Paz

Paz or Pas may refer to:

Places

• Paz, Croatia, a village in Istria, Croatia
• Paz Castle, castle ruin in the willage
• 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
• Joana da Paz (1925–2023), Brazilian activist
• María Inmaculada Paz-Andrade (1928–2022), Spanish physicist
• Pilar Paz Pasamar (1932–2019), Spanish poet and writer
• Rodrigo Paz Delgado (1933–2021), Ecuadorian politician
• Jaime Paz Zamora (born 1939), Bolivian politician
• Rubén Paz (born 1959), Uruguayan football player
• Milagros Paz (born 1962), Venezuelan journalist and politician
• Vinny Paz (born 1962), American boxer
• Mercedes Paz (born 1966), Argentine tennis player
• Rodrigo Paz Pereira (born 1967), Bolivian politician, president of Bolivia since 2025
• Lorna Paz (born 1970), Colombian actress
• Bárbara Paz (born 1974), Brazilian actress, producer and film director
• Vinnie Paz (born 1977), Italian-American rapper in the group Jedi Mind Tricks
• Espinoza Paz (born 1981), stage name of Isidro Chávez Espinoza, Mexican musician
• 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

See also

• La Paz (disambiguation)
• MV Doña Paz, a Philippine ferry