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Zeppo Marx
Zeppo Marx (Herbert Manfred Marx, 1901-1979), youngest Marx Brother, straight man in the first five Marx Brothers films; later talent agent behind Double Indemnity, Marman clamp maker, and cardiac pulse monitor patentee.
Zeppole
Zeppole (singular zeppola) are Italian fried pastries; the zeppola di San Giuseppe is a choux ring filled with pastry cream and amarena cherry for 19 March. First recipe Cavalcanti 1837; variants in Puglia, Sicily, Rome, and Italian America.
Zeprumetostat tablets
SHR2554 (Zeprumetostat, 泽美妥司他) is Hengrui's oral EZH2 inhibitor, conditionally approved in China for relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma after a phase 1 trial showing 43% ORR at 350 mg twice daily, and out-licensed to Treeline Biosciences outside Greater China.
Zepto (company)
Zepto is an Indian quick-commerce company founded in 2020 by Stanford dropouts Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, delivering groceries from dark stores in about ten minutes.
Zeptosecond
A zeptosecond (zs) is a unit of time equal to 10⁻²¹ seconds, one sextillionth of a second, the scale of the shortest duration ever measured.
Zepz
Zepz is a London-based cross-border payments group founded in 2010 as WorldRemit by Ismail Ahmed, which operates the remittance brands WorldRemit and Sendwave, serving over 9 million customers sending money to 130 countries.
Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (ዘርዐ ያዕቆብ አምሃ ሥላሴ)
Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (ዘርዐ ያዕቆብ አምሃ ሥላሴ), also styled Zere Yacob, titular Emperor of Ethiopia and head of the Solomonic Imperial House since 1997, son of Amha Selassie I, grandson of Haile Selassie, living in Addis Ababa.
Zerai Deres
Zerai Deres was an Eritrean interpreter who protested Italian colonialism in Rome on 15 June 1938, kneeling to the looted Lion of Judah before brandishing a scimitar.
Zeravshan
Zeravshan (Зарафшон), also Zarafshan or Zerafshan, a Central Asian river rising in Tajikistan's Alai Range, watering Samarkand and Bukhara oases; formerly an Amu Darya tributary, it now ends near Gijduvon, its water fully used for irrigation.
Zerbst
Zerbst/Anhalt, a town in Saxony-Anhalt's Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, former residence of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst (1603/06-1793), hometown tagline of Catherine the Great, baroque castle ruined in 1945, about 20,800 residents on 470.90 km².
Zereia/Zeira
Zereia/Zeira: otherwise unknown fortress in Chalcidice, besieged and razed by Philip II of Macedon in 349 BC at the start of his campaign against Olynthus; location unidentified.
Zeren SK
Zeren SK (Zeren Spor Kulübü), Turkish women's volleyball club founded 2022 in Ankara by Mustafa Yiğit Zeren; plays in Sultanlar Ligi, 2025-26 CEV Champions League quarterfinalist, colors white and purple.
Zeresenay Alemseged
Zeresenay Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist, born in 1969 in Axum, best known for discovering Selam, a 3.3-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis child, in Ethiopia's Afar region.
Zerkaa
Zerkaa, Joshua Charlie Joseph Bradley, also known as Josh Zerker, is an English YouTuber born 1992, founding member of the Sidemen, main channel 4.69M subscribers, most watched UK Twitch streamer in 2022.
Zermatt
Zermatt, car-free Valais village at 1,620 m beneath the Matterhorn; 5,922 residents, 2.57 million overnight stays, 360 km of slopes with Cervinia, Gornergrat railway, and the Matterhorn Alpine Crossing to Italy since 2023.
Zermatt Neo
Zermatt Neo is a Singaporean competitive eater and YouTube creator, a former personal trainer and dietitian, ranked No. 1 by Food League Singapore in 2020, known for multi-kilogram hawker-food challenges.
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (ZF) is the standard axiom system for set theory, the foundation for modern mathematics; with the axiom of choice it is ZFC.
Zernaki tepe
Zernaki Tepe (Zirnaki, Zernişan Kale) is a deserted grid-planned ancient city in Yukarı Işıklı, Erciş, Van Province, Turkey, near Lake Van. About 270 hectares, five-room houses, debated Urartian, Artaxiad, or Sasanian dating; excavated since 2020.
Zernez
Zernez (Zarnetz) is a Graubünden municipality in the Swiss Lower Engadine at the Spöl–Inn confluence, 1,474 m up. Gateway to the Swiss National Park since 1914, merged with Lavin and Susch in 2015, rebuilt after an 1872 fire.
Zernike polynomials
Zernike polynomials, also known as Zernike's circle polynomials, are functions orthogonal over the unit circle that serve as the standard basis for describing wavefront aberrations in optical testing and ophthalmology.
Zero
Zero, denoted 0, is the additive identity of arithmetic, an integer that is neither positive nor negative, whose oldest dated written form appears in Cambodia in AD 683.
Zero (2016 film)
Zero (ஜீரோ) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language fantasy horror film written and directed by Shiv Mohaa, starring Ashwin Kakumanu, Sshivada, and J. D. Chakravarthy, released on 25 March 2016.
Zero (2018 film)
Zero (शून्य) is a 2018 Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed by Aanand L. Rai, starring Shah Rukh Khan as Bauua Singh, a man with dwarfism, opposite Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif; a Rs 200 crore VFX-heavy flop rated 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Zero (2024 film)
Zero (2024) is Jean Luc Herbulot's American action comedy thriller, also called Zero (2024 film), in which two Americans (Hus Miller, Cam McHarg) wake in Dakar with bombs and follow Willem Dafoe's phone voice for ten hours; TIFF 2024 premiere, 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, US release April 11, 2025.
Zero (Drakengard)
Zero is the protagonist of the 2013 action role-playing game Drakengard 3, created by director Yoko Taro: an Intoner who hunts her five sisters across a medieval fantasy world.
Zero (musician)
Zero is a British DJ and producer from the Surrey and Brighton bass scene who emerged in 2017 and releases UK garage, bassline, and dubstep on his BARCODES label.
Zero 7
Zero 7 is a British downtempo project of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker; Simple Things (2001) went gold, earned a Mercury nomination, and defined their chillout, guest-vocalist sound.
Zero A. D.: The Birth of Christ
Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ is a 2026 biblical drama directed by Alejandro Monteverde for Angel Studios, starring Deva Cassel, Jim Caviezel, Sam Worthington, and Ben Mendelsohn, depicting Herod's Massacre of the Innocents; US release December 11, 2026.
Zero Chill
Zero Chill is a 2021 British-Canadian Netflix teen sports drama, also known as a Lime Pictures production, about figure skater Kayla MacBentley moving from Canada to England for her twin brother's hockey academy; canceled after one ten-episode season in November 2021.
Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's dramatization of the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, starring Jessica Chastain as analyst Maya; five Oscar nominations and a major torture-accuracy controversy.