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Zaiping Guo
Zaiping Guo, also known as Guo Zaiping, is a Chinese-born Australian battery materials researcher who became Chair Professor of Energy Materials at City University of Hong Kong in 2025.
Zaira Nara
Zaira Nara (Zaira Tatiana Nara), born 1988 in Boulogne, Buenos Aires, is an Argentine model, TV host, and entrepreneur, younger sister of Wanda Nara; she hosts on DGO Stream and runs her own makeup and yerba brands.
Zaira Wasim
Zaira Wasim is an Indian former actress from Srinagar who starred in Dangal (2016), Secret Superstar (2017), and The Sky Is Pink (2019), winning a National Film Award.
Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo under Mobutu Sese Seko from 1971 to 1997.
Zaire ebolavirus
Zaire ebolavirus (Orthoebolavirus zairense), species of filovirus whose virus Ebola virus (EBOV) causes Ebola virus disease; discovered 1976 at Yambuku, Zaire; CFR up to 90%; target of Ervebo vaccine and Inmazeb/Ebanga treatments.
Zaire Wade
Zaire Wade (born 2002), son of Dwyane Wade, is an American guard drafted 10th overall by the G League's Salt Lake City Stars in 2021, later with the BAL's Cape Town Tigers; charged with felony corporal injury in 2026.
Zairean zaire
The Zairean zaire was the currency of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1967 until 1998, when a decade of hyperinflation destroyed its value and it was replaced by the Congolese franc.
Zaitao
Zaitao (载涛) was a Qing dynasty imperial prince, born in Beijing in 1887, a younger brother of the Guangxu Emperor and Army Council minister from 1911.
Zaixun
Zaixun (载洵) was a Qing dynasty prince and Navy Minister in the last years of the Xuantong reign, brother of the Guangxu Emperor and of the regent Zai Feng.
Zaiyi, Prince Duan
Zaiyi (载漪), Prince Duan, was a Manchu Qing prince whose son Pu Jun was named heir, and who was blamed as chief culprit of the Boxer conflict.
Zaiyuan Paierson (载元派尔森)
Zaiyuan Paierson (载元派尔森) was a Chinese new energy materials producer founded in 2011 in Weinan, Shaanxi, making NMP and related chemicals for lithium battery manufacturing, with Samsung as a key customer.
Zajal
Zajal (Arabic: الزجل) is strophic Arabic poetry composed in colloquial rather than Classical Arabic, arising in al-Andalus, with Ibn Quzman of Cordoba as its first major poet.
Zajas
Zajas (Зајас, Zajaz) is a village in Kičevo Municipality, North Macedonia, former seat of a 97 percent Albanian rural municipality of 13 settlements and 11,605 people, home of Ali Ahmeti, merged into Kichevo in 2013.
Zak Bagans
Zak Bagans (born 1977) is the American host of Ghost Adventures, founder of Las Vegas's Haunted Museum, director of Demon House, and author of Ghost Hunting for Dummies, which critics found contained plagiarized material.
Zak Brown
Zak Brown, American motorsport executive and former racing driver; CEO of McLaren Racing since 2017/2018, founder of JMI, co-owner of United Autosports; led McLaren to 2024 and 2025 F1 titles.
Zak Chelli
Zak Chelli, born 1997, is a British professional boxer from Fulham, London; former British, Commonwealth, English, and WBA Continental super-middleweight champion, current English light-heavyweight titleholder, known for his 2026 knockout upset of David Morrell.
Zak Crawley
Zak Crawley (born 1998, Bromley) is an English opening batter for Kent and England. Scored 267 vs Pakistan in 2020, England's third-youngest Test double centurion; Test average 30.96 after 60 Tests, lowest among openers with that many; dropped May 2026.
Zak Dingle
Zak Dingle, also known as Zachariah Bartholomew Dingle, is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Steve Halliwell from 1994 until 2023.
Zak Ford-Williams
Zak Ford-Williams, British actor born near Manchester in 1999, distinct from Robin Williams's son Zak Williams; known for Bridgerton's Lord Remington, Better, The Hardacres, and playing Joseph Merrick as a disabled actor with cerebral palsy.
Zak Kassas
Zak Kassas, also known as Zak M. Kassas, is a Lebanese-American electrical engineer and professor at The Ohio State University who received the 2025 PECASE award for navigation research.
Zak Kuhr
Zak Kuhr (Zachary Adam Kuhr) is an American football coach, New England Patriots defensive coordinator since 2026; former Titans and Giants defensive assistant who called the 2025 Patriots defense through Super Bowl LX.
Zak Starkey
Zak Richard Starkey (born 1965, London), English rock drummer, son of Ringo Starr; drummer for the Who 1996–2025, Oasis 2004–2008, Johnny Marr & the Healers, and Mantra of the Cosmos.
Zak Sutcliffe
Zak Sutcliffe (Zachary Sutcliffe), English actor born 2001 in Bradford, known for Peter Pan in Peter and Wendy, Luke in Grimsby, Evan in 4 O'Clock Club, Schuey Weever in Waterloo Road, and Bobby Costello in Hollyoaks.
Zak Zodiac
Zak Zodiac (Zak Bevis, later Zak Knight) is an English professional wrestler from Norfolk of the Knight family, a WAW champion, brother of Saraya/Paige, with six failed WWE tryouts who later signed with AEW.
Zakai equation
The Zakai equation, also known as the Duncan–Mortensen–Zakai equation, is a linear stochastic partial differential equation introduced by Moshe Zakai in 1969 whose solution gives the unnormalized conditional density in nonlinear filtering.
Zakar (crater on Ganymede)
Zakar is a 170 km, heavily degraded palimpsest-class impact crater on Ganymede at 31.28°N, 333.67°W, IAU-named in 1997 for an Assyrian deity; distinct from the smaller crater Zaqar.
Zakarbaal (king of Byblos)
Zakarbaal, also written Zakar-Ba'al, was a king of the Phoenician city of Byblos in the 11th century BC, known from the Egyptian Tale of Wenamun.
Zakaria Ghafouli
Zakaria Ghafouli (Zakaria El Ghafouli) is a Moroccan pop singer who modernizes Moroccan heritage styles, from Amazigh melodies to chaabi and rai, and became nationally known with his 2018 hit "Hobino".
Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli
Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli, also called Zakare Zakaryan, was a Georgian commander of Armenian background who served as amirspasalar under Queen Tamar, led forces at Basiani and Shamkori, and died in 1212.
Zakaria Tamer
Zakaria Tamer (زكريا تامر, born 1931 in Damascus) is a Syrian short-story writer, regarded as a leading figure of Arabic short fiction, known for Tigers on the Tenth Day.