edgepedia

All articles starting with Z

3,498 articles

Zoptarelin doxorubicin

Zoptarelin doxorubicin (AEZS-108, AN-152, Zoptrex) is a peptide-drug conjugate linking doxorubicin to a D-Lys6-LHRH agonist to target LHRH receptor-positive tumors; its Phase III endometrial cancer trial failed and development was discontinued.

Zor (ज़ोर)

Zor (ज़ोर), also Zor: Never Underestimate the Force, is a 1998 Hindi action film directed by Sangeeth Sivan, starring Sunny Deol and Sushmita Sen; a box-office flop about a journalist clearing his framed father. Distinct from Syed Noor's 1998 Pakistani film of the same name.

Zora (2025 film)

Zora (ज़ोर) is a 2025 Hindi mystery thriller directed, written, produced, and edited by Rajiv Rai for Trimurti Films, released 8 August 2025. A cop hunts his father's killer after 20 years using a perfume bottle clue; it flopped with ₹0.46 crore week one and drew negative reviews. Not the Jurassic World character Zora or the 2025 Yash Raj-associated project of the same title.

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), African American folklorist, anthropologist, and Harlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men, and Barracoon, rediscovered by Alice Walker after 1973.

Zorah

Zorah (Hebrew צָרְעָה, Tsorah) was an ancient town in the Shephelah of Judah, on the Sorek valley's north side, identified with Tel Tzora and named as Samson's birthplace.

Zoramthanga

Zoramthanga, born 1944, is an Indian politician from Mizoram who served three terms as chief minister and has led the Mizo National Front since 1990.

Zoran Đinđić (Зоран Ђинђић)

Zoran Đinđić (Зоран Ђинђић), Serbian philosopher and Democratic Party leader (1952–2003), first democratically elected Serbian Prime Minister (25 January 2001), key opposition figure against Milošević, Belgrade mayor 1997, assassinated 12 March 2003 in Belgrade.

Zoran Dragić

Zoran Dragić (born 1989, Ljubljana) is a Slovenian shooting guard, younger brother of Goran Dragić; one NBA season with Suns and Heat (2014–15), long European club career, FIBA Europe Cup winner with Bilbao Basket 2025.

Zoran Gajić

Zoran Gajić, born in 1958 in Pančevo, is a Serbian politician and former volleyball coach serving as Minister of Sports. He previously led Yugoslavia's national team to Olympic gold in 2000.

Zoran Hadzibabic

Zoran Hadžibabić, born in Belgrade in 1974, is a Serbian-born experimental physicist and Professor of Physics at Cambridge, known for experiments on two-dimensional Bose gases and the BKT transition.

Zoran Mikulic

Zoran Mikulić, born 1965 in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a Croatian former handball player who won Olympic gold with Croatia at the 1996 Atlanta Games and later coached Croatian clubs.

Zoran Milanović

Zoran Milanović, Croatian president since 2020 and re-elected in 2025 with 74.7%, former SDP leader and prime minister 2011–2016 under whom Croatia joined the EU.

Zoran Petrovic

Zoran Petrović (Зоран Петровић), born 1960 in Belgrade, is a Serbian water polo player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and world championship gold in 1986; not the footballer, journalist, or coach of the same name.

Zoran Roje

Zoran Roje (born 1955, Split), Croatian water polo player and coach; Olympic gold 1984 and silver 1980 with Yugoslavia, captain in 1984; later coached Croatia to Euro 2003 silver and led Primorje Rijeka.

Zoran Stevanović (politician)

Zoran Stevanović (born 1982) is a Slovenian politician, former policeman and entrepreneur, leader of the Resni.ca party, elected MP in 2026 and Speaker of the National Assembly with 48 votes despite a notarized pledge not to cooperate with SDS.

Zoran Tošić (Зоран Тошић)

Zoran Tošić (Зоран Тошић), nicknamed Bambi, Serbian winger born 1987 in Zrenjanin; Partizan double winner, Manchester United signing, CSKA Moscow triple Russian champion, 76 caps for Serbia, 2010 World Cup participant.

Zoran Zivkovic

Zoran Živković (Зоран Живковић), nicknamed Tuta, Serbian handball player and coach born 1945 in Niš; won 1972 Munich Olympic gold with Yugoslavia and later coached Yugoslavia and Egypt, including at the 2000 Olympics.

Zorana Arunovic

Zorana Arunović (Зорана Аруновић), Serbian pistol shooter born 1986 in Belgrade; 2024 Olympic mixed team air pistol champion with Damir Mikec, 2010 world champion, and 10 m air pistol world record holder (246.9, Maribor 2017).

Zorats Karer

Zorats Karer, also known as Karahunj or Carahunge, is a prehistoric megalithic site of standing basalt stones near Sisian in Armenia, often nicknamed the Armenian Stonehenge.

Zorawar

Zorawar is a 2016 Punjabi action film directed by Vinnil Markan, starring rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh as a special agent searching for his father in Durban, South Africa; released 6 May 2016 after a two-year delay.

Zorawar Singh

Zorawar Singh (ਜ਼ੋਰਾਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ) was a Dogra general who conquered Ladakh and Baltistan for Gulab Singh of Jammu and died fighting in Tibet in 1841.

Zoraya ter Beek

Zoraya ter Beek, Dutch woman (born 1995) granted euthanasia approval in May 2024 for unbearable psychiatric suffering after a 3.5-year procedure under the 2002 Dutch euthanasia law, after ten years of failed treatment including 33 ECT sessions.

Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς) (film)

Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς), 1964 drama by Michael Cacoyannis from Kazantzakis's novel, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates; 7 Oscar nominations, 3 wins, filmed in Crete, with Theodorakis's sirtaki score.

Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά)

Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά) is Nikos Kazantzakis's 1946 philosophical novel about an intellectual and the miner Alexis Zorba on Crete, his most popular work, translated widely and adapted into the 1964 film with Anthony Quinn.

Zorbing

Zorbing (sphereing): adventure sport of rolling downhill inside a large transparent double-skinned inflatable ball, invented 1994 in New Zealand by Andrew Akers and Dwane van der Sluis; ZORB brand, Rotorua sites, hydro zorbing variant.

Zordon

Zordon, also known as Zoltar in the pilot, is the tube-bound sage mentor of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, created by Rita Repulsa's time warp, voiced by David Fielding and Bob Manahan, played by Bryan Cranston in 2017, ending with the Z-Wave in Power Rangers in Space.

Zorecimeran

Zorecimeran (CVnCoV, CV07050101) is CureVac's unmodified-mRNA, LNP-encapsulated COVID-19 vaccine encoding prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike; its HERALD Phase 2b/3 trial showed 48% efficacy and the EMA application was withdrawn in October 2021.

Zoria

Zoria (Зоря, "Star") was a semimonthly Ukrainian literary, scholarly, and civic-cultural journal published in Lviv from 1880 to 1897, founded by Omelian Partytsky and later run by the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Zorica Pavicevic

Zorica Pavićević (Зорица Павићевић), born 1956 in Danilovgrad, is a Montenegrin handball player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Los Angeles 1984 and 1979 Mediterranean Games gold, playing for Budućnost Podgorica.

Zorifertinib hydrochloride (AZD3759)

Zorifertinib hydrochloride (AZD3759, Zerini, 盐酸佐利替尼片) is an EGFR-TKI designed to evade MDR1/BCRP efflux for brain penetration; approved in China (NMPA, November 20, 2024) as first-line therapy for EGFR-mutant NSCLC with CNS metastases after the phase 3 EVEREST trial.