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Tigra

Tigra (Greer Grant Nelson) is a Marvel Comics superheroine, a catlike were-woman first appearing as The Cat in The Cat #1 (1972) and transformed by the Cat People in Giant-Size Creatures #1 (1974); a former Avenger and West Coast Avenger, distinct from the Ultimate Marvel Tigra and from DC's Vixen.

Tigran Chukhajian

Tigran Chukhajian, also rendered Dikran Tchouhadjian or Çuhacıyan, was an Armenian composer and conductor who wrote the first Armenian opera, Arshak II (1868), and founded the Armenian musical theater.

Tigress (DC Comics)

Tigress is the name of several DC Comics characters: the 1938 Zatara foe from Action Comics #1, Paula Brooks (Huntress, Young All-Stars), and her daughter Artemis Crock of the Injustice Society.

Tihua shi

Tihua shi (題畫詩, "poems inscribed on paintings") are classical Chinese poems written on or about a painting, pioneered by Du Fu and central to literati art.

Tijana Todevska-Dapčević

Tijana Todevska-Dapčević, known professionally as Tijana Dapčević, is a Macedonian pop singer and cellist born in Skopje in 1976 who represented North Macedonia at Eurovision 2014 with "To the Sky".

Tijaniyya devotional poetry

Tijaniyya devotional poetry is religious verse by the Tijaniyya Sufi order in Arabic and African languages, including qasidas by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, chanted at gatherings.

Tijuana bible

A Tijuana bible, also known as an eight-pager or bluesie, was a small, clandestinely published pornographic comic booklet made in the United States from the 1920s to the mid-1960s.

Tik Tik Tik (2018 film)

Tik Tik Tik (டிக் டிக் டிக்), 2018 Tamil sci-fi thriller by Shakti Soundar Rajan starring Jayam Ravi and Nivetha Pethuraj; promoted as India's first space film, released 22 June 2018 with D. Imman's music.

Tik Tok (song)

TiK ToK is Kesha's 2009 debut solo single from Animal, written with Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks from January 2, 2010 and was Billboard's top song of 2010.

Tik Tok (டிக் டாக்) (2023 film)

Tik Tok (டிக் டாக்) is a 2023 Tamil comedy-horror film directed by Mathanakumar, starring Priyanka Arul Mohan, Rajaji, and Sushma Raj; three friends are haunted by a ghost seeking his killer. Released 29 December 2023, digital 17 February 2025.

Tika Sumpter

Tika Sumpter (Euphemia LatiQue Sumpter, born 1980) is an American actress and producer known for One Life to Live, playing Michelle Obama in Southside with You, and Maddie Wachowski in the Sonic the Hedgehog films.

Tika Tonu

Tika Tonu is a well-known haka of Ngāti Kahungunu, from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, composed around 1914 by chief Waimarama Puhara as a father's message of perseverance to his son.

Tiki bar

Tiki bar: Polynesian-themed American bar serving rum cocktails like the Mai Tai and Zombie, founded by Donn Beach in 1930s Hollywood, expanded by Trader Vic's, peaked in the 1960s, revived since the late 1990s amid cultural appropriation debates.

Tiki culture

Tiki culture, also called Polynesian Pop, is an American movement of Polynesian-themed bars, rum cocktails, exotica music, and decor begun in 1930s Hollywood by Donn Beach and Trader Vic, peaking postwar, declining in the 1970s, revived since the 1990s amid cultural appropriation criticism.

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Tikki Tikki Tembo is a 1968 picture book by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent, about a boy whose long name delays his rescue from a well; presented as a Chinese folktale, it is likely adapted from the Japanese tale Jugemu.

Tiktaak

Tik Taak (تیک تاک) is an Iranian hip-hop and pop-rap group active since 2011, known for 'Erade Kon', 'Na Dige Na', and '5Shanbe', with over 300 million plays.

TikTok: Murder Gone Viral

TikTok: Murder Gone Viral (Murders Gone Viral) is a Nine Lives true-crime documentary series for ITVX, first aired January 2024, covering murders linked to TikTok, including the Bukhari mother-daughter double murder.

Tiku Talsania (ટિકુ તલસાનિયા)

Tiku Talsania (ટિકુ તલસાનિયા), also Tikku Talsania, Indian film, television and theatre actor born 1954 in Bombay; TV debut Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984), film debut Pyaar Ke Do Pal (1986), known for Andaz Apna Apna, Ishq, Devdas; recovered from January 2025 brain stroke.

Tiku Weds Sheru

Tiku Weds Sheru (टीकू वेड्स शेरू) is a 2023 Hindi romantic black comedy-drama directed by Sai Kabir, produced by Kangana Ranaut's Manikarnika Films, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Avneet Kaur, released on Prime Video 23 June 2023.

Til It Happens to You

Til It Happens to You: 2015 song by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga, theme of the campus-rape documentary The Hunting Ground; Oscar- and Grammy-nominated, Emmy-winning anthem for sexual assault survivors with a Catherine Hardwicke-directed video.

Til Schweiger

Til Schweiger (Tilman Valentin Schweiger, born 1963) is a German actor, director, and producer, star of Der bewegte Mann and Inglourious Basterds, founder of Barefoot Films, and Germany's most commercially successful filmmaker.

Tila Tequila

Tila Tequila, stage name of Tila Nguyen (Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen), born 1981 in Singapore, is a model and TV personality who became MySpace's most-followed star and headlined MTV's 2007 bisexual dating show A Shot at Love.

Tilahun Gessesse

Tilahun Gessesse (ጥላሁን ገሠሠ; also spelled Tlahoun Gessesse), known simply as "the Voice", was an Ethiopian singer who dominated the country's music for more than half a century.

Tilaï

Tilaï (The Law) is a 1990, 81-minute drama in Mooré by Burkinabé director Idrissa Ouedraogo, about Saga, whose affair with his father's new wife Nogma is judged incest. It shared the 1990 Cannes Grand Prix and won FESPACO's Grand Prize in 1991.

Tilaka (तिलक)

Tilaka (तिलक, Sanskrit "mark") is the Hindu forehead mark, distinct from the women's bindi dot, indicating sectarian affiliation; applied by hand or stamp with sandalwood paste, turmeric, or sacred ash; Pew India survey: 84% of Hindu women wear a bindi, 53% of Hindu men a tilak.

Tilakamanjari

Tilakamanjari (तिलकमञ्जरी) is an ornate Sanskrit prose romance, or katha, by the court poet Dhanapala, telling the parallel love stories of Harivahana and Tilakamanjari, and Samaraketu and Malayasundari.

Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Tilda Cobham-Hervey (born 1994) is an Australian actress, writer, and director from Adelaide who trained with the Cirkidz youth circus, debuted in 52 Tuesdays, played Helen Reddy in I Am Woman, and directed It's All Going Very Well No Problems At All.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton (Katherine Matilda Swinton), British actor born 1960 in London, Oscar winner for Michael Clayton, Derek Jarman collaborator, star of Orlando and Narnia's White Witch.

Tilian Pearson

Tilian Pearson, also known as Tilian, is an American singer-songwriter born 1987 in Clearwater, Florida, clean vocalist of Dance Gavin Dance (2012–2024) and formerly Tides of Man, with solo albums including Material Me (2013) and The Skeptic (2018).

Tilism-e-Hoshruba

Tilism-e-Hoshruba (طلسمِ ہوشربا) is a monumental Urdu fantasy epic, part of the Dastan-e Amir Hamza cycle, published in Lucknow between 1883 and 1893 and the best known work of Urdu fantasy.