Paz

Pas or PAZ may refer to:

Places

 * Paz, Croatia, a village and castle ruin in Istria, Croatia
 * Pads, Iran or Faz, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Organisations

 * Pavlovo Bus Factory or Pavlovsky Avtobusny Zavod, a Russian bus company
 * Paz Oil Company, an Israeli fuel company
 * El Tajín 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 (1791–1854), Argentine soldier
 * José C. Paz (1842–1912), Argentine politician
 * Luis Paz (1854–1920), Bolivian jurist
 * Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907-2001), Bolivian politician
 * Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner
 * María Inmaculada Paz-Andrade (1928–2022), Spanish physicist
 * Pilar Paz Pasamar (1932–2019), Spanish poet and writer
 * Rodrigo Paz (1933–2021), Ecuadorian politician
 * Jaime Paz Zamora (born 1939), Bolivian politician
 * Rubén Paz (born 1959), Uruguayan former association football player
 * Milagros Paz (born 1962), Venezuelan journalist and politician
 * Vinny Paz (born 1962), American former boxer
 * Mercedes Paz (born 1966), Argentine former professional tennis player
 * Rodrigo Paz Pereira (born 1967), Bolivian politician
 * Lorna Paz (born 1970), Colombian actress
 * Bárbara Paz (born 1974), Brazilian actress
 * Vinnie Paz (born 1977), Italian-American rapper in the group Jedi Mind Tricks
 * Or Paz (born 1988), Israeli comedian
 * Pedro Paz (born 1994), Portuguese footballer
 * Samera Paz (born 1994), American artist
 * Bruno Paz (born 1998), Portuguese footballer

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 (born 1973), Argentine-American musician of French descent
 * Paz Vega (born 1976), Spanish actress
 * Paz de la Calzada, Spanish-born American visual artist
 * Paz de la Huerta (born 1984), American actress and model

Fictional

 * Paz Ortega Andrade, a character in the Metal Gear series

Other uses

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