Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Tim and Nina Zagat
Restaurant critics Born Eugene H. Zagat Jr., c. 1940, in New York; son of Eugene Zagat, Sr.; married Nina Safronoff (an attorney), 1965; children: Ted, John. Educa...
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
August 4, 1960 • Valladolid, Spain Prime minister Just three days after a series of bomb blasts killed nearly two hundred in Madrid in March of 2004, Spanish voters...
Mao Zedong
Born: December 26, 1893 Shaoshan, Hunan, China Died: September 9, 1976 Beijing, China Chinese statesman Mao Zedong wa...
Jiang Zemin
Born: August 17, 1926 Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China Chinese political leader Hand picked by Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) to be built up as ...
Elias A. Zerhouni
United States government official Born Elias Adam Zerhouni, April 12, 1951, in Nedroma, Algeria; married to Nadia Azza (a pediatrician); children: three. Education...
Dieter Zetsche
German automotive executive Dieter Zetsche (born 1953) was credited with a sharp improvement of the fortunes of the United States-based Chrysler division of the DaimlerChrysler aut...
Warren Zevon
Born Warren William Zevon, January 24, 1947, in Chicago, IL; died of lung cancer, September 7, 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. Singer and songwriter. Acclaimed musician Warren Zevon was best kno...
Ziyi Zhang
Actress Born Zhang Ziyi, February 9, 1979, in Beijing, China; daughter of Zhang Yuan Xiao (a government economist) and Li Zhou Sheng (a kindergarten schoolteacher). ...
Zinédine Zidane
Zinédine Zidane (born 1972) was the toast of France after leading that country to its only World Cup soccer championship in 1998. The midfielder, nicknamed "Zizou," scored twice in...
Paul Zindel
Born: May 15, 1936 Staten Island, New York American playwright, screenwriter, and author From Pulitzer prize-winning playwright to young adult fiction ...
Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek (born 1949) is an academic star, the "Elvis of Cultural Studies," according to one often-quoted journalistic formulation. His lectures, dealing i...