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Xaivian Lee
Xaivian Lee (born 2004) is a Canadian-American guard from Toronto who starred at Princeton, set its assist and triple-double records, transferred to Florida, and signed a 2026 Exhibit 10 deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Xala
Xala is a 1975 Senegalese satirical film by Ousmane Sembène, adapted from his 1973 novel, about a corrupt businessman cursed with impotence on taking a third wife; a neocolonialism satire in Wolof and French.
Xalam
The xalam is a West African plucked lute with a wooden body and animal-skin face, played hereditarily by griots to accompany histories and praise songs.
Xalapa
Xalapa (Xalapa de Enríquez) is the capital of Veracruz, Mexico, since 1885, with 488,531 municipal residents in 2020, a Nahuatl name meaning "sandy water", coffee and citrus exports, and a cool highland climate.
Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. is an American video game writer, narrative designer, and BAFTA-nominated studio head who founded the independent studio Strange Scaffold in 2019, known for El Paso, Elsewhere and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
Xaliproden
Xaliproden (SR 57746A) is an orally active, non-peptidic 5-HT1A receptor agonist with neurotrophic activity developed by Sanofi-Aventis for ALS, Alzheimer's disease, and neuropathy; phase III trials failed and development was discontinued.
Xaltocan
Xaltocan was a Postclassic-period island city-state, or altepetl, in Lake Xaltocan in the northern Basin of Mexico, about 35 kilometers north of Tenochtitlan, later incorporated into the Aztec empire.
Xam'd: Lost Memories (亡念のザムド)
Xam'd: Lost Memories (亡念のザムド, Bōnen no Zamudo) is a 2008 original 26-episode anime by studio BONES, directed by Masayuki Miyaji with music by Michiru Oshima, released as a PlayStation Network exclusive by BONES, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Aniplex.
Xamarin
Xamarin, also known as Xamarin Inc., was a cross-platform mobile development platform founded in 2011 by Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza, acquired by Microsoft in 2016, with support ending in 2024.
XAMPP
XAMPP is a free Apache distribution that installs a complete local web-server stack with MariaDB, PHP, and Perl on Windows, macOS, or Linux using a single installer.
Xan de Waard
Xan de Waard (born 1995 in Renkum, Netherlands) is a Dutch field hockey midfielder who won two Olympic golds, three World Cups, and was FIH Player of the Year in 2023 and 2025.
Xanab Oil and Gas Field
Xanab (Campo Xanab) is an offshore oil and gas field in shallow Gulf of Mexico waters, operated by Pemex and counted among its main producers.
Xanadu
Xanadu: Australia-sized bright, rugged region on Saturn's moon Titan, first seen from ground-based and Hubble 1994 infrared imaging, mapped by Cassini radar; mountains over 2000 m relief, river channels, craters, water-ice bedrock.
Xanadu (Citizen Kane)
Xanadu is Charles Foster Kane's colossal, unfinished Florida estate in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941), named after Coleridge's Kubla Khan; it opens and closes the film and symbolizes wealth as isolation.
Xanadu (film)
Xanadu (1980) is a Universal musical fantasy directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as muse Kira with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck. A critical flop that earned $22.8 million, spawned the Razzies idea, and became a cult classic with a 2007 Broadway adaptation.
Xanadu (soundtrack)
Xanadu soundtrack: 1980 double-platinum album for the film Xanadu, split between Olivia Newton-John (John Farrar songs) and ELO (Jeff Lynne songs); hits 'Magic' (US No. 1) and 'Xanadu' (ELO's only UK No. 1).
Xanadu X8
The Xanadu X8 is a programmable photonic quantum computing chip developed by Xanadu of Toronto, Canada, and the first photonic quantum computer made publicly available on the cloud in 2020.
Xanana Gusmão
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Timorese resistance leader and FALINTIL commander, first President of Timor-Leste (2002–2007), Prime Minister 2007–2015 and again from 1 July 2023, led CNRT and maritime boundary talks with Australia.
Xand van Tulleken
Xand van Tulleken (Alexander Gerald van Hoogenhouck-Tulleken, born 1978) is a British doctor and broadcaster, identical twin of Chris, known for Operation Ouch!, twin health experiments, humanitarian medicine, and the 2026 book Make Me Well.
Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley (Alexander Harper Berkeley, born 1955, Brooklyn) is an American character actor with 240+ credits, known as George Mason in 24, Percy in Nikita, Red John in The Mentalist, and Gregory in The Walking Dead.
Xander Bogaerts
Xander Bogaerts (X-Man), Aruban MLB shortstop for the San Diego Padres, formerly Boston Red Sox; two World Series titles, five Silver Sluggers, 11-year $280M Padres contract, career .283 with 210 HR.
Xander H.T. Wehrens
Xander H.T. Wehrens (Xander Wehrens) is a Dutch-born physician-scientist who directs the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine and studies calcium handling in cardiac arrhythmias.
Xander Harris
Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris is the human everyman of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Scooby Gang, founding member alongside Buffy and Willow, played by Nicholas Brendon in all seven seasons, distinctive as the only core character with no supernatural powers.
Xander McGuire
Xander McGuire, son of Eddie McGuire, is an Australian sports journalist for 7NEWS Melbourne and Seven's AFL coverage, Triple M's Deadset Legends host, and 2024 Clinton Grybas Emerging Talent Award winner.
Xander Pang
Xander Pang (born 2001, Singapore) is a Singaporean stage and screen actor, son of Adrian and Tracie Pang of Pangdemonium. Known for Light Yagami in Death Note: The Musical at the Barbican (2026), Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen, and his film debut in Dream Stall.
Xander Schauffele
Xander Schauffele, American PGA Tour golfer born 1993 in La Jolla, California; 2017 Rookie of the Year, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, and winner of the 2024 PGA Championship and Open Championship among 10 tour titles.
Xandra
Xandra is the professional name of Alexandra Pohl, an American self-taught house DJ and internet personality from Cincinnati, Ohio, based in Miami, signed to Kygo's Palm Tree Records.
Xandra O. Breakefield
Xandra O. Breakefield is an American molecular neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for cloning the monoamine oxidase A and DYT1 dystonia genes.
Xandra Velzeboer
Dutch short track speed skater Xandra Velzeboer, three-time Olympic gold medalist (3000m relay Beijing 2022; 500m and 1000m Milano Cortina 2026), 500m world record holder, and member of the Velzeboer skating family.
XAnge
XAnge is a Paris-based early-stage venture capital firm, the innovation brand of the French private equity group Siparex, investing from seed to Series B in technology companies from offices in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels.