General articles: Arts and culture

Zila Ghaziabad (ज़िला ग़ाज़ियाबाद)

Zila Ghaziabad (ज़िला ग़ाज़ियाबाद), also styled Zilla Ghaziabad, is a 2013 Hindi action thriller directed by Anand Kumar, starring Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, and Arshad Warsi, based on a 1990s Ghaziabad gang war; it flopped with ₹15.75 crore India net.

Zill

Zill (Turkish for cymbal; Arabic sagat, صاجات) is a small finger cymbal worn on thumb and middle finger, used in belly dance and Ottoman mehter music; the Zildjian family began making cymbals in Istanbul in 1623.

ZillaKami

ZillaKami (Junius Rogers), Bay Shore, New York rapper and trap metal pioneer, one half of City Morgue with SosMula; solo debut DOG BOY (2021), later My Bloody America and Audio Creep.

Zillertaler Schürzenjäger

The Zillertaler Schürzenjäger, known since 1995 as Schürzenjäger, are an Austrian folk-pop band from Mayrhofen in the Zillertal, Tyrol, founded in 1973 and pioneers of Alpenrock.

Zillow Gone Wild

Zillow Gone Wild is a social media brand founded by Samir Mezrahi in December 2020 that posts unusual real estate listings, plus an HGTV series hosted by Jack McBrayer that premiered May 3, 2024.

Zima (drink)

Zima (Russian for winter) was Coors's clear, citrus-flavored malt beverage, launched in 1992, peaking at about 1.3 million barrels in 1994, withdrawn in the U.S. in 2008, and revived in limited runs and in Japan.

Zimbabwe Bird

The Zimbabwe Bird is a soapstone sculpture of a bird on a column, one of eight from Great Zimbabwe and now the national emblem on Zimbabwe's flag.

Zimbabwe Women Writers

Zimbabwe Women Writers is a Zimbabwean organization for women writers, founded in Harare in 1990 to promote, publish, and train women writing in Shona, Ndebele, and English.

Zimbabwean novel

The Zimbabwean novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English, beginning in the mid-1950s and shaped by themes of land dispossession, the liberation war, and nationalism.

Zimbabwean stone sculpture

Zimbabwean stone sculpture, often marketed as "Shona sculpture," is a contemporary art movement in which Zimbabwean artists carve figurative and abstract works from local stones like serpentine.

Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Гиппиус), 1869–1945, was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and prose writer who, with her husband Dmitry Merezhkovsky, hosted a famous literary salon before emigrating to Paris in 1919.

Zinc (musician)

DJ Zinc, born Benjamin Pettit in 1972, is a British DJ and producer from London, a pioneer of jungle and drum and bass best known for the 1995 track 'Super Sharp Shooter'.

Zinda (film)

Zinda (ज़िंदा, "Alive") is a 2006 Hindi action thriller directed by Sanjay Gupta, an unofficial remake of Oldboy, starring Sanjay Dutt as a man imprisoned 14 years; it flopped at the box office.

Zindagi Gulzar Hai (زندگی گلزار ہے)

Zindagi Gulzar Hai (زندگی گلزار ہے), a 2012–2013 Hum TV Pakistani Urdu drama serial written by Umera Ahmed, directed by Sultana Siddiqui, starring Fawad Khan as Zaroon and Sanam Saeed as Kashaf, about class divide and gender roles.

Zindagi Ki Mehek

Zindagi Ki Mehek (ज़िंदगी की महक), Hindi romantic drama serial on Zee TV, aired 19 September 2016 to 31 August 2018, about 505 episodes, starring Samiksha Jaiswal as cook Mehek and Karan Vohra as Shaurya; created by Saurabh Tewari, produced by Parin Multimedia.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ज़िंदगी ना मिलेगी दोबारा)

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ज़िंदगी ना मिलेगी दोबारा) is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Zoya Akhtar, following three friends on a road trip across Spain.

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Zindaginama

Zindaginama (ज़िंदगीनामा) is a 2024 Hindi SonyLIV anthology of six episodes on schizophrenia, OCD, gender dysphoria, anorexia, gaming addiction, and PTSD, created by Neerja Birla; also the title of Krishna Sobti's 1979 Hindi novel.

Zindan-Nama

Zindan-Nama ("Book of the Prison") is the third poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in prison and published in Lahore in 1956.

Zine Tseng

Zine Tseng (曾靖) is a Taiwanese actress born in 1994, best known as young Ye Wenjie in Netflix's 3 Body Problem (2024), her debut role, and as Princess Gulun Shou'an in Prime Video's Young Sherlock (2026); also known as 齊恩·曾.

Zinfandel

Zinfandel, also called Primitivo in Italy and Tribidrag or Crljenak Kastelanski in Croatia, is a red wine grape genetically identical across all three names. It is California's third most planted winegrape, first documented by name in Boston in 1832.

Zion & Lennox

Zion & Lennox are a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo from Carolina, formed in 2000, known for their melodic, semi-romantic style and the 2004 debut album Motivando a la Yal.

Zión Moreno

Zión Moreno, Mexican-American trans actress and model born in El Paso, Texas, raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico; known for Isabela in Netflix's Control Z and Luna La in HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot (2021–2023), plus K-12 and Prom Dates.

Zion, Will You Not Ask

"Zion, Will You Not Ask" (Tziyon halo tishali) is a Hebrew poem of longing for Zion by Judah Halevi, whose opening line ranks among his most famous compositions.

Zion.T (자이언티)

Zion.T (자이언티), stage name of Kim Hae-sol, born 1989, is a South Korean R&B and hip-hop singer-songwriter and producer. Debuted 2011 with "Click Me"; known for "Yanghwa BRDG," "Eat," albums Red Light, OO, and Zip, and his label Standard Friends.

Zior Park

Zior Park (지올팍), real name Park Ji-won, born 1994, is a Seoul-based South Korean singer, rapper, producer, and music video director on the Beautiful Noise label whose narrative "drama pop" albums include SYNDROMEZ and Where Does Sasquatch Live?, with the 2023 single CHRISTIAN as his breakthrough.

Zip (musician)

Zip is the performing name of Thomas Franzmann, a German DJ who co-founded the minimal house label Perlon in 1997 and holds residencies at Berlin's Panorama Bar.

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Oscar-winning 1946 Disney song from Song of the South by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert, sung by James Baskett as Uncle Remus; hit for Johnny Mercer and Bob B. Soxx, removed from Disneyland parades in 2023.

Zipper

Zipper (slide fastener): clothing closure of two interlocking tooth rows joined by a slider. Evolved from Elias Howe's 1851 closure and Judson's 1893 clasp-locker to Sundback's 1917 Separable Fastener; named by B.F. Goodrich in 1923.

Zipper (film)

Zipper is a 2015 American political thriller-drama directed by Mora Stephens, starring Patrick Wilson as federal prosecutor Sam Ellis, whose escort addiction threatens his career and marriage. Premiered at Sundance January 2015; limited US release August 28, 2015; poorly reviewed (20% Tomatometer, Metascore 39).