General articles: Arts and culture

Zanku Records

Zanku Records is a Nigerian record label founded by rapper and singer Zlatan Ibile, launched on January 1, 2020, named after the Zanku dance, with signees Papisnoop, Oberz, and Jamopyper.

Zanni (from Venetian Zani, Gianni, from Giovanni) is the comic servant stock character of commedia dell'arte, originating among Bergamasque porters in the Po Valley; it split into the cunning first zanni (Brighella) and foolish second zanni (Arlecchino), and gave English the word "zany".

Zanzibar International Film Festival

The Zanzibar International Film Festival, formally the Festival of the Dhow Countries, is an annual film and arts festival in Stone Town, Zanzibar, founded in 1998.

Zao (group)

Zao is an American metalcore band formed in 1993 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and later based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, known for the 1998 album Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest.

Zao Wou-Ki

Zao Wou-Ki (趙無極, 1920–2013) was a Chinese-French painter who merged Chinese brushwork with the School of Paris, becoming a leading figure of lyrical abstraction in Europe.

Zap Tharwat

Zap Tharwat (زاب ثروت), born Ahmed Tharwat Zaki in 1987, is an Egyptian rapper and songwriter in Cairo who rose with his 2011 revolution songs.

Zapateado

Zapateado is a percussive dance step and rhythm in Mexican traditional music, in which dancers strike a resonant wooden tarima to serve as the percussion of sones, huapangos, and fandangos.

Zapatista Landscape

Zapatista Landscape (Paisaje zapatista, also El guerrillero) is a 1915 Cubist oil painting by Diego Rivera, held at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.

Zapatlela (झपाटलेला)

Zapatlela (झपाटलेला) is a 1993 Marathi horror comedy directed, written, and produced by Mahesh Kothare, inspired by Child's Play, starring Laxmikant Berde and Dilip Prabhavalkar as Tatya Vinchu; a 2013 3D sequel followed.

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Zaphod Beeblebrox is the two-headed, three-armed Betelgeusian President of the Galaxy in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide series; a fraudulent figurehead who steals the Heart of Gold to find Magrathea, altered his own memory, and was played by Mark Wing-Davey and Sam Rockwell.

Zapotec funerary urns

Zapotec funerary urns are ceramic effigy vessels made by the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico, between about 100 BCE and 700 CE and placed in or around elite tombs.

Zapotec oral literature

Zapotec oral literature is the body of narratives, chants, legends, and ritual speech passed down by word of mouth in the Zapotec languages of Oaxaca, Mexico, preserved since colonial times.

Zappai

Zappai (雑俳, also read zōhai) is the Japanese umbrella term for the playful, miscellaneous forms of haikai verse practiced in the Edo period, including verse-capping games and the origin of senryū.

Zapped!

Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy directed by Robert J. Rosenthal, starring Scott Baio as a student who gains telekinetic powers from a lab accident.

Zappos

Zappos (Zappos.com), founded 1999 by Nick Swinmurn, is a Las Vegas-based online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon since 2009, known for 365-day free two-way returns, a large customer loyalty team, and its holacracy self-management experiment.

Zapruder film

The Zapruder film, also called the Zapruder movie, is Abraham Zapruder's 26-second, 486-frame 8mm home movie of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, sold to Life for $150,000, bought by the US government for $16 million in 1999, and held at the National Archives with copyright at the Sixth Floor Museum.

Zara (musician)

Zara, born Neşe Yılmaz in Istanbul in 1976, is a Turkish folk-music vocalist and actress, a contracted TRT folk voice artist since 1996, whose 1998 album Avuntu made her nationally known.

Zara (retailer)

Zara is a Spanish fast-fashion clothing retailer headquartered in Arteixo and the flagship brand of Inditex. It opened its first store in 1975 and sells in about 97 countries.

Zara Cully

Zara Cully, also known as Zara Frances Cully, was an American actress. She is best known for playing Olivia "Mother" Jefferson on The Jeffersons from 1974 to 1978.

Zara Hatke Zara Bachke (ज़रा हटके ज़रा बचके)

Zara Hatke Zara Bachke (ज़रा हटके ज़रा बचके) is a 2023 Hindi romantic comedy by Laxman Utekar starring Vicky Kaushal and Sara Ali Khan as an Indore couple faking divorce for a housing scheme; sleeper hit over 85 crore nett.

Zara Larsson

Zara Larsson, Swedish pop singer born 1997 in Stockholm, won Talang at age 10; known for "Lush Life", "Symphony", albums So Good, Poster Girl, Venus, Midnight Sun, and owning her masters.

Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott, full name Zara Nicole McDermott, is a British television presenter and documentary maker who first appeared on Love Island in 2018 and later made investigative BBC Three documentaries.

Zara Noor Abbas

Zara Noor Abbas (زارا نور عباس), aka Zara Noor Abbas Siddiqui, is a Pakistani actress born 1991 in Lahore, daughter of Asma Abbas and niece of Bushra Ansari. Known for Khamoshi, Ehd-e-Wafa, and films Chhalawa and Parey Hut Love.

Zara Zya (زار زيا)

Zara Zya (زار زيا), born 1985, stage name of Zainurul Razia binti Mohd Zainuddin, is a Malaysian actress, host, and singer from Lenggong, Perak, best known for the 2013 TV3 drama Love You Mr. Arrogant, not the ZARA AI frameworks.

Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander (Sara Stina Hedberg, 1907–1981) was a Swedish alto singer and actress, Nazi Germany's biggest film star at Ufa 1937–42 (Die große Liebe, 27 million viewers), later a cult gay icon and postwar diva.

Zarathos

Zarathos is a Marvel Comics demon, created by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog, first appearing in Marvel Spotlight #5 (1972). Bonded to Johnny Blaze, he forms the original Ghost Rider and rivals Mephisto in power.

Zarb-e-Kaleem

Zarb-e-Kaleem (ضربِ کلیم, "The Strike of Moses's Staff") is the third Urdu poetry collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1936, the last in his lifetime.

Zardoz

Zardoz (1974) is a science fiction film written, produced and directed by John Boorman, starring Sean Connery as Zed and Charlotte Rampling; its title contracts The Wizard of Oz, and it depicts immortals ruling post-apocalyptic Brutals in 2293.

Zardozi

Zardozi (زردوزی) is an Indian metal-embroidery craft that stitches gold or silver threads, beads, and stones onto fabric for raised ornamentation, flourishing under Mughal patronage.