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Maipú
Maipú is a commune of Chile in southwestern Santiago, Región Metropolitana; second most populous commune after Puente Alto with 503,635 residents (2024 census), site of the 1818 Battle of Maipú.
Mairead Corrigan
Mairead Corrigan, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire, is a Northern Irish Catholic peace activist who co-founded the Peace People in 1976 and shared the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
Màiri McAllan
Màiri McAllan is a Scottish National Party politician, elected MSP for Clydesdale in 2021, who has held senior posts covering net zero, housing, and education.
Mairis Briedis
Mairis Briedis, born 1985 in Riga, is a Latvian professional boxer, three-time cruiserweight world champion (WBC 2017-18, WBO 2019, IBF/Ring 2020-22) and the first Latvian world boxing titlist.
Maironis
Maironis, pen name of Jonas Mačiulis (1862–1932), was a Lithuanian poet and Catholic priest regarded as the most prominent Lithuanian poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Mairzy Doats
Mairzy Doats, also written Mairzy Dotes, is a 1943 American novelty song by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston whose nonsense lyrics decode to "mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"; a 1944 number-one hit.
Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini
Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini ("My Life and After Fifty Years") is a two-part Swahili autobiography by Tanzanian poet Shaaban Robert, first published together in 1966.
Maisheng Group (迈胜集团)
Maisheng Group (迈胜集团), formally Guangzhou Maisheng Medical Equipment, is a Chinese medical device company in Guangzhou making compact single-room proton therapy systems, formed around its 2018 acquisition of US-based Mevion Medical Systems.
Maisie Adam
Maisie Adam (born 1994) is an English stand-up comedian from Pannal, North Yorkshire, winner of So You Think You're Funny? 2017 and Taskmaster series 20 (2025), known for Vague, Hang Fire, Buzzed, Appraisal, and the Big Kick Energy podcast.
Maisie Dobbs series
Maisie Dobbs series: 18 historical mystery novels by Jacqueline Winspear (2003-2024) about a WWI nurse turned psychologist-investigator in interwar London; Agatha, Macavity, and Alex award winner, over one million copies sold, HiddenLight TV option 2021.
Maisie Peters
Maisie Peters, English singer-songwriter from Steyning, West Sussex, also known for Gingerbread Man Records albums You Signed Up For This, The Good Witch, and Florescence; two UK Number 1 albums, youngest British female solo artist to top the album chart since 2014.
Maisie Richardson-Sellers
Maisie Richardson-Sellers, born 1992 in London, is a Guyanese-British actress known for The Originals (Rebekah Mikaelson), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Amaya Jiwe/Charlie), The Kissing Booth 2, The Undeclared War, Talamasca: The Secret Order, and directing.
Maisie Smith
Maisie Louise Collender Smith (born 2001), English actress and singer; full name distinguishes her from namesakes. Known for Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders (2008–2022), Strictly 2020 finalist, Strictly Ballroom musical, War of the Worlds 2025 tour.
Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams, born Margaret Constance Williams, is an English actress cast at age 12 as Arya Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones, later co-founding the creative platform Daisie.
Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻)
Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻) is Rumiko Takahashi's romantic-comedy manga, serialized in Big Comic Spirits 1980–1987 (162 chapters, 15 volumes), about student Yusaku Godai and widowed landlady Kyoko Otonashi; over 25 million volumes in circulation.
Maison Margiela
Maison Margiela, Paris luxury fashion house founded in 1988 by Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens, also Maison Martin Margiela. Known for blank white labels with four stitches, numbered line codes 0–23, upcycling, Replica, and Artisanal couture; owned by OTB Group, now led by Glenn Martens.
MAISONdes
MAISONdes (メゾン・デ) is a Sony Music music project credited as one artist, a fictional six-and-a-half-tatami apartment whose breakout song Yowanehaki topped TikTok in Japan in 2021.
Maisto
Maisto is a die-cast model vehicle brand registered in 1990 by Hong Kong's May Cheong Group, known for scale cars and motorcycles and an early 1:18 scale line.
Maisy Stella
Maisy Stella (born 2003, Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-actress, Daphne Conrad on Nashville (2012–2018) with sister Lennon, and Elliott in My Old Ass (2024), winning the 2025 Critics Choice and Independent Spirit breakthrough awards.
Mait Riisman
Mait Riisman (Майт Аугустович Рийсман), Estonian water polo player, 1956–2018; won gold with the Soviet Union at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the first Estonian Olympic champion in a ball game, later a coach with Dynamo Moscow.
Maital Neta
Maital Neta is an American cognitive and affective neuroscientist who studies how the brain resolves emotionally ambiguous signals, and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2025.
Maite Oronoz Rodríguez
Maite D. Oronoz Rodríguez, Puerto Rican jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico since 22 February 2016; first openly LGBTQ chief justice in the United States, third woman and youngest to preside; formerly associate justice from 2014.
Maite Perroni
Maite Perroni (Maite Perroni Beorlegui, born 1983) is a Mexican actress and singer, Lupita in Rebelde and RBD, star of Oscuro Deseo and Triada on Netflix, solo artist with Eclipse de Luna.
Maithilee Kunda
Maithilee Kunda is an American cognitive scientist and AI researcher studying visual thinking in autism and neurodiversity, a reader at the University of Edinburgh and 2025 PECASE recipient.
Maithili language
Maithili (मैथिली) is an Indo-Aryan language of Mithila, spoken in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Nepal's Terai, with tens of millions of speakers. Written in Tirhuta, Kaithi, and Devanagari; in India's Eighth Schedule since 2003.
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Maithili Sharan Gupt (मैथिलीशरण गुप्त, 1886–1964) was a Hindi poet from Chirgaon near Jhansi whom Mahatma Gandhi honored as Rashtrakavi; his best-known works are Bharat-Bharati and the epic Saket.
Maithili Thakur
Maithili Thakur (मैथिली ठाकुर), born 2000 in Benipatti, Madhubani, is an Indian classical and folk vocalist of Mithila, Rising Star runner-up, Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar and 2024 National Creators Award winner, and BJP MLA from Alinagar since November 2025.
Maithon Dam (मैथन बांध)
Maithon Dam (मैथन बांध) is a multipurpose dam on the Barakar River in Jharkhand, India, completed in 1957 and operated by the Damodar Valley Corporation for flood control, irrigation, and hydropower.
Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power Station
Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power Station is a 1,050 MW coal-fired power station at Maithon in Jharkhand, India, owned by Tata Power and Damodar Valley Corporation.
Maithripala Sirisena (මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන)
Maithripala Sirisena (මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන), born 1951, is a Sri Lankan SLFP politician and sixth Executive President (2015-2019) who defeated Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015, promised to abolish the executive presidency, triggered the 2018 constitutional crisis, and was ordered to pay compensation over the 2019 Easter bombings.