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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (Зоя Космодемьянская) was a Soviet teenage saboteur hanged by German forces in 1941 and the first woman named Hero of the Soviet Union in World War II.
Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (زویا پیرزاد, born 1952) is an Iranian-Armenian novelist and translator whose debut novel I Will Turn Off the Lights became a bestseller in Iran.
Zōyaku
Zōyaku (雑徭) was a corvée labor obligation owed by adult male peasants to their provinces under the ancient Japanese ritsuryo system, first institutionalized in 689.
Zoysia
Zoysia (zoysiagrass) is a genus of about 10 perennial warm-season grasses native to Asia and the Pacific; Z. japonica, Z. matrella, and Z. pacifica are grown as low-input drought- and salt-tolerant lawn and golf turf, introduced to the US in the 1890s.
Zoysia japonica
Zoysia japonica, Japanese or Korean lawngrass (shiba, jie lü cao), is a coarse-textured, cold-tolerant warm-season turf grass native to temperate East Asia, introduced to the US from Korea in 1894, and the only zoysiagrass sold as seed.
Zozibini Tunzi
Zozibini Tunzi, South African model and actress, Miss Universe 2019 and Miss South Africa 2019; third South African and first Black South African winner; longest reign, 525 days; natural-hair advocacy; The Woman King.
ZOZO
ZOZO, Inc. (株式会社ZOZO) is a Japanese fashion e-commerce company headquartered in Chiba, best known for operating ZOZOTOWN, one of Japan's largest fashion e-commerce platforms. Founded in May 1998 as Start Today Ltd.
Zozobra
Zozobra, or Old Man Gloom, is a 50-foot marionette effigy burned annually in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 1924, when artist Will Shuster created it; the Kiwanis Club has run the Friday-before-Labor-Day ritual since 1964.
ZP Theart
ZP Theart (ZP De Villiers Theart), South African-born singer, co-founder and original lead vocalist of DragonForce (1999-2010), later of I Am I, Tank, and Skid Row (2017-2022), and guest voice of Pentakill's Karthus.
ZPS-JPS Oil Pipeline
The ZPS-JPS Oil Pipeline is a 198-kilometer crude oil pipeline in eastern Venezuela, carrying diluted extra-heavy crude from the Zuata oil field to the José complex.
ZR-75-1
ZR-75-1 (also ZR751, ATCC CRL-1500) is a human ER/PR-positive breast cancer cell line established in 1978 from the ascites of a 63-year-old woman with infiltrating ductal carcinoma, used widely in endocrine-resistance and ER+ breast cancer research.
Zr-MOFs for nerve-agent detoxification
Zr-MOFs for nerve-agent detoxification are porous zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks that catalytically hydrolyze nerve agents such as soman, VX, and Novichok into far less toxic phosphate products.
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin (Зрењанин) is a city in the Banat region of Vojvodina, Serbia, with 76,511 inhabitants at the 2011 census; until 1935 it was called Bečkerek, and from 1935 to 1946 Petrovgrad.
Zrinski family
Zrinski (Zrínyi), Croatian aristocratic family, branch of the Šubići of Bribir, named after Zrin from 1347. Bans, anti-Ottoman warriors, and magnates; extinct in the male line in 1703 after the failed 1671 conspiracy.
ZrSiS
Zirconium silicon sulfide (ZrSiS) is a stable, non-toxic layered crystal of zirconium, silicon, and sulfur, the most studied square-net topological semimetal, hosting Dirac nodal lines.
ZS Associates
ZS Associates is a privately held management consulting and technology firm in Evanston, Illinois, founded in 1983, best known for sales and analytics consulting to pharmaceutical companies.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (Gábor Zsazsa, born Sári Gábor, 1917–2016) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite famous for being famous: nine marriages, diamonds, the "dahlink" catchphrase, Moulin Rouge (1952), and the 1989 cop-slapping case.
Zsazsa Zaturnnah (film)
Zsazsa Zaturnnah (Zsazsa Zaturnnah vs the Amazonistas of Planet X), 2026 Philippine-French 2D animated LGBTQ+ superhero comedy by Avid Liongoren, adapting Carlo Vergara's 2002 graphic novel about Ada, a gay hairdresser transformed by a meteorite; premiered at Annecy 2026 and won Fantasia and Seoul Indie-AniFest awards.
Zscaler
Zscaler is an American cloud security company based in San Jose, California, known for its Zero Trust Exchange platform of secure web gateway and zero trust services.
Zsigmond Kemény
Zsigmond Kemény (Kemény Zsigmond, 1814–1875) was a Hungarian novelist and politician from Transylvania, the foremost Hungarian psychological novelist, whose works include Özvegy és leánya and Zord idő.
Zsigmond Móricz
Zsigmond Móricz (Móricz Zsigmond, 1879–1942) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose unsentimental fiction about peasant life made him a central figure of twentieth-century Hungarian prose.
Zsirozas
Zsirozas (Zsírozás, Zsír) is a Hungarian trick-taking card game of the Sedma family, played with a 32-card Tell deck; tricks are won by matching the led rank, and players compete to capture aces and tens (zsír).
ZSM-5
ZSM-5 (Zeolite Socony Mobil-five) is a synthetic aluminosilicate zeolite of the MFI framework type, discovered at Socony Mobil in 1965 and used in methanol-to-gasoline conversion and fluid catalytic cracking.
Zsolnay
Zsolnay is a Hungarian ceramics manufacturer founded in 1853 in Pécs by Miklós Zsolnay, known for its iridescent eosin glaze and for pyrogranite, which clad Art Nouveau buildings.
Zsolt Baranyai
Zsolt Baranyai is the combinatorialist behind Baranyai's theorem, published in 1975, which settled Sylvester's conjecture by proving complete uniform hypergraphs are 1-factorable whenever k divides n.
Zsolt Borkai
Zsolt Borkai (Borkai Zsolt), Hungarian gymnast born 1965 in Győr; 1988 Seoul Olympic pommel horse champion in a three-way tie, 1987 world champion, later MOB president 2010-2017 and mayor of Győr 2006-2019.
Zsolt Felcsuti
Zsolt Felcsuti (born 1971) is a Hungarian industrialist, CEO and owner of MPF Industry Group, a machinery and heating-equipment group he co-founded with his father in 1994.
Zsolt Frei
Zsolt Frei is a Hungarian astronomer and physicist, a Széchenyi Prize winner and professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest who leads Hungary's participation in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Zsolt Gyulay
Zsolt Gyulay (Gyulay Zsolt, born 1964, Vác) is a Hungarian sprint kayaker, double 1988 Seoul Olympic champion (K1 500 m, K4 1000 m), six-time world champion, and since 2022 president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
Zsolt Hegedűs
Zsolt Hegedűs (Hegedűs Zsolt) is a Hungarian orthopedic surgeon and politician serving as Minister of Health under the Tisza Párt, appointed after its 2026 election victory.