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Zoë Winters

Zoë Winters is an American actress (born 1985, Santa Cruz, California) known for playing Kerry Castellabate on HBO's Succession and for Off-Broadway roles including Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which won her a 2020 Obie Award; also Jules, Materialists, and Walden.

Zoetermeer

Zoetermeer: South Holland municipality and 1962 Dutch growth core (new town) near The Hague, grown from a village of about 10,000 to 129,852 inhabitants (2025), with 58,213 dwellings and the Omgevingsvisie Zoetermeer 2040.

Zoetis

Zoetis Inc. is an American animal health company spun off from Pfizer in 2013, the largest in the industry, making medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics for pets and livestock.

Zoetrope

Zoetrope ("wheel of life"): 19th-century optical toy by William George Horner (c. 1833–1834), a spinning slitted drum whose inner image strip appears to move through persistence of vision; on sale from 1867, succeeded by Reynaud's praxinoscope and Muybridge's zoopraxiscope.

Zoey 101

Zoey 101 (2005-2008) is a Nickelodeon teen series created by Dan Schneider, starring Jamie Lynn Spears at Pacific Coast Academy boarding school; 65 episodes, Emmy-nominated, followed by the 2023 Paramount+ film Zoey 102.

Zoey 102

Zoey 102 is a 2023 Paramount+ comedy-drama film continuing Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, reuniting Jamie Lynn Spears and original cast at Quinn and Logan's Malibu wedding; directed by Nancy Hower, released July 27, 2023.

Zoey Deutch

Zoey Deutch is an American actress and producer born 1994 in Los Angeles, daughter of Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch, known for Set It Up, Not Okay, The Politician, Juror #2, and as Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague.

Zoey Stark

Zoey Stark (Theresa Serrano, born 1994), also Lacey Ryan and Zoey Serrano, American wrestler; former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Io Shirai, Raw 2023 Trish Stratus alliance, WWE release 2026, now TNA.

Zoey Tur

Zoey Tur (Hanna Zoey Tur, born Robert Albert Tur, 1960), American broadcast reporter and 10,000-hour commercial pilot; co-founded Los Angeles News Service, filmed the 1992 Reginald Denny beating and the 1994 O.J. Simpson Bronco chase, and became the first openly transgender reporter on nationally syndicated American TV.

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist is an NBC musical dramedy (2020-2021, 25 episodes) created by Austin Winsberg, starring Jane Levy as a coder who hears people's thoughts as pop "heart songs"; canceled after two seasons, followed by Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas.

Zofia Borucka

Zofia Borucka, born 1972 in London, is a British model and actress, wife of Jean Reno since 2006, known for K-PAX and small 2000s roles.

Zog I of Albania

Zog I of Albania, born Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolliu, was president from 1925 and King of the Albanians from 1928 until the Italian invasion of 1939, dying in exile in France in 1961.

Zog Nit Keyn Mol

"Zog Nit Keyn Mol" (Never Say), also known as the Partisans' Song, is a Yiddish song written in 1943 by Hirsh Glik in the Vilna ghetto.

Zogg Fire

The Zogg Fire was a 2020 California wildfire that began near Igo in Shasta County, burned 56,338 acres in Shasta and Tehama counties, killed four civilians, and was caused by a pine tree contacting PG&E powerlines.

Zogist movement

The Zogist movement is the Albanian political current supporting King Zog I, president from 1925 and king from 1928 to 1939, and restoring his monarchy.

Zograf Gospel

The Zograf Gospel (Зографско евангелие) is an 11th-century Glagolitic manuscript of the four Gospels, named for the Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos and held in the National Library of Russia.

Zohaib Kazi

Zohaib Kazi is a Pakistani musician, producer, and multimedia creator based in Karachi, known for Coke Studio Pakistan and the sci-fi album-graphic novel Ismail Ka Urdu Sheher.

Zohar (זוהר)

The Zohar (זוהר), or Sefer Ha-Zohar, is the central work of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical commentary on the Torah written mostly in Aramaic, attributed by tradition to Shimon bar Yochai and by scholars to 13th-century Castile.

Zohar Zisapel

Zohar Zisapel (זהר זיסאפל) was an Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded RAD Data Communications with his brother Yehuda in 1981, building the RAD Group, which seeded over a hundred Israeli startups.

Zoheleth

Zoheleth is a biblical stone, named at 1 Kings 1:9, beside the spring En-rogel near Jerusalem, where Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen in his attempt to seize King David's throne.

Zoho Corporation

Zoho Corporation, also known as Zoho.com and formerly AdventNet Inc., is a privately held software company founded in 1996 that develops cloud-based business and productivity applications without outside investment.

Zoho CRM (application)

Zoho CRM is a cloud-based customer relationship management application from Zoho Corporation, an India-based software company. Begun in 2005, it serves over 300,000 businesses with sales, marketing, and service tools.

Zoho Office Suite

Zoho Office Suite is a productivity platform from Zoho Corporation comprising the word processor Zoho Writer, the spreadsheet Zoho Sheet, the presentation tool Zoho Show, and a PDF editor.

Zohor

Zohor (Slovakia, Malacky District) is a major polycultural archaeological site at Zohor-Piesky on the Amber Road, with a Germanic princely settlement, Lübsow-group graves, and Bronze Age layers; distinct from al-Zuhūr, Egypt.

Zohr Gas Field

The Zohr gas field is a supergiant natural gas field in Egypt's Mediterranean waters, discovered by Eni in 2015; it is the largest gas discovery in the Mediterranean.

Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Sehgal, born Sahibzadi Zohra Mumtazullah Khan Begum, was an Indian actor, dancer, and choreographer, the "grand old lady of Bollywood", whose career spanned seven decades.

Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, democratic socialist and 112th Mayor of New York City (sworn in January 1, 2026), former 36th District assemblymember, won the 2025 election on rent freeze, free buses, and childcare platform.

Zohre and Tahir

Zohre and Tahir (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a love dastan, a prosimetric epic often likened to Romeo and Juliet, circulating across Turkic traditions from Central Asia to Turkey.

Zohreh Davoudi

Zohreh Davoudi is a theoretical nuclear physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for lattice QCD calculations of light nuclei and quantum simulation of gauge theories.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is a New Zealand snowboarder competing in slopestyle and big air who won New Zealand's first Winter Olympic gold medal in women's slopestyle at Beijing 2022.