All articles starting with Z

Zeev Sternhell (זאב שטרנהל)

Zeev Sternhell (זאב שטרנהל, 1935–2020), Polish-born Israeli historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, argued that fascist ideology was born in France before WWI from nationalism fused with revised Marxism, and was a Peace Now activist.

Zeev Ventures

Zeev Ventures is a Palo Alto, California venture capital firm run by sole investor Oren Zeev, with over $2.5 billion under management and early investments in Chegg, Houzz, and Navan.

Zef

Zef is a South African counterculture and style of white working-class Afrikaner identity, derived from the Ford Zephyr car, popularized globally by Die Antwoord and Jack Parow from 2009.

Zefram Cochrane

Zefram Cochrane is the fictional Star Trek scientist who invented Earth's first warp drive, flew the Phoenix in 2063, and made First Contact with the Vulcans; debuting in TOS "Metamorphosis", later played by James Cromwell.

Oct 10, 2026

Zeger Bernhard Van Espen

Zeger Bernhard Van Espen was a Belgian canonist and priest, born at Louvain in 1646, generally described as the most important canonist of the ancient University of Louvain.

Sep 20, 2026

Zeger Hens

Zeger Hens is a Belgian materials chemist and senior full professor at Ghent University, known for research on colloidal quantum dots, including infrared optical gain in HgTe quantum dots.

Żegota

Żegota was the codename of the Council to Aid Jews, an underground Polish organization aiding Jews in German-occupied Poland from December 1942 to January 1945.

Sep 21, 2026

Zehao Cui

Zehao Cui is a battery materials scientist who earned a 2023 PhD at UT Austin with Arumugam Manthiram, known for a 2025 Nature Energy study on high-nickel cathode safety.

Zeher (ज़हर)

Zeher (ज़हर) is a 2005 Hindi suspense thriller, Mohit Suri's directorial debut for Vishesh Films, starring Emraan Hashmi, Shamita Shetty, and Udita Goswami; released 25 March 2005, it earned ₹10.72 crore worldwide.

Zehra Güneş

Zehra Güneş (born 1999, Istanbul) is a Turkish middle blocker, 198 cm, for VakıfBank and Türkiye; 2023 VNL and EuroVolley gold, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympian, VakıfBank captain since 2024-25.

Sep 23, 2026

Zeid bin Hussein

Zeid bin Hussein (زيد بن الحسين) was a Hashemite prince, son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who fought in the Arab Revolt and served as an Iraqi ambassador.

Zeigarnik effect

Zeigarnik effect: proposed better memory for interrupted, unfinished than completed tasks, named after Bluma Zeigarnik (1927, Psychologische Forschung). A 2025 meta-analysis found no reliable recall advantage (ratio 0.99, dz 0.15); the related Ovsiankina resumption effect (~67%) is better supported.

Zeila

Zeila, also known as Seylac or Zaylaʿ, is a port town on the Gulf of Aden in Somaliland that served for centuries as the main trade outlet for the Ethiopian interior.

Oct 15, 2026

Zeilberger algorithm

The Zeilberger algorithm, also known as creative telescoping or the Gosper-Zeilberger algorithm, is a computer algebra method, devised by Doron Zeilberger in 1990, that proves definite hypergeometric summation identities.

Zeilleria

Zeilleria (Bayle, 1878) is an extinct terebratulid brachiopod genus, type of Zeilleriidae, with type species Z. quadrifida; it lived from the Middle Triassic to Early Cretaceous and is a common Jurassic Tethys fossil.

Zeinab Badawi (زينب بدوي)

Zeinab Badawi (زينب بدوي, born 1959) is a Sudanese-British broadcaster, author of An African History of Africa (2024), presenter of BBC HARDtalk and Global Questions, and President of SOAS University of London since 2021.

Zeinab Soleimani (زینب سلیمانی)

Zeinab Soleimani (زینب سلیمانی), born 1991, youngest daughter of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani; emerged publicly after his January 2020 assassination, chairs the Qasem Soleimani Foundation, and denied 2026 US claims about arrested relatives.

Zeira (רבי זעירא)

Zeira, also known as Rav Zeira, was a rabbinic sage who left Babylon for the Land of Israel, where he fasted a hundred times to forget his Babylonian studies.

Zeiram (ゼイラム)

Zeiram (ゼイラム), English title Zeram, is Keita Amemiya's 1991 Japanese tokusatsu SF action film in which bounty hunter Iria traps the near-invincible alien Zeiram in a pocket dimension; it spawned Zeiram 2 and the Iria anime.

Zeishan Quadri

Zeishan Quadri, Indian film writer, actor, director, and producer born 1983 in Wasseypur, Dhanbad; wrote and acted in Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), directed Meeruthiya Gangsters, and joined Bigg Boss 19 in 2025.

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist, from the German Zeit (time) and Geist (spirit), names the characteristic spirit of a historical era, a concept developed in German Idealism and most fully by Hegel.

Zeitgeist (film series)

Zeitgeist film series: three free online documentaries (2007-2011) by Peter Joseph, covering astrotheology, 9/11 claims, and banking critique; spawned The Zeitgeist Movement and drew heavy criticism.

Zeitgeist (The Smashing Pumpkins album)

Zeitgeist (2007), by The Smashing Pumpkins, first album after the 2000 breakup, on Martha's Music/Reprise; only Corgan and Chamberlin of the original lineup; debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 145,000 copies.

Zeitroman

Zeitroman (plural: Zeitromane), literally "time novel", is a German literary term for a novel centered on a critical analysis of the author's own era, closely related to the Gesellschaftsroman.

Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik

Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik (Journal of Medical Physics), quarterly Elsevier journal founded 1990, official organ of the German, Austrian, and Swiss medical physics societies; open access since 2022, 2025 impact factor 4.7.

Zeitstück

Zeitstück (German, plural Zeitstücke, literally "piece of the time") is a play treating current political and social events on stage, associated above all with Weimar drama.

Żejtun (Zejtun) Roman Villa

Żejtun Roman Villa (Malta): multi-period site discovered in 1961 under a school, a Roman rustic villa for olive-oil pressing with torcularium, cisterns, and tiled residential rooms, occupied from the 1st century BC, with Punic and Bronze Age layers.

Zeke and Luther

Zeke and Luther: Disney XD single-camera teen sitcom (2009–2012, 3 seasons) created by Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard, starring Hutch Dano and Adam Hicks as skateboarding best friends in Pacific Terrace.