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Xalam
The xalam is a West African plucked lute with a wooden body and animal-skin face, played hereditarily by griots to accompany histories and praise songs.
Xam'd: Lost Memories (亡念のザムド)
Xam'd: Lost Memories (亡念のザムド, Bōnen no Zamudo) is a 2008 original 26-episode anime by studio BONES, directed by Masayuki Miyaji with music by Michiru Oshima, released as a PlayStation Network exclusive by BONES, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Aniplex.
Xanadu (Citizen Kane)
Xanadu is Charles Foster Kane's colossal, unfinished Florida estate in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941), named after Coleridge's Kubla Khan; it opens and closes the film and symbolizes wealth as isolation.
Xanadu (film)
Xanadu (1980) is a Universal musical fantasy directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as muse Kira with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck. A critical flop that earned $22.8 million, spawned the Razzies idea, and became a cult classic with a 2007 Broadway adaptation.
Xanadu (soundtrack)
Xanadu soundtrack: 1980 double-platinum album for the film Xanadu, split between Olivia Newton-John (John Farrar songs) and ELO (Jeff Lynne songs); hits 'Magic' (US No. 1) and 'Xanadu' (ELO's only UK No. 1).
Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley (Alexander Harper Berkeley, born 1955, Brooklyn) is an American character actor with 240+ credits, known as George Mason in 24, Percy in Nikita, Red John in The Mentalist, and Gregory in The Walking Dead.
Xander Harris
Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris is the human everyman of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Scooby Gang, founding member alongside Buffy and Willow, played by Nicholas Brendon in all seven seasons, distinctive as the only core character with no supernatural powers.
Xander Pang
Xander Pang (born 2001, Singapore) is a Singaporean stage and screen actor, son of Adrian and Tracie Pang of Pangdemonium. Known for Light Yagami in Death Note: The Musical at the Barbican (2026), Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen, and his film debut in Dream Stall.
Xandra
Xandra is the professional name of Alexandra Pohl, an American self-taught house DJ and internet personality from Cincinnati, Ohio, based in Miami, signed to Kygo's Palm Tree Records.
Xania Monet
Xania Monet is a fully AI-generated R&B artist persona, also called a virtual singer, created by Mississippi poet Telisha "Nikki" Jones using Suno; signed a $3 million Hallwood Media deal in September 2025 and was the first AI artist to debut on a Billboard radio chart.
Xanth
Xanth is a long-running series of comic fantasy novels by Piers Anthony, set in a magical Florida-shaped land where every human has a unique talent; it began in 1977.
Xanthan gum
Xanthan gum (E 415, INS 415) is a microbial polysaccharide made by fermenting sugars with Xanthomonas campestris; a shear-thinning thickener and stabilizer used in food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and oil drilling, FDA-approved in 1969.
Xaria Dotson
Xaria Dotson (born 1997, Portland, Oregon) is an American actress and artist known as Evie Grayson in The Birch, Tori Carucci in American Vandal season 2, and Jules Mathis in Netflix's Devil in Ohio; not the Austin comedian Xaria J'Stone Coleman.
Xasside
Xasside, also spelled khassaïde or qasida, is the Wolof term for the Islamic religious poems central to the liturgy of Senegal's Sufi orders, above all the Muridiyya.
Xav
Xav (Xavier James Trudeau) is a Canadian pop and R&B singer, eldest son of former PM Justin Trudeau. Debut single "Til The Nights Done" (2025), EP When Does It End?, and 2026 chart entry "Downtown"; distinct from xaviersobased.
Xavante oral literature
Xavante oral literature is the body of myths, tales, dreams, songs, and oratory transmitted by speech among the Xavante people of Mato Grosso, Brazil, whose language belongs to the Jê family.
Xavi (singer)
Xavi (Joshua Xavier Gutiérrez Alonso), Mexican-American corridos tumbados singer from Phoenix, Arizona; hit "La Diabla" topped Spotify's Global 200; albums NEXT (2024) and Dosis (2026) on Interscope.
Xavier (album)
Xavier is the 2026 debut studio album by New York rapper xaviersobased (Xavier Lopez), released January 30, 2026 on 1-chance/Surf Gang/Atlantic; 20 tracks, 48 minutes, led by the single "iPhone 16" and scored 8.3 by Pitchfork.
Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat (Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall; 1900–1990), Spanish-born, Cuba-raised bandleader called the Rumba King. Led the Waldorf-Astoria orchestra from 1930, popularized Latin dance music in the US, recorded Perfidia, appeared in about 25 films.
Xavier de Rosnay
Xavier de Rosnay (born 1982), full name Xavier Dulong de Rosnay, is the French graphic-designer-turned-musician who forms, with Gaspard Augé, the electro duo Justice; he is the duo's talkative spokesman, co-creator of Cross, D.A.N.C.E., and Hyperdrama.
Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan (Xavier Dolan-Tadros), Quebec filmmaker and actor born 1989 in Montreal; directed I Killed My Mother at 19, won Cannes Jury Prize for Mommy (2014) and Grand Prix for It's Only the End of the World (2016).
Xavier Molyneux
Xavier Molyneux is an Australian actor known for playing Byron Stone in the Neighbours revival (2023–2025, 385 episodes), Young Michael in Netflix's Take My Hand (2024), and the lead Erik Bloodaxe in Prime Video's Bloodaxe (2027).
Xavier Rudd
Xavier Rudd (born 1978, Torquay, Victoria) is an Australian roots, folk, and world music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, also known as Xavier Rudd & Izintaba and Xavier Rudd & the United Nations, famed for one-man-band didgeridoo performances and environmental activism.
Xavier Samuel
Xavier Samuel (born 1983, Hamilton, Victoria) is an Australian film and theatre actor, a Flinders Drama Centre graduate known for Riley in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Fury, Elvis, Blonde, and Australian series such as Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Xavier Smalls
Xavier Smalls (born 1997) is an American actor from Sacramento, California, known as Angel in Tyler Perry's Netflix series Beauty in Black and Zavier in Madea's Destination Wedding (2025); also a short-film director and William Esper Studio graduate.
Xavier Uncle
Xavier Uncle (@xavierunclelite) is an anonymous Indian meme account on X and Instagram that posts humorous one-liners using Pakalu Papito's mustached profile picture; about 318,000 Twitter followers, operator says he is a lawyer, identity unrevealed.
Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, essayist, and critic, a leading figure of the Contemporáneos group best known for his nocturnos and the poetry collection Nostalgia de la muerte (1938).
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia de Escritores para Escritores) is an annual Mexican literary prize founded in 1955, rewarding a single published book in poetry, essay, narrative, crónica, or drama.
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Xavier: Renegade Angel (XRA) is a 2007-2009 Adult Swim CGI surrealist dark comedy by Vernon Chatman and John Lee (PFFR, Wonder Showzen): 20 episodes about a deluded half-beast spiritual seeker whose help always backfires; a cult classic.
Xaviera Hollander
Xaviera Hollander, born Xaviera de Vries in 1943, is a Dutch former call girl and brothel owner known for her 1971 bestselling memoir The Happy Hooker.