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Qeysar (قیصر)
Qeysar (قیصر, Gheisar/Qaysar) is Masoud Kimiai's 1969 Iranian black-and-white crime drama starring Behrouz Vossoughi, about a man avenging his sister's rape-suicide and brother's murder; a Sepas award winner and, with The Cow, a founding film of the Iranian New Wave.
QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun
The QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun was a British quick-firing naval gun serving as the Royal Navy's standard medium dual-purpose gun from the late 1930s into the 1970s.
QGIS
QGIS, formerly Quantum GIS, is a free and open source geographic information system used to create, edit, visualize, and analyze geospatial information on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
QGroundControl
QGroundControl (QGC) is an open-source ground control station for drones, providing full flight control, mission planning, and vehicle setup for MAVLink autopilots such as PX4 and ArduPilot.
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Qhapaq Ñan (Andean Road System), the Inca royal road network of over 30,000 km radiating from Cusco; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014, shared by six Andean countries.
Qhapaqkuna
Qhapaqkuna is the Quechua plural of qhapaq, meaning lord or noble, denoting the hereditary nobility of the Inca Empire, especially descendants of Inca rulers in Cuzco.
Qhull
Qhull is an open-source C library and command-line program that computes convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, and halfspace intersections in general dimension, implementing the Quickhull algorithm published in 1996.
Qi
Qi (氣/气, qì; also chi, ki) is the classical Chinese concept whose basic meaning is breath and which extends to air, weather, temperament, vital energy in medicine, and the universal substance of Chinese metaphysics.
QI
QI (Quite Interesting) is a British BBC comedy panel quiz first broadcast in 2003, created by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry (series A to M) then Sandi Toksvig, with Alan Davies as permanent panellist and points awarded for interesting answers rather than correct ones.
Qi (standard)
Qi, pronounced "chee," is the global wireless charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium, first released in 2010, that charges smartphones and handheld devices by magnetic induction.
Qi Baishi (齐白石)
Qi Baishi (齐白石, 1864–1957), Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet from Xiangtan, Hunan; carpenter turned modern ink master known for shrimp paintings, the 'red flowers, ink leaves' style, and the 931.5-million-yuan Twelve Landscape Screens record.
Qi Biaojia
Qi Biaojia (祁彪佳, 1602–1645), courtesy name Hongji, was a Ming dynasty official from Shanyin, Zhejiang, who served as a censor and famine-relief organizer, and wrote major drama catalogs.
Qi Dengsheng
Qi Dengsheng (七等生; born Liu Wuxiong, 1939–2020) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist, essayist, and painter known for "I Love Black Eyes" (1967) and winner of the National Award for Arts.
Qi Family Army
The Qi Family Army (戚家军) was a Ming army recruited from Yiwu county in Zhejiang and trained by Qi Jiguang to fight the wokou pirates, later garrisoned on the northern frontier.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong (启功), courtesy name Yuanbai, was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and classical scholar who taught at Beijing Normal University and headed China's national art appraisal committee.
Qi Guangpu
Qi Guangpu (齐广璞), Chinese freestyle skier born 1990 in Nanjing, specialist in aerials; 2022 Beijing Olympic gold in men's aerials and silver in mixed team aerials, five-time Olympian through 2026.
Qi Hui
Qi Hui (齐晖), Chinese breaststroke and medley swimmer born 1985 in Fuzhou; three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008) who set 200 m breaststroke world records in long-course and short-course pools.
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang (Wang Qijie) is a Singapore-based optoelectronics researcher and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known for demonstrating the first electrically pumped topological laser in 2020.
Qi Jiguang
Qi Jiguang (戚继光) was a Ming dynasty general (1528–1587) who destroyed the wokou pirates on China's southeast coast and rebuilt the capital region's frontier defenses, writing influential military manuals.
Qi Jun
Qi Jun (琦君), pen name of Pan Xizhen, was a Chinese essayist from Zhejiang who settled in Taiwan in 1949 and wrote nostalgic essays about her childhood.
Qi Junzao
Qi Junzao (祁寯藻, 1793–1866) was a Qing dynasty official, scholar, and poet from Shouyang, Shanxi, who served as Minister of War, Grand Councilor, and Grand Secretary of the Tiren Pavilion.
Qi Qixiu
Qi Qixiu (启秀) was a Manchu Plain White Banner official of the Qing dynasty who became a Grand Councillor and was executed after the Boxer Rebellion.
Qi Shen
Qi Shen (齐慎, 1775–1844) was a Qing dynasty military commander from Xinye, Henan who rose from militia leader to provincial commander, fighting at Huaxian, in Xinjiang, and at Zhenjiang against the British.
Qi Shi
Qi Shi (棋士, The Chess Player) is a 2025 Chinese 22-episode crime drama starring Wang Baoqiang as Go teacher Cui Ye, who turns to crime, and Chen Minghao as his police brother; aired on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video X Theater from March 25, 2025.
Qi Sun
Qi Sun is a physician-scientist at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for research linking diet, environmental exposures, and biomarkers to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Qi Tai
Qi Tai (齐泰) was a Ming dynasty official from Lishui who, as Minister of War under the Jianwen Emperor, provoked the Prince of Yan's rebellion.
QI Tech (fintech)
QI Tech is a Brazilian financial-infrastructure fintech founded in 2018 in São Paulo, the first fintech licensed as a direct credit company and a securities distributor in Brazil.
Qi Tian
Qi Tian (田奇) is a computer vision and multimedia researcher, Chief Scientist in AI at Huawei Consumer Business Group and Director of Guangming Laboratory in Shenzhen.
Qi Tian Le: Cicada
Qi Tian Le: Cicada (齐天乐·蝉) is a Song-dynasty ci poem by the loyalist Wang Yisun, using the cicada's autumn cry to voice grief for the fallen Southern Song.
Qi Zai (七仔)
Qi Zai (七仔), "seventh son," is the world's only captive brown-and-white giant panda, born 2009 in the Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi. His color stems from a homozygous 25-bp Bace2 deletion, an autosomal recessive trait found exclusively in Qinling pandas; parents Niuniu and Xiyue are black-and-white.