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Zurich city

Zürich City SC (ZCSC), amateur Swiss football club founded 6 June 2019 in Zürich; SFV and FVRZ member, 14 teams, white/blue, men's team in 2. Liga interregional (fifth tier), distinct from FC Zürich.

Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Zürich Hauptbahnhof, also known as Zürich HB or Zurich Main Station, is the principal railway station of Zurich, Switzerland, and the largest station in the Swiss network.

Zurich Insurance Group

Zurich Insurance Group, formerly Zurich Financial Services, is a Swiss insurance company founded in 1872 that serves more than 82 million customers worldwide from its Zurich headquarters.

Zuriko Davitashvili

Zuriko Davitashvili, Georgian winger born 2001 in Tbilisi; Dinamo Tbilisi youth, Rubin Kazan, Bordeaux, and AS Saint-Etienne (2024, €6m); 39 Georgia caps, Euro 2024 round of 16.

Zurletrectinib tablets

Zurletrectinib (佐来曲替尼, ICP-723, brand Yinuoxin) is InnoCare Pharma's second-generation pan-TRK and ROS1 inhibitor tablets, conditionally approved in China December 2025 for NTRK fusion-positive solid tumors, with 89.1% ORR and activity against G595R/G667C resistance.

Zurrieq

Żurrieq FC, Maltese football club from the town of Żurrieq (pop. 10,000); twelve seasons in the Premier League (best finish 3rd, 1987/88), First Division champions 1992/93, now in the Maltese Challenge League.

Zuru (company)

Zuru is a privately held toy and consumer goods manufacturer founded in 2003 by New Zealand siblings Mat, Nick, and Anna Mowbray, known for Bunch O Balloons and XSHOT.

Zuryō

The zuryō (受領) were the responsible provincial governors of Heian Japan, officials who actually collected taxes and administered a province on behalf of the court.

Zuryō system

The zuryō system (受領制) was the Heian Japanese arrangement of provincial government under which a single administrator collected taxes and answered for them in the capital.

Zus Coffee

Zus Coffee, also known as Zuspresso, is a Malaysian value-priced coffee chain founded in late 2019 that has grown from one Kuala Lumpur kiosk to over 700 stores.

Zuse KG

Zuse KG was a German computer manufacturer founded by Konrad Zuse in Neukirchen, Hesse, in 1949; at its 1964 peak it was West Germany's second-largest computer maker.

Zusen Fan

Zusen Fan (范祖森) is a Chinese immunologist who discovered innate immune cell subsets including NKB cells and Tuft-2 cells, and moved to Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology in 2025.

Zusha (band)

Zusha is an American Hasidic folk-rock band formed in Manhattan in 2013 by Shlomo Gaisin, Zachariah Goldschmiedt, and Elisha Mlotek, named for Reb Zusha of Hanipoli; its 2014 EP hit No. 9 and Kavana No. 2 on Billboard's World Albums chart.

Zutang ji

The Zutang ji (祖堂集, Collection of the Patriarchal Hall) is a twenty-fascicle collection of Chan Buddhist biographies compiled in 952 at Quanzhou, the earliest such record to survive complete.

ZUTOMAYO

ZUTOMAYO, also known as ずっと真夜中でいいのに。 or ずとまよ, is a Japanese band centered on singer-songwriter ACAね, who writes and sings its songs; it debuted in 2018 with 秒針を噛む.

Zuṭṭ

Zuṭṭ (al-Zutt, الزطّ), the Arabized form of Jat, were people from northwestern India (Sindh, Punjab) settled in Sasanian and early Islamic Iraq, Syria, and Cilicia; they staged revolts in lower Iraq and were deported to the Byzantine frontier in 835 CE.

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita (I've Always Liked You) is a 2016 Japanese anime film by Qualia Animation adapting HoneyWorks' Confession Executive Committee Love Series songs, directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa, released April 23, 2016 by Aniplex.

Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve

Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve (Žuvinto biosferos rezervatas), southern Lithuania's wetland of lakes, mires, and bogs; established 2002, UNESCO MAB site since 2011, Ramsar and Natura 2000, core protected since 1937.

Zuxian

Zuxian (祖先), also known as Po'an Zuxian, was a Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk of the Southern Song dynasty, 1136–1211, Dharma heir of Mi'an Xianjie and teacher of Wuzhun Shifan.

Zuying

Zuying (祖瑛) is the name given for a Chan Buddhist monk of Yuan-dynasty China, reported as living 1291–1343; no retrieved source attests him, and the Song work Zuying Ji concerns a different person.

Zuzana Čaputová

Zuzana Čaputová (born 1973) is a Slovak lawyer and environmental activist, President of Slovakia 2019–2024 and its first female head of state; won the 2019 election with 58.41% after the Pezinok landfill campaign and 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko, born 1961 in Bratislava, is a Slovak-born American type designer who pioneered digital typeface design on the first Apple Macintosh and co-founded Emigre, whose typefaces include Mrs Eaves.

Zuzana Maderova

Zuzana Maděrová (Maděrová), Czech alpine snowboarder born 2003 in Liberec; won women's parallel giant slalom gold at Milano Cortina 2026, her first major title, after 23rd at Beijing 2022; seven World Cup podiums.

Zuzana Mrázová

Zuzana Mrázová, until December 2025 known as Schwarz Bařtipánová, is a Czech ANO 2011 politician serving as Minister of Regional Development and formerly Mayor of Bílina from 2018 to 2025.

Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova

Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova (Zuzana Rehák Štefečeková), Slovak trap shooter born 1984 in Nitra; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 with a 125-target qualification world record, silvers Beijing 2008 and London 2012, world champion 2010 and 2018.

Zuzana Trnkova

Zuzana Trnková, Czech ice hockey forward born 2005, won gold in girls' 3-on-3 ice hockey with Team Yellow at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne and was Czechia's opening-ceremony flagbearer; later with HC Lvi Fosfa Břeclav.

Zuzanna S. Siwy

Zuzanna S. Siwy is a Polish-born biophysicist, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine since 2012, known for synthetic nanopores, ionic diodes, and ionic transistors.

Zuzu (king of Purushanda)

Zuzu was an Anatolian ruler who reigned from about 1725 to 1710 BC, the last king of Kanesh recorded in the Cappadocian tablets from Kültepe, after Anitta.

Zvartnots

Zvartnots-AAL (Զվարթնոց-ԱԱԼ), also FC Zvartnots AAL, was a defunct Armenian football club from Yerevan founded by Armenian Airlines in 1997; 1998 First League champions, 2001 Premier League runners-up, dissolved in 2003.

Zvartnots International Airport (Զվարթնոց միջազգային օդանավակայան)

Zvartnots International Airport is the main international airport of Armenia, serving Yerevan since 1961 from 15 km west of the city. Operated under concession by Corporación América, it handled a record 5.6 million passengers in 2025.