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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (座頭市海を渡る)
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (座頭市海を渡る) is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro and starring Shintaro Katsu. It is the fourteenth Zatoichi series entry, based on a story by Kan Shimozawa.
Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える)
Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える, Zatoichi no uta ga kikoeru) is the 13th Zatoichi film, a 1966 Daiei chambara directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, starring Shintaro Katsu, with Shigeru Amachi as rival ronin Kurobe and a famous drum-accompanied duel.
Zauriel
Zauriel, DC Comics angel superhero created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter, first appearing in JLA #6 (1997); a former Hawkman substitute, Eagle Host guardian angel, Justice League member, and 2024 Outsiders returnee.
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton (Zawedde Emma Ashton, born 1984, Hackney, London) is a British actress and playwright known for Vod in Fresh Meat, Joyce Vincent in Dreams of a Life, Velvet Buzzsaw, Betrayal on Broadway, and Dar-Benn in The Marvels (2023).
Zawen
Zawen (杂文, "miscellaneous writing") is a genre of modern Chinese literature: a short, satirical essay of social criticism, most closely associated with the writer Lu Xun.
Zawgyi
Zawgyi (ဇော်ဂျီ) was the pen name of Burmese poet and literary critic U Thein Han (1907–1990), a leader of the Khitsan movement modernizing Burmese poetry.
Zaxby's
Zaxby's is an American fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in chicken fingers and wings. It was founded in 1990 in Statesboro, Georgia, by Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley.
Zayed Khan
Zayed Khan (Zayed Abbas Khan), Bollywood actor and producer, son of Sanjay Khan; debut Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne (2003), breakthrough as Lucky in Main Hoon Na (2004); produced Love Breakups Zindagi; distinct from Kannada actor Zaid Khan.
Zayn Malik
Zayn Malik (Zain Javadd Malik, born 1993, Bradford) is an English singer, ex-One Direction member who left in 2015, then built a solo R&B-pop career with Mind of Mine, Icarus Falls, Nobody Is Listening, Room Under the Stairs, and KONNAKOL.
Zayn Marie Khan
Zayn Marie Khan, Indian actress, daughter of Mansoor Khan and niece of Aamir Khan; known for Mrs Serial Killer (2020), Monica, O My Darling (2022), Made in Heaven 2, and Telugu debut Dacoit (2026).
Zaynab
Zaynab is a 1914 novel by Egyptian writer Muhammad Husayn Haykal, set in the Egyptian countryside and regarded by many critics as the first modern Arabic novel.
Zayni Barakat
Zayni Barakat (الزيني بركات) is a 1974 novel by the Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, using a real sixteenth-century muhtasib of Cairo as an allegory of political repression in modern Egypt.
Zaytoven
Zaytoven (Xavier Lamar Dotson, born 1980, Frankfurt) is an Atlanta-based, Grammy-winning record producer, a central architect of trap known for church-rooted piano and organ melodies over 808 drums on defining Gucci Mane, Future, and Migos records.
Zaz (singer)
Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy, born 1980) is a French singer of jazz, chanson, soul, and acoustic music, known for "Je veux" (2010), albums including Paris (2014) and Sains et saufs (2025), and major international success.
Zazie
Zazie, born Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes in 1964, is a French singer-songwriter who has won five Victoires de la musique and four The Voice titles as a coach.
Zazie Beetz
Zazie Beetz (Zazie Olivia Beetz, born 1991, Berlin) is a German-American actress known as Van in Atlanta (Emmy-nominated), Domino in Deadpool 2, and Sophie in Joker, plus Bullet Train and The Bad Guys voice roles.
Zazie dans le Métro (novel)
Zazie dans le métro, Raymond Queneau's 1959 comic novel (not the 1960 Louis Malle film), follows a girl of about twelve in strike-bound Paris; famous for its neo-French phonetic spelling and opening word Doukipudonktan.
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie dans le métro (Zazie in the Metro) is Louis Malle's 1960 French burlesque comedy adapting Raymond Queneau's 1959 novel, starring Catherine Demongeot and Philippe Noiret, a stylistically experimental Paris farce about a girl during a métro strike.
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) was a Polish poet, playwright, and essayist born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, best known internationally for his poetic alter ego Mr Cogito.
Zbruch Idol
The Zbruch Idol, also called the Zbruch Sviatovyd, is a four-faced stone statue pulled from the Zbruch River in Ukraine in 1848, kept in Kraków since 1851.
ZD Awards
The ZD Awards (Zvukovaya Dorozhka, "Sound Track") are the annual reader-voted music prize of the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, with its first ceremony held in 2003.
Zdenka Kovačiček
Zdenka Kovačiček is a Croatian singer of pop, rock, blues, and jazz, born in Zagreb in 1944, called the "first lady" of Croatian jazz and a rock pioneer.
ZDF Fernsehgarten
ZDF Fernsehgarten is a live open-air Sunday entertainment show ZDF has staged in Mainz every summer since 1986, mixing Schlager and rock with games, hosted by Andrea Kiewel.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor from Sanok known for dark fantastic paintings. Trained architect, Antyfotografia photographer, Warsaw fantastic period, murdered in 2005; largest collection in Sanok.
Ze Frank
Ze Frank, born Hosea Jan Frank, is an American internet comedian and web artist who pioneered the video blog in 2006 and now hosts the True Facts animal series.
Zé Neto e Cristiano
Zé Neto e Cristiano are a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2011 by childhood friends from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, who broke out nationally in 2018.
ZE:A (제국의 아이들)
ZE:A (제국의 아이들, Children of Empire) is a nine-member South Korean second-generation boy group under Star Empire Entertainment, debuted January 7, 2010 with "Mazeltov", on hiatus since 2017 but never officially disbanded.
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清)
Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥元清, c. 1363–c. 1443), also signed Ze-a or Ze-amida-butsu, was a Japanese nō actor, playwright, and theorist, son of Kan'ami, patronized by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, author of the Fūshikaden and developer of mugen-nō.
Zeb Bangash
Zeb Bangash (زیب بنگش) is a Pakistani singer and songwriter from Lahore, best known as one half of Zeb and Haniya, described as Pakistan's first all-female music band.
Zeb Wells
Zeb Wells (Michael Zeb Wells, born 1977) is an American comic book and screenwriter known for Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man (2022-2024), Hellions, Robot Chicken, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Marvel Zombies.