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Ziauddin Nakhshabi
Ziauddin Nakhshabi (ضیاء الدین نخشبی) was a Persian-speaking Sufi, poet, and physician of fourteenth-century India, best known for the Tutinama, a Persian retelling of the Sanskrit Sukasaptati.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Ziauddin Yousafzai (born 1969) is a Pakistani educator and co-founder, with daughter Malala Yousafzai, of Malala Fund (2013); he kept his Swat Valley school open under the Taliban and wrote the memoir Let Her Fly.
Ziaur Rahman (জিয়াউর রহমান)
Ziaur Rahman (জিয়াউর রহমান), Bangladeshi general, Sector 1 and Z Force commander in the 1971 Liberation War, President 1977–1981, BNP founder, assassinated 30 May 1981 in Chittagong.
Ziba (biblical figure)
Ziba (Hebrew: צִיבָא) is a servant of the house of Saul in 2 Samuel, appointed by David to manage Saul's estate, which he later gained by accusing his master Mephibosheth of treason.
Zibai
Zibai is a 5-star Geo Sword character in Genshin Impact, released February 3, 2026 (version Luna IV). Also the Gold-Eyed Celadon Mare, she is a DEF-scaling on-field DPS built around the Lunar-Crystallize reaction with Hydro and Geo teammates.
Zibaldone
The Zibaldone di pensieri is the intellectual notebook of the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, written between 1817 and 1832 across 4,526 manuscript pages.
Zibiah
Zibiah (Hebrew צִבְיָה, probably "gazelle") was a 9th-century BC Judahite royal woman from Beersheba, known from the Hebrew Bible as the mother of King Joash of Judah.
Zibo
Zibo (淄博市) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China, site of ancient Qi capital Linzi and the Jixia Academy; a petrochemical and ceramics hub of 4.7 million people, famous since 2023 for barbecue tourism.
Zibotentan
Zibotentan (ZD4054) is AstraZeneca's oral, highly selective endothelin A receptor antagonist; its ENTHUSE phase III prostate cancer trials failed, and it is now in phase 3 (ZENITH) with dapagliflozin for proteinuric chronic kidney disease.
Zica Assis
Zica Assis, legal name Heloisa Helena Belém de Assis, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded Beleza Natural, a Rio de Janeiro salon chain for curly and coily hair, in 1993.
Zichan
Zichan (子产) was a statesman of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn period, known for legal, land, and tax reforms and diplomacy between Jin and Chu.
Zichun
Zichun (子淳), known in Japanese as Tanka Shijun, was a Song dynasty Caodong-school Chan Buddhist master and teacher of Hongzhi Zhengjue, with disputed dates of 1064–1117 or 1066–1119.
Zicke zacke
Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke, Klaus Zoch's 1998 Zoch Verlag children's memory race board game for 2–4 players aged 4+, Spiel des Jahres special prize 1998; also a 2011 card game and 2013 iPad app.
ZickZack
ZickZack was a Hamburg independent record label founded by music journalist Alfred Hilsberg around 1980, releasing Neue Deutsche Welle acts like Abwärts and Einstürzende Neubauten.
Zico (footballer)
Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra, born 1953), Brazilian attacking midfielder, Flamengo's greatest idol and top scorer, star of the 1982 World Cup, and later player and national coach in Japan.
Zico (우지호) (rapper)
Zico (우지호; Woo Ji-ho, born 1992) is a South Korean rapper and producer, leader of Block B since its 2011 debut, founder of KOZ Entertainment under HYBE, and solo hitmaker behind "Any Song" and "SPOT!".
Ziconotide
Ziconotide (Prialt, SNX-111), a synthetic cone snail venom peptide from Conus magus, is the only FDA-approved non-opioid intrathecal analgesic; it blocks N-type calcium channels for severe refractory chronic pain, with no tolerance or respiratory depression but a narrow therapeutic window.
Zicronapine
Zicronapine, development code LU 31-130, is an investigational antipsychotic drug candidate developed by the Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck for schizophrenia, reaching phase 3 trials before Lundbeck discontinued it in 2014 in favor of another compound.
Zicum (crater on Rhea)
Zicum is a 76.8-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, at 50.9S 111.2W, approved April 23, 2010, named for an Assyro-Babylonian primeval mother goddess and title feature of Cassini atlas quadrangle Sr-12.
Zid (e-commerce company)
Zid (زد) is a Saudi e-commerce enablement platform founded in 2017 in Riyadh by Mazen AlDarrab and Sultan AlAsmi, serving more than 12,000 active merchants in 2024.
Zid (ज़िद) (2014 film)
Zid (ज़िद) is a 2014 Hindi erotic thriller credited to director Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Anubhav Sinha, adapted from the German film The Good Neighbour. It marked Mannara Chopra's Bollywood debut opposite Karanvir Sharma, flopped with ₹6.02 crore nett against a ₹10 crore budget, and Agnihotri publicly disowned it.
Zidane Iqbal
Zidane Iqbal (Zidane Aamar Iqbal), born 2003 in Manchester, is an Iraqi international central midfielder, ex-Manchester United academy player and first British South Asian to play for the club, later FC Utrecht and Dundee United, in Iraq's 2026 World Cup squad.
Zidanta I
Zidanta I was a king of the Hittite Old Kingdom who took the throne at Hattusa by usurping his father-in-law Hantili I, reigning in the mid-16th century BC.
Zidanta II
Zidanta II, also written Zidantas II or Zidanza, was a Hittite king of the 15th century BC, known from a single treaty with Pilliya of Kizzuwatna.
Ziddi (ज़िद्दी) (1997 film)
Ziddi (ज़िद्दी) is a 1997 Hindi-language action drama film directed by Guddu Dhanoa and produced by N.R. Pachisia, starring Sunny Deol and Raveena Tandon, released in India in April 1997.
Ziddi Ishq
Ziddi Ishq is a 2025 Hindi JioHotstar drama-thriller series, also known as a remake of Parineeta, created and directed by Raj Chakraborty, starring Aaditi Pohankar as Mehul investigating her teacher Shekhar Da's death.
Zidebactam
Zidebactam (WCK 5107) is an investigational intravenous antibiotic adjuvant developed by Wockhardt that binds Gram-negative PBP2 and inhibits β-lactamases; with cefepime it reached Phase 3 in the ENHANCE trial.
Židinys
Židinys ("The Hearth") was a Lithuanian monthly journal of literature, science, and public life, published in Kaunas from 1924 to 1940 by the Catholic Ateitininkai movement.
Zidovudine
Zidovudine (ZDV, AZT, Retrovir) is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and the first FDA-approved HIV drug (March 19, 1987); once the standard of care, oral ZDV is now no longer recommended for initial adult therapy due to serious adverse effects.
Ziegfeld Follies
The Ziegfeld Follies was an annual Broadway revue produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. from 1907 to 1931, famous for its glamorous showgirls and comedians such as Fanny Brice.