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Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤)

Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤), executed 17 June 2008 at age 45, was the Japanese serial killer called the Otaku Murderer, who abducted and murdered four girls aged 4 to 7 in Tokyo and Saitama in 1988–1989; death sentence finalized 2006.

Tsutomu Mizoroki

Tsutomu Mizoroki (溝呂木勉) was a Japanese chemist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology whose 1971 report of palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins, published a year before Heck's, became the Mizoroki–Heck reaction.

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉)

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉), born 1971 in Koriyama, Fukushima, is a Japanese manga artist, creator of BLAME!, Biomega, and Knights of Sidonia, which won the 2015 Kodansha Manga Award and 2016 Seiun Award; currently serializing Tower Dungeon.

Tsutomu Suzuki

Tsutomu Suzuki (鈴木 勉) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for discovering RNA modifications, including RNA cap methylation and tRNA queuosine.

Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Tsutomu T. Yanagida (柳田 勉) is a Japanese theoretical particle physicist who proposed the seesaw mechanism explaining light neutrinos and developed leptogenesis, the account of matter's origin.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口彊)

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口彊, 1916–2010), Japanese Mitsubishi shipbuilding engineer and double hibakusha; only person officially certified by Japan (March 24, 2009) as surviving both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings; began speaking publicly at 90.

Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari

Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari (堤中納言物語) is a Japanese collection of ten short tales and one fragment in kana prose, often described as the first true short-story collection in Japanese literature.

Tsuyama massacre

Tsuyama massacre (津山事件): 21 May 1938 spree killing in Kamo village near Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan, in which 21-year-old Toi Mutsuo killed 30 villagers with a shotgun and sword before killing himself; Japan's deadliest lone-perpetrator massacre.

Tsuyoshi Andō

Tsuyoshi Andō (安藤 毅) is a Japanese mathematician born in 1932 in Sapporo, known for operator theory, matrix analysis, and his 1963 dilation theorem for commuting contractions.

Tsuyoshi Kawai

Tsuyoshi Kawai (河合 壯) is a Japanese photochemist, professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, known for the 2002 Nature paper "A digital fluorescent molecular photoswitch."

Tsuyoshi Kimura

Tsuyoshi Kimura (木村 剛) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist at the University of Tokyo known for discovering magnetic control of electric polarization in multiferroics.

Tsuyoshi Sekitani

Tsuyoshi Sekitani (関谷 毅) is a Japanese electronics engineer known for stretchable electronics and flexible organic transistor integrated circuits, and a professor at Osaka University since 2014.

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (山中毅), Japanese freestyle swimmer (1939-2017), four Olympic silvers 1956-1964, nine world records, beaten twice by Murray Rose in the 400 m freestyle.

Tsuzumi (model family)

Tsuzumi is a family of large language models for Japanese and English developed by NTT, announced in 2023 with lightweight versions that run on a CPU or a single GPU.

TSV 1860 Munich

TSV 1860 Munich (TSV München von 1860 e.V.), the Munich Lions, a 1848-founded sports club whose football side won the 1966 German title, played 20 Bundesliga seasons, and fell to the fourth tier in 2026 after the Ismaik investor era.

Tsvee Lapidot

Tsvee Lapidot is an Israeli hematologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for identifying human leukemia-initiating cells and defining bone marrow stem cell niches.

Tsvetan Radoslavov

Tsvetan Radoslavov (Цветан Радославов) was a Bulgarian psychologist, teacher, and composer who wrote the 1885 patriotic song that became the basis of Bulgaria's national anthem, Mila Rodino.

Tsvetelina Penkova

Tsvetelina Penkova, born in Sofia in 1988, is a Bulgarian Socialist Party politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019, known for her work on energy policy.

Tsvi Piran

Tsvi Piran (צבי פירן) was an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for work on gamma-ray bursts, neutron-star mergers, and numerical relativity, and winner of the 2019 EMET Prize.

Tswana language

Tswana (Setswana), Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group (S.30, ISO tsn), national language of Botswana and official in South Africa; over 4 million speakers, 95-99% dialect intelligibility, two-tone system, no clicks.

Tswana people

Tswana (baTswana), a Sotho-Tswana people of South Africa and Botswana speaking Setswana, about 4 million strong, of mixed Khoisan and Bantu farming descent, with stone-walled towns and chiefdoms before 19th-century upheaval and colonial rule.

Tswana praise poetry

Tswana praise poetry, known in Setswana as maboko (singular leboko), is the traditional oral praise-poetry genre of the Tswana peoples of southern Africa, celebrating chiefs, warriors, and commoners.

Tsymbalka

Tsymbalka (Цимбалка), Velyka and Mala Tsymbalka, are kurgans near Velyka Bilozerka, Ukraine. Velyka Tsymbalka is a robbed Scythian royal catacomb tomb of the mid-4th century BC, excavated by Zabelin in 1867–68, with six sacrificed horses and a gold serpent-goddess frontlet.

TT

TT (tt) is a two-letter sequence: the ISO 639-1 code for Tatar, an abbreviation for Tourist Trophy and Trust Territories, and a doubled-letter spelling of geminate consonants in alphabetic orthographies.

TT (music)

"TT" (티티) is a 2016 single by South Korean girl group TWICE, released by JYP Entertainment as the lead single of the EP TWICEcoaster: LANE 1.

TT Arietis

TT Arietis (TT Ari) is a bright nova-like cataclysmic variable star in Aries where a dwarf star transfers matter onto a white dwarf with an accretion disk.

TT Circuit Assen

TT Circuit Assen, Dutch TT venue in Drenthe, Netherlands; also Circuit van Drenthe, Cathedral of Speed. First raced 11 July 1925 on 28.4 km roads; permanent since 1955; 4.542 km MotoGP course; only circuit with TT name in perpetuity.

TT Express

天天快递 (TT Express) was a Chinese franchise express delivery company founded in Hangzhou in 1994, which held about 8% of China's express market before Suning shut it down in 2021.

TT Games

TT Games is a British video game studio in Manchester, Brighton, and Knutsford, formed in 2005 from Traveller's Tales and Giant Interactive, owned by Warner Bros. since 2007, and known for LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, and LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.

TT pistol

The TT pistol, also known as the Tokarev TT-33, is a Soviet semi-automatic pistol designed by Fedor Tokarev, adopted in 1931 and standard during World War II.