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Tiruvottiyūr

Tiruvottiyūr, also spelled Thiruvottiyur, is a seaside neighborhood in northern Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, one of the area's oldest settlements, known for its temples and home to about 249,000 people.

Tirzah

Tirzah, identified with Tell el-Far'ah (North) near Nablus, was a Canaanite and Israelite city that served as the first capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.

Tirzepatide

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) is Eli Lilly's once-weekly dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist injectable approved in 2022 for type 2 diabetes and later for obesity and obstructive sleep apnea, producing about 20% weight loss in head-to-head trials versus semaglutide's 13.7%.

Tisa Farrow

Tisa Farrow (Theresa Magdalena Farrow, 1951–2024), American actress and model, younger sister of Mia Farrow; starred in Zombi 2 (1979), Fingers, and The Last Hunter, then worked 27 years as a Vermont nurse.

Tisagenlecleucel

Tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), Novartis's anti-CD19 autologous CAR T-cell therapy, was the first FDA-approved CAR T and gene therapy (August 30, 2017) for relapsed/refractory B-cell ALL up to age 25 and later lymphomas; REMS eliminated 2025.

Tisavar

Tisavar, also called Ksar Ghilane fort, is a small Roman castellum in southern Tunisia built c. AD 184-191 under Commodus on the Limes Tripolitanus, garrisoned by Legio III Augusta and reused in World War II.

Tisca Chopra

Tisca Chopra (born 1973, Kasauli) is an Indian actress, author, producer, and director, known as Maya Awasthi in Taare Zameen Par (2007), for OTT series Hostages and Dahan, and for directing Saali Mohabbat (2024).

Tisethor

Tisethor was a girl of the royal family of King Djedkare Isesi of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, buried in the South Field at Abusir, likely a daughter of princess Khekeretnebty.

Tish Cyrus

Tish Cyrus (Leticia Jean Finley, born 1967) is an American talent manager and producer, mother of Miley Cyrus, ex-wife of Billy Ray Cyrus, wife of Dominic Purcell, and owner of Hopetown Entertainment.

Tish Weinstock

Tish Weinstock, London-based contributing beauty editor at British Vogue, i-D and Dazed alumna, author of How to Be a Goth (2024), goth model for Chloé and Vivienne Westwood, wife of Tom Guinness.

Tish-atal

Tish-atal, also written Tiš-atal, was a third-millennium BC king (endan) of the Hurrian city of Urkesh, known from foundation inscriptions recording his building of a temple.

Tisha B'Av (תשעה באב)

Tisha B'Av (תשעה באב), the Ninth of Av, is the most rigorous Jewish fast day, mourning the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem and other calamities.

Tisha Campbell

Tisha Campbell (Tisha Michelle Campbell, born 1968) is an American actress and singer known as Gina on Martin and Jay on My Wife and Kids, with film roles in Little Shop of Horrors and House Party, an NAACP Image Award, and a 2026 memoir.

Tisha Merry

Tisha Merry is an English actress known as Steph Britton on Coronation Street (2013–2017, guest return 2018), later Serena Bradley in Doctors and Gemma Johnson in Hollyoaks.

Tisha Venturini

Tisha Venturini (Venturini-Hoch), born 1973 in Modesto, California, is a retired USWNT midfielder, 134 caps and 47 goals, 1996 Olympic gold, 1999 World Cup champion, four-time NCAA winner at North Carolina, 2024 Hall of Fame inductee.

Tishomingo State Park

Tishomingo State Park, a Mississippi state park in Tishomingo County at Natchez Trace Milepost 304, built by the CCC from 1935, named for a Chickasaw chief, with Appalachian-foot hill rock outcroppings, Bear Creek swinging bridge, 13 miles of trails, and a 2026 ice-storm closure.

Tishrei

Tishrei, also spelled Tishri, is the month of the Hebrew year that begins with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and lasts 30 days in September or October.

Tishrin Dam (سد تشرين)

Tishrin Dam, also spelled Tishreen (سد تشرين), is a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, completed in 1999 with a capacity of 630 MW.

Tishtrya Virgae

Tishtrya Virgae, a 276 km radar-bright virga (color streak) on Titan at 23.84°N 179.75°W, IAU-approved July 20, 2015, named for the Persian rain god; type location for Titan's streak-like plains.

Tishyarakshita

Tishyarakshita (तिष्यरक्षिता, Pali Tissarakkha) was, according to Buddhist tradition, the last chief queen of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, blamed for destroying the sacred Bodhi tree.

Tisia

Tisia (Greek Τισίας), ancient town near Rhegium in Bruttium, southern Italy, mentioned by Appian and unlocated; distinct from the Latin river name Tisia for the Tisza.

Tisia Valles

Tisia Valles, not to be confused with Tiu Valles or Tinia Valles, is a 384 km valley system in the Noachian southern highlands of Mars, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the ancient Tisza River.

Tišice

Tišice (Mělník District, Central Bohemia) is an archaeological site on the Elbe with a La Tène cemetery of 23 graves, an Early Roman Großromstedt-culture burial ground tied to Mlékojedy, and early medieval burials and hillfort remains. Not to be confused with Tismice.

Tislelizumab

Tislelizumab, sold as Tevimbra, is a humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks the PD-1 receptor to treat advanced cancers, developed by BeiGene and first approved in China in 2019.

Tisopurine

Tisopurine (thiopurinol, Exuracid, NSC-1392), C5H4N4S, CAS 5334-23-6, ATC M04AA02, is the 4-thio analog of allopurinol, an approved antigout drug that lowers uric acid by interfering with early urate synthesis rather than xanthine oxidase inhibition.

Tisotumab vedotin

Tisotumab vedotin (Tivdak, tisotumab vedotin-tftv) is a tissue factor-directed antibody-drug conjugate with an MMAE payload, FDA-approved (accelerated 2021, full 2024) for recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer after chemotherapy; boxed warning for ocular toxicity.

Tissa Biani

Tissa Biani (Tissa Biani Azzahra), born 2002, is an Indonesian actress, the only female artist in two of Indonesia's most-watched films, KKN di Desa Penari and Agak Laen.

Tissa-kumara

Tissa-kumara (तिस्सकुमार) is, in the Mahavamsa and Theragāthā, a younger brother of Emperor Asoka who renounced the vice-sovereignty to become a monk, attaining arahantship as Ekavihāriya, the Lone-dweller.

Tissabhuti

Tissabhūti was a Sri Lankan Theravada monk of Maṇḍalārāma in King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī's time, known only from Pali commentaries; after lustful thoughts on almsround he practiced asubha meditation and became an Arahant in one night.

Tissaphernes

Tissaphernes was a Persian satrap of Lydia and Caria who negotiated Sparta's alliances, backed Artaxerxes II at Cunaxa in 401 BC, and was executed in 395 BC.