Thai Channel 3 actor and model; dramas include Kleun Cheewit, My Husband in Law, and Game of Outlaws, married to actress Kimberly in 2023.

Princ

Princ, also known as Princ od Vranje, is the stage name of Stefan Zdravković, a Serbian singer born in 1993 who represented Serbia at Eurovision 2025 with 'Mila'.

Prince

Prince (Latin princeps, "the first") is a royal or noble title implying political power or rank. Covers its Roman origins, German Fürst/Prinz distinction, British royal usage, and the sovereign reigning princes of Liechtenstein and Monaco, whose hereditary office carries veto and dismissal powers unlike ceremonial monarchs.

Prince (2010 film)

Prince (2010) is a Hindi-language Bollywood action thriller directed by Kookie Gulati, starring Vivek Oberoi as an amnesiac thief hunting an antique coin; released 9 April 2010 by Tips Industries, it flopped with ₹19.15 crore nett in India.

Prince (2022 film)

Prince (ப்ரின்ஸ்), 2022 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Anudeep KV, starring Sivakarthikeyan, Maria Ryaboshapka, and Sathyaraj; released 21 October 2022, mixed reviews, ₹41.13 Cr worldwide gross, streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.

Prince (album)

Prince (1979) is Prince's self-titled second album on Warner Bros., nine tracks including "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (No. 1 R&B, No. 11 Hot 100); platinum, recorded in Chanhassen and at Sunset Sound.

Prince (musician)

Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson, 1958-2016), American Minneapolis-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and creator of the Minneapolis Sound; Purple Rain, 100 million albums, seven Grammys, an Oscar, and Paisley Park.

Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark (Αχιλλέας-Ανδρέας)

Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark (Αχιλλέας-Ανδρέας), stage name Achi Miller, born 2000 in New York, is an actor and grandson of Greece's last king Constantine II; he acted in The Bold and the Beautiful and took Greek citizenship as de Grèce in 2024.

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (Adolphus Frederick, 1774-1850), seventh son of George III, British field marshal and Viceroy of Hanover 1816-1837, grandfather of Queen Mary.

Prince Albert (genital piercing)

Prince Albert (PA) genital piercing: jewelry through the urethral opening exiting under the glans of the penis, one of the most common male genital piercings. Covers procedure, healing times, risks such as fistula and urethral injury, and the Victorian naming myth.

Prince Albert Mountains

Prince Albert Mountains, a major mountain group over 200 mi long in Victoria Land, Antarctica, part of the Transantarctic Mountains between the Priestley and Ferrar glaciers; discovered by James Clark Ross in 1841 and named for Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort.