# Paz

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**Paz** or **Pas** may refer to:

## Places

- [Paz, Croatia](/source/Paz,_Croatia), a village in Istria, Croatia - [Paz Castle](/source/Paz_Castle), castle ruin in the willage
- [Pads, Iran](/source/Pads,_Iran) or Faz, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

## Organisations

- [Pavlovo Bus Factory](/source/Pavlovo_Bus_Factory) or *Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod*, a Russian bus company
- [Paz Oil Company](/source/Paz_Oil_Company), an Israeli fuel company
- [El Tajín National Airport](/source/El_Taj%C3%ADn_National_Airport)'s IATA code

## People with the surname

Paz is a surname with Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew origins. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word “paz” translates to “peace”, while in Hebrew (פָּז) it roughly translates to “gold” or “fine gold”.

- [José María Paz](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Paz) (1791–1854), Argentine soldier
- [José C. Paz](/source/Jos%C3%A9_C._Paz) (1842–1912), Argentine politician
- [Luis Paz](/source/Luis_Paz) (1854–1920), Bolivian jurist
- [Víctor Paz Estenssoro](/source/V%C3%ADctor_Paz_Estenssoro) (1907–2001), Bolivian politician
- [Octavio Paz](/source/Octavio_Paz) (1914–1998), Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner
- [Joana da Paz](/source/Joana_da_Paz) (1925–2023), Brazilian activist
- [María Inmaculada Paz-Andrade](/source/Mar%C3%ADa_Inmaculada_Paz-Andrade) (1928–2022), Spanish physicist
- [Pilar Paz Pasamar](/source/Pilar_Paz_Pasamar) (1932–2019), Spanish poet and writer
- [Rodrigo Paz Delgado](/source/Rodrigo_Paz_Delgado) (1933–2021), Ecuadorian politician
- [Jaime Paz Zamora](/source/Jaime_Paz_Zamora) (born 1939), Bolivian politician
- [Rubén Paz](/source/Rub%C3%A9n_Paz) (born 1959), Uruguayan football player
- [Milagros Paz](/source/Milagros_Paz) (born 1962), Venezuelan journalist and politician
- [Vinny Paz](/source/Vinny_Paz) (born 1962), American boxer
- [Mercedes Paz](/source/Mercedes_Paz) (born 1966), Argentine tennis player
- [Rodrigo Paz Pereira](/source/Rodrigo_Paz_Pereira) (born 1967), Bolivian politician, president of Bolivia since 2025
- [Lorna Paz](/source/Lorna_Paz) (born 1970), Colombian actress
- [Bárbara Paz](/source/B%C3%A1rbara_Paz) (born 1974), Brazilian actress, producer and film director
- [Vinnie Paz](/source/Vinnie_Paz) (born 1977), Italian-American rapper in the group Jedi Mind Tricks
- [Espinoza Paz](/source/Espinoza_Paz) (born 1981), stage name of Isidro Chávez Espinoza, Mexican musician
- [Or Paz](/source/Sugar_Zaza) (born 1988), Israeli comedian
- [Pedro Paz](/source/Pedro_Paz) (born 1994), Portuguese footballer
- [Samera Paz](/source/Samera_Paz) (born 1994), American artist
- [Bruno Paz](/source/Bruno_Paz) (born 1998), Portuguese footballer
- [Kevin de Paz](/source/Kevin_de_Paz) (born 2006), Belizean crime victim

## People with the given name

Paz is a female given name, a short form of Spanish *María de la Paz* or Portuguese *Maria da Paz*.

- [Paz Lenchantin](/source/Paz_Lenchantin) (born 1973), Argentine-American musician of French descent
- [Paz Vega](/source/Paz_Vega) (born 1976), Spanish actress
- [Paz de la Calzada](/source/Paz_de_la_Calzada), Spanish-born American visual artist
- [Paz de la Huerta](/source/Paz_de_la_Huerta) (born 1984), American actress and model

### Fictional

- Paz Ortega Andrade, a [character in the *Metal Gear* series](/source/List_of_characters_in_the_Metal_Gear_series#Paz)

## Other uses

- [Paula Tooths](/source/Paula_Tooths) (also known as Paz), British-Brazilian journalist
- [PAZ-3205](/source/PAZ-3205), a common Soviet midibus model made by the Pavlovo Bus Factory
- [Paz (satellite)](/source/Paz_(satellite)), a Spanish military Earth observation satellite
- *[The Paz Show](/source/The_Paz_Show)*, a TV show featuring Paz the Penguin
- [Permanent autonomous zone](/source/Permanent_autonomous_zone), a community that is autonomous from the generally recognized government
- *[Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung](/source/Preu%C3%9Fische_Allgemeine_Zeitung)*, a German newspaper
- Paz, a [*Ghost in the Shell* character](/source/List_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell_characters)

## See also

- [La Paz (disambiguation)](/source/La_Paz_(disambiguation))
- [MV *Doña Paz*](/source/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz), a Philippine ferry

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