General articles: Arts and culture

Zither

Zither: a class of neckless stringed instruments whose strings run parallel to the soundbox, including the Alpine concert zither, Chinese qin and zheng, koto, kayageum, autoharp, and hammered dulcimer, played by plucking, bowing, or hammering.

Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota Sioux writer and activist who wrote the earliest published autobiographical accounts of American Indian boarding school life.

Zitti e buoni

"Zitti e buoni" is a 2021 rock song by Italian band Måneskin that won the 71st Sanremo Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.

Ziva David (זיוה דוד)

Ziva David (זיוה דוד) is a fictional Mossad officer turned NCIS Special Agent in the CBS series NCIS, portrayed by Cote de Pablo from 2005 to 2013 and returning in 2019; known for the 'Tiva' romance with Tony DiNozzo and her 'Ziva-isms'.

Zivert

Zivert, also known as Yulia Zivert (Зиверт), is a Russian pop singer born in Moscow in 1990 whose 2018 single "Life" topped the Russian Shazam and iTunes charts.

Ziwe Fumudoh

Ziwe Fumudoh, known as Ziwe, is an American comedian and satirical interviewer born 1992 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, known for confrontational, blunt questions about race.

Ziye Songs

The Ziye Songs (子夜歌) are a set of Southern Dynasties yuefu love songs, traditionally attributed to a Jin dynasty woman named Ziye but likely composed by Wu women.

Ziynet Sali

Ziynet Sali is a Turkish-Cypriot pop singer born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1975, known for Turkish and Greek songs and hits like "Bana Da Söyle".

Zizi Kirana

Zizi Kirana, born Nur Fazelah binti Mad Tahil, is a Malaysian pop and hip-hop singer from Sabah who broke through on Akademi Fantasia in 2009.

Zizo

Zizo (지조) is the stage name of Min Ju-hong, a South Korean rapper born in Seoul who finished runner-up on Show Me the Money 2 in 2013.

ZK

ZK, short for Zentralkomitee, was a German-language punk band from Düsseldorf, West Germany, active until 1981 and led by Campino, later of Die Toten Hosen.

Zlata Ognevich

Zlata Ognevich (Злата Огневич), born Inna Bordyug in 1986, is a Ukrainian estrada singer who finished third for Ukraine at Eurovision 2013 in Malmö with "Gravity".

Zlata Petrović

Zlata Petrović is a Serbian folk singer born in Belgrade in 1962, whose debut album Dođi da mi ruke greješ appeared in 1983 and whose signature song is Učinilo vreme svoje.

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories is a 1966 collection of seven children's stories by Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Maurice Sendak and named a Newbery Honor Book in 1967.

Zlati čoln

Zlati čoln ("The Golden Boat") is a collection of 45 poems the Slovene poet Srečko Kosovel prepared in 1925; the manuscript was lost and only its preface survives.

Zlatorog

Zlatorog (Златорог) was a monthly literary and arts magazine published in Sofia from 1920 to 1943, regarded as a central organ of Bulgarian interwar culture.

Zlatorog generation

The Zlatorog generation (Златорог) was the circle of Bulgarian writers, poets, and critics around the journal Zlatorog, published in Sofia from 1920 to 1943 under Vladimir Vasilev.

Zmaj Award

The Zmaj Award (Змајева награда) is an annual Serbian literary prize for the best book of poetry in Serbian, awarded by Matica srpska in Novi Sad.

Zmicer Zhylunovich

Zmicer Zhylunovich, who wrote under the pseudonym Tsishka Hartny, was a Belarusian writer and statesman, first chairman of the provisional government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia.

Zmitrok Biadulia

Zmitrok Biadulia (Змітрок Бядуля), born Samuil Plaunik, was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and publicist counted among the founders of modern Belarusian literature, known for the novella Salavej.

Znamya

Znamya («Знамя», The Banner) is a Russian monthly literary journal published in Moscow since 1931, known for printing Tvardovsky's Vasiliy Tyorkin and still publishing today.

Znanie (publishing house)

Znanie (Russian for Knowledge) was a Russian publishing house in Saint Petersburg, 1898 to 1913, led by Maxim Gorky as a center of realist literature.

Zo In-sung

Zo In-sung (조인성, 趙寅成; born 1981, Seoul), South Korean actor also spelled Jo In-sung. Model debut 1998; TV hit What Happened in Bali (2004); films A Dirty Carnival, The King, Escape from Mogadishu, Smugglers (Blue Dragon Best Supporting Actor 2023), Moving, and 2026's Humint, Hope, and Possible Love.