All articles starting with Z

Zbigniew Boniek

Zbigniew Boniek, also Zibi, Polish footballer born 1956 in Bydgoszcz; Widzew Łódź and Juventus star, 1982 World Cup bronze with Poland, later PZPN president and UEFA vice-president.

Zbigniew Bródka (born 1984, Głowno) is a Polish speed skater, Olympic 1,500 m champion at Sochi 2014 by 0.003 s over Koen Verweij, the first Polish Olympic speed skating gold, plus team pursuit bronze.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski (Zbigniew Brzeziński), 1928–2017, Polish-born American political scientist and Carter's national security adviser 1977–1981; author of The Grand Chessboard and predictor of Soviet collapse.

Oct 10, 2026

Zbigniew Ciesielski

Zbigniew Ciesielski (1934–2020) was a Polish mathematician at the University of Gdańsk and the Polish Academy of Sciences, known for his Haar-function construction of Brownian motion.

Oct 10, 2026

Zbigniew Gajda

Zbigniew Gajda (1958–1992) was a Polish mathematician at the University of Silesia in Katowice whose 1991 paper extended Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability of additive mappings to all exponents other than 1.

Zbigniew Gut

Zbigniew Gut (1949–2010), Polish defender, 11 caps, Olympic football gold at Munich 1972 and 1974 World Cup bronze; clubs Odra Opole, Lech Poznań, then French football; died in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France.

Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) was a Polish poet, playwright, and essayist born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, best known internationally for his poetic alter ego Mr Cogito.

Sep 27, 2026

Zbigniew Konwiński

Zbigniew Konwiński, born 1974 in Słupsk, is a Polish Civic Coalition politician, a Sejm member since 2007 and leader of its parliamentary club since 2023.

Zbigniew Lubiejewski

Zbigniew Lubiejewski, born 1949 in Bartoszyce, Polish volleyball player and coach, 1976 Montreal Olympic champion with Poland, 74-cap national team member 1972–1977, long-serving AZS Olsztyn player.

Zbigniew Zarzycki

Zbigniew Zarzycki, nicknamed Zuzu, is a Polish volleyball player who earned 159 caps, won gold at the 1976 Olympics and the 1974 World Championship, and later coached Poland.

ZBLAN

ZBLAN is a heavy metal fluoride glass made of zirconium, barium, lanthanum, aluminum, and sodium fluorides, used mainly as the core of infrared optical fibers and fiber lasers.

Oct 20, 2026

Zboriv Raion

Zboriv Raion (Зборівський район), former district of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Zboriv; existed 1940 to July 2020, 978 km2, 47,040 residents (2001), 90 settlements, then merged into Ternopil Raion.

Zbruch Idol

The Zbruch Idol, also called the Zbruch Sviatovyd, is a four-faced stone statue pulled from the Zbruch River in Ukraine in 1848, kept in Kraków since 1851.

Oct 15, 2026

ZBrush

ZBrush is a digital sculpting, painting, and modeling application in which artists shape polygon meshes like clay with brushes, first released in 2000 and now developed by Maxon.

ZBTB16

ZBTB16, also called PLZF or ZNF145, is a human gene at 11q23.2 encoding a nine-zinc-finger BTB/POZ transcriptional repressor. Discovered in 1993 as a RARA fusion partner in t(11;17) acute promyelocytic leukemia, it also regulates T cells, myelination, and cancers.

ZBTB7A

ZBTB7A (LRF, FBI-1, POKEMON) is a human 19p13.3 gene encoding a POK-family transcriptional repressor that acts as both oncogene and tumor suppressor, repressing ARF, glycolytic genes, MCAM, and fetal hemoglobin.

Zburătorul

Zburătorul ("The Flyer"), also spelled Sburătorul, is a demon of erotic love in Romanian folklore who visits girls at night and inspired poets including Mihai Eminescu.

Zc(3900)

Zc(3900) is a charged, charmonium-like particle discovered in 2013 by the BESIII and Belle collaborations with a mass of about 3.9 GeV, making it a leading tetraquark candidate.

ZC3HAV1

ZC3HAV1 (zinc finger antiviral protein, ZAP, PARP13) is a human CCCH zinc-finger RNA-binding restriction factor that binds CpG-rich viral RNA and recruits decay machinery (exosome, TRIM25, KHNYN) to degrade it, inhibiting many RNA and DNA viruses.

Zcash

Zcash (ZEC) is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency launched in October 2016, based on the Zerocash protocol, which uses zero-knowledge proofs to let its blockchain verify payments while hiding the sender, recipient, and amount.

ZD Awards

The ZD Awards (Zvukovaya Dorozhka, "Sound Track") are the annual reader-voted music prize of the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, with its first ceremony held in 2003.

Sep 21, 2026

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Bažant, born in Prague in 1937, is a Czech-born American engineer at Northwestern University known for the size effect law, failure risk statistics, and concrete creep models.

Sep 27, 2026

Zdeněk Hřib

Zdeněk Hřib is a Czech politician who has led the Czech Pirate Party since 2024 and sits in the Chamber of Deputies, after serving as Mayor of Prague.

Zdeněk Lev of Rožmitál

Zdeněk Lev of Rožmitál (Zdeněk Lev z Rožmitálu, c. 1470–1535) was a powerful Bohemian nobleman who served as Supreme Burgrave of Prague and de facto ruler under King Vladislaus II.

Zdenek Rygel

Zdeněk Rygel (born 1951, Ostrava), Czech defender, Baník Ostrava 1972–1983 with three Czechoslovak titles, 4 national caps, and Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia at Moscow 1980.

Zdeněk Škrland

Zdeněk Škrland (1914–1996), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist; with Václav Mottl won the first Olympic C2 10,000 m gold at Berlin 1936 in 50:33.5; also 1934 European and 1938 world bronze medalist.

Zdenek Sreiner

Zdeněk Šreiner (1954–2017), Czech midfielder, spent most of his career at Baník Ostrava, winning Czechoslovak titles in 1980 and 1981, and won Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia at Moscow 1980, earning six senior caps.

Oct 20, 2026

Zdenka Bartonova Silhava

Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá (Zdenka Bartonova Silhava), Czech discus and shot put athlete born 1954 in Krnov; three Olympiads (1980, 1988, 1996), 74.56 m discus national record, 1983 European indoor shot bronze.