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Zeus, T.
Zeus, T. is the gazetteer designation for a temple of Zeus, covering the Olympia temple (ca. 475–455 BC, Pheidias's statue), Nemea, Athens, and the Zeus Thenatas sanctuary at Amnisos, Crete.
Zeuz
Zeuz, real name Tim Kremer, is a Cologne-based German DJ and producer who works in hard techno, known for "This Is My Bassline" (2021) and "Techno On My Mind" (2022).
Zev D. Bryant
Zev D. Bryant is a molecular biophysicist and Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University who studies single-molecule DNA mechanics and engineers controllable molecular motors from myosin.
Zev Jordan Gartner
Zev Jordan Gartner, known as Zev J. Gartner, is an American biologist who has been professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF since 2008, studying how tissues self-organize.
Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl (born 1942) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder of Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker; its first paid employee, vice president until 1980, later startup mentor and speaker.
Zevi Eckhaus
Zevi Eckhaus is an American football quarterback from Culver City, California, who set Bryant's career passing records before transferring to Washington State, where he started in 2025 and finished with 94 touchdown passes.
Zevorcabtagene autoleucel (zevor-cel, CT053)
Zevorcabtagene autoleucel (zevor-cel, CT053; 泽沃基奥仑赛注射液, brand 赛恺泽) is CARsgen's fully human BCMA-directed autologous CAR T-cell therapy, conditionally approved in China February 2024 for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma after three prior lines, with fixed 1.5×10^8 cell dosing.
Zewana Chasma
Zewana Chasma is a 900 km faulted trough (chasma) on Venus at 9°N, 212°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named for a West Slavic/Polish hunting goddess and radial to Atla Regio.
Zewditu I
Zewditu I (ዘውዲቱ አንደኛ), also written Zawditu or Zauditu, was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930, a daughter of Emperor Menilek II who was succeeded by Haile Selassie I.
Zewei Quan
Zewei Quan is a chemist and professor of chemistry at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, working on nanomaterials, luminescent metal halides, and electrocatalysis.
Zexiang Shen
Zexiang Shen is a Singapore-based physicist and materials scientist who joined Nanyang Technological University in 2005, known for Raman spectroscopy of graphene, near-field Raman microscopy, and energy-storage materials.
Zexie Tang
Zexie Tang (泽泻汤, Alisma Decoction) is a two-herb classical Chinese formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue: alisma 5 liang plus atractylodes 2 liang, for vertigo from fluid retention, with diuretic, lipid-lowering, and anti-inflammatory actions.
Zeya
Zeya (Зея): river in Amur Oblast, largest left tributary of the Amur (1,242 km, 232,000 km² basin), and its Zeya Dam, a 1,330 MW buttress-dam hydro plant launched 1975 with the world's first 220 MW diagonal turbines.
Zeya hydroelectric plant
The Zeya hydroelectric plant (Zeyskaya HPP) is a 1,330 MW hydroelectric station on the Zeya River in Amur Oblast, Russia, the first large hydro plant of the Soviet Far East.
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i (زینالعابدین مراغهای, 1839–1910) was an Iranian satirist in Ottoman exile whose Travelogue of Ibrahim Beg is regarded as the first modern Persian novel and helped prepare opinion for the Constitutional Revolution.
Zeynab
Zeynab, full name Oloukèmi Zeynab Abibou, is a Beninese world-music singer and songwriter born in 1975 in Abidjan, who won best female West African artist at the 2005 Kora Awards.
Zeyne (singer)
Zeyne, born Zein Sajdi in 1997, is a Palestinian-Jordanian singer from Amman with roots in Nablus, known for the 2024 hit "Asli Ana" and her debut album AWDA, released in 2025.
Zeynelâbidin Efendi
Zeynelâbidin Efendi, also known as Çelebizâde Seyyid Mehmed Zeynelâbidin (pen name Zeynî), was an Ottoman şeyhülislam under Mahmud II from 1815 until his 1818 dismissal.
Zeynep Eroglu
Zeynep Eroglu is a medical oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center whose 2018 Nature paper showed desmoplastic melanoma responds to checkpoint blockade in 70% of patients.
Zeynep Tüfekçi
Zeynep Tüfekçi is a Turkish sociologist at Princeton who studies technology, society, and politics, known for her book Twitter and Tear Gas and her early 2020 commentary on COVID-19 masks.
Zeynep Yavuz-Willson
Zeynep Yavuz-Willson is a Turkish-born venture capitalist and Partner at General Catalyst in London, who joined the firm in 2022 and invests in fintech, AI, and underserved European markets.
Zeytin Ağacı
Zeytin Ağacı (Another Self) is a Turkish Netflix drama created by Nuran Evren Şit, starring Tuba Büyüküstün, Seda Bakan, and Boncuk Yılmaz as friends confronting family trauma in Ayvalık; 3 seasons, 24 episodes, 2022–2026.
Zeytinburnu
Zeytinburnu, a district of Istanbul on the European-side Marmara coast, established 1 September 1957 as the province's 14th district; population about 293,574, mayor Ömer Arısoy, known for Kazlıçeşme leather industry and urban regeneration.
ZF 5HP transmission
The ZF 5HP transmission is a family of five-speed electronically controlled automatic transmissions built by ZF of Germany, powering rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive cars from BMW, Audi, and Jaguar.
ZF 6HP transmission
The ZF 6HP is a family of six-speed torque-converter automatic transmissions built by ZF Friedrichshafen, debuting in the 2001 BMW 7 Series as the first six-speed automatic in a production passenger car.
ZF 8HP transmission
The ZF 8HP is a family of eight-speed torque-converter automatic transmissions for longitudinal rear- and all-wheel-drive cars, built by ZF Friedrichshafen and in series production since 2009.
ZF Friedrichshafen
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, also known as Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen, is a German technology company founded in 1915 to build gears for Zeppelin airships, now supplying driveline, chassis, and safety systems worldwide.
ZFB-05
The ZFB-05, marketed as the Xinxing ("new star") and often called the Tiger, is a Chinese 4x4 light armored personnel carrier built by Shaanxi Baoji Special Vehicles.
ZFP36
ZFP36 (tristetraprolin, TTP, TIS11, G0S24, NUP475) is a human gene at 19q13.2 encoding a CCCH zinc finger RNA-binding protein that deadenylates AU-rich element cytokine mRNAs; its loss in mice causes TNF-driven inflammatory syndrome.
ZFS
ZFS, or Zettabyte File System, is a combined file system and logical volume manager originally developed at Sun Microsystems, known for copy-on-write design, end-to-end checksums, and pooled storage.