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Mortdecai (film)
Mortdecai (2015) is a Lionsgate action comedy directed by David Koepp, starring Johnny Depp as an art dealer hunting a stolen Goya tied to Nazi gold; it grossed $47.3M worldwide on a $60M budget and scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Morte e Vida Severina
Morte e Vida Severina, subtitled Auto de Natal Pernambucano, is a 1956 dramatic poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto about a drought migrant's journey from the sertão to Recife.
Morten Andersen
Morten Andersen, the "Great Dane," Danish-born NFL placekicker (1982–2007) for the Saints and Falcons; 2,544 points, 565 field goals, 382 games, 2017 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Morten Bødskov
Morten Bødskov is a Danish Socialdemokratiet politician who serves as Minister for Immigration and Integration, having previously been Denmark's business minister and signed a green shipbuilding agreement in China.
Morten Frisch
Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist and physician at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for linking sexual behavior, infection, and cancer, including a 1997 anal cancer study.
Morten Gamst Pedersen
Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian left winger born 1981 in Vadsø; 83 caps and 17 goals for Norway, 288 games and 35 goals for Blackburn Rovers (2004–2013), later Tromsø, Rosenborg, Alta, Åsane, Ranheim; retired 2024.
Morten Harket
Morten Harket (born 1959, Kongsberg, Norway) is the Norwegian tenor frontman of a-ha, famed for "Take On Me" falsetto and a 20.2-second held note; six solo albums, four Spellemannpriser, and a June 2025 Parkinson's disclosure.
Morten Jørgensen
Morten Jørgensen (born 1985, Næstved) is a Danish rower of the Guldfireren lightweight four, winning Olympic gold 2008, bronze 2012, silver 2016, plus the 2014 world title.
Morten Meldal
Morten Meldal, born 1954 in Copenhagen, is a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing click chemistry.
Morten Olsen
Morten Olsen: name of two Danish athletes. Morten Per Olsen (born 1949), footballer with 102 caps and Denmark coach 2000–2015; Morten Toft Olsen (born 1984), handballer, Olympic gold 2016 and silver 2020.
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, born 1981, is a Danish synthetic biologist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for work on antibiotic resistance.
Morten Simonsen
Morten Simonsen (1921–2002) was a Danish physician and immunologist who described the graft-versus-host reaction, known as the Simonsen phenomenon, and built the first quantitative test of T lymphocytes.
Morten Tyldum
Morten Tyldum, Norwegian film director born 1967 in Bergen, directed Headhunters, the highest-grossing Norwegian film, and The Imitation Game, which earned him the first Best Director Oscar nomination for a Norwegian; also Passengers and the upcoming Ibelin.
Mortenson
Mortenson, formally the M. A. Mortenson Company, is a family-owned American construction firm founded in Minneapolis in 1954 and known for stadiums and renewable energy work.
Morteza Barjesteh
Morteza Barjesteh, billed as Morteza, is an Iranian pop singer and composer based in Los Angeles since 1981, a leading voice of the Tehrangeles exile pop scene.
Morteza Mahmoudi
Morteza Mahmoudi, also published as M. Mahmoudi, is a nanomedicine researcher and Associate Professor at Michigan State University, formerly at Harvard, known for protein corona research and co-founding the Academic Parity Movement.
Morteza Mehrzad (مرتضی مهرزادسلاکجانی)
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani (مرتضی مهرزادسلاکجانی), Iranian sitting volleyball player, 2.46 m tall, world's second tallest man and tallest Paralympian ever; three straight Paralympic golds (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) with Iran.
Mortgage broker
A mortgage broker, also called a mortgage adviser or advisor, is an intermediary who arranges mortgage loans between borrowers and multiple lenders without lending money itself.
Mortgage calculator
A mortgage calculator is a tool that converts a loan's principal, interest rate, and term into a monthly payment, total interest, and an amortization schedule.
Mortgage law
Mortgage law governs using an interest in land as loan security, covering title versus lien theories, the equity of redemption, deeds of trust, and judicial versus nonjudicial foreclosure, with state-varying redemption periods and federal CFPB servicing rules.
Mortgage loan
Mortgage loan: a loan secured by real property, also called a home loan or housing loan. Borrower pledges the house as collateral; key choices are conventional versus FHA/VA/USDA programs, 15- or 30-year terms, and fixed versus adjustable rates.
Mortgage Matchup Center
Mortgage Matchup Center, formerly Footprint Center and America West Arena, is a city-owned downtown Phoenix arena opened in 1992 and home to the NBA's Phoenix Suns and WNBA's Phoenix Mercury.
Mortgage-backed security
A mortgage-backed security is a bond-like claim on payments from a pool of home mortgages; most US MBS are guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae.
Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams, matriarch of Charles Addams's macabre Addams Family, debuted unnamed in a 1938 New Yorker cartoon; named for 1960s television, she has been played by Carolyn Jones, Anjelica Huston, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Mortierella
Mortierella (Coemans, 1863) is a genus of soil-dwelling filamentous fungi in Mortierellaceae, NCBI taxonomy ID 4855. Polyphyletic and revised into 14 genera in 2020; M. alpina is the FDA-certified industrial source of arachidonic acid.
Mortierella polycephala
Mortierella polycephala (Coemans 1863) is a soil fungus, type species of the genus Mortierella and family Mortierellaceae, first isolated from a mushroom, distinguished by stalked chlamydospores (stylospores) and a sequenced JGI genome (strain KOD 948).
Mortierellomycotina
Mortierellomycotina (Mortierellales, Mortierellaceae) is a fungal subphylum of soil saprobes established in 2011, defined by columella-less sporangia and distinct zygospores; Mortierella alpina industrially produces arachidonic acid.
Mortification (band)
Mortification is an Australian Christian death metal band formed in Melbourne in 1990, led by Steve Rowe and known for the 1992 album Scrolls of the Megilloth.
Mortification of the flesh
Mortification of the flesh, also called corporal mortification, is the deliberate infliction of discomfort, pain, or deprivation on one's own body as a religious act in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Mortim-Ekva Fluctus
Mortim-Ekva Fluctus is a large lava flow field on Venus with a diameter of 1,250 km, named in 2000 for the Mansi mistress of "Bird's country" in western Siberia.