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Tyson Gay

Tyson Gay, American sprinter (born 1982), 2007 Osaka World Championships triple gold medalist (100m, 200m, 4x100m), personal bests 9.69 and 19.58; later suspended one year for doping and returned his 2012 Olympic relay silver.

Tyson Kidd

Tyson Kidd, born Theodore James Wilson (T.J. Wilson), is a Canadian retired professional wrestler known for The Hart Dynasty and his tag team with Cesaro.

Tyson O'Brien

Tyson O'Brien is an Australian house DJ and producer from Melbourne, long active under the alias Generik and known for Las Vegas and Ibiza club residencies.

Tyson Pedro

Professional mixed martial artist Tyson Pedro, born in 1991, competes in the light heavyweight division in the PFL, having finished six of his early matches in the first round.

Tyson Ritter

Tyson Ritter (born 1984, Stillwater, Oklahoma) is lead vocalist and bassist of The All-American Rejects (over 10 million albums sold) and an actor (The House Bunny, Preacher, Lodge 49); his band returns with Sandbox in May 2026.

Tysyatsky

Tysyatsky (тысяцкий, literally "commander of a thousand") was a medieval Rus' urban administrator who commanded the town militia and judged commercial cases, surviving in Novgorod until 1478.

Tyti

Tyti was a royal wife of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, identified as a wife of Ramesses III and buried in tomb QV52 in the Valley of the Queens.

Tytkesken-VI

Tytkesken-VI (Тыткескень-VI) is a multi-period kurgan cemetery and settlement at the mouth of the Tytkesken river, a left Katun tributary in Russia's Altai Republic, with mainly Pazyryk-culture burials plus Afanasyevo, Bulan-Kobinskaya, and Turkic remains.

Tyto soumagnei

Tyto soumagnei, the Madagascar red owl or Effraie de Soumagne, is a small orange-red barn owl (Tytonidae) endemic to Madagascar, described in 1878, rediscovered in 1993, IUCN Vulnerable, diet mostly small mammals.

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872–1950) was a Polish mechanical engineer whose 1904 distortion-energy yield criterion became the Huber–Mises–Hencky theory, and who built the theory of orthotropic plates.

Tyumen (Тюмень)

Tyumen (Тюмень), founded 1586 on the Tura River by voivodes Sukin and Myasnoy, is the first Russian city in Siberia and administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, now a major oil and gas hub.

Tyumen Oblast (Тюменская область)

Tyumen Oblast (Тюменская область), a Russian federal subject formed 14 August 1944 in Western Siberia, contains Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets okrugs, spans about 1,464.2 thousand km², and supplies two thirds of Russian oil and over 90 percent of its gas.

Tyung

Tyung (Тюнг, Түҥ) is a 1,092 km left tributary of the Vilyuy River in Yakutia, Russia, draining 49,800 km² into the Lena basin, with 180 m³/s mean discharge and Cretaceous fossil outcrops.

Tyus Jones

Tyus Jones (born 1996) is an NBA point guard from Apple Valley, Minnesota, a Duke 2015 NCAA champion and Final Four Most Outstanding Player who holds NBA assist-to-turnover ratio records and has played for Minnesota, Memphis, Washington, Phoenix, and Denver.

Tyvek

Tyvek is a family of paper-like sheet materials made by DuPont from flash-spun high-density polyethylene, discovered in 1955 and used in envelopes, house wrap, and protective clothing.

Tyvis Powell

Tyvis Powell (Tyvis Chansey Powell, born 1994) is a former NFL safety from Bedford, Ohio; Ohio State 2014 national champion and title-game defensive MVP, later Seahawks, Browns, Colts, 49ers, now a Columbus radio host.

Tywin Lannister

Tywin Lannister is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, portrayed by Charles Dance in Game of Thrones.

Tz database

The tz database, also called the IANA time zone database or zoneinfo, is a public-domain database of local time history that lets software compute UTC offsets.

Tz'utujil kingdom

The Tz'utujil kingdom was a pre-Columbian Maya kingdom in Guatemala, one of three highland Maya powers centered on Lake Atitlán until Pedro de Alvarado's conquest in 1524.

Tz'utujil oral literature

Tz'utujil oral literature is the body of stories, songs, prayers, and ritual speech transmitted by word of mouth among the Tz'utujil Maya around Lake Atitlán in highland Guatemala.

Tza‐Huei Wang

Tza-Huei Wang (王祖辉), known as Jeff Wang, is a mechanical engineer and Louis M. Sardella Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for quantum-dot DNA nanosensors and point-of-care diagnostics.

Tzaar

Tzaar (TZAAR) is a 2007 two-player abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm in Project GIPF, replacing TAMSK; players capture and stack Tzaar, Tzarra, and Tott pieces to eliminate an opponent's piece type.

Tzadik (צדיק)

Tzadik (צדיק), also Zaddik, is the Hebrew title for a righteous person; in Kabbalah and Hasidism the tzadik sustains the world and intercedes for his community.

Tzafit power station

Tzafit power station (תחנת הכוח צפית) is a natural-gas-fired electricity site near Kfar Menahem in southern Israel, housing an Israel Electric Corporation plant and the private Dalia power plant of about 900 MW.

Tzanck test

Tzanck test (Tzanck smear), a bedside cytology test devised by Arnault Tzanck in 1947: blister-base cells are stained and examined for multinucleated giant cells in herpes and acantholytic cells in pemphigus; cheap, rapid, high specificity, lower sensitivity than PCR.

Tzatziki

Tzatziki (τζατζίκι), also cacık in Turkish, is a cold Greek dip of strained yogurt, grated cucumber, garlic, olive oil, and dill or mint, served as meze and with gyros or souvlaki.

Tze Chien Sum

Tze Chien Sum is a Singapore-based physicist and professor at Nanyang Technological University working in ultrafast optical spectroscopy and halide perovskite photophysics, known for a 2013 Science paper on charge transport in perovskite solar cells.

Tze-Chiang Chen

Tze-Chiang Chen (陳自強) is a Taiwanese-American semiconductor technologist and IBM Fellow at the Watson Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Tze-chiang limited express

Tze-chiang limited express, also romanized Tzu-chiang, is the fastest and highest-fared service class of Taiwan Railway, inaugurated on August 15, 1978, between Taipei and Taichung.

Tzedakah (צְדָקָה)

Tzedakah (צְדָקָה) is the Jewish obligation to give to the poor, framed as justice rather than charity, with a classical standard of a tenth of income.