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Zelda (poet)
Zelda, pen name of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky (1914–1984), was an Israeli Hebrew poet who drew on biblical and hasidic sources and won the Bialik and Brenner prizes.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900–1948), Montgomery-born writer, painter, and dancer, wife and muse of F. Scott Fitzgerald; author of Save Me the Waltz and Scandalabra, icon of the Jazz Age flapper.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Link no Bōken) is Nintendo's 1988 NES action-RPG sequel to The Legend of Zelda, with side-scrolling combat, experience levels, 8 spells, and the first Dark Link battle.
Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010), American 4'3" character actress, the psychic Tangina in Poltergeist (1982) and sequels, Ginny Weedon on Picket Fences, and early HIV/AIDS and little-people rights activist.
Zelda Williams
Zelda Williams (Zelda Rae Williams, born 1989, New York City) is an American actress and director, daughter of Robin Williams and Marsha Garces Williams. Known for voicing Kuvira in The Legend of Korra and directing Lisa Frankenstein (2024), her feature debut from Diablo Cody's screenplay, and for speaking out against AI recreations of her father.
Zelé2021 trial
Zelé2021 (NCT06275347) was a 12-week Mexican randomized double-blind trial comparing the Zélé method very-low-calorie low-fat ketogenic diet with a standard low-calorie diet in class I obesity, showing greater fat-predominant weight loss.
Zeleia
Zeleia (Greek Ζέλεια) was an ancient city of northwestern Anatolia at the foot of Mount Ida, known from Homer's Iliad as a holy Trojan-allied town.
Zelenchukskaya RT-32
The Zelenchukskaya RT-32 is a fully steerable 32-meter radio telescope at the Zelenchukskaya observatory in southern Russia, part of the Quasar-KVO VLBI network since 2001.
Zelenograd
Zelenograd (Зеленоград), a Moscow administrative district founded 1958 near Kryukovo, became the USSR's microelectronics center by the 1962 decree; home to MIET, Mikron, and the Technopolis Moscow SEZ.
Zélia Gattai
Zélia Gattai was a Brazilian writer, memoirist, and photographer who began publishing at 63 with Anarquistas, graças a Deus and married the novelist Jorge Amado.
Zelig
Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary comedy directed by and starring Woody Allen, about a 1920s "human chameleon" who changes to match those around him.
Zelig Eshhar
Zelig Eshhar (1941–2025) was an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who invented the chimeric antigen receptor, earning him the description father of CAR-T cancer therapy.
Żeligowski's Mutiny
Żeligowski's Mutiny (Polish: Bunt Żeligowskiego) was a staged rebellion by Polish General Lucjan Żeligowski that seized Vilnius from Lithuania in October 1920, creating the Republic of Central Lithuania.
Zelim Kotsoev
Zelim Kotsoev (Zelym Kotsoiev, Зелим Олегович Коцоев), Azerbaijani judoka born 1998 in Beslan, competes at -100 kg; Olympic champion Paris 2024, world champion Abu Dhabi 2024, European champion 2023 and 2025.
Zelina Vega
Zelina Vega (Thea Megan Trinidad, b. 1990), WWE wrestler and manager from Queens, NY; first Queen's Crown winner, ex-Women's Tag Team and 2025 Women's United States Champion, LWO member, released 2020 over Twitch, rehired 2021.
Zeling Biopharma (赜灵生物)
Zeling Biopharma (赜灵生物) is a clinical-stage Chinese biopharmaceutical company based in Chengdu. Founded in 2019, it uses AI-driven drug design to develop oncology and autoimmune therapies.
Zeling Biotech (成都赜灵生物医药科技股份有限公司)
Zeling Biotech (成都赜灵生物医药) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Chengdu, China, founded in 2019 by Chen Lijuan, with two Phase III drug candidates and a Hong Kong listing application filed in 2026.
Željana Zovko
Željana Zovko is a Croatian politician of the Croatian Democratic Union and a Member of the European Parliament since 2016, serving as a Vice-Chair of the EPP Group.
Željava Air Base
Željava Air Base, also known as Bihać Air Base, is a large abandoned Cold War underground Yugoslav airbase on the Croatia–Bosnia border, destroyed in 1992.
Željka Cvijanović
Željka Cvijanović is a Bosnian Serb politician serving as the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the collective head of state body representing Republika Srpska.
Żeljko Agić
Željko Agić is a Croatian computer scientist in natural language processing, known for annotation projection methods that bring language technology to low-resource languages like Croatian and Serbian.
Željko Buvač
Željko Buvač, Bosnian-Serb football coach, Jürgen Klopp's assistant manager for 17 years at Mainz, Borussia Dortmund, and Liverpool, nicknamed 'The Brain'; left Liverpool in April 2018, later Dynamo Moscow sporting director.
Željko Ivanek
Željko Ivanek (Željko Šimić-Ivanek), born 1957 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian-American character actor of Croatian origin; Emmy winner (2008) as Ray Fiske on Damages, three-time Tony nominee, known for Oz, Homicide, 24, Argo, and The Walking Dead: Dead City.
Zeljko Jerkov
Zeljko Jerkov (Željko Jerkov, Жељко Јерков), Croatian basketball center born 1953 in Pula; Yugoslav national team star who won Olympic gold 1980 and silver 1976, the 1978 World Championship, and three EuroBasket titles with Jugoplastika Split.
Željko Joksimović
Željko Joksimović (Жељко Јоксимовић) is a Serbian singer, composer, and producer born in Belgrade in 1972, best known for finishing second at Eurovision 2004 with "Lane moje".
Željko Komšić
Željko Komšić is a Bosnian politician of the Democratic Front serving as the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he has held for a record sixteen years.
Željko Obradović
Željko Obradović (Želimir Obradović, born 1960, Čačak) is a Serbian basketball coach, record nine-time EuroLeague champion with five clubs, and coach of Yugoslavia's 1998 world champions.
Zeljko Perusic
Željko Perušić (Zeljko Perusic, Жељко Перушић), Croatian midfielder (1936–2017), Dinamo Zagreb, 1860 Munich, St. Gallen; 27 Yugoslavia caps, 1960 Olympic gold, 1966 German champion.
Željko Reiner
Željko Reiner (born 1953, Zagreb), Croatian physician, HDZ politician, and academician; Deputy Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since 2024, Speaker 2015–2016, Minister of Health 1998–2000, atherosclerosis researcher and HAZU full fellow.
Zelkova
Zelkova, a genus of six relict deciduous tree species in Ulmaceae (elm family), native from Sicily, Crete, Türkiye, and Iran to East Asia; five of six species are IUCN-threatened, and Zelkova serrata is a major street tree.