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Zdenko Hans Skraup
Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850–1910) was a Czech-born Austrian chemist whose 1880 synthesis of quinoline from aniline, glycerol, and sulfuric acid became the named Skraup reaction, still used in heterocyclic chemistry.
Zdenko Zorko
Zdenko Zorko (Зденко Зорко), nicknamed Kokica, born 1950 in Zagreb, is a Croatian handball goalkeeper coach and former Yugoslavia goalkeeper, 1972 Olympic champion, 82 caps, and goalkeeper coach of Croatia's 1996 and 2004 Olympic gold teams.
Zdeno Chára
Zdeno Chára (born 1977, Trenčín), Slovak defenseman, tallest NHL player ever at 6'9"; played 1,680 games, a defenseman record; Norris 2009, 2011 Stanley Cup captain with Boston; Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025; Bruins retired No. 33 in 2026.
ZDF
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) is Germany's national public-service television broadcaster, founded by a 1961 Länder treaty, broadcasting since 1 April 1963 from Mainz, funded by the Rundfunkbeitrag and restricted advertising, led by Intendant Norbert Himmler.
ZDF Fernsehgarten
ZDF Fernsehgarten is a live open-air Sunday entertainment show ZDF has staged in Mainz every summer since 1986, mixing Schlager and rock with games, hosted by Andrea Kiewel.
Zdravka Yordanova
Zdravka Yordanova (Здравка Йорданова), Bulgarian rower born 1950 in Sofia; with Svetla Otsetova won the first women's Olympic double sculls at Montreal 1976, making them Bulgaria's first women Olympic champions; later sports journalist and veteran athletes' federation chair.
Zdravko Hebel
Zdravko Hebel (Здравко Хебел), Croatian water polo goalkeeper, Olympic gold medalist with Yugoslavia at Mexico 1968, Mladost Zagreb club legend, and second President of the Croatian Olympic Committee (2000–2002).
Zdravko Miljak
Zdravko Miljak (Здравко Миљак), born 1950 in Vinkovci, is a Croatian former handball player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Munich 1972, finished fifth at Montreal 1976, and later starred in Italian and German club handball.
Zdravko Rađenović
Zdravko Rađenović (Здравко Рађеновић), born 1952 in Bačka Palanka, is a Serbian handball player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Zdravko Zovko
Zdravko Zovko, born 1955 near Brod, is a Croatian handball coach and former player who won Olympic gold in 1984 and the European Champions' Cup coaching Zagreb in 1992 and 1993.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor from Sanok known for dark fantastic paintings. Trained architect, Antyfotografia photographer, Warsaw fantastic period, murdered in 2005; largest collection in Sanok.
Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak
Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929–2003), Polish long-distance runner; 1960 Rome Olympic champion in the 3,000 m steeplechase (8:34.2 OR), double 1958 European champion at 5,000 and 10,000 m, and twice steeplechase world record holder.
Zdzisław Opial
Zdzisław Opial (1930–1974) was a Polish mathematician at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, known for Opial's inequality, a fundamental integral inequality in the qualitative theory of differential equations.
Ze (З з) (Cyrillic)
Ze (З з) is a letter of the Cyrillic script and the ninth letter of the modern Russian alphabet, representing /z/ and encoded in Unicode as U+0417 and U+0437.
ZE Energy
ZE Energy SAS is a Paris-based French independent power producer, founded in 2019 by former Solairedirect managers, that builds hybrid solar plants combining photovoltaics with battery storage.
Ze Frank
Ze Frank, born Hosea Jan Frank, is an American internet comedian and web artist who pioneered the video blog in 2006 and now hosts the True Facts animal series.
Zé Neto e Cristiano
Zé Neto e Cristiano are a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2011 by childhood friends from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, who broke out nationally in 2018.
Zé Pedro (footballer, born 1997)
Zé Pedro (José Pedro da Silva Figueiredo Freitas, born 1997, Guimarães) is a Portuguese centre-back who rose from Estrela Amadora and Porto B to FC Porto's first team, winning the 2023/24 Taça de Portugal and 2024 Supertaça, then joined Cagliari in 2025.
Zé Roberto
Zé Roberto (José Roberto da Silva Júnior) is a Brazilian former footballer who won the Champions League with Real Madrid and four Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich.
Ze Rong's Buddhist Establishment
Ze Rong's Buddhist Establishment (笮融佛寺) was a temple complex built by the warlord Ze Rong with diverted grain in Xu Province, the earliest lay-patron Buddhist establishment in the standard histories.
ZE:A (제국의 아이들)
ZE:A (제국의 아이들, Children of Empire) is a nine-member South Korean second-generation boy group under Star Empire Entertainment, debuted January 7, 2010 with "Mazeltov", on hiatus since 2017 but never officially disbanded.
Ze’ev A. Ronai
Ze'ev Ronai is a cancer biologist who studies stress-response signaling and ubiquitin ligases in melanoma, and became director of the Translational Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai in 2024.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (זאב ז'בוטינסקי)
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (זאב ז'בוטינסקי), born Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), was a Zionist leader, author, and founder of Revisionist Zionism and the Betar movement, co-founding the Jewish Legion in the First World War.
Zea Dorsa
Zea Dorsa is an IAU-approved ridge system (dorsum) on Mars in the Hellas basin region, Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle, centered at 48.87S, 80.54E with a 249 km diameter; named in 1979 from a classical albedo feature.
Zealand
Zealand (Sjælland) is Denmark's largest island, home to Copenhagen and nearly half the Danish population. Distinguished from Funen and Jutland by the Great Belt and Øresund fixed links (1998, 2000) and a glacial Weichselian landscape.
Zealandia
Zealandia (Te Riu-a-Māui) is a mostly submerged continent of continental crust in the southwest Pacific, about 4.9 million km² and 94% underwater, formally proposed as Earth's eighth continent in 2017.
Zealots (קנאים)
The Zealots (קנאים), also called Sicarii, were a first-century Jewish faction that fought Roman rule in Judea and led the First Jewish Revolt of 66–73 CE.
Zeami (Mercurian crater)
Zeami, a 120-km impact crater on Mercury at 3.1°S, 147.2°W, named in 1976 for the Japanese playwright Zeami Motokiyo; its floor shows dark plains and bright bluish hollows seen by Mariner 10 and MESSENGER.
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清)
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清, c. 1363–c. 1443), also signed Ze-a or Ze-amida-butsu, was a Japanese nō actor, playwright, and theorist, son of Kan'ami, patronized by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, author of the Fūshikaden and developer of mugen-nō.
Zearalenone
Zearalenone (ZEN, formerly F-2 toxin) is an estrogenic mycotoxin produced by Fusarium fungi, especially F. graminearum, that contaminates maize, wheat, and other cereals and causes reproductive disorders in farm animals.