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Zachary Abel
Zachary Abel, full name Zachary Burr Abel (born 1980, Middletown, Indiana), is an American actor, producer, and travel blogger. Known for Carter Anderson on ABC Family's Make It or Break It (2009-2011), guest roles on The Big Bang Theory and Criminal Minds, marriage to Elizabeth Henstridge, and the Monkey Miles travel blog.
Zachary C. Holman
Zachary C. Holman is an American engineer, professor, and Vice Dean for Research and Innovation at Arizona State University who researches high-efficiency silicon and tandem solar cells.
Zachary Carter (cricketer)
Zachary Nathan Carter, born 2006 in Barbados, is a West Indian cricketer, left-handed opening batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler for Barbados Tridents, Desert Vipers, and West Indies Under-19s; not the NFL defensive lineman.
Zachary Cole Smith
Zachary Cole Smith, also known as Cole, is the American founder, singer, and guitarist of shoegaze band DIIV (formerly Dive), ex-Soft Black and Beach Fossils member; known for Oshin, his 2013 heroin arrest, recovery, and Is the Is Are.
Zachary Gordon
Zachary Gordon (Zachary Adam Gordon), born 1998 in Oak Park, California, is an American actor, voice actor, and singer-songwriter best known as Greg Heffley in the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid films.
Zachary Hornby
Zachary Hornby is an American biotechnology executive who was president and CEO of Boundless Bio, a San Diego precision oncology company, and earlier COO and CFO of Ignyta.
Zachary J. Ward
Zachary J. Ward is an American health decision scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who builds simulation models of obesity and cancer.
Zachary Jones
Zachary Jones is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, a Bengaluru-based home-healthcare company, in 2012, led it as chief executive, and sold it in 2013.
Zachary Knight
Zachary Knight is an American neuroscientist, Professor of Physiology at UCSF and an HHMI Investigator, known for research on how the brain senses hunger and thirst.
Zachary Knighton
Zachary Knighton (born 1978, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actor known as Dave Rose on Happy Endings, Dr. Bryce Varley on FlashForward, and Rick Wright on Magnum P.I. (2018-24, 96 episodes), with directing credits including Magnum P.I.'s "Consciousness of Guilt".
Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi (born 1980) is an American actor known for Chuck (2007–2012), Flynn Rider in Tangled, and DC's Shazam!; also Tony-nominated for She Loves Me and a polarizing public figure.
Zachary Lippman
Zachary Lippman is a plant geneticist and HHMI Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for using CRISPR to edit gene promoters controlling tomato yield.
Zachary M. Bluestone
Zachary M. Bluestone, born in 1986, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Zachary M. Hudson
Zachary M. Hudson is a Canadian materials chemist and professor at the University of British Columbia whose research spans light-emitting OLED materials, fluorescent bioimaging probes, and compostable bio-based plastics.
Zachary Mainen
Zachary F. Mainen is an American neuroscientist who leads the Mainen Lab at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, where he studies serotonin, decision-making, and perception.
Zachary Quinto
Zachary Quinto (born 1977), American actor and producer known as Sylar in Heroes and Spock in the Star Trek films (2009-2016); came out in 2011; stars in NBC's Brilliant Minds.
Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott (Zachary Thomson Scott Jr., 1914–1965), Austin-born American film actor known for suave villains in The Mask of Dimitrios, Mildred Pierce, and The Southerner; distinct from the modern actor Zachary T. Scott and Austin's Zach Theatre namesake.
Zachary Svajda
Zachary Svajda, known as Zach Svajda, is an American tennis player from La Jolla, California, who reached a career-high ranking of No. 62 in 2026.
Zachary T. Bloomgarden
Zachary T. Bloomgarden is an American endocrinologist, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and editor of the Journal of Diabetes.
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), 12th U.S. president and Whig general nicknamed Old Rough and Ready; Mexican-American War hero of Buena Vista, slaveholder opposing slavery's expansion, died in office July 1850.
Zachary Weiner
Zachary Weiner is an American infectious-disease laboratory scientist who leads the CDC's Zoonoses and Select Agent Laboratory in Atlanta, a reference diagnostic lab, and has studied anthrax, melioidosis, and orthopoxviruses.
Zachery Ty Bryan
Zachery Ty Bryan (born 1981, Aurora, Colorado) is an American actor and producer, known as Brad Taylor on ABC's Home Improvement (1991-1999, 203 episodes), later a film producer (The Kindergarten Teacher), now notable for repeated domestic violence and DUI arrests and prison sentences.
Zachman Framework
The Zachman Framework is a 6 × 6 classification schema for enterprise architecture, published by John A. Zachman in the IBM Systems Journal in 1987, which organizes descriptions of an enterprise rather than prescribing a process.
Zachris Topelius
Zachris Topelius (1818–1898), known in Finnish usage as Sakari Topelius, was a Finnish-Swedish author, journalist, and historian who shaped Finnish national identity and rector of the University of Helsinki.
ZachXBT
ZachXBT is the pseudonym of an independent on-chain investigator, identified in some reporting as Zachary Wolk, who traces stolen cryptocurrency and exposes scams on X.
Zack Addy
Zack Addy (Zachary Uriah Addy) is a fictional forensic anthropologist on Fox's Bones, Brennan's original Jeffersonian assistant, played by Eric Millegan, later revealed as the Gormogon's apprentice and exonerated in the final season.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 American romantic comedy directed by Kevin Smith, starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as friends making an adult film.
Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha (born 1970, Long Beach, California) is the American vocalist and lyricist of Rage Against the Machine, who left in 2000, recorded an unreleased solo album with Trent Reznor and DJ Shadow, formed One Day as a Lion with Jon Theodore, and rejoined RATM for the 2007 and 2022 reunion tours.
Zack Fair
Zack Fair (ザックス・フェア) is a Final Fantasy VII SOLDIER 1st Class and protagonist of Crisis Core (PSP, 2007; Reunion, 2022), wielder of the Buster Sword, mentor-linked to Angeal, and alive in the Remake trilogy.
Zack Greinke
Zack Greinke (Donald Zackary Greinke), American MLB starting pitcher 2004-2023; 2009 AL Cy Young with Royals, 2015 Dodgers 1.66 ERA title; career 225-156, 2,979 strikeouts, six All-Star and six Gold Glove awards; Hall of Fame eligible 2029.