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Teixeira de Pascoaes

Teixeira de Pascoaes, pen name of Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1877–1952), was a Portuguese poet from Amarante who led Saudosismo, the first literary school of twentieth-century Portuguese poetry, built on his doctrine of saudade.

Teixeira Mendes

Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (1855–1927) was a Brazilian philosopher and mathematician who co-founded the Igreja Positivista do Brasil and designed the republican flag with the motto "Ordem e Progresso".

Teixobactin

Teixobactin is a cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic discovered in 2015 from the previously uncultured soil bacterium Eleftheria terrae, active against Gram-positive pathogens including MRSA and reported initially without detectable resistance.

Teizo Kitagawa

Teizo Kitagawa (北川 禎三) is a Japanese biophysicist and physical chemist known for resonance Raman spectroscopy of heme proteins, long a professor at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki.

Tej Bahadur Sapru

Tej Bahadur Sapru (तेज बहादुर सप्रू) was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from 1920 to 1923 and mediated between the British and Indian leaders.

Tej Lalvani

Tej Lalvani, British CEO of Vitabiotics (founded 1971 by father Kartar Lalvani) and Dragons' Den investor; firm sold to Bain Capital in 2026 for about $1.2 billion.

Tej P. Singh

Tej P. Singh (Tej Pal Singh, born 1944) is an Indian biophysicist at AIIMS New Delhi known for X-ray crystallography of lactoperoxidase, peptide design, and drug discovery.

Tej Pratap Yadav (तेज प्रताप यादव)

Tej Pratap Yadav (तेज प्रताप यादव), born 1988, elder son of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi; Bihar MLA from Mahua (2015) and Hasanpur (2020), former health and environment minister, expelled from RJD in 2025, founder of Janshakti Janata Dal.

Tej Singh

Tej Singh (ਤੇਜ ਸਿੰਘ; 1799–1862) was commander-in-chief of the Sikh armies during the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845–46, remembered in Sikh memory as a byword for treachery.

Teja Sajja (తేజ సజ్జా)

Teja Sajja (తేజ సజ్జా) is a Telugu cinema actor, born 1994, a former child actor (debut at three in Choodalani Vundi) whose lead debut Zombie Reddy (2021) and mythological superhero hit Hanu Man (2024) made him a pan-Indian star; he hosts The Traitors Telugu.

Teja Tscharntke

Teja Tscharntke (born 1952) is a German biologist who studies landscape agroecology and headed the Agroecology Research Group at the University of Göttingen from 1993 to 2023.

Tejal Desai

Tejal Desai is an American biomedical engineer working in polymeric biomaterials, nanostructured implants, and drug delivery, and has served as Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University since 2022.

Tejal Kanti Gandhi

Tejal Kanti Gandhi is an American physician-executive and patient-safety researcher who leads safety at Press Ganey and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Tejan Gurung (तेजन गुरुङ)

Tejan Gurung (तेजन गुरुङ), born 1995 in Pokhara, is a Nepali-British mountaineer, Elite Exped director, and former Army Commando. In 2024-2026 he became the youngest person to complete both the 14 eight-thousanders and the Seven Summits.

Tejano (music)

Tejano, Spanish for Texan, is a Texas-Mexican dance music fusing European polka rhythms, Mexican cumbia, and pop balladry, which reached global audiences through Selena in the 1990s.

Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year

Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year: annual fan-voted honor for female Tejano singers, given since 1981 by the TTMA. Selena won it ten times; Laura Canales took four straight; Monica Saldivar is the 2025 holder.

Tejano Music Awards

Tejano Music Awards: annual Tejano music honors produced since 1980 by the Texas Talent Musicians Association of San Antonio; categories, voting process, recent venues in Katy, Texas, and recent winners like Jay Perez and Monica Saldivar.

Tejas (album)

Tejas (album): ZZ Top's 1976 London Records studio album (released 29 November 1976), a country-tinged blues-rock record with singles It's Only Love and Arrested for Driving While Blind; also Tejas Menon's Make It Happen (2020) and Outlast (2021).

Tejas (film)

Tejas (2023) is a Hindi action thriller directed by Sarvesh Mewara, starring Kangana Ranaut as IAF pilot Tejas Gill on a rescue mission to Pakistan. Released 27 October 2023 by RSVP; a critical and box-office failure (10% Rotten Tomatoes, $42,120 gross).

Tejas (musician)

Tejas, full name Tejas Menon, is a Mumbai-based English-language pop and rock singer-songwriter whose single "The Bombay Doors" ranked No. 2 on Rolling Stone India's best of 2020.

Tejas Express (तेजस एक्सप्रेस)

Tejas Express (तेजस एक्सप्रेस) is a premium train service of Indian Railways, first run from Mumbai to Goa in May 2017 and operated by IRCTC.

Tejas Patel

Tejas Madhusudan Patel (born 1963), Indian interventional cardiologist, Chairman of Apex Heart Institute Ahmedabad; transradial PCI pioneer, first-in-man telerobotic coronary intervention 2018; Padma Shri 2015, Padma Bhushan 2024. Distinct from Tejas V. Patel of CIMS.

Tejashri Pradhan (तेजश्री प्रधान)

Tejashri Pradhan (तेजश्री प्रधान), also spelled Tejashree, born 1988, is a Marathi television and film actress known as Janhvi of Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi, now playing Swanandi in Veen Doghantali Hi Tutena.

Tejashwi Yadav (तेजस्वी प्रसाद यादव)

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav (तेजस्वी प्रसाद यादव), RJD leader from Bihar, son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, twice Deputy Chief Minister, led the 2020 and 2025 Mahagathbandhan campaigns on jobs promises.

Tejasswi Prakash

Tejasswi Prakash, full name Tejasswi Prakash Wayangankar, is an Indian actress who broke through in Swaragini and won Bigg Boss 15 before leading Naagin 6.

Tejasvi Surya (ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಸೂರ್ಯ)

Tejasvi Surya (ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಸೂರ್ಯ), BJP lawyer-politician, MP for Bangalore South since 2019 and National President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha since 2020; re-elected 2024 with 60.1% vote share.

Tejaswi Madivada (తేజస్వి మదివాడ)

Tejaswi Madivada (తేజస్వి మదివాడ), Telugu actress and model born 1991 in Hyderabad; debut Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013), lead in Ice Cream (2014), Bigg Boss Telugu Season 2 contestant, host on Aha.

Tejaswini Kolhapure

Tejaswini Kolhapure (तेजस्विनी कोल्हापुरे), born 1980 in Nagpur, is an Indian actress and former ramp model, sister of Padmini Kolhapure and aunt of Shraddha Kapoor; her debut Paanch never released, and she is known for Ugly (2013) and Scoop (2023).

Tejeros Convention

Tejeros Convention, March 22, 1897 assembly at Casa-Hacienda de Tejeros, Cavite, where Magdiwang and Magdalo Katipunan factions elected Emilio Aguinaldo president over Andres Bonifacio, who annulled the election via the Acta de Tejeros.

Tejeshwi Sharma

Tejeshwi Sharma is an Indian venture capital investor who spent over a decade at Sequoia Capital India and Peak XV Partners, investing in SaaS and fintech startups.